🚨PhD offer 👩‍🎓: Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years. Deadline: 27 Oct 2025 Selection: ~November Starting: ~January 2026 Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me More info👇

The results of a study in Nature Communications show that climate change is raising the odds of extreme fire years and the number of large forest fires, necessitating proactive measures to mitigate risks and adapt to extreme fire years. go.nature.com/4m8fTSA 🧪

3-year #Postdoc opportunity at the University of York! I am #hiring a Postdoc to join my URF project on exploring how #biodiversity change is unfolding in the #Anthropocene. Deadline: 10th August 2025. All details and the link to apply: shorturl.at/qOQst @anthropocenebio.bsky.social #ecology

New online! Unlocking historical plant interactions in herbarium collections

Why did some #megafauna survive? 🦣🦘🦌 Our new study shows #extinction risk was higher for larger, flat-footed, island species— and lower for those closely related to tropical African/Asian fauna, likely filtered by earlier human impacts 👣🍖 📄 doi.org/10.1111/geb.... #hominid #hunting #evolution

Our new study shows how animal biodiversity loss is a climate problem: tropical forests recover far less carbon where seed dispersers have declined. We’re not just losing forests – we’re losing their ability to regrow. Reversing that trend could align biodiversity recovery with climate solutions.🧵

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

(Edited) Our cover for July! 🦜 ㅤ Chesini et al. (2025) evidences how recently and long-ago burned areas show reduced species and interaction richness, raising concerns about long-term impacts of human disturbances on ecosystem resilience. vist.ly/3yysp

A study in Nature Human Behaviour finds that four-day work weeks without a reduction in income boost workers’ job satisfaction and physical and mental health, driven by enhanced work performance, lower levels of fatigue and fewer sleep problems. go.nature.com/3Um75MP #econsky 🧪

🚨 Out this week in @pnas.org 🚨 The flagship paper from my PhD @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social - We show surprising statistical similarities in animal behaviour across states, individuals, and even species. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (🧵 1/10)

Happy to share that the first paper of my PhD is out! We developed a trait-based framework 🌱🦜 to quantify how plant-frugivore interactions and animal movement shape plant functional connectivity—the dispersal of seeds between habitat patches. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Read our latest blog post by @laura-paltrinieri.bsky.social‬, whose research reveals how temperature and rainfall affect the body size of European bats. 🦇 Laura offers insights into their resilience, vulnerability, and what it means for conservation in a warming world. 🌍 bit.ly/3GsQunp

🚨🐘🌴 Fossil evidence of proboscidean frugivory and its lasting impact on South American ecosystems 🌴🐘 🚨 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @iphes-cerca.bsky.social @biomarkerslab.bsky.social

@iagoferreiro.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk about the work we are doing in the Amazon on the characterization of ecological networks along a defaunation gradient. Great collab with the Instituto Jurua from Brazil and scientists from Norway, UK, and Brazil. #ATBC2025

Happy pride🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!!!! @mncn-csic.bsky.social

Here we go!!! Congress time! So happy to be back at the ATBC annual meeting 6 years later. #ATBC2025 @iagoferreiro.bsky.social @laura-paltrinieri.bsky.social

New preprint from the lab, led by the great @mphilippelesaffre.bsky.social . We produced layers of hunting exposure across the tropics that can be used in cumulative threat mapping approaches and vulnerability assessments. More info below 👇🏻

🖨️ New preprint out ! We present the first global, high-resolution, spatiotemporal maps of hunting pressure across tropical forests 🦜🐒🌴. This long-standing blind spot in biodiversity threat mapping is now filled 😎: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

🎉My first paper is finally out! We tested Allen’s and Bergmann’s rules on 20 European bat species🦇, exploring how their morphology changes across space and time in response to temperature🌡️ and precipitation🌧️ shifts. 📖Check it out here: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The emergence and demise of giant sloths | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#BlogAEET "La singularidad de las plantas y su impacto en los animales frugívoros: efectos de la variación individual en las interacciones planta-animal" por Elena Quintero @elequintero.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social blogaeet.org/2025/05/19/l...

New paper out! We present a framework for quantifying the vulnerability of terrestrial insular biota to multiple threats. This is the first output of the #RIVAGE project, funded by @frbiodiv.bsky.social & brilliantly led by @celinebellard.bsky.social. peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

Pollinator decline has captured global attention, but another plant-animal mutualism is quietly unraveling. Our new Nature Reviews Biodiversity article synthesizes global evidence on seed disperser decline and what it means for plant biodiversity, ecosystem recovery, and climate adaptation. 🧵

The effects of climate on bat morphology across space and time vist.ly/3n38hkv #Bats #Allensrule #Bergmannsrule

🚨🎉 New paper "Ten quick tips to get you started with Bayesian statistics", hope you'll like it 😇🤗 ✍🏽 w/ Andy Royle, Marc Kéry and Chloé Nater 🔗 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... @plos.org @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social

Heads-up for fans of trait-based models & trophic interactions! A fresh & fruity paper led superbly by Andressa Cabral & Renske Onstein @naturalis.bsky.social investigates the role of seed-dispersing animals in shaping pantropical plant diversity. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

📢 WORKSHOP: Conserving and restoring temporary pond landscapes in Europe 📅 May 28-30, 2025 The workshop include conferences and a field trip to Doñana Biological Reserve. Participants are also encouraged to present poster communications. 📌 Deadline: 4th April www.unia.es/estudios-y-a...

Tomorrow I'll be travelling to Brazil to join our third consecutive field campaign in the Jurua, together with @iagoferreiro.bsky.social and Laura Paltrinieri. This is our second campaign of our #TROPECOLNET project. @cienciagob.bsky.social

Some good news to end the year: @elequintero.bsky.social's last PhD chapter just accepted @pnas.org. Stay tuned for a synthesis of plant individual-based frugivory networks. Hoping the new year will bring more good news to all 🙏

Where are all the field studies? This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer. A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork) www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

🚨 Last opportunity to apply for a PhD with me, @bfraser.bsky.social and @batconservation.bsky.social on the genomics of #bat population declines 🦇🧬. Deadline 13th Jan‼️

Acuifer sobrexploitation wreaking avoc with Doñana National Park @ebdonana.bsky.social Records for 1965-present for aquatic vascular plants in the park’s ponds reveal that "nine species have disappeared, and 72% of the remaining species have smaller ranges" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

38% of terrestrial land is exposed to biological invasions, yet sensitivity hotspots extend far beyond ! Check out the last publication of @claramarino.bsky.social & @celinebellard.bsky.social from the #CESAB RIVAGE group : 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🌐🌍🦤