📢 Funded PhD opportunities for UK candidates in beautiful Edinburgh. Get in touch if you're interested in a PhD on understanding the mechanisms of soil carbon cycling and the role of microbes. We work in different ecosystems: peatlands, forests and agricultural soils. Please repost/spread the word.

In Cisgiordania i coloni stanno cercando di prendersi tutto

One thing I always try to do as a reviewer/editor when recommending a change is to think about whether or not the resulting improvement to the paper/software justifies the amount of time I think it will take the author to address it. The bigger the ask, the greater the need in order to justify it.

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃 www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

Please RT! 📢 #Doctoral / #PhD position available with us at Leibniz-IZW for 4 years working at the interface of #wildlife + #disease #ecology, #veterinary sciences and #modelling. 🐗🐗🐗🐦🐦🐦 Training within #DFG #RTG 3069 led by @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social ▶️Apply here for P7: tinyurl.com/j2ehtz7m

Across 97% of forest area from eight million sampled forested locations, the density of aboveground biomass is lower near forest edges than in forest interiors. This edge effect is estimated to be responsible for 9% reduction in forest aboveground biomass.🧪🌲🌴🌳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cool paper and it's free access until the end of the month

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Using experimental and modelling evidence, this study reveals that small coral populations face fertilization failure due to Allee effects. The findings identify critical population thresholds needed to maintain reproductive success 🪸🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our September editorial discusses developments in soundscape ecology and passive acoustic monitoring www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🎤

Global analysis indicates that phosphorus limitation on terrestrial primary productivity has become stronger and is increasing more rapidly than nitrogen limitation. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New Books & Arts 👇 Marine muses: Rene Martin @lampichthys.bsky.social reviews "Ocean Art: From the Shore to the Deep" by @helenscales.bsky.social "This book is a must-read for art enthusiasts and ocean lovers" www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free to read: rdcu.be/eGpor

*Job alert* We have a 5-year postdoc position on #mountain non-native species & #macroecology in our group @unibas.ch. Great opportunity to join us! Details here: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen/postdoc-position-in-mountain-macroecology/6c5a8906-354f-43c6-bc9b-1156d21725a5 Please share!

3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost

We collaborated in a meta-analysis @natecoevo.nature.com on adjustment of hydraulic traits. 1. Including the intraspecific variability of traits in models avoids overestimating vulnerabilities. 2. Plants hydraulics adjustment is not enough to protect them from drought risks. @cirad.bsky.social

Looking forward to hearing and chatting about ecology in Würzburg next week. Attendees interested in Nature Ecology & Evolution, find me and let's chat. For those who have angry complaints to make, I'm young, tall and long-haired. For the others, I look like in the picture

After listening to the news about Gaza and Ukraine, I assessed a paper on forests struggling to recover from fires and next is one entitled "Future demise of the Arctic flora". Need me to explain why I spend my evenings buried in videogames and fantasy / sci-fi / ancient history books?

Thank you @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social for the reminder that golf courses should be forcibly seized by the government and converted to solar farms interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...

Caso mai non fosse chiaro che ormai è uno stato canaglia

New #TreeDivNet paper shows generally positive relationships between insect herbivory and tree growth & diversity modulated by leaf traits www.nature.com/articles/s41...

FYI this excellent piece is now free access for a month--check it out! #palaeontology #plasticpollution

🔥🔥🔥 Why are wildfires more severe in private industrial forests? Our new paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social has the answers: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵 Thread below

Between his crypto ventures, real estate deals, and licensing agreements, Trump and his family have profited off the presidency to the tune of $3.4 billion. The grifter-in-chief knows no bounds. We must not become numb to this.

The #TEELab met with SE Asia #dungbeetle experts, Dr. Teruo Ochi & Dr. Masahiro Kon at the Osaka Museum of Natural History, Japan. We will work with them to describe new species & provide baseline data for long-term biodiversity monitoring 🔬🪲 teelabntu.wixsite.com/home/post/st...

Postdoctoral Opportunity in Ecology – Biodiversity Meets Data at Senckenberg, Germany The Senckenberg Research Institute in Germany is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher in ecology to join an EU-funded biodiversity project. This role combines big data analysis, freshwater ecology, and conservation…

Sarah Gabbott's @thepalass.bsky.social plenary talk has been living rent free inside my head ever since December so I'm delighted that she's written it up as a Comment for @natecoevo.nature.com: we need taphonomy to understand plastic pollution rdcu.be/eAmRU www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Heat extremes attributable to climate change have led to a 25–38% average reduction in monitored tropical bird populations since 1950, according to a study in Nature Ecology & Evolution. go.nature.com/3UIIpP7 🧪

I guess it's officially sea star week at NEE

Our August issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/... 🧪 Featuring research on: 🧬 The antibiotic resistome 🌍 Palaeobiogeography of lagerpetids and early pterosaurs 🫄 Evolution of mammalian pregnancy Cover shows a pangolin from Emogor et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Abbiamo scoperto cosa ha ucciso miliardi di stelle marine negli ultimi 15 anni

Tree growth thrives on diversity – especially in wet forests #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth

A marine serial killer at large, caught at last: researchers identify the agent of the sea star wasting disease that nearly caused the collapse of kelp forests along the Pacific Northwest www.nature.com/articles/s41... @hakai.org @science.ubc.ca @tula.org @nature.org @uwenvironment.bsky.social

An analysis in Nature Ecology & Evolution shows that near-national-scale losses of bird diversity greatly exceed losses recorded at the local scale in Colombia, suggesting that extrapolations from local studies will severely underestimate biodiversity losses. go.nature.com/3HbRv3s 🧪

New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📃🔊Official Statement: The Society for Conservation Biology – Italy Chapter stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Environmental justice is inseparable from human rights. We condemn the destruction of ecosystems under occupation and call for decolonial, just conservation.🌱

Agree with all except that the Zanclean Flood wouldn't be my complaint but rather the single event in Earth's history I'd like to witness the most (from a safe distance)

Global analysis of soil moisture dynamics reveals how water-use strategies vary by vegetation types and the factors that drive these patterns: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

He ert al. integrate ground-based observations, remote sensing and process-based models to disentangle the relative contribution of preceding-year and current-year precipitation on plant productivity and identify its predictors across biomes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🗞️New publication🗞️ How do neighbourhood diversity effects on tree growth change with climatic conditions?🌳🌲🔆🌧️ We adress this question in our new study in @natecoevo.nature.com led by Liting Zheng. www.nature.com/articles/s41... /w @liting-zheng.bsky.social, Peter Reich & #TreeDivNet

Severe malnutrition among under-5s in Gaza City has tripled in two weeks, charity says

Come work with us! We are looking to fill a PhD (mountain forest management) and PostDoc position (forest adaptive capacity, w/ @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social). We'd be happy to have you as part of our dynamic team! PhD: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0... PostDoc: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens

Analysis of data on 971 bird species in Colombia finds that near-national-scale losses of bird diversity greatly exceed losses recorded at the local scale, suggesting that extrapolations from local studies will severely underestimate biodiversity losses www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

New online! Drivers and solutions to Southeast Asia’s biodiversity crisis

A new PhD position is available in our lab to explore organic and metabolic inputs to improve farms, via our recent funded ARC Training Centre Smart&Sustainable Horticulture Application deadline- 31 August, 20025. Details below www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...

New Correspondence: "While Brazil prepares to host ... COP 30 in Belém — in the heart of the Amazon — in November 2025, it is also pushing to drill for oil in the region, one of the world’s last biodiversity frontiers." www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free to read rdcu.be/ewOZB

Meng et al. develop a theoretical approach and show that empirical diversity–stability relationships in grasslands are best explained by species-specific dynamics rather than by interspecific interactions www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

📢The Global Soil Biodiversity Conference 2026 abstract submission deadline has been EXTENDED 🐛🐜🕷️🦠🪱 Abstracts are NOW due AUGUST 15th 23:59 PDT‼️ Submit an abstract 👇 globalsoilbiodiversity2026.org/abstract/

The WildCo Lab @wildco.bsky.social is recruiting 2 postdocs in quantitative ecology to work on mammal population estimation and monitoring from camera trap data. 🐺🐻🦌📷📈 Please share the word or apply to join us at UBC in lovely Vancouver, Canada! wildlife.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/0...

New Perspective 🌊 Plankton models have crucial applications in ecosystem management and climate change projections, but Flynn et al argue that stronger alignment is needed between these models and empirical knowledge, and they recommend steps to close the gap www.nature.com/articles/s41...