Systemic bio-inequity links poverty to biodiversity and induces a conservation paradox https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.13.653456v1

Systemic bio-inequity links poverty to biodiversity and induces a conservation paradox https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.13.653456v1

Our new pre-print exposes how the global link between poverty and biodiversity is rooted in colonial exploitation of biological resources. 🌎🌐 #decolonisingconservation #conservation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I really do wish researchers & journalists would stop stating that ‘humans are responsible’ for catastrophic biodiversity decline. The Q of ‘which humans’ matters here. It’s time to call out the global capitalist system as the driver of losses instead. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Restoring habitats is critical to support fish populations in Switzerland. 🐟Check out this interview by Uniaktuell with @conorwaldock.bsky.social and myself on how species distribution models can help us in identifying priority regions for conservation and restoration of fish habitats.

Die Schweizer #Fischbestände sind, insbesondere durch die Verbauung der #Gewässer gefährdet. Ein Projekt der @wyssacademy.bsky.social, #unibern & @eawag.bsky.social setzt sich für die Renaturierung ein, um die Lebensräume der heimischen Fischarten zu bewahren. www.uniaktuell.unibe.ch/2025/hier_lo...

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Deconstructing the geography of human impacts on species’ natural distribution 🌎🌐🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Barbatula #fish species newly discovered by researchers @unibern.bsky.social @wyssacademy.bsky.social #NaturhistorischesMuseumBern @eawag.bsky.social now have #names! They are called «fluvicola» und «ommata». mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releas...

Can Higher Education be Decolonised? A forthcoming book describes attempts to apply decolonial practices at the University of Bristol. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/can-highe...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Occurrence records currently available may be insufficient to capture the latitudinal gradient of marine diversity. Computer simulations show that sampling bias persists even with the use of different richness estimators. 🌎🧪🦑 #Macroecology #MarineEcology 👇 Out now in GEB!

The professional society for microbiologists began stripping content about Black, female, and LGBTQ+ scientists from its website in the last few days, angering its members and highlighting the reach of President Trump’s directives.

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

Take part in choosing the names of two new fish species that researchers have recently discovered: www.aqua.iee.unibe.ch/research/res...

Help us choose a name for a new fish species hiding in Swiss rivers and lakes! Led by Bárbara Calegari, we discovered two species of small but beautiful stone loaches (Barbatula). Overlooked for hundreds of years, but now properly documented. The first step to protecting biodiversity.

Excited to announce this new article, a comprehensive review of recent research on post-growth — the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries. Published in the Lancet Planetary Health with a brilliant team of authors. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

ICYMI: The Africa-UBC Oceans and Fisheries Visiting Fellows Program offers Fellows $23K in funding for research, travel, & accommodations. Apply for 2025! 🌊 bit.ly/blog197sau

An interesting read in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social Extinction of experience among ecologists www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Interesting to see the argument that #patriarchy is a key cause in environmental degradation and effectiveness in #conservation of #biodiversity and that this extends to knowledge production as well. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

AI offers powerful tools for #conservation but also poses risks—bias, resource demands, and unintended impacts on #biodiversity. 🦤🌍🌐

PhD Studentship Scholarship Opportunity! 🧑🏾‍🔬 This programme offers 4-year fully-funded PhD studentships to support Black British researchers. 💻 For more information and to apply, visit: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... #ExeterCEC 🧪

Tatsuya Amano has shown that just reading the English literature misses 35% of the science, yet this is rarely included in syntheses or global assessments. The problem is much greater in many biodiverse areas. He is determined to change this. youtu.be/ky0TAnMOlfA?...

The responses of freshwater fish to global warming. Our analyses in @pnas.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Made possible by #RivFishTIME

Insightful and important talk from Tatsuya Amano - by failing to search for non English language research, we limit and bias our ecological understanding and the evidence that could be used for conservation #BES2024 @britishecolsoc.bsky.social @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social

**Black UK PhD students** Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend -Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences -Faculty of Health and Life Sciences **Tell everyone** www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Another attempt to use a system that created the problem to solve it - theconversation.com/a-new-global...

A lot of work on fisheries and nutrition (including my own) has looked at the nutrient content of fish catches. This paper finds important differences between the nutrients available in coral reef ecosystems and what is captured by fishers. 🦑🧪🐠 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Latest work on Atlantic bluefin #tuna tagged off the coast of Norway showing their extensive annual migrations, high site-fidelity and dynamic vertical diving behaviour in the Atlantic #Ocean & Mediterranean Sea: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #fisheries #oceanography #movementecology

What is a species "shadow distribution"? This infographic helps communicate "shadow distributions" with stakeholders and environmental managers. We used species distribution models to quantify this conservation concept for Swiss fishes. 🌐🌎 #macroecology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hi Bluesky! We are BWEEMS, Black Women in Ecology, Evolution and Marine Science. A non-profit dedicated to amplifying and supporting Black women in EEMS spaces! It's nice to be here! 🐟 🪴 🐊 www.bweems.org

Anyone else wondering how starter packs might reinforce existing White, European, and American scientific networks…? A tiny number of the 100,000 starter packs consciously addressing this bias in biology and conservation: go.bsky.app/DsJrwR go.bsky.app/DRb8i9v

The Society for Freshwater Science Resh/Rosenberg Africa/Asia Travel Award is now open. It will support 2 recipients, providing each with US$2.5K plus coverage for registration fees to attend the next SFS meeting in Puerto Rico in May 2025. www.sfsannualmeeting.org/resh-rosenberg

📢Fully-funded PhD scholarship available for underrepresented ethnic groups within UCL Earth Sciences. Please get in touch if you are interested in: - Corals🪸 - Marine biodiversity📈 - Macroecology 🌏 - Conservation Palaeobiology🐚 More info (inc. eligibility): www.ucl.ac.uk/earth-scienc...

“Scientists need to recognize that bold presentation, dissemination, and support of scientific knowledge has become both a basic commitment and a political act.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Mapping human pressures on biodiversity across the planet uncovers anthropogenic threat complexes Bowler+ doi.org/10.1002/pan3... "Anthropogenic Threat Complexes (ATCs), distinguished by different sets of drivers with varying intensities"

Excellent Book of the Year choices for @historyextra.bsky.social from Kavita Puri! Honoured to be in the company of William Dalrymple and Shalina Patel.

A challenge in predicting #biodiversity change is a lack of high spatio-temporal resolution data from genetic diversity to community interactions. Statistical assessment of mechanistic eco-evo modes to the rescue? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are sampling with our team deep-water sculpins in Lago Maggiore this week. Amazing diversity at a beautiful location. 🐟🚤 #freshwaterbiodiversity

So good to have this one finally out! A massive effort by a very large group of authors to give a sort of view from space of the current ecosystem of niche modeling and distribution modeling software. I think this will be a really useful resource! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper alert! We show that the joint consideration of barriers and species past, current and future distributions are critical for river connectivity restoration plans to ensure the recovery and persistence of riverine fish diversity in Switzerland. 🐟🐟 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

There are many ways in which the potential marriage of the goals tackling climate change and restoring biodiversity is a good thing. But also real dangers of an abusive relationship if biodiversity is subordinated to an overpowering drive for carbon sequestration and biofuels.

Critical paper for thinking about data use and justice in global #biodiversity #conservation, #macroecology, ecological data synthesis and analyses. How are people and nature made visible, represented and treated as a result of digital data? conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Climate Change Affects Multiple Coral Reef Fisheries Ecosystem Services: doi.org/10.1111/fme.... We examined catch rates, affordability & nutritional content on bleached coral reefs. Led by Dr Sarah Martin, w @james-robinson.bsky.social @nickajgraham.bsky.social Seychelles Fishing Authority

How can we deconstruct the natural and anthropogenic drivers of species' geographic distributions? Within the areas where a species could naturally live, where do humans impact them the most? #macroecology #biogeography #conservation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Abandoning ship for better vibes.. Hello! 👋 I’m interested in the complexities of biodiversity change on our human-influenced planet and… what to do about it? Where are the folks interested in #macroecology #globalchangeecology #ecology #aquaticecology #biodiversity #computationalecology ?

🐡 Paper alert 🐡 by @conorwaldock.bsky.social Mismatches and trade-offs exist between the nutrients potentially available in fishes and those caught. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...