Really interesting looking new study claims that under a transition to increasing wood use in buildings, increased demand could be met under current harvesting levels. However, this would require shift from use as fuel to industrial products & reuse and recycling of wood doi.org/10.1038/s418...

You can now apply to take part in our 2026 Associate Editor Mentoring Scheme! 🔖 If you want to learn more about the peer review process and you're an ECR based in the Global South, then this voluntary position could be for you 💭🌏🧪 More info here 👇 bit.ly/47uwYlD

Not quite the same but what irks me is folks that do not "curate" their Google Scholar pages. Lots of people "claim" papers written by folks with the same name but clearly not written by them.

New academia hell just dropped: A colleague has found cases of someone posting papers written by other people on ResearchGate with the title page edited so it looks like they, not the other people, wrote it. Just straight-up theft and plagiarism.

This is really significant. I've been frustrated that we have to guess how much power and water AI consumes, because these tech companies won't say (even though they know). This is the most transparent estimate from one of these companies so far. I hope others will follow suit.

Research grants take hundreds of hours to write and cause so many sleepless nights, but it’s okay as there are good reasons to write them #academia

🚨 Please repost! #CommunityScience This year, we counted LOTS of new cones on some conifer tree species in some places, and not many for others species/places. Want to contribute? Tell us what's going on w/ NEW CONE production on conifers 🌲 near you! www.inaturalist.org/projects/con... #ConeCounters

Was just sent this, author unknown. There's plenty to debate but they're right about evolutionary ecology. 🌏

Impacts of Canopy Disturbances by Tree Logging on Soil Biota Increase With Organism Size 🔗 buff.ly/7UDHX7M @holisoils.bsky.social

Our massive systematic map, is now available @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social! We synthesise >300 studies on natural disturbance impacts - fire, precipitation change, wind etc - on soil and litter fauna in forests. Didn't get the love I thought it deserved yesterday, so I'm reposting the 🧵

“Just outside Gaza, tons of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter items & fuel sit untouched with humanitarian organisations blocked from accessing or delivering them," write 109 aid agencies today. Israel is committing Palestinian genocide and it is monstrous. Credit: Anatolu/Getty Images

There are lots of studies on natural forest disturbance impacts aboveground biodiversity, but fewer on impacts on soil and litter invertebrate fauna. In our systematic map we aimed to collate these, characterise them, & provide recommendations for future research ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Great to see our collaboration led fantastically by @ainhoamagrach.bsky.social published in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! We show that increases in honeybee hive density negatively impacts non-honeybee visitation rates. More detailed post next week besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Abstract submission is now open for my favourite conference in the world - The BES annual meeting in Edinburgh! www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/bes-... If you want to go & aren't a BES member yet, here's a 50% discount code for membership - it makes registration much cheaper. #BES2025

Registration for this year's @britishecologicalsociety.org Annual Meeting is now open! 🌎 #BES2025 Below, you can find Associate Editor mentee Ardiantiono's fantastic account of his experience attending for the first time last year! 🧪 👇 appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/07/17/b...

📢 Closing soon! If you use #AI in #EvidenceSynthesis, how 'correct' should it be?🤖 🧪 Help the Joint AI methods group understand your expectations. 🗓️Closes July 2 🔗 Learn more destiny-evidence.github.io/website/ 📋 Take the survey: forms.office.com/e/ZwdicYQpjv

Another day, another grant I didn't get. A good reminder that #rejectionistherule in academia. Well done to @andreasantangeli.bsky.social and @marsobral.bsky.social though - good work!

Great new paper shows that using knowledge from non-English language journals can strengthen global biodiversity databases. Including info from Brazilian journals increased species & population coverage & reduced uncertainty in population trends besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Clearcutting doesn't mimic fire when it comes to biodiversity conservation - in the early stages of forest development at least. Congrats to Graham Frank on the publication of his PhD chapter! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

And AGAIN! 3xpostdocs + Project Officer 17 months) in @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social ExCASES team, doing applied research on biodiversity renewal. Based at @researchnt.bsky.social working with fab @sarahcrowley.bsky.social. #envsocialscience #scipol #sustainability #sts #conservation folk do apply!

ICYMI githistory.xyz is a great way to navigate #git commits and visualise how a file has been changing across commits Just replace github.com with github.githistory.xyz in the URL and enjoy! #rstats

Incredibly happy and amazingly surprised to have been awarded a Ramón y Cajal fellowship to work on forest management and restoration at the Basque Centre for Climate Change. Made even better by two close friends getting it as well! Time to celebrate 🥳🥳🥳

This would be very bad, and would likely exacerbate climate change by stimulating agricultural expansion.

Woah! Such an important study published in Nature today! Quick thread with some of their key figures! 🧵

Are any other evidence synthesis folk experiencing problems with Rayyan right now? I've lost some of my functionality for filtering articles and it's holding up one of my projects with 20+ collaborators...

Really interesting robust systematic review investigating impacts of bird perches on assisted natural forest regeneration. Seed density seems to increase in most areas and this is reflected by higher seedling density, but not richness, in grasslands & shrublands link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are looking for a couple more experts to join our horizon scanning exercise online resulting in a paper in TREE. We are keen to have more participants especially outside Europe/North America. Please come and talk to me if at #ICCB2025

Today is the day to come talk seabirds with me #ICCB2025! Especially if you’re a grad student studying seabirds in need of a low-risk chapter that you don’t have to scale island cliffs to pull off. Or even if you’re not a student and just want to wax lyrical about seabirds together.

Are there new threats, novel solutions, policy developments, or worrying/encouraging trends etc which may have significant implications for nature conservation and that are not widely known? Please share suggestions for horizon scan of emerging conservation issues. Thanks! #biodiversityfutures

The Fulbright is a bulwark of US soft power, academic prestige and international collaboration. Tampering with this only further degrades the reputation of the US worldwide.

LAST CHANCE (for students requiring a visa): Come and join us this September to study the latest biodiversity science at @ucllifesciences.bsky.social, @zslofficial.bsky.social and @nhm-london.bsky.social. Apply here: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

Realistic models of the potential for global reforestation suggest that it could absorb roughly 5% of human CO2 emissions. This is still worthwhile but nowhere near a solution on its own. New paper just published 🧪🌏🌐

This new preprint that aims to advance our ability to make predictions about the effects of ecosystem management on individual sites genuinely looks ace and has gone straight onto my reading list. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Two PhD studentship applications, both rejected. It's disheartening, especially for the fantastic student who put so much work & hope into the proposals. I still believe in them and our project. But belief doesn't pay wages & I don't have much else to offer right now. #rejectionistherule

Researchers! 📢 We (@luke.fi) are hiring: Principal Scientist in Wildlife Ecology Permanent position ✅️ Finland, you'll love it ✅️ Flexible hours, proper holidays ✅️ Great colleagues and atmosphere ✅️ Relocation services ✅️ Value to objective research ✅️ #Canada #USA, you have boreal wildlife too 😉

Best surprise from @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social thanks to @iramosgutierrez.bsky.social

Challenges facing the scientific community in relation to open, reliable and transparent science through case studies of our daily lives - > "Sharing data and code help others to reproduce the results and strengthens your credibility. That's science at its best!" @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social

Come join us at the Conservation Biogeography Lab @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social and carry out work on megafauna in Europe pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/websi...

💚✨ Thank you. After an intense, inspiring and unforgettable week, the III SIBECOL & XVII AEET Meeting comes to an end — and yes, we’re already feeling nostalgic.

Back home after 13 (!) hours of travel from #SIBECOLAEET2025. Feeling weary but mainly just grateful. It’s always inspiring to be surrounded by great science and fun, kind people. Really curious to see which conversations from the bar grow into collaborations!

🚀 New paper led by Dr Becks Spake! We make the case for precision ecology—using big data & predictive tools to tailor conservation actions to local contexts. Can ecology learn from medicine & marketing to boost impact? We think so. Read it here: rdcu.be/eoaR4 #Conservation #Ecology #BigData

New paper out today on how the careful design of LLMs is crucial for expert-level evidence retrieval in conservation (but with implications for any evidence synthesis pipeline across other fields) 🌍 doi.org/10.1371/jour... and anil.recoil.org/news/2024-ce... for a summary

📣 Calling all PhD students 📣 Want to learn how to translate research into impact? Applications for the BES POST Fellowship are now open for real-world experience working within the UK parliament to support the use of research evidence. 🗓️ Apply by 11 June

Back home after two weeks in Spain sampling and attending @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social conference. Neighbours haven’t moved any closer

Thanks #SIBECOLAEET2025 for a great science and fun-filled week, it's been great to meet new friends and old and learn about all the amazing applied work people are doing in Spain and Portugal. Looking forward to the next AEET in 2027 in Zaragoza!

Really great talk by Sofia Miguel Romero from the University of Alcalá on the distribution, size, and severity of natural forest disturbances in Europe. I can't wait to see and cite the finished article #SIBECOLAEET2025

Right now David Moreno Mateos is talking about the impacts of human occupation of Amazonian forests on the genomics of Brazil nuts. Really interesting look over time scales that we normally don't think about in ecology #SIBECOLAEET2025

Up now Ana Heres talking about the potential of abandoned pine plantations for restoring soils and native forest plants in the Spanish Basque country. Plantation productivity is declining in these forests so maybe this is an alternative for them? #SIBECOLAEET2025

The reporting in some of this @theguardian.com article is really troubling. Its numbers on insect biomass declines are taken from a heavily criticised review, which I now use in classes to show the dangers of doing bad science. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you're at #SIBECOLAEET2025 come and see my poster on biases in forest restoration and their impact on estimating restoration effectiveness in the 'More human impact and restoration' section. It's our first day output from the BES-funded working group that I'm leading.