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Ecological Dynamics Dept. | IZW Berlin @ecodynizw.bsky.social · 19d

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📢 #Doctoral / #PhD position available with us at Leibniz-IZW for 4 years working at the interface of #wildlife + #disease #ecology, #veterinary sciences and #modelling.
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Training within #DFG #RTG 3069 led by @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

▶️Apply here for P7: tinyurl.com/j2ehtz7m

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Kathi Kasper @kathikasper.bsky.social · 6d

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

Mammal Research Institute PAS @mripas.bsky.social · 6d

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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ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social · 8d

#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com

@behavecol.bsky.social

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · 18d

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

Ecological synthesis including forest ecosystems, grassland, land use, climate change, time series, stability, ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, species interaction networks

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Dan Chamberlain @danc-eco.bsky.social · 9d

We are seeking an ornithologist/modeller for a 2-year POST-DOC in Turin. Using archaeological remains, we will reconstruct past avian communities to understand the impacts of climate change and human pressure on birds through time. For details see cutt.ly/irN76QDZ PLEASE RT. #ornithology #AviArch

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 13d

2025. How human activity impacts urban squirrels' problem-solving abilities phys.org/news/2025-09...

How human activity impacts urban squirrels' problem-solving abilities

How human activities negatively affect urban red squirrels' problem-solving skills and potentially their chances of thriving is revealed in newly published research from the universities of Chester an...

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Ecological Dynamics Dept. | IZW Berlin @ecodynizw.bsky.social · 19d

Please RT!

📢 #Doctoral / #PhD position available with us at Leibniz-IZW for 4 years working at the interface of #wildlife + #disease #ecology, #veterinary sciences and #modelling.
🐗🐗🐗🐦🐦🐦
Training within #DFG #RTG 3069 led by @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

▶️Apply here for P7: tinyurl.com/j2ehtz7m

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Technische Universität Berlin @tuberlin.bsky.social · 22d

Walnüsse und Haselnüsse mit Schale ✅
Mandeln und Erdnüsse ❌
Sinah Drenske von der #TUBerlin gibt im Interview mit @rbb24.de Tipps für den richtigen Umgang mit Eichhörnchen. 🐿️ Aber Achtung: Die kleinen Nager sind und bleiben Wildtiere!

rbb|24 @rbb24.de · 22d

Auch sehr zutrauliche Eichhörnchen sollte man nicht in seine Wohnung einziehen lassen, warnt die Berliner Wildtierexpertin Sinah Drenske. Füttern darf man sie trotzdem.

"Eichhörnchen sollten nicht in Wohnungen ziehen"

Berliner Eichhörnchen sind mitunter ziemlich zutraulich, weil sie sich an Menschen gewöhnt haben. In die Wohnung einziehen lassen sollte man sie trotzdem nicht, warnt Wildtierexpertin Sinah Drenske. F...

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Ecological Dynamics Dept. | IZW Berlin @ecodynizw.bsky.social · 20d

Congrats to Nikki Pearson presenting her master thesis research on the #animalbehaviour of the #NorthernBaldIbis and who won the prize for best poster, section Ecology 🥳🎉 @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social Annual Meeting in Berlin!!! #Waldrappteam

@tuberlin.bsky.social
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

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Association GOVIIN KHULAN @goviinkhulan.bsky.social · 20d

Today is Khulan Day! A day to celebrate this majestic and essential species and the other subspecies of the #AsiaticWildAss. Join us by sharing your photo, quote or story or by just reposting our post along with #KhulanDay2025 and/or #KhulanDay. More on our Facebook (link in comment)

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 Don't forget to sign up to our MEE live! next week 🚨

In this free online workshop, Ata Kalirad joins us to talk about their recent paper on Ecological Graph Theory, a method to simulate competition in structured populations 🌍 🧪

Find out more about the workshop and register 👇
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Wildlife & Conservation at Uni Freiburg @wild-ecol-cons.bsky.social · 26d

New research on wild boar resting sites in Europe! 🐗

In anthropized landscapes, where resting sites are sometimes a limiting resource for many animals, their spatial layout may play an often unnoticed yet important role in allowing animal movements across the landscape.🌳

doi.org/10.1002/oik....

Anthropization impacts the selection of resting sites and their centrality in movement networks: wild boar across Europe as an example

For many animal species, resting and activity happen at distinct sites. As animals are limited in how far they can travel between resting and foraging sites, the spatial layout of those sites may con...

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 22d

2020. Simple rules for concise scientific writing. Hotaling - aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Simple rules for concise scientific writing

Click on the article title to read more.

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Tali Caspi @talicaspi.bsky.social · 23d

📢I’m excited to share that my second dissertation chapter has now been published in Ecology Letters! We used stable isotope analysis to examine if urbanization influences individual dietary specialization 🧪 🧵

Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/ele.... #OpenAccess #UrbanEcology #UrbanWildlife

Urbanisation Facilitates Intrapopulation Dietary Niche Diversity in a Generalist Carnivore

We compared stable isotope profiles of urban and nonurban coyote populations to test whether urbanisation fosters niche diversification among individuals. Urban coyotes had narrower dietary niches an...

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 24d

🚀 Book in progress: Spatial Data Visualization with tmap

A guide to creating thematic maps in R with the tmap package.
Covers everything from loading data to interactive and animated maps, with reproducible code.

Read online: tmap.geocompx.org

#rstats #rspatial #geocompx #gischat #maps

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Christina Hansen Wheat @chansenwheat.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨

Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve.

Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs

liu.se/en/work-at-l...

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IWC 2025 @int-wildcongress.bsky.social · Sep 2

What an energetic congregation of people showing their research in amazing and innovative posters during the poster session! 🤩✨

We hope you all made good use of your free drink voucher 🥂🍻

#IWC2025

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Olivier Gimenez 🦦 @oaggimenez.bsky.social · Sep 2

How do wildlife populations respond to human pressures, and how can we better predict these responses to guide conservation? Here, we review current modelling approaches and highlight new opportunities, with case studies.

🔗 Open access: doi.org/10.1111/ele....

🙌🙏 @cassiespeakman.bsky.social

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Sep 2

Map of death: spatially explicit mortality of the grey #wolf #ProcB #Ecology royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Star-Oddi @staroddi.bsky.social · Aug 27

We are soon heading to International Wildlife Congress #IWC2025 in Norway. We will exhibit our small, implantable physio-loggers which can measure variables such as heart rate, activity, temp and depth. We hope to see you there! #wildlife #heartrate #tinylogger @int-wildcongress.bsky.social

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · Aug 28

Translocations and high-resolution tracking show that field margins improve connectivity and corridor functionality in agricultural landscapes... even for habitat generalist birds like bulbuls! 🐦🌎🧪

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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Wildlife & Conservation at Uni Freiburg @wild-ecol-cons.bsky.social · Jul 24

Are you a hunter in Germany, or do you know any? We are looking for participants to help us in our research on wild boar and African Swine Fever! 🐗
We would be happy for any who participate in this anonymous questionnaire: questionpro.eu/a/TakeSurvey...

Wildlife & Conservation at Uni Freiburg @wild-ecol-cons.bsky.social · Jul 24

Sind Sie Jäger in Deutschland, oder kennen Sie einen? Wir suchen Teilnehmer*innen, die uns bei unserer Forschung zum Thema Wildschwein und ASP unterstützen! 🐗
Wir freuen uns über jeden, der sich an diesem anonymen Fragebogen beteiligt: questionpro.eu/a/TakeSurvey...

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Wildlife & Conservation at Uni Freiburg @wild-ecol-cons.bsky.social · Aug 14

🐾 Our PhD student Yutong Liang presented her first project on lynx excursion behaviour at the Movement Ecology of Animals conference (25 July to 1 August) in Ventura, CA with a poster and flash talk! 🎤📊🐱

#GordonResearchConference
#MovementEcology #WildlifeResearch #Lynx #PhDLife

Conference participant and a PhD student smiling infront of her poster at the poster session.

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Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · Dec 6

📖This issue features our Calow-Grace review, by @annecharmantier.bsky.social and team! The review evaluated the peer-reviewed literature for studies that measured and compared natural selection in urban versus non-urban habitats🏙️

Read it here👇
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Is natural selection really stronger in cities?

Anne Charmantier, Tracy Burkhard, Laura Gervais, Charles Perrier, Albrecht I. Schulte-Hostedde, Megan J. Thompson This is a plain language summary for the 2024 Calow-Grace review which can be found…

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Megan Thompson @meganjthompson.bsky.social · Feb 25

Our common garden experiment with urban and forest great tits is out early view in Evolution! doi.org/10.1093/evol... @denisreale.bsky.social @annecharmantier.bsky.social

Visual representation of common garden procedure.

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