How did a City boy from Singapore come to love the many wonders of nature? So much that he dedicated his life's career to unraveling it? Well, its thanks to people like Sir David Attenborough, who among many others, brought the world to me. Happy 100th boss!

The niche concept explains where species can persist—but not always why. Integrating old, near forgotten ideas with modern demography, the Demographic Niche Concept provides a process-based foundation for understanding niches and distributions. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Excited to see @seh-pang.bsky.social new @ecography.bsky.social paper out: a timely formalisation of the demographic niche concept, linking niche theory with vital rates to better understand range-wide population dynamics and #globalchange responses 🌿♨️🌍 #speciesdistributions #demography #ecology

📜New Paper📜@ecography.bsky.social Species distributions aren’t just about where species occur, but how survival, reproduction and development vary across environments. We formalise the Demographic Niche Concept to link niche theory and demography. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Very telling from the birdfood industry. Despite new RSPB/BTO advice on birdfeeding based on a solid scientific review, and RSPB taking a ££ hit themselves, EVERY major birdfood company is attacking/rejecting the guidance, claiming to know better, putting their incomes over conservation. Shameful.

Random life thoughts: It is hard to appreciate another man's struggles if you only see his fortunes. It is easy to be jealous of that one success I see, but how willing am I to brave the 100 failures before it?

I've recently made some changes to the gallery of all my data visualisations 📊 Most examples now have links to the underlying source code! If you see something you like, you can see how it was made 🤩 #DataViz #RStats

I love when new versions of the Eukaryotic tree come out, just casually reorganizing our understanding of the diversity of life. I may study birds but showing students how incredibly animal/vertebrate-centric our understanding of biodiversity is has to be one of my absolute favorite things.

New Science Advances paper: 60 years of change across European plant communities reveals a widespread shift toward denser vegetation, with increasing shade tolerance across habitats. Proud to co-author this important work🍃 #ecology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The new IPBES #BizBiodiversity Assessment Report makes clear: business transparency is essential to maintain trust. 📢 Access the full media kit, including the Summary for Policymakers (SPM), multilingual press releases, and various multimedia assets at this link: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media

Good morning #BES2025! Curious about demographic niches? Decomposing the vital rates that make up a species niche? Head down to poster B14.26 later today to find out more! Let's chat science! @britishecologicalsociety.org

Remembering #JaneGoodall and her life's dedication to understanding primates, conservation, and reaching out to the next generation of nature lovers. There's always a bit of sadness, in hearing about the passing of great figures, but more important is that we remember their work.

Even when the sky is falling, there will be a hole for you to squeeze through #AcademicLife #lifequotes

So sad to read this 😢 As someone working in 🇦🇷 for 10+ years I know that Argentine colleagues always had to face difficult and often unpredictable conditions. But the Milei government is dismantling Argentina's scientific system with unprecedented aggression - www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Deadline for the EvoDemoS conference 2 wks away! Join us at @PembrokeOxford @UniofOxford to discuss the breath and depth of demographic theory and applications in Sept evodemo2025.weebly.com Please retweet @biology.ox.ac.uk @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

An important but often overlooked aspect of rewilding or any restoration science is that IT TAKES TIME for nature to come back! We may remove the farm and even seed the land, but what if the little mice, katydid, spider, or bird is 200 km away? Conservation needs to be active!

🚨New review out in @ecography.bsky.social! 🔥Mechanistic niche models (MNMs) are the future—but they’re not plug-and-play. Our paper lays out how and when to use MNMs to predict invasive species distributions under climate change. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I gave my first ADHD talk 2 weeks ago. Posting now because… ADHD. But this was also my first step in speaking publicly and raising awareness about what ADHD really is — especially in academic and workplace spaces. 🧠

#ECONOVOStories 🌍✨ @joe-atkinson.bsky.social, @mattkerr.bsky.social, @cmlmagneville.bsky.social, and @seh-pang.bsky.social attended the BES Annual Meeting 2024, sharing insights on from their research at ECONOVO! #ECONOVO #Ecology #Biodiversity #AarhusUniversity #BritishEcologicalSociety

Integrating #MetabolicScalingTheory into species distribution models...MetaRange.jl: A Dynamic and Metabolic Species Range Model for Plant Species onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Can 19th-century land use still influence today’s grasslands? Our research suggests it can—though the effects are subtle! Led by Gabri Midolo, our new article in Landscape Ecology explores how historical land use shapes the plant composition of current grasslands.

There is a huge potential for #tropical #forest #regeneration, either naturally or through #restoration efforts. Several countries stand out, Brazil, Indonesia, China, Mexico and Colombia. While there is a lot of doom-and-gloom in science, there is also hope. www.nature.com/articles/s41...