The new generation of adults knows fewer plant species than the old people do. Lindemann-Matthies et al. @peopleandnature.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪🌍🌳🪴🌱

The complex interactive effects of global change stressors and cascading species interactions require integrative approaches that study and conserve ecosystems beyond individual species. This was a beautiful collaborative experience with colleagues from EBD

Turns out, a lot of the plants we use for bee habit enhancement are already common and mostly support those darn common generalists! Thanks @joseblanuza.bsky.social for the help getting this across the line besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited to share our fresh-off-the-press Annual Review on the role of temperature in metabolic scaling! We review the state of the field on this topic and unpack confusion about the various ways the term "scaling" is used in metabolic theories. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

‼️🚨My first PhD paper out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social We built an automated camera system to detect plant–pollinator interactions (day & night) and compared networks from cameras vs. focal observations. 📜👉 doi.org/10.1111/2041... @annatraveset.bsky.social @imedea.bsky.social

Excited to share a new paper led by our colleagues at #DLR! We trained AI to recognize 15 European fly pollinator families and estimate how confident it is, helping ecologists use AI more responsibly. Paper: lnkd.in/dBAWW3hB Code: lnkd.in/du7dD2hc #pollinators #aiforgood #aifornature #UFZ #iDiv

The first plant-pollinator interaction network at the European level, depicting pollinator relationships with plants across the continent!🐝 Learn how interactions are organised & what implications they have for #PollinatorConservation: lnkd.in/dErniJ8B #SafeguardSummaries @ibartomeus.bsky.social

A new @natcomms.nature.com study led by iDiv alumna @adrianaalzate.bsky.social @naturalis.bsky.social uncovered that across >26,000 species evolutionary age is positively linked to range size, except in marine mammals. #Biodiversity #Evolution #iDivResearch www.idiv.de/older-specie...

⚡ New version of #rgbif has just been released to CRAN! Version 3.8.2 new features: 🔹occ_download_doi() accepts a GBIF download DOI and returns the download key. occ_download() now supports download via institutionKey. Learn more: 🔗docs.ropensci.org/rg...#rgbif

🚨Species Distribution Modeling with BART Methods 📅 22–24 Sept 📍 Online | 🧠 Instructors: @jbyoder.org & @colincarlson.bsky.social Learn to build powerful SDMs using #BART methods in R, using the embarcadero and dbarts packages. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

"On many occasions when I have used ggpairs() I’ve found myself diving into the source code to try to work out precisely what kind of plot object it produces..." -- EXACTLY my gripe. [Another great Data Witch post!]

Our new paper is out to day in Nature Ecology and Evolution! It is called: Thresholds of functional trait diversity driven by land use intensification ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #FunctionalTraits 🌐 ➕📏 @inrae-france.bsky.social @urep.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @bexplo.bsky.social

Regional databases demonstrate macroecological patterns less clearly than systematically collected field data vist.ly/3m2e5uw #Bivalves #GBIF #Biodiversity #Databases

Las moscas florícolas (Syrphidae) son insectos altamente beneficiosos: mientras que los adultos polinizan, sus larvas contribuyen al reciclaje de la materia orgánica 🍂 o al control de plagas agrícolas. Os dejo aquí una lámina genial con las especies del género Eristalis de la península ibérica 😉👇

mtcars |> skimr::skim() |> skimr::focus(n_missing, numeric.mean, numeric.p0, numeric.p100, numeric.hist) |> knitr::kable(digits = 2)

So emotional seeing my first-ever teaching evaluations! 😭 Creating all the materials from scratch was tough, but incredibly rewarding. I put a lot of thought into what students need in the AI era—sharing the complete class materials here in case they're helpful: clsong.github.io/EEB_C234/01_...

🐜🥼#PostDoc Alert! PhD in #natural #sciences, experience with #arthropod #fieldwork and #lab as well as a good #publication record?📚Knowledge of #ecological processes, #insect #taxonomy & R? Our #Forest #Entomology group is offering a two-year PostDoc position. apply.refline.ch/273855/1720/...

What an #rstats ggplot2 gem.

The {grafify} #RStats 📦 aims to make it easier for R users to: * "plot great-looking graphs with few lines of code while exploring data" * "apply colour blind-friendly palettes to graphs plotted with grafify or ggplot2" & more. By @avishenoy.bsky.social grafify.shenoylab.com #DataViz

Despite experiencing high summer temperatures, the interior of the capitula of 15 species of Mediterranean thistles blooming during the hottest time of year was substantially cooler than the air most of the time. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... [Paywalled, DM me for pdf file ]

Writing manuscripts in #Quarto or #Rmarkdown? Here's how to easily generate an appendix citing the #rstats packages used with {grateful} pakillo.github.io/grateful/ 1/

Turned the old blog post of LLM-based tools for #rstats into a Quarto guide. Includes even more packages now plus a roundup of relevant courses and tutorials luisdva.github.io/llmsr-book/

Happy Valentine's Day (p<0.05). #rstats

New article introduces the EuPPollNet database—a fully open European-level database harmonizing plant-pollinator interactions across space & time 🐝🌼 Congrats to the author team led by @joseblanuza.bsky.social & including our very own @libranembid-f.bsky.social. Check it out! doi.org/10.1111/geb....

2025 starts with a methodology publication by Ștefan et al. on Utilising affordable smartphones and open-source time-lapse photography for pollinator image collection and annotation - Happy new year! doi.org/10.26786/192...

🌿🐝 New paper! Sílvia Castro, Sara Lopes, @catarinasiopa.bsky.social, @jloureiro13.bsky.social & Hugo Gaspar coauthored a study on EuPPollNet, Europe’s largest plant-pollinator network database! 🌍💡 Thanks @joseblanuza.bsky.social and @ibartomeus.bsky.social for the great coordination! 📖 Read it 👇

[new paper] EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant-Pollinator Networks onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Another wonderful paper of @joseblanuza.bsky.social making open more than >1500 networks and looking at their properties. Come for the data, stay for the cool figures!

This post by @jeffollerton.bsky.social shows we had online plant-pollinator databases since 1995!! jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/01/07/w... The next big one is coming soon, lead by @joseblanuza.bsky.social within the #safeguard pollinators project with more than 1000 networks

censos de mariposas en holanda, no pintan bien...

[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...

ECOSISTEMAS, the scientific journal of @eco-aeet.bsky.social joins bluesky!!! We are a free to publish + free to read journal, open to submissions from every field in #Ecology and every place in the world. Support our vision, send us your work!! www.revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...

1/ Important read for anyone using, contributing, or building large databases by aggregating data sources. Discusses issues with data quality, duplication, credit attribution, etc, and includes recommendations for improvement doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #ecopubs

Do you think that everyone should benefit from science? Us too! @colincarlson.bsky.social and I just released a working paper on the LISTEN principles, to guide database development in ways that support open science and safeguard the rights of countries to their genetic resources.

Functional traits are used in #bee ecology, but inconsistent data standards limit large-scale research. Our new paper with @MaddieOstwald & @Mlucia_Xylo presents a roadmap for standardizing bee trait data and a dataset of 1,600+ species globally. 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Abeja de la miel, apicultura y abejas silvestres. www.abejassilvestres.es/posts/Apis Si quereis que Abejas Silvestres se abra una cuenta de divulgación sobre abejitas en bluesky, darle amor a este post!