Miguel Silva

Trump bought the Argentina election by threatening to withhold U.S. funds unless his preferred candidate won. We can’t let the same playbook unfold here next week. Trump and his administration have already been making threats about the upcoming U.S. elections, and the warning signs are clear.

1 week left to apply to our Postdoc job with our lab using AI to analyze camera trap images at the NC Museum of Natural sciences and NCSU and in collaboration with Wildlife Insights https:/​/​jobs.ncsu.edu/​postings/​223025

Two B&W camera trap images of the same snow leopard 23 days apart, but showing a strikingly similar pose, with the animal bent down sniffing the same small patch of ground (likely a regular scrape). Image (c) Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation / Snow Leopard Trust.

*Seeing double*

Nope, these images are not the same, or even from the same image sequence! They were taken 23 days apart, with raging snow storms & high winds between them.

#Snowleopards are creatures of habit, regularly coming back to the same tiny patches of ground to see who's been around.

Then that’s a really really large fish 😂

🐆🐆 Aaaaand we have another M.S. position available!! This position represents an opportunity to study ocelot genomics in the context of an active reintroduction effort. Deadline is June 1 for an August start 🐆🐆

Position posting is here: shorturl.at/o4dTA

Thanks to great feedback on our code review preprint, there’s now a Shiny app to go with it:

An interactive checklist that lets you export your review as .md to edit, archive, or share.

github.com/fhillemann/c...

🧪 #OpenScience #SORTEEtools #CodeReview #OpenSource

You are incredible!!! Thank you so much!

It straight out violates existing law on how NSF works. The FAQ literally says "ignore part 7 of the law establishing NSF's congressional mandate."

That part is about DEI.

a blue dumpster is on fire and smoke is coming out of it with a sign on the side that says " no smoking " ALT: a blue dumpster is on fire and smoke is coming out of it with a sign on the side that says " no smoking "

🧪 Today’s Science News:

1) NSF starts sending out grant cancelations.

2) WTF NSF Guidance on Broader Impacts

3) covid.gov

4) NIH budget slash leaked.

Did I miss anything?

Join your local protest on April 19th. Spread the word.

Just came across this, did you happen to make a mesocarnivore pack? Would love to be included to that or this one if possible

Promoting urban biodiversity for the benefit of people and nature - Nature Reviews Biodiversity Urban biodiversity underpins ecosystem services in cities, but faces multiple pressures from human activities, declining engagement of urban residents with nature, and inadequate governance systems. T...

New Review out this week:
Promoting urban biodiversity for the benefit of people and nature
go.nature.com/4l4wcQs 🌎🧪

Excited to share our open, global dataset on #roadkills of terrestrial vertebrates—a monumental collaborative effort compiling 208,570 records from 54 countries to support #OpenScience & to analyze roadkill risk, wildlife vulnerability, & infrastructure ecology research worldwide.

The #2025MMM Championship Battle: PUMA (Puma concolor) vs POLAR BEAR (Ursus maritimus)! A BATTLE OF TWO HYPER-CARNIVORES!!!!

🚨Job alert🚨
Interested in camera traps, remote sensing and AI? 🦌🌿🛰️🌍
Our Conservation Technology group is growing!
We are hiring a fully funded (2 years) postdoc working on the interface between camera traps, satellite remote sensing, and AI.

Deadline extended: Are you a recent college graduate interested in research? Please consider applying to the #NSF CHANGE #RaMP program NDSU! Participants engage in one year, hands-on research experiences. $32,500

For more information, including potential projects: www.ndsu.edu/researchgrou...

As an ecologist seeking to use ML/AI in my research, this is incredibly helpful! Thank you!!🙏

I started to put together a starter pack for research in AI+Ecology, check it out and let me know if you would like to be added!

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Things relatively easy to debug in R: integer, factor, character, numeric, matrix, logical, data.frame, and list. Thing not easy to debug in R: datetime objects.

Once again on that date/time grind set while cleaning #cameratrapping data. #rstats

Would love to be included if there’s still space!

What kind of data come into the model? I can see that Simón Bolivar isn’t really where I would have drawn it on a map, however most of these are at least encompassing the relevant areas which is cool!

This is crazy! 🤯 though can it ever be accurate or is the idea just for a “rough idea” to then help narrow down surveys?

I created this stater pack with women in ecology and evolution.
If you want to be added you can comment or DM me, but also please suggest the names of those I am missing 🧪🌎🌐

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New paper: the risk disturbance literature is full of examples of humans changing animal behavior, but how often do these changes affect populations or communities? TLDR it’s much muddier than you might expect. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

(please amplify) 4% of scientists face an important barrier to an the ENTIRE FIELD of single-cell genomics and here is why

this is the cover of the report on the large carnivore distribution maps and population updates.

With the LCIE we produced new maps on the distribution of large carnivores across Europe, also including updated population size estimates for each population, and in each country.

lciepub.nina.no/pdf/63867050...

Acabo de crear un starter-pack para ecologós en América Latina - !!! favor de sugerir más gente !!!!
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If Donald Trump went back to reality TV? 😭