🌳Since June 2025, #D4R teams have been travelling across SAVA, Boeny and soon Anosy. 🌱They are assessing the fauna, flora, soils and socio-economic impacts of reforestation to understand its successes and limitations. 👉In the long run, the objective is to develop a national restoration guide.

"Our findings demonstrate a gap between governments’ expected reliance on land and the role that land can realistically play in climate mitigation." Offsetting failed, climate targets have massive amounts of CDR, and now some want to modify the atmosphere directly. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔥Excited to introduce our #ERC #StG project ‘FiRes’, on past, present and future #fire #resilience of #Amazonian forests!🔥 In an era of increasing #fire occurrence globally, we cannot have enough research to understand its impact, especially in precious fire-‘unadapted’ ecosystems such as the Amazon

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃 www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

Putting medium-sized farmers on the map to move beyond the agribusiness vs. smallholder dichotomy. New paper led by Melina Faingerch & Matias Mastrangelo out in Ecology & Society identifying key groups of land-use actors in the Chaco 👉 ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/iss3/a... @biogeoberlin.bsky.social

The @nhmdk.bsky.social is offering a #PhD position in collections-based taxonomic or similar research, ideally focused on 'dark taxa' occurring in Denmark. The call is a broad one. Get in touch with a relevant curator if you're interested! 🧪🐝🪰💐🪱 candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

The 8th European Congress for Conservation Biology will take place in Leiden, NL! They will explore how #biodiversity can be safeguarded effectively in the long term. First call is open now! Check out: eccb26leiden.eu/calls/ for more info, we are looking forward to your contributions!

🚨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

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌱 In Savannakhet, Laos, CDE scientists mapped ecosystem services with surveys + spatial modelling. Their findings: 🔹Forests & shifting cultivation areas supply the most ecosystem services 🔹Diverse, multifunctional landscapes balance food security, biodiversity & cultural values👉 t.ly/ovuuG #research

Trees are great, but we can't plant our way out of the climate crisis There just isn't enough suitable land

Amazing! Full article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The achievable carbon uptake from planting trees is much lower than previous estimates, and even lower than many nations have committed to. New paper by Wang et al. in Science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🌏🌳🌲🌐

Half of West Africa’s remaining rainforests are in Liberia, but in 2024, it lost more than 94,000 acres of humid primary forest, according to Global Forest Watch. A new project will make “area-based payments” to 28 communities in exchange for commitments to protect some of their customary forests.

The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation have published their Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics, setting a great example for other academic societies. 🌏🧪🌐 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Come work with us! Fully funded #PhD position in global change ecology - working in a cross-disciplinary cohort of 8 PhD students studying mountains in transition. 🧪🌐🏔️ @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper on that is out today.🧵

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

This is what happens when you equate climate action with personal lifestyle changes and 'forget' to talk about collective action and social movements Exactly the outcome you'd want if you were an oil company

The warnings were made. allouryesterdays.info/2022/01/26/j...

Today the world still has echo parakeets, pink pigeons and Mauritius kestrels But had it not been for intensive conservation in Mauritius since the 1970s, they would all be extinct. Four reptile species and a palm would have gone extinct too Conservation works, we should fund it properly

I just don't get it. Why do centrist politicians think that adopting the language and policies of the far right will make them more popular? They have nothing to win on the right - racists will always vote for racists - but lots to loose on the left. WHY?!

In our new perspective in PNAS we call for a move away from conservation focused on saving individual species to focusing on ecological processes, which underpin ecosystem resilience and the capacity to adapt to environmental change. Led by @josephtobias.bsky.social 🌍🌐🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job

Really harrowing read; from day one Israeli government action was about the total destruction of Gaza. This is a genocide while many ‘world leaders’ don’t just sit in silence, they arm and enable www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We're recruiting! 🌳Assistant Professor in Ecology, Evolution & Conservation 🌳Postdoctoral Research Associates in Drosophila Connectomics Whole Organism Neuroscience 🌳Research Assistant Environmental impacts of food consumption & policy Find out more: bit.ly/4o028qV

"We basically have 3 choices: mitigation, adaptation & suffering... The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation we do, the less adaptation will be required & the less suffering there will be" - Prof. John Holdren Why are we letting our leaders choose suffering?!!

Two open postdoc positions to work on synergies/trade-offs of cocoa & coffee agroforestry for people, biodiversity and carbon. The Nature Conservancy Brazil: careers.tnc.org/us/en/job/JR... Smithsonian Institute US: trustcareers.si.edu/en/postings/...

PhD position in our Wildlife Ecology and Conservation group at @w-u-r.bsky.social on the effectiveness of freshwater wetlands as climate buffers for biodiversity gain and ecosystem services Co-supervised by Liesbeth Bakker, Frank van Langevelde, and myself Deadline: 4.8. www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

📝 Ecology and Society is seeking Subject Editors 📝 The leading SES journal and flagship journal for SocSES is seeking to appoint new Subject Editors to join their team. ℹ️ How to apply: tinyurl.com/4hsrkjvz 🌱 Help shape the SES field and learn more about the editorial and publishing processes!

🌿 New study: What kind of #peatland future do we want—and how do we get there? We co-created mental models with 42 land users to explore how land use affects ecosystem services & well-being. Best future? A mosaic: peatland conservation, extensive grazing & eco-tourism. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

*Job alert* Within our recently funded collaborative project focusing on assisted migration of #mountain #plant species, we are looking for a #PhD candidate based at ETH Zürich. For further details and instructions, see the job ad: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP... Please repost! 🧪🏔️🌿

Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.

I used to have all kinds of complicated, nuanced thoughts about political ideology and policy, but all that remains is, man, I hate these fucking fascists.

46C is not 'the new normal', because we are continuing to make the problem worse Unless we stop burning fossil fuels and destroying nature, it is just a brief stage on a rapid descent to something far more hellish

Pretty cool to see a paper from Ecology and Society featured in Science! The paper is about how indigenous peoples tend to take care of forest better than under alternative property rights. Feature: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Paper: ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/iss1/a...

Word in from Andrea Peto that Budapest Pride drew 360k people. Photo to prove it! #BudapestPride #takethatOrban

Territorial behaviour in ecology and conservation damages careers and impedes progress in the field. 🌏🧪🌐

Feels like a map for @irishrainforest.bsky.social, but also look at the state of Wales, Cumbria and Northumberland! Could be so much more rainforest.

New paper! "Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity" www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Great working with @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social, @josephtobias.bsky.social, @cpcarmona.bsky.social, @expecocons.bsky.social, Chris Venditti and Jo Baker.

Call for biodiversity funding in the EU! Sign and share

Job Alert! We are hiring a new PhD candidate to work with me and @louiseterryn.bsky.social on multitemporal terrestrial laser scanning for better understanding forest structural dynamics at @qforestlab.bsky.social . More info ➡️ bit.ly/449NunA Apply here ➡️ bit.ly/3I5AnMP Application deadline: Aug 3

Most staple food crops are expected to experience substantial production losses due to climate change, even when mitigation measures to limit the impact of climate change are considered, according to a study in Nature. The study finds that only rice might avoid substantial losses. 🧪

Postdoc position in the lab of @biogeokreft.bsky.social for developing your own line of research in macroecology, biogeography, and functional or tropical ecology: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...

An interactive map showing the locations of industrial chicken and pig farms across Europe. megafarms-europe.netlify.app/index.html

why are so many wildlife biologists (and vets) doing social science research with no social scientist(s) in the research team? Advice: "Martin, V. Y. 2020. Four common problems in environmental social research undertaken by natural scientists. BioScience, 70(1), 13–16. doi.org/10.1093/bios...

"We fret about Europe’s 21,500 wolves but think it’s environmentally fine to be feeding 92 million dogs in Europe, even though dogs kill an estimated 15,000 sheep in the UK a year, and in 2023 there were 16 human fatalities from dog attacks." observer.co.uk/culture/book...

New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky