Dr Rosemary Hohnen

Thanks so much Cole!

I’m really excited to start the project and continue working with our amazing all ⭐ team: @stewartresearch.bsky.social, Joanna Burgar, Megan Hornseth, Anne Hubbs, Jason Fisher, @coleburton.bsky.social

@wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social, University of Victoria, University of British Columbia

Meet The Fellows - Liber Ero Fellowship Program We are pleased to announce the 2026 Liber Ero Fellows!     Mirjam Barrueto Project: Toward one hundred quiet zones: predicting, locating, and managing wolverine reproduction, connectivity, and source-...

I’m really excited to announce I’ve been awarded one of the 2026 Canadian Liber Ero Fellowships!

🐺 For my project, I’ll be examining the relative impact of wolves and wolf control on mesocarnivore distributions across Western Canada 🐺

More info here: liberero.ca/meet-the-fel...

Big Bird: A global dataset of birds in drone imagery annotated to species level Drones are a valuable tool for surveying birds, but manually detecting and identifying birds in drone images is costly. We assembled a diverse dataset of 23 865 images of birds captured with 21 diffe...

In this work led by Josh Wilson, we labelled 4824 drone-based images containing 49990 birds from 101 species and trained a bird detection and ID model. The model achieved precision = 0.91 for detection & 0.65 for species/age/sex classification.
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Ready to connect science with the world? Your next chapter starts here!

Expressions of interest are now open for associate editors for #PacificConsBio

If you think this is you, click connectsci.au/pc/pages/edi...

Collage ink painting with planet and orbit-like shapes

Not to brag but I made a whole new galaxy this weekend

Photo of small mammal with overlay text reading: Call for Papers: Small Mammal Population Cycles as Vital Pulses of Ecosystems

Arctic Science Journal and the Canadian Journal of Zoology encourage submissions examining individual to ecosystem-level dynamics, integrating seasonality and extreme weather into models.

Submission requirements ▶️ https://ow.ly/y7fA50XC2l7

📷 Fabrice Simon

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MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...

An avoidable cat-astrophe in Western Australia. Every month ~800 pet cats and ~4M birds, mammals & reptiles die because current policy prevents pet cats from being contained. This paper reveals broad support for change: 78% of local govts want containment laws. Let's get this done.
#bioinvasions 🌐🌏

Happy New Year folks! In 2026 I'm hoping to bring the vibe of this northern pygmy owl, feat dead mouse. I hope you manage to catch your mice too, or learn things in the process, be kind to yourself and others, and find the space to try again. ✨️🦉

Revered and reviled, cats in the crosshairs on Christmas Island On a speck of land in the Indian Ocean, one of the world's most ambitious wars is being waged against feral cats. But not everyone is celebrating.

A great story on the impacts of cats on islands, showcasing Christmas Island's story. Amazing work and an amazing team.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

With ‘terrifying’ trade in African hornbills, scientists call for increased protection For millions of years, the African landscape — the rainforests, woodlands, savannas and scrublands — has echoed with the booms and cackles of large, raucous, strange-looking birds: hornbills. When…

With an alarming rise in the international trade of African hornbills, wild populations are plummeting. As key seed dispersers, their demise also threatens the survival of the forests they inhabit.

An illustration of a woman walking up stairs in the back of another woman's head, with text: As a Ph.D. student, I felt unprepared to mentor—but I’m glad I took the leap

"What mattered, I realized, was not to be some imaginary perfect mentor with all the answers, but to get to know my mentee ... and offer whatever guidance and support I could based on my own experiences." #NationalMentoringDay https://scim.ag/47mSs29

In memory of the Christmas Island shrew It never weighed more than a spoonful of sugar. Five or six grams of life, soft-furred and sharp-nosed, darting among the roots and leaf litter of a tiny island in the Indian Ocean. At night, its…

Once abundant on Christmas Island, the tiny, five-gram shrew filled the night forest with its high, thin cry before vanishing into silence.

Its loss adds to Australia’s grim record of extinctions—a quiet reminder of fragile lives erased by invasion, neglect, and the noise of human expansion.

PhD offer on island extinctions. Last week to apply! 👇🏼

Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll

This is not a drill!

Baudin's black-cockatoos have been polling 2nd over the last week, but behind Tawny frogmouths.

Frogmouths are great, but not facing extinction!

Voting closes in <24 hrs

VOTE BAUDIN,'S NOW!
🪶🌏
(overseas votes count)
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💫 Management of caribou threats may benefit wolverine, but a complete management strategy for wolverine would rely on effective caribou conservation actions that have meaningful on-ground impacts and the management of additional wolverine-specific threats.

🔍 For wolverine, current conservation objectives are not well defined. Only four conservation documents list recovery actions for wolverine, and the most recent national document (2014) does not list any. This leads to a disconnect between identified problems and proposed solutions.

🌿 Many threats relevant to wolverine and caribou may be addressed through effective management of caribou critical habitat,which implicitly involves managing for the cumulative effects of industrial disturbance. Is this being effectively done in Canada? Probably not.

🏭 We found considerable overlap between wolverine and caribou in listed threats and recovery actions. Habitat loss, hunting and trapping, sensory disturbance, and linear features were all key threats to both species.

🍁 We systematically reviewed conservation documentation and scientific literature to investigate the extent woodland caribou-focused conservation is likely to benefit wolverine. Writing this paper, I learned so much about how conservation works in Canada.

Here’s a few things that stood out to me:

Wolverine in the slipstream: A systematic review of caribou‐focused conservation benefits, gaps and uncertainties for wolverine in Canada With rates of biodiversity loss accelerating globally, debate exists regarding the most efficient ways of allocating resources to conserve species. Woodland caribou are the focus of many Canadian con...

Our new paper ‘Wolverine in the slipstream: A systematic review of caribou-focused conservation benefits, gaps and uncertainties for wolverine in Canada’ is out! 🌠 🌠 🌠 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@stewartresearch.bsky.social
Matt Scrafford
@wcscanada.org

The WildCo Lab @wildco.bsky.social is recruiting 2 postdocs in quantitative ecology to work on mammal population estimation and monitoring from camera trap data. 🐺🐻🦌📷📈
Please share the word or apply to join us at UBC in lovely Vancouver, Canada!
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The Australasian Marsupial and Monotreme Specialist Group has a new Bluesky account! @aciucn.bsky.social @cgsg.bsky.social @uq-cbcs.bsky.social

Wild: A Family Guide to the Animal Kingdom (In Our Nature) Wild: A Family Guide to the Animal Kingdom (In Our Nature) [Ashby, Jack, Meadows, Sara Boccaccini] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Wild: A Family Guide to the Animal Kingdom (In Our Nature)

It's USA #PublicationDay for my kids book WILD! 🤩🎉
It encourages kids to spot similar features in completely different groups of animals, and to wonder why. Why are so many animals spiky?🦔 Or have white bellies and black backs?🐧 Or paddles?🦭 Or venom?🐍 Or eyes on tops of their heads?🐊 a.co/d/31fo6M4

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Big thank you for the great kickoff to the Laurier–ARI Spring Speaker Series! 70+ gathered at Makerspace YK to hear talks about snowfall on YK lakes ❄️ & muskox movement 🐂.

Next up: May 8 – permafrost & carbon in the Shield!
#Yellowknife #SCIENCE #Community

It's #InternationalPallasCatDay! Finding wild Pallas's cat was one of the most amazing experiences of the last year. It was hunting voles on a Himalayan plain, wriggling its tail - the only part of its body that isn't camouflaged - presumably to distract the voles. #MammalWatching #WildIndia #Ladakh

‘Endearing and fascinating’ yellow-bellied glider faces ‘inexorable slide’ into extinction Guardian Australia is highlighting the plight of our endangered native species during an election campaign that is ignoring broken environment laws and rapidly declining ecosystems * Explore the series – Last chance: the extinction crisis being ignored this election * Get Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an email Australia’s most skilled aerial mammal, the yellow-bellied glider, is on an “inexorable slide” to extinction as global heating creates more extreme bushfires that are robbing the species of the food and tree hollows it relies on to survive. Thanks to large parachutes of skin stretching from their wrists to their ankles, yellow-bellied gliders can travel up to 140 metres in a single jump, the furthest of any Australian mammal, including the larger and better known endangered greater glider. Continue reading...

‘Endearing and fascinating’ yellow-bellied glider faces ‘inexorable slide’ into extinction

For #science nerds wanting to read up on #penguin evolution + the millions of years that some penguin spp have been dealing with ice …

Their evolution is pre ice. They are tough. Birds that can go through interglacial/ glacial times (hothouse / icehouse 🔄) are tough. We can learn from penguins 🐧

‘Megafire’—You May Not Like It, But You Cannot Avoid It Aim The term ‘megafire’ is increasingly used to describe large fires worldwide. We proposed a size-based definition of megafire—fires exceeding 10,000 ha arising from single or multiple related igni.....

‘Megafire’ — you may not like it, but you can’t avoid it.
In our new paper, we argue why a clear, size-based definition (>10,000 ha) of megafire improves research, communication, and fire management globally. 🔥
Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

#wildfire #fire