Rob Davis
@robdavis1104.bsky.social
Postdoc - Wildlife Ecology Lab, NMU 🇿🇦🐾📸 • carnivore ecology 🦁🐆 • camera trapping 📸 • UK/African wildlife 🦊🦡🦔 • Chelsea FC ⚽🔵
https://robdavisresearch.weebly.com/
https://robdavisresearch.weebly.com/
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There are 3 exciting postdoctoral openings to work on biodiversity research, monitoring and conservation with us at UBC - check them out!
2 positions: biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and...
1 position: science-bcbiodiversitynetwork-2025.sites.olt.ubc.ca/opportunities/
2 positions: biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and...
1 position: science-bcbiodiversitynetwork-2025.sites.olt.ubc.ca/opportunities/
Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities
Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2-year (2026-2028) - 2 positions OPENAt UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in resea...
biodiversity.ubc.ca
November 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
There are 3 exciting postdoctoral openings to work on biodiversity research, monitoring and conservation with us at UBC - check them out!
2 positions: biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and...
1 position: science-bcbiodiversitynetwork-2025.sites.olt.ubc.ca/opportunities/
2 positions: biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and...
1 position: science-bcbiodiversitynetwork-2025.sites.olt.ubc.ca/opportunities/
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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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Out today, a companion article for my autoOcc R package: Estimating species occupancy across multiple sampling seasons with autologistic occupancy models via the autoOcc R package. #rstats 🧪
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Out today, a companion article for my autoOcc R package: Estimating species occupancy across multiple sampling seasons with autologistic occupancy models via the autoOcc R package. #rstats 🧪
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🦔📉Habitat and predator heterogeneity influence density of a declining mammal
📷 © 1 Emily Clark 2 Hongli Yu
vist.ly/4c62s
#ErinaceusEuropaeus #LandscapesOfFear #MelesMeles #PopulationEcology #SpatialCaptureRecapture #SpatiotemporalCovariateHeterogeneity
📷 © 1 Emily Clark 2 Hongli Yu
vist.ly/4c62s
#ErinaceusEuropaeus #LandscapesOfFear #MelesMeles #PopulationEcology #SpatialCaptureRecapture #SpatiotemporalCovariateHeterogeneity
October 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
🦔📉Habitat and predator heterogeneity influence density of a declining mammal
📷 © 1 Emily Clark 2 Hongli Yu
vist.ly/4c62s
#ErinaceusEuropaeus #LandscapesOfFear #MelesMeles #PopulationEcology #SpatialCaptureRecapture #SpatiotemporalCovariateHeterogeneity
📷 © 1 Emily Clark 2 Hongli Yu
vist.ly/4c62s
#ErinaceusEuropaeus #LandscapesOfFear #MelesMeles #PopulationEcology #SpatialCaptureRecapture #SpatiotemporalCovariateHeterogeneity
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🦁🐆🐾 Lions, leopards, and spotted hyaenas share the African savanna—but how do they coexist at such fine scales? Our new study in Oikos reveals the hidden dance of predators. doi.org/10.1002/oik....
African large carnivores in space and time: insights from camera‐traps on the fine‐scale spatio‐temporal dynamics of lions, spotted hyaenas and leopards
Coexistence of sympatric large carnivores is common in many ecosystems. On the one hand, the potential for competitive interactions, from kleptoparasitism to intraguild predation, is high, so species...
doi.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
🦁🐆🐾 Lions, leopards, and spotted hyaenas share the African savanna—but how do they coexist at such fine scales? Our new study in Oikos reveals the hidden dance of predators. doi.org/10.1002/oik....
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📣📣📣 CONSERVATION GENETICS WORKSHOP -
Few more spaces left!
ConGen Population Genomic Data Analysis Course
🧬💻💡
University of Pretoria, South Africa 🌍
7-14 December + field trip to Kruger NP!
🦁🐃🐘🐆🦏
More info & registration here: www.umt.edu/congen/africa/
Few more spaces left!
ConGen Population Genomic Data Analysis Course
🧬💻💡
University of Pretoria, South Africa 🌍
7-14 December + field trip to Kruger NP!
🦁🐃🐘🐆🦏
More info & registration here: www.umt.edu/congen/africa/
October 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
📣📣📣 CONSERVATION GENETICS WORKSHOP -
Few more spaces left!
ConGen Population Genomic Data Analysis Course
🧬💻💡
University of Pretoria, South Africa 🌍
7-14 December + field trip to Kruger NP!
🦁🐃🐘🐆🦏
More info & registration here: www.umt.edu/congen/africa/
Few more spaces left!
ConGen Population Genomic Data Analysis Course
🧬💻💡
University of Pretoria, South Africa 🌍
7-14 December + field trip to Kruger NP!
🦁🐃🐘🐆🦏
More info & registration here: www.umt.edu/congen/africa/
Congratulations to Hongli Yu for leading this huge effort investigating hedgehog density over an 11-year period from Brackenhurst Campus, Nottinghamshire
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We estimated 🦔 density between 2009-2022, accounting for habitat features & 🦡 presence
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We estimated 🦔 density between 2009-2022, accounting for habitat features & 🦡 presence
Habitat and predator heterogeneity influence density of a declining mammal
Accurate density estimates are crucial for effective conservation management. However, in highly dynamic landscapes where variation in habitat composition and predator–prey interactions in both space...
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Congratulations to Hongli Yu for leading this huge effort investigating hedgehog density over an 11-year period from Brackenhurst Campus, Nottinghamshire
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We estimated 🦔 density between 2009-2022, accounting for habitat features & 🦡 presence
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We estimated 🦔 density between 2009-2022, accounting for habitat features & 🦡 presence
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TFW your student wins the award for the best MSc talk at the conference!
Go Yasmin!
Cc @robdavis1104.bsky.social
Go Yasmin!
Cc @robdavis1104.bsky.social
a man applauds in front of a sign that says " so proud of you "
ALT: a man applauds in front of a sign that says " so proud of you "
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September 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
TFW your student wins the award for the best MSc talk at the conference!
Go Yasmin!
Cc @robdavis1104.bsky.social
Go Yasmin!
Cc @robdavis1104.bsky.social
A blog post on our recent Mostela paper looking at the methods' applicability for small carnivore monitoring!
Don’t forget the little guys: improving monitoring efforts for African small carnivores 🐾📸
New blog post out! 👇
New blog post out! 👇
Don’t forget the little guys: improving monitoring efforts for African small carnivores
Small carnivores are ecologically important species and key indicators of environmental change. However, for many of these species, we lack robust information on their conservation status, geograph…
buff.ly
August 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
A blog post on our recent Mostela paper looking at the methods' applicability for small carnivore monitoring!
Happy to share our new paper estimating lion density in Pilanesberg National Park 🇿🇦 and assessing optimal sampling guidelines for improved monitoring efficiency 🦁
wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#mammals
wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#mammals
TWS Journals
We conducted a follow-up population survey of lions (Panthera leo) in a small, fenced reserve in South Africa, 2 years after the population numbers were significantly reduced by management. Our study....
wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Happy to share our new paper estimating lion density in Pilanesberg National Park 🇿🇦 and assessing optimal sampling guidelines for improved monitoring efficiency 🦁
wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#mammals
wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#mammals
Really happy to share our new paper exploring the Mostela as a monitoring tool for African small carnivores!
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
August 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Really happy to share our new paper exploring the Mostela as a monitoring tool for African small carnivores!
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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📝 Are you using multispecies occupancy models to investigate interactions in species occupancy (i.e. co-occurrence)? 🦁🦓
Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️
Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️
Sample size considerations for species co‐occurrence models
Multispecies occupancy models are widely applied to infer interactions in the occurrence of different species, but convergence and estimation issues under realistic sample sizes are common. We conduc...
doi.org
August 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
📝 Are you using multispecies occupancy models to investigate interactions in species occupancy (i.e. co-occurrence)? 🦁🦓
Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️
Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️
Happy to share our new paper, led by Cornelia Warrer, investigating large carnivore snaring rates & drivers of snare occurrence across Kruger NP!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We found that carnivores were highly susceptible to being caught in snares & predicted snaring hotspots in Kruger
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We found that carnivores were highly susceptible to being caught in snares & predicted snaring hotspots in Kruger
July 15, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Happy to share our new paper, led by Cornelia Warrer, investigating large carnivore snaring rates & drivers of snare occurrence across Kruger NP!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We found that carnivores were highly susceptible to being caught in snares & predicted snaring hotspots in Kruger
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We found that carnivores were highly susceptible to being caught in snares & predicted snaring hotspots in Kruger
Awful photos but a great sighting (before the photos 😆) of caracal on the way to the office this morning! 🤩 Not a bad "commute"! 😊
#caracal #mammals #SouthAfrica
#caracal #mammals #SouthAfrica
July 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Awful photos but a great sighting (before the photos 😆) of caracal on the way to the office this morning! 🤩 Not a bad "commute"! 😊
#caracal #mammals #SouthAfrica
#caracal #mammals #SouthAfrica
Happy #InternationalLeopardDay! 🐆
I didn't get to see a leopard today, but I'm lucky enough to get to work on projects involving them and got to spend today hiking in Cape leopard country in the Outeniqua Mountains 🤩🐆⛰️🏞️
I didn't get to see a leopard today, but I'm lucky enough to get to work on projects involving them and got to spend today hiking in Cape leopard country in the Outeniqua Mountains 🤩🐆⛰️🏞️
May 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Happy #InternationalLeopardDay! 🐆
I didn't get to see a leopard today, but I'm lucky enough to get to work on projects involving them and got to spend today hiking in Cape leopard country in the Outeniqua Mountains 🤩🐆⛰️🏞️
I didn't get to see a leopard today, but I'm lucky enough to get to work on projects involving them and got to spend today hiking in Cape leopard country in the Outeniqua Mountains 🤩🐆⛰️🏞️
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🐆🐆 TWO M.S. POSITIONS AVAILABLE IN MY LAB!! Focus will be bobcat and coyote dynamics in an ocelot pre-reintroduction landscape. Come join the fun. Deadline is June 1 for an August start 🐆🐆
Position posting is here: tinyurl.com/5y3uhbf3
Position posting is here: tinyurl.com/5y3uhbf3
April 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
🐆🐆 TWO M.S. POSITIONS AVAILABLE IN MY LAB!! Focus will be bobcat and coyote dynamics in an ocelot pre-reintroduction landscape. Come join the fun. Deadline is June 1 for an August start 🐆🐆
Position posting is here: tinyurl.com/5y3uhbf3
Position posting is here: tinyurl.com/5y3uhbf3
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Missed the NHMP talk hosted by @zslscience.bsky.social ? 🦔
Catch up & find out how we're tracking hedgehogs across the country: shorturl.at/jP54j
@ptes-org.bsky.social @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social @mammalweb.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social & Nottingham Trent Uni
Catch up & find out how we're tracking hedgehogs across the country: shorturl.at/jP54j
@ptes-org.bsky.social @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social @mammalweb.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social & Nottingham Trent Uni
Developing a National Camera Trap Survey for Hedgehog Conservation
YouTube video by ZSL Science and Conservation
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April 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Missed the NHMP talk hosted by @zslscience.bsky.social ? 🦔
Catch up & find out how we're tracking hedgehogs across the country: shorturl.at/jP54j
@ptes-org.bsky.social @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social @mammalweb.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social & Nottingham Trent Uni
Catch up & find out how we're tracking hedgehogs across the country: shorturl.at/jP54j
@ptes-org.bsky.social @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social @mammalweb.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social & Nottingham Trent Uni
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Last call for expressions of interest in a Quantitative Ecology post-doc based mostly in South Africa. If you are interested, drop Lourens and me a line 👇
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaxqx...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaxqx...
April 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Last call for expressions of interest in a Quantitative Ecology post-doc based mostly in South Africa. If you are interested, drop Lourens and me a line 👇
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaxqx...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaxqx...
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There are still spots available on both courses. Pre-register before end of April to secure your spot!
📢COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT📢
George, South Africa, August 2025
🐻📊Join FatBear's Applied Movement Data Analysis in R courses for wildlife grad students & practitioners. Beginners & R users welcome 🌍📈
Info and registration: fatbearbio.weebly.com/workshops.html 🐾
George, South Africa, August 2025
🐻📊Join FatBear's Applied Movement Data Analysis in R courses for wildlife grad students & practitioners. Beginners & R users welcome 🌍📈
Info and registration: fatbearbio.weebly.com/workshops.html 🐾
WORKSHOPS
Through our applied animal movement data analysis courses, both wildlife practitioners and research students receive immersive hands-on training in the utilization of state-of-the-art tools and...
fatbearbio.weebly.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
There are still spots available on both courses. Pre-register before end of April to secure your spot!
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Super excited to share this new pub led by @wilsonsherm.bsky.social! We used Nextdoor posts to explore human-carnivore interactions in Los Angeles. Nextdoor offers a useful data source for understanding urban human-wildlife interactions, if human biases are accounted for. Check it out! 🧪🌎
"The wildlife Nextdoor: Socioeconomics and race predict social media carnivore reports" is out in Science of the Total Environment. @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social, Christopher Schell, and I looked at how people post about coyotes and black bears on Nextdoor.
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...
April 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Super excited to share this new pub led by @wilsonsherm.bsky.social! We used Nextdoor posts to explore human-carnivore interactions in Los Angeles. Nextdoor offers a useful data source for understanding urban human-wildlife interactions, if human biases are accounted for. Check it out! 🧪🌎
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Great to have our paper out on community-camera-trapping: an innovative conservation incentive approach where local communities monitor their wildlife & generate points, which are translated into locally-chosen community benefits onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Community Camera Trapping: A Novel Method for Encouraging Human–Big Cat Coexistence on Human‐Dominated Land
Human–wildlife conflict poses a major threat to conservation and livelihoods. Here, we outline two innovative approaches: one where local people monitor wildlife on their land using camera-traps and ....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Great to have our paper out on community-camera-trapping: an innovative conservation incentive approach where local communities monitor their wildlife & generate points, which are translated into locally-chosen community benefits onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Applications are open for the African Research Fellowship - a grant of up to $1,750 offered by the American Society of Mammalogists to support African graduate students!
A nice opportunity to get funds for equipment & field costs!
Apply by the 15th April!
👇
www.mammalsociety.org/index.php/co...
A nice opportunity to get funds for equipment & field costs!
Apply by the 15th April!
👇
www.mammalsociety.org/index.php/co...
African Research Fellowship | American Society of Mammalogists
www.mammalsociety.org
April 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Applications are open for the African Research Fellowship - a grant of up to $1,750 offered by the American Society of Mammalogists to support African graduate students!
A nice opportunity to get funds for equipment & field costs!
Apply by the 15th April!
👇
www.mammalsociety.org/index.php/co...
A nice opportunity to get funds for equipment & field costs!
Apply by the 15th April!
👇
www.mammalsociety.org/index.php/co...
A proud supervisor moment yesterday as my MSc student, Marna Visagie, presented her study on carnivore densities from Tswalu Kalahari Reserve at #ecm9 in 🇬🇷
Presenting for the 1st time at an international conference & representing the #WildlifeEcologyLab
Thanks @timhofmeester.bsky.social for the 📸
Presenting for the 1st time at an international conference & representing the #WildlifeEcologyLab
Thanks @timhofmeester.bsky.social for the 📸
April 1, 2025 at 6:48 AM
A proud supervisor moment yesterday as my MSc student, Marna Visagie, presented her study on carnivore densities from Tswalu Kalahari Reserve at #ecm9 in 🇬🇷
Presenting for the 1st time at an international conference & representing the #WildlifeEcologyLab
Thanks @timhofmeester.bsky.social for the 📸
Presenting for the 1st time at an international conference & representing the #WildlifeEcologyLab
Thanks @timhofmeester.bsky.social for the 📸
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Excellent free book by the world’s expert on spatially explicit capture-recapture (with lots of examples in R)
April 1, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Excellent free book by the world’s expert on spatially explicit capture-recapture (with lots of examples in R)
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Our datapaper "Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles" is now online on #ScientificData: nature.com/articles/s41... #RoadEcology @ebdonana.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Our datapaper "Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles" is now online on #ScientificData: nature.com/articles/s41... #RoadEcology @ebdonana.bsky.social