This has gained some traction. There's now twenty something conferences and workshops on there. However, there's a very obvious European bias. Any N or S American, Asian, African or Oceanian (is that even a word) additions would be gratefully received!

It was great to host @julenastigarraga.bsky.social at BC3 today. He gave a fantastic talk about improving predictions in ecology and the role of mechanistic models in predicting change in forests. Hoping we can keep the conversations going and collaborate in the near future!

Ok, so since there's nothing coordinated anywhere, I've decided to make my own crowd-sourced list of ecology and conservation conferences here. If you know of a conference that fits, please add it to the list! Let's turn this into a useful resource for the community tinyurl.com/yb6e6mb2

🎉 Congratulations to our Centre Director, Prof @ymalhi.bsky.social, on being awarded the Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology! 🌿 A well-deserved recognition of his pioneering research on tropical forests and global leadership in ecology. 🔗 naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/news/4071 @ecioxford.bsky.social

I'm trying to organise conferences and workshops that I want to go to in 2026. Is there a decent list out there for ecology and conservation people anywhere? Everything I've come across by Googling seems to be full of predatory conferences.

I had a wonderful few days this week, hosted by the government of Catalonia and the University of Barcelona, and receiving the Ramon Margalef Prize for ecological research from the president of Catalonia

When in the woods, best beware of dead man's fingers lurking there. Reaching up above the ground, a creepy fungi to be found. Happy Halloween everyone. Photo: Sheringham Park by Rob Coleman

Evidence synthesis folk: are there any published standards for how to use AI and report its use? I've been using an AI tool to help with screening articles and want to make sure that I report things well.

We are happy to introduce the Soil Ecology SIG @britishecologicalsociety.org! Our aim is to connect soil ecology researchers across career stages, facilitating knowledge exchange and collaboration. Check out www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/plan... and feel free to get in touch!

more PhD info here www.linkedin.com/posts/efuent...

At 10:00 🇵🇹, I’ll be speaking at the #EUFLYNET workshop about: “Rethinking standards in #evidencesynthesis for reliable ecology & evolution” 🐦 Many thanks to @ecobrlik.bsky.social for the kind invitation & for leading what'll surely be a fantastic systematic map (protocol 👉 doi.org/10.57808/pro...)

Absolutely awesome looking PhD project with Kevin and colleagues to produce vital knowledge to inform forest restoration strategy in the UK. Makes me wish I could do a second PhD!

Global change at a glance: The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink doi-org.csic.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/bios... | @aibsbiology.bsky.social "Climate change is a threat to ecosystem and human health, but it is also fundamentally a social justice issue" @williamripple.bsky.social

Un fotógrafo graba por primera vez a un lince ibérico blanco: el misterioso color de ‘Satureja’ “No es albinismo ni leucismo, y estamos investigando qué es lo que ha podido ocurrir y pensamos que podría estar relacionado con la exposición a algo ambiental” elpais.com/clima-y-medi...

Dense and continuous pine plantations fuel severe wildfires and hinder recovery 🔥 Reducing tree density can lower impacts, guiding more resilient afforestation and fire management strategies in Mediterranean ecosystems 🌲 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Great talk by @rupertseidl.bsky.social today at BC3 on the past, present, and future of forest disturbances in Europe and what this means for biodiversity and ecosystem services. Especially interesting to see how forest recovery is rapid in most of Europe, but not in Central and Southern Iberia.

Great to be visiting the Basque Centre for Climate Change in beautiful Bilbao this week! Thanks @philmartin.bsky.social for having me, and for showing me around! I particularly enjoyed visiting really exciting experiments, e.g. on European beech recovery at the temperate-mediterranean ecotone!

Great day out in the field with our guest at BC3 this week @rupertseidl.bsky.social! Today we've been looking at a salvage logged site damaged by windthrow with some retention & an experimental harvest site, both in Álava. Nice to discuss similarities & differences in forest management.

For anyone interested near Barcelona next week, I’ll be giving a seminar (followed by other contributions) on ““Energy flow as a way of understanding ecosystem change and nature recovery”, as part of receiving the Ramon Margalef Prize 😊

The Christmas Island shrew, a tiny mammal once found only on the Australian island of the same name, has been declared officially extinct. It’s at least the fourth small mammal species to be wiped out from the island since the introduction of invasive species there a century ago.

New study in @science.org using counterfactual methods suggests that carbon credits sold as part of REDD+ projects deliver greater climate benefits than estimated by previous studies. However, only 19% of projects met emissions targets and climate benefits were relatively small tinyurl.com/3m4k9mn9

Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain Great to contribute to this #OpenAccess paper published in Ecological Solutions & Evidence: doi.org/10.1002/2688... #rewilding #forests #trees #nature @ukceh.bsky.social

Has anyone actually ever clicked on this?

Spain's fire-ridden summer 2025 sparked big debates about how forests are managed. Now new research in @jappliedecology.bsky.social shows that pine plantations in Spain can increase fire severity, that post-fire recovery is rare, & but that tree density management can help tinyurl.com/mf33xrt8

Do you get confused when reading meta-analyses? Our new paper offers a practical guide to help researchers understand, interpret, and use them properly. We also show that the insights meta-analyses provide are often overlooked by those who cite them.

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Interesting insights on evidence use in Australia: Policymakers valued Living reviews most when topics are evolving fast & they can trust and easily access them. Barriers include: High costs of updating reviews & managing confusion when the evidence base shifts www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

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.