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Cassie Speakman @cassiespeakman.bsky.social · Aug 23

The latest paper from the DISCAR synthesis group is out at Ecology Letters! We discuss the key approaches to predicting human impacts on wildlife populations, highlighting avenues for incorporating indirect effects, such as energetic modelling. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Title and author list for the synthesis paper titled "Understanding and Predicting Population Response to Anthropogenic Disturbance: Current Approaches and Novel Opportunities" published in Ecology Letters.

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Marine Mammal Research at Aarhus University, Ecoscience @marinemammalsau.bsky.social · Sep 3

New York Times article discusses @nature.com paper by our Rune Dietz, Christian Sonne, and others at @au.dk and the University of Copenhagen 🌐🐋🧪🌏

@newyorktimeshaiku.bsky.social @ucph.bsky.social
#Science #Research #impact #Mercury #Arcticchange

Study Shows Mercury Levels in Arctic Wildlife Could Rise for Centuries

www.nytimes.com

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Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social · Aug 13

And what an honor to publish in the newly launched journal @ibe.pensoft.net! A massive thank you to everyone involved.

From metabolism to coexistence: Understanding animal movement and community dynamics through energy

To counteract ongoing biodiversity loss due to global change, we need a deeper understanding of when and how species coexist. Recent work has begun to uncover mechanistic links between species coexist...

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Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thrilled to share this labor of love led by Dr. Leonna Szangolies! The final chapter of her PhD, & a great example of how papers can keep collaborations alive across distance. Thanks to Drs. Florian Jeltsch & Lewis Halsey, bringing together expertise across these vast, often siloed areas of ecology.

Illustrated figure of empirical examples of where animal energetics can be linked to decisions related to A) why move, B) how to move, and C) when and where to move.

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Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social · Aug 13

Animal energetics, movement, and coexistence are inextricably linked. What insights emerge when we consider these processes together? In our new paper, we present a conceptual framework that integrates these domains, outlines their connections, and highlights the value of their joint study.

Triangle of links between the processes, highlighting their general interactions.

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Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thanks so much, Mark! It’s so exciting see this out in the world, and I’m really proud to have contributed to the IBE collection 😁

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Lila Buckingham @lilabuckingham.bsky.social · Aug 11

Do you use geolocators to estimate foraging time, behaviour, or energetics in diving seabirds? See our new paper for insights from a study of Common Guillemots.

doi.org/10.61350/sbj...

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A graphical abstract depicting the paper title, author list, and brief description of the paper. One images displays an adult common gullemot with one logger on each leg, next to a chick. The second image displays a close-up of a common guillemot's legs with both loggers shown. The text reads:
An improved method to derive behavioural budgets and energetics from geolocator data in Common Guillemots Uria aalge
Lila Buckingham, Maria Bogdanova, Francis Daunt, Robert Furness, Sophie Bennett, Ruth Dunn, David Jardine, Mark Newell, Ewan Weston & Jonathan Green
We deployed two devices (time-depth recorder & geolocator) on 39 Common Guillemots for one non-breeding season.
We allocated time to behaviours using 1) both devices (see Buckingham et al. 2023) and 2) only geolocators, following previous methods.
We compared the behavioural budgets. We could not extract foraging behaviour (diving) when only using geolocator data.
We devised an improved method for estimating behaviours and energetics in Common Guillemots using geolocator data. We also provide guidance for studies of other diving seabirds that rest at sea.
Photos by Andrew Carter
Seabird 37 (2025) Early Release

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Mathieu Buoro @matbuoro.bsky.social · Jun 13

After years of non-stop brainstorming and hard work with
@alamarins.bsky.social & co, we're thrilled to present IBASAM (v3): a spatially explicit demo-genetic individual-based model for anadromous salmonids (meta)populations. @inrhttps://ibe.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=153305

IBASAM: a spatially explicit demo-genetic individual-based model for anadromous salmonids (meta)populations

To improve our understanding and management of species’ response to environmental and anthropogenic changes, there is a critical need for integrative modeling approaches that encompass demographic, ec...

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Marine Mammal Research at Aarhus University, Ecoscience @marinemammalsau.bsky.social · Jun 30

Our Senior Researcher Fredrik Christiansen recently completed the third photogrammetry field season on bowhead whales in Disko Bay, Greenland. See Thread.

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#marinemammology #ecology #cetaceanresearch
#Arctic #MarineEcology #Research
#Science

Our Senior Researcher Fredrik Christiansen completed the third photogrammetry field season on bowhead whales in Disko Bay, Greenland. Together with MSc student Oliver Nowak and local hunters, he measured over 500 whales during March to June to investigate their prey consumption and condition.

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Emily T Griffiths @emilytgriffiths.com · Jun 26

This week I'm out in the Danish #BalitcSea on the #SAMBAHII Project, working to monitor the remaining 500 Baltic #harborporpoise. Here, we are deploying a 4-channel array to calculate the #dectectionFunction, or the likelihood of detecting porpoise #echolocation in the study area.

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marikimient.bsky.social @marikimient.bsky.social · Jun 24

📣 New paper alert ! 📣
Image-based bio-logging offers unique insights into marine predator behaviour 🦭 🦈 🐧 🐢 and ecosystem functioning, but demands advanced analytical tools. #MarineConservation #AI #ComputerVision #BioLogging

Grateful to the global inter-disciplinary collaborative effort! 🙏 😊

CEBC Predateurs Marins team @predateursmarins.bsky.social · Jun 23

Out in Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Chimienti et al. Reviewing seas of data: Integrating image-based bio-logging and artificial intelligence to enhance marine conservation
dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041...

#ecology #seabirds #ai #biologging @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

Examples of challenges encountered in image-based bio-logging (both camera and microsonar tags): Imbalanced light conditions, low contrast, blur, overexposure, small and clustered targets, scalability and target size

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Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social · Jun 23

Excited to share our new paper on how empirical research can better support mechanistic models—through realistic, interdisciplinary data and by embracing complex, individual-level mechanisms. Born from a @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social symposium!
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

Graphical abstract illustrating four recommendations for ecological modeling with aquatic animals.

Be interdisciplinary and across levels: Includes icons for population biology (a bar chart of age structure) and behavioral ecology (a pie chart showing habitat use), plus a zoomed-in illustration of individual porpoises within a group.

Use mechanistic modeling instead of statistics as a conceptual framework: A curved line plot shows respiration increasing with temperature, with data points color-coded by temperature and a shaded area indicating stressful conditions.

Emphasize realism over precision: Shows a fish in a naturalistic habitat with plants and conspecifics, contrasted with a lone fish in a bare tank.

Include stressful conditions: Reiterated through both the curved plot and a separate graph with three treatments, where respiration increases across treatments and with temperature, with the highest temperature range shaded in red.

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Juliano Sarmento Cabral @jsarmentocabral.bsky.social · May 29

Postdoc call in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling (up to 6 ya) at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We focus on modelling terrestrial plant communities, island biogeography, range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/CL1ny

Postdoc in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling with temporary civil servant status (“Akademische*r Rätin*Rat)

100%, A 13, Reference number: 2025/49

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Ecological Forecasting Initiative @ecoforecast.bsky.social · Jun 2

✏️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!

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GraphicsSci.bsky.social @graphicssci.bsky.social · May 30

Tomorrow is the last day to apply! 🏃‍♀️

GraphicsSci.bsky.social @graphicssci.bsky.social · May 19

Science Graphic Design is hiring! 🚨

We’re looking for an experienced science graphic designer/illustrator to join us for a 3-month contract over the summer and help us through a busy and exciting season.

Apply now at www.sciencegraphicdesign.com/opportunities

🇬🇧 UK only!

Science graphic design is looking for an experienced graphic designer / illustrator to work with us this summer. Apply by the end of May at www dot science graphic design dot com slash opportunities

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Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social · May 30

We found that moderate fragmentation can buffer drought impacts—by easing competition and supporting energy storage across the landscape, leading to more similar energy balance among species.

A great example of how individual energy dynamics can reveal unexpected pathways to community resilience ⚡

Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social · May 30

Excited to share our new paper led by Leonna Szangolies!
We used a mechanistic, individual-based model grounded in animal energetics to explore how drought and habitat fragmentation interact to shape species coexistence 💻🐁🐀🐿️

Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · May 26

Intermediate Habitat Fragmentation Buffers Droughts: How Individual Energy Dynamics Mediate Mammal Community Response to Stressors

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · Apr 17

Well done, Leonna Szangolies, for winning the 2024 Elton Prize in @animalecology.bsky.social!🏆

Leonna’s research models how habitat fragmentation affects coexistence among species of different body sizes. 🐁

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2656.14134

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Apr 24

🚨Postdoc opportunity @econovoau.bsky.social 🌍
Help forecast how rising ecological novelty reshapes #biodiversity & #vegetation 🌿 Work at the interface of species distribution models & dynamic global vegetation models 🌐🍃♨️- based in Aarhus, Denmark shorturl.at/t45JT #ecology #ecologyjob #macroecology

2-yr postdoc on Forecasting Biosphere-Scale Effects of Ecological Novelty Using Species Distribution and Vegetation Models - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Biology - Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Aarhus University

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · Apr 19

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨

We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!

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NSF Grant Termination Information Collection Form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.

We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks.

We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA

WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential.

These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84).

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!

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Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB) @igb-berlin.de · Mar 21

📢 We invite applications for a 2-year postdoctoral position in modeling of eco-evolutionary community dynamics: karriere-igb.softgarden.io/job/54679292...
#ScienceJobs in #Berlin #PostdocPosition

Postdoctoral position in modeling of eco-evolutionary community dynamics (m/f/x) at Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei

We're looking for: Postdoctoral position in modeling of eco-evolutionary community dynamics (m/f/x) (Full or Part Time) • Müggelseedamm, 12587 Berlin, Deutschland

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Cassie Speakman @cassiespeakman.bsky.social · Mar 4

Latest work from the DISCAR synthesis group. This was a really fun and interesting effort to lead with a great group of collaborators! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

www.authorea.com/users/898395...

Understanding and predicting population response to anthropogenic disturbance: Current approaches and novel opportunities

Effective conservation of biodiversity depends on the successful management of wildlife populations and their habitats. Successful management, in turn, depends on our ability to understand and accurat...

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Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social · Feb 28

Steve Railsback & Volker Grimm, the dynamic duo of agent-based ecological modeling, are offering another short course in Chicago this year! I can’t recommend these courses highly enough—spread the word to anyone who might be interested! Details here: www.railsback-grimm-abm-book.com/shortcourse/

Gif showing output of the InSTREAM v7 agent-based trout model developed by Railsback & Harvey

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Floris M van Beest @beestfloris.bsky.social · Feb 6

New study out!! 25 years of harbour porpoise tracking data shows a decline in overlap between habitat suitability and the location of MPAs across the North Sea–Baltic Sea transition zone. Relevant info for the design of future MPAs under the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030!

shorturl.at/scIGB

Shifts in habitat suitability for harbour porpoises leads to reduced importance of marine protected areas

Marine ecosystems across the globe are under pressure requiring evaluations of whether marine protected areas (MPAs) remain effective in safeguarding …

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Jacob Nabe-Nielsen @jacobnabe.bsky.social · Feb 8

Exciting news! Our reports on the impact of offshore wind farms on wildlife in Denmark, including marine mammals, are now available: dce.au.dk/fileadmin/dc.... Great initiative by the Danish Energy Agency commissioning this important work 🧪🦭🐋 #dkgreen #AarhusUni

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