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Frank Pennekamp @pennekampster.bsky.social · 2d

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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Science Magazine @science.org · 3d

“I will miss the creativity of teaching.”

On #WorldTeachersDay, check out this #ScienceWorkingLife essay from a retired professor emeritus on how she challenged students to think beyond facts—and how she learned to teach like a scientist. https://scim.ag/4nvwosR

People diving into a pool of books and figures, with text: How I learned to teach like a scientist

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Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.bsky.social · 4d

Incidentally, the very nice schematic of cryosphere changes over both ice sheets was drawn by @jmalumbresolarte.bsky.social Tak! 🙏

New paper out today in @nature Geosciences:
The Greenlandification of Antarctica

Readcube pdf: rdcu.be/eJiqJ

The Greenlandification of Antarctica | Nature Geoscience

Climate and ice sheet processes in Antarctica increasingly reflect those observed earlier in Greenland. Applying process insights from Greenland can improve projections of future Antarctic ice and climate behaviour.

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ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea @icesmarine.bsky.social · 8d

🚨Advice release - widely distributed fish stocks

ICES advice to @ec.europa.eu, UK #Defra, Norway #Fiskeridirektoratet & the North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission #NEAFC on fishing opportunities for widely distributed stocks in 2026 is now available:
🌊 ices-library.figshare.com/collections/...

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Eos @eos.org · 12d

What happened to ancient North American ecosystems after the asteroid killed the dinosaurs? New evidence indicates denser forests began to constrain river flow.

Move Over, Beavers. Dinosaurs Might Also Have Been Nature’s Engineers - Eos

Late Cretaceous dinosaurs may have cut back vegetation, creating large floodplains. When the asteroid hit, those floodplains became forests, a new study argues.

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MothProf @mothprof.bsky.social · 13d

I have a job opening in my lab. If you are interested in bird behaviour and predator prey interactions please take a look! werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — Postdoc Position in Decision Making in Birds

Are you an expert in animal behavior? Do you have experience working with birds? The Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) is looking for a motivated researcher to investigate the ro...

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Jan Geert Hiddink @jangeerthiddink.bsky.social · 17d

Another critique showing that the Sala et al. 2021 estimate of carbon release by bottom trawling is ridiculous.

It estimates an increase in NW European shelf OC mineralization of 0.27 Mt C yr−1, which is an order of magnitude smaller the previous estimates.

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Reconciling the impact of mobile bottom-contact fishing on marine organic carbon sequestration

Abstract. Anthropogenic activities that disturb the seafloor inadvertently affect the organic carbon cycle. Mobile bottom-contacting fishing (MBCF) is a wi

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apoorva lal @apoorvalal.com · 17d

stats.stackexchange.com/a/140579
Opportunity to plug one of the great StackOverflow answers

Making sense of principal component analysis, eigenvectors & eigenvalues

In today's pattern recognition class my professor talked about PCA, eigenvectors and eigenvalues. I understood the mathematics of it. If I'm asked to find eigenvalues etc. I'll do it correctly li...

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Francesco Cerini @francescocerini.bsky.social · 23d

Old but gold: How including data on behaviour, morphology and life-history can improve our ability to predict population collapse?🕐🐳🦭🐀🦤📉

Find out at @natecoevo.nature.com here: rdcu.be/c4dXqVery, with @expecocons.bsky.social @dzchilds.bsky.social

A predictive timeline of wildlife population collapse

Nature Ecology & Evolution - The authors outline a framework for predicting animal population collapse under external stressors, based on a predictable sequence of observable changes through time.

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EGU Biogeosciences Division (BG) @egubg.bsky.social · 22d

🗞️ New article in Biogeosciences #EGU by Nathaelle Bouttes et al. ⬇️

Projections of coral reef carbonate production from a global climate–coral reef coupled model

Abstract. Coral reefs are under threat due to climate change and ocean acidification. However, large uncertainties remain concerning future carbon dioxide emissions, climate change and the associated…

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Evert de Froe @evertdefroe.bsky.social · 23d

New paper out, lead by Johanne Vad!

Interested in what drives cold-water coral and sponge community composition and size structure in the Labrador Sea?

Check it out ⬇️⬇️

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Drivers of Coral and Sponge Community Composition and Size Structure Revealed With Cumulative Abundance Profiles

Deep-sea corals and sponges form ecologically significant habitats that support biodiversity hotspots and contribute to important ecosystem functions such as carbon and nutrient cycling as well as be...

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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 24d

🌊 More images from Otto Fiord which is above 80 N on the west side of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut 🇨🇦 in the Arctic. Sofie Ohrling is heading out from the icebreaker on a zodiac to sample near the glacier front and nearshore for trace elements @geotraces.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social

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Dr. Brooke Weigel @brookeweigel.bsky.social · 26d

Fascinating dive in a kelp forest to urchin barren transition zone yesterday in Monterey! 🌊🤿

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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 26d

Correcting environmental sampling bias improves transferability of species distribution models vist.ly/46kcu #ENM #GBIF

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Matías I. Muñoz @matiasimunoz.bsky.social · Aug 2

Do birds tune their songs to their hearing?

Is there tight coevolution between avian vocal signals and hearing-or do signallers and perceivers evolve more loosely?

It turns out perfect tuning is not required...

Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#bioacoustics
#prattle 💬
#ornithology 🪶

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · Aug 31

How much do tides vary at your shoreline? The greatest variation can be found at the Bay of Fundy in North America where tide variation reaches 16 meters. It's a fascinating map to study. Have a look at the coastal areas that you are familiar with from your travels.

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NRC @nrc.nl · Aug 26

Het warme water in de oceaan houdt eerder op met stromen

Utrechtse onderzoekers hebben berekend dat de AMOC, de zeestroming die warm water door de Atlantische Oceaan naar West-Europa voert, mogelijk deze eeuw al instort.

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Science Magazine @science.org · Aug 21

Light pollution is causing birds around the world to sing for longer each day, prolonging their vocalizations on average by 50 minutes, according to a new study in Science.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Uz7vzP

A figure showing that light pollution prolongs avian vocal activity by nearly an hour. (A) Most diurnal bird species show bimodal vocalization patterns with peaks in the morning and evening; in light-polluted landscapes (yellow shading), the first vocalizations occur earlier in the morning and the last vocalizations occur later in the evening. (B) Globally—averaged across species, space, and season—onset of morning vocalization shifted 18 min earlier in the brightest landscapes versus the darkest landscapes. (C) Similarly, evening cessation was delayed by an average of 32 min. In (B) and (C), lines are means and shaded regions are 95% confidence intervals (CI) of model predictions.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Aug 19

This resonates strongly…

(As it says “scientists”, economists are excluded 😉).

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · Aug 18

Pacific oysters in British Columbia died in a mass mortality event in 2020. A study identifies the cause: Pacific Oyster Nidovirus 1. The virus possesses one of the largest reported genomes for an RNA virus at 64,331 base pairs. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Pacific oysters (C. (M.) gigas).
CREDIT: Amy M. Chan, University of British Columbia

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Forrest Fleischman @forrestf.bsky.social · Aug 1

"if we plan restoration targets to match future climatic conditions and consider state transitions of currently natural ecosystems due to climate change, the potential for natural climate solutions related to ecosystem restoration is close to zero." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Limited carbon sequestration potential from global ecosystem restoration - Nature Geoscience

The maximum carbon sequestration potential from global terrestrial ecosystem restoration efforts until 2100 is 96.9 Gt, which is equivalent to 3.7–12.0% of anthropogenic emissions until then, accordin...

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Judith A.H. Smit @judithsmit.bsky.social · Aug 12

Interested in doing a 3-month #internship on treehopper vibrational communication at STRI in Panama? 🤩 Check this out:

stri.si.edu/academic-pro...

Contact me for more info! #AnimalBehavior

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · Aug 9

#rstats So chuffed! I printed the first PDF copy of my book to see what it might look like in print! It will be printed in full color!

Visualizing Multivariate Data and Models in R

On the whole, looks good, but lots of tweaking to do.
It weighs in at ~440 pgs., so perhaps some cutting needed.

Photo of me holding a printed copy of my book

Two -page spread showing graphs text and code

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Tyson Wepprich @tysonwepprich.bsky.social · Aug 8

Short paper showing how phenology responds nonlinearly to warming (and why summed degree-days are better than days/°C)
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Rethinking the interpretation of spring phenological temperature sensitivity - npj Science of Plants

npj Science of Plants - Rethinking the interpretation of spring phenological temperature sensitivity

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · Aug 6

📢 deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2096...

Fully #openaccess in @bigearthdata1.bsky.social with insight about deeptime📦 development and code examples!

#rstats #geology #paleontology

Plot of global benthic δ18O data for 0 – 5.3 Ma (Lisiecki & Raymo, 2005) with geomagnetic polarity subchrons displayed on the top x-axis and planktic foraminiferal primary biozones plotted on the bottom x-axis using the deeptime package.

A mammal phylogeny (Garland et al., 1992) plotted in the fan layout using the ggtree and deeptime packages. The greyscale concentric circles in the background indicate geological stages, whereas the linear colored timescale indicates geological epochs.

Early tetrapod occurrence data (Jones et al., 2023) plotted as a taxonomic/biostratigraphic range plot using the geom_points_range() function from the deeptime package.

A stratigraphic column of Cretaceous lithostratigraphic units from the San Juan Basin, USA. The deeptime package has been used to add pattern fill which indicate the primary lithologies of the units as reported by the Macrostrat API (Peters et al., 2018) via the rmacrostrat R package (Jones et al., 2024).

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