More than 100 businesses from 21 countries are now sharing biodiversity data through @gbif.org . 🌱 Find out what companies are publishing here: https://www.gbif.org/

Cool article on our PhD student Annabell Klinke's research, asking are fish less smart on less structurally complex reefs? womenlovetech.com/world-first-... @lec-reefs.bsky.social

PAPER hints at ecological traps for damselfish settlement - dead corals chosen for settlement if an adult is present, could cascade to bad ends! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Led by @lisabe.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @animalecology.bsky.social

Field of view affects damselfish anti-predator responses BUT other metrics of structural complexity do not. Implications for how we measure structure & predict its effects academic.oup.com/beheco/advan... @jamesboon.bsky.social is on fire today! @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social

New PAPER shows greater depths NOT correlated with more stable communities on Caribbean reefs, contrary to expectations. Led by @jamesboon.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social @opwallscience.bsky.social

Does anyone have a contact at @cefasgovuk.bsky.social who I can talk to abut possible research collaboration please? It's related to Turing Interdisc Fellowship application around remote monitoring & #AI

It's all in the title: Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss & degradation www.nature.com/articles/s41... Comprehensive analysis of current + projected future success of reef restoration. Most important predictor of site selection is accessibility, not ecological factors

Pick an idiom: "more than meets the eye", "beauty more than skin [feather] deep" etc. In work led by Rosalyn Price-Waldman, we describe a hidden (and ignored!) black or white layer found below the visible surface of bird feathers which helps make bird colours so striking! 🧪 🪶 #colsci

We can't wait to hear Dr.Brian McGill's talk for this month's Funk lecture! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/se...

PAPER: Territorial damselfish are more aggressive to neighbours if their neighbour is larger, but this weakens If they don't know each other link.springer.com/article/10.1... Led by my awesome former PhD student @sheppardcat.bsky.social @lec-reefs.bsky.social @envisiondtp.bsky.social #FishInBottles

New paper by Catherine Sheppard et al. examining aggressive behaviour in damselfish in the coral reefs of Honduras. Results showed predicting aggressive responses can be complex, extending beyond simply whether the subject of the aggression is a “neighbour” or a “stranger”: tinyurl.com/mr3vhef9

Come join us in the @biology.ox.ac.uk at @ox.ac.uk! New Associate Professor position in Animal Behaviour, with Merton College: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Take a look at our new data and code guidelines for quality control below! This was a great collaboration between data editors from multiple ecology and evolution journals and @sortee.bsky.social! Brilliantly led by @joelpick.bsky.social and @eivimeycook.bsky.social!

Breaking News 🚨: Our #bioacoustics 🔉🐬🦇lab seeks a permanent new colleague in a tenure-track assistant professor 🥷position. Excited? Then join our vibrant group of 15 researchers, postdocs and PhD students at AU who work with #marinemammal #acoustics, #conservation #physiology and #effectsofnoise!

Important article by Tara McAllister and her co-authors. We at Stanford University is encouraged by this paper as we launch a new faculty search in the field of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (applications by Sept 30, 2025): facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Very cool paper led by @ruthedunn.bsky.social showing that birds choose particular wind conditions that seem to aid in foraging success! Plus, they put cameras on the birds' legs to film them catching flying fish - awesome!

New research led by @alicetrevail.bsky.social combines tracking data to show the value of large marine protected areas in encompassing diverse megafauna movements 🐢 doi.org/10.1111/1365... @jappliedecology.bsky.social @iomarinescience.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social

Turns out it's very unlikely Nemo and Marlin lived in the same anemone.. Just out in Behavioral Ecology! with Pete Buston, Steve Bogdanowicz, Tina Barbasch @behavecol.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social

Cool to see this paper advocating a macrobehavioural approach from the perspective of behavioural ecology academic.oup.com/beheco/artic... Lots of people now converging on the same thoughts from slightly different angles - adds weight to the fact we need to DO THIS! Go macrobehaviour 💪🏻✊🏻

Important article on dealing with grief & anxiety in environmental science, with lots of input from Tim Lamont @lec-reefs.bsky.social cosmosmagazine.com/people/socia... includes tips on coping with climate distress

Some helpful hints on how to identify AI wrote a student answer. I particularly like "ask them to produce an em-dash on the computer" 😂 gizmodo.com/the-biggest-...

Follow up from our #rewilding preprint: we're holding a Knowledge Exchange event @icms-edinburgh.bsky.social 20-23/10/25. We're inviting academic and non-academic #mathematics and #ecology researchers/practitioners, to tackle current rewilding issues. 🧪🌍 🧮 Sign up here! icms.ac.uk/activities/e...

Thrilled to be part of this new paper led by Mayukh Dey & Nature Conservation Foundation, summarizing 25 yrs of 🪸 reef resilience monitoring in Lakshadweep 🏝️ 🇮🇳 We find distinct recovery archetypes shaped by atoll location & coral assemblages onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Cool new paper showing strong links between fish populations along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge + big differences in traits btwn island endemics vs widespread species royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Cord et al. Seamount/hotspot stepping stones sensu royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....?

I like this discounted "parent rate" idea from @britishecologicalsociety.org ! 👏 I'd have also appreciated a "very pregnant" rate for recognising sessions missed due to naps but perhaps that's a step too far 😂

Please repost. For those who might have missed it, our School has three ongoing positions advertised. The work environment here at Monash is top notch: supportive, collegiate and inclusive. And Melbourne is an awesome city to live in. Deadline fast approaching. Get cracking on those applications!

Delighted to see this work out in PNAS. The idea that got me into butterflies, started on it in 2011 but took the intellectual energy of @benitoexplains.bsky.social, and the support of a great team, to develop it and put it all together. Thanks to #NERC @ukri.org for funding 🙏🏻

Phew! It's been a fraught final week but i have just hit the big SUBMIT button. This seems like an apt GIF for research funding proposals these days ;)

I will soon open up calls for a PhD student (free choice of topic as long as it fits to our group) and a scientific programmer / ecological data scientist. If you know what we are doing and would like to join our team, feel free to get in touch.

Does anyone have a lead on where to buy Raspberry Pi camera modules AND underwater housings suitable for at least 10 m depth? #Marine #Ecology #SCUBA🐠

Just became aware of this paper - lots of great ideas for how to make sure field trips support LGBTQ+ ecologists besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An hour away from @besmacro.bsky.social #BESMacro2025 😃

Ten simple rules for faculty members building just and equitable environments in academic science journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

3-year #Postdoc opportunity at the University of York! I am #hiring a Postdoc to join my URF project on exploring how #biodiversity change is unfolding in the #Anthropocene. Deadline: 10th August 2025. All details and the link to apply: shorturl.at/qOQst @anthropocenebio.bsky.social #ecology

Passed my 2nd ju-jitsu grading today 😃 (not actually hip-throwing my 4yr old 😂)! I wish you could get research funding in a similar way - 3hrs of high intensity “sciencing” and you get a round of funding (and a belt and certificate of course 😉)

Calling #FrogNerds! My niece has to give a short public talk and has chosen to talk about frogs. Any fun facts she could share?

‘It’s death by a thousand cuts’: marine ecologist on the collapse of coral reefs. More than anything #climate and #biodiversity crises make me angry. As few people are largely responsible, while all pay the price, mostly those least responsible. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Academia normalizes poverty as a “rite of passage.” It’s not character-building—it’s exclusionary. We need to reject this culture, fund our people, and prioritize equity at every career stage. #AcademicEquity #STEMReform

Full draft of research proposal done, only about 1/5 longer than it should be 😏 Feeling very "Friday" now 🌤️🌻🍸

Here is a photo of a trans non-binary biologist (me) holding a bird (Eastern Towhee) that is likely a bilateral gynandromorph-- a fusion of cells with female-type chromosomes and cells with male-type chromosomes in one bird! Biological sex and human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

50 **COUNTRIES** have now ratified the UN High Seas Treaty, with dozens more promising to do so. 60 are needed for the agreement to come into force. #UNOC3 🌊 🦑 🧪 🌍 🌎 🌏 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nice little overview of my research direction these days www.lancaster.ac.uk/sci-tech/abo... @lec-reefs.bsky.social @lancasteruninews.bsky.social

BIG new paper on the MegaMove project with @netlab.bsky.social - portal.lancaster.ac.uk/intranet/new... Top areas to reach 30 x 30 for marine megafauna are highlighted

Yay, marking done! RESEARCH time 🥳

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Here is the NERC "Forward Look" - lots of buzz words / phrases / directions for anyone out there writing grants! www.ukri.org/publications...

Yay! I can go 🥳Excited to see all the macro stuff going on around the UK and beyond! Last day to register tomorrow www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...

This is phenomenal. Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment. It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.

This course on AI is completely tranforming how i can think about potential approaches to problems. And we're only on machine learning, not even got to deep learning yet 🤯

turns out i spent over a year working on machine learning to parametrise a simulation model - I never realised before that ABC-MCMC is a solver in machine learning 🤯😃