Scientists Find Evidence of 1,000-Year-Old Parrot-Breeding Operation in the American Southwest gizmodo.com/scientists-fin… via @gizmodo

Interesting interview of conservation biologist Joel Berger, from Sarah Zhang theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

AI empowers conservation biology nature.com/articles/d4158…

Tracking #tortoises! Kevin Shoemaker and his project team at University of Nevada, Reno track tortoises across the desert with tools like radios and fluorescent powder to record data on the #climate resistance of the tortoise's reproductive #ecology. 🐢 go.usa.gov/xVvsh

How do we know when a species at risk has recovered? It's not just a matter of numbers theconversation.com/how-do-we-know… via The Conversation U.S.

This seems unreal: 8 years since I started Smith Fellows in Vancouver with Wendy Palen; 6 years since I ran the first Zonation models with Atte Moilanen in Helsinki. Our paper on tradeoffs between energy development and conservation in BC is finally here! rdcu.be/b3X2H

With an Internet of Animals, Scientists Aim to Track and Save Wildlife nytimes.com/2020/06/09/sci…

‘Mind blowing’: Grizzly bear DNA maps onto Indigenous language families science.org/content/articl…

Our new Ecology Letters paper reveals the mechanisms responsible for the population decline and #extinction of woolly mammoth. Evidence: Humans hastened declines by many millennia! Mammoths persisted in Arctic mainland refugia to the mid-Holocene! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/Q…

Useful papers on GLMMs 🤩🥳 @bolkerb doi.org/10.1016/j.tree… Bob O'Hara doi.org/10.5735/086.04… Matthew Silk dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.… Xav Harrison dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.… @LisaDeBruine @dalejbarr doi.org/10.1177%2F2515… See also GLMM FAQ by @bolkerb & others bbolker.github.io/mixedmodels-mi…

If you are in Reno March 9th, come join us at the Patagonia outlet for Science in Wild! This free event was organized by and will feature the research of NRES graduate students. Hope to see you there! UNR College of Ag, Biotech & Natural Resources

Our recently published letter shows that a major 2022 decision by USFWS - that the Gopher Tortoise is "not warranted" for listing across most of its range- was at least partially based on a flawed population model: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Watch real-time, 24/7 footage of North America's most endangered (and cutest) mammal: bit.ly/BFFCam

Taking down dams and letting the fish flow nyti.ms/2f9BMn0

Great footage of pygmy rabbits, their habitat, and their researchers from NSF Science 360! nsf.gov/news/special_r…

Help sequence the 1st prairie dog genome to combat disease! #science Click to donate via text text.gives/pdoggenome #pdoggenome

How conservationists in Myanmar brought the Burmese star tortoise back from being functionally extinct nyti.ms/2fTDsPN