Tal Avgar

Like to develop spatio-temporal models? Interested in Arctic marine mammals 🦭🐳 and their susceptibility to oil spills? You may be the postdoctoral fellow Dr. Mariane Marcoux and I are looking for! See the details in the job ad: tinyurl.com/spatiostatamm

How are human-altered habitats affecting birds' migratory routes? And what is the role of age and wind conditions?

We tested this for an #endangered #Eagle

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🐾🧪🪶 @yaelbird.bsky.social @talavgar.bsky.social
@currentbiology.bsky.social
#conservation #ornithology

🎉 If you've worked with Wildlife Science Centre caribou ecologist @melaniedickie.bsky.social, you won't be surprised she received the Governor General Gold Medal for Academic Excellence for her PhD research! Nor will you be surprised by the Taylor Swift reference.

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Not gonna lie, it’s pretty cool! So grateful for everything in my PhD that led me here.

BAM is now the Boreal Avian Modelling Centre with Biodiversity Pathways As of April 1, 2025, BAM has become the fourth initiative under Biodiversity Pathways.

This April, we welcomed the Boreal Avian Modelling Project (now Centre!) to Biodiversity Pathways! We are pleased to announce that @ellycknight.bsky.social has taken on the new role of Operational Director at BAM for this next chapter.

biodiversitypathways.ca/bam-joins-bp/

We're #hiring a #wildlife camera coordinator! This highly collaborative position works with the wider monitoring community to develop and process camera projects. Full details available online, apply by June 16:

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Rapid Declines in Southern Sierra Nevada Fisher Habitat Driven by Drought and Wildfire Aim Forest disturbances are a natural ecological process, but climate and land-use change are altering disturbance regimes at an unprecedented rate, posing significant threats to biological communit...

In Diversity and Distributions: “Rapid declines in southern Sierra Nevada fisher habitat driven by drought and wildfire”

Led by @ronanhart.bsky.social

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Please share. 2 tenure-track T&R math/stat jobs at the University of Queensland, Australia. Amazing weather, gorgeous campus & lifestyle. 17% employer retirement contribution, lots of leave. Strong global reputation. Supports diversity @stevenstrogatz.com uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcare...

We're #hiring a Statistical Wildlife Ecologist! This position analyzes large, complex datasets to support landscape management throughout Canada.

Learn more and apply through the University of Alberta by May 27, 2025:

wildlifescience.ca/hiring-stati...

#biodiversity #mammals #wildlife

When your statistical model "fits the data well" ...

I thought exactly the same many, many times. Reviewers entirely ignore the methodological part of the paper and take its results at face value, but they will debate the "framing" of it in every little detail.

We tend to think that we understand how urbanization impacts biodiversity, but our knowledge is based almost solely on research from temperate systems. This creates strong biases. Wonderful new work by ‪@elliediamant.bsky.social‬ in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Joint Nations Grizzly Bear Initiative: North Cascades Grizzly Bear Reintroduction YouTube video by Joint Nations Grizzly Bear Initiative

Great example of #WildlifeRestoration, featuring #WiRELab postdoc @m-mclellan.bsky.social and alumni Mateen Hessami in partnership with @biodivpathways.bsky.social and many more!
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Screenshot from the 338 website showing the Kelowna writing highlighted in yellow and in the next column “toss up LPC/CPC”

Screenshot of 338 website showing federal parties down the left-hand side and three columns towards the right hand side showing the results from 2019 2021 and projected results. CPC projected results 46% plus -8%, LPC projected results 44% plus or -8%.

Kelowna federal riding is now rated as “Toss up” on 338. This is huge! 🤩 You can really feel the energy building - so many volunteers, people excited to vote - it’s within reach Kelowna!! Let’s go!

I am currently looking for an MSc student to join my research group for September 2025 to investigate moose habitat selection in the context of apparent competition in Ontario's Far North. Please share and contact me for further details!

Hello Bluesky! Good to see you all again!

Job alert: I'm looking to recruit a postdoc interested in working at the interface of AI and wildlife ecology, supported by the AI for Biodiversity Change (ABC) Global Center. Apply by April 15, 2025. gaynorlab.weebly.com/join-us.html

The Erosion of Threatened Southern Mountain Caribou Migration

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@claytontlamb.bsky.social

Liber Ero Fellowship Program

Looking for a postdoc in 🇨🇦?

Liber Ero Fellowship
liberero.ca

* Applied conservation science
* Leadership training
* Open to int’l applicants
* Due Nov 1

🌎🧪🦤

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New Blog post alert 🚨

The photo that got away: Camera traps may monitor less space than we think 📸 🌎 🧪 Read Brendan Carswell's full post here 👇

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America Is Sleeping on a Powerful Defense Against Airborne Disease Treating clean indoor air as a public good would have protected Americans against more than COVID-19.

Five years on. Millions dead. COVID effectively endemic. The big story is how we are STILL in denial about airborne transmission of respiratory diseases. Good job, libertarians.

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Second, Dr. Jean Polfus delivered a BRAES / Biodiversity Pathways/ ECCC co-hosted seminar on the intersection of language, reconciliation, and caribou recovery.

So inspiring!
@ubcokanagan.bsky.social

Our new approach for quantifying the actual area monitored by a motion triggered camera

Ban X/Twitter in Canada I just signed a petition demanding the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here: https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ban-x-twitter-in-canada/?source=f...

I just signed a petition demanding the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba... you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...

NEW PAPER: looking into the erosion of southern mountain caribou migrations. Over 35 years, migration distances shrank 15-25%, and elevational migrations are collapsing. Habitat loss, not weather, likely the main culprit. A major conservation challenge ahead.
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Raise the Bar: Kelowna Town Hall Everyday people are getting a crap deal. This election, we need to raise the bar. That's why, this March, people across the country are coming together to make a plan to fight back against Poilievre’s...

Join me at Raise the Bar: Kelowna Town Hall you.leadnow.ca/events/raise...

The Northern Mountain Caribou Summit YouTube video by Tahltan Central Government

We're excited to share the story of the Northern Mountain Caribou Summit. Last May, the Tahltan Central Government & the WSC co-hosted a workshop in Dease Lake, BC. The goal? Collect and weave traditional and scientific knowledge on northern mountain caribou. #WorldWildlifeDay

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Canadians in Solidarity with Stand Up for Science By adding your name below, you are joining a growing movement of Canadians who believe in the power of science to inform policy and serve the public good. Your name will automatically be added to our ...

Canadians in solidarity with Stand Up for Science.
I signed. The assault on science in Canada under the conservative Harper regime was not as extreme as the MAGA one, but came from the same desire to prevent scientists from speaking truth to power.
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