I’ve asked this exact question 👇to editors-in-chief of many (even society) journals. Many answered “because it’s been always like that”. Even though we know that it can reduce some biases. So what’s to loose by being double-blinded?! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This is excellent: Tips and Tricks for Writing Constructive Peer Reviews Perhaps the most excellent part is this subhead: "Remember that peer review is not meant to crush souls". Right? Peer review should improve papers (and OK, gatekeep a little) - not make an author regret their career choices!

PEEER stands behind the Stockholm Declaration, a call to rethink academic publishing in response to a global crisis marked by paywalls, predatory journals and paper mills—threats that undermine what was once a reliable foundation for social progress. Check peeer.net/2025/12/09/t... #BetterPublishing

All invited! Tune in to hear about the findings of our BIOSHIFTS working group, brilliantly led by Lise Comte, Gaël Grenouillet and the fabulous @jonlen.bsky.social 👇with a bunch of great researchers

Very nice work by @liomys.mx questioning traditional ecomorph classification in rodents and instead suggesting convergent evolutionary regimes for single and multiple traits. All by leveraging data from museums and collections, mainly from the Global South. Check it out!!

This #GivingTuesday, invest in Diamond Open Access! Support our new OACIP journals and help make research freely accessible. Learn more: https://ow.ly/wIXA50XAh8S#GivingTuesday#SupportScholarship #ScholComm #DiamondOA

Online now: Forecasting extinction risk for future-proof conservation decisions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Should conservation focus on threatened species? Or should we be proactive and protect species before they become threatened? This paper explores how to get the balance right.

Indeed! This is what PEEER @peeer.bsky.social promotes and the reason for creating @biogeographyjfab.bsky.social for a more ethical and equitable publishing environment for the #Biogeography community. Stay tuned for the lunch of Biogeography in early 20206! biog.journals.sup.org/index.php/bi...

🆕ECR Feature: Postdoc researcher at the #AMAP research group, Wesley Jonatar, talks about his recent work, in which he and his colleagues investigated the functional #diversity across #forests, #savannas and #grasslands of central Brazil. Read the full Q&A here:

We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist. For more information, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...

Check out our new paper in @royalsociety.org testing mechanisms behind elevational range restriction in tropical montane songbirds! ⛰️🦜🌳 Backstory: when i first visited Central America in the early 2010's i was struck with elevational ranges of birds.. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Very happy to finally see this out in @pnas.org. Great work (masterfully) led by my dear friend @gabrielmoulatlet.bsky.social on a classic question on range sizes, climatic niches and dominance for plants at the global scale! Thanks for the collab, Gabriel!

Hot off the press! From the PhD thesis of @lopezreyeska.bsky.social where we explored the connection between biogeographic processes and climatic niche dynamics in spiny lizards 👇

🚨🦇New paper alert! We integrate information across fields to highlight key traits associated with the diversification of #bats, their roles as evolutionary drivers, and their importance to global ecosystems: An Integrative Perspective on Bat Evolution www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

ECR Feature: postdoctoral researcher Axel Arango investigates how ecological specialization shapes #diversification in #Emberizoidea songbirds . Read more about his recent work and plans for further study here: biogeographynews.org/2025/10/30/e...

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

@peeer.bsky.social We are delighted to announce @sse-evolution.bsky.social has joined 9 other scientific societies in endorsing a Joint Statement on Scientific Publishing peeer.net/societies/ We look forward to developing more affordable, accessible, equitable publishing together #BetterPublishing

We are honored to be collaborating with @stanfordpress.bsky.social + @pkp.sfu.ca on this project! #BetterPublishing.

Another step forward for #BetterPublishing. Thank you @stanfordpress.bsky.social + @pkp.sfu.ca for your vision for more affordable, accessible, high quality open access publishing.

🆕ECR Feature: PhD student Gabriel Pavan Sabino talks about his research on the unique #diversity patterns on isolated rock outcrops, aka #Inselbergs, off Brazil’s southeastern coast. Read more about his recent work and plans for further study here: biogeographynews.org/2025/10/17/e...

Scientific publishing is dominated by profit-driven models that harm academic communities. A German working group proposes a Diamond OA system, run by academic societies and publicly funded, to create a more inclusive and sustainable publishing ecosystem: peeer.net/2025/10/14/w... #BetterPublishing

Why we aren’t lizards: the evolution of endothermy through optimizing life history Summary & Analysis by Kaleigh Remick of “The Evolution of Homeothermic Endothermy via Life History Optimization” by Rubalcaba www.amnat.org/an/newpapers...

Without forward-looking models, biodiversity policy risks missing the road to recovery. Our new PNAS article calls for predictive tools and a World Biodiversity Research Programme to guide global action. 👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #Biodiversity #Conservation #PredictiveModels #PNAS

Just published in @journal-evo.bsky.social: Different diets, different speciation rates in the most ecologically diverse family of mammals, the amazing Phyllostomidae 🦇 tinyurl.com/5xd3p3mz Para un pequeño resumen, ve las figuras 👇

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News. Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Si están o andarán por Medellín, Colombia, están invitadxs a esta charla en la Universidad de Antioquia en el marco del primer curso de Macroecología para el posgrado de Biología de la UdeA. Si conoces a algun/a interesadx, avísale!

How much will it take for people to accept that Israel is committing a genocide, and how many reports need to be released for our governments to stop it?

Hey, check out this new reflection on the challenges and paths for making scientific publishing more affordable, accessible, and equitable: peeer.net/2025/09/08/n...

Murciélagos y flores! 🦇🌸 In this new study, we show that both threatened and non-threatened bats are important for the structure and maintenance of bat-flower interaction networks at global and regional scales. #GlobalEcology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our paper on rodent thumbnails is out! Big team effort, powered by museum collections. Turns out, nails can reveal a lot about rodent evolution. Shoutout to Dr. Gordon Shepherd for the wild idea to study rodents thumbs!

🆕ECR feature: @drjoshbrian.bsky.social, postdoc researcher at King's College, London, reviewed the use of scale terms in plant biology🌱- highly relevant for biogeographical studies! Read about the interesting results Josh and his colleagues found: biogeographynews.org/2025/09/03/e...

Oportunidad de trabajo en el INECOL - Instituto de Ecología, A.C. 👇 PERSONA INVESTIGADORA EN: BIOLOGÍA, ECOLOGÍA, COMPORTAMIENTO Y CONSERVACIÓN DE ARTRÓPODOS EN ECOSISTEMAS TERRESTRES www.inecol.mx/index.php/bo...

Abstracts call closes Nov 10, 2025 ⏰ We hope you’ll join us at SOTM 2026 !!! www.speciesonthemove.com #SOTM2026 #speciesonthemove

#Biogeography If you ever felt frustrated for lacking a method to reconstruct ancestral ranges at fine-grain resolutions without relying on large-scale regions defined apriori, then SBEARS is for you ;) 👇 Thanks to @duarteldas.bsky.social and the whole team for the invitation to collaborate.

📢 ¡Estamos buscando a dos investigadorxs postdoctorales para unirse a nuestro proyecto multi-institucional sobre #microbiomas de #Fabaceae! 📌 Sedes: Pátzcuaro o Ensenada 📆 Fecha de inicio: febrero 2026 Requisito: nacionalidad o residencia permanente en México 🇲🇽 Más información 👇 #microSky #SynCom

I am recruiting graduate students to begin August 2026. Apply by Nov 15th!

Acabo de crear un starter-pack para ecologós en América Latina - !!! favor de sugerir más gente !!!! go.bsky.app/BdhnF3f

What do Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Mortal Kombat have to teach us about #cultural #evolution? As a social-technological phenomenon, #arcade game genres evolved like cultural species—some diversified, while others became "living fossils." 🕹️🧪 👉 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

Science deserves better than profit-driven publishing. Change starts from within the community — here’s how we can reclaim it: peeer.net/2025/08/18/r... #BetterPublishing

Scientific societies should rethink allowing for‑profit publishers at meetings. They may support the meeting in part, but these same publishers charge unsustainable fees year‑round and undercut academic independence. The trade‑off? Researchers lose. peeer.net/2025/08/04/t...

Para los que están aquí, mañana presento una charla en Valdivia acerca del trabajo realizado @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social.

Pesimismo de la inteligencia, optimismo de la voluntad. ("Universalizar la resistencia" de Noam Chomsky)

Two weeks ago, CPJ reported on Anas Al-Sharif getting threats from the IDF to cease reporting. He didn’t, and now he’s dead. He’s not the only journalist getting threats from the IDF. We partnered with @theintercept.com to document this horrific practice.

🚨Big news🚨 A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing is out🎉 This is the book I wish I’d had 20 years ago — short, practical, and designed to help researchers write & get their papers published I hope it helps many Please share with anyone who might benefit! 👉 mybook.to/ScienceGuide

Some great talks in the Botanical Research Across Borders symposium this morning, starting with a broad survey of botanists about equity of US / Mexico collaboration #Botany2025

What is spectral biology? We explain in this synthesis article on “Spectral biology across scales in changing environments” esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/R6QXPK www.spectralbiology.org

Artículo publicado antes de la impresión: "La centralidad de las aves en redes de interacción varía dentro de sus nichos climáticos" de Moulatlet et al. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... Artista: Roberto Ruiz, estudiante en maevolab.mx.