We’re delighted to announce the 2025 #WainwrightPrize Winners! From powerful storytelling to vital conservation work and bold illustration, this year’s winners reflect the richness, urgency, and joy of writing about the natural world. wainwrightprize.com #StoriesThatConnect

Banksy satirised the state silencing those opposed to Israel’s genocide. The state then inadvertently made his artwork genius.

Now online in Journal of #Ornithology Timing shapes flyway selection in juvenile white storks at the European migratory divide Open access link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This survey on the current state of freshwater monitoring in the UK is still open. Have your say, and please share... 💦🧪 #freshwater #monitoring #UKCEH_AquaEco #data #evidence

Police cover up a Banksy image of judge beating a protester faster than you can say "one of the many Boris Johnson Downing Street parties during covid restrictions which the Met police ignored"

A hugely refreshing and too short time away from UK's insanity. Not everything is green in Rep of Ireland, but the people and government do have some decency.

We are doing a Hackathon! 💻 Together with senior editor @nhcooper123.bsky.social , we'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... (1/2)

The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Looking forward to speaking at the event - I've found Wikipedia really useful in my Hons. class to help the students select important information from published papers and synthesis it as Wikipedia entries - we have been slowly ticking off all the African Raptor species, which often lack good info.

System: a set of things working together as parts of an interconnecting network Ecosystem: a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment There is no need for other sectors to appropriate & redefine ‘ecosystem’ in an affected way ‘System’ does the job fine.

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Really disappointing new policy from NERC banning resubmissions of grant applications Many of us, including me, have won grants on resubmission, using the reviews to improve the application This is is neither fair nor productive www.ukri.org/councils/ner...

Israel is deliberately massacring civilians it’s deliberately starving. There are few crimes more depraved.

Some new #rstats packages need a plug more than others. So, here it is.

📖Published📖 Sources of uncertainty in DNA metabarcoding of whole communities: Implications for its use in biomonitoring 🧬 🌍 🧪 Find the article here 👇 buff.ly/6zJRh9R

✨New science, new ideas, new friends.  Our much anticipated BES Annual Meeting is here!  Join ecology's global community at the BES Annual Meeting, which brings together over 1,200 ecologists from around the world.

Want to expose corruption & defend the environment with your reporting? Mongabay is hiring an Investigative Researcher & Reporter. Remote, full-time. Apply now: form.jotform.com/251814627309...

Our new results challenge the expectation that climate warming will offset carbon losses caused by heat and drought with a longer growing season in forests: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Bivariate turning angle and step length kernels for step selection functions

It has been a long, slow decline. But this is the moment the BBC died as a public service broadcaster. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Great PhD position on gull foraging behaviour ecology at sea! #ornithology Apply before 20-7-2025 or spread the word!

Congratulations to joint @srucnews.bsky.social / @bioss.bsky.social PhD student Claire Stainfield and senior statistician Dr. Thomas Cornulier who both delivered amazing talks at last week's 2025 Pint of Science UK festival in Aberdeen! #pint25 #scicomm #pintofscience #bioss #sruc

The "Getting Started in R - Tinyverse Edition" eight-page pdf guide now has a 2nd edition using, appropriately, `tinyplot` as the plotting package. See github.com/eddelbuettel... for more. #rstats

Looking forward to talking about uncovering the secrets of trees and animals (including us), using high resolution sensors, tomorrow in Aberdeen. It'll be at the #Pint25 #PintOfScience festival, alongside Bhaskar Mitra (JHI) on peatland carbon and Claire Stainfield (SRUC) on human-seal interactions.

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Tremendous and important work.

Five golden rules for scientifically-credible nature markets 🌐🌎 osf.io/preprints/so...

This genius way to restore degraded soil is exceptionally effective. A great new video from Planet Wild:

Really interesting analysis on how to make sure your papers are highly cited - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... tl;dr: "include broad titles, use motivational language, use conceptual images, and included clear explanations of the broader context and relevance of their research"

We are hiring a chair/professor in our Ecology & Enviro Modelling group at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Scotland is lovely, and my colleagues are fantastic! Reach out if you are interested in joining the CREEM family ☺️ Working link this time 👇 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Ecologists are obsessed with linking process and pattern, but quantifying the core processes of community assembly (and their interactions) in a natural setting is extremely hard. But we've done it! Using a fun new method. Very proud of this paper and of Emilie and Megan's leadership 🥳

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... "These large areas of toxic metal enrichment are expected to continue to increase owing to the growth in demand for critical metals required to support the net zero 'green transition' and the development of photovoltaic devices, wind turbines, and electric batteries"

Honoured to receive the 2024 Robert May prize !! 😊 🎉 Many thanks to the @britishecologicalsociety.org & @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

The #rstats qreport package for assisting with report writing using Quarto has a new function makegvflow that allows users to easily make graphviz flow diagrams by specifying plain text with indenting to define the hierarchy. An example is at hbiostat.org/rflow/rforma...

Scotland's efforts to reform land management and ownership are failing. Max, from REVIVE, explains why in this piece for the Herald: www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie... Keep at it! @foescot.bsky.social @leagueacs.bsky.social @raptorpersuk.bsky.social #landreform #landreformbill #politics

"We've run out of all painkillers... There are seven girls getting their legs amputated, no anesthesia... It was mostly women and children, burned head to toe, limbs missing, heads missing... The screams are everywhere... The smell of burned flesh is still in my nose."

Looking forward to the recording.

In our new preprint lead by @pietropollo.bsky.social we show how to use meta-analysis to compare not sample means but also kurtosis & skewness, as well as within-group covariance between multiple groups. The era of meta-analyzing whole distributions is here ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

And we're live!

Conservation is all about preventing change, trying to keep the nature we have, and it doesn’t like to ‘play God’ On top of that the introduction of non-native species has been a huge problem, so conservationists are wary of it But change is inevitable now 7/

Increasingly thinking about my research groups computing energy use. We are generating only a tiny fraction of the consumption of course but it’s just far too easy to let the computers do the work rather than thinking through what really needs to be done www.oneninenine.agency/articles/the....

We are advertising a fully-funded, genuinely interdisciplinary @netgain.bsky.social PhD at the interface of ecology, ethics and statistics, exploring the nuances of wild salmonid conservation. Deadline January 31st. (1/3) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#rstats and #QuartoPub PSA: @vincentab.bsky.social's {tinytable} is the absolute best table making package out there for LaTeX output (it natively supports tabularray!), and it's phenomenal for HTML. It has fully replaced {gt} and {kableExtra} for me vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

🚨PhD opportunities!🚨 Don't miss your chance to apply to a collaborative #PhD with BioSS and partners. We have several advertised across a range of applied quantitative research. See more here: www.bioss.ac.uk/phd-students... #PhdChat #PhDSky #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Statistics #Maths

Soaking up the frosty atmosphere and remnants of light this evening, before going back to work tomorrow. The ice is closing in on the ducks and the clamor of the rooks and jackdaws going to roost breaks the stillness in the air.

Nice illustration of regression to the mean. RTTM may also explain conservation struggles, when a site is designated in response to a circumstantial population high for a species of interest, and this level is used as the reference.

Really interesting set of jobs with the @btobirds.bsky.social. Field jobs, data science, finance and governmence... If you have the skills do consider joining this fab organisation. www.bto.org/jobs