Jon Went
@jonfwent.bsky.social
PhD student in forest regeneration and fungi | he/him 🏳️🌈
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🍂 Fall is here, and so is the WSL Biodiversity Seminar Series! From genetics to social-ecological systems, this semester we’ll have 7 fascinating talks on biodiversity research.
Everyone is welcome, in person or online!
biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/
@wslresearch.bsky.social
Everyone is welcome, in person or online!
biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/
@wslresearch.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
🍂 Fall is here, and so is the WSL Biodiversity Seminar Series! From genetics to social-ecological systems, this semester we’ll have 7 fascinating talks on biodiversity research.
Everyone is welcome, in person or online!
biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/
@wslresearch.bsky.social
Everyone is welcome, in person or online!
biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/
@wslresearch.bsky.social
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The IWC2025 officially started 🥳 and it’s even better seeing so many familiar and new faces ☺️
September 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The IWC2025 officially started 🥳 and it’s even better seeing so many familiar and new faces ☺️
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Who’s ready for the IWC2025 edition? 🤩 Your volunteer team is busy out here preparing the check-in! 😁
August 31, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Who’s ready for the IWC2025 edition? 🤩 Your volunteer team is busy out here preparing the check-in! 😁
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“We might just be scratching the surface of the social complexity in this species.”
These giant carnivorous bats hug, cuddle — and even share dinner
Infrared cameras in Costa Rica revealed that the world’s largest carnivorous bat maintains close social bonds through wing wraps and prey sharing.
buff.ly
August 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“We might just be scratching the surface of the social complexity in this species.”
In Zurich they already left on August 4th/5th, always marks the beginning of fall 🍂 for me when the only swifts left are the alpine ones
It's a farewell #FlyDay to the wonderful Swifts... already headed on their epic journeys south!
Safe travels, friends, we’ll be waiting for you next summer. 🌍
Safe travels, friends, we’ll be waiting for you next summer. 🌍
August 22, 2025 at 7:51 AM
In Zurich they already left on August 4th/5th, always marks the beginning of fall 🍂 for me when the only swifts left are the alpine ones
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What do the WILDLABS Awards 2025 submissions tell us about what #conservation challenges our community is tackling and what #technology they're using to do so?
Explore the full data here to explore changing trends in #conservationtech awards applications: wildlabs.net/discussion/w...
Explore the full data here to explore changing trends in #conservationtech awards applications: wildlabs.net/discussion/w...
June 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
What do the WILDLABS Awards 2025 submissions tell us about what #conservation challenges our community is tackling and what #technology they're using to do so?
Explore the full data here to explore changing trends in #conservationtech awards applications: wildlabs.net/discussion/w...
Explore the full data here to explore changing trends in #conservationtech awards applications: wildlabs.net/discussion/w...
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🐺🐺🐺 NEW PAPER! 🐺🐺🐺
Recovering wolves in WA tolerate threats except high harvest, high lethal removals, and lack of immigration
With @labgardner.bsky.social, Sarah Converse, & Ben Maletzke
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Recovering wolves in WA tolerate threats except high harvest, high lethal removals, and lack of immigration
With @labgardner.bsky.social, Sarah Converse, & Ben Maletzke
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Forecasting Dynamics of a Recolonizing Wolf Population Under Different Management Strategies
We use a novel spatially explicit projection model to evaluate how different management strategies and system uncertainties affect the recolonization dynamics of wolves. We found that scenarios relat....
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
🐺🐺🐺 NEW PAPER! 🐺🐺🐺
Recovering wolves in WA tolerate threats except high harvest, high lethal removals, and lack of immigration
With @labgardner.bsky.social, Sarah Converse, & Ben Maletzke
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Recovering wolves in WA tolerate threats except high harvest, high lethal removals, and lack of immigration
With @labgardner.bsky.social, Sarah Converse, & Ben Maletzke
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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2025. #DEI - "Where is the best place to hold a scientific conference right now?" [Thailand, Indonesia, Hungary?]. PLEASE - before deciding on a conference location, check if the LGBTQ+ community can be legally themselves! "I" stands for INCLUSIVE! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Where is the best place to hold a scientific conference right now?
An immigration crackdown makes the United States less attractive. These locations could steal its crown and make conferences more globally inclusive.
www.nature.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
2025. #DEI - "Where is the best place to hold a scientific conference right now?" [Thailand, Indonesia, Hungary?]. PLEASE - before deciding on a conference location, check if the LGBTQ+ community can be legally themselves! "I" stands for INCLUSIVE! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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June issue: A Review led by Gianalberto Losapio on the impacts and consequences of glacier retreat for biodiversity in these ecosystems.
Weblink: go.nature.com/446nolE
Readcube: rdcu.be/erx1y
Weblink: go.nature.com/446nolE
Readcube: rdcu.be/erx1y
Impacts of deglaciation on biodiversity and ecosystem function - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Glaciers are retreating with global climate warming, which threatens glacier specialists and the functions and stability of glaciers and glacially influenced ecosystems. This Review describes the impa...
go.nature.com
June 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
June issue: A Review led by Gianalberto Losapio on the impacts and consequences of glacier retreat for biodiversity in these ecosystems.
Weblink: go.nature.com/446nolE
Readcube: rdcu.be/erx1y
Weblink: go.nature.com/446nolE
Readcube: rdcu.be/erx1y
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Come join us at the Conservation Biogeography Lab @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social and carry out work on megafauna in Europe
pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/websi...
pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/websi...
New PhD position on large mammals and land-use change in Europe | Conservation Biogeography Lab
We are excited to invite applications for a new PhD position on large mammals and land-use change in Europe. Join us at the Conservation and Biogeography Lab at Humboldt University Berlin!
pages.cms.hu-berlin.de
June 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Come join us at the Conservation Biogeography Lab @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social and carry out work on megafauna in Europe
pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/websi...
pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/websi...
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Very cool PhD opportunity with a fab team of caring and inspiring supervisors at a great institution, and building on a fantastic study system! Recommended! #ornithology
New PhD position in our group! Join us to study gull foraging ecology at sea using GPS and accelerometry data! You will be working here Amsterdam Movement Ecology group under supervision of @judyshamounb.bsky.social, @rooskentie.bsky.social and me. Apply here werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — PhD Position Gull Foraging Ecology in the North Sea - NO-REGRETS Project
Are you passionate about animal movement ecology? Interested in studying gull foraging ecology at sea? Apply for this unique PhD opportunity at the Department of Theoretical and Computational Ecology ...
werkenbij.uva.nl
June 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Very cool PhD opportunity with a fab team of caring and inspiring supervisors at a great institution, and building on a fantastic study system! Recommended! #ornithology
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🦇 June is here!
Female bats usually give birth to a single baby, called a pup, which they feed on their milk. Young bats are very small (less than an inch) and pink with little to no fur. They will soon grow a thin, slightly grey fur.
Female bats usually give birth to a single baby, called a pup, which they feed on their milk. Young bats are very small (less than an inch) and pink with little to no fur. They will soon grow a thin, slightly grey fur.
June 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🦇 June is here!
Female bats usually give birth to a single baby, called a pup, which they feed on their milk. Young bats are very small (less than an inch) and pink with little to no fur. They will soon grow a thin, slightly grey fur.
Female bats usually give birth to a single baby, called a pup, which they feed on their milk. Young bats are very small (less than an inch) and pink with little to no fur. They will soon grow a thin, slightly grey fur.
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Check our new review on niche truncation and how to avoid it with N-SDMs
🆕 New paper: Spatially nested SDMs to overcome niche truncation, by Guisan et al.!
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Spatially nested species distribution models (N‐SDM): An effective tool to overcome niche truncation for more robust inference and projections
N-SDMs are key tools to develop untruncated regional climate change forecasts of species distributions at fine resolution over restricted extents. While several N-SDM approaches were proposed, there ...
doi.org
May 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Check our new review on niche truncation and how to avoid it with N-SDMs
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Babies on board! See the twin bumps in this roundleaf bat's tummy. Although her babies will be almost 1/3 of her body weight at birth, she is increadibly agile and only slows her flight a little. (Photo captured in Kasanka National Park, Zambia last week). 📷🌍🦇😍 #nature #bats #wildlife #photography
May 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Babies on board! See the twin bumps in this roundleaf bat's tummy. Although her babies will be almost 1/3 of her body weight at birth, she is increadibly agile and only slows her flight a little. (Photo captured in Kasanka National Park, Zambia last week). 📷🌍🦇😍 #nature #bats #wildlife #photography
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🦇 Greater sac-winged bat pups acquire their vocal repertoire through a conspicuous vocal practice behavior reminiscent of babbling in human infants. Pups spend about 30% of their daily activity time babbling – and it turns out that mothers influence this behavior.
elifesciences.org/articles/99474
elifesciences.org/articles/99474
Maternal behavior influences vocal practice and learning processes in the greater sac-winged bat
Non-tutorial feedback shapes song acquisition in a mammalian vocal learner.
elifesciences.org
May 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
🦇 Greater sac-winged bat pups acquire their vocal repertoire through a conspicuous vocal practice behavior reminiscent of babbling in human infants. Pups spend about 30% of their daily activity time babbling – and it turns out that mothers influence this behavior.
elifesciences.org/articles/99474
elifesciences.org/articles/99474
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Thanks to everybody who chimed in!
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
May 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Thanks to everybody who chimed in!
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
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The @bbs-birds.bsky.social 2024 report is out now and shows drastic declines in many breeding bird populations. Huge thanks to volunteers who provided vital data for this report as it’s with your help we can monitor bird populations and help protect them. 🌍 🌐 See the report ➡️ www.bto.org/bbs-results
Falling finch numbers, fading farmland birds, declining Dippers and vanishing Cuckoo calls in England are worrying findings from the 2024 Breeding Bird Survey report out now! Read the report ➡️ www.bto.org/bbs-results
@btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social #Ornithology
@btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social #Ornithology
May 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The @bbs-birds.bsky.social 2024 report is out now and shows drastic declines in many breeding bird populations. Huge thanks to volunteers who provided vital data for this report as it’s with your help we can monitor bird populations and help protect them. 🌍 🌐 See the report ➡️ www.bto.org/bbs-results
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What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic. It affects us all.
The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) has released their Summary Arctic Climate Change Update. Read it: www.amap.no/documents/do...
Nobody can later say they weren't warned, again and again.
The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) has released their Summary Arctic Climate Change Update. Read it: www.amap.no/documents/do...
Nobody can later say they weren't warned, again and again.
May 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic. It affects us all.
The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) has released their Summary Arctic Climate Change Update. Read it: www.amap.no/documents/do...
Nobody can later say they weren't warned, again and again.
The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) has released their Summary Arctic Climate Change Update. Read it: www.amap.no/documents/do...
Nobody can later say they weren't warned, again and again.
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Birds shrink under climate change - an observation assumed to carry thermoregulatory benefit. Creating temperature-dependent 🐥🐣 morphotypes in the lab and measuring their heat- and cold-tolerance through development, we show shape-shifting carries at most minuscule benefit 👇 @biologylu.bsky.social
Shrinking and shape-shifting do not inherently provide thermoregulatory benefits in a warming world. Neutral plasticity or relaxed selection on small body size may better explain why birds are adjusting form under climate change. @cyanistesnord.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Limited evidence that body size shrinking and shape-shifting alleviate thermoregulatory pressures in a warmer world - Communications Biology
Shrinking and shape-shifting do not inherently provide thermoregulatory benefits in a warming world. Neutral plasticity or relaxed selection on small body size may better explain why birds are adjusti...
www.nature.com
May 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Birds shrink under climate change - an observation assumed to carry thermoregulatory benefit. Creating temperature-dependent 🐥🐣 morphotypes in the lab and measuring their heat- and cold-tolerance through development, we show shape-shifting carries at most minuscule benefit 👇 @biologylu.bsky.social
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Disentangling the effect of the spatial scale and species spatial pattern on the abundance–suitability relationship vist.ly/3n4asev #Birds #SpeciesAbundance #Modelling
May 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Disentangling the effect of the spatial scale and species spatial pattern on the abundance–suitability relationship vist.ly/3n4asev #Birds #SpeciesAbundance #Modelling
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Hunter-engaged monitoring of the Eurasian lynx during the reinforcement process vist.ly/3n4avn4 #CameraTrapping #CitizenScience
May 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Hunter-engaged monitoring of the Eurasian lynx during the reinforcement process vist.ly/3n4avn4 #CameraTrapping #CitizenScience
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Which animal left its tracks?
May 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Which animal left its tracks?
Looking forward 🤩 I'm presenting the results of the project on ungulate browsing intensity I'm working on in a speedy talk
𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗞𝗦 𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗪𝗖𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱!
We added a new 5-min format alongside talks & posters to spotlight key research highlights. No Q&A, but each session ends with an informal discussion.
Perfect for early results, bold ideas & big questions! 💡
Acceptances by April 30 📅
We added a new 5-min format alongside talks & posters to spotlight key research highlights. No Q&A, but each session ends with an informal discussion.
Perfect for early results, bold ideas & big questions! 💡
Acceptances by April 30 📅
May 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Looking forward 🤩 I'm presenting the results of the project on ungulate browsing intensity I'm working on in a speedy talk
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