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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience

A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.

www.nature.com

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Dr Jess Fisher @jessjessfisher.bsky.social · Jun 25

New paper out today in
@natecoevo.nature.com on biodiversity & human wellbeing in UK forests, both seasonally and along a gradient of socioeconomic deprivation

Funded by @erc.europa.eu and Woodland Trust 🌳, with lovely @dice-kent.bsky.social team

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spatio-temporal variability in forest biodiversity associated with human well-being across socio-economic deprivation gradients - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Applying a combined social science and trait-based ecology approach, the authors identify ecological traits in forests eliciting positive or negative well-being among human participants in England and...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 4d

Opinion piece: To effectively conserve #ecosystems, we must also conserve #microbes. This plan supports traditional #conservation goals while offering adaptations to conserve #microorganisms themselves. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#biodiversity

Microorganisms viewed through a microscope.
Image credit: Shutterstock/luchschenF.

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · Sep 19

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors

The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

www.thebookseller.com

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Fernando T. Maestre @ftmaestre.bsky.social · 3d

In #drylands, plants don’t grow randomly — they self-organize into disordered hyperuniform patterns that help them use water wisely & endure extreme aridity. A beautiful hidden logic of nature, revealed in a new @pnas.org study doi.org/10.1073/pnas... including #Maestrelab alumni

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American Institute of Biological Sciences @aibsbiology.bsky.social · 4d

Too cute to be wild: what teddy bears reveal about our disconnection from nature. #AIBS #BioScience #viewpoint doi.org/10.1093/bios...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 5d

In a 2020 #ScienceReview, researchers investigated how systematic racist practices such as residential segregation have led to an unequal distribution of “nature” within cities.

Learn more on #WorldHabitatDay: https://scim.ag/3KQnEir

The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments

Cities create challenging environments for many nonhuman species, and the presence of nonhumans in cities influences the health and well-being of the humans with which they share the environment. Dist...

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Unai Pascual @upascual.bsky.social · 4d

Towards a relational biodiversity economics (following the steps of ecological, feminist and other heterodox/critical economic thinking). Our new paper is out.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · 5d

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #34 Sept 29 Oct 6, 32 posts!

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bluesky Global Ecology Feed Digest #34

Curated digest of the bluesky Global Ecology feed on biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation at large scales. Terrestrial, freswater & marine realms.

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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · 12d

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #33, Sept 22-29, 23 posts!

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 17d

Very proud of this paper in BioScience :

« Too cute to be wild: what teddy bears reveal about our disconnection from nature »

🧸 are more than toys, they shape among our first emotional connections to nature. But their design may also distort how we see wildlife !

👉 doi.org/10.1093/bios...

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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · 19d

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #32, Sept 15-22, 26 posts!

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 20d

Sounds like a conspiration against Hedonism !!

Science Magazine @science.org · 21d

Beer drinkers were 44% more attractive to mosquitoes than people who had abstained for at least 12 hours, cannabis users were 35% more attractive, and those who had slept with someone else the night before were 46% more attractive, new research finds. https://scim.ag/3Vk5rMw

Does drinking beer make you more attractive to mosquitoes?

Experiments performed at a large music festival suggest the bloodsuckers are more attracted to hedonistic attendees

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Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · 23d

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5
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#languagebarriers

Scientific productivity gap based on English-language peer-reviewed papers. Shown are the maximum % differences in the number of peer-reviewed papers published by female native English speakers from a high-income country (-45%), female non-native English speakers from a high-income country (-60%), and female non-native English speakers from a lower-middle income country (-70%), compared to male native English speakers from a high-income country (red flag).

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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · 26d

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #31, Sept 08-15, 28 posts!

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CNRS @cnrs.fr · Sep 11

#CNRSnews 🗞️ The CNRS mathematician and computer scientist Stéphane Mallat receives the CNRS 2025 Gold Medal for his achievements in applied maths and signal processing, including the JPEG 2000 image compression standard and mathematical foundations of AI.

Stéphane Mallat, a pioneer bridging mathematics and computer science

news.cnrs.fr

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Michael Hochberg @mkhochb.bsky.social · Sep 11

What future does AI hold? With @paulbrainey.bsky.social, we hypothesize that human-AI coevolution is leading to the emergence of a new evolutionary unit of selection. Science fiction or looming fact? Read our paper and judge for yourself. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Science Magazine @science.org · Sep 10

Massive datasets in #ScienceAdvances confirm that higher adherence to a diet friendly to Earth and human health correlates with lower all-cause mortality. https://scim.ag/46bE644

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · Sep 8

Climate change increasingly alters the interactions between forest disturbances. Here we present a framework for quantifying dist. interactions and compile evidence for their impacts. Led by @dudney-joan.bsky.social with @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social & @julieedtree.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu...

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guillaume-papuga.bsky.social @guillaume-papuga.bsky.social · Sep 8

First post on Bluesky! 🌿
Excited to share our new study in Ecography, led by Maxime Lenormand: combining naturalist inventories and satellite data to map plant biodiversity.
Here’s a bioregionalization of the flora of France!
🔗 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · Sep 8

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #30, Sept 02-08, 33 posts!

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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · Sep 7

I am so glad to have contributed airborne lidar scanning #ALS data from several temperate forests 🌳🌳🌳 in 🇨🇵 #IMPRINT

Plenty to do w/ this global atlas on tree canopies #GCA, the 8th contient 🌐🌎🌲🌳

@agencerecherche.bsky.social
@cnrs-hautsdefrance.bsky.social
@cnrsecologie.bsky.social
@cnrs.fr

Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · Sep 5

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!

The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems

📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

Global distribution of forest landscapes covered by airborne LiDAR

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Jonny Gordon @jonathan-gdon.bsky.social · Sep 4

Human-driven extinction event not yet the "sixth mass extinction", but is very likely the largest extinction event of the last 66 million yrs. 🌏 🧪

Read about it in our new paper led by @jackhhatfield.bsky.social
and Katie Davis @anthropocenebio.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

The Greatest Extinction Event in 66 Million Years? Contextualising Anthropogenic Extinctions

Species and ecosystems are changing rapidly in response to human actions, but how does this compare with the deeper past? We review and compare the current extinction event to those over the last 66 ....

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Biodiful @biodiful.bsky.social · Sep 3

Meet Grimpoteuthis discoveryi, a Dumbo octopus! 🐙💫

Found up to 4,870 m in the NE Atlantic, it glides on ear‑like fins.

It feeds on worms & crustaceans & helps transfer energy through deep‑sea food webs.

Its fragile world face future threats from deep-sea mining ⚠️🌊⛏️

#Biodiful 🌍
photo (c) MBARI

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Cassie Speakman @cassiespeakman.bsky.social · Aug 23

The latest paper from the DISCAR synthesis group is out at Ecology Letters! We discuss the key approaches to predicting human impacts on wildlife populations, highlighting avenues for incorporating indirect effects, such as energetic modelling. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Title and author list for the synthesis paper titled "Understanding and Predicting Population Response to Anthropogenic Disturbance: Current Approaches and Novel Opportunities" published in Ecology Letters.

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