After decades of decline, North America’s birds are vanishing even faster.
A new Science study finds populations falling across most regions, with intensive agriculture the strongest driver.
Scientists warn the losses threaten ecosystem services that support food systems and human well-being.
🤔Looking to make your #code more #reproducible? Check out our new and improved guide to Reproducible Code! 🧪🌍️
Find it here👇️
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Are you an relatively new to field ecology and data collection? Or are are you supervising students? Our guide for effective field data collection is now published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! We also include a printable poster with a visual overview of the guide
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
An arboreal camera-trap image form the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. An animal is detected by TropiCam-AI, which analyzes its features and tries to determine what species it is.
TropiCam-AI analyzes the prompted image, and classifies it at the species level as a black spider monkey. Users can decide to let the model predict at the taxonomic level that achieves the highes confidence and accuracy, or force predictions at the desired taxonomic level.
New paper out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social!
📷We present TropiCam-AI: a machine learning model that identifies 84 taxa of Neotropical arboreal mammals and birds from camera-trap images and videos. 🐒🦜
📃Paper → doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70213
🌐Project → github.com/andrewzamp/TropiCam-AI
Read our new blog post! 🚨
Ravi Umadi talks about his new tool 'ESPERDYNE' - a dual-band heterodyne monitor and ultrasound recorder for bioacoustic field surveys 🦇 👂️
Read here 👇
methodsblog.com/2026/02/12/f...
Feb. update to the LLM+R guide 💪
8 new packages including:
code review, predictive modeling, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, HuggingFace integration, Gemini CLI companion, a CLI coding agent written in R🤯 ,and more!
available in English 🇱🇷 and Spanish 🇲🇽
luisdva.github.io/llmsr-book/
#rstats
I went to UseR! for the first time last year, and it was such an incredible event. You could feel the #Rstats love vibrating out of everybody 💓
I wish I could make it to Warsaw! I hope you are able to!
The past and future of known biodiversity: Rates, patterns, and projections of new species over time | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Deforestation in Colombia appears to have declined in 2025.
Officials attribute the trend to collaboration with Indigenous communities and environmental zoning in rural areas, as well as ecotourism and a program providing financial incentives for communities involved in forest conservation.
As deforestation and habitat loss drive down wildlife populations, mosquitoes are increasingly turning to another source for their blood meal: humans.
That’s the finding of a new study in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, a global biodiversity hotspot with under a third of its original forest remaining.
Guía Ilustrada de los Mamíferos de Colombia - Reseña de libro - Mammalogy Notes. doi.org/10.47603/man...
What do we know about mammal biodiversity patterns in the American tropics? Find out in the new book chapter by @liomys.mx and yours truly 👇
link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
The whole book is a gem for those interested in the study of mammals of one of the world's most diverse regions!
Genome-wide SNP and mtDNA phylogeny of blind mole rats (Spalacinae Gray, 1821) reflects a complex history of relictualism, expansion, and speciation academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Software Libre de Investigacion en America Latina ropensci.org/es/commcalls...
‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Our cover for December! 🦊
Martin et al.(2025) show that species like bobcats, cougars, coyotes, gray foxes, and martens largely avoid each other in space but share surprisingly similar diets—revealing how landscape conditions shape coexistence but also their delicate balance.
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How do you use AI assistants in data science without compromising sensitive data?
As tools like Positron Assistant and Databot gain the ability to execute code and access files, this question becomes more urgent.
@simonpcouch.com and @sara-altman.bsky.social break it down: posit.co/blog/trust-l...
🌳 New research explores how woodland creation could reshape the future of British mammals…
As countries race to meet biodiversity targets, large-scale woodland creation is high on the agenda. But what does this mean for wildlife?
📖 Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Saving Bambi from the mower? Using a drone with thermal camera to evaluate a low-tech scaring technique to reduce roe deer fawn mortality during grass harvest vist.ly/4m5r7 #Drones #Cameras #AUV
Ecologists have limited options when modelling species distributions through time, especially when data are limited. The autoOcc R package provides a solution to this, making it simple to fit autologistic occupancy models, compare them, and make model predictions.
Out today, a companion article for my autoOcc R package: Estimating species occupancy across multiple sampling seasons with autologistic occupancy models via the autoOcc R package. #rstats 🧪
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured skydiver Gabe Brown falling across the sun in this precisely planned aircraft alignment, solar altitude, and jump, resulting in the striking image “The Fall of Icarus.”
#AstroPhotography #Photography
Brazil approves world’s first single-dose dengue vaccine
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
Artificial supplementary food influences hedgehog occupancy and activity patterns more than predator presence or natural food availability vist.ly/4gc8i #UrbanEcology #Diet #Competition
New to town: home range size, habitat selection and behavioral adaptations by urban hares vist.ly/4g364 #UrbanEcology #Movement
“Overall, these findings suggest that the value of natural history collections as global research infrastructure is eroding due to decreased collecting of specimen data across species, locations, and time.“ doi.org/10.1038/s414... Interesting analysis based on @gbif.org data.
Buenos días. Les comparto este paper donde mi amiga y colega Elizabeth García trabajó, junto a los investigadores de la Corporación Gio.
doi.org/10.47603/man...
Our paper on New World Screwworm outbreaks in wildlife is out! This flesh-eating parasite isn’t just attacking livestock & humans—it’s now threatening the endangered mountain tapir, a keystone Andean species.
#Screwworm #Wildlife #InfectiousDiseases #Tapirs #OneHealth
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
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Indigenous communities in Colombia's Amazon have protected voluntarily isolated tribes like the Yuri and Passé for years. Their vigilance -- blending ancestral wisdom and tech -- led to official recognition of two isolated groups in 2024.
