Genetic diversity helps species survive and adapt: New study shows how to identify distinct populations and boost #conservation, extinction risk assessments, and reintroduction efforts. Out in BioScience by Geue et al., incl. @annabruniche.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Katherine Richardson is a Professor in Biological Oceanography. She leads the Queen Margrethe and Vigdís Finnbogadóttir´s Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ocean, Climate, and Society and is an architect of the Planetary Boundaries Framework. #WeAreAmerica250

Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation. https://scim.ag/4nTQ3nq

🐋🐋 WHALE SCI-COMM ALERT 🐋🐋 Our piece on using old whaling #logbooks to understand #bowhead whale recovery is now published in @ca.theconversation.com!!! Go check it out! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Tree death matters: fungal communities differ by how trees die. Keeping both snags and fallen trees is key to preserving forest biodiversity 🍄🍄‍🟫 New paper out @elsevierconnect.bsky.social Biological Conservation by Kolényová et al. #ecology #fungi www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🐋🧬 WHALE GENOMICS PAPER ALERT!!! 🧬🐋 Our new paper, co-led by @mick2474.bsky.social and myself, is now published #OpenAccess in Molecular Ecology! Our interdisciplinary approach reveals the genomic structure/diversity of #bowhead #whales across their circumpolar #Arctic range. Details below 👇 1/🐋

🐕🧬 Contributed to a new paper out in @consletters.bsky.social! Using a palaeogenomic baseline, we found domestic dog introgression is limited in free-living dingoes, and associated with human population centers and lethal control practices. 1/2

‘The greatest ambassador for life on Earth’: Tributes paid to David Attenborough on his 100th birthday

🐋🐋🐋 MASSIVE WHALE PAPER ALERT!!! 🐋🐋🐋 Our new paper "Historic logbooks reveal spatial footprints of commercial whaling" has just been published in @pnas.org! Come see how we use centuries-old #logbooks to understand population recovery patterns a century after Arctic #whaling. Details below 👇 1/🐋

Can you believe that until now there were more genomes sequenced for the woolly mammoth than for living African elephants? Today, we bring you the first genomic, continent-scale analyses of 232 high-quality genomes of both species, the savanna and forest elephant. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How do we power the planet without harming nature? ♻️ Find out in the new publication out in Frontiers for Young Minds by Antonella Gorosábel & Jonas Geldmann with Young Reviewers Kai & Zuotong 💡 @frontiersin.bsky.social @ucph.bsky.social kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

It begins. #SOTM2026 #SOTM26 #SpeciesOnTheMove

Elephant genomes reveal a past of continental connectivity and a future of increasing isolation 🐘🐘 New paper out @natcomms.nature.com by @patriciachrzan.bsky.social et al. with CMEC co-author @annabruniche.bsky.social #popgen #conservation #Africa www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I know #FishADay hasn't exactly been every day lately and it's not actually a fish, but while diving on vacation in Lanyu this week we saw a cuttlefish and I can't stop thinking about it,

We publish two papers on the inadequacy to introduce the European Bison in the Iberian Peninsula. Lack of evidence of previous presence, wrong habitat/climate conditions, legal aspects...and much more conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The placement of RE infrastructure matters for #biodiversity outcomes and highlights the need to understand these spatial interactions to ensure that the energy transition supports biodiversity goals. By Gorosábel et al. @cp-cellrepsustain.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper 📢 Conservation evidence is biased but can support decision-making for prevalent and severe threats in tetrapods. By González-Suárez et al. in @jappliedecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Can rewilding save the planet? I gave my answer on BBC Radio's The Inquiry — and so did some of my colleagues. Tune in and see if you agree. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

New paper on Central African frog #biogeography shows that Pleistocene forest refugia best explain where frog diversity is highest 🐸 Expanding conservation to these refuges could improve amphibian protection. By Jongsma et al. incl. @hannahoish.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Tipping points of no return ⚖️ On this episode of Green Planet Monitor, Professor Katherine Richardson explains the risk of a #hothouse Earth following a recent publication in @cp-oneearth.bsky.social. Read or listen here: www.greenplanetmonitor.net/podcast/hoth...

📢 Viewpoint in #ConservationLetters by J. Geldmann: Stop talking about 30x30 and ask the question that matters for #biodiversity: Are protected areas located where they matter most with real outcomes for nature & people? @society4conbio.bsky.social conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! What factors shape genomic diversity in birds? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/w... Based on the Proceedings B paper by Anna Brüniche-Olsen, Kenneth Kellner and their colleagues | #ornithology

Great write up of our study showing that both extrinsic factors (e.g. habitat availability) and intrinsic traits (e.g. body mass and diet) play important roles in shaping patterns of genomic diversity in birds 🦜 🧬 🌏 #consgen #popgen

"Det er fuldstændig naivt at tro, at vi kan klare os med teknologi. At forlade sig på teknologier, der ikke eksisterer, er galimatias", siger Katherine Richardson ovenpå nyt studie om global opvarming og tipping points 🌎 #dkvid #dkgreen @information.dk www.information.dk/udland/2026/...

Online now: The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory

"Ødelæggelsen af naturen vil have kæmpe konsekvenser for virksomheders finansierings- og vækstmuligheder" siger @carsten-rahbek.bsky.social oven på offentliggørelsen af ny @ipbes.net #BizBiodiversity rapport 📉 #dknatur #biodiversitet naturmonitor.dk/nyheder/biod...

The IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment Report has been approved!👏 (8 February 2026) Congratulations to all the experts and IPBES members on this momentous science-policy milestone for people and nature!🌍🧪 Read the media release: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media #BizBiodiversity #IPBES12

Fantastic to see #IPBES12 has approved the #BizBiodiversity Assessment Report. My congratulations to all the @ipbes.net experts, partners and countries for coming together to deliver this important result - a big win #ForPeopleForPlanet. Stay tuned for the report launch tomorrow. More details ⤵️

Reptile genomes show independent losses of "hunger hormone" #ghrelin & its activating enzyme in snakes, chameleons, & toadhead agamas pointing to major shifts in energy use & adaptations for long fasting🐍 New paper #OpenBiology @royalsocietypublishing.org royalsocietypublishing.org/rsob/article...

Many species not yet formally recognised may already be at risk of extinction. The findings underscore the urgent need for more fieldwork in understudied areas 📉 New paper out @consbiog.bsky.social by Farooq, Geldmann & Faurby👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #conservation #biodiversity

Polar bears in Svalbard seems to be doing all right under fast warming. Here my take for @elpais.com on a new paper elpais.com/ciencia/2026...

New online! Environmental data justice is key for developing more effective area-based conservation approaches

#FishADay Icichthys lockingtoni Medusafish. N. Pacific Ocean, pelagic. Young seen offshore sheltering in jellyfish (time code 0:29 in this video from @mbarinews.bsky.social, although really, you should watch the whole thing; there are juvy king crabs riding a sea pig). youtu.be/VhG7LNUcvYc

New World Economic Forum Global Risks data provides a stark warning: While short-term crises dominate headlines, "Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse" jumps to the 2nd highest risk over the 10-year horizon. The long term is sooner than we think. Science-based policies via IPBES are crucial.🌍

#FishADay Scolopsis affinis Bridled monocle bream. Western Pacific; prefer sandy or muddy bottoms near reefs. Cooperatively mob predatory worms that rely on stealth to catch prey. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY21...

How can change in available #RedList data influence the selection of spatial conservation priorities and how do we assess which regions are identified as most critical for #conservation? New paper out in Biological Conservation by Farooq et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If you want to know a little more about my (cover!) article in Journal of Biogeography, "Depth matters for biodiversity", there's a blog post here: hannahlowens.weebly.com/blog-and-new...

#FishADay Oxylebius pictus Painted Greenling. NE Pacific; shallow rocky areas. Has bounced around a bit taxonomically thanks to its weird pointy head, but (according to Eschmeyer's Catalog) it's currently found with the rest of the greenlings in Hexagrammidae. youtu.be/Gk3FMfx-2KQ

🎉🎉 New publication out! 🎉🎉 🧵1/6 🦒 The giraffe known as Marius made global headlines when he was euthanized by Copenhagen Zoo in 2014 after being deemed surplus. His story highlights how challenging it is to manage zoo populations for conservation with limited resources 🧬 doi.org/10.1007/s105...

We are changing the path of evolution in the natural world, and bears are a good example. Thanks to @elpais.bsky.social and to @MACriado for the interview Is always great to talk to elpaiscyt.bsky.social elpais.com/ciencia/2025...

📸 Today at @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social, Robert Whittaker talked about the island species-area relationship for plants globally. Robert is also the Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers of #Biogeography: biogeography.pensoft.net, the journal of @biogeography.bsky.social we are happy to publish! #TIBS2026

I’m giving my talk on deep fish in deep time this afternoon at #tibs2026, so I’m wearing my best deep fish earrings.

Join us in the afternoon as we kick off #TIBS2026 with five exciting parallel sessions: ✔️Species-Area Relationships ✔️ Paleoecology and Change Through Time ✔️ Niches and Co-occurrence ✔️ Bird Abundance Change ✔️ Geodiversity

If we fail to curb #climatechange, malaria mosquitoes could significantly expand their habitats across Africa, exposing hundreds of millions of people to a higher risk of infection Explore the new findings 👇🦟 news.ku.dk/all_news/202...

How will climate change affect malaria vectors? 🌍🦟 New study in @globalchangebio.bsky.social highlights the pressing need to update #malaria control efforts as changing environments alter where mosquitoes are found. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW PAPER by Erika Vaéz Vargas et al., incl. co-author Assistant Prof. @hannahoish.bsky.social, elucidates the evolution of color mimicry systems in Adelpha - a genus of Neotropical #butterflies 🦋 Read more👇 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Today we publish a new paper at The British Medical Journal on the links between biodiversity, climate and health in relation to the hashtag#COP30 in Brazil Here we argue that climate resilience depends on nature—and both are vital for the health of people. www.bmj.com/content/391/...

New paper in Environmental Evidence presents a systematic map protocol to shed light on metrics used to measure the impact of dynamic #NatureManagement working with natural processes 📈🌳 Kerstin Bouma et al.: environmentalevidencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

⚠️🪸 Det vil have enormt store konsekvenser for ikke bare biodiversiteten, men også for menneskeheden, fordi der er rigtig mange mennesker, der er afhængige af koralrev, siger prof. Katherine Richardson oven på udgivelsen af ny rapport: www.dr.dk/nyheder/vide...

"Biodiversity loss is a public health problem – let's treat it as such"...this is the topic of a popular science article I just wrote for a Danish Media Outlet. Check it here: naturmonitor.dk/nyheder/deba...