Super excited to announce I've started as a postdoc at LEC REEFS @lec-reefs.bsky.social with James Robinson @james-robinson.bsky.social and Renato Morais @renatoamorais.bsky.social. Not only can I stick with my reef fish, but we're scaling up work on fish productivity and nutrient fluxes 🦠🐠

Coral Bleaching: The Equatorial‐Refugia Hypothesis 🔗 buff.ly/xtRwbvO

2-years #postdoc #position: #eDNA 🧬🔬for integrated #ecosystem and #biodiversity assessment apply.refline.ch/673277/1297/... In the new Eawag/WSL Biodiversity Monitoring Initiative we will strengthen & advance effective and scalable #biodiversity #monitoring methods & implement into practice. 🌐🌳🐟📈

Oxygen supersaturation has been reported to protect aquatic animals from heat waves. We tested this in a large collaborative experiment on many species of fish and crustaceans. Our new paper in @plosbiology.org shows that the effect of hyperoxia on thermal tolerance is negligible. Unfortunately.

Check this out: the global biomass of mammals since 1850 just out in @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐

I am pleased to announce the publication of the most extensive assessment of the coral reefs of Thailand conducted to date! This took years of work, but we are now placed for conservation action to embrace the nuances and complexity of reef ecosystems! Link in the comments! #MarineEcology 🌐🌏🪸🌊🦑

Canids seem to be the routine lovers, reusing their travel routes more than felids. This shapes hunting, encounters, and even disease spread. Insights from 1,239 GPS-tracked carnivores, including the Arctic foxes we track on Bylot Island 🧪🌿🌎🌐🦊. Read in the latest PNAS at bitly.cx/TxI2

Fantastic paper from @helenyan.bsky.social showing the importance of considering abundance in field-based biodiversity-ecosystem functioning assessments! Check it out! 👇🏽

Our new paper on the historical and scientific basis of Darwin’s ‘coral reef paradox’ is out @currentbiology.bsky.social! Summary below by @gobyone.bsky.social. Also with @paulinenarvaez.bsky.social @oclaripv.bsky.social and Vale Parravicini! Free-access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lDFm3QW8S...

Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️... Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong... 🌐 🦑🧪 🧵⬇️

So excited to finally share our new paper charting the global spectrum of tree crown architecture, out today at @natcomms.nature.com ‬🧪🌐 Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41... A brief thread of what we found 🧵

Nice. arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

Are you a community/macro ecologist? Looking for more data? Sick of compiling/cleaning data?? 🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐

🎓 Are you a marine MSc or PhD student passionate about climate change and biodiversity? Join our Summer School in Ischia, Italy! 📅 Sept 14–20, 2025 📝 Apply by May 26 → bit.ly/42VRjfL 🔬 Explore seawater chemistry, R & GitHub, blue carbon, drone surveys, and photogrammetry — right in the field 🌊🌐🧪🦤

When you’re cornered by your supervisor and forced to explain why that paper hasn’t been submitted…

Classic Hypotheses of Area, Time, and Climatic Stability Fall Short in Explaining High Tropical Species Richness 🧪 🌐 #macroecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New online! Biodiversity–ecosystem function research must consider abundance and not just diversity

Cereghetti et al: #Seasonal #dynamics of detritus flows and #decomposition across #ecosystem boundaries. 🌿🍂🦐 🌐🌍 We studied seasonal dynamics/phenology ⏱️ of 🟩terrestrial-🟦aquatic linkages across a year: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Out in #CurrentBiology @currentbiology.bsky.social 1/4

So, now Macron’s government wants to look good and attract talent pushed out of the US? Do not be fooled, this is a political stunt to capitalise on geopolitics. Phenomenal in-house resources forced to leave science but there’s always money to look good: france2030.agencerecherche.fr/ChooseFrance...

More than 1,300 scientists have signed a letter calling on the Royal Society to reassess the billionaire’s membership following cuts to US science https://go.nature.com/41dzNUx

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44,000 #biological #interactions extracted from 84,000 publications—in just a few hours using GPT4o Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @francoiskeck.bsky.social et al #ecology🌍🌐🐟🌳🦋🪰🌿🪲 #predation #parasitism #mutualism 🚀 Potential applications seem endless & will change how we do #ecology

Calling coral reef scientists, oceanographers, isotope ecologists: new post-doc at Lancaster Environment Centre with me @lec-reefs.bsky.social @renatoamorais.bsky.social @remotereefs.bsky.social @drmanateena.bsky.social Deadline 28 Feb | Apply👇 | 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍 hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Fantastic opportunity to push the boundaries of work on the interface of reef ecology and oceanography! Please, do apply!

You'll join LEC REEFS - a big interdisciplinary team of 7 PIs, 9 post-docs, 10 PhD. This project is also partnered with 3 superb collaborators in Bangor, Perpignan, and Brisbane: @renatoamorais.bsky.social @drmanateena.bsky.social @remotereefs.bsky.social

Our new Nature paper on the multi-dimensional contributions of small scale fisheries just dropped www.nature.com/articles/s41.... We find that SSF supply ~40% of global fish catch worth >$77billion, with knock on benefits that support numerous sustainable development goals. A truly monumental effort

I’ve grown wary of using metrics of functional diversity and rarity to guide conservation planning. In this paper I explain why, and discuss three promising approaches for accounting for functionality in the identification of global conservation priorities. (1/7) 🌐

I mentioned previously that we are hiring a joint AIMS/UWA postdoc. I'm happy to say the advert for a *second* position (UWA & Minderoo) is active: external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/51... Looking for someone with expertise in fisheries models to work on spillovers from marine parks. Please share!

Still hope for coral reefs. Using 28-years of data in Seychelles, we find reefs recovering 4-5 years faster from the 2016 bleaching event, than they did after 1998. Also, a reef that had regime-shifted to macroalgae for over 15 years, is recovering to coral. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Play with ideas the way children play with toys—without fear of breaking them.

From data to knowledge : 📊🤖✨ Process-informed neural networks (PINNs) in Ecology and Beyond ! by Marieke Wesselkamp et al. | Ecology Letters 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🔑 PINNs outperform traditional models in ecological predictions, particularly in data-sparse scenarios ! 🧪🌐🌍

On today's Rare Earth we were discussing the impacts (good and bad) of space use/exploration on the environment. Satellites are incredibly useful, but just look at this interactive webpage that shows all the current satellites and where they are (and there are SO MANY): sky.rogue.space/

Re-posting here a @uk.theconversation.com article on recently published marine historical ecology research theconversation.com/we-gathered-...

Ocean Acidification is reshaping life and biogeochemical cycles. In our latest study, Niki Gruber and I reconstructed its progression in the global ocean interior over the industrial era, based on our previous estimates of anthropogenic carbon accumulation. doi.org/10.1126/scia... A 🧵about the 🌊...

Wrote up a lil #rstats opinion post based on an interesting discussion on here about where aes() should go in a ggplot. kbodwin.github.io/paRticles/po... (Useful, or did I just want to title a post "Move your aes"? You decide.)

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....

I hope this starter pack helps bring our community together on this platform. If you identify as an ECR, work in community ecology, and would like to be added, please reply! 🌱 It's currently too land-centric, but I'd love to see folks from marine and freshwater systems join! 🌊 go.bsky.app/5XJXVyX

Rough week. So let me fill your @bsky.app feeds with one of my favorite data visualizations... Enjoy! 🙂 Seasonal migration patterns of birds varying with air temperature using community science observations (eBird). Animation created by: sos.noaa.gov/catalog/data...

As my follower count creeps towards that of the old place, an unashamed plug for the FREE online textbook I wrote for #mathbio students. 'Introducing Mathematical Biology' is FREE, interactive, accessible and FREE. Please feel free to share with students. sheffield.pressbooks.pub/introducingm...