Kalpapran Patowary, MRes

Jane Goodall reaching out to a baby chimpanzee, with the chimp reaching back. Hands are on the verge of touching.

“Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved”

- Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91

Jane and her work had a special way of bringing you in.

She undoubtedly inspired entire generations of conservation biologists, behavioral ecologists, and optimists — Myself included.

She will be missed. 🧪🌍

Some scenes from last weekend
10K Trail Run ✅
Tailgate and chill ✅

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

What a lovely and insightful talk by Prof Brownlee on leveraging mobility data to help better inform parks and recreational lands management!

Please RT!

📢 #Doctoral / #PhD position available with us at Leibniz-IZW for 4 years working at the interface of #wildlife + #disease #ecology, #veterinary sciences and #modelling.
🐗🐗🐗🐦🐦🐦
Training within #DFG #RTG 3069 led by @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

▶️Apply here for P7: tinyurl.com/j2ehtz7m

During Red Wolf Week, catch our wolves howling, exploring, and dashing across the webcam. You never know what they’ll do next!🐾

🎥 Watch now: nywolf.org/meet-our-wol...

lovely 🔊

Fat Bear Week 2025 Fat Bear Week 2025

explore.org/fat-bear-week

@fattebertj.bsky.social, you better vote 🐻

Went for a trail run after ages! 🏃🏽⛰️

P.S. still haven’t got used to the miles-kilometer conversion though…

38 years ago, Red Wolf howls returned to NC when 8 captive-born wolves were released. Since then, more have followed, including Red Wolf Deven from the WCC in 2021.

This #RedWolfWeek we honor their journey and look ahead to more releases and a future where they thrive.

🔗 nywolf.org/red-wolf-wee...

Forestry articles and papers, even though I’m curious about them, tend to pile up on my reading list and get TLDRed. But events like this really motivate me to dive back into the literatures I’ve been putting off and expand my ecological knowledge bubble 🌳🦌

Last week I had this amazing opportunity to attend a seminar and learn about the importance, both ecological and economical, of conserving longleaf forests—delivered by Lisa Lord from Longleaf Alliance.

Got this amazing opportunity to refresh the do(s) and don’t(s) regarding academic writing and publishing. Thanks @whysharksmatter.bsky.social !

YouTube video by Veritasium The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything

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The secret acoustic world of leopards: A paired camera trap and bioacoustics survey facilitates individual identification of leopards via their roars Here, we conducted the first large-scale joint camera trap and bioacoustics survey for large African carnivores in Nyerere National Park, Tanzania. By combining the different data types that each tec....

This in combination with zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... can be game changing for pop estimation!

Tourist sightings improve the precision of camera trap‐derived density estimates using spatial capture‐recapture models In this study, we combine tourist-contributed images with camera trap-based monitoring data to estimate leopard (Panthera pardus) population densities using multi-session spatial capture–recapture mo...

Combining #cameratrap data with tourist sightings improves leopards monitoring. Wow!🤩

@rsecjournal.bsky.social @antoniouzal.bsky.social

zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Moncrieff Lab | Bird Evolution The Moncrieff Lab is a research lab based at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. Research in the lab involves museum specimens, fieldwork, and...

🐦🔬 Recruiting PhD students! 🌎🧬
I’m looking for 1–2 PhD students to join our team starting Fall 2026 at the Sam Noble Museum & University of Oklahoma.

Our research: 🐦 birds • 🌍 biogeography • 🌴 Neotropics • 🧬 population genomics • 🌱 speciation

👉 Learn more: www.moncriefflab.org

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Love in the Wild: What Drives Red Wolf Pairing Success Do opposites really attract? With Red Wolves, it just might be true. Our research partner Lovin, a graduate student at Utah State University advised by Dr. Julie Young, is helping uncover the answer.

Do opposites really attract?🐺❤️ With Red Wolves, it might be true. Our research partner Lovin (USU grad. advised by Dr. Julie Young) is studying mate compatibility and early findings suggest wolves with contrasting personalities may be more likely to have pups.

Read more: nywolf.org/2025/08/love...

An anole extends its dewlap, which says "call for scientists!"

Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.

Guess it’s official now! 🐺📍🧭🌳🦌

Blue background, picture of a wombat and text that says Apply now! 2025 SCB Graduate Student Research Awards. Deadline 15 September, 2025. SCB logo.

SCB’s 2025 Graduate Student Research Awards are open!
Ten $1,000 grants for grad students advancing #biodiversity conservation. You can use the funds for travel, field gear, or materials. Apply now + read guidelines: conbio.org/mini-sites/s...
#grants #conservation #studentawards

Beyond Species Richness for Biological Conservation Recent global policy developments have highlighted the need for straightforward, robust, and meaningful biodiversity metrics. However, much of conservation science is dominated by the use of a single....

Happy to share new work from the lab and a wonderful group of co-authors:

We argue that conservation biology needs to move beyond the current focus on species richness metrics.

While this has been argued before, we highlight the unappreciated impacts of using richness for a variety of problems:

New paper on red wolves from our research lab at the Wolf Conservation Center. We looked at historical and cultural factors that led to the red wolf's extirpation from Alabama. @nywolforg.bsky.social @stacksjournal.bsky.social

stacksjournal.org/article/murp...

The American Black Bear (Ursus americanus) as an Apex Predator: Investigating the Ecological Role of the World's Most Abundant Large Carnivore Black bears as apex predators. American black bears can (1) produce top-down effects on ungulates equal to or exceeding those of typical apex predators and (2) modify the spatiotemporal behaviour of ...

Student-lead joint lab paper published today!

Black bears are abundant in North America - this review investigates their trophic role as large omnivores with top-down effects onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌎🧪

@johnnettles.bsky.social @pancakesnmegs.bsky.social @davidjachowski.bsky.social

Is there a spreadsheet with a list of grant organizations? I remember seeing one in the Twitter days but cannot find it. 🌎🌏🌍🗺️

Whoop whoop!

We're recruiting!

🌳Assistant Professor in Ecology, Evolution & Conservation
🌳Postdoctoral Research Associates in
Drosophila Connectomics
Whole Organism Neuroscience
🌳Research Assistant Environmental impacts of food consumption & policy

Find out more: bit.ly/4o028qV

Come work with us!

The department is an invigorating place and lots of conservation-focused work going on with the Conservation Research Institute and Cambridge Conservation Initiative. The students are fabulous!

We're hiring! Remote work on red wolf behavior 🐺🧪
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...