Josie Hughes
jsphughes.bsky.social
Josie Hughes
@jsphughes.bsky.social
Research Scientist, National Wildlife Research Centre, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Views my own.
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Please share broadly to your networks so this can reach its intended audience! And we are also looking for volunteers to help instruct/mentor. Details here: cv4ecology.caltech.edu/ai-upskillin...
AI upskilling workshop for former US/state conservation scientists
cv4ecology.caltech.edu
March 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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New paper alert! Zombie fires overwinter, going underground to smolder through winter before reemerging. Until recently, we knew these fires occurred but knew little of their ecological or carbon impacts. Along with my amazing coauthors, we set out to change this. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Overwintering fires can occur in both peatlands and upland forests with varying ecological impacts - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Field measurements of fires burning over winter at 20 sites in the Northwest Territories of Canada and in Alaska find that such fires occur in both peatlands and upland forests, and provide informatio...
www.nature.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Registration is now open for the EFI2025 Conference on May 19-22 in Blacksburg, VA at bit.ly/efi2025!

Find the draft schedule, workshops & working group details, and the Conference Handbook with info about the venue, travel recommendations, and more on the website.
Ecological Forecasting Initiative 2025 Conference, May 19th
This 3.5-day in-person international Ecological Forecasting Initiative (EFI) Conference meeting will bring together participants from academia, government agencies, industry, and the non-profit sector...
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February 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Like birds and models? Dr. Erin Bayne and I are currently recruiting a 2 year postdoc to come work with us at the Boreal Avian Modelling project on boreal bird models and applications of those models. Full details are here tinyurl.com/4yxju63k. Feel free to get in touch with qs!
February 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Global Ecology 🌐 starter pack vol 1 & 2 are full and curated !! ✨💚

Please share so they will fly into the blue sky 🦋🌈

Vol1 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack...

Vol2 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack...

Will start a Vol. 3 soon, please reply if you want to be in !

🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁🦑🪴🦉🐍🌾
February 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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I hereby create a community of people who love, respect, and admire boglands. They are mysterious, beautiful, and powerful to ecology, archaeology and climate. Yet these systems continue to be misunderstood and threatened. Who wants to join my bog fan club? Please share - bogs need friends right now
February 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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⬇️ MY MISTAKE ⬇️

This person could be based at their Ontario *home office* or NCC's HQ in Toronto. #ConservationJobs
We're hiring a Manager, Natural Areas (central Ontario) @ncccnc.bsky.social.

* Full time
* Salary $81k-92k/yr + benefits
* Based in Toronto
* Apply by Feb 9
* Details: lnkd.in/gNwQR7DY

#ConservationJobs
January 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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IPBES task forces on
scenarios and models &
Indigenous and local knowledge
are organizing a
4 day workshop, May 2025
in the Philippines
to reflect on scenarios and models
that better account for different knowledge systems
www.ipbes.net/scenarios-mo...

to apply:
www.ipbes.net/scenarios-mo...
Call for nomination to participate in the IPBES workshop on scenarios and models incorporating Indigenous and local knowledge systems and Mother Earth-Centric perspectives – deadline for applications ...
www.ipbes.net
January 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Starting a thread of starter packs in nature and clîmate
January 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Join our amazing department!
Reminder - due Friday!
The Department of Geography at Memorial University invites applications for a permanent, tenure-track, Assistant Professor position in Physical Geography.
The deadline for applications is January 10, 2025.
For the full job ad and how to apply, see tinyurl.com/5a2t3xrh
January 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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JOB: Statistical Ecologist, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI)

* 2 years, full time
* Salary $69k-93k + benefits
* Remote &/or in-office (at U Alberta)
* Apply by 10 Jan abmi.ca/abmi-home/co...

#ConservationJobs #ScienceJobs
January 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Are you interested in how species distribution models are used in land use planning? Come work us! This is going to be a super cool position understanding how model reliability affects model applications. Creative! Collaborative! Quantitative!

Apply by Jan 10: ow.ly/gzPn50UsUQG
December 19, 2024 at 3:20 PM