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Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪

@adamfsmith.bsky.social

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PhD Nature Conservation / Wildlife biologist 🐺🦌 working in EU and Ukraine 🇺🇦🇪🇺 / Sometimes volunteer 🇺🇦 / Irish 🇮🇪 / All thoughts personal, not professional

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Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · Nov 17

On Friday they put a hat on my head, and called me "Dr. Smith" #phDONE

Looking forward to continuing to work with wildlife and nature into the future!

And I'll be on Bluesky for it too!!!

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 1d

Over a hundred Russian drones over Ukraine right now. Our night starts with Russian terrorism. Again.

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Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · 8d

Amazing work Kathi 👏

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Kathi Kasper @kathikasper.bsky.social · 8d

Happy to see this first PhD chapter out in the big wild world.

Mammal Research Institute PAS @mripas.bsky.social · 8d

Our new article shows: The 'big bad wolf' fears us. Would you have thought? authors.elsevier.com/c/1lt5E3QW8S...
Photo by Rafał Kowalczyk. @currentbiology.bsky.social
@kathikasper.bsky.social

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Brian Gormley D7 @bgormley.bsky.social · 15d

I’m at a #NatureRestoration event where the dinner menu has wild venison to create a discussion about invasive species and the reintroduction of predators. A tasty way to stimulate debate. @irishrainforest.bsky.social @whittledaway.bsky.social @thinkorswim.bsky.social

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Ben 🇺🇦 @bskolo.bsky.social · 15d

Very cool to learn that everyone is non-binary in Hungary

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 15d

Orban is basically LeBron for Trump

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Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · 15d

This is the guy who went to Iran and told everyone how great it was, the week they hanged a bunch of women. Freedom and justice for Palestine, but not for Ukraine. I still hope they stay safe and succeed, but:

"Honey we see your hypocrisy"

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Graeme Cumming @gscumming.bsky.social · 17d

My latest paper, just published in #ESA's Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, focuses on the need to think about spatial patterns and sampling design when attempting to measure ecological #spillovers from protected areas. 🌍🦑🧪
doi.org/10.1002/fee....

Conceptualizing and measuring ecological spillover effects from protected areas

Protected areas influence their surroundings in a variety of ways. These “spillover effects” can change an area's conservation value and affect its social license. Advanced statistical tools for quan...

doi.org

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 17d

Zelensky got the tape didn’t he

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 17d

President Trump:

After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military&Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it is causing Russia,❗️I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union,is in a position to fight& WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form.

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Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · 17d

- Science-based herd monitoring
- Science-based, sustainable cull plan
- Vension goes into the food chain
- Public safety a priority, hiring very experienced vets and hunters (not snipers, the headline is misleading)

A good example of urban wildlife management 🦌

www.thejournal.ie/opw-has-paid...

OPW has paid snipers €17,000 to kill 118 deer in Phoenix Park since last year - including fawns

Four culls took place at the park last year, resulting in 93 wild deer being fatally shot.

www.thejournal.ie

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Wildlife & Conservation at Uni Freiburg @wild-ecol-cons.bsky.social · 19d

A new #EUROLYNX paper out on variability in the movement and foraging behaviour of female Eurasian #lynx during the denning season across Europe! 🐈

🐾Movement metrics and kill-to-den distances were evaluated using GPS data from two climatic regions.
📄Read more here: doi.org/10.1002/oik....

Map showing th distribution of the standardized GPS data (green circles), of den sites (orange triangles) used for the analysis of movement patterns and den use of female lynx, and of field-checked kill sites and corresponding dens (blue squares) used to analyse kill site distribution in relation to the den.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 25d

We could have been providing military aid to Ukraine. We could have been building our partnerships in the Pacific. We could have strengthened Europe’s defense industrial base. We could have helped build state capacity in South America.

What a fucking disaster this has all been.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 25d

They just hit a university

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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 28d

North Cork Creameries is a member of Bord Bia's 'Origin Green' greenwashing programme despite 125 non-compliance notices since 2020 and listing on the EPA's top polluter watchlist 🙈

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

EPA licensing rules to protect our fragile rivers are being repeatedly breached

Public records about North Cork Creameries’ operations paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing

www.irishtimes.com

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Brian Gormley D7 @bgormley.bsky.social · 28d

A brilliant piece by @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social in the @irishtimes.com this morning highlights the lack
of enforcement of environmental legislation.

North Cork Creameries (a member of Bord Bia’s Origin Green programme) has been issued with 125 non-compliance notices since 2020.

EPA licensing rules to protect our fragile rivers are being repeatedly breached

Public records about North Cork Creameries’ operations paint a disquieting picture of how regulators are performing

www.irishtimes.com

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · Sep 11

#BirdStudy welcomes submissions on all aspects of #ornithology, eg. distribution/abundance patterns; movements/dispersal; habitat effects; census, marking & tracking, behaviour; conservation. Main focus Europe, Atlantic, Afro-Palearctic Flyway, N Africa, but useful papers considered from any region.

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Ian Moody @ianmoody.bsky.social · Sep 11

Russian drones violated Polish airspace on the night of Sept 9/10 in what NATO & European officials have suggested was an intentional Russian incursion.The large number of Russian drones that violated Polish airspace suggests that this was likely an intentional Russian effort.
understandingwar.org

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Sep 8

I respect Anil so I want to talk seriously about harm reduction and public health messaging.

First let me acknowledge that yes, many regular, not-super-online people are trying out AI tools. Of course they are! It's been aggressively pushed into everything and given heavy institutional support.

Anil Dash @anildash.com · Sep 7

this is the really ineffective head-in-the-sand reaction a lot of folks on Bluesky tend to have if you talk about any harm reduction-based approach to the reality that millions of people are using AI tools today. The current approach to critiquing AI is obviously not working, but they don't care.

alert saying "@auska.esq has added you to the "Al Apologists" moderation list"

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · Sep 4

2025. Does hunting benefit wildlife conservation? "animal welfare theorists might raise ethical questions about the legitimacy of some or all forms of hunting, even if it benefits conservation" esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Does hunting benefit wildlife conservation?

Click on the article title to read more.

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 23

In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.

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Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · Aug 20

I'm terrible at updating you all on conservation and ecology work, but I can promise you this:

It is the biggest year for Irish camera trapping since records began, and it's not even close.

Why is this important? With this data, we can guide management and learn more about Irish nature.

A fallow deer doe photographed by a camera trap.

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European Parliament @europarl.europa.eu · Aug 14

Travelling outside the EU this summer? You can count on the EU for help!

If something goes wrong, and your country does not have an embassy or consulate in the country that you are travelling to, you can get help from another EU country that does - your right as an EU citizen.

🔗 europa.eu/!7nGx9R

A meme with two pictures of a boy in a red shirt. In the upper picture, he looks scared and has the following text next to him: Losing my passport where my country doesn't have an embassy. In the bottom picture, he looks happy and confident, has EU stars behind him and the text says: Realising EU citizens can get help from any EU country’s embassy.

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Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · Aug 14

To an extent... the problem is (anecdotally) now relegated to a few locals and ignorants, compared to a LOT of tourists that go specifically to feed and approach deer. It's quite difficult to do socioeconomic studies as well as wildlife behavioural ones on these things...!

Adam F. Smith 🇺🇦🇮🇪 @adamfsmith.bsky.social · Aug 14

Deer, seals, the whole bunch... People will willfully ignore signage and instructions for a photo.

This is also wildlife crime.

The only thing for it is wardens, fines, and a culture of shaming those who believe they should be allowed to approach, feed, or pick up wildlife for fun.

The Journal Investigates @investigates.thejournal.ie · Aug 14

Tourists are disturbing Ireland’s largest grey seal colony by flying drones and picking up pups for selfies. The latest in our series looking at threats to the protected species by @trishdevlin.bsky.social

http://www.thejournal.ie/tourists-drones-selfies-seals-6787750-Aug2025/

Snap happy tourists harming seals by picking up pups for selfies and flying drones

Tourists visiting the Great Blasket Island are causing ‘almost daily’ incidents’ leading to seals abandoning young, The Journal Investigates can reveal.

www.thejournal.ie

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Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · Aug 7

Lynx could thrive in Northumberland with most in area supporting return

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Lynx could thrive in Northumberland with most in area supporting return, study finds

Release of 20 lynx over several years into Kielder Forest area would create population of about 50 animals

www.theguardian.com

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Rob Knell @robknell.bsky.social · Aug 6

Yes trophy hunting is weird and unpleasant, but money from hunting funds the conservation of more land in Sub-Saharan Africa than is conserved in national parks. It is not as simple as most keyboard-jockeys from Europe or the USA think.

Shar A @sharal.bsky.social · Aug 6

Ah that's lovely news.

metro.co.uk/2025/08/06/m...

Millionaire trophy hunter gored to death by 1.3 tonne bull on African safari

Asher Watkins, 52, was tracking a 1.3 tonne Cape Buffalo bull, known as the Black Death, on Sunday when it suddenly charged at him at 35mph.

metro.co.uk

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