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Erle Ellis @erleellis.bsky.social · 1d

Anthropocene Canceled? 🚯 @ecosocialism1.bsky.social
monthlyreview.org/articles/has...
>>> Of course NOT <<<
The evidence speaks for itself.
No geologists, epochs or hype required.
theconversation.com/the-anthropo... 🌍⚒️🌐🧪

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Pavel Kratina @kratina.bsky.social · 1d

Super cool experimental study demonstrating how warming and species richness alter mass-abundance structure of ecological communities.

Frank Pennekamp @pennekampster.bsky.social · 3d

Does body size predict abundance the same way in all environments, as predicted by the Metabolic theory of Ecology? Our new study challenges this assumption. Read it here: 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Biodiversity modulates the cross‐community scaling relationship in changing environments

Organismal abundance typically declines with increasing body size, with metabolic theory predicting a universal size–abundance slope of –0.75. Using protist microcosms across gradients of species ric...

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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 8d

🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26

Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈

👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8

#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats

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Pavel Kratina @kratina.bsky.social · 9d

Such a cool paper🤩 🐟Congratulations Mayara!

Mayara Neves @mayaranevesbio.bsky.social · 9d

Thrilled to see our PNAS paper out! Such an amazing journey and couldn’t have asked for a better experience working with the Evans Lab 💙🐟

Kory Evans Ph.D @sternarchella.bsky.social · 9d

New paper alert!!!🚨 in our new study we find that Antarctic icefishes added a new module in their skulls during their adaptive radiation special shout out to @mayaranevesbio.bsky.social who led this project!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Zsófia Horváth @zsofiahorvath.bsky.social · 18d

Looking for openly available:
- before-after data in space
- with a restoration measure inbetween (e.g. dam/invasive spec. removal, urban green space creation...)
- min. 10 sites (quadrats / random places along a stream / ponds...)
- species data, env. data of some sort, GPS coordinates

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Pavel Kratina @kratina.bsky.social · 24d

Job Alert
@qmulsbbs.bsky.social is advertising a position:

Environmental Analytical Facility Technician.

Join our team #ecology, #stable #isotopes, #Mass-spectrometer

Environmental Analytical Facility Technician - QMUL Jobs

ID: 7383. Title: Environmental Analytical Facility Technician. Application Deadline:

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · Sep 9

🌿 We’re celebrating our first round of BES Fellows!

20 ecologists recognised for excellence in research, teaching & the application of ecology.

👇 Meet them:

Meet our first round of BES Fellows - British Ecological Society

We are delighted to announce the first round of BES Fellows, recognising outstanding contributions to ecology across research, teaching, and its application within our international community.

f.mtr.cool

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Oikos @oikosjournal.bsky.social · Sep 9

🔥Ignite - Warming threatens aquatic–terrestrial linkages: evidence from tropical geothermal streams

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#BayesianMixingModels #EffectsOfWarming #FluxAcrossEcosystems #FoodWebStructure #IsotopicAnalyses #TropicalRiparianForest #WaterLandInterfaces

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Joey Bernhardt @joeybernhardt.bsky.social · Aug 14

Please help us spread the word! Please amplify!

We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝

Applications are due October 6 2025.

careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C...

#AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Canada Excellence Research Chair in Biodiversity Genomics

careers.uoguelph.ca

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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · Aug 7

🎧 New episode of #InsideBiodiversity out now! Megafaunal extinctions — mammoths, giant sloths, woolly rhinos — all happened just 10K–50K years ago. Prof. Susanne Fritz (iDiv & @uni-jena.de) shares how climate & humans played a role — & why speciation may be ongoing. 🦣🌡️ insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Aug 6

Exciting news from the Royal Society Publishing: our journals will be fully open access in 2026 as we move to adopt the 'Subscribe to Open' model:

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · Aug 6

We're excited to announce our plan to make the Royal Society journals fully open access in 2026 by adopting the ‘Subscribe to Open’ model. This change supports global access to research without shifting costs to authors and relies on continued library participation. Find out more: buff.ly/18m5g6z

Royal Society sets out plan to move journals to full open access in 2026 through Subscribe to Open | Royal Society

The Royal Society has agreed plans that would make its journals fully open access in 2026 by adopting the ‘Subscribe to Open’ model.

royalsociety.org

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Pavel Kratina @kratina.bsky.social · Aug 3

Plasticity in climate change responses - just published in Biological Reviews

What in the role of phenotypic plasticity as an adaptive response to climate change?

Looking at mechanisms from the subcellular to the community and ecosystem levels.

With Stollewerk, @davidboukal.bsky.social, et al.

Plasticity in climate change responses

Recent research has shown that climate change can both induce and modulate the expression of plastic traits but our understanding of the role of phenotypic plasticity as an adaptive response to clima...

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · Jul 29

Jeremy Fox's new book "The Ecology of Ecologists" is coming soon, and you can pre-order now at a discount. See here for Jeremy's pitch - but I can vouch for this book, it's great! dynamicecology.wordp...

Pre-order The Ecology of Ecologists from University of Chicago Press at the ESA meeting and get a 30% discount and free US shipping! You can do this even if you won’t be at the meeting! Plus, check out the great blurbs from Mark Vellend and Stephen Heard!

You can pre-order my forthcoming book, The Ecology of Ecologists: Harnessing Diverse Approaches for a Stronger Science, from the University of Chicago Press at the upcoming ESA meeting and get a 30…

dynamicecology.wordpress.com

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · Jul 17

Really disappointing new policy from NERC banning resubmissions of grant applications

Many of us, including me, have won grants on resubmission,

using the reviews to improve the application

This is is neither fair nor productive
www.ukri.org/councils/ner...

NERC policy on resubmissions

This policy only applies to research grant applications.

www.ukri.org

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Centre for Ecosystem Management @centreecomgmt.bsky.social · Jul 16

🌥️ Global change isn’t just disrupting nature—it’s reshaping the hidden networks that keep ecosystems running.

A new study authored in part by our researchers finds predators are adjusting their diets as habitats shift, rewiring #foodwebs in the process:

www.ecosystemscience.ca/news/new-res...

New Research Reveals How Human Impacts Are Rewiring Nature’s Food Webs — Centre for Ecosystem Management

As the planet faces unprecedented environmental change, understanding how ecosystems respond is increasingly important. A new study, co-authored by the Centre for Ecosystem Management’s Charlotte Ward...

www.ecosystemscience.ca

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Pavel Kratina @kratina.bsky.social · Jun 29

I saw these in Pantanal, they have amazing yellow flowers - very beautiful

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IPBES @ipbes.net · Jun 27

In light of the exciting news that #IPBES12 will be hosted in Manchester in 2026, the UK’s Special Representative for Nature explains its importance. 🌍🧪

“It’s a chance to demonstrate how we can turn knowledge into action – and action into investment.” - Ruth Davis

@ukri.org

#BizBiodiversity

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Dan Perkins @drdanperkins.bsky.social · Jun 13

Honoured to present results from our AquaSYNC-funded working group at the 1st Symposium on Synthesis Research in Aquatic Ecosystems 🇩🇰

Inspiring science + big questions: Are human impacts on streams consistent globally? Some surprising patterns emerging—stay tuned! #AquaticEcology #AquaSYNC

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Benoit Gauzens @bgauzens.bsky.social · Jun 16

@lisethouvenot.bsky.social @remoryser.bsky.social @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social @ecolgonzalez.bsky.social @srivastavalab.bsky.social @gqromero.bsky.social @kratina.bsky.social @econetlab.bsky.social

Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · Jun 13

New online! Tailoring interaction network types to answer different ecological questions

Tailoring interaction network types to answer different ecological questions

Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 13 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00056-7This Perspective provides guidance about how to select the most appropriate type of interaction network for different research questions in ecology. Networks can vary according to the extent of node aggregation and the information that links represent; each kind of network formulation has advantages in different contexts.

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Pavel Kratina @kratina.bsky.social · Jun 5

Great discussion at our regular @qmulsbbs.bsky.social Ecology Club meeting today about species on the move in a warming world. With @ian-mcfadden.bsky.social, our visitors from Brazil, Papua New Guinea and others 🤩

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🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · Jun 3

“There’s just no moths on that sheet.” @tessairini.bsky.social writes in the @theguardian.com about #InsectDecline with #DanJanzen, #WinnieHallwachs and the caterpillars of the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste #ACG in #CostaRica @gdfcf.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Photo of Dan Janzen holding a caterpillar - image from Guardian article where the photo credit reads: Daniel Janzen has been monitoring insects since the 1970s in Costa Rica’s Guanacaste conservation area. He says he has seen biodiversity crash even in pristine environments.
Photograph: P Greenfield/Guardian

Photo of Winnie Hallwachs and Dan Janzen in ACG from Guardian article where the photo credit reads, Janzen and Hallwachs say that while the lack of insects in areas with heavy pesticide use is well documented, the collapse in protected areas is relatively new.
Photograph: P Greenfield/Guardian

Photo of light sheet collecting insects in 1984. Photo credit in Guardian article reads, A light trap set up by Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs two weeks after the beginning of the rainy season in 1984 and at the same period in 2019

Photo of light sheet collecting insects in 2019. Photo credit in Guardian article reads, A light trap set up by Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs two weeks after the beginning of the rainy season in 1984 and at the same period in 2019

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Pavel Kratina @kratina.bsky.social · Jun 2

Job alert - We are looking for an Environmental Facility Technician @qmulsbbs.bsky.social to help support file work, experiments, isotope ratio mass spectrometry, gas chromatography etc. Please apply here:

qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

Environmental Analytical Facility Technician - QMUL Jobs

ID: 6011. Title: Environmental Analytical Facility Technician. Application Deadline:

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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · May 26

The planet is changing—some of it is inevitable, but some of it is on us. 🔍 Researcher Jonathan Chase and podcast host Volker Hahn take on one of the biggest scientific challenges: distinguishing between detection (what’s changing) and attribution (why it’s changing) 📊 1/2

Cover of Inside Biodiversity episode 3: Is Biodiversity Loss Always Bad? Guest: Jonathan Chase

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Pavel Kratina @kratina.bsky.social · May 14

Our colleagues made a nice summary graphics for this study of fish community size structure altered by human land use and non-native species

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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · May 9

In response to climate change #CC, #species #shift in many dimensions, moving in space along many climatic clines, including #microclimatic ones (horizontally & vertically) & adjusting their #phenology & #behaviour in time

🧪🌐🌍🍁🌳🌲🌴🦔🦅🦎🐝🦐🦑🐠🦈🐋

@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social

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