📣 Plenary speaker #3:

Dr. Mevin Hooten 🐾

Professor of Statistics & Data Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Author of multiple books on Bayesian statistics and leading expert in statistical methods for the analysis of animal movement.

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Issue 53 of the EFI newsletter is now available!

Find updates on

- the annual EFI conference, other upcoming conference sessions, workshops, and seminars
- invites to participate in working group activities
- awards
- new bylaws & playbook for international chapters

and more!

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The next International Statistical Ecology Conference (ISEC) will take place on January 8-15, 2027, in Mérida, México.

Calls for workshop and roundtable proposals now open, deadline Nov 15, 2025 (anywhere on earth).

Visit statisticalecology.org for more information. 🧪

Please share widely 📈🦋🐾

The EFI Newsletter is out!
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Find updates on forecasting activities at the ESA conference and recent African EFI chapter short course, resources from the book club, the registration link for the continuous-time movement modeling (ctmm) R package Sept seminar, and other EFI updates.

This should be a lot of fun! Help us find out if BES journal data and code sharing policies are actually working, with a little side bonus quest about data equity 🤓

#BOU2026 ALFRED NEWTON LECTURER

Claire Spottiswoode
University of Cape Town, South Africa

Birds and people | 31 March - 2 April 2026 | University of Nottingham & Zoom & Bluesky

Why not join us? Submit your abstract here:
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#ornithology

New paper - what can we learn about rhino, ranger, and poacher behavior by looking at where/when poaching happens? We analysed data on >500 poaching incidents to find out. A story of corruption, maximizing opportunities, and minimizing risks:

Read: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Still can't believe we got onto the cover of Science! Across 11 reserves and 7 years, we found that dehorning achieved large reductions in poaching, but it's not a magic bullet

Full article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Popular version: www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

We evaluated the effectiveness of anti-rhino-poaching interventions and dehorning was effective.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

✏️The African EFI Chapter has officially launched! The group will host a short course in Cape Town late 21-25th July. Applications close 9 June.

Find details and the link to the application form at: ecoforecast.africa/events/curre...

Please share with African colleagues and collaborators!

The FitzPatrick Institute is immensely proud to count a Fellow of the Royal Society among its ranks! Warm congratulations to Prof. Claire Spottiswoode on this excellent and thoroughly well-deserved achievement 👏
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Structural Topic Models and ISEC abstracts guided our recent review on statistical ecology "Emerging Topics and New Directions in Statistical Ecology": link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#Callforapplications for a near-term #ecologicalforecasting #course with Prof Jasper Slingsby to be held in #CapeTown 21-25th July 2025. Applicants please complete the form (more details there). Closing date 9 June.
Please share among your networks across Africa!
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📖Published📖

VANTAGE: An open-source application for visualisation, navigation and analysis of video and ancillary time-series data in bio-logging studies 🐧 🌎 🧪

Read the article here 👇

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Issue 49 of the EFI Newsletter is out!
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Find info about the new EFI Steering Committee, new funding, upcoming seminars, and EFI2025 Conference reminders including the registration deadline on April 14. See the conference schedule and the register link at bit.ly/efi2025

Seems like we are increasingly heading towards the IPCC SSP3 scenario "regional rivalry", "barriers to trade", with projected 4 degrees warming by the end of the century. Remaining below +2 degrees would need us to take opposite direction (SSP1).

We are looking for a lecturer / senior lecture in statistics to join our department at the University of Cape Town; deadline 1 April jobs.uct.ac.za/job/Cape-Tow...