New paper out in Ecology Letters! Led by Ennia Bosshard and Chris Kaiser-Bunbury, we show that proximity to natural habitat doesn’t consistently support pollination in tropical smallholder farms. Landscape complexity matters more than distance. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#Postdoc position in #landscape #ecology with me. Last day to apply #plants #traits #landscapechange #modelling 🌍🧪

🧪“…destabilizes ecosystem function because relatively few additional extinctions lead to accelerated losses of functional diversity, particularly in trophic groups that deliver important ecological services such as seed dispersal and insect predation.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and heat pumps collectively saved US households between $5.6 to $8.8 billion in 2023 alone." "80% of users are satisfied with their heat pumps, and nearly 95% of EV owners are likely to consider purchasing another EV for their next vehicle."

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Re-upping this position before the December 1st application deadline. I'm looking to hire a post-doc - could be a climate scientist or environmental economist. Ideal start early 2026 but could be later. Please circulate!

There are only 20 DAYS left to apply for an AWIS bridge grant. AWIS is offering microgrants (up to $5,000) to members who have lost federal funding. Applications are due December 15. https://awis.org/awis-bridge-grant-program Please share this with those who may be interested. #WomenInSTEM

Politics is now changing the demographics of scientists, especially in red states, where reporting shows applicants are skewing more male and less international. www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪🌎🔬 #science #PhDchat #highered

🐌more mollusk love please!

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

Really excited to share this paper on the intersecting stressors of land use and weather extremes on predators. Omnivores have wiggle room! Thanks @sashavasconcelos.bsky.social + the rest fo the team for helping me push this one over the finish line. 🪲🦂🐞🌱🚜🧪👩‍🔬🌐🌍 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to hype up this excellent paper led by Mia Lippey, finishing up her PhD at @ucdavis.bsky.social, and in collaboration with @beckyck.bsky.social, @dskarp.bsky.social + others, finding that once again in (agro)ecology "it depends". 👩‍🔬 🐞🪲🌍🌐🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

Happy to finally share this important article on barriers in ecology led by @canobarbacil.bsky.social in the journal Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment. The idea for this paper originated at the nice #ANdiNA workshop in Spain a couple of years ago.

Come see my student Cat's talk this morning at 9am on shifting insect phenology in agroecosystems #EntSoc25 🧪👩‍🔬🪰🌍🌐

For students at #EntSoc25: Welcome to Portland 🦌 Follow along each day as we share the exciting student activities planned for you! 🧵1/3

The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.

It’s one thing to have different environmental/health priorities for your foundation, it’s quite another to have been bankrolling one of the primary sources of bullshit on the topic.

Looking for a #PhD in #ClimateExtremes? We are advertising a project attributing causes of recent #droughts using counter-factual storylines. Based in #Edinburgh, working with Andrew Schurer, me, @gabihegerl.bsky.social, & @edhawkins.org tinyurl.com/5n7b52fr

We now have input a list for the Northeast and Mid Atlantic Native plant nurseries. Here is an update: beechhollowfarms.com...

Semi-natural habitats are key for farmland biodiversity but their quality is often low due to high exposure to fertilizers 🌾🧪 A new study shows that more frequent cutting can create diverse vegetation even in highly productive habitats ✂️🌏 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

🐝🦠 New paper: rdcu.be/eOf7A Phages may drive microbial diversity, yet we often don’t even know how phages & bacteria correlate in nature. Our new study tackles this in the honeybee gut, thanks to the great work of PhD student @malickndiaye.bsky.social at @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social

No species is an island, they exist within ecosystems. We urgently need more research that builds knowledge of the ecological networks that underpin a species' persistence: pollination, seed dispersal, predation, parasitism, herbivory, response to disturbance 🌏🧪 theconversation.com/wildlife-rec...

Dung, dung, dungggg! Aphodiini (dung beetles) are important decomposers & comprise ~2,200 species, yet are still a bit of a mystery. Here, their molecular phylogeny is reconstructed to explore the evolutionary history of their nesting behaviour & body size! 🧪 🌍 💩 doi.org/10.1093/zool...

New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm

A study by I. R. Onley, P. Cassey, & M. A. McGeoch shows that biodiversity data sharing platforms are key to managing biological invasions. Closing the "knowing-doing" gap can create better conservation outcomes. 🌍 Read the full article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-025-03058-1

A feature in Nature examines what journals are doing to confirm that the authors of a research paper are legitimate, and the downsides of more intense identity checks. #Academicsky 🧪

Please join us this weekend on Zoom for the First International Symposium of Nonbinary Scientists! I'm excited to host a session for Earth, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences ⚒️🧪Zoom link in alt text!

I like this development very much. Also, if Germany, with its fractured public administration, can do it, your country can do it, too. 🧪🤖

They literally ruin everything they touch

If you are a #500queerscientists contributor and here on BlueSky, drop us a note! 👋 ⬇️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

in this study from @arachnologynerd.bsky.social and a team of other great folks, the authors find that though "the field of arachnology is becoming more collaborative, it is not necessarily more equitable" 🌍🕷️🦂 🌐🧪 👩‍🔬 academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

🦠⚕️🧪 Check out this awesome paper that just came out from Dominique Holtappels @dholtappels.bsky.social that finds that bacterial alpha diversity is a stronger predictor of virome diversity in healthy systems than unhealthy ones www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Tl;dr = No. www.science.org/content/blog...

Yes critics of hagiography of Kirk are being targeted, but the hagiography goes deeper. Kirk started Professor’s Watchlist to target critics, so we are seeing a continuation of what he started? Kirk’s ‘open debate’ wasn’t that open either. theconversation.com/after-charli...

I'm back home, and Everything Sucks is hot off the press at HQ. Putting the first batch into the little free library now! Print your own here drive.google.com/file/d/1H9Wz...

🔍 Echo chambers in our searches A new study shows how our search habits + algorithm design can trap us in echo chambers. Users stuck with narrow searches & rarely updated beliefs, but when algorithms offered broader results, belief updating improved. 🔗 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #SciComm 🧪 🧠

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“The study authors asked GPT 4o-mini to evaluate the quality of 217 papers. The tool didn’t mention in any of the reports that the papers being analyzed had been retracted or had validity issues. In 190 cases, GPT described the papers as world leading, internationally excellent, or close to that”

The full write up is here: Was It Something The Democrats Said? A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...

Scientists who study climate don't automatically attribute all changes to human activity. Rather, we carefully investigate every possible natural factor that could explain the planet's warming. Could these be the real culprits? The evidence is in--and the answer is NO. This thread explains! 🧵

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper! We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media. Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑 doi.org/10.1093/icb/...

1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research. This is wrong. And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.

About a month after announcing that it would stop sharing data that hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on, the Navy now says it will continue distributing it.

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Really nice metastudy of citizen science contributing to ecology & biodiversity research @inaturalist.bsky.social @aibsbiology.bsky.social 👀🔎🍄🧪🌎🌐 iNaturalist accelerates biodiversity research academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.

🦨 Ever wonder how skunks decide where to live in urban landscapes like Chicago? New research from @masonfidino.bsky.social, @lizalehrer.bsky.social, & @sbmagle.bsky.social from @lpzoo.org used nearly a decade of data to find out! 🦊🌍🧪 A 🧵

Synergies Between Agricultural Production and Shorebird Conservation With Climate Change in the Central Valley, California, With Optimized Water Allocation and Multi-Benefit Land Use | Global Change Biology | onlinelibrary.wiley.... | #ornithology 🪶🌍🧪🌐