FiretailVis
@firetail-thp.bsky.social
data science & algorithmic development for movement ecology
www.firetail.de
www.firetail.de
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The countdown is on! ⏰
Only 2 months to go until the first International Conservation Technology Conference in Lima, Peru🎉
Tickets are going fast, so make sure to get yours before early registration closes on Jan 16!
#ICTC2026 #tech4wildlife #conservation
Only 2 months to go until the first International Conservation Technology Conference in Lima, Peru🎉
Tickets are going fast, so make sure to get yours before early registration closes on Jan 16!
#ICTC2026 #tech4wildlife #conservation
December 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The countdown is on! ⏰
Only 2 months to go until the first International Conservation Technology Conference in Lima, Peru🎉
Tickets are going fast, so make sure to get yours before early registration closes on Jan 16!
#ICTC2026 #tech4wildlife #conservation
Only 2 months to go until the first International Conservation Technology Conference in Lima, Peru🎉
Tickets are going fast, so make sure to get yours before early registration closes on Jan 16!
#ICTC2026 #tech4wildlife #conservation
December 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
We are amazed to see another paper 📜 published featuring #FireSOM for the prediction of behavioral categories from 🦇multi-axis acceleration data. Congratulations to the authors!
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Firetail14 #sbgResearch
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Firetail14 #sbgResearch
December 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM
We are amazed to see another paper 📜 published featuring #FireSOM for the prediction of behavioral categories from 🦇multi-axis acceleration data. Congratulations to the authors!
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Firetail14 #sbgResearch
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#Firetail14 #sbgResearch
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Festive Season in CRAB, which we celebrate with a quiz and by rediscovering the password to the CRAB Bluesky account.
December 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Festive Season in CRAB, which we celebrate with a quiz and by rediscovering the password to the CRAB Bluesky account.
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🐆 Call for proposals for the @ec.europa.eu-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme is OPEN!
Regional & cross-regional projects in #SubSaharanAfrica, #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean or the #Pacific are invited.
Call: gbif.link/BID-region...
FAQs: gbif.link/BID-FAQs
Regional & cross-regional projects in #SubSaharanAfrica, #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean or the #Pacific are invited.
Call: gbif.link/BID-region...
FAQs: gbif.link/BID-FAQs
December 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🐆 Call for proposals for the @ec.europa.eu-funded Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme is OPEN!
Regional & cross-regional projects in #SubSaharanAfrica, #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean or the #Pacific are invited.
Call: gbif.link/BID-region...
FAQs: gbif.link/BID-FAQs
Regional & cross-regional projects in #SubSaharanAfrica, #LatinAmerica and the #Caribbean or the #Pacific are invited.
Call: gbif.link/BID-region...
FAQs: gbif.link/BID-FAQs
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📣 After years of development and earlier informal feedback rounds, the official @tdwg.org #DarwinCore public review is now live, your input is needed!
This is your chance to have your say in the official review for ratification! 🚀
🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...
This is your chance to have your say in the official review for ratification! 🚀
🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...
December 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
📣 After years of development and earlier informal feedback rounds, the official @tdwg.org #DarwinCore public review is now live, your input is needed!
This is your chance to have your say in the official review for ratification! 🚀
🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...
This is your chance to have your say in the official review for ratification! 🚀
🔗www.tdwg.org/news/20...
Gladly sharing a recent paper that investigates the diel patterns of predation events in wild turkeys using tri‐axial accelerometer with Firetail: Wightman et al., 2025:
wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Gladly sharing a recent paper that investigates the diel patterns of predation events in wild turkeys using tri‐axial accelerometer with Firetail: Wightman et al., 2025:
wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
This new paper by Goodman et al. employs Firetail to determine the onset of laying and incubation using spatial‐temporal data to analyze the impact of lymphoproliferative disease virus on behaviors of wild turkeys: wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
TWS Journals
We evaluated whether female wild turkeys infected with lymphoproliferative disease virus (LPDV) behaved differently during reproductive periods than females not infected with the virus. We found that....
wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This new paper by Goodman et al. employs Firetail to determine the onset of laying and incubation using spatial‐temporal data to analyze the impact of lymphoproliferative disease virus on behaviors of wild turkeys: wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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‘Game changer’: System to track small animals from space takes flight—again | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... #ornithology
‘Game changer’: System to track small animals from space takes flight—again
The project lost its data stream in 2022 after the war in Ukraine began
www.science.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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This new paper was a team effort among students in my lab, led by @mitchellshorgan.bsky.social. Please share with your fish tracking colleagues!
@oceantracking.bsky.social @glatos-fish.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@oceantracking.bsky.social @glatos-fish.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Effects of surgical implantation of electronic tags in fishes: a review and meta-analysis - Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
Electronic tags have been used to track fishes for decades and continue to gain popularity. Tags are often implanted in the coelom of fishes, with a substantial body of experimental evidence now asses...
link.springer.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
This new paper was a team effort among students in my lab, led by @mitchellshorgan.bsky.social. Please share with your fish tracking colleagues!
@oceantracking.bsky.social @glatos-fish.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@oceantracking.bsky.social @glatos-fish.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Do you have experience and a natural affinity with #chemical #analyses? NIOO is looking for a #research #assistant.
Respond to the #vacancy by 2 January: nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...
Respond to the #vacancy by 2 January: nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...
Research Assistant Aquatic Ecology/Chemical Laboratory
Working as a Research Assistant within the Department of Aquatic Ecology you will be supporting the research of five scientists and their teams of Postdocs, PhDs, Masters students and interns. You wil...
nioo.knaw.nl
December 8, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Do you have experience and a natural affinity with #chemical #analyses? NIOO is looking for a #research #assistant.
Respond to the #vacancy by 2 January: nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...
Respond to the #vacancy by 2 January: nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...
New paper on time budgets based on 3-axis accelerometer and a gyroscope data, featuring Firetail:
"Sensor-based analysis of behaviour time budgets in young warmblood stallions entering initial preparation for licensing": www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Sensor-based analysis of behaviour time budgets in young warmblood stallions entering initial preparation for licensing": www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sensor-based analysis of behaviour time budgets in young warmblood stallions entering initial preparation for licensing
Activity sensors provide an objective means to track movement and allow for automatic recognition of behavioural patterns. This study validates the us…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
New paper on time budgets based on 3-axis accelerometer and a gyroscope data, featuring Firetail:
"Sensor-based analysis of behaviour time budgets in young warmblood stallions entering initial preparation for licensing": www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Sensor-based analysis of behaviour time budgets in young warmblood stallions entering initial preparation for licensing": www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Another day of #AnimoveCR 😀 Analysing animal movement with continuous-time models by @ecoisilva.bsky.social and Chris Fleming, ending with a fantastic plenary talk by @kamransafi.bsky.social on Kruger National Park research.
December 4, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Another day of #AnimoveCR 😀 Analysing animal movement with continuous-time models by @ecoisilva.bsky.social and Chris Fleming, ending with a fantastic plenary talk by @kamransafi.bsky.social on Kruger National Park research.
Congratulations!
🚀 Guess who’s back? 🛰️🥳💫
ICARUS, our global wildlife-tracking system, returns to orbit aboard the GENA-OT satellite, which launched from Vandenberg SFB today 🎉
This is step one for ICARUS 2.0: full global coverage, smaller sensors, near-real-time.
Congrats @animaltracking.bsky.social + team ICARUS
ICARUS, our global wildlife-tracking system, returns to orbit aboard the GENA-OT satellite, which launched from Vandenberg SFB today 🎉
This is step one for ICARUS 2.0: full global coverage, smaller sensors, near-real-time.
Congrats @animaltracking.bsky.social + team ICARUS
December 1, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Congratulations!
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🚀 Guess who’s back? 🛰️🥳💫
ICARUS, our global wildlife-tracking system, returns to orbit aboard the GENA-OT satellite, which launched from Vandenberg SFB today 🎉
This is step one for ICARUS 2.0: full global coverage, smaller sensors, near-real-time.
Congrats @animaltracking.bsky.social + team ICARUS
ICARUS, our global wildlife-tracking system, returns to orbit aboard the GENA-OT satellite, which launched from Vandenberg SFB today 🎉
This is step one for ICARUS 2.0: full global coverage, smaller sensors, near-real-time.
Congrats @animaltracking.bsky.social + team ICARUS
November 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
🚀 Guess who’s back? 🛰️🥳💫
ICARUS, our global wildlife-tracking system, returns to orbit aboard the GENA-OT satellite, which launched from Vandenberg SFB today 🎉
This is step one for ICARUS 2.0: full global coverage, smaller sensors, near-real-time.
Congrats @animaltracking.bsky.social + team ICARUS
ICARUS, our global wildlife-tracking system, returns to orbit aboard the GENA-OT satellite, which launched from Vandenberg SFB today 🎉
This is step one for ICARUS 2.0: full global coverage, smaller sensors, near-real-time.
Congrats @animaltracking.bsky.social + team ICARUS
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📣 Last days to apply for our contractor position!🪲
GBIF are seeking a contractor to support the Secretariat in producing an overview paper documenting GBIF's 25 years of operations.
Deadline: 📍 3 December 2025.
Learn more about the opportunity: 🔗 gbif.link/25-year-co...
GBIF are seeking a contractor to support the Secretariat in producing an overview paper documenting GBIF's 25 years of operations.
Deadline: 📍 3 December 2025.
Learn more about the opportunity: 🔗 gbif.link/25-year-co...
December 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
📣 Last days to apply for our contractor position!🪲
GBIF are seeking a contractor to support the Secretariat in producing an overview paper documenting GBIF's 25 years of operations.
Deadline: 📍 3 December 2025.
Learn more about the opportunity: 🔗 gbif.link/25-year-co...
GBIF are seeking a contractor to support the Secretariat in producing an overview paper documenting GBIF's 25 years of operations.
Deadline: 📍 3 December 2025.
Learn more about the opportunity: 🔗 gbif.link/25-year-co...
Few remaining licenses available for the Black Friday offer - request a quote for your project by Wed, Dec 3!
December 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Few remaining licenses available for the Black Friday offer - request a quote for your project by Wed, Dec 3!
November 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Huge congratulations to this year's winners of the #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine: Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell & Shimon Sakaguchi! 🏆The trio's groundbreaking work on peripheral immune tolerance is paving the way for crucial new treatments for cancer & autoimmunity. 🧬
Nobel prize in medicine awarded to scientists for immune system research
Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi worked on how the immune system can be prevented from harming the body
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Huge congratulations to this year's winners of the #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine: Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell & Shimon Sakaguchi! 🏆The trio's groundbreaking work on peripheral immune tolerance is paving the way for crucial new treatments for cancer & autoimmunity. 🧬
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Interested in a PhD in quantitative animal behavior? Applications are open through October for PhD projects starting in 2026: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/32524/apply
For an inside look at the projects, let our doctoral students be your guide 👇
Videos by @alexhhchan.bsky.social
For an inside look at the projects, let our doctoral students be your guide 👇
Videos by @alexhhchan.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Interested in a PhD in quantitative animal behavior? Applications are open through October for PhD projects starting in 2026: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/32524/apply
For an inside look at the projects, let our doctoral students be your guide 👇
Videos by @alexhhchan.bsky.social
For an inside look at the projects, let our doctoral students be your guide 👇
Videos by @alexhhchan.bsky.social
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Save the date! 🌍The first International Conservation Technology Conference will take place in Lima, Peru, in February 2026.
We're organizing this event alongside partners to connect, collaborate, and drive impact.
👉 Learn more and get involved:
wildlabs.net/article/save...
We're organizing this event alongside partners to connect, collaborate, and drive impact.
👉 Learn more and get involved:
wildlabs.net/article/save...
September 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Save the date! 🌍The first International Conservation Technology Conference will take place in Lima, Peru, in February 2026.
We're organizing this event alongside partners to connect, collaborate, and drive impact.
👉 Learn more and get involved:
wildlabs.net/article/save...
We're organizing this event alongside partners to connect, collaborate, and drive impact.
👉 Learn more and get involved:
wildlabs.net/article/save...
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Why register for #LivingData2025?
🌎 Connect with leading biodiversity experts from across the globe
🚀 Join 97 inspiring sessions designed for discussion and collaboration + 100 other reasons!
👉 www.livingdata2025.c...
#DatosVivos2025 @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org #InstitutoHumboldt
🌎 Connect with leading biodiversity experts from across the globe
🚀 Join 97 inspiring sessions designed for discussion and collaboration + 100 other reasons!
👉 www.livingdata2025.c...
#DatosVivos2025 @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org #InstitutoHumboldt
September 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Why register for #LivingData2025?
🌎 Connect with leading biodiversity experts from across the globe
🚀 Join 97 inspiring sessions designed for discussion and collaboration + 100 other reasons!
👉 www.livingdata2025.c...
#DatosVivos2025 @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org #InstitutoHumboldt
🌎 Connect with leading biodiversity experts from across the globe
🚀 Join 97 inspiring sessions designed for discussion and collaboration + 100 other reasons!
👉 www.livingdata2025.c...
#DatosVivos2025 @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org #InstitutoHumboldt
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The number of individuals in a given space influences animal interactions and network dynamics. Here the authors identify general rules underlying density dependence in animal networks and reveal some fundamental differences between spatial and social dynamics. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Density-dependent network structuring within and across wild animal systems - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The number of individuals in a given space influences animal interactions and network dynamics. Here the authors identify general rules underlying density dependence in animal networks and reveal some...
www.nature.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The number of individuals in a given space influences animal interactions and network dynamics. Here the authors identify general rules underlying density dependence in animal networks and reveal some fundamental differences between spatial and social dynamics. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The 6th DOG Fledglings Meeting is in full swing! We had fantastic presentations by experts of polar ecology as well as our participants. Now we are enjoying the poster session and will finish off with an exciting excursion!
@martysyposz.bsky.social
@martysyposz.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The 6th DOG Fledglings Meeting is in full swing! We had fantastic presentations by experts of polar ecology as well as our participants. Now we are enjoying the poster session and will finish off with an exciting excursion!
@martysyposz.bsky.social
@martysyposz.bsky.social