Congratulations to the PhD Veronica Pinelli! Chance, necessity, and ecosystem functioning.

Advancing the role of trait matching and species abundances on the modular organization of food webs and occurrence networks doi.org/10.1111/1365...

The spatial paths in an early invasion of bullfrogs is determined by well-connected but intermediate abundance populations. Lessons from a long-term monitoring of a pondscape invasion. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Connectivity can propagate local impacts of pollutants to the metacommunity level by promoting pollutant-tolerant species or attenuate impacts by a rescue effect from less impacted communities when pollutant produce a general reduction in community abundance. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Metacommunity mechanisms in restoration ecology. Large restorations with homogeneous habitat can magnify competitive differences at the landscape level; degrading coexistence conditions. Understanding the final effects of local interventions require a landscape perspective. doi.org/10.1002/oik....

Missed the deadline? We’ve got good news! The abstract submission deadline for this year’s NSO-GfÖ Conference has been extended until 30th April! Join us at one of Europe’s largest ecology conferences—submit your abstract by 30 April 2026 here: 👉 vist.ly/4z76b #NSO2026 #gfoe2026

We’ve loved having Dr. Matias Arim with us this week! 🙌 Super inspiring visit, great chats about what we’ve done so far #funMETANET and what’s coming next🚀... and thanks for jumping in to help with the field sampling too 😉🌿 @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social

Young Academies give a voice to and represent the interests of young scientists in academia, helping them to be heard by national governments and wider society go.nature.com/4nr8SNh

Our new study in @science.org shows that over half of forests have become more fragmented since 2000, threatening biodiversity and climate. Brilliantly led by @yibiaozou.bsky.social as part of his PhD — and a huge team effort from @crowtherlab.bsky.social 👏 doi.org/10.1126/scie...

ICYMI: AmNat Editor-in-Chief Volker Rudolf speaks out: "Best Publishing Practices and Open Access Options at The American Naturalist" Read now! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

"Biologists often become alienated from mathematics at an early stage in their career under the misconception [...] that biology is not a mathematical science. The claim is also often made that mathematical theory is overly simplistic, ignoring the [...] complex nature of biological systems." 1/

In Tucson!

Good insight here about interdisciplinarity. It's not just getting people from the right fields in the same room; it's about getting the right people, those who are honestly open to learning about the questions and methods of other fields. (Something @sfiscience.bsky.social is so good at.)

Welcome new colleagues!

Collaborate with researchers globally. Chart your transdisciplinary path. Apply to SFI's 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. Competitive pay, research funds, and generous benefits to become a leader in transdisciplinary research. Deadline: Oct 1, 2025 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

🚨Big news🚨 A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing is out🎉 This is the book I wish I’d had 20 years ago — short, practical, and designed to help researchers write & get their papers published I hope it helps many Please share with anyone who might benefit! 👉 mybook.to/ScienceGuide

E.P.A. to Stop Updating Popular Database After Lead Scientist Criticized Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/c...

The Royal Society is joining a growing wave of scientific publishers that are implementing the 'subscribe to open' model go.nature.com/3UPt7b3

Glow-in-the-dark marsupials, fashionable science, and cyborg jellyfish Check out July's best science images, chosen by Nature's photo team 📸 go.nature.com/4m5xF9j

How do human drivers shape ecosystem services and their interactions? The answer impacts policy and management. We used Bayesian Belief Networks (BBN) to model ecosystem service interactions as a causal network for data from many Quebec landscapes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join the second Evolutionary Rescue workshop at the Max Planck Institute, Plon, Germany from June 30 to July 3, 2024. Registration is free until March 15. More info: https://workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event/128/. #workshop

A preview of Part 1 of my book "An Editor's Guide to Writing and Publishing Science" is now freely available on Google Books shorturl.at/0xo93 If you like this preview, consider buying the book. If you can't afford the book, then contact me and I'll send it to you for free.

Exciting opportunity for folks to work/live in Santa Fe at SFI as resident faculty, 12 month positions, 5 year terms, open at all ranks. Applications just opened & accepted through 3/28/25: apply-sfi.smapply.org/prog/SFI2025...

The HPV vaccine (Gardasil) is literally life-saving. Cervical cancer cases have dropped to zero in Scotland because of this vaccine. Men also benefit, because HPV also causes penile cancer. Protect your kids-- get them vaccinated. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Important for SDM’ and climate impact on ecosystems

"Megafauna disappeared twice, firstly during the Late Pleistocene extinctions and secondly from our collective memory. (...) Understanding the extent of the consequences of the Late Pleistocene extinctions is integral for moving community ecology forward." Timeline of when "the giants" went missing:

Don't forget to apply to this summer school on model-based multivariate analysis for ecologists! If you have any doubts about applying, or questions, I'm happy to have a chat.

I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council

Sync in richness decreases with spatial, environmental, and functional distance; but sync in biomass only is induced by functional similarity. The decrease in stability with sync indicates that preserving large and heterogeneous ecosystems is essential to ensure their stability, pls repost!

If you're looking for a PhD position studying ecological forecasting - the awesome @njclark.bsky.social is looking for students to join his group in Australia. Nick is both an amazing scientist and a fantastic person. 13/10 - would apply myself if... <stops posting to work on application> 🌏🧪

Open postdoc position at @sfiscience.bsky.social to work with my fantastic colleagues on "emergent engineering": santafeinstitute.teamtailor.com/jobs/5463514...

After many years of teaching Bioengineering courses at @upf.edu, we recorded our blackboard lectures on Biological Design and Mathematical Biomodelling with a Complex Systems + Evolutionary perspective. Check our YouTube channel @jordipinero.bsky.social

Foundations and future directions for causal inference in ecological research, forthcoming w/ @katherinesiegel.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/4mm57zzd. We wrote it based on our experience teaching causal inference to ecologists w/ some stuff we wish other papers had reviewed to share w/ the students 1/n

Very excited this paper is now out in Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #causalsky

25 yrs ago 😳 we found by experiment that the "inflationary effect" of env. variability allows sink populations to persist In this new paper, we show its generality & applied value: Metapopulations, the Inflationary Effect, & Consequences for Public Health👇 www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/EKIBA...

How are different facets of biodiversity changing? A new study looks across 2432 time series and 90 years finding no general trend in *functional diversity* of birds and mammals. By @karinorman.bsky.social @cboettig.bsky.social and Perry de Valpine onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Hello world! We are BES Macro, the British Ecological Society Macroecology and Macroevolution Special Interest Group. We're probably going to be pretty quiet on here, but if you tag us in things of interest to our members, we'll gladly re-post!

Moving article by @aktange.bsky.social — “In the first half of the 19th century, between 40% and 50% of children in the U.S. didn’t live past the age of 5. …But the collective pain of a high child mortality rate was eradicated not by time, but by effort.” theconversation.com/infectious-d...

Discussion on de-extinction in Financial Times - happy to have contributed (albeit in very abbreviated format)🦣🐘🧬 www.ft.com/content/0e27... #deextinction #extinction #megafauna #colossal #biotech

Undergraduate Complexity Research (Jun 1 - Aug 9) — apply by Jan 14 Complex Systems Summer School (Jun 8 - Jul 4) — apply by Jan 28 Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling & Complexity (Jun 22 - Jul 4) — apply by Feb 27

A frugivorous bird's eye-view of Pleistocene landscapes: the way #birds disperse #seeds in fragmented anthropogenic landscapes is congruent with an ecological & evolutionary history with open vegetation created & maintained by megaherbivores besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If I was 25 yrs younger…I would apply for this fantastic postdoc! 👇

An important review - The ecology of plant extinctions - "Recent warm-edge extirpations demonstrate the growing impact of anthropogenic climate change & show that predictions of massive climate-driven extinctions later this century are plausible" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌾🌎🧪🌐

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....

Just published in @asn-amnat.bsky.social: #Resource flow #network structure drives #Metaecosystem function. 🌍 🌐 🟦↔️🟩 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... We investigate how spatial structure of larger resource flow networks influences #ecosystem function at metaecosystem scales. 🧵1/3

A new Research Highlight by Matías Arim and Mariana Illarze: Taylor's law on abundance unravels the role of traits and environmental conditions on population dynamics: