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AniMove @animove-course.bsky.social · 12d

🥳64 more days until the start of #Animove at #LaSelva Organization of Tropical Studies in #CostaRica. 22 participants, 6 tutors,2077 plant species,125 mammal species,470 bird species,48 amphibian species,87 reptile species,45 fresh water fish species and 10000 insects, arachnids and other.🐒🦇🦜🐊🦂

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Jeremy Cohen @drjerbs.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨Now out in @pnas.org! Our group provides a framework to mathematically link environmental niches from individual to population and species scales. Our approach enables more accurate forecasting of biodiversity change across organismal levels. 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Flo Grattarola @flograttarola.bsky.social · Sep 2

Muy feliz porque nuestro artículo sobre "un caso de ciencia comunitaria en América Latina desde una perspectiva crítica" fue finalmente publicado 💚 Fueron meses de trabajo, otros de reflexión y algunos más de proceso editorial. Pero finalmente ve la luz. Yo, ¡feliz! revistas.ufpr.br/made/article...

NaturalistaUY no Uruguai: um caso de ciência comunitária na América Latina a partir de uma perspectiva crítica | Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente

revistas.ufpr.br

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · Aug 27

Wow this is so incredible! Also, beautiful figures!

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · Aug 19

Shoutout to my amazing mentors and collaborators @cboettig.bsky.social @liamtaylor.bsky.social Christopher J. Schell, Elizabeth Edson, Avery Hill and Rebecca F. Johnson
@calacademy.bsky.social
@schmidtdse.bsky.social ‪
@inaturalist.bsky.social

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · Aug 19

Initiatives such as the Icarus Initiative from @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social are pioneering future efforts to understand where, when and how animals struggle and die in particular areas and context: www.ab.mpg.de/669445/icaru...

Introducing: the ICARUS birds project

The Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior is launching a new project — ICARUS Birds — to investigate why we are losing birds that were once common in our gardens and forests.

www.ab.mpg.de

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · Aug 19

7/ With advances in technologies such as animal telemetry (bio-loging) are increasingly able to monitor wildlife behavior including vital rates, yet remains taxonomically, geographically limited, particularly in urban and suburban areas
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · Aug 19

7/ Endangered species in Latin America

[d] Our framework allowed daily monitoring of wildlife across Latin America documenting mortality for critically endangered species

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · Aug 19

6/ Mammal mortality across California

[c] Turns out most records of mammal mortality in California occurs near roads. Sampling bias meets anthropogenic stressor?!

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · Aug 19

5/ Puma mortality across the Americas

[b] We found mortality records spanning nine countries, underscoring the importance of international cooperation for conserving wide-ranging species like Puma concolor.

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · Aug 19

4/ Check out this great paper from co-author @liamtaylor.bsky.social et al. digging deeper into this, which was a inspiration for parts of our preprint!

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Strengths and limitations of using participatory science data to characterize a wildlife mass mortality event

Participatory science (i.e., “community science” or “citizen science”) platforms are increasingly used at every level of ecological and conservation research, including disease monitoring. Here, we u...

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · Aug 19

3/ Avian influenza

[a] iNaturalist data captured spikes in bird mass mortality across the US & Canada, closely aligning with official H5N1 outbreak reports. Participatory science can provide near-real-time photographic evidence to complement disease surveillance.

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · Aug 19

2/ Understanding where, when, how, and why wildlife is declining is key for effective conservation

By tapping into participatory science, we now have a (biased) complementary way to monitor mortality events in near-real time

👉: huggingface.co/spaces/diego...

I’ll highlight four case studies ⬇️

INaturalist Mortality Detector - a Hugging Face Space by diegoellissoto

This app lets you explore observations of dead wildlife from the iNaturalist platform. You can search by location, select a date range, and filter by species or taxon class to view trends, top spec...

huggingface.co

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · Aug 19

Monitoring wildlife mortality 24/7 worldwide using participatory science

Paper 👉: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Web Application 👉:
huggingface.co/spaces/diego...

#Biodiversity #iNaturalist #WildlifeMortality #DigitalOneHealth #ConservationTech #EcologicalForecasting
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Global monitoring of wildlife mortality through participatory science in near-real time

Detection of wildlife mortality events is critical for timely conservation and natural resource management. We present an open-source, web-based decision support tool that queries, aggregates and summ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · Aug 17

Urban ecology meets urban agriculture and EJ !

Stay tuned for exciting updates in this space ... we are currently cooking up new curriculums integrating open source technologies.

From bird biodiversity, to vegetation surveys and more ...

Dr. Thilina Surasinghe @thilinas.bsky.social · Aug 14

Had a successful session on #urbanAgriculture & #urbanBiodiversity 🏙️🌱🌿🦤 @ #ESA2025
We presented a framework to survey urban #biodiversity in university campus #greenSpaces
Designed as #undergradResearch & multisite #ecological research
💰 Support #NSF #RCN
🌍🌐🧪

Presentations by our research scientists

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Justine A Smith @justineasmith.bsky.social · Aug 1

Herculean effort by @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social and our incredible NPS colleagues to explore variation in wildlife responses to recreation across our National Parks. Come for the COVID-19 lockdown data, stay for the typologies of animal responses to human activity.

Paul Cross @wildhealth.bsky.social · Jul 31

Large variation in wildlife responses to COVID-19 shutdowns in US National Parks. We also include some conceptual graphics on how to think about sensitive vs. habituated animals some of which benefit from being around people and others do not. doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

The influence of human presence and footprint on animal space use in US national parks | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Given the importance of protected areas for biodiversity, the growth of visitation to many areas has raised concerns about the effects of humans on wildlife. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic led to temp...

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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · Jul 30

From bio-logging to conservation 🔽

New paper by an @animaltracking.bsky.social dream team

@diegoellissoto.bsky.social @anflack.bsky.social @arispeshkin.bsky.social Timm Wild, Hannah Williams, @teagueo.bsky.social

@cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

From biologging to conservation: Tracking individual performance in changing environments | PNAS

Under an accelerating biodiversity crisis, increased urbanization, habitat fragmentation, and climate change require new approaches to assess conse...

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · Jul 30

You can read more on wildlife.berkeley.edu/news/2025/07...

Transforming conservation with real-time data of individual animals

A study co-led by ESPM postdoctoral researcher Diego Ellis Soto highlights how developing technologies for tracking wildlife can advance and democratize conservation efforts.

wildlife.berkeley.edu

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · Jul 30

🙌 Team work makes the dreamwork: @andreaflores.bsky.social Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin, Hannah J. Williams, @teagueo.bsky.social and Timm Wild .

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · Jul 30

We also discuss how animal telemetry could support essential biodiversity variables and help meet ambitious global biodiversity targets (like @geobon.org and the MoveBon initiative led by @ Lacey Hughey & colleagues).

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · Jul 30

🛰️🐦 Bio-logging can fundamentally reshape how we measure conservation success—from individuals ➡️ populations ➡️ species.

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · Jul 30

Working with colleagues at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and @batcon.org , we show how bio-logging can deliver real-time, continuous data on animal behavior and environmental change

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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · Jul 30

At the global scale we find that:

📉 Urban areas
🌳 Regions with high forest fragmentation
🌍 Much of the Global South
—are all underrepresented, despite many of these regions facing some of the greatest biodiversity threats.
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Diego Ellis Soto @diegoellissoto.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thrilled to share our new article in @pnas.org highlighting global gaps in where we study animal movement—and outlining the next generation of smart bio-loggers.

👉 Read the full study in PNAS: lnkd.in/exP8NCeZ
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Open Acoustic Devices @openacousticdevices.info · Jul 28

I (Peter) have been a big fan of @bennjordan.bsky.social's work for ages, so it was great getting such praise for AudioMoth in his latest video.

A fascinating dive into bird vocalisation with some great advice for taking your first steps into listening to the birds around you.

Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · Jul 26

New doc releases today!

- Ultrasonic recording of a starling that can record and playback virtually any sound

- Analyzing incredible slowed-down bird songs

- Showing you how to do this (and way more) on the cheap

youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo

I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

YouTube video by Benn Jordan

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