Björn Franke

PhD candidate,
Radboud University (Nijmegen, NL)

[Björn Franke @bjoernfrankly]

Briefly coming back here to announce that my first PhD paper is out!
https://t.co/hb0P6HhMgi
Together with 77 phenomenal co-authors, I studied patterns in habitat selection across terrestrial mammal species. Lots of variation & road avoidance!
(I'm now at https://t.co/lqW70QN4Fn)

[Björn Franke @bjoernfrankly]

Hi! I've moved to Bluesky. Will occasionally post about projects and other things. :)
https://t.co/92u2wbrbwv

[Björn Franke @bjoernfrankly]

Come join us!

[Anne Marie Conlon @annemarieconlon]

Are you a scientist with a PhD who made the move into high school teaching? If so I'd love to talk to you for an upcoming piece in @nature. And please share with anyone who you think might fight the bill!

#journorequest #phdchat

[Natasha Klappstein @NJKlappstein]

Paper on state-switching step selection functions (HMM-SSFs) published in Movement Ecology (https://t.co/zMVzO3zSKR)!

We model behaviour-dependent movement and habitat selection, with some new extensions and inferential tools. Applied to 🦓. With @len_thom and @TheoMichelot

[Christine Beardsworth @DrCBeardsworth]

🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨
From personality to prey: understanding movement of migratory shorebirds during the non-breeding period

With myself, @AllertBijleveld, @_SamanthaFranks and @stefanako71

Advert: https://t.co/74bpPHaXgv
VC Studentship info: https://t.co/coQQyvY2m1

[Global Leopard Conference @LeopardConf]

1/2 The 9 #leopard subspecies as currently classified by the @IUCNRedList. The North Chinese leopard will likely be subsumed under the Amur subspecies in the upcoming IUCN re-assessment. The Persian leopard will likely also be known as P.p.tulliana and no longer P.p.saxicolor.

[Amazing Maps @amazingmap]

Tracking of an eagle over a 20 year period

[Muthoni Njuguna @MuthoniNjugunaE]

Jambo, 😊
Elated about my first Interview as a conservationist. Had a sit down with Ussi Abuu to have a conversation about gender, conservation and sustainability. Do read his post on WildHub.
#sustainabledevelopment #wildlifeconservation #genderequity

https://t.co/RrJTRw7jnG

[Sustainable Ocean Alliance (SOA) @SOAlliance]

#CostaRica announced it will expand its protected ocean area from 2.7% to 30% - a major leap that puts them 9 years ahead of a global deadline to protect nearly a third of the world’s land and sea!

Read more from @ConservationOrg

https://t.co/RwGWhUMGkd

#OceanDecade

[Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour @CBehav]

Job alert📢: #CASCB is hiring! We offer multiple #PhD and #Postdoctoral positions right now. Join us at the lake: https://t.co/jX9Lt1U9PJ
@MPI_animalbehav @UniKonstanz

[Bunsen, Beaker, Bernoulli & Brix @bunsenbernerbmd]

What’s the difference between a dog and a marine biologist?
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One wags a tail and the other tags a whale.
🤣

[Julio the Artist 🦕🌿 @JuliotheArtist]

I loved working on this series of hominid portraits but they kinda went under the radar here on Twitter, probably because I uploaded them all at once as a thread after being absent for 2-3 months.

[Bryan Gee @Koskinonodon]

"Amniotes outcompete amphibians in the Late Carboniferous", colourized, 300 MYA

[Jen 💚 @JenKatWrites]

wait sorry, I found one exception, this man has to continue working, for his bird wife

[Dr Steve Westlake @steviedubyu]

Climate change is not about data and reason, it is about money and power👀

(this may be my first subtweet😃)

[Elisa Granato @Prokaryota]

Planning experiments vs Doing experiments

[Björn Franke @bjoernfrankly]

@TimBlackburn66 took us to Blakeney Point for a couple of days! Lots of 🦭 and ☀️ with @zoexschultz @TashaWolfx @captain_tiny @jonrbridle @MResBEC. Thank you Tim!!

[Corbin Rainbolt @CorbinRainbolt]

This meme's been doing the rounds again so I made a better version

[ash @captain_tiny]

I'm with my MRes class on an island that is only reachable by boat, where the bunkhouse has no electricity and there are no showers or hot water.
"Have you seen the balsamic vinegar?" My prof asks.

"We have balsamic vinegar??"

"We're biologists," he replies. "Not savages."