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Andy Purvis
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Co-lead of the Biodiversity Futures Lab and PREDICTS project at the Natural History Museum and Imperial College in London, UK. Working for a nature-positive future with an ADHD present. Views my own. He/him.

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Joseph Tobias @josephtobias.bsky.social · 1h
Although the title misses the point by a long way. It's not the "safety net for birds" that is at stake here, but the "safety net provided by birds" - the resilience of ecological functions supporting the whole ecosystem.

As touched on here: www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...
Global bird study reveals declining ecosystem resilience
Human-driven changes to landscapes worldwide are ‘thinning out’ the ecological services supplied by wild birds, eroding the functions tha...
www.imperial.ac.uk

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Andy Purvis @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social · 3h
Land-use change undermines the stability of avian functional diversity - new #OA @nature.com paper with @patrickawalkden.bsky.social @josephtobias.bsky.social, combining #PredictsProject with #Avonet doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Land-use change undermines the stability of avian functional diversity - Nature
Large-scale analyses of bird species traits reveal that land-use change reduces resilience of key ecological functions more than previously thought.
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Andy Purvis @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social · 18h
That's *slow* delivery (esp for the run-up to Xmas)
joshlukedavis.com Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 19h
today I got to hold a book that was published in the same year that Napoleon abdicated 🥲

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 19h
today I got to hold a book that was published in the same year that Napoleon abdicated 🥲

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Andy Purvis @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social · 1d
Can confirm
jowolff.bsky.social Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 3d
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

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Andy Purvis @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social · 1d
Excited to be underway with the @ipbes.net #2ndGlobalAssessment. So excited that I'm even wearing the same fleece 😀
ipbes.net IPBES @ipbes.net · 5d
In 2019, UNESCO in Paris, hosted the 7th Session of the IPBES Plenary, which approved the landmark #GlobalAssessment

It is therefore fitting that next week, UNESCO will again host IPBES for the First Author Meeting of the #2ndGlobalAssessment.

Stay tuned for updates! #SciencePolicy #Legacy

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 3d
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 5d
In 2019, UNESCO in Paris, hosted the 7th Session of the IPBES Plenary, which approved the landmark #GlobalAssessment

It is therefore fitting that next week, UNESCO will again host IPBES for the First Author Meeting of the #2ndGlobalAssessment.

Stay tuned for updates! #SciencePolicy #Legacy

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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · Dec 3
I think this calls for a celebratory day off

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Nick Isaac @drnickisaac.bsky.social · Dec 12
Huge turnout for our workshop on "prediction is impossible" #BES2024

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · Jan 8
Good morning from the Squirrel of the Day for January 8, 2025 #sqrlpix
fluffy gray squirrel on branch

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · Jan 9
As a chef I keep an internal leaderboard where I score all the stupid questions the front of house staff come to ask me. It's been 5 years and no one has been able to take "is there cheese in the halloumi" off of the top spot

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Susie Dent @handle.invalid · Jan 10
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:

Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · Jan 10
A morning, coffee-fueled, sketch of a Downy woodpecker visiting our bird feeder
A charcoal and pencil sketch of a Downy woodpecker

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · Mar 5
Patents should expire after 2-3 years max. Just because you invented something doesn't mean you're the best custodian of it.

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Paul Barrett @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social · Mar 7
Really sad to report that our friend and colleague Richard Fortey passed away this morning after a short battle with cancer. We’ll all miss his wit and wisdom. Here he is checking out a dino footprint we found while filming together on the Isle of Wight

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Rachel Neugarten @rachelneugarten.bsky.social · Mar 6
OPEN biodiversity DATA ALERT: iNaturalist has released range data for 100k+ taxa: www.inaturalist.org/posts/106918 🌍🧪
Celebrating 100,000 Modeled Taxa with the iNaturalist Open Range Map Dataset
A Major Milestone for Biodiversity Mapping We passed a major milestone with today’s update to iNaturalist’s Computer Vision and Geomodel—100,000 modeled taxa! To mark this achievement, we’re excited t...
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Andy Purvis @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social · Mar 6
So I read this as 'parents'...
anonopin.bsky.social Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · Mar 5
Patents should expire after 2-3 years max. Just because you invented something doesn't mean you're the best custodian of it.

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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · Mar 6
Tropical forests are not all the same: they show many shades of geographical variation. Our new paper in Nature led by @jeaggu.bsky.social combines field and satellite data to make a first map the canopy functional traits of the world’s tropical forests: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests - Nature
Data from a variety of sources—including satellite, climate and soil data, as well as field-collected information on plant traits—are pooled and analysed to map the functional diversity of tropical fo...
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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · Feb 19
There are now over 3000 signatories to my letter asking the Royal Society to explain why it has taken no action and said nothing about evident contraventions of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS.
forms.gle/dBGaHk7SYUNA...
Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values
If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...
forms.gle

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GEO BON @geobon.org · Feb 28
🌍 The resumed 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity #COP16Resumed has concluded with a historic agreement to enhance global biodiversity monitoring.

Muchas gracias Colombia for your leadership in this crucial meeting! 🇨🇴 #KMGBF #Biodiversity
Governments agree on the way forward to mobilise the resources needed to protect biodiversity for people and planet
Governments agreed, on 27 February 2025, in Rome on the strategy to raise the funds needed to protect biodiversity and achieve the action targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework ...
www.cbd.int

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GEO BON @geobon.org · Feb 28
🔄 How do we turn raw biodiversity data into actionable insights for policy and conservation?

Jory Griffith shows how Bon in a Box #BiaB can be used to support the calculation of biodiversity indicators📊

Watch her speak at the @wildlabs.bsky.social series:
youtu.be/YXp9xlDvY8I?...
Jory Griffith: GEO BON
YouTube video by WILDLABS.NET
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Andy Purvis @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social · Feb 26
Or a finger?

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · Feb 25
In the meantime, you can still add your voice to the call for the RS to stand up for its values, as over 3300 members of the scientific community have already done. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
An open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values | Reciprocal Space
occamstypewriter.org

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Andy Purvis @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social · Feb 23
The line between “Hear no evil” and “Speak evil” can be a very fine one. (H/t @jcsvenning.bsky.social)

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Matt Betts @mattbetts42.bsky.social · Feb 23
Don't look up!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Outcry as Trump withdraws support for research that mentions ‘climate’
US government stripping funds from domestic and overseas research amid warnings for health and public safety
www.theguardian.com

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · Feb 23
Once upon a time, some villagers came across a large, ornate wooden box in the local woods. On the side of the box was a message:

“Whatever money you put in this box will, in future, grow to become 2.5 times larger.”

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · Feb 14
Tally just ticked past 1900 signatures. Please keep spreading the word about the letter & asking people to sign. It's important to make the Royal Society aware (at their meeting on 03 March) just how much the scientific community wants them to speak up for their values. forms.gle/SfsDemyS8QhP...

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Andy Purvis @andypurvisnhm.bsky.social · Feb 13
Is it just me, or have the recent episodes of reality not been as good as in the earlier seasons?