@natashamannion.bsky.social
Final year PhD student investigating the impact of roads on tropical forest mammals in Brunei. Newcastle University @newcastleuni.bsky.social & Universiti Brunei Darussalam๐ณ she/her https://naturetasha.wixsite.com/natashamannion
It furthers understanding of hunting behaviours and motivations in the Temburong district of Brunei Darussalam, how hunting trends may change over time, & how hunting may interact with infrastructure expansion.
Plain language summary: tinyurl.com/ykfp87en
#hunting #borneo #wildmeat #conservation
The first paper from my PhD thesis is out! "Hunting motivations, behaviour and forest access: Characterising wildlife hunting practices in a multi-ethnic, forested landscape of Brunei Darussalam, Southeast Asia" is now available online in People and Nature!
Link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/pan3...
Forgot to post here but I passed my viva on 4th June and am #phdone! From navigating international travel during the pandemic, to hiking through tropical rainforests, to data analysis back at my desk in Newcastle it's been a huge adventure. Thanks to my supervisors and everyone who supported me!
18.06.2025 09:32 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Our textbook chapter is out! I collaborated with an amazing team to pull this together - Prof Marion Pfeifer, Dr Rebekah Puttick and Dr @ldbraunholtz.bsky.social. Look out for our work on #biodiversity, function and change of the tropical rainforests of #Borneo in Terrestrial Biomes, out now ๐ณ
28.04.2025 16:08 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@aliceoswald.bsky.social's systematic map protocol is out! I assisted Alice with the screening stage after working on FCS at @naturalengland.bsky.social last year. Congrats Alice! ๐
26.02.2025 13:02 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Climate change scientist at the front of a lecture hall in front of a slide which says "Dr Matt Winning"
Climate change scientist in front of a slide quoting Natasha Bedingfield - "Today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten"
Great public talk by @mattywin.bsky.social at @newcastleuni.bsky.social tonight. Climate change with a side of early 2000s pop and Peppa Pig having fracking energy #scicomm #climatechange
25.02.2025 19:03 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Collaborated with some @newcastleuni.bsky.social colleagues on a book chapter about fieldwork in Brunei, and wrote a blog post about it - check it out here!:
from.ncl.ac.uk/under-the-ca...
The issue of BirdingAsia including our article is available to purchase and download: www.orientalbirdclub.org/birdingasia-41
And have shared our article on ResearchGate: tinyurl.com/3hsrt4vs
Happy reading!๐ฆ๐
#scicomm #phdlife #phdchat #science #research #ecology
Camera trap image of a Bornean ground cuckoo following a bearded pig in a tropical rainforest in Brunei
The Bornean ground cuckoo has a cool association with bearded pigs. The birds follow the pigs which upturn earth allowing the birds to better forage for invertebrates (image: Ulmar Grafe).
Fun fact: these birds have also been described as "unpalatable and smelly" ๐
This species had not been recorded in Temburong, my study region, since 1986! Local collaborators from Universiti Brunei Darussalam and I teamed up to write an article published in BirdingAsia summarising 14 new Bruneian records from 2020 - 2022, the first in the country since 2010.
28.01.2025 11:41 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Camera trap image of a Bornean ground cuckoo, a large (60 cm) bird, with a purple-glossed black head, a green mantle and back with purple gloss and coppery-red reflections, and unbarred coppery-violet wings and tail. It has barred white-and-black underparts and an area of green bare skin around the eyes and bill.
โจRare bird sightingโจ Finally talking about a cool finding from my fieldwork back in 2022! While I was aiming to record mammals in Brunei, I also captured some images of the very rare and elusive Bornean ground cuckoo (Carpococcyx radiceus).
#wildlife #birds #nature
Ain't no party like an ecology party cos an ecology party has a really chaotic ceilidh? #bes2024
12.12.2024 22:48 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Ft. video of some of my interesting findings... vimeo.com/1035178122?s...
12.12.2024 09:40 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Here's the full version for anyone who wants a look! Find out more about my PhD research camera trapping in Brunei, Borneo #phdchat #ecology #tropicalforest #cameratraps
12.12.2024 09:39 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Poster presentation at my first BES Annual Meeting done! #phdlife
12.12.2024 09:34 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
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The royal institution, now a cocktail bar but a building with many historical links to the slave trade
Berth docks where slave ships were maintained
The athenaeum blue plaque
Royal infirmiry Liverpool
Amazing walk-shop around Liverpool today at the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social Annual Meeting exploring ecology's roots in enslavement. So many places across the city with connections to slavery, and so many connections with natural history #liverpool #ecology #decolonisation
11.12.2024 17:53 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
09.12.2024 15:25 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I'll be at @britishecolsoc.bsky.social in Liverpool next week presenting a poster - come say hi! #phdchat #phdlife
07.12.2024 17:34 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Female scientist stood in a rainforest with one foot on a buttress root, holding a vegetation touch test pole
Red muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak) looking into the camera
Hose's langur (Presbytis hosei) perched on a rock looking into the camera
Hi, just moved over here from the other place (๐ฆ) I'm in the final year of my PhD "Biodiversity responses to infrastructure expansion and hunting in Brunei Darussalam". This has been mainly working with camera trap data I collected in Brunei's rainforests in 2022.
07.12.2024 17:29 โ ๐ 20 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
