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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 15h

🚨 Just one week left until our conference kicks off!

Join us for unconferences, workshops, and hackathons.

Register now at sortee.org/upcoming #SORTEE2025

Upcoming events

Upcoming conference by Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)

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Guilherme Castro @guivcastro.bsky.social · 1d

I just finished an exciting full year collecting data for my PhD and I wrote a quick blog post on @jappliedecology.bsky.social about why it matters🌍

@britishecologicalsociety.org
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Field Diaries: Using remote sensing to help restore landscapes

In our ‘Field Diaries’ series, The Applied Ecologist is sharing stories from a range of different fieldwork experiences. In this post Guilherme Castro shares his research on using remote sensing to…

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 1d

We're looking for a Research Highlights Editor!

Research Highlights are short commentary papers that contextualise the latest research within the wider field 🌍

This role could be a great fit for an ECR looking to take the next steps into editing ✍️🧪

Apply here: bit.ly/4o0bTV8

Research Highlights Editor for Journal of Applied Ecology - British Ecological Society

Join the editorial board on Journal of Applied Ecology! Apply by 01 Nov 2025.

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Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · 1d

📰Published📰Different herbivores, different outcomes: how animals influence leaf breakdown 🍃

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Different herbivores, different outcomes: how animals influence leaf breakdown

M. Paz Tapella, Carolina Quintero, Mariano A. Rodriguez-Cabal, Yamila Sasal, M. Noelia Barrios-Garcia This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found he…

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Mathias Disney @matdisney.bsky.social · 2d

Our new perspective on what TLS can (& can't) do in forest research www.nature.com/articles/s41... - led by Eduardo Maeda w lots of great colleagues including @kimcalders.bsky.social @emilyrlines.bsky.social @louiseterryn.bsky.social @benjaminbrede.bsky.social (apols for any I don;t have @ for)

Expanding forest research with terrestrial LiDAR technology - Nature Communications

This Review highlights how terrestrial laser scanning is transforming forest research by enabling highly detailed 3D measurements of trees, supporting applications in forest ecology, carbon monitoring, and biodiversity assessment.

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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 3d

Correction: turns out this is not a wild pansy but a hybrid Viola x wittrockiana, a garden escape. Thanks for pointing this out @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social and @fungiflowers.bsky.social

Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 3d

Lovely wild pansy (Viola tricolor) hiding from the winds next to the house wall #wildflowerhour

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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 3d

thanks!

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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 3d

Could well be, thanks!

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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 3d

Lovely wild pansy (Viola tricolor) hiding from the winds next to the house wall #wildflowerhour

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Centre for Forest Protection @forest-protection.bsky.social · 9d

📢 BRITAIN'S FOREST FUTURE: RESEARCH-PRACTICE EXCHANGE 🌳

Join us for the most significant forest and woodland research, policy and practice knowledge-exchange event in 2025!

📍 Durham
📅 17 & 18 November 2025

🔗 Find out more and book your place: britainsforestfuture.zohobackstage.eu/event

Britain’s Forest Future: Research-Practice Exchange

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Elina Mäntylä @elinamantyla.bsky.social · 5d

Basile et al. Urban tree canopy cover over 30 % and native trees enhance bird insectivory and tree biosecurity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ornithology

Urban tree canopy cover over 30 % and native trees enhance bird insectivory and tree biosecurity

Urban trees support biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services but are increasingly threatened by native and non-native insect pests. Biosec…

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Marie Stenseke @mariestenseke.bsky.social · 7d

University of Gothenburg announces a strategic professorship in biodiversity with an interdisciplinary profile
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The Crown Princess Victoria Professorship in Biodiversity - Academic Positions

Seeking an internationally recognized scientist for a prestigious professorship in biodiversity. Lead groundbreaking research, interdisciplinary collaboratio...

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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 7d

Does this link work: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...? The paper is on the 6-month OA track, so should be accessible

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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Mark Brown @markjfbrown.bsky.social · 8d

Delighted to see Hannah’s penultimate PhD paper come out today www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Strong evidence against the ‘warmer, sicker world’ hypothesis. Parasites 🪱🦠 and their hosts are just very variable! Another great collaboration with @juliakoricheva.bsky.social @rhulbiology.bsky.social

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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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 9d

It's 1st week of the autumn term, so it's harvest time for field journals from @rhulbiology.bsky.social practical field ecology course. Very much looking forward to reading these and learning what observations and surveys our students have completed over the summer 🐾🐞🌿🍄‍🟫🐦🐛🦔🕸🫎🔎📈📗

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Florian Schnabel @mixedforests.bsky.social · 9d

🗞️New study in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 🗞️

🌳Diversity in resource use strategies promotes productivity across a global network of tree #diversity experiments?🌲

Read our new study led by Joel Jensen together with #TreeDivNet here:

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Diversity in Resource Use Strategies Promotes Productivity in Young Planted Tree Species Mixtures

By analyzing data from over 83,000 trees in 21 experiments across five continents, we found that forests with more species were more productive and had more stable growth. Productivity was driven mai....

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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 14d

Plant that mimics odour of half-eaten ants to attract pollinators discovered

Botanist says new Japanese species of dogbane is first evidence of plants copying ants

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 14d

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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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 15d

Interesting Open Day today at #Wakehurst @rbgkew.bsky.social focusing on science behind multifunctional landscapes with good group discussions both outdoors and indoors

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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 16d

Impact and insight note from TreE_PlaNat @uktreescapes.bsky.social project is out! Natural colonisation can successfully create structurally diverse woodlands and can be combined with tree planting to reduce the uncertainty of using natural processes alone www.uktreescapes.org/wp-content/u...

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DrZP @zarahpattison.bsky.social · Sep 4

🏞️𝐅𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡?
Our new study looked at fieldwork policies and risk assessments from 90 UK universities offering environmental science courses.
The results are eye-opening:
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Improving university policies and risk assessment to support inclusive fieldwork in environmental sciences

Among 90 UK higher education institutions, there was patchy mention of protected and other identity-related characteristics in fieldwork policy and risk assessments, and very limited consideration of....

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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 19d

Really cool story about long-distance pollen transport by migratory hoverflies. The actual research paper is here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 19d

Birds aren’t the only creatures that fly south for the winter.

Thousands of flies keep landing on North Sea oil rigs then taking off a few hours later – here’s why

Birds aren’t the only creatures that fly south for the winter.

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 21d

New in #ProcB - From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 21d

📣 Hot off the press at #ProcB!

🔍 Our study checked data/code-sharing policies in 275 eco/evo journals and compliance in Proc B (n=2,340) & Ecology Letters (n=571). Policies exist, but clarity and strictness vary, affecting reproducibility.

🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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František Bartoš @fbartos.bsky.social · 21d

We released two preprints describing the JASP Meta-Analytic functionality in detail.

Meta-Analysis with JASP, Part I: Classical Approaches (arxiv.org/abs/2509.09845)

Meta-Analysis with JASP, Part II: Bayesian Approaches (arxiv.org/abs/2509.09850)

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