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Anthony Caravaggi
@thonoir.bsky.social
Course Leader BSc (Hons) International Wildlife Biology @ Uni South Wales | research vertebrates | conservation ecology | dad | nerd | lifter | part-time manticore | he/him 🌍🌎🌎
Gotta love AI sometimes. I was looking for the URL for one of my papers (a commentary on reporting ethics for live capture studies) and Google told me this:
October 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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📌Welcome to the bat-feed! A place for posts by bat-scientists, ecologists, photographers etc.

DM me to ask to be added as a contributor. Then use the 🦇 emoji for posts you want to show up in the feed. Rules in the next post:

bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 27, 2024 at 3:25 PM
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Decoding Owl Calls: Refining Occupancy Inference From Passive Acoustic Monitoring | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
October 13, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Let’s set aside the question of whether these edited animals *are* the species they’re claimed to be - what possible argument would there BE for releasing them into a wild that isn’t the ecosystem they went extinct from? It would likely be condemning behaviorally-unequipped animals to slow death.
One of the world’s most important nature groups is weighing a call for a temporary ban on allowing genetically engineered plants or animals, such as canines edited to appear like extinct “dire wolves,” from being released into the wild.
These animals are extinct. This vote would make sure they stay that way in the wild.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature, a top conservation group, is weighing a moratorium on unleashing genetically modified plants or animals into the wild.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I've had quite a few students try to use ChatGPT to do their stats but there were serious errors in literally every instance because they didn't know how to do the stats and coding in the first place. I still plan to teach R and stats, supported with the supervised and informed use of AI.
Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...
Statistics in the era of AI
How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?
scienceforeveryone.science
October 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Come and have fun with me!
#seabirds
Assistant Journal Editor position on our ExComm! Description ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/files/Assist...

Apply by sending max. 200 words to [email protected] explaining why you're interested 🤩

[Arctic skua egg image: Danni Thompson]

#seabirds #SEABIRDJournal #science
October 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
October 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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More evidence of bats chasing down and eating migratory birds at night 🦇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight
Despite billions of passerines seasonally migrating during the night at high altitudes, only three bat species have been found to consistently tap into this rich prey resource. However, it remains unk...
www.science.org
October 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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This is important.
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
nyti.ms
October 9, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Asscoiate Editor: "One of the reviewers has identified many serious problems in your manuscript"

Reviewer: "The study design is sound, my major comments revolve around more information required about the methods, and a few thoughts on the analysis."

AEs, do better!
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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🚨New Paper!🚨

Does a wildlife-aircraft collision cause a strike event with other wildlife species? We wanted to find out! ✈️

Have a read:
wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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July 31, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Having some grub at Chapter with @thonoir.bsky.social. Like old times, but more bass apparently
February 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Wild (non-political) story about how a couple of orcas fucked around and triggered a trophic cascade. I’m fascinated by these sorts of tales, in which *individual* animals, not just wildlife populations, prove powerful enough to alter ecosystems.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Awe-inspiring and harrowing’: how two orcas with a taste for liver decimated the great white shark capital of the world
A decade ago, up to 1,000 of the apex predators lived in one South African bay. Now they have gone, fleeing from killer whales. But the gap they have left creates problems for other species
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Has anyone from the UK taken out travel insurance specifically for #cameratraps? If so, do you have any advice? They're going in additional luggage but I'm unsure as to the level of insurance needed.
January 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Labour’s desperation for growth at all costs including the environment and climate. They’ll fail on all fronts. They’ll be a one term government and let the Tories straight back into Downing Street. This’ll be a very damaging and wasted five years.
January 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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1/ New #BTOScience using tracking data shows Nightingales breeding in the UK overwinter in a very small area of West Africa. This unusual degree of migratory connectivity has implications for conservation of this fast-declining species. Read the #OpenAccess paper➡️ bit.ly/nightingale-... #Ornithology
January 29, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Preliminary results of a pilot program in the Peruvian Amazon providing communities with unconditional conservation basic income (CBI) payments show that the communities have stopped engaging in unsustainable or illegal forest activities. 🌍

news.mongabay.com/2025/01/earl...
Early results suggest communities stop logging during basic income pilot project
Three Indigenous communities in Peru’s Amazon are no longer engaging in unsustainable or illegal forest activities to make ends meet as they complete one year of a conservation basic income (CBI) pilo...
news.mongabay.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪🌍🦤🧬
#consgen #PopGen
Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss - Nature
A comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity covering more than three decades of research demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation i...
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I've shut down X and Facebook and I missed my sci peeps so thought I'd try to pick things up again. Throw me follows, engagement tips, etc. and help me get going. Plz? Kthanx.
January 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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We often hear about the risks of trees in schools - falling branches or kids falling out of them - but trees can be highly beneficial for children's mental & physical health - and improve learning outcomes 🧪🌏
January 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I'm getting more and more of these AI-generated job invitations via email and WhatsApp. Grumble.
November 29, 2024 at 10:31 AM
Does anyone else take ridiculous pleasure in developing nice plots? This one has incrementally improved over the last few days. Coded in base #Rstats. Anything else that I could do?
October 22, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Just back from seeing #TheWildRobot. I'm in the minority apparently but it was... fine. Gorgeous and well acted but totally lacked the heart of the book. Indy enjoyed it but was making the same observations on the drive back.
October 20, 2024 at 1:24 PM