Rob Davis
Postdoc - University of Cumbria, UK 🇬🇧🇺🇬🐾📸 • carnivore ecology 🦁🐆 • camera trapping 📸 • UK/African wildlife 🦊🦡🦔 • Chelsea FC ⚽🔵
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- Reposted by Rob Davis📢 Competition funded PhD with @iapetusdtp.bsky.social: Occupancy, density & the ecology of terrestrial British mammals - what can years of systematic camera trapping tell us? Apply by 5th January 2026. 👇 iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... @mammalweb.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk #phd
- A great opportunity for anyone looking to develop their skills with movement data and spatial analysis! 🗺️📊 Julien (@fatbear-bio.bsky.social 🐻) has delivered this course twice at NMU and it's been hugely beneficial for our students and external participants! Plus... NAMIBIA! 🤩🇳🇦
- 📢COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT📢 Katima, Namibia, February 2026 🐻📊Join FatBear's Applied Movement Data Analysis in R courses for wildlife grad students & practitioners. Beginners & R users welcome 🌍📈 Info and registration: fatbearbio.weebly.com/workshops.html 🐾
- Reposted by Rob DavisThere are 3 exciting postdoctoral openings to work on biodiversity research, monitoring and conservation with us at UBC - check them out! 2 positions: biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... 1 position: science-bcbiodiversitynetwork-2025.sites.olt.ubc.ca/opportunities/
- Reposted by Rob DavisTo “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
- Reposted by Rob DavisOut today, a companion article for my autoOcc R package: Estimating species occupancy across multiple sampling seasons with autologistic occupancy models via the autoOcc R package. #rstats 🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Rob Davis🦔📉Habitat and predator heterogeneity influence density of a declining mammal 📷 © 1 Emily Clark 2 Hongli Yu vist.ly/4c62s #ErinaceusEuropaeus #LandscapesOfFear #MelesMeles #PopulationEcology #SpatialCaptureRecapture #SpatiotemporalCovariateHeterogeneity
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- Reposted by Rob Davis📣📣📣 CONSERVATION GENETICS WORKSHOP - Few more spaces left! ConGen Population Genomic Data Analysis Course 🧬💻💡 University of Pretoria, South Africa 🌍 7-14 December + field trip to Kruger NP! 🦁🐃🐘🐆🦏 More info & registration here: www.umt.edu/congen/africa/
- Congratulations to Hongli Yu for leading this huge effort investigating hedgehog density over an 11-year period from Brackenhurst Campus, Nottinghamshire nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... We estimated 🦔 density between 2009-2022, accounting for habitat features & 🦡 presence
- Reposted by Rob DavisTFW your student wins the award for the best MSc talk at the conference! Go Yasmin! Cc @robdavis1104.bsky.social
- A blog post on our recent Mostela paper looking at the methods' applicability for small carnivore monitoring!
- Happy to share our new paper estimating lion density in Pilanesberg National Park 🇿🇦 and assessing optimal sampling guidelines for improved monitoring efficiency 🦁 wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #mammals
- Really happy to share our new paper exploring the Mostela as a monitoring tool for African small carnivores! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Reposted by Rob Davis📝 Are you using multispecies occupancy models to investigate interactions in species occupancy (i.e. co-occurrence)? 🦁🦓 Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️
- Happy to share our new paper, led by Cornelia Warrer, investigating large carnivore snaring rates & drivers of snare occurrence across Kruger NP! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We found that carnivores were highly susceptible to being caught in snares & predicted snaring hotspots in Kruger
- Awful photos but a great sighting (before the photos 😆) of caracal on the way to the office this morning! 🤩 Not a bad "commute"! 😊 #caracal #mammals #SouthAfrica
- Happy #InternationalLeopardDay! 🐆 I didn't get to see a leopard today, but I'm lucky enough to get to work on projects involving them and got to spend today hiking in Cape leopard country in the Outeniqua Mountains 🤩🐆⛰️🏞️
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- Reposted by Rob DavisLast call for expressions of interest in a Quantitative Ecology post-doc based mostly in South Africa. If you are interested, drop Lourens and me a line 👇 www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaxqx...
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- Reposted by Rob DavisGreat to have our paper out on community-camera-trapping: an innovative conservation incentive approach where local communities monitor their wildlife & generate points, which are translated into locally-chosen community benefits onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Applications are open for the African Research Fellowship - a grant of up to $1,750 offered by the American Society of Mammalogists to support African graduate students! A nice opportunity to get funds for equipment & field costs! Apply by the 15th April! 👇 www.mammalsociety.org/index.php/co...
- A proud supervisor moment yesterday as my MSc student, Marna Visagie, presented her study on carnivore densities from Tswalu Kalahari Reserve at #ecm9 in 🇬🇷 Presenting for the 1st time at an international conference & representing the #WildlifeEcologyLab Thanks @timhofmeester.bsky.social for the 📸
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- Reposted by Rob DavisOur datapaper "Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles" is now online on #ScientificData: nature.com/articles/s41... #RoadEcology @ebdonana.bsky.social
- Julien came and taught a shorter version of this workshop last September for our MSc/PhD students - the course was a massive help for them & all our students are now progressing well with their spatial data analysis! 🤩🗺️ Sign up for the full course & also see our beautiful George Campus! 🐾🌿🌲🇿🇦 👇
- Reposted by Rob DavisLooking for your first quantitative ecology post-doc? Then get in touch. I will be co-supervising a post-doc with Lourens Swanepoel (based in SA: @Univenofficial). You will have access to many awesome data sets and the focus will be on applying hierarchical models.
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- We're running our #cameratrap course again! 🇿🇦📸🐆 This time from the #GreaterKruger, the course will give participants a fantastic mix of practical & analytical modules to become a camera trapping pro! 📸💻🐘🦏🐾 More info can be found here: wildecolabdotcom.wordpress.com/courses Please share widely! 🤩
- It's always an amazing & lucky sighting if you see an #aardvark! 🤩 But this night drive in #MountainZebra NP really delivered! Aardvark, 3x aardwolf, brown hyaena, bat-eared fox! Such an undervisited & amazing park! 🇿🇦🦓 Especially if you like the often overlooked species! 😊 #mammals
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- Reposted by Rob DavisI am recruiting two funded graduate students (1 MS, 1 PhD) to join the lab and the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences program at Oregon State University! If you are into population ecology and a combination of fieldwork and modeling - then check this out! Please share/repost widely!
- Starting a petition to call these two lynx Voodoo and Java! 🤣 @apartridgeqotd.bsky.social #Lynx #Rewilding #Conservation #Wildlife www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- Note to self: do more camera trapping work on wine estates... 📸🍷 • They're beautiful 🤩🌿🌾 • There's cool wildlife 🐾 • You can buy good wine when you've finished 🍷🥂 #cameratraps #SouthAfrica
- Seems there are some Botswanan #elephants in South Africa that don't care about fences! 🤣🐘🇿🇦 Elephants and potholes, a true African road in SA! 😆 On the R572 to Mapungubwe NP! 🐘 #Mammals
- A beautiful place to watch a lion (if you can spot it!) with the Waterberg Mountains in the background! 🤩🦁🐾🇿🇦 #Mammals #Wildlife #Lion #SouthAfrica #Nature
- Seems like elephants object to small carnivore monitoring! 🤣😤 Elephants 🐘 - 1 Mostela 📸 - 0 A nice trunk selfie at least for the trouble! 🤣🐘 #mammals #conservationscience 🌍 #elephants
- Wow! Amazing opportunity here for South Africa based 🇿🇦 researchers to develop their quantitative skills! 🤩💻 Two workshops: • An intro to stats in R • Applied hierarchical modelling The course is FREE! These opportunities rarely come about in 🇿🇦, so share widely & sign up! #conservationscience 🌍
- Very cool that you're running this @chrissuthy.bsky.social and hope it's a great success! 😁
- An interesting/depressing situation in Madikwe GR 🇿🇦 where overpopulation (~2 🐘 per km²) & bush encroachment has led to limited resources & widespread starvation But what to do about it when most SA reserves are also at 🐘 capacity & culling is so controversial? #mammals nspca.co.za/madikwe-game...
- Reposted by Rob DavisThere are a bunch of interaction models out there, when should you think about using this one? Check out our flow diagram to help you decide! (13/13) Please share widely and contact me if you can't access the paper!
- Reposted by Rob DavisAre you interested in species interactions and how we model them? Then this thread is for you! Our new paper in Ecology on the role of abundance in species interactions provides new statistical tools for modelling species interactions. shorturl.at/Sqz9m 🧵(1/13)🧵
- Reposted by Rob Davis🦁🦁🦁 We are seeking a Research Technician to assist our South Texas Lion Project! Work duties include maintaining our camera traps, investigating kill sites, and participating in lion work-ups. A phenomenal opportunity in the South Texas brush country. See below for more: shorturl.at/aftKp 🦁🦁🦁
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