Cassie Speakman

2 2-yr postdocs @uni-kiel.de uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-roots
- impact of human pop dynamics, subsistence & landscape use on biodiversity
- inequalities & conflict escalation modulated by settlement & resource accessibility
- scale of anthropogenic environmental damage
- how boundaries affect wellbeing

Methods for knowledge-based biodiversity monitoring and management under uncertainty (BioM) - UiO:Life Science BioM develops new interdisciplinary methods to model and govern biodiversity under uncertainty, combining ecology, statistics, and philosophy. The project delivers predictive tools, normative framewor...

2 PhD & 1 postdoc available at BioM in Oslo
www.uio.no/english/rese... Interdisciplinary methods to model and govern biodiversity under uncertainty. Re-post widely! Work with statistical ecologists Olav Skarpaas (Natural History Museum Oslo @uio.no) @t-ergon.bsky.social

Detecting disease progression from animal movement using hidden Markov models We demonstrate how (H)HMMs can be tailored to different epidemiological scenarios and provide a template workflow for developing and selecting Hidden Markov models to infer disease status from animal...

Published in @jappliedecology.bsky.social!😀

We show how (Hierarchical) Hidden Markov Models ((H)HMMs) can be tailored to different epidemiological scenarios to infer disease status directly from animal movement data.

🔗 ttps://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.70323

Job opportunity! @cast-centre.bsky.social are seeking a Research Fellow to lead a programme of quantitative behavioural research to advance understanding of climate-relevant behaviour change and life choices.

48 month fixed-term full-time

see: www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

This is sure to be a great talk!

New topical collection: Individual-based modelling in ecology: learning from the past and the presence for the future With a history spanning 50 years, individual-based modelling (IBM) in ecology has advanced the field and our understanding of how individual-level traits, such as movement, consumption, reproduct...

📣 Call for Abstracts: Individual-based Modelling in #Ecology

How have IBMs evolved over the last five decades, and how will they shape the future of the field?

Contributions for a new topical collection are invited.

💎 Diamond #OA: No charges for authors or readers.
👇Find all the details here:

So many amazing workshops! I'll be delivering a half day workshop so check that out! ;)

Pensoft launches new journal: Individual-based Ecology | Blog IBE joins a number of open-access ecology journals published by Pensoft

We're a brand-new academic journal aimed at promoting an individual-based perspective in ecology.

We publish under a diamond open-access model with @pensoft.bsky.social - if you-re studying individual-based ecology feel free to get in touch!

blog.pensoft.net/2024/09/12/p...

New 2026 paper led by @patricepottier.bsky.social, @kruthsatz.bsky.social & I in @conphysjournal.bsky.social show studies on embryos make up <10% of conservation physiology studies, highlighting a major blind spot in predicting vulnerable life stages to climate change.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/conp...

Decision analysis rooted in Indigenous and Western scientific knowledge identifies cost‐effective strategies for managing hyperabundant deer to restore keystone places Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

What a fantastic paper! Decision analysis rooted in Indigenous and Western scientific knowledge identifies cost-effective strategies for managing hyperabundant deer to restore keystone places 🌎🌐🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Physiological Challenge of Climate Change for Free-Living Terrestrial Mammals Most scenarios that seek to predict the responses of terrestrial mammals to climate change focus on the direct thermal effects of higher ambient temperatures. Measurements from free-living mammals rev...

Chuffed to have been invited to write for Annual Review of Physiology, describing our work on climate change impacts on terrestrial mammals. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Flyer describing the Topical Collection, with an image of a cheetah and journal information. Full details in the link.

Excited to announce our Topical Collection at @ibe.pensoft.net on Individual‑based Conservation!

We aim to highlight approaches integrating individual heterogeneity into management and conservation practice.

Please submit, share, & reach out with any questions!

Details: ibe.pensoft.net/news/1106

A tiny meerkat pup aged just a few weeks, emerging from the birth burrow in the Kalahari Desert.

🚨 New paper 🚨

(1/8) In meerkats, pregnancy isn’t one-size-fits-all. Some mothers gain weight steadily, others delay all growth until the final weeks 📈

What drives this striking variation, and how does it affect the (adorable) pups?

OA PAPER: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Details (+cute pics!) below👇

Why biodiversity science needs its own model intercomparison projects 👇.
Lessons from climate science, applied to biodiversity & policy. 🌍🧬
by @geobon.org #EcoCode team @mark-urban.bsky.social @gretabocedi.bsky.social @sjevelazco.bsky.social

New topical collection &#39;Individual-Based Conservation&#39; calls for abstracts While conservation science often focus on the &#39;big picture&#39; of populations and ecosystems, the unique traits of the individual are frequently overlooked. To address this, the diamond open-acce...

📣Call for Abstracts: Individual-Based #Conservation

🦁Explore how individual #heterogeneity drives conservation success in this new topical #collection from our💎Diamond #OA journal.

📅Deadline: 15 March 2026

More information can be found here⤵️

Book cover for https://oliviergimenez.github.io/banana-book/

📘 New book out soon !

I’m excited to share that 𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞-𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐯 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐈𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐄 is being published by Chapman & Hall / CRC Press

Hope it’s useful to students, researchers, and practitioners

#StatisticalEcology #NIMBLE

An individual‐based model to quantify the non‐breeding season impact of wind farms on seabirds A novel individual-based model to predict the impacts of offshore wind farms on seabirds during the non-breeding season, using long-term tracking data from SEATRACK. We demonstrate the model by simul...

✨New paper!✨
An individual‐based model to quantify the non‐breeding season impact of wind farms on #seabirds

doi.org/10.1002/2688...

@ninanatureresearch.bsky.social
@seatrackscience.bsky.social
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Any ECRs (must have PhD by deadline) want to chat about joining my group at Bangor? Get in touch!
Maternal effects, stress, sociality, thermal ecology and intersection of all the above… we cover a broad behavioural/ecological/physiological remit and are interested in adding skills to this portfolio!

🚨 PhD offer (please share)
Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species

Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
Starting: June 2026
Supervision: Martins Briedis & me

Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh

rspatialdata: a repository of spatial datasets & tutorials for spatial analysis & visualization in #rstats, supporting real-world applications such as estimating air pollution, quantifying disease burden, and monitoring progress toward the SDGs🌍💻📊

👉 rspatialdata.github.io

Postdoctoral Researcher in Statistical Ecology and Evolution Postdoctoral Researcher in Statistical Ecology and Evolution

Postdoc in statistical ecology & evolution! Develop models bridging evolutionary theory with empirical data on sex differences in immunity and life history. Apply now!
#postdoc #statistics #evolution #academicjobs #ecology jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

New paper out 🐨🌱

SA koala densities are exceeding habitat capacity conservation priorities.

Modelling 25 years of pop growth, hab. suitability, and fertility control strategies, we found: 1) Pop growth projected at +17–25% w/out action, 2) Adult female fertility control most cost effective option.

📢 Postdoc opportunity: Quantitative Ecologist / Fisheries Scientist 📢

AFBI (Belfast, UK) seeks a postdoc to join the Fisheries & Aquatic Ecosystems Branch. Full-time, start early 2026, funded up to 3 yrs via PLEACE PLUS (SEUPB).

#Postdoc #MarineScience

Black text on white background. Screenshot of ARC’s Network Message regarding delays to grant announcements because of new security arrangements.

⁉️The ARC has delayed outcomes of ALL grants 1–4 months & increased scheduled outcome windows from 2 weeks to 3 months!

This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis.

Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇

Restoring nature and reversing biodiversity loss are urgent societal challenges. Utrecht University invites applications for an Assistant Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Nature Restoration. In this role, you contribute to help solve these challenges through research and education by linking fundamental wildlife ecology to biodiversity recovery and nature restoration. As an Assistant Professor, you will join a young, enthusiastic team that is eager to make an impact. You will help strengthen the team’s mission to connect fundamental wildlife ecology with the challenges of nature restoration in human-dominated multifunctional forest landscapes, especially in north-western Europe. Your research will focus on restoration-relevant themes, such as wildlife responses to anthropogenic change, the effectiveness of conservation interventions, and the contribution of wildlife to biodiversity recovery and nature restoration. Close collaboration with colleagues within and beyond Utrecht University is an important part of this role, as well as building sustainable partnerships with conservation practitioners and policymakers. You will combine fieldwork, experiments and biomonitoring (e.g. using sensor technologies) with laboratory, statistical and theoretical approaches. There is ample opportunity to initiate research projects and to acquire funding. In education, you will teach in the Biology programs, develop and coordinate a new course, and supervise research projects of BSc, MSc and PhD students.

Are you a PhD-level #wildlife ecologist committed to research and education for #biodiversity and nature restoration?
Our group at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social has a #vacancy for an assistant professor!
Deadline for applications is February 19.
Please spread the word.
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

My lab is seeking a #postdoc for a 3-year project on Pilbara leaf-nosed #bat 🦇 conservation, addressing climate change vulnerability using physiological, ecological, & modelling approaches.

Apply now: murdoch.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/MurdochCaree...

Expression of Interest: funding application for Postdoctoral research position We invite expressions of interest for a postdoc applicant to the National Intelligence Postdoctoral Grant. The project focuses on forecasting scrub typhus risks in Australia using demographic and ecol...

Only a few days left!
💰 Postdoc funding opportunity

Looking for EOI postdoc to co-develop a grant application focusing on climate change impact on scrub typhus risk in Australia

📍 UTS / Australian Museum
🧠 Strong modelling skills needed

🔗Details + EOI Form: www.biogeographyuts.org/post/express...

We are recruiting several PhD students. If you are interested in conservation conflicts, population ecology, quantitative ecology, or biodiversity, check these projects out (links in the thread, feel free to reach out):

Accounting for spatial heterogeneity in trapping pressure and its impact on population dynamics of sympatric pine and stone martens - Landscape Ecology Context The consequences of human exploitation of animal populations remain poorly understood, particularly for populations experiencing spatially-varying harvesting intensity and exposure. If unaccou...

The latest paper from the DISCAR synthesis group is out on early view at Landscape Ecology doi.org/10.1007/s109...

We used individual-based models to investigate the effect of spatial heterogeneity in trapping effort on the population dynamics of pine and stone martens.

I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...