Ehsan Moqanaki
@emoqanaki.bsky.social
Ecology & Conservation | Wildlife population models | S, M, L + XL carnivores | Postdoc at University of Montana 🧬📸 🛰️🐻🐆🐺🦌😾
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@emoqanaki.bsky.social
· Jan 28
🚨 New paper @pnas.org looking at dynamics of wolverine density determinants across Norway and Sweden: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Incorporating habitat selection does not account for nonrandom camera deployment in a design-based viewshed density estimator https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.22.671559v1
August 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Incorporating habitat selection does not account for nonrandom camera deployment in a design-based viewshed density estimator https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.22.671559v1
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South Texas game cam catches a raccoon riding a javelina (Dicotyles tajacu).
The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us?
(📷: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)
The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us?
(📷: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)
September 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
South Texas game cam catches a raccoon riding a javelina (Dicotyles tajacu).
The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us?
(📷: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)
The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us?
(📷: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)
Reposted by Ehsan Moqanaki
Dive into our latest issue!🌊
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...
On the cover:Yangtze porpoises in troubled waters🐬 by Yaoyao Zhang and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...
On the cover:Yangtze porpoises in troubled waters🐬 by Yaoyao Zhang and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...
May 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Dive into our latest issue!🌊
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...
On the cover:Yangtze porpoises in troubled waters🐬 by Yaoyao Zhang and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...
On the cover:Yangtze porpoises in troubled waters🐬 by Yaoyao Zhang and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...
Reposted by Ehsan Moqanaki
You've heard of the many analysts projects, right?
Scholars give the same dataset/question to a bunch of researchers & they still get different answers.
Why is that?
Data cleaning!
This is consistent with Gelman's "garden of forking paths." Small coding decisions often drive results.
Scholars give the same dataset/question to a bunch of researchers & they still get different answers.
Why is that?
Data cleaning!
This is consistent with Gelman's "garden of forking paths." Small coding decisions often drive results.
May 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
You've heard of the many analysts projects, right?
Scholars give the same dataset/question to a bunch of researchers & they still get different answers.
Why is that?
Data cleaning!
This is consistent with Gelman's "garden of forking paths." Small coding decisions often drive results.
Scholars give the same dataset/question to a bunch of researchers & they still get different answers.
Why is that?
Data cleaning!
This is consistent with Gelman's "garden of forking paths." Small coding decisions often drive results.
Reposted by Ehsan Moqanaki
Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Academic mentees thrive in big groups, but survive in small groups - Nature Human Behaviour
Using longitudinal genealogical data on mentor–mentee relations and their publications, the authors find that mentees trained in larger groups tend to exhibit superior academic performance compared wi...
www.nature.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Moganaki: if you don't kill them, they will come. Wolverine in Scandinavia return to historical range, including what was thought to be suboptimal habitat. Meanwhile in Alberta you can now trap them with no quota... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Environmental variability across space and time drives the recolonization pattern of a historically persecuted large carnivore | PNAS
Wildlife populations are not static. Intrinsic and extrinsic factors affect individuals,
which lead to spatiotemporal variation in population densi...
www.pnas.org
March 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Moganaki: if you don't kill them, they will come. Wolverine in Scandinavia return to historical range, including what was thought to be suboptimal habitat. Meanwhile in Alberta you can now trap them with no quota... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Wolverines are bouncing back in Scandinavia, 50 years after they were reduced to a relict population in the snowy alpine. The brawny carnivore is moving into boreal forest, which was previously considered suboptimal habitat for wolverines. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
February 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Wolverines are bouncing back in Scandinavia, 50 years after they were reduced to a relict population in the snowy alpine. The brawny carnivore is moving into boreal forest, which was previously considered suboptimal habitat for wolverines. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
🚨 New paper @pnas.org looking at dynamics of wolverine density determinants across Norway and Sweden: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
🚨 New paper @pnas.org looking at dynamics of wolverine density determinants across Norway and Sweden: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Ehsan Moqanaki
Where are all the field studies?
This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer.
A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork)
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer.
A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork)
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Extinction of experience among ecologists
Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining. We call for greater attention to this ongoing loss of direct field experience within the ecology community, as it could have widespread consequences for science and education, ultimately hindering efforts to address the ongoing biodiversity crisis.
www.cell.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Where are all the field studies?
This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer.
A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork)
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer.
A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork)
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Reposted by Ehsan Moqanaki
New Perspective:
Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth rdcu.be/d5ril
Davidson et al discuss the importance of standardization, long-term archiving and sharing of bio-logging data, and outline a roadmap to achieve these goals.
Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth rdcu.be/d5ril
Davidson et al discuss the importance of standardization, long-term archiving and sharing of bio-logging data, and outline a roadmap to achieve these goals.
January 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New Perspective:
Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth rdcu.be/d5ril
Davidson et al discuss the importance of standardization, long-term archiving and sharing of bio-logging data, and outline a roadmap to achieve these goals.
Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth rdcu.be/d5ril
Davidson et al discuss the importance of standardization, long-term archiving and sharing of bio-logging data, and outline a roadmap to achieve these goals.
Reposted by Ehsan Moqanaki
It's been 10 yrs since Marius the giraffe was controversially culled by Copenhagen Zoo. So, what's happened since?
Many zoos limit reproduction to avoid surplus animals and public backlash. We argue this approach fails the conservation & education mandate of zoos 🧵: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Many zoos limit reproduction to avoid surplus animals and public backlash. We argue this approach fails the conservation & education mandate of zoos 🧵: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
January 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
It's been 10 yrs since Marius the giraffe was controversially culled by Copenhagen Zoo. So, what's happened since?
Many zoos limit reproduction to avoid surplus animals and public backlash. We argue this approach fails the conservation & education mandate of zoos 🧵: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Many zoos limit reproduction to avoid surplus animals and public backlash. We argue this approach fails the conservation & education mandate of zoos 🧵: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Ehsan Moqanaki
😳 WithdrarXiv 🙏
- Dataset of 14K+ withdrawn arXiv papers
- associated retraction comments
- entire history through 09/24
- taxonomy of retraction reasons, from critical errors to policy violations
- WithdrarXiv-SciFy, enriched version w/ scripts for parsed full-text PDFs
arxiv.org/abs/2412.03775
- Dataset of 14K+ withdrawn arXiv papers
- associated retraction comments
- entire history through 09/24
- taxonomy of retraction reasons, from critical errors to policy violations
- WithdrarXiv-SciFy, enriched version w/ scripts for parsed full-text PDFs
arxiv.org/abs/2412.03775
WithdrarXiv: A Large-Scale Dataset for Retraction Study
Retractions play a vital role in maintaining scientific integrity, yet systematic studies of retractions in computer science and other STEM fields remain scarce. We present WithdrarXiv, the first larg...
arxiv.org
December 15, 2024 at 6:34 PM
😳 WithdrarXiv 🙏
- Dataset of 14K+ withdrawn arXiv papers
- associated retraction comments
- entire history through 09/24
- taxonomy of retraction reasons, from critical errors to policy violations
- WithdrarXiv-SciFy, enriched version w/ scripts for parsed full-text PDFs
arxiv.org/abs/2412.03775
- Dataset of 14K+ withdrawn arXiv papers
- associated retraction comments
- entire history through 09/24
- taxonomy of retraction reasons, from critical errors to policy violations
- WithdrarXiv-SciFy, enriched version w/ scripts for parsed full-text PDFs
arxiv.org/abs/2412.03775
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We apologise for the AI-generated image on the cover of our November issue & are happy to confirm that we have taken steps to ensure this doesn't happen again!
🌎The Plant Ecology of Nature-Based Solutions
A Special Feature providing:
🔸focused analysis of the #plant #ecology of NbS
🔸key insights, challenges & opportunities for future research
#COP29 #COP16Biodiversity 🧵1/13 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652745...
A Special Feature providing:
🔸focused analysis of the #plant #ecology of NbS
🔸key insights, challenges & opportunities for future research
#COP29 #COP16Biodiversity 🧵1/13 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652745...
SPECIAL FEATURE: THE PLANT ECOLOGY OF NATURE‐BASED SOLUTIONS: Journal of Ecology: Vol 112, No 11
<em>Journal of Ecology</em> publishes original research on all aspects of the plant ecology (including algae), in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 4, 2024 at 1:24 PM
We apologise for the AI-generated image on the cover of our November issue & are happy to confirm that we have taken steps to ensure this doesn't happen again!
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As if the crisis in scientific publishing couldn't get any worse... 🧪
Publishers are now selling papers to train AIs, making millions of dollars off of scientists' hard work.
Publishers are now selling papers to train AIs, making millions of dollars off of scientists' hard work.
Publishers are selling papers to train AIs — and making millions of dollars
Generative-AI models require massive amounts of data — scholarly publishers are licensing their content to train them.
www.nature.com
December 11, 2024 at 10:01 PM
As if the crisis in scientific publishing couldn't get any worse... 🧪
Publishers are now selling papers to train AIs, making millions of dollars off of scientists' hard work.
Publishers are now selling papers to train AIs, making millions of dollars off of scientists' hard work.
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As expected, the downlisting of the #wolf Canis lupus at the Bern Convention Standing Committee was approved. A thread on some ins and outs. 1/
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
EU proposal to adapt protection status of the wolf adopted by Bern Convention, paving the way to more flexibility in managing wolf populations
Today, the Standing Committee of the Bern Convention voted in favour of the EU proposal to adapt the protection status of the wolf from ‘strictly protected' to ‘protected'.
ec.europa.eu
December 3, 2024 at 2:27 PM
As expected, the downlisting of the #wolf Canis lupus at the Bern Convention Standing Committee was approved. A thread on some ins and outs. 1/
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...