Ash Simkins

Cambridge NERC DTPs (ESS/C-CLEAR), @camzoology.bsky.social, @kingscollege.bsky.social, @conservation.cam.ac.uk, @conservevidence.bsky.social
Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI), @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social, IUCN, @ukceh.bsky.social

@britishecologicalsociety.org
Silviu Petrovan, Lynn Dicks, @billsutherland.bsky.social, Ian Burfield, Thomas Worthington, Craig Hilton-Taylor, @drnickisaac.bsky.social

#conservationscience

The Critically Endangered Common Hamster (Cricetus cricetus). Credit: Charles J. Sharp/Wikimedia commons

Excited to be at #BES2025 in Edinburgh!🌳

I'm presenting on the underappreciated risk to common species (Poster B1.68, Strathblane Hall, Wednesday 17:00-18:30).🐸

Interested in chatting more, including common species, extinction risk and conservation effectiveness? Find/message me here/Whova

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We are looking for a couple more experts to join our horizon scanning exercise online resulting in a paper in TREE. We are keen to have more participants especially outside Europe/North America. Please come and talk to me if at #ICCB2025

Note full session on future of counterfactuals starts @8:30 Wednesday! #teamcounterfactual,
@billsutherland.bsky.social, @lynndicks, @silviupetrovan,@williammorgan, @alecchristie @camzoology.bsky.social, @kingscollege.bsky.social, @nerc_clear, @conservation.cam.ac.uk

Presenting "Using evidence to evaluate conservation impacts on species populations" Weds 9:54 in Great Hall 1, and in tackling conservation evaluation issues forum Mon 1pm in M3! Please reach out/come find me to chat about all things extinction risk/conservation actions!🐨🔍🐿️ @iccb2025.bsky.social

#ICCB2025 I'll be presenting our work on "Over the Horizon" extinction risk forecasting for proactive conservation planning at 10:30am on Monday, in M2.

It will be minus 3 degrees in Canberra tonight so looking forward to escaping to Brizzie for a few days...

Thanks for hosting me @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social @yeelai.bsky.social, and for everyone @uq-cbcs.bsky.social for making me feel so welcome! What an amazing place to work! Please get in touch if interested in discussing anything further, at ICCB or online! Looking forward to @iccb2025.bsky.social now!

#conservationscience🌍

@camzoology.bsky.social @conservevidence.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk @kingscollege.bsky.social, IUCN, @iccs.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social, BirdLife Science, Conservation & Ecology Group Durham University, @plosbiology.org

Huge thanks to my supervisors and collaborators @billsutherland.bsky.social, LynnDicks, Craig Hilton-Taylor, MollyGrace, @stubutchart.bsky.social, @rebeccasenior.bsky.social, Silviu Petrovan, Cambridge NERC C-CLEAR for funding & all those who contribute to the IUCN Red List!

Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardinus) (c) Octavio Jimenez Robles

*Positive news* Despite global declines in biodiversity, we find conservation has driven improvements in >100 species. This suggests with greater resource allocation to more species, conservation can halt and reverse biodiversity loss! First PhD paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

@camzoology.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk @conservevidence.bsky.social @kingscollege.bsky.social @iccs.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk, IUCN, @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social, Conservation Ecology Group Durham University

Huge thanks to my supervisors and collaborators @billsutherland.bsky.social, LynnDicks, CraigHiltonTaylor, MollyGrace, @stubutchart.bsky.social, @rebeccasenior.bsky.social, SilviuPetrovan, NERC C-CLEAR for funding & all those who contribute to the IUCN Red List!

🚨NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER🚨details how we delineated six #MarineFlyways applying a novel approach onto #seabird #tracking data: doi.org/10.1111/geb.70004 🧪

See the short animation via: www.seabirdtracking.org/case-studies... explaining how the marine flyways can be a framework to support #conservation

Do native predators help Australian mammals face invasive cats and foxes? 🦊

In this week's blog post, we discuss whether native predators inside ‘predator-free’ havens could be good for the conservation of threatened native prey species 💭🌎🧪

Read more 👇 appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/01/16/k...

Measuring trends in extinction risk: a review of two decades of development and application of the Red List Index | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences The Red List Index (RLI) is an indicator of the average extinction risk of groups of species and reflects trends in this through time. It is calculated from the number of species in each category on t...

20 yrs ago I started comparing the 3 lists of threatened birds BirdLife had published and working out overall trends. The Red List Index resulted from the ensuing collaboration & is now used by the world's governments & UN. Our new paper reviews the history royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Humboldt Current seabird tracking data call for fisheries bycatch risk assessment - Seabird Tracking Database The BirdLife team are collating seabird tracking data for the Humboldt Current region and adjacent High Seas to assess fisheries bycatch risk as part of an

🚨Calling for seabird tracking data!

🚢We are collating seabird data for the Humboldt Current region to assess fisheries bycatch risk.

🤝This is a collaborative project with Global Fishing Watch funded by @nfwfnews.bsky.social.

You can be part of it!

Go to: www.seabirdtracking.org/humboldt-cur...