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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 9h

Very existential question: knowing that one needs to tie three legs of the calf together in a rodeo, what if you rodeo a spider? You tie 6 and leave 2 free, or you tie 7 and leave 1 free? And what about millipede?

Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 19h

Haven't we known this for a while?

Asking lion ppl

The Revelator @therevelator.org · 1d

Some people say that "farming" lions in captivity helps wild populations. New research finds the practice is actually harmful to wild lions. Read more: https://therevelator.org/lion-farming-harming/

Study: Commercial Lion Farming in South Africa Could Be Harming, Not Helping, Wild Lions • The Revelator

As we've seen with tigers and other threatened species, captive lion breeding may stimulate consumer demand and put additional pressure on wild populations across African home ranges.

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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 20h

Co-supervising BSc honors at the moment and their stats are soooooooo convoluted for no reason. Actually wait: for one reason ; )

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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 20h

@kalpapran.bsky.social ping - as a general thing

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Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 1d

Canids seem to be the routine lovers, reusing their travel routes more than felids. This shapes hunting, encounters, and even disease spread. Insights from 1,239 GPS-tracked carnivores, including the Arctic foxes we track on Bylot Island 🧪🌿🌎🌐🦊. Read in the latest PNAS at bitly.cx/TxI2

Pictured is a male jaguar (Panthera onca) equipped with a tracking collar. William F. Fagan et al. tracked the movements of 1,239 mammalian carnivores, including 16 canid species and 18 felid species, on six continents. On average, compared with felids, canids displayed a greater density of trackways within their range and were more likely to reuse established trackways. According to the authors, the evolutionary differences in carnivore movement patterns could aid efforts to model encounters among carnivores, prey, and humans. See the article by Fagan et al. e2401042122. Image credit: Sebastian Kennerknecht (photographer).

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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 2d

"It is surprising, if not deeply concerning, that despite decades of advances in biodiversity modeling, the GBF overlooks the anticipatory power of these tools and does not mention “model” or “prediction” anywhere in its text."

Macroecology lab @unipotsdam @zurelllab.bsky.social · 2d

Biodiversity policy needs to look forward, not just backward. 🌍
Our new PNAS piece argues that predictive models - like those used in climate science - are key to guiding effective conservation decisions.
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#Biodiversity #Conservation #PNAS
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Predicting the way forward for the Global Biodiversity Framework | PNAS

Predicting the way forward for the Global Biodiversity Framework

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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 3d

They're always fat and often relaxed, aren't they?

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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 6d

Switzerland:
Up to 25,000 cows could be slaughtered due to US tariffs www-rts-ch.translate.goog/info/economi...

But: the wolf!

Jusqu'à 25'000 vaches pourraient être abattues à cause des droits de douane américains

Jusqu'à 25'000 vaches sont menacées d'abattage en Suisse en raison des droits de douane américains, relate la NZZ am Sonntag, qui se base sur des données de l'Interprofession du lait (IP). En cause: u...

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 6d

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 14d

This is becoming real 😅

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 14d

Something cool to start your weekend: a Blue Jay x Green Jay hybrid from Texas! #ornithology

Rare blue-and-green hybrid jay spotted in Texas is offspring of birds whose lineages split 7 million years ago

The hybrid bird is the product of two species whose habitat ranges began to overlap a few decades ago, potentially due to climate change, researchers said.

www.livescience.com

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WildCRU, Oxford @wildcru.bsky.social · 16d

Lions across Africa are under threat from habitat loss, poaching, and wildlife trade.

A continent-wide survey of 132 lion subpopulations was conducted in collaboration with landscape managers and lion researchers to determine perceived threat severity.

[1/2] @biology.ox.ac.uk

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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 16d

I need one!

"The Publish or Perish Game is a humorous party game about academic publishing. Players race to publish manuscripts with useless nonsense while sabotaging each other's research and delivering "very helpful" comments, Reviewer 2 style."

publishorperish.games

Publish or Perish: A Humorous Party Game about Academic Publish

Welcome to the chaotic life of academic publishing. In this game, you are a clueless researcher trying to do the one and only thing that matters in your academic life: churning out publications, fast....

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FatBear wildlife science solutions @fatbear-bio.bsky.social · 17d

Every week is FatBear week! 😁

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Community-Led Restoration @globalstewards.bsky.social · 17d

Fat bear week launches tomorrow! 🐻
explore.org/fat-bear-wee...

Fat Bear Week 2025

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Tom Cameron @ecoevoenviro.bsky.social · Sep 10

#Wildlife population counts are only population size estimates, always wrong but some more than others - here technology suggests 50% out! www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09...

AI satellite survey challenges long-standing estimates of Serengeti

A pioneering study led by the University of Oxford in collaboration with international partners has applied AI for the first time to count the Great Wildebeest Migration from satellite images.

www.ox.ac.uk

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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · Sep 9

TFW your student wins the award for the best MSc talk at the conference!

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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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · Aug 3

Wildfire and Drought Alter the Ecology of Jaguars and Co‐Occurring Mammals in the World's Largest Wetland

🔗 buff.ly/tNzo2KM

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Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · Aug 1

Wolves use diverse tactics to track partially migratory prey. Cool paper !!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wolves use diverse tactics to track partially migratory prey

Some predators move long distances to track migratory prey.1,2,3 This phenomenon, known as migratory coupling,1 has been observed in wolves that track…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Society for Conservation Biology - Europe @scbeurope.bsky.social · Jul 9

New on European conservation science:

Wolf-dog hybridization can rapidly increase without intervention. Model shows sterilization or removal of hybrids reduces admixture. Success depends on mate choice, immigration & mortality by humans.

Santostasi et al. in Cons. Biology doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Simulating the efficacy of wolf–dog hybridization management with individual‐based modeling

In the photo, an introgressed adult wolf–dog in the Northern Apennines, Italy, not far from the city of Bologna. Part of a research program, this male has been sterilized and released back in its own....

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · Aug 1

Pro tip for writers:

A very bad first draft is not a failure—it’s a great start, Congratulations!

You can’t revise a blank page, but you can shape a bad one into something really great

🌟Editing is easier than Creating🌟

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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · Jul 31

9 Switzerlands !

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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · Jul 31

You're not alone 😬

Kirsty MacLeod @kjmacleod.bsky.social · Jul 31

Need some tips for dealing with literature overwhelm... every day I see 10 papers I really want to read, but struggle to find the time for. So I feel like I'm constantly falling behind!

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Remington Moll @remingtonmoll.bsky.social · May 23

📢New paper 📢

MS student Clara Dawson's 1st chapter is out!

Does increased habitat connectivity always increase wildlife-vehicle collision rates?

No!

We found nonlinear effects of connectivity on wildlife-vehicle collisions

Free access: rdcu.be/emUU3

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The Wildlife Society @thewildlifesociety.bsky.social · Jul 30

Despite a lack of threats, utility-scale solar energy still repels pronghorn. Read the full story 👇

Ungulates turn away while humans embrace solar - The Wildlife Society

Despite lack of threats, utility-scale solar energy still repel pronghorn

wildlife.org

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · Jul 30

Pro tip for writers:
Your abstract cannot be an afterthought

It’s the most important paragraph in your paper—often the only one people read
Make every word count!

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