Britain remains a vital stronghold for the protected great crested newt—but habitat assessments need updating. Research by @emilyseccombe.bsky.social and @robsalgo.bsky.social introduces refined methods to evaluate pond suitability and safeguard these amphibians. Read more ⬇️ bit.ly/46jLnQt

New publication by @cassiespeakman.bsky.social and colleagues incl. @oaggimenez.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @ofbiodiversite.bsky.social @robsalgo.bsky.social on approaches to investigate wildlife response to human activities #ecology 🌍🧪 doi.org/10.1111/ele....

I’ve been promoted to Full Professor of Ecology. This milestone reflects the vast support, excellent mentorship, many collaborations, and inspiration I’ve received from so many people over the years: family, mentors, students, colleagues, and friends. Looking forward to the next chapter. Thx all

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.

🎙️ new podcast episode! 👨‍🔬 as part of our editor expertise series, we spoke with Dr Roberto Salguero-Gómez (@robsalgo.bsky.social), Commissioning Editor for our journal. 👂listen to the full episode here: buff.ly/krNWt8z

Deadline to register & submit abstracts to the Evolutionary Demography Soc conference TODAY @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social evodemo2025.weebly.com Pls share @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk @britishecologicalsociety.org @evoldir.bsky.social @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social

Human-induced pressures threaten many species – & the combination of multiple can be even worse 🐢🐊 Invasive species & global trade can cause even worse impact when combined with other threats like habitat disturbance & climate change 👇 bit.ly/4e8Lpgd @robsalgo.bsky.social @mcem-oxford.bsky.social

Exciting work done by @erolafenollosa.bsky.social as part of her #MSCA with @robsalgo.bsky.social @salgoteam.bsky.social, also with Natalie Briscoe and Antoine Guisan @ecospat-ch.bsky.social! It was a pleasure to have worked on this piece with everyone!

Deadline for the EvoDemoS conference 2 wks away! Join us at @PembrokeOxford @UniofOxford to discuss the breath and depth of demographic theory and applications in Sept evodemo2025.weebly.com Please retweet @biology.ox.ac.uk @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

Also @klvoje.bsky.social @jjemerson.bsky.social @efronhofer.bsky.social @bobohara.bsky.social @jgsaulsbury.bsky.social @robsalgo.bsky.social @eesaupe.bsky.social @devapriya-chat.bsky.social @masahitotsuboi.bsky.social and others not here. And thank you reviewers, whoever you might be!

Assessing limits of sustainable seed harvest in wild plant populations. How many seeds can we harvest in a wild population without causing damage? A massive modeling effort, with @robsalgo.bsky.social @bossdorf.bsky.social @plantevoeco.bsky.social conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Still a few days left to apply for this position in phenology/climate change ecology. Spread the word! The deadline is 31 May.

1/7 🔥🦎 Why now? Due to social media restrictions in Brazil last year (BSKY > X 👀), we couldn’t share this earlier. Thrilled to finally present our findings: Severe fire regimes DECREASE resilience in ectothermic populations. Resistance ≠ recovery. #FireEcology #Conservation 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

EvoDemoS early-bird registration ends tomorrow evodemo2025.weebly.com

REPOST #jobs @oxforddemsci.bsky.social 👨‍💻Senior Research Fellow Associate/Professor 👩‍💻Senior Researcher Geospatial Health 📲Postdoc Digital Pandemic Preparedness 👶Postdoc Reproductive Demography 🤖 Programmer AI See: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs #Demography #Epidemiology #Health #Population

Only 11 days left to the early-bird registration deadline for the 10th annual Evolutionary Demography Society @PembrokeOxford 22-24 Sept 2025. evodemo2025.weebly.com. @biology.ox.ac.uk @mpidr.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

"Increases in Arctic Extreme Climatic Events Are Linked to Negative Fitness Effects on the Local Biota", now out at @globalchangebio.bsky.social, last @salgoteam.bsky.social publication, led by our @biology.ox.ac.uk MBiol student Maya Lemaire

Registration to the 10th annual Evolutionary Demography Society is now open. See you all at @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social 22-24 Sept 2025. Early-bird ends April 15th: evodemo2025.weebly.com Please share @biology.ox.ac.uk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @evoldir.bsky.social

Check out our framework to assess demographic buffering, out now in Ecology Letters, led by @salgoteam.bsky.social recent graduate, Sam Gascoigne - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Applications are open for our Independent Research Fellowship Mentorship Programme! The programme supports promising early career researchers to submit fellowship applications and move towards research independence. If you’re looking to make the move, full details are on our website👇 bit.ly/BioIRF

International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧪

Congrats to Hugo Cayuela (hugocayuela51.wixsite.com/cayuela-hugo) on his successful MSCA fellowship. Hugo will join the @salgoteam.bsky.social to study the physiological and demographic drivers of tetrapod population declines worldwide @biology.ox.ac.uk

In our latest @salgoteam.bsky.social publication, we propose a new metric to quantify life history complexity. Led by Walter Veit, with Sam Gascoigne. Out now at Biological Theory: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Ten simple rules for developing good reading habits during graduate school and beyond "Rule 1: Develop the habit of reading on a daily basis" journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

...the editorial and the concepts within it are explained in this blog post, also written by our editors: https://buff.ly/4gkoGhD

I do. Update used in this 2023 paper www.researchgate.net/publication/.... Much of the data are from my 2001 Ecology database or Comadre compadre-db.org/Data/Comadre @robsalgo.bsky.social. Now working on a global marsupial trait database (led by Mariana, Brazil www.researchgate.net/profile/Mari...).

We examined the complex interplay of genetics, family environment, health and intergenerational transmission of occupational status @naturehumbehav.bsky.social Article 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... FAQs unpacking study 👉 tinyurl.com/yckamr7x Graphical summary below 👇

Our Senior Editors and Commissioning Editor have written an editorial, "conceptualising ecology to support more theory-driven research"🌿🐜🦓 https://buff.ly/3P1YwEg @robsalgo.bsky.social @lancasterlt.bsky.social @natejsanders.bsky.social @dmevans.bsky.social

It's 1st December... which means it's time for my merry #mistletoe advent calendar! One mistletoe fact a day up to Christmas (without repeating myself from last year...) 🎄🌱🧪 (1/26)

We are looking for contributors to our new series on the Methods Blog, exploring the experiences of ecologists conducting research in remote field stations during the holiday season🎄 Please get in touch if you would like to find out more! 🌎 🧪

If you use AIC, you’ve gotta read this paper.

And that’s a wrap! Thanks @britishecolsoc.bsky.social for a wonderful #BES2024 conference. We at the @salgoteam.bsky.social had a wonderful time exchanging ideas, connecting with collaborators and friends, and learning from all the wonderful presentations

Day 3 of #BES2024 - still lots of wonderful talks to see!

Day 2 of #BES2024 - more great talks and posters to check out today! 🦭🎄🧪

Check out today's presentations by the @salgoteam.bsky.social (and associates) at #BES2024 @britishecolsoc.bsky.social

Senior Postdoctoral Research position open in EEB Princeton puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Very excited to be presenting preliminary results of my master's research with @salgoteam.bsky.social at #BES2024! Find me at the poster session on Weds (A17.10) to chat about life stage-dependent plant competition and quantitative modelling of its impact on community dynamics and coexistence 🌿📈

Our editorial on Concepts in Animal Ecology in @animalecology.bsky.social is out. Want to submit a Concept article to JAE and are attending the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social annual meeting next week? Let's meet! (otherwise email is fine too) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

‼️This is not a drill!‼️ Wisdom, a Laysan albatross & the world’s oldest known wild bird, has laid an egg, at ~74 years old!🧪 Proud of you, Wisdom. To many more eggs in your future

Does family matter? Croll & Caswell develop a new approach to integrate family interactions in matrix population models. They show that the disruption of African elephant families accelerates the decrease in population growth due to poaching. Read now! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Taking a berry from a mistletoe this Xmas? For our inaugural 🎄Christmas lecture 🎄on the 17th Dec at 6pm we have @biolliegist.bsky.social telling us all about his mistletoe research. We caught up with Ollie for a sneak peak📽️ youtu.be/1MiUNRGHbnE

I did want to finish the paper today… but Manon had other plans

I tried to put a bit of order on my ideas on leadership, especially related to managing a research lab. This is mainly an internal document, but I thought it could be useful for someone else as inspiration. bartomeuslab.com/2024/11/14/o...

When it comes to mistletoes, "'Tis the season" all year round! Check out this interview with SkyNews by @salgoteam.bsky.social PhD student @biolliegist.bsky.social at time mark 2:52:30 www.youtube.com/live/O8it38z... @oxfordbiology.bsky.social

🧪So pleased to see @alice-rosen.bsky.social paper on tropical forest structural complexity featured as Editor's choice in the latest issue of @ecography.bsky.social 🎉 Check it out here: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Postdoc position at the interface of plant population and community ecology at Ben Blonder’s lab at UC Berkeley, in collaboration w my lab at Oxford @oxfordbiology.bsky.social. Details aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04677

Hello World!. This migration from X/Twitter was overdue. Happy to be here. Any tips/suggestions? in exchange, I sweeten your day with Manon and Faust