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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · Aug 14

Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today!

Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you!

🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿
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A Causal Inference Framework for Climate Change Attribution in Ecology

Accurately attributing ecological shifts to climate change remains a significant challenge. Here, we present an accessible causal inference framework designed for climate change attribution in observ...

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · Aug 12

"Across observed tropical bird populations, impacts of climate change have typically been larger than direct human pressure"

Large reductions in tropical bird abundance attributable to heat extreme intensification - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Climate change poses a growing threat to biodiversity, but disentangling its overall impact from other anthropogenic stressors is challenging. Here the authors use a data-driven climate attribution fr...

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Gates Dupont @gates.bsky.social · Aug 11

📊 Very much looking forward to #ESA2025!!

I'll be presenting my work on North American bird declines 📉

Session: COS 153 - Biodiversity 4
Time: Thursday, August 14, 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM EDT
Room: BCC 322

See you there!! 🦉🦉

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Gates Dupont @gates.bsky.social · Aug 11

See you there!!

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Gates Dupont @gates.bsky.social · Jul 31

🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social

We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.

📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species

Declines in North American birds are driven not by rare species vanishing but by sharp losses among formerly common species.

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Gates Dupont @gates.bsky.social · Jul 31

Thank you!

Gates Dupont @gates.bsky.social · Jul 31

Thanks, Rob!!

Gates Dupont @gates.bsky.social · Jul 31

🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social

We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.

📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species

Declines in North American birds are driven not by rare species vanishing but by sharp losses among formerly common species.

www.science.org

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Diana Renn @dianarenn.bsky.social · Feb 9

Happy #SuperbOwlSunday! This Superb Owl is a northern saw-whet I met while shadowing owl banders in NH, part of my research for my new #mg novel THE OWL PROWL MYSTERY. Comment w your fave owl for a chance to win the book, sticker, & field journal! (owl decoy not included!) #owls #ecofiction

Photo of a northern saw-whet owl perched on a human hand, poised to launch into flight, feathers back, against backdrop of night sky.

Photo of a northern saw-whet owl perched on a human hand, face front, dark black nighttime sky.

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · Jan 31

Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in #biodiversity

Ecological communities change constantly as some species come while others go - this turnover is accelerated by rapid temperature change, communities becoming more dissimilar over time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in biodiversity - Nature

Global-scale analyses of marine, terrestrial and freshwater assemblages found that temporal rates of species replacement were faster in locations with faster temperature change, including warming and ...

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · Jan 31

Harsher dry seasons due to climate change is linked to declining bird survival in the Amazon

"...challenging the notion that pristine rainforests can fully protect their #biodiversity under increasingly severe climate conditions."

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Climate change aggravates bird mortality in pristine tropical forests

Climate change threatens Amazon rainforest birds, with harsher dry seasons significantly affecting their survival over 27 years.

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · Jan 31

We, the authors, are organizing to continue this effort in other ways. More coming hopefully soon.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Jan 31

The first ever US national nature assessment has been terminated and its USGCRP and DOI webpages have been removed.

A PDF of the zeroth order draft is still available here: review.globalchange.gov/system/files...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Jan 30

Maybe it's better not to mess around with certain federal functions. It's not a game.

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · Jan 24

Excellent perspective by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social @bloomberg.com on the deep freeze at NIH

Trump's NIH Freeze Puts Scientific Research at Risk

America’s best scientific minds are scrambling to determine the impact of the disruption.

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Gates Dupont @gates.bsky.social · Jan 25

A peaceful owl amid a chaotic week. Have a good weekend, everyone.

A photo of a Barred Owl. The owl is facing the camera. The owl is sitting on a dead branch that extends at about a 35 degree angle. There are various twigs in the frame, mostly in the background. The distant background is blurry with white clouds and blue sky. The owl has a slight golden-hour glow.

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Gates Dupont @gates.bsky.social · Jan 21

Just had a similar experience; deactivated my instagram accounts.

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · Jan 9

"Currently, there is nowhere in Britain that to my knowledge has successfully reversed, or even stopped, Willow Tit decline." #ukbirding #ornithology

Matt Livesey @mlivesey.bsky.social · Jan 9

With news of yet another county extinction for Willow Tit (this time in Warwickshire) I'm prompted to offer some personal reflections on the effort to save Britain's "Turtle Dove of the North", and what is says about woodland bird #conservation as a whole...

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How do you solve a problem like Willow Tit?

With news of yet another county extinction in Warwickshire, things are looking bleak for Britain's second fastest declining bird (Turtle Dove takes the unwanted crown of No 1). Even more worryingly, f...

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Jim van Belzen @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social · Jan 11

"Why biodiversity matters in agriculture and food systems"
doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Why biodiversity matters in agriculture and food systems

Imagine a world where the variety of food sources we rely on is reduced to a mere handful of species. This is not a dystopian future. It’s the path we are on right now, and it’s happening silently in ...

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Gates Dupont @gates.bsky.social · Jan 10

Reported this banded Ring-billed Gull in Massachusetts. Just heard back from USGS—he hatched in 2019 and was banded in the summer of 2021 on a small island outside Montreal!

Bands can be reported to: www.reportband.gov

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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · Jan 4

Three letters up on my last essay for @ScienceMagazine ...two are really interesting, one is not. Check them out yourself: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Scientists as political advocates

Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...

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Gates Dupont @gates.bsky.social · Jan 4

🚨 My first Substack post!

🦅 substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social · Jan 2

New paper out @science.org shows that bats surf warm storm fronts to power continental migrations 🌀⛈️🦇🤙
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

By Edward Hurme; Ivan Lenzi; Martin Wikelski; Timm Wild; and Dina Dechmann

Bats surf storm fronts during spring migration

Long-distance migration, common in passerine birds, is rare and poorly studied in bats. Piloting a 1.2-gram IoT (Internet of Things) tag with onboard processing, we tracked the daily location, tempera...

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · Jan 3

The incoming Trump administration plans to target the National Climate Assessment so that it can't be used to defend regulations in court. Russ Vought, Trump's OMB pick, wants to personally approve a team of climate denialists to rewrite it. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

Trump team takes aim at crown jewel of US climate research

A top aide to the president-elect wants tighter control over the National Climate Assessment.

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