Fascinating graph shows the estimated total mass of all the mammals living on Earth. In 1850, it was evenly divided between wildlife and humans + domesticated animals. Today, humans and their livestock account for about 95% of the total. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Delighted to be highlighted as one of the most read authors in the @britishecologicalsociety.org journal @funecology.bsky.social 🧪 This follows being higlighted as a #TopCitedArticle last month. Great to see we're having influence #ecology #acoustics #TopViewedArticle @ucddublin.bsky.social 1/2

Delighted to be highlighted as one of the most read authors in the @britishecologicalsociety.org journal @funecology.bsky.social! This follows being higlighted as a #TopCitedArticle last month. Great to see we're having influence! #ecology #acoustics #TopViewedArticle @ucddublin.bsky.social 1/2

We are risking plunging the United States into a dark age of entomology next week. USDA programs are facing massive lay-offs next week and the public should be aware of the impact. If you care about food systems, forests, invasive species, this thread is for you. Read Below: 🧪 #entomology #science

Fantastic to visit the @naturalis.bsky.social for the last three weeks! 🧪 The Naturalis' incredible historical collections have allowed us insight into how mining bee species have adapted across Europe, and to a changing world from 1870 to present! #pollination #ecology @ucddublin.bsky.social

Delighted to be highlighted as one of the most cited authors in the @britishecologicalsociety.org journal @funecology.bsky.social in recent years! #ecology #acoustics @ucddublin.bsky.social 1/2

🚨 HUGE news from Canada's tricouncils who are harmonizing their scholarship & fellowship programs, upping the total number (huzzah!), and critically, allowing foreigners to apply for doctoral and postdoc fellowships. Want to work with me? Get in touch! 🇨🇦🧪⚒️ www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

📣 Funded 3.5yr PhD opportunity for UK applicants in @hpruezi.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social. #PhDSky 🧪 On "Optimising testing & control strategies in the early stages of infectious disease outbreaks" #IDSky #EpiSky ⏳ Application deadline: 24 Mar 2025 🔗: www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Check out our new blog summarising recent meta-analysis assessing treatments for the Varroa mite #pathogen of honey bees! This #invasive #parasite has huge impacts on crops from lost #pollination 🧪 @ucddublin.bsky.social @healyke.bsky.social @cristinabotias.bsky.social www.ucd.ie/earth/news-o...

🔬 Trust in Scientists 🌍 A global survey of 71,922 respondents across 68 countries found that most people trust scientists and want them to engage more in policymaking. However, small distrustful minorities can still impact decisions. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm 🧪

Our new meta-analysis assessing treatments for the Varroa mite #pathogen of honey bees! This #invasive #parasite has huge impacts on crops from lost #pollination We synthesise the best options and future prospects 🧪 @ucddublin.bsky.social @healyke.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Musk's "interference" is not a party political issue, she says, but one of "spreading disinformation in an attempt to interfere with our democracy", Dorothy Bishop tells me. Thanks to @deevybee.bsky.social, @scurry.bsky.social & @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social for speaking to me about this.

Work with us: #Research Assistant in a team from @ucdscience.bsky.social , AFBI and the DAFM Plant Sciences Division in tasks ranging from fieldwork to molecular laboratory techniques of #forest #pests Deadline: 24th Jan 2025 Details on how to apply at: drjonyearsley.github.io/forestpests....

A tale of two headlines based on the same press release. The reality, of course, is that the National Trust’s nature restoration efforts will bolster good farming, by “improving the health of enough soil to provide habitat for 1 billion earthworms.”

3-year Postdoc Position Join our team @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and investigate the dynamics of seasonal songbird migration using biologging technologies See details here: bit.ly/3ZojW38 Please get in touch if interested & share with anyone else who might be!

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My instinctive response to the "The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans" paper more calmly and succinctly summarised here by Kasper Groes Albin Ludvigsen kaspergroesludvigsen.medium.com/the-carbon-e...

Do you know about bees but want to start looking at pesticides (or know someone who does)? Then why not start with reading our primer - setting out the basics to get started in bee and pesticide research! Led by @edstraw.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

ATTENTION ECOTOX PEOPLE: We wrote a primer on bee and pesticide science! Specifically written to be an accessible short guide for post / undergrads. It explains all the basic lingo and concepts in simple language. A great resource for the community! @darastanley.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365...

No less than six (!) PhD scholarships announced at our fantastic department. 2 are open calls for anyone (+1 open call for Danish MA’s) and 1 is reserved for Turkish Studies in our Mid East Section. Please spread the word! employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

At #BES2024 and interested in #pollination and #disease? Check out my talk Thursday at 12:30 in the #Parasites and #Pathogens session in A4 I'll be outlining our upcoming meta-analysis assessing treatment success for the globally #invasive Varroa mite of honey bees! @britishecolsoc.bsky.social 🧪

* NEW #PhD * #Evolution #Ecology of Immune #Senesence in Wild Badgers - exciting project with me, @btschirren.bsky.social & our awesome collaborators @ APHA. Based at @exetercec.bsky.social in Cornwall, UK. !PLEASE SHARE! See www.animalsocieties.org and apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🌏 🧪 🦑

Interested in studying environmental change using network ecology?

Greetings one and all! Please follow the Network Ecology Group at Newcastle University, UK for news, papers and anything else relevant to our community

Great to get out for the #GlobalRun2024!

Wow. 🌍 Fewer bats -> (more insect pests ->) higher pesticide use -> higher infant mortality www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... This sort of (utilitarian?) argument always makes me a bit uneasy though, because I think there are plenty of examples where wild species provide a *disservice*

Great to see our #SilentCities dataset published in Scientific Data from @natureportfolio.bsky.social ! With 261 colleagues globally, we collected audio when human isolation during the #covid19 pandemic had drastically changed the #soundscape of the urban ecosystem www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Science job! 🧪🌍 The James Hutton Institute are recruiting a Land Use Emissions Scenario Modeller to work on an interdisciplinary project exploring a Just Transition to achieving net zero in farming: hutton.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

Fantastic project at UCD, great funding body, great project! Come join Darren in a project that'll build on some super exciting work we've been doing lately on bumblebee's response to pesticides.

Interested in #pollinators and #microbiota? We're looking for a recent PhD grad in microbiology and/or bioinformatics interested in applying for IRC Postdoc funding Based in University College Dublin SBES working with Nicholas Brereton Julia Jones @edstraw.bsky.social research.ie/funding/goip...

Great to see our paper out in the latest issue of Journal of Biogeography! Both island characteristics and competitor density/presence impacted foraging traits in an Indonesian island chain, showing the eco/evo processes at work in #biogeography #ornithology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Delighted to be one of the projects selected for funding by the SFI-IRC Pathway Programme! For the next 4 years our team in University College Dublin SBES will be using genomic tools to understand adaptation in solitary bees! Little known but important wild pollinators www.sfi.ie/research-new...

Speaking as a paleontologist, this is incorrect. By definition, extinction decreases biodiversity. The narrow, academic sense in which it could be said to increase biodiversity only applies millions of years after massive species loss and ecosystem collapse. No positive spin here

Not good. Museum collections & research are essential to understanding both the history and future of life on Earth. "California Academy of Sciences reeling from budget cuts: a major natural history collection loses one-quarter of its curators"

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Job alert!! Join Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley. We are hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of global change biology with emphasis on the Ecology and Evolution of Host-Microbe Interactions (pathogens, mutualists, microbiomes). aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04476

My dept is hiring in Evolutionary Genomics psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

#Postdoc position in #seabirds spatial population dynamics at NINA Tromsø. Apply by 1st September. nina.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/57-post... #jobs

✍️New story on the #AvianHybrids blog! How did Ammospiza sparrows transition from freshwater to saline habitats? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2024/06/26/h... Based on the Journal of Biogeography study by Jennifer Walsh et al. | #ornithology #birds

My latest digest for Evolution is now available online! Ongoing introgression of a secondary sexual plumage trait in a stable avian hybrid zone doi.org/10.1093/evol... #ornithology #birds

#theBOUblog - Can squatters bring benefits? Why would a prey species host a predator in their nesting colony? Find out in these blog and paper! blog: bou.org.uk/blog-lown... #ibisjournal paper: onlinelibrary.wiley....#theBOUblog#ibisjournal #ornithology