Any advice on small (≤20 g), commercially available accelerometers for tracking fine-scale animal movement? Something that records continuously would be ideal! Retweets are much appreciated 🙏 #wildlifetag #movementtag #accelerometry #accelerometer #AcademicChatter

1/5. Make collider bias make sense. (I'll try) Conditioning on a collider (variable caused by outcome and predictor) induces a noncausal association between the predictor and outcome. But why?

The research I did during my MSc at CREEM_cake is out as a preprint! We (myself, Théo Michelot and Len Thomas) worked on a model that merges hidden Markov models with step selection functions (the HMM-SSF). 1/4 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The awesome Amy Van Cise joined our faculty this year, read about her research here: fish.uw.edu/2022/11/welcom…

Big project (and second 1st authored paper for me) now published! Fortunate to have worked with such great collaborators and on such extensive, valuable datasets. Stay tuned for the West Coast BIAs!

We're pleased to partner once again with Minorities in Shark Sciences (MISS) and Havenworth Coastal Conservation to offer the Eugenie Clark Field Research Skills and Leadership Program. Applications for this PAID internship due March 15.

Hot off the press! New publication on long-term associations of common bottlenose #dolphins with a fish farm in Hawaiʻi and impacts on other protected species, led by CRC's Annette Harnish @womeninmmsci tinyurl.com/526brw3z More details in the thread (1/n):

The 2023 edition of my long-running anti-establishment art-science-fusion code-therapy smooth-baritone causal inference & Bayesian data analysis course is complete. 20 lectures, from the basics of causal inference & Bayesian updating to mixed models & Gaussian processes. 1/2

New paper out in Landscape Ecology: The spatial scaling and individuality of habitat selection in a widespread ungulate 🦌 We found that selection coefficients varied widely, not only by spatial scale, but also by individual. doi.org/10.1007/s10980…

Help us choose names for some of the Sounders gray whales! We need to name 5 whales, including some regulars and newbies that have joined in recent years. Vote for your favorite name by April 2, 2023. Vote here: forms.gle/4Tuj3pzUQ8anEr… Orca Network #GrayWhales #PugetSound

1/n Yes! We deployed the 1st ever CATs suction-cup video tag on a false killer whale! Why are we doing this? 1. To determine the fine-scale behavior associated with foraging and prey-handling to guide strategies to mitigate depredation + hooking events youtube.com/watch?v=-o_CxQ…

Incredible new science by Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology #sharklab hypothesizing tropical scalloped hammerheads hold their breath to thermoregulate while deep diving! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The Ocean Ecology Lab and our partners at NOAA are looking for a quantitative postdoc to explore drivers of salmon marine survival (prey, predators, competitors, harvest, climate change) using structural equation models! Salary $57-60k. Please share! Deets: oceanecologylab.org/news/salmon-ma…

Join our lab! Fully funded MSc position studying bowhead whale diet and foraging ecology 🐋🔬🚢. Please RT.

📦R package hmmSSF now available on GitHub📦 github.com/NJKlappstein/h… To get started, check out a detailed example of the workflow in the vignette. This is work in progress, so please tell us if you have questions or feedback!

*** PLEASE SHARE WIDELY *** We are recruiting! Department Head - Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University. jobs.colostate.edu/postings/130480 Posting ID:  202300246F Full Consideration Date:  9/8/2023 Close Posting Date:  Open until filled

We have⭐️10 OPEN PHD POSITIONS⭐️ in Bioacoustics & AI in our new doctoral network! bioacousticai.eu Join my group at MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social to work on vocal interactions in animal groups using our #biologging datasets: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/f3e…

Highly recommend applying for this! Great experience and instructors.

1/9) Very excited to share that we have a new OA paper on rhythm in cetacean vocalizations in PNASNews! This was one of my favorite PhD thesis chapters. It continued to grow at MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics with @AndreaRavignani, and I'm happy it's finally out in the world. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…