BrilliANT time at #Mirmeco2025 in Recife. A meeting full of enthusiasm & passion for #ants. Fabulous to see all my Brazilian and other ant friends again ❤️

Congratulations @sheldonbirds.bsky.social!

Michigan's #UMMZ Reptiles and Amphibians Collections Manager position is now open. Join a great museums group and help manage the world's second largest herpetology research collection. Please share! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

🎙️ our latest podcast episode is live! 👨‍🔬 we spoke with our incredible Research Highlights Editor, Mariano Rodriguez-Cabal, about his research and his experience working as an editor on our journal. 🔉 listen in English here: buff.ly/9ZICMim 🔉 Escucha en español aquí: buff.ly/LX5Hw6k

Nutrient Enrichment Increases Blue Carbon Potential of Subtropical Seagrass Beds 🔗 buff.ly/Uk82xEZ

Don't forget to submit your proposal for our Sidnie Manton award!

🚨 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

🐝 Our latest Special Feature, "Network Ecology in the Anthropocene", is now accepting proposals. 📝 The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.

Quote: "We investigated not only how biotic resistance could restrict the success of a range-shifting species, but also how it could positively impact the fitness of an individual resident species by sheltering it from novel competition." besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Know an Evolutionary Genomicist looking for a faculty position? Join us in EEB @utknoxville.bsky.social Position is open for studying any organism, but personally I have some botany bias. 🌱 Apply before Sept 19 for full consideration. apply.interfolio.com/170735 Please share widely. Thanks!

"subtle stressors—Strong responses. Consistent negative effects of avian blood parasites on phenotypic and demographic traits across songbirds" 🐦

"Our findings reveal a notable resilience in the co-occurrence patterns of understorey birds to selective logging in Borneo, underscoring the long-term conservation value of logged tropical forests..." 🪵 Read the full paper here: buff.ly/BKmDRyi

Hot off the press: Metabolic traits are shaped by phylogenetic conservatism and environment, not just body size Our article in PNAS explores several controversies in metabolic theory in a macroscale study of 🐜 #aridity #temp #SMR #DGC 📸:François Brassard www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501541122

🚨 new research: "effects of competition and predation risk from a life history intraguild predator on individual specialisation" buff.ly/rqbKPPI

On how and why I took more than 22,500 colour measurements in a month and survived animalecologyinfocus.com/2025/07/02/o...

There is one month left to apply for our Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution! These awards provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in #ecology and #evolution. www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons... #science

Super proud of this Special Feature on the Global Energy Transition 🌏💡- read our editorial and exciting contributions here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/global-e...

It's time for @animalecology.bsky.social 's Sidnie Manton Award for Early Career Researchers! Send in those ideas!

"An experimental test of the importance of isolated trees for frog diversity in tropical landscapes" 🐸 read the full paper here: buff.ly/df82hJL

Exciting opportunity for a PhD project to expand our knowledge of plant thermal tolerances- from a single tree to trends! 🌳 🌎🌡️🔥❄️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

BioTime v2 is out!!🚨 - Explore the largest #database of #biodiversity time-series studies in the world. Now with more studies🗄️🔍👩‍💻, more species 🌱🦎🦇🐟🌳🐜🐚🪸🐀, more locations 🌐…just more! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Free to download, free to use! #BioTime #Macroecology #GlobalChange

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What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career. predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...

The new era of global bird phylogenies begins – this one built over several years by @snacktavish.bsky.social and team massively increases sample size and will be a fantastic resource for macroevolution and macroecology. 🪶 🌐 🧪

🌟Announcing the 2025 ESA Fellows and Early Career Fellows!🌟ESA's fellowship program recognizes the many ways in which our members contribute to ecological research, communication, education, management & policy. Learn more about this year's cohort: esa.org/blog/2025/04...

It's Undergrad Poster Day in EEB. It's one of my favorite days of the year when we get to hear from future leaders in ecology and evolution talk about their impactful research experiences.

University of Michigan Regents come out squarely and publicly in defense of academic freedom against political coercion and the role of higher education and research in making America prosperous, secure ... and well ... maybe even Great? www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

Well done, Leonna Szangolies, for winning the 2024 Elton Prize in @animalecology.bsky.social!🏆  Leonna’s research models how habitat fragmentation affects coexistence among species of different body sizes. 🐁  https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2656.14134

...but with each ending comes a new beginning. We would like to announce that Ana Margarida C. Santos (Guida) will replace Jean-Michel as Senior Editor. You can read a blog post she has written to introduce herself below: animalecologyinfocus.com/welcoming-ou...

We are sad to announce that Professor Jean-Michel Gaillard will be leaving the board as Senior Editor of our journal after 11 years of editorial service. We will miss him greatly. You can listen to his podcast episode where he reflects on his time on the journal here: soundcloud.com/besjournals/...

Born on March 29, 125 years ago: One of the most influential ecologists of the 20th century and the father of animal ecology, who turned natural history into a science: Charles Sutherland Elton (1900-1991). A birthday thread… 🧵[1/8]

Jordan Cuff provides the story behind his paper, “Networking nutrients: How nutrition determines the structure of ecological networks“, which was shortlisted for this year’s Elton Prize 🕷️ animalecologyinfocus.com/jordan-cuff-... @JordanCuff.bsky.social

Garrett Hopper, one of our shortlisted candidates for the 2024 Elton Prize, has written his #storybehindthepaper on our blog. Read it here:

New key finding: Landscapes of fragmented habitat have lower diversity, at all scales, than do unfragmented landscapes. Habitat fragmentation does not compensate for the loss of local (alpha) diversity by increasing the diversity among fragments (beta diversity). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper led by Thiago Gonçalves-Souza is out. Habitat fragmentation and habitat loss reduce biodiversity. @natejsanders.bsky.social Results from 37 studies distributed worldwide, on plants and animals, comparing continuous and fragmented landscapes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The paper is accompanied by a great commentary by @fletcherecology.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Mind-blowing paper! Way back a couple years ago I used B-diversity to test cross-scale river resilience. I think such cross-scale indexing can capture much better landscape resilience, connectivity and organic processes such as emergence and migration.

New article out today in @nature.com by Gonçalves-Souza, @nickhaddad.bsky.social, @jon-chase03.bsky.social et al. on forest fragmentation and biodiversity: www.nature.com/articles/s41... A must read for anyone interested in this topic. See my summary here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our paper is out, and it is distressing. Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our March issue is live. 🦋 buff.ly/msasOFN This issue is dedicated to our latest Special Feature, "Intraspecific Variation in Evolution and Ecology". 📸 : Juliano Morimoto

Our February issue is now live. 🐸 Read it here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652656... 📸: Owen M. Edwards

🤔Are you an active researcher with broad interests in animal ecology? 💡Apply to join us as a Senior Editor! 📝See here for more details about the role and for how to apply: buff.ly/3C8NVVr ⏰Closing date: 20th February 2025 🧪🌍

Want to join or learn more about BugNet? Join our BugNet info meeting with @annekempel.bsky.social online on Wednesday, January 29th 2025 at 9am CET or 3pm CET. Register here for the info meeting: www.bug-net.org 🌱 🌐

The 4th Sidnie Manton Award Winner is Rebekah Oomen! 🐟 you can find her paper here: buff.ly/3PJAgaB 📝 a blog post with more details here: buff.ly/40tYMBd 🥼 all shortlisted papers here: buff.ly/4asHQjg

Senior Editor position!!! Please feel free to get in touch with me via DM or email if this is of potential interest to you, even if you don't think you're 'ready' (I didn't!). Serving on a @britishecolsoc.bsky.social journal is for me a joy and a privilege.

If you love animal ecology then you’ll love this opportunity! Feel free to get in touch to discuss the ins and outs of the role

Animal Ecologists!! Here’s an opportunity to help lead Journal of Animal Ecology and join a fun team of editors. Please share widely and consider applying yourself. I’m happy to answer any questions.

We're hiring an ecosystem ecologist (open rank) @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social It's a great place to work and live! Lots of opportunities for collaboration including with @kbslter.bsky.social KBS Long Term Agroecosystem Research careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

Here's the introduction to the 16 papers, each owing an intellectual debt to Georgina. We outline how they all move us closer to answering the central question: How should we bend the curve of biodiversity loss to build a just and sustainable future?https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0205