Without forward-looking models, biodiversity policy risks missing the road to recovery.
Our new PNAS article calls for predictive tools and a World Biodiversity Research Programme to guide global action.

👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#Biodiversity #Conservation #PredictiveModels #PNAS

Led by the #EcoCode group of @geobon.org, we call for a World Biodiversity Research Programme to coordinate global modelling and support the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. #GBF #PredictiveModels
@mark-urban.bsky.social @gretabocedi.bsky.social @sjevelazco.bsky.social

it’s time, EMPSEB begins tomorrow! Follow our conference account to get updates on all the cool science and community-finding that will happen at this cozy, almost*-all-PhD-student conference 😊 (*except for our wonderful invited speakers, of course)

Fantastic 🥳

Signed! Very well put!

Please if you find them get one for me to! So we can both wear at the next staff away day! Brilliant idea!!

I’m so sorry 😔 Sending you all my support

“E questo è il fiore del partigiano morto per la libertà!”
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My homeland celebrating 80 years from the liberation from fascism and still fighting! Buon 25 Aprile!!
www.facebook.com/share/r/1Cmq...

uni of aberdeen sbs biologists (and bonus morrigan the geoscientist) say biologists for trans rights! despite what transphobes like to claim, the proven science DOES NOT AGREE with them. trans women are women, trans men are men, and biology is much more complex than year 9 science lessons

It is an important time to support our trans family, friends and colleagues. A wonderful turnout of wonderfully diverse people in Aberdeen today.

ISBE26-the 20th International Society for Behavioral Ecology Conference will take place in Turin, Italy, from 20-24th of July 2026. We invite you to join us to enjoy a 5-day meeting rich in top-notch science and ample networking opportunities, in our beautiful city. Website out soon!
#ISBE26

It's driving me up the wall that legal definitions are increasingly based on (at best) primary school-level takes on complex concepts (like 'biological sex') which, I don't know, you should probably consult actual experts on.
Also: trans rights are human rights; no LGB without the T(QIA+), ever!

Along with @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social, we've published our reaction to the judgement in the UK Supreme Court today.

There will be more we want to say to trans people directly once we have a chance to catch our breath.

www.equality-network.org/uk-supreme-c...

literally paragraph 2.

Hopeless 😞 We just keep falling back in the dark ages with the glee of a large part of society.
TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS!
Whether hateful and intolerant people and institutions like it or not.

This is huge. My petition got approved. It challenges the UK government to the lift the Puberty Blocker ban on the grounds that it contradicts article 8 of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child.

Please sign and Repost ✊️🏳️‍⚧️

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

I wrote this 5 years ago describing Eric Kaufmann/Policy Exchange's agenda on academic freedom as "McCarthyite."

Today Kaufmann says that Trump's impact on academic freedom is "likely to be net positive".

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
I cannot believe it! This is so dangerous and disheartening, undermining all the progress hardly achieved to protect diversity and vulnerable groups. We should all speak up in support of University of Sussex to avoid spiralling down into a hateful society

Call for applicants: fully-funded ISPF British Council Workshop on Future range of Amazonian Biodiversity, 27/7-2/8 in Manaus. We will train UK- and Brazil-based ecologists and conservationists on mechanistic range models and on Amazonian ecosystems. Details: shorturl.at/hIa7Z. Re-post, please!

🌍 Nature is declining faster than ever. Since 1700:

🔹 Wetlands: -85% 🌊

🔹 Coral Reefs: -50% 🪸

🔹 Forests: -32% 🌳

🔹 Ecosystems: -47% overall

A great visualization of @ipbes.net data by Visual Capitalist and Zero Carbon Analytics ⤵️

www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/visualizi...

I am so happy to see this review online finally! A lot of work, but a lot of fun too! Thank you to all the co-authors! @gretabocedi.bsky.social @trinebilde.bsky.social @jevbio.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

Jenny Gill (UEA)'s seminar on community science and conservation is a masterclass in how to give a departmental seminar, wow.

research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/j...