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Rachel Bergeron
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PhD candidate at U. de Sherbrooke! 🔍 Population dynamics & kangaroos | wildlife photography | all things outdoors 🦘🌿❄️ #womeninSTEM (she/her)
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Beyond excited to share our latest 🦘 study, hot off the press! Find out how roads and hiking trails may be harming kangaroos in national parks, and what we should be doing about it. 🔍 #longtermresearch #conservation #roadecology

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Vehicle collisions and visitor disturbance reduce survival and reproductive success of kangaroos in a national park
Many protected areas provide opportunities for people to view wildlife using roads and walking trails. The impacts of roads and trails on wildlife pop…
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Perk #87 of a research internship in Norway: "see Svalbard & its reindeer" checked off of the lifetime bucket list a couple weeks ago! ❄️
June 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Beyond excited to share our latest 🦘 study, hot off the press! Find out how roads and hiking trails may be harming kangaroos in national parks, and what we should be doing about it. 🔍 #longtermresearch #conservation #roadecology

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Vehicle collisions and visitor disturbance reduce survival and reproductive success of kangaroos in a national park
Many protected areas provide opportunities for people to view wildlife using roads and walking trails. The impacts of roads and trails on wildlife pop…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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CSEE needs your help! The CSEE equity fund helps send students/postdocs in financial need to our annual meeting. Unfortunately in these difficult times, the need exceeds our resources. Please help a student/postdoc by making a small donation here: gofund.me/ac98009f
Donate to Send a student or postdoc to CSEE 2025, organized by Marc Johnson
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March 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Over a week into my internship at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Trondheim already! On the hunt for polar kangaroos 🦘🔍
March 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Watch out, any/everyone I come across at conferences for the foreseeable future, adorable kangaroo-themed branding coming your way 😎🦘
February 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Wishing you all lots of graphs like this one in 2025 ❤️ (along with health and happiness and everything of course)
January 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Field sites and some of their logistics. 4: Wilson Promontory, Victoria, Australia. Eastern grey kangaroo research since 2008.
January 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This holiday season's study question: will Soya (the rescue) allow us to stuff her into a habs jersey? 🐕 Our findings:
January 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Early Christmas present today! 🎁 I officially managed to get a 3-month research internship at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research funded. So excited for the cool research ahead! Will be accepting celebratory sweet-treat suggestions (preferably holiday-themed). 🎄
December 20, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Hi BlueSky 🦋! I'm a PhD candidate studying kangaroo population dynamics out of Sherbrooke, QC! Likely to post about research, grad school, EDI and mental health in academia, all things nature and outdoors... and to share the occasional pic of australian wildlife! 🦘🔍
December 4, 2024 at 2:08 AM
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I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!

Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚

Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
November 27, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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Ecologists and Evolutionary biologists: Are you looking for a fantastic meeting this summer? Join us in Sherbrooke Quebec July 6-9 (event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pages) for #CSEE2025 - the Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution annual meeting.
November 24, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Rambling on about roos, yet again 🦘 What a great SQEBC meeting this weekend at Concordia! So much exciting research discussed!! 🦌🐦🐢
November 20, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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The call for symposia/workshops for the 2025 meeting of the Can Soc for Eco and Evo in Sherbrooke (!!!) is now open - deadline Jan 31. Looking forward to seeing you in the Eastern Townships next year! 🧪 event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pag...
2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution
Fourwaves - 2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution
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November 19, 2024 at 9:31 PM