Fascinating Three years of rewilding on a former dairy farm in east Somerset have led to the number of recorded bird species soaring from 67 to 94, butterfly species 🆙 from 11 to 24 and small mammals growing in number. Stop the #WarOnNature #Metacrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When billionaires and their stooges say that their priorities are "anti-woke", "anti-cancel culture" and "unrestricted free speech", don't take their claims at face value. They're a coded way of saying, “I should be allowed to do whatever I want, regardless of the impacts on other people.”

World temperature anomalies 22.04.2026 More of the same Deep 🥶🥶 over Canada + Alaska , most of Russia , East China 🔥🔥 #Greenland superstar Central 🇺🇸 NW Africa + Spain East Kazakhstan + Mongolia + nw China West Australia is also nicely over overage #ClimateCrisis

Excited to share a new article from the lab & wonderful co-authors. We argue that habitat fragmentation research needs to be recalibrated to focus on changes over time. We hope that doing so will advance understanding, isolate attribution, and diminish heated debate. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Once again, if you plant some trees, that’s not a forest 🌳 blogaeet.org/2026/04/20/d...

Seems like spring finally arrived in Germany. Curruca curruca male singing from his favorite bush in @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social parking lot earlier today.

The #Wildfires season is 🆙 to a great start in America #ClimateChange is a hoax According to 🇺🇸 voters #Pyrocene #ClimateCrisis #Metacrisis

This week we began our first round of #fieldwork for the season, keeping busy with #plant-pollinator interaction surveys, #flower marking, #biomass collection and more 🌿🐝. Teamed up with new and returning members, we are ready to tackle yet another year in #Gorbeia Natural Park 💪.

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Wrote a news article about our recent study on thermal limits🌡️

Seems like a pretty important result; title says it all. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mildly bonkers. The colourful face and wattles of the cassowary don’t reflect ultraviolet, but the casque does!

Our paper on the drivers of dung beetle diversity along a tropical elevational gradient is now out in #ProcB @royalsocietypublishing.org 🪲🪲🪲 doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @royalsociety.org @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social

Insects in the #Amazon could reach their heat thresholds. Rising temperatures already threaten dung beetles. A study conducted by scientists from #Würzburg and #Bremen shows this trend. @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @kimholzmann.bsky.social ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-... 📸 Kim Lea Holzmann

It’s been a brutal month for California’s snowpack, which is now at just 25% of normal. The snowpack is now 8% of normal in the northern Sierra, 28% of normal in the central Sierra and 44% of normal in the southern Sierra. NASA satellite images from Feb. 22, March 6 and March 24.

Today , as proposed by @hormiga.bsky.social 13 yrs ago, is a #Taxonomist appreciation day, so we celebrated it in @ebdonana.bsky.social by having an open discussion on the role of taxonomy in eco/ evo/ palaeo research. Lots of early career folks came by, so that´s was great! 🦖🦴🐛🧪

Really happy that a moth made it to the cover of @nature.com! Thanks to my co-author Gunnar Brehm for this great photo 📸 Find our study on thermal limits in this week's issue: www.nature.com/nature/volum... @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Cuckoo update 🪶 Joe & Jim are about 12 miles from each other in Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) while Cleeve is just 31 miles to their north. Arthur is the furthest north of these five birds & Sayaan the furthest east, having just crossed the border from Ghana. Follow their journeys➡️ www.bto.org/cuckoos

Journal of Applied Ecology abre sección para compartir aventuras de campo. Desde estudiantes hasta profesionales consolidados. #biotapas appliedecologistsblo...

Space-for-time studies of land-use change rely on a baseline. But what if that baseline has already changed? In our new Ecography paper we show this can underestimate biodiversity loss. 🐦📉🧵(1/9) nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Several male Goshawks breeding deep in Poland's Białowieża Forest 'routinely travelled up to 20 km to hunt feral pigeons in a town' with the authors concluding that 'urban environments shape the foraging behaviour of raptors even within primeval forests' #ornithology 🌍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nature research paper: Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature go.nature.com/4ua5R82

Fantastic paper by @kimholzmann.bsky.social if you are interested in thermal adaptations in tropical insects check it out!!! 🏔️ 🐝 🪲 🐜

Meet the sand cat. Thick soles on its paws allow it to withstand the temperature extremes of desert sand. In parts of its range, days can reach 124° Fahrenheit (51° C) and then plummet to 31° Fahrenheit (-0.5° C) by night! Photo: Cloudtail the Snow Leopard, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr

IUCN updated Red List of Bees finally published: op.europa.eu/en/publicati...

Intact tropical forests are seeing mysterious bird declines. Is another “silent spring” brewing? Learn more: https://scim.ag/4aCs0Er

Canopy openings can harm the biodiversity of dung #beetles 🪲: Scientists of the University of Würzburg examined 234 areas in eleven #forests across Germany. Rising temperatures exacerbate the problem. ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-... 📸 Johanna Asch

From the Amazon to the Cloud forest, the elevational gradient we study in Peru in 3 pictures 🌎🐝

Bombus butteli, a cloud forest dweller of the tropical Andes, at 2600 m asl, Peru

Bombus transversalis, the only lowland bumblebee in the Peruvian Amazon

Thank you all for coming to Tortosa to share your ideas and research! See you next year!

Enjoying the rest of the talks after giving ours at @ecoflor.bsky.social what a great experience!! 😄 Also… we’re on the lookout for a postdoc opportunity 👀 If you think we might be a good fit for your group, let’s talk! 🐝🌳 @pedroecology.bsky.social

We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position to join the @valor-project.eu Horizon EU project: Values and dependence of society on pollinators bartomeuslab.com/joining-the-...

Exciting news: Our Global Change Ecology Double Degree Program with Norway is OFFICIAL! #JMU #UiB. This programme provides advanced training in the fields of Ecology, Conservation Biology and Global Change Biology. We welcome all students in Bioscience to join us here in Würzburg and Bergen!✊

"There has been a progressive decline in fieldwork-based research and education in ecology over recent decades", precisely at a time when we most urgently need a better understanding of how natural systems work. So sad. Trends in Ecology & Evolution [paywalled] www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

El desconocido papel de las urracas en la regeneración forestal: “Se desmontan mitos que revelan su contribución a la dispersión de semillas”

🚨Research alert! A study led by Javier Blasco, a Ph.D. student from the University of Lisbon & Museum curator Lorenzo Prendini reveals new insights about the cave-dwelling scorpion Euscorpius studentium—previously known only from juvenile specimens.

Just a pretty lizard (Sceloporus malachiticus) from Costa Rica to start this account.