🍁Funding for new PhD students ($40k/yr) & postdocs ($70k/yr) coming from outside Canada. Contact me if interested in #Ecophysiology at #UBC in #Vancouver! Possible topics: leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimate, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology, more! michaletzlab.org Please share!

🚨 New paper out in @ecography.bsky.social ! 📝 Led by Dr. Søren Faurby, we built upon the estimated unrecorded bird extinctions by @r-cooke.bsky.social et al. 2023 and try to estimate the corresponding unrecorded loss of phylogenetic diversity. 🦤🧬 Check the full paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

Are you into macroecology and/or macroevolution? Want to make our field a better place? Please consider joining the BES Macro SIG Committee! We're currently recruiting for a vice chair and ordinary member(s). More info and how to apply (deadline Jan 20th!): mcusercontent.com/a9537304d9bd...

🧪🐠 I am hiring a postdoc! Work will be on patterns of biodiversity across phylogenetic scales using teleost fishes as a model. Apply by end of Jan 2026 for full consideration apply.interfolio.com/179070 I encourage folks to reach out with any questions. Please Share!

Check out our latest study on how biological, geographic, and historical factors influence the robustness of mammal species descriptions, published in @journalsysevo.bsky.social 🐒🦥🦇🐁. Follow the thread 🧵(1/7). @mmoroti.bsky.social @agenciafapesp.bsky.social t.co/F9mzkWjq0z

🆕 New paper: On the use of neighboring habitats as predictors of species distributions by @fcollart.bsky.social and Pierre-Louis Rey et al. about choosing the appropriate spatial scale at which environmental predictors are measured, critical for high-resolution SDMs. doi.org/10.1002/oik.11963

It was great to meet so many other Early Career Researchers at our #TIBS2026 mixer last night - both catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. To celebrate all the ECR Biogeographers, we have created a starter pack so you can follow all the exciting work being done: go.bsky.app/KvnmdnK

🆕 Book chapter: presenting the R package "ecospat", a set of tools for modeling and analyzing species niches and distributions. Authored by @fcollart.bsky.social @antoineguisan.bsky.social and Olivier Broennimann

Meet the #BES2025 SIGs on floor -1! We’ll be heading to our social at Frankenstein later too! Come say hi to some of our committee: @inesismartins.bsky.social @bethanyjallen.bsky.social @lauraloubio.bsky.social

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

Day one of #BES2025 has been great so far! Looking forward to meeting some new people at the meet the SIGs session and the @besmacro.bsky.social and @bes-conservation.bsky.social joint social later on today!

..and we are off #BES2025! Great Plenary by Sandra Diaz on the global spectrum of plant form and function 🌿+ People 👥+ a pinch of Policy 🌐. @britishecologicalsociety.org

#BES2025 is well under way! Join us at the Frankenstein & Bier Keller pub tonight for a fun social with @besmacro.bsky.social 🍺 See you there!

I really can't recommend the Macro Committee enough - we have tons of fun and organise a really cool annual meeting :)

Are you attending #BES2025 this week & looking for some tips to help get your research published? 🤔🧪 Come along to one of our two sessions with @nordicoikos.bsky.social & @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social where we'll be discussing each step of the academic publishing journey! 📑🌏

🤔Sorting out your schedule for the #BES2025 Annual Meeting? Interested in becoming an Associate Editor? 💡Join editors from across the @britishecologicalsociety.org journals for a workshop covering the ins-and-outs of peer review and what it takes to work effectively as an editor! 🧪🌍

Join the BES Macro committee! We're recruiting a vice chair and 1-2 ordinary members to help us make macroecology & macroevolution a better place. More information on how to apply in the link, and come chat at #BES2025 if you happen to be around! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...

We're excited to announce that #BESMacro2026 will be July 15-17 at the University of Reading. Save the date, and look out for more details in the new year!

Attending #BES2025? Join the ALDER, REED, & EDGE networks for our triple festive social 🎄🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 📍: Roxy Lanes, Edinburgh 🕐: 19:30 Wednesday 17th Dec We hope to see you there! 😁 More info: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/bes-... @britishecologicalsociety.org

Are you excited for #BES2025 ? We sure are! You can catch us at the ‘Meet the SIGs’ event on Tuesday, as well as the Conservation & Macro SIGs Social later that evening. Please drop by and say hi!

New paper! Here we look at shape evolution of the mandible in Pelagiaria, a group of open-ocean fishes that includes tuna and mackerel. We find that shape disparity accumulated rapidly at the origin of the clade at around the K/Pg boundary... academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Effects of future climate extreme heat events and land use changes on land vertebrates "By [2100], ... 7895 species are expected to face extreme heat events and/or unsuitable land use changes across their entire range, & thus potentially go globally extinct" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Earth's largest land animals are limited by salt. Sodium availability constrains the density and distribution of elephants, giraffes and rhinos across Africa, and offers a new explanation for the so-called 'missing megaherbivores'. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free access: rdcu.be/eTPY2

High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 🌎🧪 🌐 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

👇👍 #scaling

Resurveys show changes in #kelp species composition consistent w/ warming: “losses of…the cold-tolerant kelp species *Alaria esculenta*, *Saccorhiza dermatodea* & *Agarum clathratum* in Nova Scotia since 1982 in favour of the more warm-tolerant kelps *Saccharina latissima* & *Laminaria digitata*.” 🦑

On Thursday 11th December, at 3 PM CET, we will present results from our #CESAB working group #BIOSHIFTS on species range shifts in response to climate change 🌡📈🌳🦔🦉🐝🦎🐟🐚🦈 CESABINAR #12 Find the Zoom link on the webpage of #FRB below & attend 😊 shorturl.at/p7J2R @frbiodiv.bsky.social 🧪🌐🌍🌎🌏🏔⛰️🗻

Solar panel areas can be designed to be better for bird diversity than cropland: Ecovoltaic solar energy development can promote grassland bird communities besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #solarpanels #birds #energy #greenenergy #jernmarker

Want to publish in @britishecologicalsociety.org journals but worried about the cost? First check your options and don't be afraid to ask for a waiver if you need one.

We're looking for a 6th Senior Editor! If you… 👉are intrigued by the interface between ecology & biological resource management 👉are interested in contributing to the journal’s strategic vision 👉have editing experience …we’d love to hear from you! www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/seni...

Contrasted effects of human pressure on biodiversity in the UK: a multi-taxonomic assessment using airborne environmental DNA vist.ly/4hmmz #eDNA #Metabarcoding

University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...

Fine-grained spatial analysis of natural forests sheds light on spatial patterns, environmental predictors and future potential of tree species diversity diversity across China. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Invasion impacts in terrestrial ecosystems: Global patterns and predictors #bioinvasions 🌎🌐🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Will we be seeing you during the @britishecologicalsociety.org annual conference? 👀 Come down to the Frankenstein & Bier Keller pub in Edinburgh on 16 Dec 2025 for a social with @besmacro.bsky.social 🍺 There will be snacks, friends, and (loosely!) ecology-themed quiz rounds ✨ See you there!

My 1st thesis chapter is out in #EcologicalMonographs! 🎉 With @curromolina.bsky.social @ibartomeus.bsky.social How is #climatechange reshaping plant–pollinator timing (phenological overlap) in Mediterranean ecosystems? Can #biodiversity buffer mismatches? Find out here👇 dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

🌍 How trustworthy are your spatial predictions? In my talk for the Rome R Users Group, I showed practical ways to evaluate where spatial predictions are trustworthy, and where they aren't. Slides: jakubnowosad.com/rome2025 Video: youtu.be/uZe7thh80MI #RSpatial #RStats #GISchat #SpatialModelling

Postdoc at the University of Bristol on Global Change Ecology, working with Chris Clements, Dylan Childs, and Andrew Beckerman on how chordate niches may change in the coming decades. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP951/s...

Study area shape matters when tracking species range shifts & we may underestimate longitudinal range shifts to the benefit of latitudinal range shifts, potentially undermining drivers other than T°C 🌡 🌐🌏🌎🌍🧪🐠🐍🦋🦉🦇🌳🌲 shorturl.at/prp63

Funded PhD opportunity!!🧪🌎 Wanna improve how biodiversity is monitored & protected? Keen to work with large datasets & quantitative methods? This PhD could be for you! Fully-funded PhD at University of Reading with IoZ & UKCEH (UK or settled status applicants) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📣 Job Opportunity: Plant Conservation Post Doctoral Associate (San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance)🌿 🌎 Escondido, CA 🧑‍💻 Using SDMs, plant collections, monitoring, & env. datasets, identify plant conservation action priorities in seed collections and translocations for CA rare plants ⌛ 3y FT 💸 $87k

Global Cold‐Water Coral Biodiversity Redistribution Under Projected Climate Change 🔗 buff.ly/FyhJb97

Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism 🧪🌐 "we detect consistent nonlinear interactions between ALAN and night duration, with Ecosystem respiration " www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Learn more about Methods in Ecology and Evolution's ‘Perspectives’ articles, intended to stimulate scientific debate, these articles offer conceptual advances and opinions, or identify gaps in knowledge. Find out more: https://ow.ly/uaM450XtKVB

Interested in the biogeography of lizards?🦎 We studied the historical biogeography of Sceloporus lizards and the link between their dispersal and climatic niches 🌎🌦️ @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social @ndimhypervol.bsky.social @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social Learn more here 👇: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

The Soil Ecology Group seeks a volunteer communications representative.  As part of the role, you will  - develop a communication strategy, - manage social media, handle quarterly newsletters, - and participate in monthly meetings.

Excited about this paper led by Katja Poveda & Heather Grab! We use SEM to show natural habitat at large scales improves biocontrol. But, locally, it can decrease yields, perhaps due to edge effects or areas of lower agronomic quality. Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PhD position - Changing Ecological Role of Coral Reef Marine Protected Areas. One of the new @exageo-dla.bsky.social advertised projects: www.exageo.org/phd-student-... - deadline for applications 9th January. International applications welcome. Come and join us @lec-reefs.bsky.social