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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · 16d

Blitz the Gap was recently featured in Le Devoir with an action shot of @laura-pollock.bsky.social blitzing the gap! 🌱 Seems crazy that there are only 9 days left to the project's first summer to fill gaps in Canadian #biodiversity data with #iNaturalist. We've reached >2,500,000 observations!

La biodiversité canadienne étalée sur une carte

Les espèces de la faune et de la flore canadiennes ont été répertoriées dans d’un projet scientifique citoyen.

www.ledevoir.com

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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · 28d

So many indicators, so little time! ⏰ We wrote a guide to streamline the choice of indicators for tracking biodiversity targets, thanks to key criteria, evaluation sheets, and most importantly - collaborations! 🌱 @biodiversite-quebec.ca

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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · Jul 8

Peter Soroye @wcscanada.org explains how @inaturalist.bsky.social data factors into Key Biodiversity Areas (@keybiodiversity.bsky.social).

Join them in Blitz The Gap 2025! blitzthegap.org

#CSEE2025

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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · Jul 11

Last week, I had the very cool opportunity to talk about Blitz the Gap (our Canada-wide initiative to fill biodiversity data gaps this summer blitzthegap.org) on Moteur de Recherche at Radio-Canada. I had a blast! Listen here (in French) 🔊 shorturl.at/lJisw

Vendredi 4 juill. 2025 : Les premières frontières terrestres, et la psychologie des foules | OHdio | Radio-Canada

Écoutez l’épisode de l’émission Moteur de recherche : Vendredi 4 juill. 2025 : Les premières frontières terrestres, et la psychologie des foules

ici.radio-canada.ca

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Lucas Eckert @lucaseckert.bsky.social · Jul 10

In case you missed my talk at #CSEE2025, you can explore your own collaborative networks and see a little summary on my website!

www.lucaseckert.ca/side-project...

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Janaina Serrano @janaserrano.bsky.social · May 28

pollocklab.github.io/blitz-the-ga...

This summer, we are trying to Blitz the Gap 🕵️ in our knowledge about species 🦇🐛🦉🐟🐸🌿 that haven't been seen for 15, 30 or 50+ years in Canada!

Check it out!👇

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Lucas Eckert @lucaseckert.bsky.social · May 27

This map ⬇️ is from a challenge I designed that encourages people to go out and observe the major group of taxa 🐟🍄🐍🪲🦫🪻 that is unusually under-represented in their county 🇨🇦

Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · May 26

A series of 🏆 Challenges 🏆 were designed by graduate students, researchers, avid iNat users, conservation practioners, and more throughout Canada to highlight species and places that deserve a little more attention:
pollocklab.github.io/blitz-the-gap/

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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · May 26

and @qcbs.ca members, there are Champion Grants 💰 available to plan local bioblitzes or a field trip for you and your friends to Blitz the Gap! 🥾🌱 qcbs.ca/call-for-applications-champion-grants-to-blitz-the-gap/

Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · May 26

Join the project on iNaturalist to Blitz the Gap with us!! 🌱🏞️ inaturalist.ca/projects/bli...

Blitz the Gap

Blitz the Gap is a Canada-wide bioblitz to help us fill gaps in our knowledge of biodiversity. Blitz the Gap est un bioblitz pancanadien qui vise à combler les lacunes dans nos connaissances sur la bi...

inaturalist.ca

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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · May 26

iNaturalist is a key source of information for us to better understand, monitor, and protect biodiversity! 🌎 We rely on it so much, especially in this era where funding for science and biodiversity monitoring is increasingly uncertain...

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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · May 26

A series of 🏆 Challenges 🏆 were designed by graduate students, researchers, avid iNat users, conservation practioners, and more throughout Canada to highlight species and places that deserve a little more attention:
pollocklab.github.io/blitz-the-gap/

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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · May 26

One week until Blitz the Gap (www.blitzthegap.org) starts - a Canada-wide event to fill biodiversity data gaps with iNaturalist! @laura-pollock.bsky.social

Blitz the Gap 2025

www.blitzthegap.org

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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · May 20

In our May issue: Journal Club from Katherine Hébert "Biodiversity change is more than the sum of its parts"
go.nature.com/4jY31h2

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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · May 5

I wrote a journal club for Nature Reviews Biodiversity to reflect on the ways one of my favourite papers shaped (and keeps shaping) my research!

Spoiler alert: We need to summarise biodiversity change as a multi-species process, rather than a collection of separate trends
doi.org/10.1038/s443...

Biodiversity change is more than the sum of its parts - Nature Reviews Biodiversity

Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Biodiversity change is more than the sum of its parts

doi.org

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UCL Faculty of Life Sciences @ucllifesciences.bsky.social · Mar 21

A new study by @alexpigot.bsky.social and colleagues reveals the critical role of biodiversity in the functioning of ecosystems.
@uclcber.bsky.social

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

Macroecological rules predict how biomass scales with species richness in nature

Despite advances in theory and experiments, how biodiversity influences the structure and functioning of natural ecosystems remains debated. By applying new theory to data on 84,695 plant, animal, and...

www.science.org

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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · Feb 3

This all started at the “Tracking a Moving Target” workshop at the @geobon.org conference in Montreal in October 2023. Thank you to all who participated and shout out to my great co-authors (Maximiliane Jousse, Janaína Serrano, @dirknkarger.bsky.social, Guillaume Blanchet, and Laura Pollock)!

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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · Feb 3

Global progress towards our 2030 biodiversity targets starts with local, short-term change - but are we equipped to capture these changes? 🤔 Well, the link between on-the-ground conservation and global indicators is not always clear. We have some ideas about how to clarify & strengthen this link 📝 :

Five recommendations to fill the blank space in indicators at local and short-term scales

The year 2030 is rapidly approaching. Building, monitoring, and reporting indicators to evaluate the 2030 targets in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodi…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Joe Bennett @joebennett.bsky.social · Jan 13

New work by @adbinley.bsky.social and others: 61% of endangered species in Canada lack research on what conservation actions work. We need more action-based research. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Endangered species lack research on the outcomes of conservation action

Summary of the available peer-reviewed literature for 209 terrestrial species at risk listed as Endangered in Canada. The number of species in each category is noted in the rectangle to the right of ...

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · Jan 6

Which indicators do we need to track and report biodiversity change? Our new preprint 📝 presents the indicator selection process we built to recommend 15 indicators for Québec's 2030 Nature Plan. We share guidelines, outcomes, and recommendations to choose your own shortlist! doi.org/10.32942/X2J...

SMART+C criteria used to select a shortlist of indicators for subnational biodiversity strategies. S = Specific, M = Measurable, A = Achievable, R = Relevant, T = Timely, C = Communicable. A short description of each term is shown in the figure.

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Macroecology lab @unipotsdam @zurelllab.bsky.social · Nov 24

Check out our new paper in @ecography.bsky.social
led by Jamie Kass! big team of #R pkg developers show how to improve analysis standards by combining different pkgs for species distribution models #SDM, provide a #shiny app to catalog & explore them, 3 extensive tutorials. doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

Achieving higher standards in species distribution modeling by leveraging the diversity of available software

The increasing online availability of biodiversity data and advances in ecological modeling have led to a proliferation of open-source modeling tools. In particular, R packages for species distributi....

doi.org

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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · Nov 20

A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter

mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science - Mike Young Academy

Scientific Twitter is about to find its true successor. And it is not X. This, our latest release, shows that the Bluesky network of scientists is growing — and growing.

mikeyoungacademy.dk

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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · Nov 19

I am super excited to join my fellow panelists to talk about why biodiversity 🌱 and climate 🌡️ must be considered together if we want to stop biodiversity loss. Register to watch on Thursday, November 21st at 12PM EST (in French) 📺! shorturl.at/UzWm3

Biodiversity panel announcement about COP-16 and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework on November 21, 12H-13H online with a description and photos of the panelists: Leila Cantave, Anne-Céline Guyon, Laura Fequine, Joëlle Voglimacci, and Katherine Hébert.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Nov 14

Time for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change...

"Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪

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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · Nov 13

Hi!! Could I be added to this too?

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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · Nov 13

Thanks for setting this up!! Could you please add me to the list too?