Cross-scale interactions mediate local drivers of nonnative species richness vist.ly/4txq6 #Macroecology #Fish #Disturbance

Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @nature.com! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗 @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

📣 Useful publication alert! If you're collecting or sharing vector trait data 🦟🦠, this new paper from @vectorbyte.bsky.social introducing the MIReVTD (Minimum Information for Reporting Vector Trait Data) standard is for you: doi.org/10.1093/giga... #FAIRData #DataStandards #DataSharing #Traits

Thrilled to share our new preprint: “Extreme Heat as the New Normal” 🌡️🔥 We introduce a roadmap + code for identifying and mapping extreme heat 📏 and linking it to ecology: 🧭 Species distribution models 🐦 🌿 Biophysical models & microclimates 🦎 📉 Population dynamics 👥 doi.org/10.64898/202... 🧵 ⬇️

Exciting to be a part of this!

Minister 'for' the Environment, Murray Watt, has been working so hard for the environment...sorry, I meant industry www.theguardian.com/environment/... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

True. Anthony Albanese is now Deputy Sheriff John Howard www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/02/a....

Our package estar for quantifying ecological stability is out: MEE @britishecologicalsociety.org! Provides 11 stability metrics for measuring stability at different levels of organization, from individuals to populations, communities + ecosystems. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The gap between what Australians need & what their government funds. Between the billions for submarines & the crumbs for housing. Between the million-dollar salaries for political appointees & the women dying because domestic violence services are stretched beyond breaking point. #Auspol

After a US-Israeli strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, rescuers dug through the rubble for survivors. The death toll is still rising, with more than 80 confirmed dead so far.

📖 Published! Individualised niches in a variable environment—Consequences for environmental change responses This framework can be extended further to niche choice and evolution including all processes that can change the match between individuals and their environment 🌍 🌳 🔎

"Deep in Admiration" was a talk given at the conference Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Dangerous Planet at UC Santa Cruz in May 2014. The text appears as the foreword to the collection Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014 (published by PM Press).

International Polar Bear Day tomorrow and the final version of our paper dropped today! Polar bear visits to human infrastructure increase with sea ice loss, not poor body condition. cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....

Launch of the Global Society of Infectious Disease Dynamics. 🎉 2 online webinars on Thursday 26th. Do join to see what it's all about, and get involved in the community as it kicks off! www.gsidd.org/post/join-us...

This recent RCT of an "AI stethoscope" claims the technology "shows promise" for diagnosing cardiovascular conditions. It does not. It is a textbook example of the risks of conducting unprincipled 'per protocol analyses'. Once again, peer review at a major medical journal has failed. 🧵 1/

New #causalinference paper just dropped! As an ecologist, I was trained to ask: "What do the data tell me?" This paper: there are only specific instances when this question is appropriate—when you lack domain knowledge, which we often have! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Job alert: I'm hiring a postdoc for www.humidlab.com Details at the workday link below. Tell everyone. Contact me if you're interested in applying. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Really proud of my paper with @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social, @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social, Andrew Stillman, and Courtney Davis out now in @natcomms.nature.com, which looks at the forecasted exposure of bird biodiversity to high severity fire in the western US. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Integrating seagrass conservation into #OneHealth frameworks shows the need for proactive, multisectoral approaches. Protecting & restoring is a critical investment in resilient coastal communities, sustainable fisheries, & the overall health of human & planetary systems. doi.org/10.1093/bios...

🛖🗺️On the use of neighboring habitats as predictors of species distributions vist.ly/4s6xc #Animals #EcologicalNicheModelling #FocalPredictor #MultiScaleProcess #Plants #SpatialScale

📖 Published - A short guide for effective field data collection These guidelines can be useful as a starter for researchers to support open, reproducible, efficient and effective field data collection 👇️🌳🐞

All coexisting species ☘️🌿🌾 follow a single power function 📈 linking their temporal variability to their mean abundance 🤯 — 💥Taylor’s power law💥. This exceptionally strong law in community #ecology shows how dominants play a key role in stabilizing ecosystems worldwide 🌍🌐 🔗🔓 doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

New in our journal #australianmammalogy @csiropublishing.bsky.social - Ross Goldingay looks at long-term patterns of #koala occupancy in New South Wales - check out this open access article.. connectsci.au/am/article/4...

Essential reading for conservation scientists & ecologists (in fact anyone doing science across borders!) 🌍🧪https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70227?af=R Remote-control science is an internet-enabled form of "parachute" science FWIW, I see a lot of this in AI and macroecology research

Published!📖 OccuGAMs: Non-linear occupancy and abundance modelling with imperfect detection🌍 🖥️ 🔎 Find out more:

Flexible methods for species distribution modeling with small samples vist.ly/4rq4e #SDM #MaxEnt #NicheModels

The newly Albo govt-approved Middlemount Coal Mine is jointly owned by Peabody & Yancoal Not to be confused with Glencore's Hail Creek Coal Mine which is also applying for an extension, & that will also kill koalas (probably more, 👀 next post) There're 42 Coal mines in the pipeline

A little over 12 months ago, 150 scientists from 16 countries gathered in Geelong to reflect on the past 30 years of henipavirus research, current developments and future directions. The outcomes of that meeting are detailed in our recent publication in EID below. wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

New paper from our Australia Hendra virus project! Juvenile animals often drive seasonal pathogen transmission. In our case, we find no evidence juvenile bats drive seasonal Hendra virus spillover events in Australia. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our new work: Phenology underlies inconsistent urbanization effects on avian malaria in juvenile songbirds doi.org/10.1002/ecs2... Timing matters! Early-hatching blue tits face lower malaria risk & heavy infections reduce fitness @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk @dmdominoni.bsky.social @barbarahelm.bsky.social

🦜 Can we map #bird communities, not just species? Using 50 years of #CitizenScience data, this new study defines 29 distinct bird communities across #Australia, providing a new continental framework to assess community condition and track change over time. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

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If these cops don't go to jail for this assault, please explain why not, @albomp.bsky.social.

Everyone who cares about a safe and free Australia should read and share this michaelwest.com.au/this-was-pla... Shocking allegations.

As always - remember this is what they do when they know they are being filmed.

👀 Global maps of 37 plant #FunctionalTraits as defined in the TRY Plant Trait Database with a resolution of 1 km and a global extent 🌐🧪 📏🧮🌮 global-traits.projects.earthengine.app/view/global-...

🚨PhD Opportunity: Early‑warning Surveillance of Mosquito‑borne Diseases (Philippines) Deadline 6 March 👉 ecological-data-science.github.io/projects.html Work on fieldwork, molecular screening, Bayesian models & data platforms Supervised by Drs Mafalda Viana, myself & Betsy Miranda @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk

Registration is open for the McGill Summer Institutes in Global Health @mcgillspgh.bsky.social 🎉 I am thrilled to offer a new course "Innovations in Immunizations" - online May 26-29! Join us in building a community dedicated to improving immunization research, practice & policy 🤩 bit.ly/4tgpScV

Our new paper! 🦟❄️🔥 Stage‑dependent trade-offs in thermal performance under fluctuating temperatures 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jme/... Fluctuating temperatures flip larval vs adult fitness in the #malaria mosquitoes Anopheles gambiae & An. coluzzii. By @mauropazmino.bsky.social & others @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk

Fabulous piece by Dani Anderson from the @thedohertyinst.bsky.social about the dangers of the media inflating the risk of small, well contained Nipah virus outbreaks. Do yourself a favour and take a read. www.doherty.edu.au/news-events/...

I keep thinking abt this as the list of scientists who interacted w/ him gets longer & longer. This kind of male academic exists on a spectrum & we've all interacted w/someone who won't engage w/women as intellectual peers & they don't even try to pretend if you're not f*ckable in their eyes.

New interactive global maps of 31 plant traits were prepared by Daniel Lusk, based on plant distribution data from GBIF and sPlot, plant trait data from TRY, and various satellite-based products. Map viewer: global-traits.projects.earthengine.app/view/global-... Article: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Is there a more disappointing politician right now in Australian politics than @senatorwong.bsky.social? Like tunicates, it seems Labor MPs fail to ever fully develop a spine.

Very cool new paper by Sarah Hayes, @liambrierley.bsky.social and team - Ecology and environment predict spatially stratified risk of H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza clade 2.3.4.4b in wild birds across Europe: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A study funded through a partnership with CSL Seqirus has been published in Scientific Reports. The research maps #BirdFlu risk across Europe using environmental AND wild bird data. Read more: www.thepandemicinstitute.org/news/study-u... @liambrierley.bsky.social #AvianInfluenza #H5N1

🌿 Working with Indigenous Peoples & local communities: 8 GCBC Research Lessons 📄Read the full article: lnkd.in/edTD3RzK Effective conservation & sustainable development relies on inclusive research with IPLCs built on trust, shared benefit, and respect for Indigenous knowledge. #InclusiveResearch

New paper I got to help with: Molecular surveillance supports differing roles for Culex pipiens and Culex restuans (Diptera: Culicidae) in West Nile virus transmission in Chicago, Illinois They may have different roles, but no evidence of a public health importance . . . yet . . .

Today is World Wetlands Day, around the world. It marks the signing of the intergovernmental Ramsar Convention on Wetlands by most countries, including Australia, in 1971. Unfortunately... [1/2] 📷 Blackmans Lagoon, Waterhouse We recorded Australasian bittern boom calls (=breeding) here this season