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Will Allen @wlallen.bsky.social · 14d

📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org

We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A white-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides) decides whether to consume a warningly colored white-barred acraea butterfly (Telchinia encedon). Photo (c) Mike Rowe

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 22d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 27d

Hey you. Wanna apply for a fellowship on collections? the AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural & heritage institutions are open!

The Natural History Museum priorities are below.

If you wanna talk birds, hit me up. Collectors, colonialism, Canada, Australia & more

www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

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Diego Gil @diegogil.bsky.social · Sep 4

PhD studentship in bird ecology and behaviour at the Museum of Natural History in Madrid

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BirdLife International @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social · 27d

Lost bird rediscovered! 🙌

After more than 20 years, the Critically Endangered Jerdon's Courser has been documented again by a team of Indian birdwatchers. 🎉

Find out more about the ‘Search for Lost Birds’ here 👉
www.birdlife.org/news/2025/09...

Glimmer of hope: Sought-after lost bird rediscovered in India

After more than 20 years, the Critically Endangered Jerdon’s Courser has been documented again.

www.birdlife.org

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Ana S. L. Rodrigues @ana-sl-rodrigues.bsky.social · 28d

These bones could have been obtained from naturally beached animals, so they are not evidence of whaling. Fin, blue, and sperm whales: almost certainly NOT hunted (given available technology). Gray and right whales (= coastal species): hunting is not impossible.

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Ana S. L. Rodrigues @ana-sl-rodrigues.bsky.social · 29d

Humans have been interacting with whales for a long time. This paper describes tools made from whale bones up to 20,000 years ago in the Bay of Biscay - including from gray and right whales, two species since extirpated from European shores.
🧪🌎 #History #envhist
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay - Nature Communications

Here the authors apply ZooMS, radiocarbon, and stable isotope analyses to whale bones from the Bay of Biscay. They find that humans were utilizing the remains of at least five species of whales from 2...

www.nature.com

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Ana S. L. Rodrigues @ana-sl-rodrigues.bsky.social · 29d

New paper led by @cetaceanyouri.bsky.social sheds new light into the gray whale's mysterious early demise from European shores: likely the result of medieval whaling all along its migratory route, gone by the mid-14th Century. Death by a thousand cuts. 🧪🌎

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dating the first historic extirpation of a whale species: The demise of the grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) in the eastern North Atlantic

The grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus), once present in both the eastern and western North Atlantic, is the only whale species to have been extirpated…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our September jobs round-up has arrived (early), with lots of great UK marine roles.

Please share this thread widely with your network of ECRs/marine conservationists.

🦑🌍🌐🧪🌊🐟
#PhDsky #academiasky #conservationjobs #sciencejobs

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Laetitia Navarro @laenavarro.bsky.social · Sep 5

Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it:
rdcu.be/eEcIt

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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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Milan Chytrý @milanchytry.bsky.social · Sep 5

In our new Nature Communications article led by Rashmi Paudel, we show that plant species that spread within their native range have a higher probability of becoming established outside their native range.
🔗https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63293-6
🔗Sharable PDF link: rdcu.be/eEmQr

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Sandra M Durán @sandramduran.bsky.social · Sep 6

Looking for a #postdoct for a NSF project integrating ecosystem productivity, hyperspectral remote sensing and airborne LiDAR to test prominent hypothesis of the effect of #biodiversity on #forest #productivity @fluxnetecn.bsky.social @ngaps.bsky.social Apply at: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

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Jonathan von Oppen @jvonoppen.bsky.social · Sep 8

Come work with us in beautiful Basel & in the mountains around the world! Great working environment & fab collaborators on top ☺️🌐
Happy to answer non-project-related questions via DM!

Ecology Group Basel - Sabine Rumpf @ecologybasel.bsky.social · Sep 8

*Job alert*

We have a 5-year postdoc position on #mountain non-native species & #macroecology in our group @unibas.ch. Great opportunity to join us!

Details here: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen/postdoc-position-in-mountain-macroecology/6c5a8906-354f-43c6-bc9b-1156d21725a5

Please share!

Universität Basel: Postdoc position in mountain macroecology

The research group Ecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel in Switzerland invites applications for a postdoc position within the ERC project 'Global status, tren...

jobs.unibas.ch

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Sep 9

Deforestation is responsible for nearly 75% of dry season rainfall reduction in the Amazon rainforest since 1985, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/3I2xPzr ⚒️ 🧪

This is figure 4, which shows the relative contributions of climate change and deforestation to the Amazonian climate.

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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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Department of Biology, Lund University @biologylu.bsky.social · Sep 5

Migratory birds aren’t equally efficient at all speeds. A new Lund University study shows thrush nightingales fly most efficiently at 7–8 m/s – the speed they actually use on migration.
@pablomaciastorres.bsky.social & Prof. Anders Hedenström, Animal Flight Lab.

www.biology.lu.se/article/not-...

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · Sep 5

Some validation for my recent efforts in uploading some old images of unidentified species to @inaturalist.bsky.social – turns out I photographed an undescribed poison-dart frog in the Western Amazon 18 years ago 🌎 🧪🐸🪶 #ornithology #herpetology 🧵1/21

Photo of Metallic Poison Frog (Ranitomeya aquamarina)

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Science Magazine @science.org · Sep 3

A military megaproject led to Mexico’s biggest paleontological discovery—and is now reshaping what we know about mammoths.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/45PD8M0

Map showing locations where high-quality mtDNA samples have been recovered from mammoths. The dot size corresponds to the approximate number of samples recovered. Columbian mammoths recently discovered in Mexico are the first from a tropical area to yield mtDNA; the Basin of Mexico location is the largest dot on the map and the furthest south. Columbian mammoths in North America descend from a 1-million-year-old steppe mammoth discovered in Krestovka, Russia, with additional ancestry from woolly mammoths.

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Sep 4

🌍 The International Biogeography Society’s 12th Biennial Conference — TIBS Aarhus 2026 — will take place Jan 6–10 in Aarhus, Denmark: conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-... 🐘🍃🌴We're looking forward to hosting it!
#Biogeography is central to understanding the #biosphere & is more important than ever!♨️

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The International Biogeography Society @biogeography.bsky.social · Sep 4

We can't wait to hear Dr.Brian McGill's talk for this month's Funk lecture! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/se...

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · Sep 3

Quite some interests in the #Macroecology session of our Macrecology interest group wothin @gfoesoc.bsky.social #gfoe2025

gfoe.org/en/specialis...

If you want to be part of our highly international email list for jobs & more PM me.

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Rob Yorke @robyorke.bsky.social · Sep 3

Nature (trail) cameras 'can greatly inflate nest predation rates'

especially with canny curious corvids in open landscapes

wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#wildlife #conservation #ornithology 🧪

a raven in flight about to alight on the ground (in this case the summit of Pen y Fan mountain in the Brecon Beacons, South Wales, UK)

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Matthew Freeman @mjafreeman.bsky.social · Sep 1

Are you a postdoc interested in the mechanisms of disease?

Do you have a great record and an exciting vision?

Come and start your own lab @dunnschool.bsky.social by applying for sponsorship for early career fellowships.

Deadline 30th September...pass it on!

www.path.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us...

Group Leader Career Development Fellowships - Dunn School

Are you an early career researcher interested in the cell or molecular mechanisms underlying disease? Do you have an outstanding record and an innovative research plan?

www.path.ox.ac.uk

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Sep 3

Let's talk about *how we can know* that crows understand geometry. 🧪

The study from Univ. of Tübingen faculty on two male carrion crows (Corvus corone) trained to select "outliers" from a set of shapes in exchange for a food reward.

The set member that doesn't "belong" is called the "intruder".

Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Sep 2

roses are red
gold is the key

Headline: CROWS CAN
UNDERSTAND GEOMETRY

Photo: closeup or a crow or raven facing left

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