176 tiny maps (1850-2025) Maps of temperature anomalies for each year. The progression to warmer, redder colours is evident over virtually the entire planet. This 'small multiples' #dataviz approach is effective to show that nowhere is escaping from the warming due to us burning fossil fuels.

Numerous fires ignited in the state of Victoria in southeast Australia last week, persisting through this past weekend as they leave behind large burn scars.

Here are the Walwa and Longwood line scans (as of 3:30pm 10 Jan) to give you an idea of the scale of the fires when overlaid on the base Melbourne map. Yikes! #VicFires

Hi, bushfire survivor here and NSW RFS volunteer. If you think you are going to stay and defend your property...Don't. You are not prepared for the intense radiant heat, the ember showers, the smoke, the collapse of all of your energy. If you have been instructed to leave. Leave early. #Bushfire

Check out the fascinating work that @febiologia.bsky.social is doing to protect forty-spotted pardalotes!! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

"Bond’s work leaves behind an inconvenient lesson for an era of climate urgency: that speed is not a substitute for understanding, and that good intentions, applied without care, can erase ancient worlds as efficiently as neglect." A beautiful tribute to William Bond. Forever missed by many.

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9

I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉 gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

In time for the festive season, my latest paper charts the 25 million year story of how mistletoe and songbirds somersaulted across the Americas, diversifying as they went.  Strap in for an epic ecological tale #MistletoeMunchersFromWayBack 1/12 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨 🦎 New paper out exploring shingleback lizard movement ecology and habitat selection in a fragmented agricultural landscape 🌳 Main takeaway: retaining small patches of native vegetation is crucial to provide habitat and maintain landscape connectivity link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

Our new study just came out taking a look at how drought influences human-wildlife conflict reports in California! Check it out here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What would you share with an earlier version of yourself?

Two PhD student positions on Fire Resilience of Amazon Forests (Application deadline Nov 26), Wageningen @masha-vandersande.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

I have been developing techniques for the automated assessment of fire events across Australia using NAFI (firenorth.org.au) data. These are the top 10 largest across Australia so far this year. 3 of them are > 1 million hectares (Terra-Fires, 100x mega fire). The year is not over.

Real time data coming out of the world’s climate measurement systems should be stopping us in our tracks. The latest estimate shows that, this week, the Earth is 1.9°C warmer than before we began burning fossil fuels. #climatecrisis #ClimateEmergency #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-re-t...

A surge in global temperatures has caused widespread bleaching and death of warm-water corals around the world. go.nature.com/4n8cvHn

Watch to the end.

Out today in @science.org, we show wildfire disasters have surged in the last decade, as climate change intensifies fire weather and exacerbates other vulnerabilities. 📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... With @pyrogeog.bsky.social @climate-guy.bsky.social

🔥New Paper!🔥 from Julianna Santos, @ltkelly.bsky.social @lluisbrotons.bsky.social @urbanfrogger.bsky.social @cristinaaponte.bsky.social , Lauren Ponisio, Stephen Mason, and David Keith! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper out today with @biodiversityguy.bsky.social and @lizardlab.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Hot off the press! Check out our new paper on sleepy lizard aka shingleback skink fire cue discrimination led by @ecolojolly.bsky.social DM if you want a PDF.

We have a new paper developing methods for looking at bird-fire macroecology. What’s most fascinating to me is that the magnitude *and* direction of fire effects can vary enormously across a species range. Stationarity is dead!! Long live non-stationarity!! doi.org/10.1002/fee....

our paper on how light pollution affects bird vocal behavior is out today in Science!! w/ @brentpease.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper: The role of fire on Earth doi.org/10.1093/bios... BioScience @aibsbiology.bsky.social Fire affects all major components of the Earth system: atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, anthroposphere, & biosphere. Fire is an intrinsic factor on our planet. 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🌐 wildfire

Thrilled to share our new article in @pnas.org highlighting global gaps in where we study animal movement—and outlining the next generation of smart bio-loggers. 👉 Read the full study in PNAS: lnkd.in/exP8NCeZ 1/

The first paper from my postdoc is finally out! In collaboration with @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social and Amy Angert, we outline how behavioral plasticity influences animal species’ distributions and can improve our understanding of range shifts under climate change! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wildfire activity worldwide was higher in 2023 and 2024 than in any year since monitoring began in 2001. Tropical forests are seeing particularly high rates of forest loss. Some forest systems may be approaching tipping points of ecosystem change. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

What are the evolutionary implications of changes in fire regimes for animals? We explore this in our new paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 📖 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... with @mwtingley.bsky.social‬ @jgpausas.bsky.social & team #Biodiversity #FireEcology #EcoEvo 🔥🦎🧬

Experts fear the leafy seadragon may be disappearing from areas hit by SA’s toxic algal bloom. With a limited range, losing local populations could mean losing the species entirely. Urgent action is needed to prevent permanent biodiversity loss. au.news.yahoo.com/50...

And we develop the concept of 'trait–fire mismatch': A type of phenotype-environment mismatch that brings together ecological and evolutionary fire science and supports forecasts of fire-driven environmental change.

Can plants keep up with fire regime changes through evolution? doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... | @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social What about animals? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... | @globalchangebio.bsky.social Trait–fire mismatching Food for thought by @ltkelly.bsky.social et al 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🌾🌐 #ecoevo

4 year fixed term postdoc position in Tasmania, Australia. Drones, camera traps, population monitoring. careers.utas.edu.au/en/job/50114...

The last of my PhD papers. This was a fun project uncovering species diel changes in response to wildfire.

Job alert: 2.75 -3 yr postdoc in Mathematical ecology/epidemiology or Decision Sci at the University of Queensland on the value of information for decisions with @hugepossum.bsky.social @katehelmstedt.bsky.social Katriona Shea & myself #MathSky 🌍 uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo... please share

🔥 Hot off the press ! 🔥 Originally “sparked” from a conversation between @sarahmccg.bsky.social , Luke Collins , @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social , Meg Krawchuk and I. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy to share our new paper: we show that human-caused climate change is raising the odds of extreme climate-driven fire years across forested regions of the globe @climate-guy.bsky.social @pyrogeog.bsky.social rdcu.be/evJkX #ClimateChange #Wildfires

Concerned about the potential impacts of how taxonomic biases in our research affect the broader generalizations we draw? If not, maybe we should be. If you saw @sekharma.bsky.social 's poster at ABS, you can find the pre-print here: doi.org/10.32942/X2X... w/ @itchyshin.bsky.social #ABS2025

Is there a potential to strengthen ecological processes as a way to restore fire regimes? 🔥 🔥 New Paper Out! 🔥 🔥 @adrianregos.bsky.social @bakxbakx.bsky.social @fmoreira65.bsky.social @lluisbrotons.bsky.social and our other co-authors explore this www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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...

My personal native plant nursery. Australian native daisies, emu bush, banksia and grevillea from cuttings. Masses of grass trees grown from seed over many year. I give most of these away to people in my street willing to plant them on their nature strips. 1 plant at a time will make a difference

I am happy to share my final PhD chapter in @oikosjournal.bsky.social The 2019–20 wildfires altered vegetation structure yet had little effect on most species’ relative abundance. However, several species shifted their diel activity in burnt landscapes. doi.org/10.1002/oik.... #FireEcology

The sweetest wee Velvet-furred Rat native to Australia, living its best life in a Baurera bush. #Tasmania #EcologyGuide

The kultarr is officially three species! So proud of this work and a big thanks to Australia's amazing museum network and my great supervisor team @kennytravouillon.bsky.social @reneecatullo.bsky.social @planigale.bsky.social bakerecologylab.wordpress.com onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A related article from another time and world, it seems: theconversation.com/how-slow-sci...

It's already #ShowYourStripes day in many places like New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Papua New Guinea. All these countries are warming rapidly. Visit www.ShowYourStripes.info to find your warming stripes with 4 different designs. Start a climate conversation online or with friends and family?

What is the Human Shield Hypothesis, how do we test it and what do those tests find? New paper out in Ecology Letters today asking these questions. Thanks to @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social and Mike Noonan for having me. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Have you ever cited or come across a mention of the 'human shield hypothesis' and wondered: what is the evidence for this hypothesis, and what is the quality of that evidence? Wonder no more! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Vertebrate hotspots are expected to see increased climate extremes in the coming decades; often in places where animals may be most naive to such events. New research out of my lab led by Dr. van den Bosch in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 🧪🌐🌏 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats