🚨PhD offer 👩‍🎓: Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years. Deadline: 27 Oct 2025 Selection: ~November Starting: ~January 2026 Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me More info👇

Did you know that all of our journals offer authors the chance to improve their manuscript's clarity for free? ✍️ This #PeerReviewWeek check out our post which explains why we made the decision to offer the Writefull service to all 👇 https://f.mtr.cool/rooofhshdm

Check our review on historical #ecology 📚🖼🏰🦁🦣

🌍 The International Biogeography Society’s 12th Biennial Conference — TIBS Aarhus 2026 — will take place Jan 6–10 in Aarhus, Denmark: conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-... 🐘🍃🌴We're looking forward to hosting it! #Biogeography is central to understanding the #biosphere & is more important than ever!♨️

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While working from home, Iet’s make sure to be surrounded by nice creatures 🐦‍⬛🐅🌱 It helps to remember me that all these .csv and .doc files in my pc relate to real live out there 🌏

Read our latest paper on the trends and statuses of #biologicalinvasions worldwide. Led by @hannoseebens.bsky.social , L Meyerson, P Pyšek and D Richardson and ~60 other coauthors, and based on Chap2 of the #IAS #IPBES Report, it has all the basic info you need! A MUST READ! doi.org/10.1111/brv....

Check out our perceptive on the Emerging uses of artificial intelligence in deep time biodiversity research www.nature.com/articles/s44... #AI #paleontology

"Just 5 percent of species make up 80 percent of the total declines in avian abundance." www.audubon.org/magazine/com...

📢 rredlist 📦 1.1.0 is now on #CRAN!!! - wrapper to download multiple assessments ⬇️ - wrapper to extract assessment data from lists of assessments 🐍 - filter latest assessment to a particular scope 🌏 Docs 👉 docs.ropensci.org/rredlist/ind... #rstats #iucn #redlist #api

It turns out that the sorts of people who participate in violent far-right race riots might not be such great guys. When these thugs scream about asylum seekers being a threat to local women and girls, that's called projection. These are the people to whom this Labour government is pandering.

Comparto un breve documental que ha realizado mi hijo como TFM de su máster en Comunicación Científica y Medioambiental de la UPF. Ha contado con el asesoramiento científico de investigadores reconocidos (y amables!!) Espero que os guste. m.youtube.com/watch?v=emk2...

Eliminar los 5.000 millones de los proyectos Life (Vida) mientras en Defensa (muerte) suben fondos a 135.000 millones (5 veces más que antes).

New double-page spread for PALEOCENE #5. Going for a pulp-y feel on this one. The Kickstarter campaign is in its final stretch—check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kee... #paleoart #sciart #comics #comicart

Bird Book of the Dead no. 39 - Huia A member of the New Zealand endemic Wattlebird family with significant ties to Maori culture. Extremely unusually, they have incredibly sexually dimorphic bills with this image being a female with a long curved beak while the male had a shorter starling like beak

🦣 New paper: Megafauna with large size & flat-footedness + less related to tropical African/Asian fauna were more likely to go extinct in recent prehistory; consistent w direct hunting including pre-sapiens human filtering👣👉 doi.org/10.1111/geb.... #Megafauna #Extinction #TraitEcology #Palaeoecology

The Predatory Intelligence Hypothesis. Happy to share this new preprint about how predator-prey interactions drive cognitive evolution and maintain cognitive variation. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/d...

Absolutely beautiful work, and a solemn reminder of just some of the birds that have been lost to extinction. #birdart #sciart

Are you a regular user of phylopic.org? Or maybe you are fond of prehistoric creatures? Consider helping the creator of PhyloPic, @tmkeesey.bsky.social, to fund his new Paleocene comic book: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kee... It is really nice, check the trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs6N...

Along with @ferransayol.bsky.social we discovered specialized bees have bigger brains... which was puzzling at first royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/.... But evidence supporting this is accumulating: Specialists are better at learning: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

New paper! 🚨 Published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social, led by Mariángeles Petit. Using data from 5,558 passerine birds 🪶, we found that tolerance to aridity interact with species traits to predict current and future extinction risks ☠️. Check the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Honoured to present my work at @sibecol.bsky.social meeting, about the functional and phylogenetic loss from anthropogenic bird extinctions 🦤. It is important to be aware of what we have already lost, in order to protect our remaining natural heritage. 🦅🦆🦜🦢

@sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social Really nice, though quite sad, talk of @ferransayol.bsky.social on a long-term view of human-driven avian extinctions By 1500,when IUCN starts its extinction count, at least 400 bird species (arguably above 800) had already been lost @creaf.cat

For #BiodiversityDay, check out some of the mammals that “should” be in Southern California today (species that went extinct since the last interglacial are greyed out). From our paper www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Illustrated by coauthor @ohsanisidro.bsky.social

Carl Sagan: Goal For Human Species

Exciting to see the Tenerife speckled lizard (Gallotia intermedia), a Critically endangered species. The lizards are literally hanging on the cliff of extinction due to predation by feral cats, pushing them to sub-optimal, more vertical, habitats #biodivesity #extinctionrisk #canaries #tenerife

"First major global review of bird flu in cats shows an emerging threat of a human pandemic" “The virus has evolved, and the way that it jumps between species – from birds to cats, and now between cows and cats, cats and humans – is very concerning.” says Dr. K. Coleman sph.umd.edu/news/bird-fl...

The Natural History Museum Denmark seeks a Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Paleontology. Duties include research, curation, teaching, … https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=1307&ProjectId=163917&DepartmentId=18971&MediaId=5&IsAdPreviewRequest=true&AdvertisementId=118011 #job

Really good opportunity to work in this group! 🦜🐦‍⬛🦤🦉🏝️🌋 www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/...

A great example of historical biodiversity. The authors used ancient Chinese poems to estimate the range contraction of the Yangtze finless porpoise over 1400 years. 🐬📖 #ShiftingBaselines #Biodiversityloss #Extinction

A small taste of island live in Tenerife. Teide National Park 🗻 #Canaries #CanaryIslands #IslandBiology #Biodiversity #Plants #Animals

Australia's recently established predators (since the LP) are entirely functionally novel. Read more in our recent paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social tinyurl.com/Auspreds

Great story by @daniel-a-villar.bsky.social about engaging local communities with conservation of the Titicaca grebe, published on the laest NICHE issue from @britishecologicalsociety.org

Island creatures are so crazy! 🐛🏝️

‘We made everything bear-proof’: the Italian village that learned to love its bears www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Romulus and Remus—the so-called “de-extinct” dire wolves—won’t fix the biodiversity crisis. CRISP can’t replace conservation. We need to tackle habitat loss, climate change, and other real drivers of extinction. Prevention, not reconstruction, is key Artwork by Mauricio Anton

Very interesting! Humans have had an impact before we realise. I wonder if these hunters somehow suspected or understood that islands could be a source of easy-targets (i.e. naive species) to hunt and this motivated them to go on the adventure. Congratulations for this work!

Los humanos cruzaron el mar y llegaron navegando a la isla de Malta mil años antes de lo que se creía www.eldiario.es/1_ba342c?utm...

‘Everything (in museums) Everywhere, All at Once’ Blogpost by Julia Sigwart “Collectomics concept represents a holistic modern view of museum collections … new approach shifts the perspective to treating collections as a single global dataset. blog.pensoft.net/2025/04/03/e...

Nice paper! Macroecological rules predict how biomass scales with species richness in nature | Science www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Spanish parliament approves hunting wolves in north Spain...does not seem like a sensible decision elpais.com/clima-y-medi... via @el_pais

New Paper 🚨 Are species extinctions accelerating in the Anthropocene? And why are some species more at risk than others? Our latest research, published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social explores plant extinctions in Macaronesia, one of the world's most biodiverse island regions. A thread 🧵👇

Tracking my work hours reveals a crisis brewing in academia. Being a successful academic shouldn't require us to also be an accountant, HR manager, safety coordinator, travel agent, etc. #WorkLifeBalance #academia bit.ly/49Zc0KN

We've spent a while trying to understand the forces shaping morphological trait variation, and this is our best shot so far: Ecophysical trade-offs provide a set of relatively simple rules explaining the triangular structure and macroevolution of global bird diversity www.cell.com/current-biol...

Here a graphical abstract summarising our findings!

📝 New paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social We show that beak and body shape of birds is constrained in trait space. Extreme morphologies reflect specialization on single physical tasks (i.e., to fly 🦅, swim 🦢 or walk 🦃, in the case of body). Link to the paper: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kiaC3QW8S...

#EBDPub 🌱 🐦Un estudio sugiere que existen patrones consistentes en cómo se organizan las interacciones ecológicas en la naturaleza Esto ocurre tanto a nivel de especie como a nivel de individuo y en diferentes ecosistemas y biomas en el planeta. www.ebd.csic.es/divulgacion/...

Great work from Daero (Keum) as part of his Master’s project at UCL, including a visit to Tring’s @nhm-london.bsky.social avian collections.