@firetail-thp.bsky.social
data science & algorithmic development for movement ecology www.firetail.de
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. 🧬
06.10.2025 10:31 — 👍 67 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 2Interested 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
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...
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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
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...
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
We're kicking off the second year of the WILDLABS Group Leadership Programme, a 1-year opportunity to lead subgroups on WILDLABS and curate vibrant spaces of connection, collaboration, and meaningful engagement!
Learn more about this year's leaders here: wildlabs.net/article/intr...
Join us on September 24 at 4pm BST / 11am EDT for Variety Hour!
Hear about high-power edge devices, overcoming communication and data challenges, errors and solutions for counting objects in drone images, and conservation tech finance.
Register here: wildlabs.net/event/variet...
What happens when AI, open source science, and a need for efficient avian nest monitoring collide? The BoutScout is born.
Learn about the WILDLABS Awards 2024 project that's combining a multi-sensor datalogger with AI-powered analytics here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsOd...
From one of the people I trust most on LLMs - a clear explanation of a common and very dangerous security threat
16.06.2025 14:04 — 👍 45 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0#WildlifeMonitoring doesn’t just shed light on ecological & epidemiological processes.
The collected and analysed data is essential to understand ecological relationships and forms the foundation for science-based decision making that supports wildlife, habitats, and society.
Genau wie viele Menschen zeigen Tiere Anzeichen von Stress, wenn sie versuchen, für eine Gruppe von Artgenossen die Führung zu übernehmen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt ein internationales Forschungsteam unter Beteiligung von #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social BiologInnen: t1p.de/zud05
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Now online in Journal of #Ornithology
Unexpected variation in migration routes and nonbreeding residency of Tree Pipits (Anthus trivialis) from a central European breeding population
Open access
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The second week of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) starts with a #keynote by James Brooks on #group #mindedness and #CollectiveBehaviour.
@cbehav.bsky.social
https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/
Help us track disease in garden bird populations!
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#Lotek is at the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists this week in Saint Paul, Minnesota! Come find us at the Saint Paul RiverCentre until July 13, 2025. We’ve got #ORCA on display and are ready to chat all things telemetry.
11.07.2025 17:16 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0If there is an optimal behavior, why is there so much variation in the world? We found that, for white storks, context is everything. @anflack.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
New paper! @cellpress.bsky.social doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.06.044
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🧠 Du forschst zu #Nachhaltigkeit & möchtest mitgestalten, wie wir #Politik & #Wissenschaft besser verbinden? Bewirb dich bis zum 23. Juli für die Humboldtⁿ-School 2025 an der @tu-dortmund.bsky.social! 📅 3.–5.9. | Jetzt mit Poster bewerben
👉 humboldt-n.nrw/nachwuchsfoe...
#Wissenschaftskommunikation
Cross-border collaboration is essential to effective #WildlifeMonitoring.
That’s why we are proud to support Snapshot Europe 2024 with standardized camera trap data from our European Observatory of Wildlife (EOW) initiative.
https://www.ab.mpg.de/609321/snapshot-europe-2024
PhD student Emilie Stepien uses satellite tags, CATS Cams and drones to observe seal reactions to shipping in the Wadden sea 🇩🇰
Watch a pregnant seal reacting to a sea eagle caught on drone video 🦅🦭
@emstepien.bsky.social 🧪🌐
#Wildlife #WaddenSea #HarbourSeal #AnimalBehaviour #MarineEcology
Meet the WILDLABS Awards 2024 grantee from @birdscanada.bsky.social who's improving aerial species monitoring by reducing bottlenecks, increasing accessibility, and building new data streams on the Motus Wildlife Tracking System:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSN4...
✨ Gull appreciation incoming!
They're misunderstood and underappreciated. And like all seabirds, they are in decline. We love gulls, and here’s why they deserve more love. #WorldSeabirdDay
#birds
📸all pictures by Yves Adams
New week, new CASCB Summer Seminar Series talk!
Today we’re delighted to welcome Michael Long from NYU, who will share insights into the neural circuits behind social communication — from parrots to people 🧠🦜!
Today at 12:00 | ZT 702 & online @uni-konstanz.de
Congratulations!
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Grey seal pup photographed in Southern Denmark 2025, AU Ecoscience.
Fig. Connectivity and diversity of grey seals inferred from (A) effective migration parameter (Nm) assessed with divMigrate and (B) genetic diversity estimated as the proportion of heterozygous sites per individual. The legend indicating the sampling locality region is applicable to both subplots. The arrow weight legend for Nm indicates the relative strength of effective migration. Black arrows indicate effective migration between different regions while effective migration within a region is coloured according to the region.
🔊 Presenting the first range-and genome-wide population genomic analysis of grey seals! 🦭🌐
3812 nuclear SNPs genotyped in 188 samples from 17 sites identified 6 distinct populations and historic bottlenecks with ongoing recovery effects 🧪🌊 @au.dk
doi.org/10.1111/mec....
#Science #marineecology
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Next #DataUseClub: 🛰️ Integrating Remotely Sensed Data with GBIF Mediated Data
Join Kit Lewers for a technical session learning how GBIF APIs can be used in conjunction with remote sensing datasets to enhance biodiversity analyses!
📍9 July 2025 15:00-16:30 CEST
🔗gbif.link/DUC-remote...
Some of the BTO Scotland team are busy catching various seabirds that breed along the Aberdeenshire coast just now. The birds are fitted with tags which let us know where they feed and the routes they take to and from the colonies.
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