Vote for Mollusc of the Year 2026. The winner will have its complete genome sequenced. There are some cool species in the running this year! www.unitasmalacologica.org/mollusc-of-t...

Ecological Solutions and Evidence is accepting proposals for their latest Special Feature! They invite scientists and practitioners to share experiences from management projects that didn't turn out as expected, but still provided important insights into how best to manage ecosystems and species 🌱

M. Krings, C. Harper & I are organizing a symposium for early career researchers: -👤students to 2 years post PhD -🌿 any #paleobotany or #palynology subject - 💶 awards for the 3 best talks We hope to gather a diversity of subjects & presenters. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have questions!

Are you thinking about taking our intro to stock assessment course? If you work with fisheries data, this course shows you what happens between "survey index" and "stock status estimate." 📍 Copenhagen 📅 1–5 June ⏰6 April deadline👉 ices.dk/events/Training/Pages/stock_assessment_introduction_2026.aspx

Ecosystem integrity is a central concept in #conservation & #restoration. I argue for shifting from pattern-focused views to ecological processes & evolutionary lineages. Happy to see it accepted in @restorationecology.bsky.social🌿It'll become available at DOI: 10.1111/rec.70390 #ecosystemintegrity

Cool package, and really interested to see how it develops - these types of tools will always be super useful for developing fisheries policy and advice. Especially for fishers. We developed a similar tool for MPA design a few years back using vessel data: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Compared to continental ones, only a few #marine species are considered #extinct. Now we have one more, the #snail Conus lugubris from São Vicente Island (Cape Verde Archipelago). This species had a very restricted range now lost to "development". www.iucnredlist.org/species/1922...

Do you (or have you ever) worked with natural history collections? Are you trans or non-binary? If you said "yes" to both of those, @rin-krichilsky.bsky.social and I want to hear from you! Please consider filling out our survey and please share with others! 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐛🦕🦴🌿 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New preprint is out - a very large team got together last year, virtually and in person and assessed code and data sharing in BES journals. The key take away? Data sharing was good (97% shared), code sharing was poorer (35%). README files were also highly variable in quality. Publish your code!

I am still actively looking for postdoc positions — please lmk if you (or your friends and colleagues) need a hardworking postdoc with field, lab, and bioinformatic skills! I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.

Ready to start your own lab? Interested in #GlobalChange,#Biodiversity and #Ecosystem#Resilience? Join us in Göttingen - we are looking for a (female) Junior Research Group Leader in #EcologicalNovelty. Attractive conditions, see euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/415857 - please share widely if you can!

These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats

...and eventually the most long awaited starter pack: the one to connect all those interested in molluscs! Please message me if you prefer to opt out or if you wish to suggest new members (just briefly add the reason) go.bsky.app/Eh4qpKr

Coming up in March! Join @sortee.bsky.social for a webinar with @daxkellie.bsky.social on good, shareable, and reproducible R code - register here: events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...

Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An excellent three-post take on one of the many facets of the recent Spinosaurus/Myhrvold/Epstein controversy. Science journalists, this story really needs covering! #scicomm #science #ethics #epstein

This is very unfortunate, because we are facing a big and largely unexplored issue in research ethics that goes way beyond the individual case. It could really do with being widely debated in public. We are used to thinking of research ethics mostly in terms of the research itself (no cheating, no

Super honoured to have contributed to this epic piece of work, lead masterfully by @szymon-czyzewski.bsky.social. We review multiple lines of palaeoecological evidence to reassess vegetation structure over the last 23 million years: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Published!📖 The making of novel ecosystems: A process-based framework for measurement, analysis and application 🌍 🔎 Find out more:

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️26th February 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week for our next instalment, given by Dr Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social from Natural History Museum, London, on “Hack-a-thons: what, why and how to run them” 💻 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Registration for BES Macro 2026 is now OPEN. This year will be 15-17 July, University of Reading, with a great series of plenaries/workshops lined up. Register by April 17 if you'd like to present! #BESMacro2026 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...

New paper out examining fish food web degradation in the Anthropocene. We show the structure of aquatic food webs are changing-- even when species richness doesn’t. These signals are strongly associated with decreases in body size within fish communities. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐🐠🐡🦈🐟

🚨New dinosaur! The latest salvo in the Spinosaurus saga. A Spinosaurus looking like Elvis, with an outrageous bony head crest. Discovered in the Sahara by my undergrad mentor Paul Sereno & his team. Super cool! But I'm sure nobody on the internet will care about it... 😉

New study: “Investigating Collaboration Needs in Ecological restoration.” Led by @timalamenciak.bsky.social with several @uvicenvi.bsky.social co-authors, we report on the importance of bridging the science-practice gap in restoration. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

From our Chinese New Year celebration at @econovoau.bsky.social today (a little early)

Our new paper presents a framework for analysing the processes that generate novel ecosystems, discussing different conceptual and practical approaches across ecological disciplines. You can read it, open access, in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What do we want? Fossil databases! 🐚🦕 When do we want them? Forever! 🗓️ Nice new paper highlighting how academic funding systems and digital architecture need to change, to ensure we can protect and sustain our precious fossil data 📚 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 For those with access to collections of bird specimens: we are looking for collaborators who can quickly measure bulbuls/greenbuls (Pycnonotidae) for a project on intraspecific trait variation. We need 100s specimens measured from common species in return for co-authorship. Anyone up for it? 🧪🌐🪶

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

For #FossilFriday I’m pleased to announce our new paper on investigating the cranial performance and evolution of feeding behavior in tyrannosauroids and other theropods. Here’s a thread on some of our major findings. #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Tyrannosaurus #Theropods

The Global Ecology feed is growing fast, now >30 posts/week on large-scale biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation science 🌍🧪🦤🦑🪴🍁 Join the convo, DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join and be added to the list of contributors ! Let’s build a community together ✨🌈💚 👉 bsky.app/profile/nmou...

Are narratives of total biosphere collapse helpful? Is ecological 'novelty' necessarily bad? What can the past tell us about the human capacity to mould and adapt to future conditions? Red more in our new paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B: doi.org/10.1098/rstb... 🌏🧪🌐

Our new paper is online! We found that 1) today's shark & ray diversity was already reached ~100Ma; 2) that the K/Pg extinction was not catastrophic; 3) that the max diversity was reached ~50Ma; and 4) that today's diversity is depleted compared to the past. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below! Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage

We are recruiting a Postdoc in computational biology, together with @mariasecrier.bsky.social 4yr, fully funded by @cancerresearchuk.org, ideal for Postdocs wanting to develop their independence Applications open now: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

My collaborator at University of Copenhagen, Anders Garm, is looking for a 3 year postdoc to work on bioluminescence, neurobiology and ecology of ctenophores. More information here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Check your class enrollment lists to see if there are any penguins taking Intro to GIS this semester.

We knew that trees produced lots of pollen, which always biased our interpretation of the past towards truly forested landscapes. This manuscript led by @kijumil.bsky.social challenges that view!

Just a reminder to follow and share our ECR Biogeography starter pack - and if you've already followed, double check you haven't missed any recent additions!

If you’re interested in extinction risk, please check out our new paper in @science.org led by my former PhD student Cooper: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

"Ecological Forecasting" - the new Master of Science study program at the University of Bayreuth www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/master/ec...

It was great to meet so many other Early Career Researchers at our #TIBS2026 mixer last night - both catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. To celebrate all the ECR Biogeographers, we have created a starter pack so you can follow all the exciting work being done: go.bsky.app/KvnmdnK

🚨 New paper!🚨 Our postdoc @atengstedt.bsky.social and colleagues just published a PNAS study presenting a genomics‑informed framework for deciding when genetic rescue is likely to work🌱 Even moderate genomic data can give conservation teams the confidence they need to act faster and smarter!💡

As we get into the final parts of the amazing meeting that #TIBS2026 was, a reminder to follow and share the starter pack for ECRs in Biogeography: go.bsky.app/KvnmdnK And a reminder to check it again, as we've had many new additions over the conference. See you all at the dinner!

Heja #tibs2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social , if you need good Indie music for your hopefully successful but surely long trip home, I recommend (my band): WAL (German for whale) - atmospheric,epic & powerful IndieRock We're on all platforms: Http://wal.band open.spotify.com/artist/6HFBs...

⏩️❓️‼️ If you have your biogeography research to be published, there is the perfect journal with an impact factor of 2.5 & being led & driven by a great society @biogeography.bsky.social🎉‼️⏪️ ❤️FRONTIERS OF BIOGEOGRAPHY❤️ biogeography.pensoft.net #tibs2026 #macroecology @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social

As we get into the final parts of the amazing meeting that #TIBS2026 was, a reminder to follow and share the starter pack for ECRs in Biogeography: go.bsky.app/KvnmdnK And a reminder to check it again, as we've had many new additions over the conference. See you all at the dinner!

Had some great discussion at my poster at #TIBS2026 on our recent paper on climate change impacts on malaria vector mosquitoes. Thanks everyone who dropped by! It'll still be up for a couple of hours at poster number 2026 (I know - what are the odds?)

Proud of @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social for showcasing her insights on seed dispersal vulnerability to global change, a key part of her #EcoNet #MSCA project with me at @econovoau.bsky.social. Take-home: habitat change main driver of vulnerability, but adaptability is high 📢⏩ doi.org/10.1111/ele....

For those biogeographers interested in these topics, consider joining @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social !