🌿🌊Environmental influence on intraspecific trait variation in the tropical seagrass Halodule uninervis vist.ly/42auc #EcosystemService #FunctionalTrait #HaloduleUninervis #IntraspecificTraitVariation #Seagrass

🍅🤝Fruit-quality tradeoffs generate asymmetry in plant reliance on mutualistic frugivores vist.ly/4zdhx #DispersalDependence #EcologicalStrategyEvolution #Frugivory #LifeHistoryTraits #Mutualism #PlantAnimalInteractions

Congratulations to Crystal Arnold for winning the 2025 Rachel Carson Prize in @peopleandnature.bsky.social! 🏆 Crystal’s article offers complexity, nuance, reflection and gentleness for navigating belonging and practices of care. doi.org/10.1002/pan3...

The winner of @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social l Robert May Prize 2025 is Jenna Kline, @jennakline.bsky.social Jenna’s paper provides a comprehensive overview and field guide for using edge‑AI drones to study animal group behaviour in real time. doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Well done to Qing Cao for winning the Southwood Prize in @jappliedecology.bsky.social 🏅 Qing Cao’s research explores how two closely related wild equids—Przewalski’s horses and Asiatic wild asses—coexist in the extremely water-limited Gobi desert. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Congratulations, Jing Xiao, for winning the 2025 Harper Prize, @journalofecology.bsky.social 🏆 Jing’s paper shows that differences in species across places (β‑diversity) depend on both sampling methods and how species are spread across landscapes. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Well done, Jeremy Van Driessche, for winning the 2025 Elton Prize @animalecology.bsky.social!🏆 Jeremy’s research shows how differently sized African antelope adjust their diet and water‑use behaviour to cope with declining water availability in dry conditions. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Well done to Michael (Misha) Stemkovski, @mishastemkovski.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Haldane Prize in @funecology.bsky.social. Misha's paper presents ecological acclimation as a framework that synthesises various ways ecosystems adjust to climate change. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Sylvia Ascher (@ic-cep.bsky.social)wins the 2025 Georgina Mace prize🏅in @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social. Sylvia’s paper provides a comprehensive review of the potential ecological benefits of tidal energy as a cleaner power source than fossil fuels. doi.org/10.1002/2688...

Congratulations, Allan Edelsparre, @aedelsparre.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Chico Mendes Prize 🙌 @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social. His work presents a framework for coordinating data to support species recovery through the case study of endangered queensnakes in Canada. doi.org/10.1002/2688...

🙌We are pleased to announce the winners of the journal prizes for papers published in 2025! The prize is awarded to early-career researchers for their excellent contribution to research across the breadth of ecology. See the winners below 👇

A huge honor and one I don't take lightly. Our group has spent more than a decade shaping the project with very few means to fund the work. The real winners are the people who lifted the burden in coordination when it mattered the most. Thanks @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social for believing in the paper

Congratulations, Allan Edelsparre, @aedelsparre.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Chico Mendes Prize 🙌 @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social. His work presents a framework for coordinating data to support species recovery through the case study of endangered queensnakes in Canada. doi.org/10.1002/2688...

Find out more about Allan and his paper here 👉 buff.ly/l65AtYA Read all the papers shortlisted for the prize here 👉 buff.ly/zwiLu9A

Ecological Solutions and Evidence awards the Chico Mendes Prize to the best ‘Practice Insights‘ paper in the journal by an early career author. The award is named in honour of the Brazilian rubber tapper and environmental activist 🌿 (3/4)

"Our work shows that recovery can move faster when governance is treated as seriously as biology. By aligning research design with policy needs and centralizing coordination, we reduced duplication, improved data quality, and supported decision-making under Canada’s Species at Risk Act." (2/4)

We are thrilled to announce that the winner of the 2025 Chico Mendes prize is Allan Edelsparre !🏆 @aedelsparre.bsky.social and his colleagues developed a framework for coordinating recovery actions across agencies and organisations, using the endangered Queensnake as a practical example (1/4)

appliedecologistsblog.com/2026/04/01/a... Odds are high :)

Another pre-print from our lab in collaboration with Cathy Cullingham at Carleton University. We identify SNPs associated with rodenticide resistance in house mice in Canada. Environmental Correlates for Anticoagulant Resistance in house mice Mus musculus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

📃✍️Payment-based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology vist.ly/4vy75 #GlobalBias #OpenScience #ResearchEquity #ScientificInclusion #SocioPoliticalDisparities

🔄🏠The interplay between landscape change and plasticity in habitat selection determines dispersal movements and settlement in small non-flying vertebrates vist.ly/4xqhg #DispersalStages #Fragmentation #HabitatLoss #SmallMammals

📊🔗Linking differences in personality to demography in the wandering albatross vist.ly/4xv37 #Boldness #Demography #MatrixPopulationModel #Personality #PopulationDynamicsSensitivity

It was an incredible evening featuring some amazing visualizations of #mindblowingevolution🤯. I enjoyed meeting many family members and loved ones who were there to support #sciart. Well done BIOB51 students!

What are the guidelines for AI use in scientific publishing? I talked with @judithmank.bsky.social, Head Editor of Evolution Letters, about how journals are navigating LLMs in a new episode of The Evolution Exchange. Short, practical, and very timely: www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio...

💬 Don’t miss the latest Evolution Exchange, in which SSE President Dr. Gina Baucom talks with Evolution Letters EIC Dr. Judith Mank about the use of AI and LLMs in scientific publishing: www.evolutionsociety.org/the-evolutio... @gbaucom.bsky.social @judithmank.bsky.social @evolletters.bsky.social

Join us here at @laurentianu.bsky.social as we rebuild our ecology/evolution group. We are hiring an assistant professor in animal ecology Working with me is a treat, so that's a bonus not mentioned in the ad. laurentian.ca/about/career...

Today is the last day!🦞

☘️New paper!☘️ Very excited that my 3rd and final data chapter of my PhD with @evoecolab.bsky.social is now published in JEB! We manipulated precipitation and herbivory at field sites in Ontario and Louisiana to test their effects on white clover HCN chemical defense phenotypes

🌼🐝Floral resource diversity drives spatiotemporal variation in plant–pollinator network structure vist.ly/4vtvb #FloralRewards #FunctionalTraits #Modularity #MutualisticInteractions #Nestedness #NetworkMotifs

I am excited the share that our paper on fast-tracking species-at-risk research is one of four papers shortlisted for the Chico Mendes Prize in Ecological Solutions and Evidence: appliedecologistsblog.com/2026/03/12/c...

🚨 What if evolution is the ”law”… and networks are the machines that do the work? In this paper (just published) I try to formalize how living systems are non-equilibrium, information-processing, adaptive matter. With a great biological flavor! 🧪🌐🌍🧬🦠 👉 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... 🧵 1/

I am super proud to have worked with so many great people on queensnake recovery in Ontario. We put our experiences as a group into a manuscript in Ecological Solutions and Evidence - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Ten years in the Sokolowski Lab and scores of discoveries and wow moments are drawing to a close. Thanks for being a supportive home for my family and I #EEB #UniversityofToronto

I am now x free

Completely agree. The peeer community @peeer.bsky.social also addresses this issue and provides a list of some society owned journals for ecology. peeer.net Found this really helpful

Why aren't more researchers publishing in society journals? Two potential reasons: 1) They're often unfamiliar to early-career researchers, and 2) they need better promotion, a task for all of us.

Latitudinal differences in thermal response curves across populations demonstrate context-dependent warming effects within species https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10953 @nordicoikos.bsky.social #predatorprey #climatechange #latitude #thermalresponse #aquatic

Models of pest impact predict that climate warming will alter growth rates and distributions of insect pests. 🐞🌱🐞🌱🐞🌱🐞🌱🐞🌱🐞🌱🐞🌱 How do trait-specific evolutionary responses affect predictions? Have a look at our new paper rdcu.be/d6G2u in @naturecomms.bsky.social to find out. Short summary below.

‘Bending the curve towards nature recovery: building on Georgina Mace's legacy for a biodiverse future’ - a special issue of Phil Trans R Soc B in honour of a very special biodiversity scientist - is published today by @royalsociety.org. royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Absolutely! Many want to review that don't get invited. Some of us have created online lists for reviewers to sign up, and they are a success with many ERCs signing in. I'll share them shortly.

Thank God Vanity Fair is keeping it REAL!

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A surprising number of whistleblowers have died unexpectedly lately, but one insurance executive is found dead on a sidewalk and suddenly it’s a crisis.

"My one family member with solid insurance is my dog. He got elective surgery recently, and I was astounded by the straightforward nature of his insurance ... it’s incredible to think that insurance for pets and possessions is easier to navigate and more consumer-friendly than insurance for people"

How does fibrosis (an inflammation and tissue repair response) affect dispersal? We investigated this question with stickleback in a mark-recapture experiment in Alaska: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3... @danielbolnick.bsky.social @nataliesteinel.bsky.social @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social

The first paper from my PhD is out in Parasitology! Using DNA metabarcoding, I show patterns of parasite infection in Sable Island horses! It's open access, so go check it out! doi.org/10.1017/S003...

15 000 fieldworkers | 28 countries | decades of effort | 170 #bird species🐦 Data paper on European long-term population changes in #birds: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Data: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #ornithology

our new pre-print up summarizing our experimental evolution study testing some theory about the evolution of sexually-selected weapons. Let us know what you think!

Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...