I’ve just finished this in the past week, but this is easily the best online course/series of lectures I’ve done. I’d tried it in a prior year and fallen on the wayside a bit, and I found the 2026 version with the split beginner/intermediate lectures much more approachable. Would recommend!!

👋 Hola, estudiants i professorat UB! 🌏 Aquest curs, heu fet o avaluat un pòster que divulgui problemàtiques subjacents a l'Agenda 2030? 🏆 Presenteu-lo al VII Premi de Pòsters de #Sostenibilitat i #DretsHumans de la @ub.edu!👉 www.solidaritat.ub.edu/premi-posters/ 📅 Fins al 10 de juliol 💶 1.500 €

🚨 just a reminder that the proposal deadline for our cross-journal Special Feature, 'Mountain Biodiversity in the Anthropocene', with @jappliedecology.bsky.social, @journalofecology.bsky.social and @funecology.bsky.social, closes to submissions on 17 May🗻 Submit your proposal here: buff.ly/iNVgR40

🌐🌴 Current global hunting threat maps treat species as equally at risk everywhere in their range. We attempted to address this by combining where hunters actually go with which species are most likely to be targeted and least able to cope, for 6k+ trop. birds and 4k+ mammals: doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Since 2014, the planet has been warming by about 0.36°C per decade, according to an analysis of five temperature datasets, raising fears that climate tipping points could be crossed earlier than expected

In productive ecosystems, larger animals capture more energy per species biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1644...

A new paper using data from the Living Planet Database (LPD) has been published in @science.org examining how threats are driving global vertebrate population declines. This work highlights the value of the LPD’s threat data for understanding biodiversity change at a global scale 🌍.

¿Sabías que los corales también duermen por la noche? 🪸 🎧 Javier del Campo (@fonamental.bsky.social) habla de su investigación en el @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social en 📻Españoles en la mar. #DescifrandoEvolución 👉

New paper out examining fish food web degradation in the Anthropocene. We show the structure of aquatic food webs are changing-- even when species richness doesn’t. These signals are strongly associated with decreases in body size within fish communities. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐🐠🐡🦈🐟

🌊🪸 Abierta la inscripción al 9º International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals, del 2 al 5 de noviembre de 2026 en Barcelona. Por primera vez en el Mediterráneo, un encuentro para impulsar la ciencia y la conservación de los corales de aguas profundas. 👉 9isdsc.csic.es @deepsea-ieocsic.bsky.social

Ecosystem stability is about local diversity! 🌏🌱 Really happy to see our new paper out in @natcomms.nature.com. Thanks to @huangmj.bsky.social for beautifully leading this project and to coauthors @danimontoya.bsky.social, Yao Xiao, Xiang Liu & Yann Hautier for this great collective effort.

Great to see the new paper being picked up in the press phys.org/news/2026-02...

How can we reverse biodiversity loss? web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...

Massive update to the Global Wood Density Database out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer. What an amazing community resource! 🧪🍁🌐 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#NotíciaIRBio 🌿 Com podem revertir la pèrdua de biodiversitat? Les estratègies de conservació més efectives per protegir els vertebrats a escala global són les que aborden múltiples aspectes. Estudi liderat @polcapdevila.bsky.social i #DuncanO’Brien @bristoluni.bsky.social 🔗 shorturl.at/97y4c

Excited this new paper is out in Science Advances 📄✨ I think the results are important: To tackle vertebrate declines which are often driven by interacting threats—🦠 disease, 🐍 invasives, 🧪 pollution, 🌡️ climate, multi-threat, systems-level conservation is key 🌍 #Ecology #conservation

🚨Paper alert🚨 Very happy to see our paper published in @science.org #ScienceAdv. Very greatful to have worked with such a great team @duncanobrien.bsky.social #tomJohnson @robinfreeman.bsky.social #ValentinaMarconi #LouiseMcRae @expecocons.bsky.social 👇Check the main findings below!

🎉🍾 very excited to see this out before 2025 ends doi.org/10.1111/2041... with Will Hoppitt in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. This paper is an overview of our new R package STbayes, a user-friendly toolkit for performing Bayesian NBDA analyses. @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

🎉 labeleR-paper has been published in @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social! 👪 Together with @iramosgutierrez.bsky.social @jimenamateomartin.bsky.social & @frodsan.bsky.social! 📃 We briefly explain how to use it, its advantages and possibilities... Take a look! revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...

From snowy owls and hammerhead sharks to bats and sea turtles 🦉🦈🐋 Countries have proposed adding 42 migratory species to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) highlighting need for stronger intl cooperation to protect wildlife on the move. Decisions expected in 03/26: https://ow.ly/shgy50XMar0

El 44% de los investigadores en ecología han sufrido el efecto Gollum. Ese comportamiento territorial extremo que lleva a algunos a sentir que ciertos temas o ideas les pertenecen: "mi tesoro". 44% 🤔... Poco me parece. www.the-scientist.com/the-gollum-e... Paper: www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

O paramos temporalmente (de explotar la anguila) o se acaba para siempre Qué gusto ver a @malbercocs.bsky.social siendo tan clara (merci, Maria!) Esperemos que se sigan sumando gentes de las cocinas Es importante y es urgente

When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thanks also to @royalsocietypublishing.org for letting me write a blog about this fantastic team effort: royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

New Tansley Insight in New Phytologist: The path toward a unified plant trait space: synthesizing plant functional diversity. Why a common trait space matters, how to build it, and what it enables. With @e-beccari.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph.... #PlantTraits #FunctionalDiversity

🚨 our August issue is now live! buff.ly/HzYBKQL 🪸 it includes papers from our latest cross-journal Special Feature, "Marine Heatwaves". You can read the full list of papers in the feature, including papers from @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/qXHEMjS

🚨Paper Alert🚨: Read our recent editorial led by @danigomezgras.bsky.social about novel contributions to marine heatwave ecology. @medrecover.bsky.social @ub.edu @biologiaub.bsky.social

Press release of our recent study: "Ocean architects at risk from the combined impact of ocean acidification and warming" www.icm.csic.es/en/news/ocea... #bryozoans #microbiome @fonamental.bsky.social @elpiratavell.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social @bfiguerola.bsky.social @icmcsic.bsky.social

You can read the editorial here 👇: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @polcapdevila.bsky.social @cristinalinares.bsky.social

🎙️ and listen to a podcast episode by the guest editors here: buff.ly/wMOiYiE 🤍 thank you to @cristinalinares.bsky.social, @polcapdevila.bsky.social and @danigomezgras.bsky.social for bringing together an exceptional Special Feature!

"Els arquitectes del mar, en risc per l’impacte combinat de l’acidificació i l’escalfament de l’oceà". #briozous 🔗 www.icm.csic.es/ca/noticia/e... @fonamental.bsky.social @elpiratavell.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social @commsbio.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com

1/ Our new paper is out today in @commsbio.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com 🚨 🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08524-8 We studied how two Mediterranean bryozoan species respond to ocean acidification & warming using a natural underwater CO₂ vent as a climate change lab. 🌊🧫 🧵⬇️

For many marine species, all we have is a name. Now, thanks to a huge effort led by @drcraigmc.bsky.social, for 85,000 species we have body size as well. Version 1 of the MOBS database is published today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Enjoy! 🌐🧪

Check out our new publication lead by Lucie Mahaut in @royalsocietypublishing.org Functional diversity shapes the stability of reef fish biomass under global change 👉 Trait diversity and redundancy drive stability; human impacts reduce it. 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #ReefLifeSurvey 🌐🧪🦑🌍

Really happy to share our new preprint on the central complex of Heliconiini butterflies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Check it out! @neuroethology.org @brainevolutionnews.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social #brainevolution #heliconius #centralcomplex

Novel Regimes of Extreme Climatic Events Trigger Negative Population Rates in a Common Insect 📄 buff.ly/IUWeewq @creaf.cat @expecocons.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @unibarcelonathe.bsky.social @uab.cat

Seguimos con @cristinalinares.bsky.social, catedrática de la @biologiaub.bsky.social @ub.edu, quien nos habla sobre el "state of the art" del coralígeno, su distribución, diversidad, servicios ecosistémicos y principales amenazas. #Projecto_CorFun @icmcsic.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social

🪸New paper in Coral Reefs highlights that heterotrophy in parental coral colonies enhances larval survival — regardless of heat stress conditions. With the participation of @cristinalinares.bsky.social (@ub.edu), member of #MedRecoverTeam. 📄 link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007... @irbio-ub.bsky.social

New paper in Coral Reefs Journal: Heterotrophy in parental coral colonies enhances larval survival independently of heat stress @medrecover.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social rdcu.be/eg0KJ

Very proud of #MariaVives paper published today in @globalchangebio.bsky.social about the impacts of novel regimes of extreme climatic events in a common insect.

Red coral colonies survive a decade after being transplanted in the Medes Islands - Current events - University of Barcelona web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...

#RecercaUB | 🪸 Els coralls confiscats de la pesca furtiva tornen a viure a les illes Medes! ➡️ Les colònies que es van trasplantar fa una dècada al fons marí de les Medes han sobreviscut amb èxit. Lideren l’estudi Cristina Linares i Yanis Zentner, de @biologiaub.bsky.social i @irbio-ub.bsky.social

🧵Can marine restoration lead to ecological recovery? 🌊Success is often assessed by short-term survival of transplants, but what about long-term changes in community (trait) composition? We studied this for a key Mediterranean octocoral. 👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🌿 The MedRecover team held its annual retreat at Mas El Collell, spending a few days together to share knowledge, present, new innovations and research in our projects. An inspiring time to connect, learn, and keep working towards marine conservation! Cold, but very happy! ❄️🌊 #MedRecoverTeam

🌍 Demà divendres 14 de març, a les 11:30, celebrem el Dia Internacional d'Acció pels Rius amb el Sr. Davi Kopenawa a l’Aula Magna Ramon Parés. No hi falteu! Consulta el programa complet 👉 www.ub.edu/portal/web/b... @ub.edu @hubsg-ub.bsky.social

A framework to assess the vulnerability of islands to global changes : ecology.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec... thanks to ...

Our work on eel decline @mongabay.bsky.social, by Shanna Hanbury @nfranchv.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Another video in my series on applied time series and forecasting with the {mvgam} #rstats 📦. This one introduces State Space hierarchical GAMs and GPs for tackling multivariate series youtu.be/2POK_FVwCHk?...

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551