Excited to share our new paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on data and code archiving at @britishecologicalsociety.org journals. TL;DR: Data archiving rates are high, code archiving rates are low, documentation needs to be improved! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....

🤩 New open datasets just dropped for Europe's #forests! Three satellite maps. Whole continent. Free on Zenodo. → Disturbances 1985–2023 → Canopy height, cover & complexity → Dominant tree genus Read more about the maps and their impact: forestpaths.eu/news/new-hig...

Don’t reach for ChatGPT Images or Nano Banana as your first option when creating scientific images There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. #plantscience @stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-...

The new generation of adults knows fewer plant species than the old people do. Lindemann-Matthies et al. @peopleandnature.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪🌍🌳🪴🌱

Will climate change increase global forest deadwood carbon stocks (because of increasing tree productivity and mortality) or decrease it (because of increased deadwood decomposition)? Find out in the new paper by Edelmann et al., out now in @commsearth.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s432...

“… it took time to figure out how to let go and lead without hovering over every single move, to be there when people struggled without taking the wheel.” #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/42y5hoi

Are pine plantations helping or hurting nature? Let me share our research-supported view of pine plantations in Mediterranean landscapes, and how they relate to wildfires, soil erosion, and biodiversity loss. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“I will miss the creativity of teaching.” During #TeacherAppreciationWeek, check out this #ScienceWorkingLife essay from a retired professor emeritus on how she challenged students to think beyond facts—and how she learned to teach like a scientist. https://scim.ag/4en9MsX

Las II Jornadas de Ecoinformática ya están aquí! Serán en @fbiodiversidad.bsky.social Sevilla el 1-3 oct. Charlas, talleres, visitas excursiones! Estamos muy emocionadxs con la 2ed! Tu también? Apúntate! 👉 ecoinfaeet.github.io/II_jornadas_... (plazas limitadas) Colabora @ebdonana.bsky.social

Happy 100th birthday to the living legend and national treasure that is Sir David Attenborough. Few figures alive have done as much for nature and conservation as Sir David, and we've been very lucky to work with him over the years. #DavidAttenborough #Attenborough100 #Nature #PlanetEarth

📦 My new R package {spatialData} is on CRAN! 🎉 Ecological datasets as sf data frames and their companion raster data ready for analysis and modeling. Built as example data for R packages, but great for teaching too! 🔗 blasbenito.github.io/spatialData/ ❗check the Articles section!

On my way to #EGU26, perfect time to drop a new post! 🗺️ Something I've been wanting to write about: Mercator projections still showing up in high-profile journals. So here it is: projections you should stop using (for most things) 👇 #gis #rstats #dataviz dominicroye.github.io/blog/map-pro...

Just released mori 0.1.0 on CRAN — a new R package for shared memory across processes. Parallel R no longer has to mean duplicating your dataset in every worker's RAM. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... 🧵 1/3

#BlogAEET "Desbiologizar lo vegetal" Carlos Herrera @cmhmaliani.bsky.social reflexiona sobre la tendencia creciente que existe a manipular (o ignorar) conceptos biológicos, como manifestación de negacionismo científico y el objetivo de defender fines extractivistas. blogaeet.org/2026/04/20/d...

Statistics presented in a very engaging way that show how the world has changed since 2011 by @natclimate.nature.com www.nature.com/immersive/s4...

🚦 flownet (by Sebastian Krantz) is an R package for transport modeling: compute routes, network flows, and more. Read about it at sebkrantz.github.io/Rblog/2026/0... #RStats #RSpatial #TransportModeling

'The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding' What a nice post on AI, education, learning, research and academia

Swedish old-growth forests store 83 % more carbon than managed forests, according to a new study from Lund University with BECC & @mergesweden.bsky.social members Anders Ahlström & Didac Pascual. The difference is substantially larger than previous estimates: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HtS...

Together with @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social & @monicagturner.bsky.social, we synthesized studies on post-disturbance forest reorganization. Key insight: Self-replacement is common across biomes, i.e., disturbances act as catalysts of change only under specific conditions doi.org/10.1111/geb....

More evidences that "Pay to publish" journals are increasing inequalities nd bisases in science globally ... #Ecology But... #antotherscienceispossible #diamondOAmodel #freetoreadandpublish nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Project assistant with a background in natural sciences wanted You will work with a programmer and stakeholders from the Swedish forestry sector to create a graphical user interface for the dynamic vegetation model LPJ-GUESS. Read more, apply or tip your network --> lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

97% of the papers archived the data but only 35% archived the code. Most people are writing code but not sharing it. Time to bring up this again: scispace.com/pdf/publish-... (and if the code isn't good enough yet, maybe it's too early to publish the paper) #openscience #reproducibility #ecopubs

Who needs PowerPoint when you have Quarto and @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social's extensions?! I wanted to make an image-heavy presentation. Usually, I'd reach for Keynote. But Emil shared quarto-revealjs-editable, which let me stay in Quarto land 🥰 Thanks, Emil! Find it here: github.com/EmilHvitfeld...

Con motivo del #8M la #ComisiondeIgualdad de la AEET @eco-aeet.bsky.social y #FRACTAL @fractalcol.bsky.social lanzamos una encuesta sobre la importancia de los #CUIDADOS en la carrera científica. Si trabajas en ecología anímate a completarla! aeet-comisionigualdad.limesurvey.net/485287?lang=...

How much does it pay to publish an open access academic book? Read this thread for my story and 💲💰 amounts. 🧵 www.routledge.com/9781032908724

The future of Europe’s forest disturbance regimes– a thread. Tl, dr: Disturbances from wildfire, bark beetles & wind will continue to increase in the coming decades. Under unabated climate change disturbances could more than double by 2100. New paper out in @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scie...

One of those legendary pieces of online statistical lore that everyone needs be aware of.

🆕 BLOG POST There’s so much more to spatial downscaling today than classic LM or kriging. In my new blog post, I show how flexible and powerful GAMs can be for this task. #rstats #dataviz ➡️ dominicroye.github.io/blog/canary-...

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...

Tenemos nuevo #SeminarioEcoinformático !! Esteban Alonso (IPE-CSIC) nos hablará sobre supercomputación y paralelización de tareas 💻🔀 *Esta vez no habrá grabación del seminario, así que os animamos a asistir! ¡Os esperamos a todas y a todos! 📆 jueves 12 marzo 2026, 16:00h 🔗 shorturl.at/G9efC

New paper out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! We investigated how forest structural heterogeneity and climate influence temperate dung beetles in production forests. 🪲

☀️Hotter and drier conditions under ongoing climate change are causing tree mortality events and altering forest dynamics worldwide. 🧑‍💻Learn more in the webinar: ☀️Limits and opportunities in predicting drought-induced forest mortality 🗓️24 March 2026; 🕓4:00 pm CET 🔗 zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Querida comunidad ecoinformática venimos con una actividad muy interesante, así que id reservando la fecha en vuestras agendas porque... ¡Vuelven las Jornadas de Ecoinformática! Nos vemos el 1–2 octubre, Sevilla. Os dejamos un formulario de pre-registro 👇 shorturl.at/2TtLB

Central Europe has seen unprecedented forest disturbances recently, but how are forests recovering? We surveyed disturbance hotspots in 10 countries 3-5 years after disturbance, finding ample tree regeneration and no signs of forest loss (median 4750 stems/ha), but... 1/2 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

New paper by @albavianasoto.bsky.social and @corneliussenf.bsky.social on forest reburns in southern Europe, published in Glob. Ecol. and Biogeography🌲🔥 Highlight: 30.1% of burned forest area experiencing multiple fire events since 1985. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update. On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R 📺 YouTube livestream link: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K... #RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪

Fast-growing trees are set to dominate the #forests of the #future — but at a cost🌳 Our Nature Plants (@natplants.nature.com) study shows a global shift toward "sprinter" tree species, while slow-growing, functionally critical #trees face elevated #extinction risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Led by Roel Brienen, our paper in @natcomms.nature.com "Contrasting pathways to tree longevity in gymnosperms and angiosperms" is finally out and formatted. Other bluesky folks contributing to the paper were @yellowbuckeye.bsky.social and @rmtrr.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🌲 🌳 🌍 📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration? 💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models? 🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town? Come and join us at KIT! Application details: t1p.de/qctj7

Carbon dioxide fertilization drives about 45% of US forest carbon uptake, 66 teragrams of carbon per year, while changes in tree age composition contribute 89 teragrams per year, according to plot-level data from 14 forests. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/P0Tz50Y1Mgh

Tree diversity is changing in the Amazon and Andes. Belen Fadrique leads our analysis in @natecoevo.nature.com w/ 400 plots + 40 years of RAINFOR records. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Hot, drier, more fragmented forests are losing species. Many in the Andes + western Amazon are gaining them.

Zotero 8 is out in stable: www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/ A bunch of new stuff -- the new citation dialog especially is a huge (and long overdue) improvement; massively speeds up anything I do in Word/GDocs with Zotero

Massive update to the Global Wood Density Database out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer. What an amazing community resource! 🧪🍁🌐 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In the @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social Global Climate Highlights 2025 report we used #dataviz to present its key messages and bring them to a wider audience. This first example shows daily temperature anomalies from 1940 to 2025 and it was inspired by the work of @erwanrivault.com (BBC)

Esperamos que hayáis comenzado el año con fuerza porque se viene la vuelta de los 'Seminarios de Ecoinformática' 😍 ¡Apunten en su agenda que nos vemos el próximo 22 de enero! ⬇️ 🟢Miguel Sevilla IPE-CSIC OpenStreetMap: cartografía libre de acceso, uso y contribución Link: shorturl.at/G9efC #Science

Forest Diversity, Biodemography and Global Change post-doc opportunity, ERC project led by Lalasia Bialic-Murphy apply.refline.ch/273855/1824/... Individuals with skills in demographic or species distribution modeling, large language models or functional trait interpolation are encouraged to apply.

Hemos empezado el año con un artículo nuevo, y este es muy bonito authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... "Summer aridity modulates tree growth response to thinning in Mediterranean pines" Vamos con el primer hilo del año (1/13) @csicdivulga.bsky.social #SoyForestal

In C Europe, there is a push to align forest management more closely with natural processes, but is this "closer-to-nature" management able to sustain biodiversity and ecosystem services? Great synthesis led by @anastritih.bsky.social with input from many leading experts! doi.org/10.1007/s407...

New research from our group: A pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent - driven by rising temperatures rdcu.be/eXSa7