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Evading a warlord on a birding trip... Are birds actually monogamous?... Is birdwatching the original Pokémon?... These are just a few of the topics discussed on INSTAAR fellow Scott Taylor's new podcast, "Okay, But... Birds." Read our Q&A with Scott out today: www.colorado.edu/instaar/2026...

Congrats to our multitalented PhD Student Asia Kasier for her category award in Science’s 2026 ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ contest! 🐝 🧪 🌎 ... and to a wonderful supporting cast!

I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉 gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Remember #365papers? I’m doing it again. This time worrying less about falling behind. Otherwise I’ll only read short papers to try to keep up. Last time that meant a Biology Letters heavy list 😅

To start the day @julianresasco.bsky.social takes us through a century of changes in plant-pollinator interactions. #BES2025

What a crew! Zorionak! 🎄

ASN VP Symposium: Phenological Shifts in Plants and Pollinators over a Century Disrupt Interaction Persistence by Zoller et al. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/

CU Boulder climate researchers compare blooms and pollinators over 100 years above Colorado Springs.

Excited to see this paper led by Mica Santos in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B! w/ @dpvazquez.bsky.social The study examines extinction debts of species & their interactions (plant–herbivore, herbivore–parasitoid) in a fragmented landscape in Mendoza 🇦🇷 🧪🌎 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Thrilled to welcome @julianresasco.bsky.social (University of Colorado) on sabbatical with us! 🌿🐝 Ongi etorri! He gave a fantastic talk on how anthropogenic change reshapes plant–pollinator communities across time— from seasonal dynamics to long-term trajectories. #Pollination #GlobalChange

Happy to share new work from the lab and a wonderful group of co-authors: We argue that conservation biology needs to move beyond the current focus on species richness metrics. While this has been argued before, we highlight the unappreciated impacts of using richness for a variety of problems:

We will be recruiting graduate researchers to start Fall 2026 in the Dallas lab at U South Carolina. We are a mix of population, community, and disease ecologists. Parasite macroecology!!! Feel free to reach out to chat and see our webpage for more info on our science (taddallas.github.io).

Touched down in Colorado ✈️🌄 Off to RMBL for a data-theory pollinator workshop 🐝🌸 After years of reading the papers, I get to see the actual place they came from. Pinch me!

Nuestro artículo en @es.theconversation.com sobre los registros de biodiversidad contenidos en las Relaciones Topográficas de Felipe II, finales del siglo XVI, ha superado las 30.000 lecturas Qué bien que sean tantas y que se siga leyendo @ebdonana.bsky.social theconversation.com/la-biodivers...

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This afternoon at #ESA2025 👇🏼

At #ESA2025? Check out 🌟PhD Student Asia Kaiser's talk on Thurs, Aug. 14 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM EDT in COS 161 Statistics-“Synthetic control methods: An alternative framework for causal inference using iNaturalist data in cities” 🐝 🌇 @lauradee.bsky.social

Just got the final proofs of my book💓 Available on Amazon worldwide next week Very exciting! I’ve packed into it everything I’ve learned about writing and publishing over the past 20 years I really hope it helps many jump over the writing and publishing barriers💪

Happy to be at BC3: Basque Centre for Climate Change for my sabbatical! Excited to connect and collaborate with my host @ainhoamagrach.bsky.social and other great colleagues at here at BC3.

Our guide to bees of Pennsylvania is available for free now, you can order print copy (just have to pay shipping) and/or download PDF from Penn State Extension page: extension.psu.edu/bees-of-penn... For every one of the 47 bee genera we have beautiful photo(s) and natural history facts

New audio 🔊 story campaign — Voices of CIRES! First up, CIRES Fellow & @colorado.edu Professor Joost de Gouw @gouwlab.bsky.social: buff.ly/2AowWlb "Of all the research dollars that I get, 80% of that goes through student salaries, and if I don't get that, I cannot offer projects to students..."

I'm running a seminar in the fall for senior undergrads in Evolutionary Ecology. I'm hoping to curate a reading list mixing classic and new papers that illustrate how combining ecological and evolutionary perspectives can lead to new insights. Do you have a favorite I should consider?

Now it's official

www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... "For every dollar spent [on science], the economy eventually produces an additional $1.71 in output. That return exceeds nearly every other form of public or private investment."

Really proud of recent Honors undergrad, Isabella Manning, on her Highlighted Student Paper just out in Oecologia! w/ co-mentor & recent postdoc, Leana Zoller 🌼🐝🧪🌎 Let me tell you a bit about it... (1/3) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I'm thrilled to announce that the Entomology department at the NHMLAC is hiring a full-time collections manager! 🪰🐜🕸️🦋 I'm biased, but the museum is a great place to work, and our department is full of fun, thoughtful people. Job description and information for applying are here: shorturl.at/iRqOB

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Today is a day for action, scientist friends. Don't just go back to whatever paper you're editing or experiment you're running. Talking points: bsky.app/profile/davi... Other advice: ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2025/05/tale...

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com

I'm excited to share a new paper, led by Marta Jarzyna and Leo Ohyama, on regional species pools-- a fundamental concept in ecology and biogeography that is poorly defined and understood, but which is essential for understanding and protecting biodiversity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Really honored and humbled to be selected as an ESA Fellow. And congratulations to the other Fellows and Early Career Fellows! @conservation.cam.ac.uk @camzoology.bsky.social

Really excited to share this new article from the lab. We synthesize the profound importance of movement and connectivity for conservation and provide a vision for future policy and management. Let's work toward a well-connected planet for biodiversity and people: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

So happy to share our Review paper A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to say that we just submitted a Second Edition of Spatial Ecology and Conservation Modeling to the publisher! Updates on concepts, models, applications, and code. Plus, two new chapters are included! Marie-Josee and I hope it is helpful to the ecological and conservation community!

A big congratulations to one of the co-Chairs of the @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment, Sandra Díaz, for being named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2025! 🌍🧪 Read more: time.com/collections/...

🚨 POST DOC 🚨 The Suding Lab at the University of CO - Boulder is recruiting a Postdoc researcher to build on an ongoing project examining grassland fuels, wildfire risk, & management questions. Applications close May 8, 2025. Start date will be before September 2025. 🌎🌾🧪🌱🌿🍁💻🔥📈

Our department is searching for a new greenhouse manager: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... Share with your botanical friends on the job market!

If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Excited to share PhD student Claire Winfrey’s (w/ @noahfierer.bsky.social & me) new paper in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecology! She examines how edge effects in habitat fragments shape soil microbial communities. Check it out 🦠 🧪 🌎 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

By only considering a single ecological trait for each species, we risk oversimplifying the complexity in nature. A new special feature in @animalecology.bsky.social aims to build a better understanding of intraspecific variation  https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652656/2025/94/3

Our paper is out, and it is distressing. Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...

The HAWAII-VINE Project is hiring field technicians to collect data on seed dispersal at Oahu island Details at: ornithologyexchange.org/jobs/board/s...