📖 Published! Prompting large language models for quality ecological statistics 🖥️ This perspective addresses the need for effective prompting guidelines to ensure consistent and appropriate advice on statistical analyses when using LLMs🌍 🔎 Read more:

🏅 Shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May prize! 🏅 Our last shortlisted author! @drpeterdietrich.bsky.social talks about his paper introducing a fast, non-destructive, and easy-to-use method for three-dimensional (3D) scanning of vegetation using a standard smartphone 🪴📱 Read more👇 buff.ly/YONl9r9

📖 Published! e3SIM provides a powerful tool for simulating infectious disease dynamics through the explicit integration of epi-eco-evo processes, enhancing realism and predictive accuracy in genomic epidemiology 🌍 🧬 🧪 🔎 Read more:

🏅 Shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May prize! 🏅 In this blog post, @austinmaia.bsky.social talks about her new paper presenting a computational framework for characterizing and comparing tonal vocal repertoires of toothed whales 🐳 Read more here 👇

🏅 Shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May prize! 🏅 Xiaotian Zheng talks about his new paper, which addresses a key source of uncertainty that arises from downscaling of regional climate data from coarse to fine resolution 🌡️ 🌍 🧪 Read the blog post here 👇

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

Out now in Methods in Ecology and Evolution: Accounting for spatial interactions in the upscaling of ecosystem services. Led by Lari Boesing. A how to guide to upscaling ES, particularly those driven by the movement of matter and mobile organisms besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🏅 Shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May prize! 🏅 In his blog post, @robboyd.bsky.social talks about his paper 'Using causal diagrams and superpopulation models to correct geographic biases in biodiversity monitoring data' 🌍 🧪 Read the blog and find the full article 👇 buff.ly/a7UROJJ

🏅 Shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May prize! 🏅 In her paper, Nina Schiettekatte presents the R package habtools, which includes R functions to efficiently calculate complexity and shape metrics from Digital Elevation Models, 3D meshes, and 2D shapes 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇 buff.ly/hIyE1WK

📖 New paper Paying attention to other animal detections improves camera trap classification models📸 🐒 This approach reduces species misclassifications and enables more accurate estimates for downstream ecological analyses 👇️ 🔎

🏅 Shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May prize! 🏅 In his paper, @jsmartin.bsky.social proposes a statistical model for detecting how complex, continuously varying environments shape the expression of and association among multiple organismal traits 🌍 Read more here 👇

📖 Published movetrack: An R package to model flight paths from radio-telemetry networks he R package enables researchers and conservationists to better study the response of aerial animals to environmental change and more🕊️ 🌍 🔎

🏅 Shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May prize! 🏅 Kal Backman's study focused on extracting animal sightings from large volumes of thermal video drone data (14 million images worth!) for use in abundance modelling and detection of protected species 🛩️ Read more here 👇

Submit your proposals for our new special feature! It aims to examine time-dependency in evolution across scales, exploring empirical evidence, methodological challenges, and statistical frameworks for detecting and interpreting rate variation over time 🌍 🧪 Find out more👉https://buff.ly/dgxI6YD

🏅 Shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May prize! 🏅 The paper by @jennamkline.bsky.social provides a comprehensive overview and field guide for researchers working at the intersection of computer vision, aerial robotics, and behavioral ecology 🦒 Read more here 👇 buff.ly/HEmk8Eh

To mark World Forestry Day 2026, @bes-forests.bsky.social is hosting a webinar.  Bringing together speakers from agroforestry, landscape architecture and environmental finance, the session will examine how forests are engaged across different areas of research, design and decision-making.

📖 Published Modular and scalable system for 3D behavioural assays of olfactory and gustatory preferences in flying insects This setup is highly suitable for exploring the influence of olfactory and gustatory compounds on insect visitation patterns and feeding behaviours🐝🌻 🔎

🏅 Shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May prize! 🏅 Pieter Sanczuk talks about their new article, testing whether optical fibres can be used to measure microclimate temperatures in the forest 🌳 🌡️ @fornalab.bsky.social Read the blog here 👇 buff.ly/OlCR4Z3

🚨 New blog post estar: An R package to measure ecological stability🌍 Find out more about the estar package, which helps researchers analyse stability using the data they collect from real world systems 👇️ 🔎

🏅 Shortlisted for the 2025 Robert May prize! 🏅 Here is the first blog post from a shortlisted author! Or Ben-Zvi talks her paper introducing a new underwater microscope with integrated photosynthetic efficiency measurements 🤿 🔬 Read here 👉 buff.ly/2h9A4rw

Proposals for our Special Feature with @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social are still open 👀 We're looking to further understanding of how climate change affects plant–antagonist interactions, particularly through links to management strategies 🐛 bit.ly/45ZalEf

📖 New paper Microclimf: Fast modelling of microclimate across real landscapes in R microclimf is a mechanistic microclimate model designed for computationally efficient, gridded estimation of microclimate, principally temperature, within and below vegetation canopies 🌳 🌍 🖥️ 🔎

NEW PAPER: Ecoacoustics for context-rich direct and indirect trophic interaction data and ecological network construction doi.org/10.1111/2041... led by Will Dawson @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

Have you had a look at MEEs new article type, Workflows? Workflow articles will describe the design, testing, and analysis of the performance of complex workflows. Find out more in the links below. Blog post 👉 buff.ly/1sSmEtp Editorial 👉 buff.ly/bbbAZSk Author guidelines 👉 buff.ly/bbbAZSk

📖 Published A novel generalized spatial mark-resight model that accounts for group associations The authors developed a gSMR model that accounts for group associations to estimate spatial abundance🖥️ 🐺 🔎

Published 📖 A covariate-augmented mixed gamma-exponential time-to-detection occupancy model This framework provides a flexible tool for analysing TTD data in the presence of structured detection heterogeneity 🖥️ 🌍

We're pleased to announce the shortlist for this year's Robert May prize! 🌟 Each year, we award the Robert May prize to the best paper in the journal by an early career author 🧪 🌏 See the full list below 👇 buff.ly/SosksZF

New paper out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social led by @westobymark.bsky.social and others The term ecosystem condition can imply an objective benchmark for what a “good” ecosystem state is. We argue for ecosystem valuation instead: it makes clear that assessing ecosystems involves value judgments.

Published 📖 Generalized graphical mixed models connect ecological theory with widely used statistical models GGMMs connect ecological theory with statistical models that are applied for inference, prediction, and causal analysis throughout ecology 🖥️ 🌍 🔎

We have a growing collection of resources for women in ecology that support, celebrate and advocate for women's roles in research and practice.  Check our collection of resources here 👇 https://f.mtr.cool/gtwczvuefr

New paper 📖 Data-driven discovery of mechanistic ecosystem models with LLMs 🖥️ LEMMA produces interpretable models with meaningful parameters that capture real biological processes, facilitating scientific insight and potentially accelerating management applications 👇️

Just a couple of days left to sign up to our next MEE live! Don't miss it! 🌍 🧪 ⏰️ 12th March, 10am UK time Find our more and register here 👉 buff.ly/0hrRYjv

Looking to understand, predict, and manage viral disease epidemics in crops like #cassava?🌱🦠📊 Check out the blog post introducing tools from Ruairí and Israël. #Ecology #PlantEpidemiology #InsectVectors @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social #UMR-IGEPP methodsblog.com/2026/02/21/m...

🚨 New podcast episode available now! 🌳 We speak to recently published People and Nature author Marilisa Herchet about the mental health benefits of urban green 🏙️ 🎙️ Listen on Soundcloud ➡️ buff.ly/eK1rfVy 🎙️ Listen on Spotify ➡️ buff.ly/3hWpQn7

Published📖 Validating a low-cost alternative to body surface area estimation: Implications for energy budgets and scaling relationships of ectotherms 🦎 🐍 🔎 Read more:

Published 📖 Farm-scale Natural Capital Accounting: Unlocking the potential of natural capital to support sustainable agriculture🌽 This account provides farmers with information that could be used for sustainability reporting and the promotion of sustainable farm practices🚜 🔎

Published 📖 Harnessing iEcology data to uncover invasive species behaviour This paper demonstrates the application of iEcology to uncover novel insights into the behaviour of invasive species, such as dominance over the native species🦑 🔎

I gave a talk on microbe-mediated carbon accrual in agri soils in the @bes-soilecogroup.bsky.social seminar series. A recording is available in the link below. @britishecologicalsociety.org

Published 📖 A general method for detection and segmentation of terrestrial arthropods in images🪲 flatbug offers ecologists and practitioners a ready-to-use, efficient and accurate tool for arthropod monitoring that addresses common limitations of existing methods 👇️

🤝 we're recruiting an Associate Blog Editor! 📝 join us in identifying, commissioning, and editing blog posts for Animal Ecology in Focus 🐝 more information on the role and how to apply can be found here: buff.ly/I9Kf6Er

New blog post! 🚨 Laura Byrne presents DImodelsMulti, an R package that complements and extends the previously published DImodels. It enables the fitting of multivariate or repeated measures DI models in a user-friendly way 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇

How do you design a camera-trap workflow that is field-resilient and analysis-ready? Join our webinar as Dr. Hugo Magaldi and Prof. Sabrina Krief discuss camera‑trapping in Uganda and their development of DeepForestVision for AI species labelling and quality control 📸 See here 👇 buff.ly/itLWDWw

Our march issue is out now! This month's cover image shows a grey long-eared bat, a cryptic species typical from Central and Southern Europe, photographed in the Rodes Monastery (Catalonia), where you can find one of the biggest maternity colonies 🦇 Read the whole issue here 👇 buff.ly/Y42TKSc

Are you looking for funding to support your research equity strategies? Learn more and apply here ➡️ https://ow.ly/lgx050Ynrr6 British Ecological Society #ecosky #Plantsky #ecology

Don't forget to register for our next MEE live! In this free webinar, we'll hear from Drs Figueiredo and Radchuk about the R package estar 🌍 🧪 Find out more and register here 👉 buff.ly/0hrRYjv

Last few days to apply!

We're thrilled to announce that we have 7 new Associate Editor mentees joining us! 📚🧪 Over the next 2 years, they will be mentored by a Senior Editor to develop their knowledge of the peer review process and handle manuscripts 💡🌎 Get to know them below 👇 appliedecologistsblog.com/2026/03/03/w...

📖 Published! Introducing TropiCam-AI: A taxonomically flexible automated classifier of Neotropical arboreal mammals and birds from camera-trap data 🐦️ 🌍 📸 🔎 Read more buff.ly/WVOYQ7p.

📖 Published! Individualised niches in a variable environment—Consequences for environmental change responses This framework can be extended further to niche choice and evolution including all processes that can change the match between individuals and their environment 🌍 🌳 🔎

We're finally seeing the sun at BES HQ in London 🌞 and it feels like t-shirt weather! To celebrate, there's free UK shipping on BES t-shirts - and everything else in our shop - this weekend 👕 Order from 9am Friday to midnight Sunday (GMT) - no codes needed 😎 britishecologicalsociety.teemill.com