Excited to the upcoming iDIV conference, where I will deliver a keynote on biodiversity modelling under climate change @idiv-research.bsky.social conference.idiv.de/event/3/page...

Lost bird rediscovered! 🙌 After more than 20 years, the Critically Endangered Jerdon's Courser has been documented again by a team of Indian birdwatchers. 🎉 Find out more about the ‘Search for Lost Birds’ here 👉 www.birdlife.org/news/2025/09...

The BLM is seeking to eradicate the Public Lands Rule, which allows the conservation to be included in land use planning. There are a lot of areas of critical environmental concern in BLM land. It's in the federal register and the public commenting period has started. Please comment!

The amazing Karen Gallardo-Cruz is looking for a field technician to study Barn Owl responses to tractor noise! The position will be in Lodi, CA this spring/summer (mid-March to late-June). $20-23/hr and housing provided. Check out the job ad here: karp.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/u...

Choosing where we source the food that we eat makes a difference to the environment, but how much? After churning through 100s of petabytes of data, we now know the answer varies by three orders of magnitude for species extinction risks! Paper out in Nature Food: www.nature.com/articles/s43... 🌍

Please share with your big picture colleagues. Join us @umontreal.ca as an Assistant Professor of Global Change Biology. rh-carriere-dmz-eng.synchro.umontreal.ca/psc/rhprpr9_...

Are you a prospective postgrad looking for a research project? Check out our brand new list of postgrad projects for 2026-27. From animal weapons 💥and rewilding, to neuronal plasticity and invitro fertilisation 🧪 the breadth of topics is tremendous. Find out more: bit.ly/3VxHscv

The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

This morning 9 former CDC Directors, whose tenures date back to 1977, published this warning in the NYT: RFK Jr is a danger to public health. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

New: Strong global support for the 30x30 conservation target *Data from 5 continents (N=12k) show 82% in support of 30x30 *2 experiments find highly consistent expansion policy preferences, incl. prioritization of nature and rich countries bearing higher costs Out now OA in @pnas.org. Viz. below.

Cordeiro Pereira et al. Exploring the multi-scale drivers of predation on artificial caterpillars by insectivorous birds in a Central European montane forest region ecologicalprocesses.springeropen.com/articles/10.... #ornithology

"Scientists estimate that millions of bats die every year after slamming into the giant blades, making turbines one of the top killers of the animals worldwide." www.science.org/content/arti...

We will be recruiting graduate researchers to start Fall 2026 in the Dallas lab at U South Carolina. We are a mix of population, community, and disease ecologists. Parasite macroecology!!! Feel free to reach out to chat and see our webpage for more info on our science (taddallas.github.io).

Grizzly tracks in Yellowstone

🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24... Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵

We have a #Tansley review out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by Becky Banbury Morgan in which we put forward a new framework that aims to explain how and why edge effects on forest structure vary across ecosystems and through time 📜 doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Kotz, Amano & Watson show that exposure to heat extremes is associated with declines in bird populations, especially in tropical regions @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social ‪ @pik-potsdam.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to be heading to #ESA2025! Looking forward to learning a lot, seeing old friends and colleagues, and meeting new ones!

Stop using MAXENT for invasive niche modeling. Instead embrace mechanisms. Check out this great review on mechanistic niche models for invasives from ‪@erolafenollosa.bsky.social‬ in ‪@ecography.bsky.social‬ 🌐 #ecology #invasivespecies nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

72% of people support lynx reintroduction in Kielder Forest - this is the result of a local (not national) survey The consultation has seen 10,000 people visit its touring exhibition and included one-to-one interviews with stakeholders www.countryfile.com/wildlife/lyn...

The Trump administration has deleted all previous National #Climate Assessments from government websites and fired the scientists working on the next report. Now they say they're going to rewrite the previous ones. This is scientific sabotage and a rewriting of history. www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/c...

New postdoc position with Andrew Balmford in the Conservation Science Group at the University of Cambridge. Come join the thriving conservation community here! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...

Happy to share new work from the lab and a wonderful group of co-authors: We argue that conservation biology needs to move beyond the current focus on species richness metrics. While this has been argued before, we highlight the unappreciated impacts of using richness for a variety of problems:

If you know researchers with expertise in forestry/agro forestry please share this permanent lectureship @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. The quality of life in north wales is fabulous: great colleagues & a stunning location. jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....

🚨🚨 New tenure track position in #ConservationBiology @oberlincollege.bsky.social in the #Biology department--come join us, and contribute to our brand new Environmental Science major too! #biologyjobs #ecologyjobs jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/16671

Happy to be at BC3: Basque Centre for Climate Change for my sabbatical! Excited to connect and collaborate with my host @ainhoamagrach.bsky.social and other great colleagues at here at BC3.

Owl enthusiasts, unite. It's #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay 🦉

Sunday book review: No Island too Far by Michael Brooke Publisher: @pelagic.bsky.social Review: markavery.info/2025/08/03/s... Have you visited Fair Isle? Madeira? Spitsbergen? Falklands? But what about Cousin, Pitcairn & Bouvet? This book’s #naturewriting provides vicarious #island #adventuring.

Herculean effort by @kaitlyngaynor.bsky.social and our incredible NPS colleagues to explore variation in wildlife responses to recreation across our National Parks. Come for the COVID-19 lockdown data, stay for the typologies of animal responses to human activity.

The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, argues @andersen. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage… “This is an unparalleled destruction from within.” www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

In Indonesia’s Central Java province, two groups of Javan gibbons have become isolated in two small forest patches. To help the gibbons make their way to larger forest areas, a local NGO is working with farmers in the region to restore and build “corridors” to connect the fragmented forest blocks.

Have a fantastic Friday! Take a moment to watch birds, birds give us a much needed break from the madness so calming. Be kind today make someone's day a little better. Toucan Barbet. #Colombia #birds #birdwatching #birding #FridayVibes #Friday

Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker

🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average. 📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Go work with Pedro—he is fantastic!

New research from our lab documents important drought impacts on desert bird communities in the SW United States 🌎🐦 25 years of bird data across the Mojave & Sonoran deserts, show drought drives clear declines in bird abundance & species richness. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/3

Happy to share our latest paper in which we use a new big phylogeny of birds to analyze the relationships between dispersal, geographic range size and diversification rates across all birds. See also post by ‪@sheardcat.bsky.social‬ and @josephtobias.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

Limited biodiversity spillover from forest fragments into Amazon oil palm plantations 🌴 👉Nearby forests can't buffer the loss of bird functional & phylogenetic diversity 🦜🌏 👉Is an urgent need to preserve large forest fragments & improve matrix permeability 🧬🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Thrilled to share our new article in @pnas.org highlighting global gaps in where we study animal movement—and outlining the next generation of smart bio-loggers. 👉 Read the full study in PNAS: lnkd.in/exP8NCeZ 1/

Really nice metastudy of citizen science contributing to ecology & biodiversity research @inaturalist.bsky.social @aibsbiology.bsky.social 👀🔎🍄🧪🌎🌐 iNaturalist accelerates biodiversity research academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

I am excited to share new work led by Bob McCleery and with a wonderful group of co-authors. Experimental evidence for the massive role that megaherbivores play in savannas... And it is not just through their effects on vegetation... Check it out here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lVgw_9CgT...

China plans to spend a quarter of a billion dollars to clear 100,000 hectares of natural habitat in Angola to grow maize & soybeans. 60% will be exported to China to substitute for imports from the U.S. which China wants to cut down on because of Trump's trade war. millingmea.com/china-inject...

Could the Trump administration strike a ruinous blow to American science at a time when it is need of reinvestment, not retrenchment? “This is another Sputnik moment in front of us,” a former MIT president, said. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Our new paper published today in Current Biology shows that immediate international cooperation is needed to conserve the eastern North American monarch butterfly. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Come work with us! The department is an invigorating place and lots of conservation-focused work going on with the Conservation Research Institute and Cambridge Conservation Initiative. The students are fabulous!

Just got this draft cover for the 2nd edition of our book. It will be available soon!

“More than 140 employees of the National Science Foundation have signed a letter denouncing what they described as efforts to undermine one of the country’s main science funding agencies. … Out of fear of retaliation, all but one of the employees’ signatures are redacted.”

Monitoring population extinction risk with community science data 💬🌎 Leveraging 'the power of people' allows estimating local persistence probability as a risk-based population viability, closely aligning estimation from standardized, systematic monitoring 🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Join our BES workshop on Movement Ecology & Rewilding As Rewilding seeks to create more natural ecosystems An understanding of the Movement Ecology of species becomes central Yet the 2 research areas are not well linked We aim to address that! Book at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-movem...