Diego Ellis Soto

Wow, this is amazing. Listen live to whale songs!🐋🔊

🥳64 more days until the start of #Animove at #LaSelva Organization of Tropical Studies in #CostaRica. 22 participants, 6 tutors,2077 plant species,125 mammal species,470 bird species,48 amphibian species,87 reptile species,45 fresh water fish species and 10000 insects, arachnids and other.🐒🦇🦜🐊🦂

🚨Now out in @pnas.org! Our group provides a framework to mathematically link environmental niches from individual to population and species scales. Our approach enables more accurate forecasting of biodiversity change across organismal levels. 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Muy feliz porque nuestro artículo sobre "un caso de ciencia comunitaria en América Latina desde una perspectiva crítica" fue finalmente publicado 💚 Fueron meses de trabajo, otros de reflexión y algunos más de proceso editorial. Pero finalmente ve la luz. Yo, ¡feliz! revistas.ufpr.br/made/article...

Wow this is so incredible! Also, beautiful figures!

Shoutout to my amazing mentors and collaborators @cboettig.bsky.social @liamtaylor.bsky.social Christopher J. Schell, Elizabeth Edson, Avery Hill and Rebecca F. Johnson
@calacademy.bsky.social
@schmidtdse.bsky.social ‪
@inaturalist.bsky.social

Introducing: the ICARUS birds project The Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior is launching a new project — ICARUS Birds — to investigate why we are losing birds that were once common in our gardens and forests.

Initiatives such as the Icarus Initiative from @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social are pioneering future efforts to understand where, when and how animals struggle and die in particular areas and context: www.ab.mpg.de/669445/icaru...

7/ With advances in technologies such as animal telemetry (bio-loging) are increasingly able to monitor wildlife behavior including vital rates, yet remains taxonomically, geographically limited, particularly in urban and suburban areas
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7/ Endangered species in Latin America

[d] Our framework allowed daily monitoring of wildlife across Latin America documenting mortality for critically endangered species

6/ Mammal mortality across California

[c] Turns out most records of mammal mortality in California occurs near roads. Sampling bias meets anthropogenic stressor?!

5/ Puma mortality across the Americas

[b] We found mortality records spanning nine countries, underscoring the importance of international cooperation for conserving wide-ranging species like Puma concolor.

Strengths and limitations of using participatory science data to characterize a wildlife mass mortality event Participatory science (i.e., “community science” or “citizen science”) platforms are increasingly used at every level of ecological and conservation research, including disease monitoring. Here, we u...

4/ Check out this great paper from co-author @liamtaylor.bsky.social et al. digging deeper into this, which was a inspiration for parts of our preprint!

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3/ Avian influenza

[a] iNaturalist data captured spikes in bird mass mortality across the US & Canada, closely aligning with official H5N1 outbreak reports. Participatory science can provide near-real-time photographic evidence to complement disease surveillance.

INaturalist Mortality Detector - a Hugging Face Space by diegoellissoto This app lets you explore observations of dead wildlife from the iNaturalist platform. You can search by location, select a date range, and filter by species or taxon class to view trends, top spec...

2/ Understanding where, when, how, and why wildlife is declining is key for effective conservation

By tapping into participatory science, we now have a (biased) complementary way to monitor mortality events in near-real time

👉: huggingface.co/spaces/diego...

I’ll highlight four case studies ⬇️

Global monitoring of wildlife mortality through participatory science in near-real time Detection of wildlife mortality events is critical for timely conservation and natural resource management. We present an open-source, web-based decision support tool that queries, aggregates and summ...

Monitoring wildlife mortality 24/7 worldwide using participatory science

Paper 👉: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Web Application 👉:
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#Biodiversity #iNaturalist #WildlifeMortality #DigitalOneHealth #ConservationTech #EcologicalForecasting
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Urban ecology meets urban agriculture and EJ !

Stay tuned for exciting updates in this space ... we are currently cooking up new curriculums integrating open source technologies.

From bird biodiversity, to vegetation surveys and more ...

Herculean effort by @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social and our incredible NPS colleagues to explore variation in wildlife responses to recreation across our National Parks. Come for the COVID-19 lockdown data, stay for the typologies of animal responses to human activity.

From biologging to conservation: Tracking individual performance in changing environments | PNAS Under an accelerating biodiversity crisis, increased urbanization, habitat fragmentation, and climate change require new approaches to assess conse...

From bio-logging to conservation 🔽

New paper by an @animaltracking.bsky.social dream team

@diegoellissoto.bsky.social @anflack.bsky.social @arispeshkin.bsky.social Timm Wild, Hannah Williams, @teagueo.bsky.social

@cbehav.bsky.social @uni-konstanz.de

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Transforming conservation with real-time data of individual animals A study co-led by ESPM postdoctoral researcher Diego Ellis Soto highlights how developing technologies for tracking wildlife can advance and democratize conservation efforts.

You can read more on wildlife.berkeley.edu/news/2025/07...

🙌 Team work makes the dreamwork: @andreaflores.bsky.social Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin, Hannah J. Williams, @teagueo.bsky.social and Timm Wild .

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We also discuss how animal telemetry could support essential biodiversity variables and help meet ambitious global biodiversity targets (like @geobon.org and the MoveBon initiative led by @ Lacey Hughey & colleagues).

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🛰️🐦 Bio-logging can fundamentally reshape how we measure conservation success—from individuals ➡️ populations ➡️ species.

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Working with colleagues at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and @batcon.org , we show how bio-logging can deliver real-time, continuous data on animal behavior and environmental change

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At the global scale we find that:

📉 Urban areas
🌳 Regions with high forest fragmentation
🌍 Much of the Global South
—are all underrepresented, despite many of these regions facing some of the greatest biodiversity threats.
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Thrilled to share our new article in @pnas.org highlighting global gaps in where we study animal movement—and outlining the next generation of smart bio-loggers.

👉 Read the full study in PNAS: lnkd.in/exP8NCeZ
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I (Peter) have been a big fan of @bennjordan.bsky.social's work for ages, so it was great getting such praise for AudioMoth in his latest video.

A fascinating dive into bird vocalisation with some great advice for taking your first steps into listening to the birds around you.

GitHub - tidyverse/ragnar Contribute to tidyverse/ragnar development by creating an account on GitHub.

Tidyverse team is doing some phenomenal work empowering RAG-based workflows in #rstats, github.com/tidyverse/ra...

🚀 GeoAI Tutorial 21: Training a Segmentation Model for Water Detection from Satellite Imagery — with Just One Line of Code 🛰️

While previous tutorials focused on geospatial raster formats like GeoTIFF, this one adds support for non-georeferenced images such as JPG and PNG!

rspatialdata: a collection of data sources and tutorials on downloading and visualizing spatial data with #rstats 💻🗺️📊

👉 rspatialdata.github.io

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We’re thrilled to announce that applications for Animove are NOW OPEN 🥳
Learning new methods in animal movement analysis and connecting with nature in one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. We can't wait to see your application come through. See you in Costa Rica! 🇨🇷 #LaSelva