Tim R. Hofmeester🐾📷🎶

Wildlife biologist @SLUwildresearch | Human-wildlife coexistence | #CitSci | #Mustelids | #tech4wildlife | @RSECJournal @MammBiol | #BiInSci 🏳️‍🌈 He/him

[Tim R. Hofmeester🐾📷🎶 @TimHofmeester]

New paper alert 🚨

Mustelid mugshots: photographing facial masks of European polecats (Mustela putorius) for individual recognition and density estimation using camera traps @MammRes

With Nadine Erath, Jeroen Mos and Henrik Thurfjell

1/7
https://t.co/3yCXbk6ApO

[Tim R. Hofmeester🐾📷🎶 @TimHofmeester]

Just wanted to highlight there are still a few days left to apply to this two year postdoc position combining satellite remote sensing, camera trapping and AI.

[Tim R. Hofmeester🐾📷🎶 @TimHofmeester]

For more info on the postdoc position and how to apply, see this link

https://t.co/aakavmHaeg

[Tim R. Hofmeester🐾📷🎶 @TimHofmeester]

For more info on the postdoc position and how to apply, see this link

https://t.co/aakavmHaeg

[Tim R. Hofmeester🐾📷🎶 @TimHofmeester]

🚨Job alert🚨

Our Conservation Technology group is growing!

We are currently hiring a fully funded doctoral student (4 yrs) with a large focus on passive acoustic monitoring of birds and bats, and a 2 yr postdoc focussing on camera trapping, satellite remote sensing and AI.

[Tim R. Hofmeester🐾📷🎶 @TimHofmeester]

For more info on the PhD position and how to apply, see this link

https://t.co/ZsfRtd0RLG

[Tim R. Hofmeester🐾📷🎶 @TimHofmeester]

A few more days to apply. In case you are doubting if you should apply: We are a growing department working on wildlife conservation and sustainable wildlife management. There are great funding opportunities to work on wildlife in Sweden and Umeå is a great city to be based at.

[Tim R. Hofmeester🐾📷🎶 @TimHofmeester]

We are growing our team working on quantitative methods to study wildlife/game populations and are now recruiting a researcher for a permanent! position in Umeå. Anyone with a PhD can apply, but some postdoc experience will likely be beneficial.

https://t.co/1ax4eSlnaA

[Mahdieh Tourani @TouraniMa]

📢I am recruiting a PhD student in applied quantitative ecology .@FCFCMontana .@umontana to work on large mammal monitoring. More information: https://t.co/i9VGQnWuVV

[Tim R. Hofmeester🐾📷🎶 @TimHofmeester]

We are looking for someone with experience with Bayesian hierarchical models and Integrated Population Models.

The position will entail grant writing and leading projects, but as a start, we have two projects on which the successful candidate will work, one involving me.

[Tim R. Hofmeester🐾📷🎶 @TimHofmeester]

We are growing our team working on quantitative methods to study wildlife/game populations and are now recruiting a researcher for a permanent! position in Umeå. Anyone with a PhD can apply, but some postdoc experience will likely be beneficial.

https://t.co/1ax4eSlnaA

[MustelidColloquium @MustelidColloq]

Marco Granata presents excellent work from the Italian Alps, shedding light on under studied small mustelids, with aims to start long term monitoring #35EMC

[MustelidColloquium @MustelidColloq]

The draft #35EMC programme is available to view:
Programme – European Mustelid Colloquium (https://t.co/GGNZrb0Xir)

Registration remains open until 15th September, so why not join us?!

#mustelids #mustelidresearch #conference #biology #mustelidmonitoring

[Aneta Kostadinova @AnetKostadinova]

Now in press in Current Research in Parasitology & Vector-Borne Diseases @CRPVBD

#OpenAccess
▶️https://t.co/yMz1SzDbUG

@FabriNannet @SLUwildresearch @TimHofmeester @HeinS62565 @JorisCromsigt @_SLU @FraukeEcke

#Ixodes ricinus #Ungulate #Tick-borne pathogen #Tick abundance #Vegetation #Air temperature

[Tim R. Hofmeester🐾📷🎶 @TimHofmeester]

@BenCAugustine @MammRes We actually don't know how large the individual variation in facial patterns is so there very well might be some individuals that cannot be IDed even on good images. I guess we'll need more images/individuals combined with other ID methods to be sure 😅

[Tim R. Hofmeester🐾📷🎶 @TimHofmeester]

New paper alert 🚨

Mustelid mugshots: photographing facial masks of European polecats (Mustela putorius) for individual recognition and density estimation using camera traps @MammRes

With Nadine Erath, Jeroen Mos and Henrik Thurfjell

1/7
https://t.co/3yCXbk6ApO

[Tim R. Hofmeester🐾📷🎶 @TimHofmeester]

@cameratraps1 @MammRes The only tubes that got destroyed were destroyed by cows. The majority of placements were under vegetation and in stone piles so not very visible.

[Tim R. Hofmeester🐾📷🎶 @TimHofmeester]

@BenCAugustine @MammRes I think it is mostly random (gut feeling) but can imagine more shy individuals not looking into the tube/camera more often than bolder individuals.

[Tim R. Hofmeester🐾📷🎶 @TimHofmeester]

@MustelidDwyer @MammRes Thanks!

[Tim R. Hofmeester🐾📷🎶 @TimHofmeester]

As all EU member states need to report the status of their polecat population as one of the species on the Annex V of the EU Council’s Directive on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora, we hope this method will be picked up in other countries 7/7

[Tim R. Hofmeester🐾📷🎶 @TimHofmeester]

We think the Polecam shows promise but larger field tests in different sites with known polecat occurrence would be good to see if a larger effort can increase precision in the estimates. As we observed multiple species, it could also be used to look at species interactions. 6/7