We have a new article type!! 🚨 🌍 🧪 Workflow articles will describe the design testing, and analysis of the performance of complex workflows. Find our more about workflow articles in our new blog post and in our authors guidelines. Blog post 👉 buff.ly/R7vcuqT Author guidelines 👉 buff.ly/VUfAt3x

As a researcher who straddles multiple domains, I present to you my remote sensing and ecology advent! I'll be sharing a short blog on how ecologists can use remote sensing data to ask cool questions 😎🎄 I'm on day 2, ndvi & friends. rachelkuzmich.github.io/blog

This was a great talk to tune in to 👇

🎄 ANNOUNCEMENT: R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025! 🎄 Starting December 1st, I'm launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here's why you should follow along 🧵 #rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 #OpenSource

The joint meeting of NSO and GFÖ, September 2026, Odense, Denmark (for which I'm leading the science programming group) is now open for workshop and thematic session proposals! Please share. Details here: nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/nordic...

Many ecological studies assume that space-for-time substitutions can be proxies for missing time series. Here the authors show congruence between the two in the direction but not the magnitude of plant and arthropod community responses to land-use intensification 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to see new newest member of the #geocompx family up on the geocompx.org website: Spatial Data Visualization with tmap is an awesome book that is still in progress 🏗️ Well worth a read to launch your reproducible map making journey 🚀

Forest Futures – new forest-climate knowledge hub based at uOttawa – is hiring three key positions: 🔹 Senior Research Associate lnkd.in/gfByajdH 🔹 Research Associate / Post-Doctoral Fellow www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43... 🔹 Coordination / Partnerships Manager lnkd.in/gyKz_eNu

🌲 Great news from ForestSAT 2026! 🌍 We’re thrilled to announce that we received 480 abstracts from over 49 countries, highlighting the incredible global interest in forest research and remote sensing. 👉 For more information, visit our website. carlos-alberto-silva.github.io/silvalab/For...

Join us at the Nordic OIKOS–GfÖ Conference 2026! 📅 14–17 Sept 2026 | 📍 Odense, Denmark Open call for workshops & thematic sessions! Deadlines: Thematic sessions: 16 Jan 2026 Workshops: 17 Apr 2026 👉 Details & submission: vist.ly/4fvnx #Ecology #NSO202 #gfoe2026 #Science @gfoesoc.bsky.social

We are looking for new graduate students! Feel free to repost or pass along to prospective students

The amazing @daniellecreek.bsky.social kicking off the first #DendroNet meeting at @uninmbu.bsky.social 👏

At #EOU2025? Catch a talk from @rspbscience.bsky.social's Paul Bellamy: “How do methods of woodland creation affect bird communities and abundance?” 🌳🐦 At 14:30 in LR3 as part of the Conservation 2 session @eounion.bsky.social

Introducing "The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology" The first standardised set of data editor guidelines. Led by SORTEE with input from numerous data editors across ecology and evolution. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X24...

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Got remote sensing or species distribution data? I've got a few months to bridge (May-July) between my phd and postdoc and am looking for short-term remote work!

Passed my phd defense last week 🥳🕺😎 Big thanks to my committee for the thoughtful discussion, making the 3 hours fly by. L-R: Steve Lougheed, Paul Treitz, me 👋, Ross Hill, Erica Nol, and Ryan Danby.

So, are you considering your next study system/species? Don’t forget to check your subconscious bias…what are we missing out on by only studying colorful/boldly patterned and geographically convenient species across the tree of life? This is all to say: don't forget about the drab&distant species!

1/🧵 Today at #BOU2025, I'm sharing my work using a #lidar time series to examine temporal Chiffchaff niche dynamic. tl;dr as the population has grown, Chiffchaff niche has expanded. #remotesensing #ecology 🧪🌎🌳🐦🛰 🙏 @bou.org.uk for the travel award to be here 🙏

🌲Would you like to map the biodiversity of forests from above? 📢 We have an open three-year #postdoc #position in #remotesensing of forest biodiversity🌳🦋🍄🐞@uninmbu.bsky.social Combine eDNA measurements with #lidar and optical data. Learn more & apply here 👉 bit.ly/4jfLH6E

A dreamy day for a stroll in the countryside revisiting my woodland study sites. Particularly enjoyed noticing all the borders and thought about birds noticing the same.

Fully funded PhD in Plant Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver 🍁! Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology & more. Start Jan/May/Sept 2026. michaletzlab.org Please share! #PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool

Abstract submitted to @eounion.bsky.social where I hope to share my work balancing data-driven #remotesensing approaches with #ecological knowledge to make better habitat models. 🤞 to seeing you in Wales!

We have announced the 2024 Robert May Prize shortlist, our award for early career researchers! 🏆 Follow the link below to see our shortlisted authors and their papers 🌎 🧪 👇

Our next workshop will be presented by SORTEE president Ed Ivimey-Cook: "Reproducible data analysis in R" Ed will introduce the basics of reproducible projects, data & code, and conduct a code review. Register at events.humanitix.com/sortee-works... #rstats #SORTEEtools #codereview

Abstract submitted to @silvilaser2025.bsky.social about density-driven effects on plot-level ALS metrics describing woodland bird habitat. See you in Quebec City this autumn 😎

Hi there, my student is making a survey about the use of R packages in Ecology, could you please spend two mins on filling it 🥹 Very appreciated! And if you could spread it further (RT), that would be just awesome. ❤️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

DEADLINE EXTENSION – EOU 2025: By popular request, you now have TWO MORE WEEKS to submit your abstract for the August conference in Bangor. Send abstracts by 29 March here cutt.ly/krt8HHlk and check out the conference website here cutt.ly/Jrt8Jijz #EOU2025 #ornithology

I just hit "send" to distribute my PhD thesis to my committee in advance of my oral exam. Instantly, feel less anxiety and now more new anxiety, but also really excited 🙃

Two professor positions open at Humboldt University Berlin: 🔹 Human Geography: haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/... 🔹 Physical Geography: haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/... 6-week application deadline. Please share!

Please circulate widely: We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education tinyurl.com/IEEjobs

New Special Feature aimed at increasing accessibility of ecological theories available now! Read "Demystifying Fundamental Theories in Ecology" by Rachel Germain & Sebastian J. Schreiber now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

📣PNAS piece led by @philrufin.bsky.social: commercial very-high-resolution EO data is needed for monitoring SDG 2 indicators in smallholder landscapes but costs are prohibitive. A call for open access for sustainability-centered research: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @humboldtuni.bsky.social

Now officially published with its 2025 publ date. Looking beyond Popper: How Philosophy can be relevant to ecology. @oikosjournal.bsky.social A fantastic collaborative effort between ecologists and philosophers of science. #philosophy #ecology nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a reminder to not close your eyes and turn away from what is happening in the US right now. Fascism is an assault on scientific integrity, knowledge, and innovation. www.chron.com/news/space/a...

We've arrived! Follow CIEE-ICEE to learn about opportunities for Canadian researchers in ecology, evolution and environmental science to obtain funding for, or participate in, working groups, graduate courses, and workshops.

I'll be there (presenting a poster)! ...and you should too.

Sick toddler, paper accepted with revisions and won a travel award to go to a conference. It's been a week 😅

Yeah, 🇨🇦 myself. It was 2013ish when the term "predatory publisher" established as a public concept (n-gram pic). I left 🇨🇦 in 2017, but it's actually a pretty recent issue. This problem is so underappreciated our "Strain" paper made waves just by showing the problem exists in objective terms... 🤷

Fundamentally, our goal was to highlight this is a quantifiable problem. We avoided recommending solutions to this problem because they need to be party-specific. But if I can close: Journal lists are just a game of whack-a-mole. We have to change the incentives of the system itself. 7/7 🧵

1/ Great news! 🎉BTO, JNCC and RSPB are making decades of Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data freely available for everyone in the conservation and research community. This includes over 7 million records! 📝 Find out more ⬇️ or read the paper➡️ bit.ly/_BBSData #Ornithology #UKBirding

How will AI revolutionise biodiversity conservation? We identify 21 key ideas, incl. species recognition, multimodal models to improve biodiversity loss predictions, monitoring wildlife trade, and addressing human–wildlife conflict. But potential risks too. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Come share your #ornithology with us in Los Angeles next June! #WOS2025 abstracts are due February 1. We're a student-friendly society and welcome undergrad presenters at our meetings!

Finishing up my syllabus for Remote Sensing II: Digital Image Processing winter 2025 at Queen's University. I *really* want to do a career panel on March 24 (8:30-10:30 ET). Any real life #remotesensing scientists and professionals wanna come hang out (virtually) and inspire some youth?

We are looking for contributors to our new series on the Methods Blog, exploring the experiences of ecologists conducting research in remote field stations during the holiday season🎄 Please get in touch if you would like to find out more! 🌎 🧪

A really interesting article by @natbzielonka.bsky.social and Simon Butler on our changing soundscapes and the impact it has, including on us. #birdingWales #birdingScotland #UKbirding #BirdTherapy #ornithology

Scaling ecological niches from individuals to populations and beyond https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.06.627157v1

Avian seed dispersal out of the forests: A view through the lens of Pleistocene landscapes besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🐘🌿🐦‍⬛ #birddispersal #seed #seeddispersal #megafauna

One thing that I really hated when eMusk took over Twitter was that the TwitteR package stopped working, which meant I couldn't do any scrapes of conference tweets and produce real-time word cloud or network plots. I'm very happy to report that the bskyr package appears to fill this gap!

Cracked another classic while getting a tire change.