There is growing evidence that extreme events linked to anthropogenic climate change can have important effects on biodiversity. A paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution assesses the exposure of terrestrial vertebrates to multiple types of extreme climate events globally. go.nature.com/4e7pMiC 🌍🧪

Torpor-assisted migration: Regular use of shallow torpor reduces rest-phase energy expenditure for songbirds during migration🐦‍⬛ 🎶 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/ARrm6Ia

Fancy a permanent lectureship in ecology at a great little uni in Aotearoa New Zealand? We have TWO roles available as part of our Joint Institute programme with Huazhong Agriculture University in Wuhan, China; 16 weeks teaching there, the rest at LU. careers.lincoln.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

🚨NEW SCIENCE ALERT!🚨Read our new, open-access publication in Scientific Reports (@nature.com) describing #biofluorescence in #cassowary casques! Very excited to unveil this after keeping it secret for 5 years⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... NYITCOM @akiopteryx.bsky.social @jonathanberman.bsky.social

For millions of years the traits of predators and prey have dictated their interactions. In the Anthropocene, humans are altering these traits. In @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social, we explore how human-induced traits shifts reshape predator-prey interactions. tinyurl.com/TREEshifts

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own. Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think. We must not give away that gift. doi.org/10.1002/fee....

🔥 New paper in npj Natural Hazards. Analysing 11,403 wildfires across Mediterranean Europe (2008–2022), we show that megafires emerge when drought aligns with extreme fire weather, especially warm nights and strong winds near ignition. www.nature.com/articles/s44... #Wildfires #ClimateChange

Open access makes the rich get richer #science #publishing #academia 🧪🗺️ nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Wolves kill—and ravens remember where | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #raven #wolves #scavengers

Breaking: APVMA suspends sale of persistent owl poisons in Australia! We have fought tirelessly for years and after meeting with them last week this is not an outcome we had anticipated! www.apvma.gov.au/news-and-pub...

PhD opportunity: Maximising the resilience of grasslands in an age of rapid environmental change Brief Project Summary: This project aims to address the significant knowledge gap of how species composition may change due to extreme rainfall events (droughts and flooding rainfall), grazing and…

How and why does cognition vary so greatly between individuals and species? In @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, we propose the "Predatory Intelligence Hypothesis" which posits that the cognitive challenges associated with predator–prey interactions drive a cognitive co-evolutionary arms race rdcu.be/e5KIj

Mapping Your Data with ggplot2 in R with Basemaps and Insets oliverstringham.com/blog/data-vi...

Where will novel fire regimes threaten birds? Our paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows that most bird diversity hotspots facing future high-sev fire occur in places that historically burned at low severity - a critical mismatch. These are the spots to focus restoration. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Common myna suppression reduced myna relative abundance, but not bird richness or diversity. Species responses were varied, including an increase in noisy miners. This suggests suppression can reshuffle dominance dynamics rather than deliver straightforward community recovery doi.org/10.1071/WR25...

Humans alter the daily timing of animal activity, potentially reshaping predator–prey interactions. This meta-analysis reveals that large predators overlap less with their prey, and large prey overlap more with their predators. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Does human disturbance disrupt predator-prey temporal niche partitioning? Today in @natcomms.nature.com we show that while there is no overall effect, the larger species of the dyad "loses" the temporal response race to humans. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looking back at the fire year that was. The map-graphic shows the ten biggest fire events across Australia in 2025. Two "Terra" fires (>1million ha) burnt over 3.7 million ha. The combined total, including the 8 other "Giga" fires (>100k ha) burnt close to 10million ha in 2025.

A new #OpenAccess paper in @wildliferesearchj.bsky.social documents accounts by Martu Elders of wiminyji, the northern quoll, incl. distribution, habitat use & threats, revealing declines in arid Australia, previously undocumented by Western science. connectsci.au/wr/article/5...#OpenAccess #WildlifeResearch

Using multiple lines of evidence, we show that feral cats and red foxes are strongly implicated in most Australian mammal extinctions and in the ongoing imperilment of numerous extant species. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... A large collaborative effort to rebut Wallach and Lundgren (2025).

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 🔥🦎🧬