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#NewPaper by members of WildCAM: We synthesized data from 446 #cameratraps📷across 10 landscapes in western Canada, finding limited support for the “human shield hypothesis”🛡️that outdoor recreation🥾would repel predators 🐺and attract prey🦌...1/4

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Need to set #cameratraps where there are no trees? No problem! @wildco.bsky.social on Bluesky members got creative with some high elevation sets in alpine ecosystems this summer (📷: Cole Burton & Zoe Konanz) Who else has some "unconventional" camera sets to share? 👀

WildCo PI Cole Burton was recently part of a feature on CBC News The National about increasing conflicts between people and black bears. Watch for WildCo #cameratrap images that are helping us learn more about bear behaviours in changing environments cbc.ca/player/play/22…

Great read from Mitch Fennell! Mitchell's work used camera trap data to create spatiotemporal models and investigate potential interactions between human recreational activity and habitat use of eight different mammals in the region. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Check out this paper on wildlife activity during COVID, written by (current and former) members of WildCo along with >200 of their closest camera-trapping friends!

Check out the latest issue of @ubcforestry Branchlines for this great feature on WildCo research assistant Liam Brennan 📷🦌🐻(and other cool stories too!) issuu.com/ubcforestry/do…

Congratulations Katie! Great work 🙌

Hiring a coordinator for a state-wide camera trapping program to monitor mammals in NY. Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. More details: tinyurl.com/36nftspn Please share/forward.

📣#NEWPAPER (+website!) with great guidance for making grants more equitable & inclusive for early career ecologists. Led by former @wildco.bsky.social on Bluesky @ubcforestry postdocs Catherine Sun 孫繼光 💫 & @granadosAlys with Chris Beirne Cole Burton + fantastic coauthors + funding from CIEE-ICEE

In February we lost our dear friend and colleague, Aisha Uduman, to a rare form of brain cancer (diffuse midline glioma). Aisha was a wonderful human and inspired so many of us in so many ways. 1/5

She was one of the first @wildco.bsky.social on Bluesky graduate students and completed innovative, interdisciplinary thesis research on the conservation of endangered Sri Lankan leopards, considering both the animals and the people living alongside them. 2/5

Aisha continued to pursue her passion for protecting wildlife and making the world a better place as a species at risk biologist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada. A testament to her impact is seen in the recent naming of a humpback whale in her honour: instagram.com/p/C7PJowhNZQ5/ 3/5

Aisha left us too soon, but lives on in our hearts & minds. I am comforted that her memory will be honoured through the Aisha S. Uduman Memorial Fund, celebrating her passion for wildlife & environment by providing support for other graduate students in @ubcforestry. 4/5

Please consider donating to Aisha’s memorial fund and/or sharing it with others who may be in a position to do so. It is a fitting tribute to a wonderful woman. give.ubc.ca/memorial/aisha… 5/5

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💼 HIRING: The Wildlife Coexistence Lab (@wildco.bsky.social on Bluesky) at #UBCForestry is hiring for a Research Assistant. 📅 Apply by August 26th: forestry.ubc.ca/career-opportu…

Cheers 🍻 to our cheerful and inspiring #postdoc Laura Griffin , who has been researching impacts of pine beetle on caribou (with Laura Finnegan, PhD fRI Research ) + spotting goats + checking #cameratraps + mentoring grad students +++. Thank you! 🙌#PostdocAppreciationWeek @forestry.ubc.ca on Bluesky