Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

¡Buen sábado! Hoy 🌧️🌧️🌧️ 21° de máx. #Cientificidiosinfin Informe de Canal 13 San Juan TV sobre el radiotelescopio CART, de fines estrictamente científicos y cuya instalación está detenida desde junio 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JibX...

Need to think more about the headline claim, but this proposes a very nice new thermal performance curve (TPC) function with appealing properties. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

More Species in Small Patches vs. Large Patches: Insights from Modeling 🌿🔍 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

October news! 🗞️ #rstats 🦋 2025-11-06 Community call: Graceful Internet Packages 📼 Community call recording: R-multiverse, a new way to publish R packages 📆 Coworking 📦 New package {partialling.out} 👋 Call for new maintainers 🗒️ 4 blog posts! 🧰 Package Development Corner […]

🌿 When trees die and rot, they release stored carbon. Australia’s rainforests now emit more CO2 than they absorb. A sign of rising heat & drought stress. Once sinks, now turning into sources. Similar patterns appear in parts of the Amazon 🌎 #Climate #Forests #TropicalRainforests #Australia #Amazon

Two years after a record-setting heatwave, scientists have confirmed that two iconic corals that have flourished across Florida’s 560-kilometre-long reef for more than 10,000 years are now ‘functionally extinct’ go.nature.com/4ozyesU

Fellow Floridians - join your local UFF chapter (like @uffuf.bsky.social ). If you don’t have a local union (and you should check) then join the @aaup.org’s at-large chapter and help them fight for the future of higher education. www.aaup.org/chapters/aau... (join link at the bottom)

Señorxs diputadxs: peligra la supervivencia del sistema nacional de ciencia y tecnología. Es indispensable que se apruebe #LeyDeEmergenciaCientífica. Sin ciencia, no hay educación, no hay salud, no hay desarrollo 👇Detengan esta infamia

¡Buen miércoles! Sin ciencia no hay educación, no hay salud, no hay desarrollo. Hoy se discute la #LeyDeEmergenciaCientífica TUITAZO nacional para exigir la aprobación urgente de la #LeyDeEmergenciaCientífica y detener la destrucción del sistema científico 👇

Whether it’s dancing the tango or playing the guitar, engaging in a creative pastime can slow brain ageing go.nature.com/4gXwDun

Could humans and AI become so interdependent that they form a new kind of evolutionary individual? In this op-ed, SFI External Professor Michael Hochberg and co-author Paul Rainey explore whether deepening interdependence between humans and AI could lead to a new form of evolutionary individuality.

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Several small reserves hold more beetle, spider and bird species than a single large reserve of the same size in Central Europe, with habitat heterogeneity being an important driver. First PhD paper by Anne Huber (not on Bsky), w/ @sebseibold.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

¡Buen sábado! Hoy 🌞🌞🌞 15° de máx. AHORA ¡¡Están transmitiendo desde el buque Falkor EN VIVO!! Aprovechemos que ya se despiden y tienen que volver 😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttYm...

¡Buen viernes! Hoy 🌤️⛅️🌤️ 14° de máx. El Conicet, la estrellita "culona", el fondo del mar y el presidente en el @nytimes 😃 www.nytimes.com/es/2025/08/0...

A meta-analysis found that high-density managed honeybee populations can: 👉disrupt local biodiversity🌏 👉reduce pollinator richness🧪 👉alter plant-pollinator relationships🐝 ...all with minimal benefits to crop yields! Calls for evidence-based hive density guidelines 📑 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Please, please, please-submit to good journals (society + reputed publishers), respect peer review, and do your reviews with integrity. So important. Thanks to all of you who do. @steve-carpenter.bsky.social @esajournals.bsky.social #Ecosystems

¡Buen lunes! Hoy 🌤️⛅️🌤️ 15° de máx. ¡Hermoso comienzo de semana! Ya estamos de nuevo explorando los mares ¡a 3700 metros de profundidad! En primera fila, guiados por investigadorxs del @CONICETDialoga que estaban esperando al pez trípode😍👇Imperdible 😊 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcM8...

🐝 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.

Cazar con plomo no tiene sentido: contamina la cadena trófica y perjudica la salud de los que se alimentan de la carne cazada. Un grupo de científicos hemos pedido un cese total y sin excepciones del uso de plomo en la caza. www.ebd.csic.es/divulgacion/...

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Against reductionism: "Our understanding of the world is built up of innumerable layers. Each is worth exploring, as long as we do not forget that it is one of many. Knowing all there is to know about one layer (...) would not teach us much about the rest". Erwin Chargaff

Amazing!!

For many marine species, all we have is a name. Now, thanks to a huge effort led by @drcraigmc.bsky.social, for 85,000 species we have body size as well. Version 1 of the MOBS database is published today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Enjoy! 🌐🧪

El virólogo Humberto Debat lo sintetiza de forma dolorosamente magistral: "Los recortes al INTA no son simplemente un numero en un excel: son heridas profundas a un entramado científico y humano que tardó décadas en construirse (sigue) 👇

The #BioTIME 2.0 database offers unprecedented insight into how #biodiversity is changing through time across the globe, spanning nearly 150 years of #ecological records from 1874 – 2023 🌍 #EcologyData #Metrics #GlobalData news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/the-...

Now that every scientist and everybody in a university has been drafted into the resistance, what's next? 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/p/welcome-to...

Wildfires in Canada are intensifying as unusual heat, drought, and a stalled weather pattern collide. Climate change has made this early-season heat at least 5 times MORE likely than a world without carbon pollution. 🔴Climate Shift Index Alert: climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right. Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ecologists’ endless quest for automatic inference statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/28/e...

Going live in 2 hours... @jpodwyer.bsky.social and @sarperotto.bsky.social interview Bob Holt for @smtpb.bsky.social youtu.be/q8hX3S0xMJc?...

Just published in final form: a hugely creative study "Modelling Amazon fire regimes under climate change scenarios" by @larysar.bsky.social -- I feel privileged to have been part of this! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I updated the lab website, I have to rebuild it and still there are many details to change, but it's s start! lsaravia.github.io

Feliz #DíaDelLibro!!! Nada mejor para celebrarlo que acercarse a una librería local (una de verdad, no un supermercado de libros) y hacerse con unos cuantos (nunca son demasiados).

Classic Hypotheses of Area, Time, and Climatic Stability Fall Short in Explaining High Tropical Species Richness 🧪 🌐 #macroecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪 🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far 🔴 Cancelled grants focused on → Training scientists → Misinformation → AI → Climate change Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info. Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

My NSF postdoctoral fellowship was one of the grants terminated yesterday. Devastating is an understatement. Thankful for a supportive admin with a plan to support me for now.

I had an NSF grant on AI education canceled yesterday. I wasn’t given any kind of reason but I have a theory and it’s just as stupid as you might think. (I will probably have more to say on this once I have more details but for right now just: 😡 )

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

Head over to our Youtube channel to watch our latest MEE live with Abby Keller and find out more about eDNAjoint, a new tool for eDNA 🧬 buff.ly/gnLVVgV Don't forget to check out the full paper 👇

We first submitted this manuscript in 2018, it was desk rejected, and then other stuff came up. I am proud, just a mere 7 years later, to share with you our extensive review on Bumble Bee Movement Ecology: academic.oup.com/aesa/advance...

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/...

More Species in Small Patches vs. Large Patches: Insights from Modeling 🌿🔍 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper! (arxiv.org/abs/2503.14093) I haven’t been this excited about one in a while, and I think the theory @mhab.bsky.social develops here will be a big step forward for the field. Why? Let me explain 🧵...

A forest-fire model predicts an increase in fire extension, highlighting the urgent need for action to protect the region. @larysar doi.org/10.1111/oik.... @oikosjournal.bsky.social #AmazonFires #ClimateChange #ForestFireModel #predictions #deforestation #AmazonForest

Discover, and apply to, 3 @[email protected] projects for Google Summer of Code github.com/igraph/igrap... 🏗️ Degree-constrained null models and graph construction 🪢 Community detection guide 🔗 Interface to network data repositories

Our paper led by Thiago Gonçalves-Souza is out. Habitat fragmentation and habitat loss reduce biodiversity. @natejsanders.bsky.social Results from 37 studies distributed worldwide, on plants and animals, comparing continuous and fragmented landscapes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very much this.