Better late than never - we were delighted to host Maastricht University System Earth Science researchers at York recently. Our discussions were focused on identifying research synergies and priorities across a range of areas. Looking forward to where these conversations lead!

What is resilience for a landscape? Check out our (with Charles Cunningham, @hannalp.bsky.social, Lauren Barnes, Chris Thomas and @janehillyork.bsky.social ) new paper now out in @peopleandnature.bsky.social Early View @anthropocenebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/pan3...

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

What can biodiversity patterns during the Black Death tell us about our relationships with nature? (hint: its not all bad!) Read more in our new paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌏🧪🌐

Last few days for this!

Clemency Cooper’s PhD research aims to understand how perceptions of the landscape have shaped the North York Moors, and how evidence of past change might influence decisions about its future character. @northyorkmoors.org.uk www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

Our new paper presents a framework for analysing the processes that generate novel ecosystems, discussing different conceptual and practical approaches across ecological disciplines. You can read it, open access, in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 Hot off the press: Our look into of the palaeontological database landscape and its sustainability into the future. Palaeo databases are invaluable and continue to transform our research field - but they are vulnerable... (1/6) 🧪 ⛏️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

The mainstream aim to restore “native reference ecosystems” Reminds me of people of my age who go to see touring bands from their youth Trying to recreate something that never quite existed And has limited relevance in a changing world doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

Academics, policy makers and businesses are coming together this week at #IPBES12 in Manchester. LCAB researchers are official observers at this important plenary meeting which will have a particular focus on business and biodiversity and the nature-positive approaches companies can adopt.

Only a few weeks left to get your abstracts in for our session at INQUA 2027! "Re-evaluating Long-Term Human–Biodiversity Relationships" A session to highlight positive human–nature relations from across the palaeosciences ⏰Deadline: 15 Feb 2026 🌏🧪🌐 www.inquaindia2027.in/sessions/s-120

"How AI Impacts Skill Formation", by Judy Hanwen Shen and Alex Tamkin, both working at Anthropic: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

The Global Ecology feed is growing fast, now >30 posts/week on large-scale biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation science 🌍🧪🦤🦑🪴🍁 Join the convo, DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join and be added to the list of contributors ! Let’s build a community together ✨🌈💚 👉 bsky.app/profile/nmou...

Are narratives of total biosphere collapse helpful? Is ecological 'novelty' necessarily bad? What can the past tell us about the human capacity to mould and adapt to future conditions? Red more in our new paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B: doi.org/10.1098/rstb... 🌏🧪🌐

Are widespread, generalist species the main drivers of biotic homogenisation? Doesn't look like it... localised species contribute more to spatial beta diversity change than widespread species across groups. Read our new paper, led by @jackhhatfield.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/geb.... 🌏🧪🌐

Rooted in environmental psychology, nature connection can be understood as an eighteenth-century phenomenon. Here Harrie Neal explores how nature connection has become a highly influential psychological framework across the environmental sciences and civil society. www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

1/🧵 Paper out! 🎉🌿🔒 VegVault is now published in Nature Scientific Data: a global database linking palaeo + modern vegetation with traits + climate/soil drivers. 🌐website: bit.ly/VegVault 📜paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #VegVault #Ecology #Paleoecology #Vegetation #FunctionalTraits

New paper! Led by @jackhhatfield.bsky.social we looked at species driving biotic homogenisation (biological communities becoming more similar). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... Current wisdom assumes expansion of human-associated common species is the cause of homogenisation, but is it?🌍🧪1/5

📣 Call for Abstracts | INQUA Congress 2027 📍 Lucknow, India | 🗓 Jan 28–Feb 3, 2027 Re-evaluating Long-Term Human–Biodiversity Relationships. Case studies & syntheses highlighting positive human–nature relations from archaeology & across the palaeosciences ⏰Deadline: 15 Feb 2026 🌏🧪🌐 #INQUA2027

My first PhD paper is out today in Conservation Biology! @society4conbio.bsky.social Freely available to read here: doi.org/10.1111/cobi... Tldr 🧵 below!

Humans have driven biodiversity gains in Europe for eight millennia. Are we simply the latest megafaunal species to generate the complex, diversity-boosting habitat mosaics Europe's ecosystems need? 🌏🧪🌐 Read OA here: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/23... #Biodiversity #ScienceSky #SciComm

Increasing human ecological impact over the Holocene (11,700 - 150 years ago) led to biodiversity gains in Europe. Why? From ~8,500 years ago, the spread of farming created heterogeneous, habitat-rich landscapes that enhanced biodiversity. Read our new paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.... 🌏 🧪

🌱 The Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity @anthropocenebio.bsky.social has been the most inspiring interdisciplinary home over the past 3.5 years. I’ve worked alongside sociologists, biologists, historians, economists, mathematicians, artists + more. Truly a dream environment. ✨

Funded PhD opportunity!!🧪🌎 Wanna improve how biodiversity is monitored & protected? Keen to work with large datasets & quantitative methods? This PhD could be for you! Fully-funded PhD at University of Reading with IoZ & UKCEH (UK or settled status applicants) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Compositional data needs models that respect its constraints. I show how Dirichlet regression with GPs captures nonlinear environmental effects on plant communities while respecting the dependence of the data #rstats #dataviz ecogambler.netlify.app/blog/plant-c...

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️25th September 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week to hear from @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk, on “The Tree of Life and Death: What do Fossil Taxa Contribute to Morphological Phylogenetics?” 🌳🐣⚰️ Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Human-driven extinction event not yet the "sixth mass extinction", but is very likely the largest extinction event of the last 66 million yrs. 🌏 🧪 Read about it in our new paper led by @jackhhatfield.bsky.social and Katie Davis @anthropocenebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out! Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos... Experimental parallel processing ⚡ New assemble() for building plots 🎨 Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪 Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨ 👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/ #Rstats

We are seeking an enthusiastic Postdoctoral Research Associate with analytical skills and knowledge of biodiversity to plan and lead research on how biodiversity change is unfolding in the Anthropocene. Find out more and apply by 10 August jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

30 years in the making! Using multisite pollen data we show how Afromontane ecosystems responded to climate change and human interaction over the last 50,000 years onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/PB5HDV... @anthropocenebio.bsky.social @biogeography.bsky.social @uoyenvironment.bsky.social @york.ac.uk

BioTime v2 is out!!🚨 - Explore the largest #database of #biodiversity time-series studies in the world. Now with more studies🗄️🔍👩‍💻, more species 🌱🦎🦇🐟🌳🐜🐚🪸🐀, more locations 🌐…just more! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Free to download, free to use! #BioTime #Macroecology #GlobalChange

New initiative brings together @york.ac.uk researchers & local communities to create shared visions of their future landscapes. Working with landowners & NGOs they'll explore the past & future of landscapes in the @northyorkmoors.org.uk & @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

Summer (paid) internship opportunity with two great colleagues here at @anthropocenebio.bsky.social, investigating avian (species, phylo. and functional) diversity throughout the Mesozoic. Please share! 🌏 🧪 york.joinhandshake.co.uk/jobs/172817/...

Spot an animal on your way to work or school? See an insect on a plant near your home? Take a photo & upload it to iNaturalist to contribute to observations of biodiversity during the York City Nature Challenge from 25-28 April. Find out more: yorkcitynaturechal.wixsite.com/yorkcnc/how-...

Interested in humans from a macro-ecological/macro-archaeological perspective? Here's the right postdoc for you international.au.dk/about/profil... - deadline tomorrow April 1st at 2359 CEST!

Just a few days left (Feb 2nd!) to apply for this fully funded, interdisciplinary PhD with Lindsey Gilson, Brennen Fagan and me at @anthropocenebio.bsky.social looking at past-present-future variation in savanna carbon stocks! Please do share 🌏 🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Guerrilla rewilders want to atone for past extinctions and create more vibrant ecosystems.

Interested in the palaeoecology of savanna ecosystems, carbon stocks, ecosystem services and data science? Come and do your fully funded interdisciplinary PhD with me and some great people at @anthropocenebio.bsky.social, University of York, UK! Please share! 🌏 🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨Fully-Funded UK PhD Opportunity!🚨 I’m hiring a #PhD exploring the complexities of #biodiversity change across space and time 🌐. Join @cmbeale.bsky.social and me at #York and for this exciting opportunity! Please share and/or message me if interested. More info and how to apply: shorturl.at/Zu7ED

Through collaborative, interdisciplinary research #LCAB aims to develop an improved understanding of biodiversity gains, as well as losses, and inform and influence how society responds to these changes. Find out more about our work and meet our researchers: www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

Does anyone know whether there is such a thing as an open access Holocene XRF geochem database?

Interested in the palaeoecology of savanna ecosystems, carbon stocks and ecosystem services? Come and do your fully funded interdisciplinary PhD with us at at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, UoY! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Interested in the palaeoecology of savanna ecosystems, carbon stocks and ecosystem services? Come and do your fully funded interdisciplinary PhD with us at at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, UoY! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

How has biodiversity changed since the last ice age? Have humans had any effect on these changes? And what (if anything) does this mean for conservation? theconversation.com/the-first-fa...

New from me for Live Science - ancient Argentinians ate enormous armadillos. 🏺🧪

New paper out looking at human - biodiversity relationships over the last ~12,000 years across the Earth. Biodiversity increases in many locations associated with raised human landscape modification over pre-history! Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...