Do agricultural diversification practices pay off in the long run? Our new paper synthesizes 100+ years of evidence showing that diversification practices become more profitable over time and delivers growing benefits for soils, biodiversity, and carbon. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I will probably be posting about this one a lot in the coming weeks: our special issue on ALAN / light pollution in Biological Conservation is now open for submissions! With @gkalinkat.bsky.social, Jacqueline Degen, and Franz Hölker. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

“industrial agriculture is a shockingly inefficient way of producing food It takes 9 calories of crops to get 1 calorie of chicken, 10 or 11 calories of crops to get 1 calorie of pig meat or farmed fish and 40 to 100 calories of crops to get 1 calorie of beef” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Today I had the good fortune of meeting a few beautiful firetails and until now I far not fully appreciated their fantastic snoots

This is a wonderful summary of how two common connectivity models used in ecology and conservation are related: Circuit theory is a special case of connectivity modeling with the SAMC (Spatial Absorbing Markov Chains)

Was honored to get the call to be one of The Guardian’s Big Interviews in G2. A thorough and thoughtful piece that digs into the real fundaments of the AI bubble narrative. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Beautiful and incredible scenes from the centre of the Netherlands, a country with 1.5 times the density of people in the UK. A pack of 11 wolves roaming through the snow!

A great start to the new year: registration for the European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB 2026) is now officially open! Participants can take advantage of a special Early Bird discount, available until 31 March 2026. More on: eccb26leiden.eu/registration/

World’s biggest buyers of Brazilian soy plan to exit the Amazon Soy Moratorium — a voluntary pact that kept deforestation-linked soy out of global supply chains for nearly 20 years. Critics warn the move could reverse hard-won gains, especially in Mato Grosso, where deforestation is rising.

As someone trained as both a field ecologist and quantitative scientist, this tension runs deep for me. Some of my group are entrenched in the field whereas others work with models for a living. ‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI www.nature.com/articles/d41... 1/4

It’s official: I’m joining the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of Iowa as an assistant prof starting Fall 2026! I’ll be recruiting multiple grad students and postdocs to join my lab, so if you’re into disturbance ecology and conservation science… watch this space!

'Science is at its best when guided by curiosity, intuition, and the courage to explore ideas that others might overlook.' In Profile: Kolby J. Jardine nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience

Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1

2025 was the warmest year on record for Central England in a dataset that starts in 1659. (Daily data available since 1772.) www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadce...

Happy New Year! Here is a good news conservation story to start the year off right: @camzoology.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk youtu.be/cCBut3BAsCU?...

We are recruiting several PhD students. If you are interested in conservation conflicts, population ecology, quantitative ecology, or biodiversity, check these projects out (links in the thread, feel free to reach out):

Deer numbers have been rocketing in the UK and Ireland, causing *massive* damage to nature and society. The solutions? Eat wild venison instead of farmed meat, and reintroduce missing native predators like lynx. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A comprehensive review building on the IPBES #InvasiveAlienSpecies Assessment reveals that numbers of alien species are increasing for all taxonomic groups and regions, and that this trend is likely to continue. Read more: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.70058

As the EU’s deforestation-free regulation takes effect in 2026, companies will lean on satellite maps to prove their supply chains are compliant. But a new review warns most maps can’t meet EUDR standards, risking misclassification in places where agroforestry and forests look alike.

Just published: a cross-taxon synthesis of how #non-native species spread: from dispersal and #invasion fronts to Allee effects, human pathways, and predictive models. Understanding spread is key to management & policy. 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #bioinvasions #InvasiveSpecies 🧪🌍🌐

We're hiring! The Dept. of Environmental Conservation @umassamherst.bsky.social is looking for an Extension Professor in Biodiversity Conservation. Reviews start Feb 1. I am on the SC and absolutely love working in the ECo Dept. Come join us! DM me with questions. careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

🗞️ Great news! A golden eagle has been spotted in northern England for the first time since 2015. Scientists working in the area report multiple sightings since April 2025. Read more in Mongabay: https://ow.ly/eFb450XAvyN

Our new review lays out a framework for understanding the social-ecological benefits of protected areas to their surroundings - just published in One Earth: www.cell.com/one-earth/ab... doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101462

Elephants along with red deer, horses and wolves on the Spanish coast, not so long ago 🐘🦌🐎🐺🐾🇪🇸 #megafauna #lastinterglacial phys.org/news/2025-12...

The fantastic Ellen Robertson at Univ. Florida is recruiting 2 PhD students to work in her lab. Students would work with long-term data on two endangered species: The Snail Kite & Red-cockaded Woodpecker. If thinking about a PhD, please take a close look! Below are details on the kite project:

New postdoctoral fellowship opportunity! Please pass along. Excited to announce the launch of the Tom Lovejoy Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona for innovative research to protect species, sustain ecosystems, and promote a thriving planet lovejoycenter.arizona.edu/lovejoy-fell... 🧪🌐🌾

Really excited about what came in the mail today:

A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the invention of smartphones and the advent of social media, which both appeared around the same year, 2008. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Go see Joe’s poster! He is doing fantastic work! #BES2025

One of the techniques the students learn to use on our #Wildlife #Conservation #MSc field course in #SouthAfrica is camera trapping to estimate mammal biodiversity. Sometimes the videos are more interesting than other times #leopard @uniofhull.bsky.social

The subtropical thicket is one of South Africa’s most biodiverse yet overlooked ecosystems. Through spekboom planting, the Thicket Restoration Flagship aims to restore 800,000 hectares of thicket. Learn more about this #GenerationRestoration effort: https://ow.ly/k50A50XIGsh

High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 🌎🧪 🌐 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social] After years of expeditions, Gregg Treinish felt uneasy: he wasn’t making a difference. He founded Adventure Scientists, turning outdoor enthusiasts into data collectors whose work now spans microplastics, illegal timber & California’s biodiversity.

Really happy to share that the Second Edition of our book, "Spatial Ecology and Conservation Modeling", is now out and available online! We provide a foundation for applied spatial ecology with a focus on learning-by-doing. @camzoology.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk

Seed dispersal by 🦜🦇 underpins rainforest recovery. We want to understand more about its timing + traits driving recovery through obs, exp + genomic data. Ready to join the @reassemblynet.bsky.social team working in Ecuadorian Chocó? Pls apply to our 4-yr PhD position @sgn.one: tinyurl.com/2pkryc99

Important work about biodiversity across sub-saharan Africa: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just finished up a series of statistics workshops—this….

🚨we're looking for new Associate Editors to join our editorial board! ⏲️deadline for submissions: 23 February 2026, 23:59 GMT (UTC+0) 📎read more and apply at the link below: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...

Huge News from the Western Amazon: it's the year 2025 and we are still describing entirely new, strikingly-distinctive large-bodied bird species! Behold Tinamus resonans sp. nov. the Slaty-masked Tinamou mapress.com/zt/article/v... #Ornithology @tetzoo.bsky.social 🪶

2025. Native megafauna (Bison bison) act as a surprising inhibitor of cedar tree expansion in a Great Plains grassland esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

As the vulture population plummets, dogs multiply and rabies spreads. The sequence, triggered by human action, carries a warning that many scientists consider to be a sixth mass extinction: When we endanger other species, we endanger ourselves.

Systematic Continental Scale Monitoring by Weather Surveillance Radar Shows Fewer Insects Above Warming Landscapes in the United States 🔗 buff.ly/KnY2LCi

For months @ainsliecruickshank.bsky.social has been pouring over documents trying to find out how many animals are killed on train tracks in B.C. Companies are supposed to report rail kills but records she obtained found reporting is inconsistent and incomplete projects.thenarwhal.ca/collision-co...

Land-use change undermines the stability of avian functional diversity - new #OA @nature.com paper with @patrickawalkden.bsky.social @josephtobias.bsky.social, combining #PredictsProject with #Avonet doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Spatial Insurance of Distinct Ecological Functions Communities can act as functional sources and sustain rare ecological roles across space. We reveal patterns of functional vulnerability for plants and birds Check out our Perspective in Ecol Lett 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌐🌍🦤🪴🍁🧪

There are 3 exciting postdoctoral openings to work on biodiversity research, monitoring and conservation with us at UBC - check them out! 2 positions: biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... 1 position: science-bcbiodiversitynetwork-2025.sites.olt.ubc.ca/opportunities/

Did you know that European wildcats could return to Devon? 🐾 These fascinating cats have been absent in south west England for over a century but a two-year study has concluded that reintroducing wildcats to mid-Devon is feasible — and that most local people are positive about the idea.  🧵1/2

One of the world’s rarest birds has rebounded from near extinction after Indigenous communities in Bali committed to protect it under traditional laws, Mongabay contributor Heather Physioc reported. In 2001, just six Bali starlings were known to live in the wild. By 2021, there were roughly 520.

Participatory mapping (#PPGIS) has potential to foster socially inclusive #EcosystemRestoration. In our recent #PeopleNatureLandscapesBlog, Gaelle Ndayizeye showcases her experiences from a PPGIS study of how local farmers value Western Rwanda's restoration landscapes. medium.com/people-natur...