I'm trying to organise conferences and workshops that I want to go to in 2026. Is there a decent list out there for ecology and conservation people anywhere? Everything I've come across by Googling seems to be full of predatory conferences.

POSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California 2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin. ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003

Less than 1 month left to submit abstracts for what is always the *best* conference on climate change impacts on biodiversity. Intimate conference size but truly global participation; highly recommend for 1st-timers and returnees.

A heads-up for anyone interested in research quality, repeatability & transparency: I'm leading a 2-hour session at 10 am UK-time tomorrow, in conjunction with others. Hopefully this can form the basis of a guidelines paper, so we're hoping you can join online to guide us in the right direction. 🌐🌎

#statstab #433 The Table 2 Fallacy: Presenting and Interpreting Confounder and Modifier Coefficients Thoughts: Adding predictors to your model results in marked changes in inference. Be mindful! #table2 #fallacy #covariates #bias #inference #regression doi.org/10.1093/aje/...

📣 Check it out! Explore the new data viz on our homepage: www.climatecentral.org @climatecentral.org just released a new tool to explore climate impacts in U.S. cities and states - making complex data easier to understand for your community. 🚨 What’s the biggest Fall climate threat where you live?

There is time to urge a change to the current #GRFP solicitation ( #NSF 25-547 ): reverse the eligibility restrictions and ensure applicants (including 2nd year PhD students) have a fair chance in the competition. Feel free to sign and share this open petition: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

The influence of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program really cannot be overstated. The fact that there is still no solicitation for this year is unfair to students and risks damaging the future of American science. Please take 30 seconds to sign the open letter to US STEM Leadership 🧪🌎

provost.nd.edu/news/notre-d... An exciting opportunity for postdocs here at Notre Dame. I would excited to mentor anyone outstanding candidate in temperate or tropical forest ecology. Pass along to folks looking for a position in 2026!

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌿 Le Centre d’Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive à Montpellier (lnkd.in/erpreW-F), recherche sa/son DU 😉 👉 lnkd.in/etM5tXEP 🌿 The Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology in Montpellier (lnkd.in/e9JBQNai) is looking for its next director. Come and join us 😉 👉 lnkd.in/etM5tXEP

This is a must read paper for scientist and practitioners interested in carbon farming

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word! jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics starting back up 🚨🚨TOMORROW🚨🚨 with an amazing line up of fall speakers, beginning with Obie Porteous on agricultural trade and climate change impacts in Africa Line up here: cepr.org/events/event... Make sure to register for the zoom link #econsky

Exciting postdoc opportunities at the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Impact Lab at University of Colorado-Boulder!

interested in causal inference and ecology? join our Slack to exchange ideas, papers, get feedback, ask and answer questions - let's start a community #causalsky

Every nation should show up at COP30 with an ambitious plan (a Nationally Determined Contribution, or NDC) to protect human health and the health of our climate. Why? A new article by colleagues at @gchalliance.bsky.social lays it out clearly. @docsforclimate.bsky.social

New research finds increasing heat-related mortality in every climate region throughout the U.S., except for the Western North Central region. Remember folks, heat kills. @jeffgoodell.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social

For the AM #Causal #Ecology crowd in the western hemisphere (or PM elsewhere), if you're into causal data analysis, check out the slack @lauradee.bsky.social and I have set up! DM me for the link to join. Already some fun conversations from some absolute rockstars! 🌍

This idea brought to you by "I'd really like to share the new piece from @dingdingpeng.the100.ci to folk not just on bluesky...and wouldn't it be cool if we could all talk about it later?"

interested in causal inference and ecology? join our Slack to exchange ideas, papers, get feedback, ask and answer questions - let's start a community #causalsky

CALL FOR EXPERTS! 📢 @nationalacademies.org are seeking experts to participate in developing an updated edition of "On Being a Scientist: An Updated and Online Guide to the Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research". Submit nominations by August 28 ➡️ www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/on-...

Pushed out by Trump, New Jersey ecologist launches bid for Congress | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Isabella Oleksy's Mountain Limnology Lab has taken over longterm monitoring project in RMNP. Learn more ⬇️

Comment out now in Nature Reviews Biodiversity where we argue that blocking renewable energy, esp wind and solar, for biodi reasons is unnecessary - we can manage any tradeoffs. And unchecked climate change is far, far worse! Don't let biodi become political football www.nature.com/articles/s44...

More solid causal inference work emerging in the ecology literature, this time on a topic close to home. Looking forward to giving this one a closer read. @lauradee.bsky.social

Was so rewarding getting to work with a team of brilliant ecologists (@dudney-joan.bsky.social @lauradee.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @katherinesiegel.bsky.social ) to think through how to use causal inference to attribute ecological changes to climate change. Hope this framework helps!

I wrote (ranted) on experimental design as I was frustrated as an editor at how little guidance students were getting. I underestimated the interest in the issue: it has been downloaded 10,000+ times! Clearly it’s something we need to be talking about more. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Studying the Earth is literally in the authorizing charter of NASA and always been part of their mission… arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

Really excited that our #causalinference for climate change paper is out today! @dudney-joan.bsky.social, @lauradee.bsky.social , @econservation.bsky.social, @katherinesiegel.bsky.social were such an awesome team, and I hope this is a useful one for researchers in the field!

Very excited this is out! Also potentially useful for researchers thinking about biodiversity change attribution @jon-chase03.bsky.social @bio-diverse.bsky.social @nmouquet.bsky.social @frbiodiv.bsky.social

Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today! Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you! 🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We're hiring TWO (two!) tenure-track assistant professors in my Biology department: cellular/molecular biology and plant biology. Within those categories, we are very open to research focus. Come work with me! And please spread the word! fa-exer-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

SEEDS has 21 new students at #ESA2025 & most of them are presenting for the first time! There are also 21 volunteer mentors uniquely paired w/ them to guide them in their 1st ESA! A big THANKS to Fred Abbott, Teresa Mourad & ESA staff for supporting SEEDS program! @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social

And check out the pre-print here www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

At #ESA2025 and interested in the potential for urban forests to cool cities, and tree functional traits? Stop by my poster tomorrow (Tuesday) in PS 25-160, Urban Ecosystems. Excited to chat about our results so far, compare findings with others, and get feedback on further directions!

At #ESA2025? Check out 🌟PhD Student Asia Kaiser's talk on Thurs, Aug. 14 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM EDT in COS 161 Statistics-“Synthetic control methods: An alternative framework for causal inference using iNaturalist data in cities” 🐝 🌇 @lauradee.bsky.social

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Excited for our annual conference on modeling for ecology, biodiversity, sustainability, environment, water, energy, climate, fisheries, forestry, & ag. Love all the cool #math & stats used to save the world. Join us in Stellenbosch 2026. 🌍#MathSky @hugepossum.bsky.social @katehelmstedt.bsky.social

Statistics/Causal Inference folks, what are your favorite papers on why VIF is bad?

Bonanza Creek LTER is seeking a post-doctoral fellow! The position focuses on synthesizing long-term ecological data to study alternate successional trajectories in the boreal forest and explore their implications in a changing climate. Find out more and apply at careers.alaska.edu/jobs/post-do...

This short video by @weatherwest.bsky.social provides a clear explanation of the meteorological factors contributing to this heartbreaking disaster and how climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of heavy rain.

✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨ Please spread the word! www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us #CSEE2025

Please share: PhD scholarship opportunity in mathematical ecology on the value of information for improving ecological management, open to international students, with a great team @hugepossum.bsky.social, Katriona Shea, Kate Helmstedt, & me at UQ, Australia 🌍 🧮, study.uq.edu.au/study-option...

Honored to give the Opening Plenary at this year’s ESA meeting. Drawing on work with the United by Nature initiative, I’ll explore how radical amazement—deep awe evoked by nature—can guide and spark transformative action. Hope to see you there! Weareunitedbynature.org

By combining theory, modelling and empirical work, Luo et al. show that species synchrony decreases with time series length and its relationship with diversity switches from positive to negative www.nature.com/articles/s41...

*Job alert* Within our recently funded collaborative project focusing on assisted migration of #mountain #plant species, we are looking for a #PhD candidate based at ETH Zürich. For further details and instructions, see the job ad: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP... Please repost! 🧪🏔️🌿

When the US government steps down, others — like ESRI — step up, fill the void, and provide real science to the world. It’s terrible that we have to do this, but I want to celebrate the great folks who are doing this important work!

new Luxembourg Centre for Socio-Environmental Systems (LCSES) www.uni.lu/lcses-en/#op... is hiring Assistant or Associate Professor in Global Food Security Global Health Climate Extremes Research scientists Environmental Synthesis Research Environmental Modeling & Data Science

I got to know @katharinehayhoe.com writing for the 4th NCA The National Climate Assessment serves regular Americans. It translates jargon-y, global predictions from the intergovernmental panel on climate change into digestible, regionally relevant FACTS for regular Americans & their policy makers.