Check out the fascinating work that @febiologia.bsky.social is doing to protect forty-spotted pardalotes!! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Academia friendly peer-reviewed journals in EEB: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

It’s so difficult to see a way forward sometimes

I was on the BBC World Service News Hour today (aired on a lot of @npr.org stations in the US) to talk about this sighting of an Amur tigress with ***five cubs*** in northeast China. Link to interview here, my bit starts ~30:52: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... www.chinadailyasia.com/hk/article/6... 🌍

A comprehensive review building on the IPBES #InvasiveAlienSpecies Assessment reveals that numbers of alien species are increasing for all taxonomic groups and regions, and that this trend is likely to continue. Read more: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.70058

📢 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE OUT! Excited to share a special issue I co-edited on bird–window collisions, a major yet overlooked source of bird mortality Bringing together 8 papers, this issue advances methods, evidence, and solutions to inform bird-friendly(er) built environments OA: tinyurl.com/yss5mvf2

I remember when we used to call chronic wasting disease “a disease in slow motion”. No longer.

An important question is, who is citing those papers? Should it be considered misconduct to not even check whether what you are citing *exists*?

H0 H0 H0 😂

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

Have you got a PhD in Statistics (or related field) and experience in Statistical Consulting? A continuing position at the Australian National University is now open 🇦🇺🦘🐨. Would love to get an #rstats person if possible ☺️ Apply by 18 Jan 👉 jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/course-... #statssky #statsky

The description of American Bitterns as having an “agonizingly slow gait” is literary gold. Well written, Sibley.

I think people are redoing their websites because I have been getting a lot of visitors in the past couple of days. I have Google Analytics so it helps me see where visitors come from and what pages they’re looking at. I did my website in R and I am actually thinking about ideas to revamp it.

Rare case of confirmed polar bear adoption. I love the 'polar bears are super good moms' hypothesis! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Are authors fairly judged by assessing the #journals in which their work is published? @bihutchins.bsky.social &co reveal that most influential papers are published in lower tier journals, and more authors would be better recognized with #ArticleLevelMetrics #ALMs @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4oV58Ed

Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?

La población de pumas de la Patagonia se dispara gracias a una presa inesperada: los pingüinos elpais.com/ciencia/2025...

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

6 simple steps to reduce American leadership in science 1 - Lay off staff & rotators 2 - Try to reduce IDC 3 - Terminate & freeze grants 4 - Reduce programs & GRFP fellowships 5 - Propose a >50% FY26 budget cut 6 - Run merit review, without enough expert reviewers: www.science.org/content/arti...

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

TNR remains a costly scam 1. Single-injection contraceptive 🤔 2. There are between 30 and 80 million feral, cats in U.S., 1.4 to 4.5 million in Canada 😱 Folks, this ain't going to fix anything at that scale, you need 80-90% contraception to reduce populations. www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

🎶 Does anybody really know what time it is? On Maaaaars? 🎵 It turns out that's hard to figure out… relatively speaking. www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... 🧪 🔭

It’s really demoralizing how many colleagues are using AI. Your job is literally to use your brain- your extremely unique, highly trained brain 😭

Earth's largest land animals are limited by salt. Sodium availability constrains the density and distribution of elephants, giraffes and rhinos across Africa, and offers a new explanation for the so-called 'missing megaherbivores'. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free access: rdcu.be/eTPY2

What are the causes & consequences of behavioural diversity loss in a changing world? And how do we harness this knowledge for conservation? New open access paper led by @odedberger-tal.bsky.social with David Saltz and @mrmic1.bsky.social #BobWongLab royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

By focussing on charismatic large fauna rather than restoring ecosystem functions, there is the danger that some rewilding projects are less about radical processed-based conservation and instead are a reinvention of species-centric approaches www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Check out our new study published with @thejonesctr.bsky.social Herpetology lab! We found 48 vertebrate species using uprooted longleaf pine trees for foraging, basking, and refuge, highlighting how storm microhabitats support biodiversity. See the study here -> lnkd.in/e8hdTxNQ

*The role of fire on Earth* The final version of this paper is now available #OA in BioScience 75 (12) @aibsbiology.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🌐 wildfire #ecoevo @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social

We're getting a native R %notin%!! "after many years of private definitions mostly hidden in packages" 😂😂 #rstats #databs

HEY! YOU! ggdibbler 0.6.1 is finally up on CRAN! harriet-mason.github.io/ggdibbler/in... You can now pass random variables to any aesthetic in any ggplot geom/stat. If you can express it as a distribution, ggdibbler can plot it. It also works with ggplot extensions, like gganimate. #rstats

Andean bears have unique facial markings, much like human fingerprints. These markings may change in shape and colour with age, and in some individuals may be absent altogether. Check out our species pages to learn more about bears: www.bearbiology.org/the-eight-be... REFERENCE: Peyton, B. 1980.

Pretty wild stuff here. How did the peer reviewers not realize that the figure was total nonsense? This is a Nature journal, for pete's sake

Fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs of critically endangered African penguins remain. In two key colonies in South Africa, the vast majority of the breeding birds likely starved to death because of a collapse of their food supplies, according to a new study.

Where did this peer review norm of providing a summary of the research in the review come from? It should be evident from your feedback that you actually read the paper

Our (very!) collaborative look at the lives of carnivores in Yosemite gets a feature thanks to @roguedogs.bsky.social amazing camera work 😊 Yosemite is an ecological and aesthetic marvel!

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

I just saw this on Instagram and I just had to share it here.

Just published! 🐦📄 Our new review “From pardal to etxe-txolarrea” brings together 40 years of scientific research on the House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) in the Iberian Peninsula. doi.org/10.32800/abc... 📝Number of accumulated peer-reviewed articles in the Iberian Peninsula

“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“ www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’). thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...

Hot off the press!🔥 How does human recreation & hunting affect wildlife?🥾🦌 Increased hunting intensity led to a significantly increasing avoidance of recreational activities by all species, independent of whether they were subjected to hunting or not! 📰 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

2025. Native megafauna (Bison bison) act as a surprising inhibitor of cedar tree expansion in a Great Plains grassland esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

As the vulture population plummets, dogs multiply and rabies spreads. The sequence, triggered by human action, carries a warning that many scientists consider to be a sixth mass extinction: When we endanger other species, we endanger ourselves.

This is a fun one! Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Tamandua Alligator lizards (Abronia spp.) Paca Mexican Hairy Dwarf Porcupine Toucan

I did an hour of HIIT and I’m dead. If anyone needs me, I’m currently dying at home. 💀💀💀💀💀💀

“Choosing to write is also choosing to make meaning. Studies suggest that having a sense of agency is both a prerequisite for, and an outcome of, writing.” ChatGPT isn’t mentioned once in this article but it’s impossible not to read it as a powerful critique.

Are peer reviewers influenced by their work being cited? Version of record at @elife.bsky.social. Thorough and useful peer review - who needs and impact factor?! Links to paper and code/data ⬇️ 📄https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/108748 💻https://github.com/agbarnett/cited_reviewers

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Should ecologists be worried about the carbon footprint of their own use of “AI” and LLMs? esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...