Assistant Professorship on Biodiversity, Land Use and Spatial Planning at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social Deadline: 30.11.2025 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

30 years ago to the day, in the evening 6 November 1995, a fire consumed pretty much the entire Rova (royal compound) of Antananarivo. Within a couple of hours, all the wooden palaces, the wooden interior of Manjakamiadana (the main palace), and the roof of the chapel were gone.

92%: the percentage of funding for Nigel Farage's far-right political party Reform UK that comes from fossil fuel interests. Across the world, anyone blaming immigrants, etc, it's all just a smokescreen to allow the rich to keep on getting richer by killing our planet. share.google/W2gwfc0XVpUy...

How do large native trees and leaf litter promote amphibian diversity in Malagasy agroforests? See the first PhD chapter of Lovasoa Rakotozafy, just out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1111/1365...

"Collectively, the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Norway increased their oil and gas production by nearly 40 percent between 2015 [Paris Agreement signing] and 2024. In the rest of the world, combined oil and gas extraction dropped by 2 percent over the same period" oilchange.org/publications...

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare. However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

Net zero by 2050 to limit warming to 1.5°C. That may have been plausible 10 years ago, but the continued rise of emissions means that there is effectively no carbon budget left for 1.5. It is cumulative emissions that drives warming. 1/6 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So. Australia is a mining company. Always knew mining was big. Realised how big after spending two days here

The impact of PhD studies on mental health - A longitudinal population study PhDs can be and some would likely argue, should be hard. But surely not *this* hard? #AcademicSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Horrific testimony by Greta Thunberg www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Planting is not enough. 🌳 Among the key factors that determine the success of #restoration projects are: ✅ Clear land rights ✅ Genuine involvement of local communities. This is the conclusion reached by the #D4R teams in the #SAVA region, based on a study of 7 sites.

This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"A growing number of studies have found that the most widely used offset programs continue to greatly overestimate their probable climate impact often by a factor of five to ten or more. " www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Open position: Professor or Assistant / Associate (tenure track) Professor in Plant Ecology (U. Turku Finland) Please share ats.talentadore.com/apply/kasvie...

🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday! 🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling 📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines! 🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

New online! Addressing landscape multifunctionality in conservation and restoration

On Sunday, #Zürich residents voted 52.8% in favor of increasing parking fees for cars according to weight. The owner of a BMW X2 (Diesel), which weighs 1,675 kilograms, will now pay equivalent of €717 Euros per year to park on a public street. (Before, about €321.) Direct democracy!

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⛓️‘Chains of leverage’ as way to identify and foster transformative potential ➡️ buff.ly/oKfcOPd By mapping system depth & identify leverage points, we reveal pathways to shift from unsustainable states to sustainable futures. #Sustainability #LeveragePoints

🌳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...