Miguel Silva
@miguelwildlife.bsky.social
PhD Student at Michigan State University | latino | tropical mammal distribution forecasting #SDMs | global change & community ecology | outdoors for all | he/him/él 🇻🇪🇺🇸
📍Occupied Anishnaabeg, Ojibwe, Odawa & Potawatomi Land
📍Occupied Anishnaabeg, Ojibwe, Odawa & Potawatomi Land
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Miguel Silva
@miguelwildlife.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Introduction time!
Hi! My name is Miguel and I’m a PhD student at Michigan State in Lydia Beaudrot’s lab, with a focus on tropical mammal community & macroecology. I’m mostly interested in using novel species distribution modeling methods to evaluate where species will shift to in the coming years.
Hi! My name is Miguel and I’m a PhD student at Michigan State in Lydia Beaudrot’s lab, with a focus on tropical mammal community & macroecology. I’m mostly interested in using novel species distribution modeling methods to evaluate where species will shift to in the coming years.
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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.
October 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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.
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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
October 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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
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*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.
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.
September 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
*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.
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.
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🐆🐆 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
Position posting is here: shorturl.at/o4dTA
May 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🐆🐆 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
Position posting is here: shorturl.at/o4dTA
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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
An interactive checklist that lets you export your review as .md to edit, archive, or share.
github.com/fhillemann/c...
🧪 #OpenScience #SORTEEtools #CodeReview #OpenSource
May 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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
An interactive checklist that lets you export your review as .md to edit, archive, or share.
github.com/fhillemann/c...
🧪 #OpenScience #SORTEEtools #CodeReview #OpenSource
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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.
That part is about DEI.
2/ value it appears to leave NSF basically intact. And the DEI criteria are not as severe as at other agencies. Obviously things can change on a dime in this admin. But some other players were clearly involved here. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Updates on NSF Priorities
www.nsf.gov
April 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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.
That part is about DEI.
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🧪 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?
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?
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 "
media.tenor.com
April 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
🧪 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?
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?
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Join your local protest on April 19th. Spread the word.
April 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Join your local protest on April 19th. Spread the word.
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New Review out this week:
Promoting urban biodiversity for the benefit of people and nature
go.nature.com/4l4wcQs 🌎🧪
Promoting urban biodiversity for the benefit of people and nature
go.nature.com/4l4wcQs 🌎🧪
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...
go.nature.com
March 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
New Review out this week:
Promoting urban biodiversity for the benefit of people and nature
go.nature.com/4l4wcQs 🌎🧪
Promoting urban biodiversity for the benefit of people and nature
go.nature.com/4l4wcQs 🌎🧪
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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.
April 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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.
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🚨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.
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.
January 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
🚨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.
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.
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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...
For more information, including potential projects: www.ndsu.edu/researchgrou...
NDSU ramp | NDSU
www.ndsu.edu
January 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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...
For more information, including potential projects: www.ndsu.edu/researchgrou...
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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!
go.bsky.app/8zugFF6
go.bsky.app/8zugFF6
December 4, 2024 at 6:35 PM
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!
go.bsky.app/8zugFF6
go.bsky.app/8zugFF6
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Once again on that date/time grind set while cleaning #cameratrapping data. #rstats
December 13, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Once again on that date/time grind set while cleaning #cameratrapping data. #rstats
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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 🧪🌎🌐
go.bsky.app/8jFH7cS
If you want to be added you can comment or DM me, but also please suggest the names of those I am missing 🧪🌎🌐
go.bsky.app/8jFH7cS
November 30, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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 🧪🌎🌐
go.bsky.app/8jFH7cS
If you want to be added you can comment or DM me, but also please suggest the names of those I am missing 🧪🌎🌐
go.bsky.app/8jFH7cS
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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....
June 23, 2024 at 11:21 PM
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....
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(please amplify) 4% of scientists face an important barrier to an the ENTIRE FIELD of single-cell genomics and here is why
November 25, 2024 at 3:22 PM
(please amplify) 4% of scientists face an important barrier to an the ENTIRE FIELD of single-cell genomics and here is why
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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...
lciepub.nina.no/pdf/63867050...
November 13, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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...
lciepub.nina.no/pdf/63867050...
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Acabo de crear un starter-pack para ecologós en América Latina - !!! favor de sugerir más gente !!!!
go.bsky.app/BdhnF3f
go.bsky.app/BdhnF3f
November 12, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Acabo de crear un starter-pack para ecologós en América Latina - !!! favor de sugerir más gente !!!!
go.bsky.app/BdhnF3f
go.bsky.app/BdhnF3f
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If you're new to BlueSky or are struggling to find the people you follow on Twitter, here's a browser extension that searches the followers for you!: www.sky-follower-bridge.dev/get-started....
Sky Follower Bridge
Instantly find and follow the same users from your 𝕏 followers on Bluesky
www.sky-follower-bridge.dev
November 19, 2024 at 10:07 PM
If you're new to BlueSky or are struggling to find the people you follow on Twitter, here's a browser extension that searches the followers for you!: www.sky-follower-bridge.dev/get-started....
If you're new to BlueSky or are struggling to find the people you follow on Twitter, here's a browser extension that searches the followers for you!: www.sky-follower-bridge.dev/get-started....
Sky Follower Bridge
Instantly find and follow the same users from your 𝕏 followers on Bluesky
www.sky-follower-bridge.dev
November 19, 2024 at 10:07 PM
If you're new to BlueSky or are struggling to find the people you follow on Twitter, here's a browser extension that searches the followers for you!: www.sky-follower-bridge.dev/get-started....
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We have a starter pack for scientists using camera traps! 📸 If you work with camera trap data in any way, either collecting data, running ecological models, training CV/ML models, let me know I’ll add you to this list 🎉 go.bsky.app/CbJkbVw
November 16, 2024 at 2:41 AM
We have a starter pack for scientists using camera traps! 📸 If you work with camera trap data in any way, either collecting data, running ecological models, training CV/ML models, let me know I’ll add you to this list 🎉 go.bsky.app/CbJkbVw
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btw these large scary math symbols are just for-loops
November 17, 2024 at 6:39 PM
btw these large scary math symbols are just for-loops