Jon Went

🍂 Fall is here, and so is the WSL Biodiversity Seminar Series! From genetics to social-ecological systems, this semester we’ll have 7 fascinating talks on biodiversity research.
Everyone is welcome, in person or online!
biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/
@wslresearch.bsky.social

The IWC2025 officially started 🥳 and it’s even better seeing so many familiar and new faces ☺️

Who’s ready for the IWC2025 edition? 🤩 Your volunteer team is busy out here preparing the check-in! 😁

These giant carnivorous bats hug, cuddle — and even share dinner Infrared cameras in Costa Rica revealed that the world’s largest carnivorous bat maintains close social bonds through wing wraps and prey sharing.

“We might just be scratching the surface of the social complexity in this species.”

In Zurich they already left on August 4th/5th, always marks the beginning of fall 🍂 for me when the only swifts left are the alpine ones

What do the WILDLABS Awards 2025 submissions tell us about what #conservation challenges our community is tackling and what #technology they're using to do so?

Explore the full data here to explore changing trends in #conservationtech awards applications: wildlabs.net/discussion/w...

Forecasting Dynamics of a Recolonizing Wolf Population Under Different Management Strategies We use a novel spatially explicit projection model to evaluate how different management strategies and system uncertainties affect the recolonization dynamics of wolves. We found that scenarios relat....

🐺🐺🐺 NEW PAPER! 🐺🐺🐺

Recovering wolves in WA tolerate threats except high harvest, high lethal removals, and lack of immigration

With @labgardner.bsky.social, Sarah Converse, & Ben Maletzke

zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Where is the best place to hold a scientific conference right now? An immigration crackdown makes the United States less attractive. These locations could steal its crown and make conferences more globally inclusive.

2025. #DEI - "Where is the best place to hold a scientific conference right now?" [Thailand, Indonesia, Hungary?]. PLEASE - before deciding on a conference location, check if the LGBTQ+ community can be legally themselves! "I" stands for INCLUSIVE! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Impacts of deglaciation on biodiversity and ecosystem function - Nature Reviews Biodiversity Glaciers are retreating with global climate warming, which threatens glacier specialists and the functions and stability of glaciers and glacially influenced ecosystems. This Review describes the impa...

June issue: A Review led by Gianalberto Losapio on the impacts and consequences of glacier retreat for biodiversity in these ecosystems.
Weblink: go.nature.com/446nolE
Readcube: rdcu.be/erx1y

New PhD position on large mammals and land-use change in Europe | Conservation Biogeography Lab We are excited to invite applications for a new PhD position on large mammals and land-use change in Europe. Join us at the Conservation and Biogeography Lab at Humboldt University Berlin!

Come join us at the Conservation Biogeography Lab @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social and carry out work on megafauna in Europe

pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/websi...

Very cool PhD opportunity with a fab team of caring and inspiring supervisors at a great institution, and building on a fantastic study system! Recommended! #ornithology

🦇 June is here!

Female bats usually give birth to a single baby, called a pup, which they feed on their milk. Young bats are very small (less than an inch) and pink with little to no fur. They will soon grow a thin, slightly grey fur.

Check our new review on niche truncation and how to avoid it with N-SDMs

Babies on board! See the twin bumps in this roundleaf bat's tummy. Although her babies will be almost 1/3 of her body weight at birth, she is increadibly agile and only slows her flight a little. (Photo captured in Kasanka National Park, Zambia last week). 📷🌍🦇😍 #nature #bats #wildlife #photography

Maternal behavior influences vocal practice and learning processes in the greater sac-winged bat Non-tutorial feedback shapes song acquisition in a mammalian vocal learner.

🦇 Greater sac-winged bat pups acquire their vocal repertoire through a conspicuous vocal practice behavior reminiscent of babbling in human infants. Pups spend about 30% of their daily activity time babbling – and it turns out that mothers influence this behavior.

elifesciences.org/articles/99474

Thanks to everybody who chimed in!

I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.

So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

(S+) Sommer 2025: Hitze und Trockenheit – droht ein neuer Katastrophensommer? Den Flüssen fehlt Wasser, der Boden ist außergewöhnlich trocken, Waldstücke brennen – Fachleute zeigen sich beunruhigt über die anhaltende Dürre. Für die kommenden Monate deutet sich zudem eine bedroh...

Es ist DAS Thema

www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

The @bbs-birds.bsky.social 2024 report is out now and shows drastic declines in many breeding bird populations. Huge thanks to volunteers who provided vital data for this report as it’s with your help we can monitor bird populations and help protect them. 🌍 🌐 See the report ➡️ www.bto.org/bbs-results

What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic. It affects us all.
The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) has released their Summary Arctic Climate Change Update. Read it: www.amap.no/documents/do...
Nobody can later say they weren't warned, again and again.

Birds shrink under climate change - an observation assumed to carry thermoregulatory benefit. Creating temperature-dependent 🐥🐣 morphotypes in the lab and measuring their heat- and cold-tolerance through development, we show shape-shifting carries at most minuscule benefit 👇 @biologylu.bsky.social

Disentangling the effect of the spatial scale and species spatial pattern on the abundance–suitability relationship vist.ly/3n4asev #Birds #SpeciesAbundance #Modelling

Hunter-engaged monitoring of the Eurasian lynx during the reinforcement process vist.ly/3n4avn4 #CameraTrapping #CitizenScience

Which animal left its tracks?

Looking forward 🤩 I'm presenting the results of the project on ungulate browsing intensity I'm working on in a speedy talk

North American bird declines are greatest where species are most abundant Efforts to address declines of North American birds have been constrained by limited availability of fine-scale information about population change. By using participatory science data from eBird, we ...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Give the IWC profile a follow to stay up-to-date with all info regarding the congress ☺️ #IWC2025 #Wildlife #Ecology

Discover world-class footage of our changing planet. Open Planet is a global library of high-quality climate and nature footage. It is free to use for educational, environmental and impact storytelling.

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Find world-class footage to tell your stories about #biodiversity & nature ⤵️🌿

openplanet.org #ForNature

If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Preliminary data suggests that the global average increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2024 will be a record.

Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record.

(This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa)

gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...

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Monitoring roe deer using standardized protocols at 34 sites from 19 countries resulted in estimated density values of:

🦌 < 5 ind/km2 for 60% of the study sites
🦌 > 20 ind/km2 for a few areas in Belgium, Slovenia & Serbia
🦌 CV peaking between 20%-30%

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