Fabiola Iannarilli

@fa-bio-la.bsky.social

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wildlife biologist | quantitative ecologist | studying animal distribution and behavior using camera trap data | Marie Curie Fellow Postdoc @MPI_AnimalBehavior, previously @Yale | PhD @UMN 🇮🇹🇳🇴🇺🇸🇩🇪 🐺🦊🐱🐕🐿🐁

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Fabiola Iannarilli @fa-bio-la.bsky.social · Jul 8

Join us for another season of Snapshot Europe!

#cameratraps #wildlife #snapshoteurope

Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hey Camera Trappers 📸🐺🐗🦌🦅Snapshot Europe is back for 2025!
Join us in deploying cameras this Sept-Oct. Help build a crucial snapshot of European biodiversity. Learn more & express interest here ▶️ app.wildlifeinsights.org/initiatives/...
Spread the word and help expand our community across Europe🙏

Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) captured in Stelvio National Park, Italy

Fabiola Iannarilli @fa-bio-la.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hey #Minnesota friends, would you like to know what animals live in your area? Join the new DNR initiative Adopt a Camera now!

www.dnr.state.mn.us/wildlife/sig...

#cameratrapping #wildlife

Adopt a camera this fall

Information about the Minnesota DNR's Adopt-A-Camera program to help monitor wildlife populations in targeted research areas southeast of Mille Lacs Lake and directly south of Park Rapids. The program...

www.dnr.state.mn.us

Fabiola Iannarilli @fa-bio-la.bsky.social · Jul 8

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Fabiola Iannarilli @fa-bio-la.bsky.social · Jul 8

Check this out! @graemeshannon.bsky.social @kokosutter.bsky.social @vmoser.bsky.social @ferransayol.bsky.social @drblakemorton.bsky.social @bethpreston.bsky.social @timhofmeester.bsky.social @soenketwietmeyer.bsky.social @jsigner.bsky.social @emanzo.bsky.social @adamfsmith.bsky.social

Reposted by Roland Kays, Brian J. Gerber, Fabiola Iannarilli , and 1 more Roland Kays, Brian J. Gerber, Fabiola Iannarilli, Rubén Tarifa

Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · Jul 8

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Fabiola Iannarilli @fa-bio-la.bsky.social · Mar 31

Great work by @elhamebrahimi.bsky.social at #ecm9 on creating reports starting from the #cameratrap DP standard. First of many outcomes coming out of #Big_Picture, a @biodiversaplus.bsky.social consortium focused on improving the camera trap pipeline 📷🦊🐺🫎📷

Tim R Hofmeester 🦡🦦 @timhofmeester.bsky.social · Mar 31

@elhamebrahimi.bsky.social presenting really important and cool work on a new R package to automate reporting of camera trap data at #ecm9 Work that is done as part of our Biodiversa+ project #Big_Picture

Reposted by Ricardo Rocha, Fabiola Iannarilli

Tim R Hofmeester 🦡🦦 @timhofmeester.bsky.social · Mar 31

Fabiola Iannarilli @fa-bio-la.bsky.social · Mar 31

First day of the European Congress of Mammalogy. Many great talks already. Looking forward to many more in the next 5 days. #ecm9

Fabiola Iannarilli @fa-bio-la.bsky.social · Mar 3

Happy to be part of this: a huge collaboration on definining activity patterns across 445 species of mammals. Does the traditional classification hold? Are species flexible enough to adapt their period of activity in response to anthropogenic changes? Read more here 🦝🫎🐆🦓📸

Brian Gerber @science-action.bsky.social · Feb 27

When the wild things are: Defining mammalian diel activity and plasticity | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

When the wild things are: Defining mammalian diel activity and plasticity

Many species of mammals worldwide are highly plastic in their timing of diel activity, which has unknown fitness consequences.

www.science.org

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Brian Gerber @science-action.bsky.social · Feb 27

When the wild things are: Defining mammalian diel activity and plasticity | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

When the wild things are: Defining mammalian diel activity and plasticity

Many species of mammals worldwide are highly plastic in their timing of diel activity, which has unknown fitness consequences.

www.science.org

Reposted by Fabiola Iannarilli

AniMove @animove-course.bsky.social · Feb 19

To all Animovers out there: Our next workshop will take place from the 30th of November until the 13th of December 2025. More information about location, price and how to apply will follow soon....🤗🐒🦥🌎🐸🐊🕷️🪱

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Joshua Twining @joshuaptwining.bsky.social · Dec 5

Are you interested in species interactions and how we model them?

Then this thread is for you!

Our new paper in Ecology on the role of abundance in species interactions provides new statistical tools for modelling species interactions.

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Abundance‐mediated species interactions

Species interactions shape biodiversity patterns, community assemblage, and the dynamics of wildlife populations. Ecological theory posits that the strength of interspecific interactions is fundament...

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Fabiola Iannarilli @fa-bio-la.bsky.social · Dec 3

Yes :)
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Assessing the Co‐Occurrence of European Pine Marten (Martes martes) With Humans and Domestic Cats on a Mediterranean Island

We explored the co-occurrence of pine marten, Martes martes, and humans and domestic cats on Elba Island, in the Mediterranean Sea. Pine marten occupancy was not affected by the occurrence of humans ....

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Fabiola Iannarilli @fa-bio-la.bsky.social · Dec 2

If you are curious to know the details of the AI model implemented within Wildlife Insights, here they are. Congrats to @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social, Tanya Birch and the rest of the team.

Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · Nov 26

New paper! We've just published a manuscript covering technical details of the AI models behind Wildlife Insights, with systematic analysis at scale of cropping vs not cropping in #CameraTrap image classifiers 🫎🦌🦒🦘🪿🫏🐘🐫🦬🦛🐿️

ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1049/...

To crop or not to crop: Comparing whole‐image and cropped classification on a large dataset of camera trap images

In this work, the authors assess the hypothesis that classifying animals cropped from camera trap images using a species-agnostic detector yields better accuracy than classifying whole images. We fin....

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Fabiola Iannarilli @fa-bio-la.bsky.social · Dec 2

Overall, this work confirms that wildlife's response to the presence of humans and domestic species might not be universally negative; it might vary, instead, depending on the context.

Fabiola Iannarilli @fa-bio-la.bsky.social · Dec 2

Although we found no negative association between pine martens and humans/cats, additional studies are needed. Occurrence might be a metric too coarse to reveal a negative effect on abundance, fitness, etc. and these findings might be limited to particular conditions occurring in Elba.

Fabiola Iannarilli @fa-bio-la.bsky.social · Dec 2

Opposite activity patterns (mostly diurnal for humans, mostly nocturnal for pine martens) might facilitate the co-existence between humans and pine martens. Temporal segregation might not be the mechanism that allows the co-existence of pine martens and cats as they have similar activity patterns.

Fabiola Iannarilli @fa-bio-la.bsky.social · Dec 2

We found that pine marten had high probability of occurring (>0.63) across all vegetation types and elevations sampled. Surprisingly, we found no association between the occurrence of pine martens and the other two species, despite the pervasive presence of both humans and cats throughout the area.

Fabiola Iannarilli @fa-bio-la.bsky.social · Dec 2

On Elba, pine martens are the only wild carnivore present and domestic cats could act as their main competitors. Also, due to tourism, the number of people in the island increases drastically during the summer. Thus, Elba is a great place to explore pine martens’ response to humans and cats.

Fabiola Iannarilli @fa-bio-la.bsky.social · Dec 2

📣Another paper out📣

This one is a fun collaboration with @emanzo.bsky.social and the Fondazione Ethoikos team. Using #cameratraps, we explored whether European pine marten’s occurrence and activity were associated with the presence of humans and domestic cats on Elba Island. 🏃🚵🐈‍⬛

Fabiola Iannarilli @fa-bio-la.bsky.social · Nov 27

Thank you

Reposted by Fabiola Iannarilli, Xavier De Lamo

Patrick Jansen 🐾 @patrickjansen.bsky.social · Nov 27

A great job opportunity at #ForestGEO, the global network of forest dynamics plots, based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Highly recommended to forest ecologists. #vacancy
forestgeo.si.edu/forestgeo-st...

ForestGEO Staff Scientist - Research Ecologist, South & Central American Tropical Forests

The Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) is a global network of forest research plots and scientists dedicated to the study of forest function and diversity.

forestgeo.si.edu

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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · Nov 26

To crop or not to crop: Comparing whole‐image and cropped classification on a large dataset of camera trap images

ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Fabiola Iannarilli

Leila Fouda @leilafouda.bsky.social · Nov 26

Writing my first #faculty apps (nerve wracking)! Any advice you wish you had the first time you applied? What do you like to see in an applicant's packet? All tips welcome. #AcademicSky #EarlyCareer #ECR #WomenInSTEM #STEM #PostDoc #PhDSky

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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · Nov 26

Rhinos!

I am looking for good books/papers about the natural history of African rhinos.
Behavior, diet, sociality, breeding, everything you can think of.

Please share this so I get to the people who know :)

*I took these pics in South Africa in 2017, they are here to get your attention

Reposted by Helmut Hillebrand, Marjolijn Haasnoot, Natalie Homer , and 4 more Helmut Hillebrand, Marjolijn Haasnoot, Natalie Homer, Laure B. Bindels, Almut Schulze, Flavia Montaño‐Centellas, Fabiola Iannarilli

Johanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · Nov 25

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️

So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?

We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary

#WomeninSTEM

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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