Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭

We made the cover! First pub ever for @kalpapran.bsky.social from his MSc! Very enjoyable cosupervision with @antoniouzal.bsky.social Congrats to the team!🥳💪🍾

📖Published📖 An integrated model of territory occupancy and mark-recapture data for estimating spatial variation in survival 🌍 🧪 Read here 👇 buff.ly/LBO8zsG

"A push to reopen the door to commercial whaling failed at the recent meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) [...] leaving the IWC’s 40-year-old global moratorium on commercial whaling intact." 🥳

If you missed today's @rinpharma.bsky.social workshop, here are a few of my favourite "quick fixes" for some common #ggplot2 issues 📊 1. Use {ggview} to preview plots at the same size and resolution as you want to save them with ggsave() to avoid the annoying resizing #RStats #DataViz

Thirty young bearded vultures took flight in the Alps this year 🥳🥳 www-rts-ch.translate.goog/info/environ...

Higher wild boar abundance = more crop damage. But is more culling the answer? In Xishuangbanna, China, higher wild boar abundance was also linked to higher vertebrate richness, positive associations, and stable co-occurrence networks. Conflict-driven culling may have unintended ecological costs.

"Looking beyond hunted species to their habitats, hunting predominantly increased the extent of land conserved. We now need to understand the ecological integrity of these landscapes."

🚨Preprint alert! 🚨What if your study animal doesn't know the landscape yet? Standard movement models such as SSA assume it does. In our new study we let it learn instead, and put "learner" against "omniscient" head to head (1/4) doi.org/10.64898/202...

Happy to share results of the @bat1kgenomes.bsky.social phase 1, providing reference genomes covering 21 bat families. New insights into bat phylogeny, ancestral genome reconstruction, European origin & ancestral echolocation. Great work by a team of 100+ colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...

15 years after the last range-wide assessment of jaguar connectivity, landscapes are much changed A new study has found an extensive, highly connected core area, but also identified major connectivity gaps and threatened corridors 👇 https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.71093 📷 Emiliano Ramalho

Maternal status of female leopards drives spatio-temporal interactions between the sexes  academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

The original study the article is based on in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Another story of mine that just went online for @newscientist.com. The first completely new species of cat to be named in a century - the tilcayo, a type of tiger cat from Bolivia. Isn't it lovely? #cats 🧪 🐈🦊 🐅 www.newscientist.com/article/2589...

Pathways to recover Asian wild pigs from African swine fever www.nature.com/articles/s44...

📖 Published📖 A method to estimate actual infrastructure-induced mortality by integrating hierarchical sources of imperfect detection 🧪 📈 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/1CLbCww

Apparently the commander of the International Space Station brought her dancing pants to space with her

New website up and running!🥳 Français fatbear.bio English fatbear.bio/en/

A plan to send #rhinos to #Australia has been scrapped and the money raised for it redirected to African projects www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

📖 Identification of camera trap images by artificial intelligence and human experts produces similar multi-species occupancy models 📸 🔎 Find out more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

South Africa's Constitutional Court ends Shell’s Wild Coast oil and gas lifeline in victory for coastal communities www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...

Most shark and ray species have <1% of their range covered by no-take MPAs. New open access in @consletters.bsky.social: Sharks, Rays, & MPAs: a global assessment of MPA coverage in national waters across species ranges tinyurl.com/SharkRayMPA @nickdulvy.bsky.social @jaymatsushiba.bsky.social

Predicting disease spread from host movement data: Chronic wasting disease in North America as a case study🦌 🌳 🦠 🔎 Read more: buff.ly/A7zIr3L

Duh.

Subsidiary Q: Do some preprints out there eventually never get accepted and published in a PR journal? I would think so, and if so, what's the point beyond cluttering science?

Honest Q Has any1 evr got a preprint eventually published as is? I mean,as flawed as peer-review might be,I'm expecting substantial changes btwn the submitted v of a MS & its final published v,if not (desk)rejected 2 start with Askin 4 a frnd who nvr got the concept of preprints that stay up 4ever

Q&A: Does the world need 'carbon-capture and storage' to reach net-zero? Described by IPCC as "critical", it has repeatedly fallen short Today, it captures just 0.2% of global CO2 from fossil fuels Great piece by my @carbonbrief.org colleague @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social www.carbonbrief.org/...

“This is a structural issue in society,” a Spanish firefighter said, about worsening wildfires across Europe. “We’ve turned our backs on the mountains, on nature—and cities have never been so affected by it.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

New blog post! Odds ratios are...a bit weird. Here I explain two problems (interpretation, non-collapsibility) and provide some simple recommendations for improved reporting. www.the100.ci/2026/07/30/r...

🆕 in "Ecology": what marking nearly 1,700 bees reveals about their movement across the landscape

🦏🤝Familiarity and aggression shape long-term associations and mortality risk in a solitary ungulate 📷Jenny Hishin vist.ly/5czgc #BlackRhinoceros #DicerosBicornis #Fitness #Groups #Offspring #Social #SolitaryLiving

There could be fewer leopards living across sub-Saharan Africa than previously believed, according to a new NTU-led study which has analysed suitable habitat and conditions. Just published in the @jappliedecology.bsky.social www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Very interesting research! 💭 You can find the full article here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

The deadliest myth regarding the pangolin is the persistent, unscientific belief in the healing powers of its carapace. Despite the keratin scales having the same remedial properties as human nails, traditional Chinese homeopathic medicine underpins the robust demand for illegal pangolin body parts.

Ah cool! I've done the same before for base R vs tidyverse: emitanaka.org/rsyntax/data...

Here's a useful page with a **ton** of common tasks in #RStats, done with parallel syntax for tidyverse vs. data.table vs. base. arelbundock.com/posts/dt_tb_... #rdatatable #tidyverse

A recent study analyzed three years of videos from camera traps on canopy bridges in Costa Rica. Researchers found that usage of the crossings increased over time with different species displaying a stronger preference for certain designs. Read more: news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

One of those little academic victories 😁

Tajikistan’s markhor population has rebounded from a few hundred to more than 7,000 after years of conservation work https://ow.ly/N6bK50Zmqto #Tajikistan #Markhor #WildlifeConservation #Biodiversity #EndangeredSpecies #WildlifeRecovery

Check it out Quantitative targets for leopard conservation in sub‐Saharan Africa - Patowary - 2026 - Journal of Applied Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @fatbear-bio.bsky.social @fattebertj.bsky.social

Most of the statistical tests you learned in stats class — t-test, ANOVA, correlation — are actually special cases of a single thing: linear regression. Ch 7 of Experimentology argues that thinking in models, not tests, is more flexible and a better foundation for theory. 🧵 experimentology.io

Relationship between home range and population density in mammals: the role of sociality, territoriality and habitat dimensionality vist.ly/59eid

🧵 Have you ever wondered how far an animal can actually travel? We did, and the answer will blow your mind. 1/4 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

President Moetai Brotherson announced an expansion of marine protections, placing 30% of French Polynesia’s waters under full protection from industrial fishing and seabed mining. The 1.4 million-sq-km (540,500 mi2) reserve shields critically endangered sharks, marine mammals, and seabirds.