New podcast episode! 🚨 In this podcast, Sebastian Hoefer talks us about his paper ‘Sensors versus surveyors: Comparing passive acoustic monitoring, camera trapping and observer-based monitoring for terrestrial mammals’. Listen here👂️ buff.ly/f6St086

🌟 We've updated our aims and scope, now live and ready to read on our website! ➡️ buff.ly/2W4T8oR 🚨 Our February issue is also now live. With a fantastic cover image provided by Vincent Porcher, from this recently published paper 📖 buff.ly/e3kfQ4S

📖 Published! This review provides an overview of studies to date using long-read sequencing platforms for biodiversity analyses of eukaryotes, from eDNA and community metabarcoding, shotgun sequencing, and DNA barcoding🧪 🧬 🌍 Read more:

Interested in being an Associate Editor on any of the BES journals? Apply now! 👇

Reminder: if anyone, particular ECRs, is interested in helping to refresh the Data Management booklet, please get in touch ASAP. Details of how to get involved in the thread below. @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org.

The first issue of 2026 is now out! 🚨 This issue contains our new special feature 'Conservation, ecology and artificial intelligence: Advances and symbiotic solutions'. 🌍 🧪 Read the whole issue here 👇 buff.ly/AmWPK0C

Long-read sequencing can revolutionise the way we monitor #biodiversity. A comprehensive guide for using #ONT & #PacBio for analysis of biodiversity through #eDNA, #metabarcoding, metagenomics Just published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📖 Published! (De)composing sociality: Disentangling individual-specific from dyad-specific propensities to interact This approach allows us to address the link between variation in sociality characteristics and more, both within and across species🌍 🦒 🔎 Read more:

Check out our new blog post!🚨 Authors provide an overview of the animal2vec framework, including its capabilities and potential for usage in animal behavior, ecology, and conservation research 🔊 🌍 🧪 Read more here👇

Our recent @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social paper on 3D photogrammetry and hearing is featured on the cover of the january issue. The work focuses on how 3D mesh models of ear morphology can be used to simulate the directionality hearing. doi.org/10.1111/2041...

New blog post! 🚨 Find out more about how @kvester.bsky.social and their team are using 3D photogrammetry to see how animals hear 🦇 👂 buff.ly/6r52GTk

📖Published! A dynamic multi-scale occupancy model to estimate trends in habitat use in spatially and temporally complex systems This modelling framework offers a tool for disentangling the multi-scale processes that drive species distributions across time🖥️ 🌍 🌱 Read more:

New blog post!!🚨 Michael Chimento gives an overview of the new R package STbayes, designed for creating, fitting and understanding Bayesian models of social transmission 🌍 🧪 Read the blog here 👇

Less than a month to apply to join the BES editorial board as an Associate editor!🌳🌍 📖 If you're interested in contributing to any of the BES journals, check out the link below 👇 buff.ly/6ymRGcB

📖 Published! An elementary guide to quantum computing, introducing core concepts such as qubits, superposition, entanglement and quantum advantage to give ecologists the foundations needed to appreciate its relevance and potential🖥️ 📏 🌀 Read more:

📖 Published! This paper presents a conceptual framework for natural capital accounting (NCA), adapting principles from financial accounting to support transparent reporting on business interactions with nature🌍 💸 💼 🔎 Find out more:

The British Ecological Society has curated this Virtual Issue to highlight research that is directly relevant to the work of the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)👇 buff.ly/LsHioXu

📖 Published! CISO, a deep learning-based method for species distribution modelling Conditioned on Incomplete Species Observations 🖥️ 🦌 🌍 🔎 Find out more:

📖 Published! Inferring state-dependent diversification rates using approximate Bayesian computation 🖥️ 🌀 🌍 👇 🔎

📖 Published! Introducing Esperdyne, an open-source, dual-channel ultrasound monitoring and recording system for bioacoustic field surveys🖥️ 🌍 🦇 🔎 Find out more:

🤩We’re excited to announce our winner of Capturing Ecology🤩 🐊Zeke Rowe, @zekerowe.bsky.social, with their photo 'Wouldn't hurt a fly'🪰 Taken in Panama, the image shows an American crocodile fixing the camera with its golden eyes, utterly unmoved as blood-sucking horse flies feed on its snout.

📖Published! Authors developed a state-space model that simultaneously accounts for the acoustic group location and time-varying acoustic group size using acoustic data from multiple hydrophones 🔊🐟 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇

📖Published! evsBat: An automated toolkit for tracking and quantifying rapid movement of nocturnal animals using event cameras 🦇 🌍🧪 Read the full article here 👇 buff.ly/MBKeN8L

📖Published! Check out this new research article 👉 Early warning signal for river-borne diseases with almost no data 🛶 🦠 Read more 👇

📖Published! Authors have developed the Wildlife Sperm Index (WSI), a standardized scoring system that integrates key sperm quality metrics—such as motility, viability and DNA integrity—into a weighted composite score 🌍 🧪 Read here👇 buff.ly/VRDfutk

NEW EDITORIAL! 💡 Using data to construct tripartite networks & models 📊, we found that editorial diversification helps make peer review more inclusive & better aligned with the global distribution of ecological research 🌐 Find out more 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

📖Published! A capture–recapture framework for combining biologging data with physical captures to decompose and estimate demographic rates: Simulations across life cycles and application to polar bears 🐻‍❄️ 🧊 🔎 Find out more:

📖Published! animal2vec and MeerKAT: A self-supervised transformer for rare-event raw audio input and a large-scale reference dataset for bioacoustics A new transformative bioacoustic tool tailored for sparse and unbalanced bioacoustic data🦉 🔎 Find out more:

📖Published! Plant pathogen profiling with the EpiPvr package 🦠🧪 These findings highlight the utility of the EpiPvr framework for predicting the outcome of pathogen introductions and for guiding targeted disease management strategies Read more:

📖Published! Can hierarchical modelling of co-occurrence data provide accurate inference into species interactions? This review finds pitfalls in the use of hierarchical models applied to co-occurrence data in understanding species interactions🧪 🌍 Read more:

📖Published! Advanced circular statistics in biology: Multiple factors, interactions and repeated measures This study provides evidence supportive of a transformative expansion of the circular statistical toolkit by adapting linear frameworks for circular data🌀🖥️ Read more:

📖Published! theRmalUAV: An R package to clean and correct thermal UAV data for accurate land surface temperatures The package corrects for atmospheric effects, background temperature, and incorporates a novel method to handle rapid illumination changes🌍 🔆 read more:

📖Published! Animal geolocation with convolution algorithms in Julia and R via Wahoo.jl The package provides a performant interface for an inference methodology that reliably handles multimodal inference problems that challenge other approaches 🌍 🌿 Read more:

📖Published! STbayes: An R package for creating, fitting and understanding Bayesian models of social transmission This framework can be used to infer complex transmission rules🖥️ 🧪 Read more:

📖Published! This review provides a roadmap for integrative data analysis in passive acoustic telemetry systems that should support research into the ecology and conservation of many aquatic species🌍 🖥️ 🔎 Find out more:

We are now accepting grant applications to fund ecological research and outreach worldwide. ⏰Apply before 10 March 2026! Find out what grants you can apply to 👇 https://f.mtr.cool/cucxadvxjq 🧪🌍

📖Published! Thresholding species distribution models: Simple approaches for land-use planning in multifunctional landscapes Threshold models reflect losses under industrial disturbance scenarios more realistically compared to continuous relative abundance models Read more:

📖Published! AutoChamber is a broadly accessible 3D-printed floating chamber to automate measurements of greenhouse gas emissions from surface waters🌍 🌊 🔎 Find out more:https://buff.ly/6t6crmZ.

Had a fab time this week at Pop Group @popgroup2026.bsky.social and stoked to have won a prize for my poster on hybridisation in island birds! 🧬🐦‍⬛🏝️ #pgg59

📖Published! This perspective explores different approaches used for measuring corporate impacts on ecosystem conditions, and the appropriateness of different approaches in different contexts🌍 🌱 🖥️ 🔎 Find out more:

📖Published! Acquiring comparable and reproducible isotopic baselines in different lakes and rivers has been so challenging that many isotope datasets lack baseline values. Perga et al applied models globally to predict spatial patterns in isotope baselines🔎 🌍 Read more:

📖 Published! Alharbi et al propose a theoretically grounded statistical technique to find turning points in high-frequency movement data that does not require any a priori choices of parameter values🖥️ 🧪 📏 Read more:

📖 Published! Authors compared different methods and models used in video surveying to estimate the absolute abundance of reef fish🐟 🪸 🌍 Read more here:https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/2041-210x.70215

📖Published! Location–scale models in ecology and evolution: Heteroscedasticity in continuous, count and proportion data 🌍 🖥️ 🧪 Read more:https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210x.70203

After 14 years with the journal, @josbarlow.bsky.social has come to the end of his term as Executive Editor 📚 We’d like to say a huge thank you to Jos for his crucial support in many journal initiatives and fundamental role overseeing thousands of manuscripts. He will be missed! 🌟

The first issue of 2026 is now available!! This months cover image is an illustrative rendering of a 3D model of a bat (Myotis daubentonii) created using 3D photogrammetry 🦇 🌍 🧪 Read the issue here 👇 buff.ly/lVgaZ4l

After last year's successful refresh of the BES Reproducible Code guide (www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...), this year we're going to refresh the Data Management guide (www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...). Exciting! See below for how to get involved...

We have arrived in snowy Lille for the 59th PopGroup conference! Come to the MEE stand and have a chat! 😀 @popgroup2026.bsky.social

📖Published📖 This study describes an R software package, neonSoilFlux, that computes a standardized estimate of Fs at all terrestrial NEON sites using the flux-gradient method 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇