A summary of our recent #research exploring how #amphibian diversity and threats vary across elevational zones in the #Colombian #Andes 🧪🦤🐸🌐🌎

Essential listening this week… The seashore is most people’s window on the ocean. In this episode, Professor Hawkins reviews the main threats to coastal seas, and asks, how do predictions of impacts on rocky shores hold up a quarter century on? 🎧 Listen now buzzsprout.com/1958156/episodes/18474004

⏩️❓️‼️ If you have your biogeography research to be published, there is the perfect journal with an impact factor of 2.5 & being led & driven by a great society @biogeography.bsky.social🎉‼️⏪️ ❤️FRONTIERS OF BIOGEOGRAPHY❤️ biogeography.pensoft.net #tibs2026 #macroecology @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social

Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Love this short opinion piece on “mechanical bypass” in analogy to “spiritual bypass”.

New postdoctoral fellowship opportunity! Please pass along. Excited to announce the launch of the Tom Lovejoy Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona for innovative research to protect species, sustain ecosystems, and promote a thriving planet lovejoycenter.arizona.edu/lovejoy-fell... 🧪🌐🌾

New paper alert! We reconstructed the diversification trajectory of sharks & rays over the past 145 myrs to answer: When did they experience major extinction events? Does age play a role in extinction selectivity? If so, does it change with extinction intensity? 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Happy to share that our paper is out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social 😄 Experimentally increasing structural heterogeneity in forest landscapes (deadwood + canopy gaps) boosts taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of hoverflies 🪰🌳 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

More than a year ago researchers from @hifmb.de and @icbm-uol.bsky.social started to write about different perspectives on marine biodiversity change from natural and social science perspectives. This morphed into a review paper that was published online today link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪

🧪🦤🌐 How are terrestrial arthropod assemblages in tidal marshes shaped? Environmental filters and species traits drive metacommunity patterns in SW-Atlantic marshes. Connectivity matters—preserving habitat links is key for coastal biodiversity. bit.ly/meps_775_53

This quarter, in our weekly meeting of ecologists in the department, we’re observing & journaling about patterns in nature. Because of our lab’s recent focus on seaweeds’ morphological traits, we led a cyanotype activity today. It was super-fun, & the results were great! #PhycologyFriday #SciArt 🌊🦑🐡

How did you celebrate #KingTides ? @ehsellinger.bsky.social and team had us out on the mudflats tonight ♥️

Whooop! New paper online! "A Systems Perspective: How Social–Ecological Networks Can Improve Our Understanding and Management of Biological Invasions" Phenomenal effort by Fiona Rickowski to pull this all together, wrangling a large co-author/bag-of-cats team into shape! doi.org/10.1093/bios...

🚨Two funded PhDs on the evolutionary ecology of antipredator colouration 🦋 with myself and Iliana Medina. One in Swansea tinyurl.com/4thtbph6 deadline Jan 12th @crocus-dla.bsky.social The other in Melbourne - deadline Jan 1st Please share among potential students!

Awesome PhD opportunity, deadline in one week! Please re-post.

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Postdoc position in ecological forecasting 📈 as part of the Horizon Europe OSCARS call. The postdoc will be based in lovely Sevilla (fantastic place to live) and will include working closely with several European forecasting projects. Apply by Dec 11! 🌎🧪 globalchangeeco.com/jobs

what a difference two years makes... #COP28 > #COP30 we absolutely must end fossil fuels – for the climate, for nature, for human rights, for our air and water, for our energy bills

Check out our review in @annualreviews.bsky.social on the intricate interplay between the evolutionary adaptations that enabled some marine animals to reach gigantism, the their environmental context & the ecological consequences in marine habitats #oceangiants www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

1 of 2 days fieldwork (the ☀️ day!) in Brittany for the #befscale fucoid disturbance-resilience biogeographic study - aka Ruby’s PhD! More and more #sabellaria 🍯 🪱 + 100’s of by-the-wind sailors brought by hurricane Melissa @rubygeorge.bsky.social @jngriffy.bsky.social @pippajmoore.bsky.social

🧪🦤🌐 This study examines macrobenthic communities in eight deep sub-Arctic fjord basins of northern Norway, using taxonomic and biological trait data to characterize basin-specific ecological patterns and assess processes underlying community assembly. bit.ly/meps_772_61

3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Opportunity! Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)

My former student Dr. Christine Ewers has started a biodiversity analysis consulting business, she has experience with the breadth of genomic data and a fabulous person to work with :) www.drchristineewers.org/biodiversity...

🌿🌱 We’re hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor (potentially open rank) at the Institute of Plant Sciences @unibe.ch in Plant Population Ecology 🌻🌳 Be our colleague and join us in beautiful Bern, Switzerland Apply by Jan 23 2026 👉 ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare. However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

🚨 NEW PAPER: eDNA in the Intertidal 🧬 
We explored how eDNA reveals marine biodiversity across UK rocky shores from local patterns to national trends 🌊 
Read it in Journal of Environmental DNA 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #eDNA #Intertidal #Biodiversity #PhDlife

Does body size predict abundance the same way in all environments, as predicted by the Metabolic theory of Ecology? Our new study challenges this assumption. Read it here: 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Still plenty of time to submit papers to the Annals of Botany special issue on #Macroalgae and #EcosystemServices. Deadline for submissions is Nov 30th! #Kelp #Fucoid #seaweed #CCA @annbot.bsky.social @pippajmoore.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @twernberg.bsky.social @chrisecornwall.bsky.social

“We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less.”

📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Still time to apply! Deadline tomorrow for postdoc on #NbS in salt marshes with fantastic Jim van Belzen & Tjeerd Bouma. Going to be fun project & team! 🤩 @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social @jngriffy.bsky.social @melaniejbishop.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @aec13.bsky.social @stonelivinglab.bsky.social

Just 1 week left to apply to a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen (deadline Oct 1st) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... The postion is part of the Agroecology Partnership project SAFER www.agroecologypartnership.eu/safer Please repost!

We continue with the process of #participatoryresearch in the #Amazon, #Colombia, in all its stages from beginning to dissemination. Seeking to create bridges between #knowledgesystems. Big 🙏 to @snsf.ch for support and to the Isaza Lab 🇨🇴 and the Cacua Indigenous People 🍃

Five trains and 1200 km later it is the final leg of journeying from Innsbruck to York - lots of work done, seats sat on, sandwiches eaten and 44 kg of #carbon emitted vs the 72kg of carbon by coach or 175 kg by air @uoyenvironment.bsky.social @rolandgehrels.bsky.social

Postdoc opportunity at University College Cork Ireland 🇮🇪. Interdisciplinary approaches to urban coastlines & multispecies relations. 🚶‍♀️🐚👨‍⚕️🦀👩‍🔬🪸👤🐟 Open to EU & non-EU applicants 🌎 Deadline 3rd Oct. Interviews 9th & 10th Oct. #LivingSeawall #EcoEngineering #Sustainability my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...

We’re hiring (again)! 🌊🐟 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (≈ US Assistant Prof) in marine biology/marine ecology @ Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, NZ. NZ lifestyle, fantastic temperate reefs, a marine lab by the sea, & great colleagues 🌊 Apply here 👉 tinyurl.com/366jnm5d

Well done to Franz Bauer for collecting the 2 year dataset on the biodiversity colonising the Living Seawalls in Plymouth. Fucoid algae continues to dominate. 🤎 Many new species moving in..🦀🐌🪸

What are the interconnections between livelihoods, biodiversity, and the services that connect the two? Maria J. Santos (University of Zurich) will address this question at our Biodiversity Seminar today. Join us in-person or online! 10 Sep at 11 am CEST biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/de...

📢 New in Ecology Letters: heterogeneity ≠ stability. 🌊🪨 3-yr rocky-shore experiment: 4 cascades canceled the classic heterogeneity–stability link. 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ele.70158 With @thefairchild.bsky.social , @MatthewPerkins, @JamesBull & @jngriffy.bsky.social — thanks to @NERC & @SwanseaUniversity.

The Israeli government has adopted the double-strike tactic used by Bashar al-Assad in Syria: target a hospital or heavily populated area, then hit it again when rescue workers, reporters and medics turn up, to kill or maim them too. Hideous war crimes piled one upon another.

Very well done @robingauff.bsky.social 🙌 🙌 🙌 Proud to be a co-author on this paper doi.org/10.106/j.sci... sharing with #ITRS ocean sprawl community 🪨🌊🦀🪸🐚🌱@louisefirth.bsky.social @melaniejbishop.bsky.social @cariocamayer.bsky.social @anaellelemasson.bsky.social @ifremer.bsky.social

New #ScienceCommunication website blog from me. Here, I look at another recent #megalodon study - one that used zinc isotopes & found that the giant shark wasn't just a whale killer; but probably ate whatever it wanted. Give a read here: www.drjackacooper.com/writing/mega... 🦈

This review clearly shows that macroalgal decomposition rates vary significantly between experimental approaches and are severely underestimated when a refractory pool is not considered, impacting scaled-up estimates of macroalgal carbon export to the deep ocean 🌊🌱

New online! Emerging uses of artificial intelligence in deep time biodiversity research

Check out our perceptive on the Emerging uses of artificial intelligence in deep time biodiversity research www.nature.com/articles/s44... #AI #paleontology

No explanation needed. The Met police and Yvette Cooper MP should be ashamed.

No, seriously, any Labour MP who doesn't resign the whip is complicit in suppression of the exercise of free and fair speech criticising an ongoing genocide. Parliament must be recalled, this is a crisis. www.bbc.com/news/article...

When everything feels urgent, joy can seem indulgent. But maybe it’s essential — for resilience, connection, even good ideas. A short reflection on why joy matters, even in a world on fire.

This is huge. For years there's been a misconception that it's psychological and all in your head. We can already show changes in blood vessels, muscle tissue, etc. Now we see the genes that show ME/CFS disposition are NOT the same as the genes that show disposition for depression/anxiety/etc.

Doctoral position on genomic basis of Fucus (brown algal) local adaptation - join our exciting #Fubluc team! Fully funded for 3.5 years & we also consider candidates with strong molecular or bioinformatic skillls but no marine / algal experience, see www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...