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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · Aug 20

🎙️ our latest podcast episode is live!
👨‍🔬 we spoke with our incredible Research Highlights Editor, Mariano Rodriguez-Cabal, about his research and his experience working as an editor on our journal.
🔉 listen in English here: buff.ly/9ZICMim
🔉 Escucha en español aquí: buff.ly/LX5Hw6k

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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · Aug 13

Nutrient Enrichment Increases Blue Carbon Potential of Subtropical Seagrass Beds

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · Aug 12

Don't forget to submit your proposal for our Sidnie Manton award!

Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · Jun 30

The Journal of Animal Ecology's 5th Sidnie Manton award is now open to proposals!🚨
Read more about the award here: buff.ly/BV6OT1P
...and submit your proposal here: buff.ly/YsnYe29
The deadline for proposals will be 1 September 2025.

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · Aug 6

🚨 our August issue is now live! buff.ly/HzYBKQL
🪸 it includes papers from our latest cross-journal Special Feature, "Marine Heatwaves". You can read the full list of papers in the feature, including papers from @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/qXHEMjS

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · Aug 4

🐝 Our latest Special Feature, "Network Ecology in the Anthropocene", is now accepting proposals.
📝 The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · Aug 2

Quote: "We investigated not only how biotic resistance could restrict the success of a range-shifting species, but also how it could positively impact the fitness of an individual resident species by sheltering it from novel competition."
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Guild diversity impacts demographic outcomes of novel species interactions following range shifts

This study applies the theory of biotic resistance, a common concept in invasion ecology, to the world of climate driven range shifts, and finds support that biotic resistance may create a life-stage....

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Jessica Budke 🌱🥼🔬 @mossplants.bsky.social · Aug 2

Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB @utknoxville.bsky.social Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · Jul 23

"subtle stressors—Strong responses. Consistent negative effects of avian blood parasites on phenotypic and demographic traits across songbirds" 🐦

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · Jul 21

"Our findings reveal a notable resilience in the co-occurrence patterns of understorey birds to selective logging in Borneo, underscoring the long-term conservation value of logged tropical forests..." 🪵
Read the full paper here: buff.ly/BKmDRyi

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Lily Leahy @lilyleahy.bsky.social · Jul 18

Hot off the press: Metabolic traits are shaped by phylogenetic conservatism and environment, not just body size

Our article in PNAS explores several controversies in metabolic theory in a macroscale study of 🐜 #aridity #temp #SMR #DGC 📸:François Brassard

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501541122

Myrmecia ant carrying an Isopod, photo: François Brassard

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · Jul 15

🚨 new research: "effects of competition and predation risk from a life history intraguild predator on individual specialisation"
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David López-Idiáquez @davididiaquez.bsky.social · Jul 2

On how and why I took more than 22,500 colour measurements in a month and survived animalecologyinfocus.com/2025/07/02/o...

On how and why I took more than 22,500 colour measurements in a month and survived

This blog post is provided by David Lopez-Idiaquez and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Global patterns of colouration complexity in the Paridae: effects of climate and species chara…

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Simons Foundation @simonsfoundation.org · Jul 2

There is one month left to apply for our Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! These awards provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in #ecology and #evolution. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #science

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

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Lesley Lancaster @lancasterlt.bsky.social · Jul 2

Super proud of this Special Feature on the Global Energy Transition 🌏💡- read our editorial and exciting contributions here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/global-e...

The Global Energy Transition: Ecological Impact, Mitigation and Restoration

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Nate Sanders @natejsanders.bsky.social · Jun 30

It's time for @animalecology.bsky.social 's Sidnie Manton Award for Early Career Researchers! Send in those ideas!

Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · Jun 30

The Journal of Animal Ecology's 5th Sidnie Manton award is now open to proposals!🚨
Read more about the award here: buff.ly/BV6OT1P
...and submit your proposal here: buff.ly/YsnYe29
The deadline for proposals will be 1 September 2025.

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · Jun 26

"An experimental test of the importance of isolated trees for frog diversity in tropical landscapes" 🐸
read the full paper here: buff.ly/df82hJL

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Lesley Lancaster @lancasterlt.bsky.social · May 18

Exciting opportunity for a PhD project to expand our knowledge of plant thermal tolerances- from a single tree to trends! 🌳 🌎🌡️🔥❄️

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Plant Science CDT: Plant thermal tolerances across scales: from a single tree to global trends at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Plant Science CDT: Plant thermal tolerances across scales: from a single tree to global trends at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Inês Martins @inesismartins.bsky.social · May 15

BioTime v2 is out!!🚨 - Explore the largest #database of #biodiversity time-series studies in the world.

Now with more studies🗄️🔍👩‍💻, more species 🌱🦎🦇🐟🌳🐜🐚🪸🐀, more locations 🌐…just more!

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Free to download, free to use!
#BioTime #Macroecology #GlobalChange

BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series

Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...

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Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social · May 10

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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · May 10

Every week @lizneeley.bsky.social’s newsletter manages to pull coherence & moral clarity out of the wreckage of the news around science and higher ed. This week it feels particularly impressive (and more critical than ever!) to have pulled off.

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Week 16

Figuring out what to focus on now & next in science and higher ed

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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · Apr 29

What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers
Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.

predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...

What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers

Thirty three reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.

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Joseph Tobias @josephtobias.bsky.social · Apr 29

The new era of global bird phylogenies begins – this one built over several years by @snacktavish.bsky.social and team massively increases sample size and will be a fantastic resource for macroevolution and macroecology. 🪶 🌐 🧪

Eliot Miller @eliotmiller.bsky.social · Apr 29

*** Academic BFD alert ***

We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Ecological Society of America @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · Apr 29

🌟Announcing the 2025 ESA Fellows and Early Career Fellows!🌟ESA's fellowship program recognizes the many ways in which our members contribute to ecological research, communication, education, management & policy. Learn more about this year's cohort: esa.org/blog/2025/04...

A photo collage of the 2025 class of ESA's fellows and early career fellows. Click through the link for a full list of fellows and their individual bona fides.

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Nate Sanders @natejsanders.bsky.social · Apr 23

It's Undergrad Poster Day in EEB. It's one of my favorite days of the year when we get to hear from future leaders in ecology and evolution talk about their impactful research experiences.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Apr 23

University of Michigan Regents come out squarely and publicly in defense of academic freedom against political coercion and the role of higher education and research in making America prosperous, secure ... and well ... maybe even Great? www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

In defense of our institutional independence

This University is a proud public university that belongs to all of us and generations to follow. It is a place to test ideas, shape futures and pursue, not prescribe, truth.

www.michigandaily.com

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · Apr 17

Well done, Leonna Szangolies, for winning the 2024 Elton Prize in @animalecology.bsky.social!🏆

Leonna’s research models how habitat fragmentation affects coexistence among species of different body sizes. 🐁

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2656.14134

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