🚨 New paper led by Mika Vermeulen in Wiley Ecology & Evolution using camera traps 📸 & temperature loggers🌡️to compare activity rates of mammals 🦓 between an area with 🦁 & without 🦁

In the presence of 🦁, prey species were active under ⬆️ heat loads🌡️🔥☀️

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Check out this amazing footage of a cuckoo female ejecting Daurian redstarts nestlings! The parents can be heard alarming while they watch their chicks being killed... Why would the cuckoo do this? This new paper led by Jinggang Zhang explains! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec… 1/8

Well done to Mika Vermeulen on acceptance of her first PhD paper , to be published in Ecology and Evolution soon! More details to follow. Jan A Venter 🇿🇦 robyn.hetem Wildlife Ecology Lab #HerveFritz

🔊 OPEN JOB POSITION: SPS seeks the next Editor-in-Chief for Acta Physiologica 🔊

Job description: bitly.ws/3eUgt

Deadline for application is 1st of May, at 23:59.

If you have any questions to the position, do not hesitate to contact us at: [email protected] 📧

Looking for a new challenge in #conservationtechnology ? Here is an amazing opportunity to work with a global partnership of organizations dedicated to supporting #protectedareas & conserved areas and improving conservation outcomes for #wildlife & #wildplaces #conservationjobs

I am really happy to say that I have officially started a new chapter at the University of Canterbury today. 😀
While it really has been a whirlwind couple of months, robyn.hetem, the kids, and I are settling in well!

I am thrilled to announce that the 7th IMCC: International Marine Conservation Congress is now accepting submissions for workshops, focus groups, and symposia!(Regular talk abstract submission will open in a few weeks, please stay tuned!)

Found some reading material for a long flight departing to Christchurch, New Zealand. Looking forward to getting stuck into this Sandra Swart

Having worked on Arabian oryx reintroduction projects in the Arabian Peninsula for several years, it is great to see a second oryx species recover from being extinct in the wild.

Our African Field School for Camera Trap Studies is running again next June-July! 📸🇿🇦🦁🐘

✅ Register your interest now to get a space on the course!

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The University of Pretoria is offering postdoctoral bursaries for next year. If you are interested in sub-Antarctic, savanna or grassland ecology, I have some exciting potential projects to work on. Please be in touch. up.ac.za/postdoctoral-r…

Reposting this position now with higher salary ($1400-$1700 CAD per week): come work with Brent Patterson and I, designing a large moose field research project focused on drivers of population decline. #WildlifeJobs #BiologyJobs #ConservationJobs gojobs.gov.on.ca/Preview.aspx?L…

Please repost. Call for abstracts for the much anticipated International Society for Behavioral Ecology Congress in Melbourne, Australia, is now open. Hop to it people and see you in Oz in 2024!

Check out these many great papers in 'Camera Traps and Food Web Ecology' special issue of Food Webs. Sloths, wolves, turkeys, crickets, coyotes, elephants, tapir, and more! Mike Cove

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My department is searching for a Postdoc Fellow that will convert to a tenure-track Asst Professor job after 1-2 years!

Do you use eDNA? Or remote sensing? Or modeling? Or field work? Do you study environmental science? Or paleoclimate? Or #BEAVERS ?

Our search is broad! Apply!

New on (also) European conservation science:

Inequity in Global N & S research relationships have negative impacts on Global S conservation scientists. Large % of studies done in Global South were led by Global North scientists.

Miller et al. Conservation Letters conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

JOB ADVERT: Associate Editor, Journal of Thermal Biology

Brief description: editorial management of the review process.

Background: thermal biology of animals (non-human)

Deadline: 15 Sept 2023

More info on job description and requirements:
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The deadline for the #AWMS2023 conference awards is fast approaching! Don't miss out – make sure to submit your applications by August 31st.

To find out more about the awards we grant visit: awms.org.au/Awards-We-Grant

Please share: 2 openings in my lab @ CU Boulder-postdoc and PhD student-leverage/develop cutting-edge quantitative tools to discover ecological consequences of animal decision-making in the face of environmental change gillab.org/join

📣I will soon announce two fully funded PhD positions in fish ecophysiology at Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg Naturvetenskap/GU. Start date late this year and I’ll post announcement here.

Tell your friends! 📣