And available in the UK RIGHT NOW of course. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1399806378

My book "The Tree of Life" has been selected as one of Apple Books most anticipated books of the fall! Out in the USA November 11th. Available for Preorder now! www.amazon.com/dp/1324065427

🦟" #OneHealth approach uncovers emergence and dynamics of #Usutu and #WestNile viruses in the #Netherlands 🇳🇱" by ‪ @emmanuellemunger.bsky.social, @marionkoopmans.bsky.social et al. @erasmusmc.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Identifying the climate sensitivity of infectious diseases: a conceptual framework #climate #health #disease #policy www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Sure, 3D forest surveys sound cool, but how would you go about actually doing them? We have a new paper for that. 🌳🌲🧪🌏

So pleased to be part of this special issue following a wonderful meeting at @royalsociety.org on Chance and Purpose in the Biosphere last year. Do check it out

Wasps (and me!) in @thesundaytimes.bsky.social today. Thanks @ben-spencer.bsky.social for championing wasps! Get involved with #WaspPicnicSurvey and #BigWaspSurvey! #SummerOfWaspLove Links below! @uclcber.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @adamhartscience.bsky.social

UCL People and Nature Lab are looking for partner organisations in the conservation sector for Nature Smart Challenge 2026! Could you be one of them? #UCL @freshwaterizzy.bsky.social

Really excited to see our perspective on how urbanization affects species interactions out in Nature Cities, hoping to inspire more research on this topic. Hard team work led by former postdoc Pablo Moreno-García. Feel free to discuss! rdcu.be/eyjBj www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🦇 NEW RESEARCH: Our 3-year study of Australian flying foxes identified six co-circulating coronaviruses, with highest rates of infection and co-infection in young bats, and evidence of circulating recombinants 🧪🌏 🧵 Available open access in @natcomms.nature.com 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper alert: Citizen science in river monitoring: a systematic review of the whys and hows. Led by the incredible @uclgeography.bsky.social undergrad Gabrielle, it guides new citizen science projects to commonly used approaches that align with their goals. www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...

📢 I have a new pre-print out with @sarabssethi.bsky.social, where we show that robotic-assisted #acoustic monitoring can deliver automated #biodiversity surveys. 🐒🦜 Drone assisted #PAM works well for coarse patterns of biodiversity, but less well for species-specific details. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

📢 Just out in @nature.com: Oxford Uni, UNDP‬ & others propose a 'Nature Relationship Index', a bold new metric to track how well people & nature thrive together. A hopeful framework to reimagine progress beyond GDP. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09080-1 #NatureRecovery @ox.ac.uk @undp.org

Seasonal Fattening Among Bat Populations Globally: Storing Energy for Survival in a Changing World - Wu - 2025 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

ICYMI: New online! Building networks for biodiversity and food system transformation

Our new paper led by Jenicca Poongavanan. Predicting #dengue in Africa using disaggregation regression (bottom right in the inset image) and comparing to other methods. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new article “Advancing general ecosystem models (GEMs): Towards a mechanistic understanding of the biosphere in the light of the Anthropocene” let by Joachim Paul Töpper just out at Ecological Solutions and Evidence dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688...

Yes—as @madalina.bsky.social et al found, inducing negative emotions only triggers information sharing. It does not impact policy support or personal action. As @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social found, it’s the msgs “others care” + “there is hope/solns” that catalyze convos, policy advocacy & action.

These core conservation areas for rewilding eg habitat creation & introducing key species, would be interconnected with green corridors alongside sustainable agriculture practices in the remaining farmland Full paper: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @idiv-research.bsky.social

What makes a place sound pleasant? In #DeOorzaak, 4,465 people told us: natural sounds made soundscapes sound better, even with traffic. 📝 Blog: the3dlab.org/2025/06/17/w... 📄 Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Using tropical reef, bird and unrelated sounds for superior transfer learning in marine bioacoustics | royalsocietypublishi... | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | #ornithology 🪶

Hearing turtle doves, cuckoos and nightingales @kneppwilding.bsky.social - 😻 🐦

CrossSDF: 3D Reconstruction of Thin Structures From Cross-Sections We will be presenting our work on thin structure reconstruction at the final poster session (4-6pm) at #CVPR2025 today. Stop by poster #457 to learn more.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.04120 Webpage: iamsalvatore.io/cross_sdf/

Our new paper assesses adequacy of the indicators adopted for the Global Biodiversity Framework. Only 19% of elements in the Goals/Targets are fully covered by the required headline & binary indicators - 40% are fully or partially covered @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Six actions for ecologists in times of planetary crisis: www.nature.com/articles/s41... ✅Explicitly recognize and address the #biodiversity crisis ✅Explore positive futures ✅Defend academic freedom ✅Go political ✅Inspire society ✅Address the colonial legacy of ecology Free to read: rdcu.be/eqjlk

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

Ecological assemblages may be spatially organized by both context dependency and general processes. Here the authors find general patterns in the organization of regional biodiversity in biogeographical regions www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And then we surveyed a country..... www.nature.com/articles/s41... #biodiversity #WomenInStem #AcademicSKY 🧪

An expert-elicitation process identifies current methodological barriers for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity, and how technological and procedural development of robotic and autonomous systems may contribute to overcoming these challenges www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Improving national-scale breeding bird surveys with integrated distance sampling | www.nature.com/artic... | Scientific Reports | #ornithology 🪶

Spatiotemporal variation in the reproductive dynamics of female American lobsters, Homarus americanus, on the northeastern continental shelf of the United States www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🦑🧪🌎

The WorkflowHub registry has a global reach, with hundreds of research organisations involved, and more than 800 workflows registered. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #bioinformatics #FAIR

And me discussing our findings in BBC Science in Action here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (from ~24:00).

Our @ucl.ac.uk @crick.ac.uk work, out this week in @science.org, traces a genetic time series of bacterial infections to reveal when and how Borrelia recurrentis jumped from ticks to humans—via our body lice. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #CefasScience #OneHealth

Hearing turtle doves, cuckoos and nightingales @kneppwilding.bsky.social - 😻 🐦

Really happy to announce that the updated version of BioTIME is out!!🚨 This is the largest #database of #biodiversity #timeseries - now with 708 studies and >56 thousand species from across the planet!🦊🐀🐦🐊🐟🐙🦋🐞🌲🍀 & over 400 co-authors sharing their data🤩🤩 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

From @nature.com, “How researchers can work fairly with Indigenous and local knowledge: scientists around the world are recognizing that their research method isn’t the only way.” 🌍🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Check out our new publication lead by Lucie Mahaut in @royalsocietypublishing.org Functional diversity shapes the stability of reef fish biomass under global change 👉 Trait diversity and redundancy drive stability; human impacts reduce it. 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #ReefLifeSurvey 🌐🧪🦑🌍

🔊After years of Kevin Darras's et al's hard work, we are very happy to have this one out: Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The intensification of existing farmland can sometimes be more harmful to local #biodiversity than expanding the area covered by agricultural land, finds a new study led by Dr @silviaceausu.bsky.social with Prof @tnewbold31.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social #LandUse

Excited to be at the Novel Ecosystems symposium at @trinitycollege.bsky.social in Dublin 🌿 #novelecosystems #Megaloceros #Cordyline

It's publication day of my first book: The Tree of Life. The tree of life is a time machine that can take us back 4 billion years to meet our most distant ancestor. It is the magic that lets us tell the origin stories, beginning with this ancient relative, of everything from mushrooms to man.

I've read this and it's *really* good!

So exciting to see #sihek eggs confirmed in the wild for the first time in nearly 40 years! www.zsl.org/news-and-eve... #ConservationScience 🌍 🦤 🧪 #Ornithology

Excited for the publication of @jackdashby.bsky.social new book ‘Nature’s Memory’ - I’ve already read it cover to cover (& obviously loved it) If you want to know more about natural history museums this is a must read. It’s not just bones & stones behind the scenes @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

A reminder that @biogeography.bsky.social is hosting our monthly Funk lecture next week, and we will hear from Dr. Lydia Beaudrot! She'll talk about disassembly of mammalian communities! Sign up if you have not yet done so!

A quick post to announce that MammalWeb has finally arrived on Blue Sky! Check out our latest (April) newsletter at tinyurl.com/MW-April or visit the site at www.mammalweb.org. #citizenscience #mammals #ukwildlife #nature #naturephotography #cameratraps #biodiversity #peopleandnature