After 5 years, hundreds of interviews & workshops, many open access papers (& more on the way), an App, the 1st global symposium on #novelecosystems & lots of deep research, the @noveleco.bsky.social project finishes today. Thanks to so many people, especially my super team and the @erc.europa.eu.

Reptiles with longer Wikipedia pages tend to be bigger. The relationship is a power law with exponent = 0.85. I guess humans really like writing about big lizards? The longest article is the Komodo Dragon.

A nice opportunity in Nothern Ireland: @savebutterflies.bsky.social Limestone Grassland Project Manager. Deadline for applying is 8 June. More information here: butterflyconservation.livevacancies.co.uk#/job/details... #NatureRecovery #GenerationRestoration

Come join us! We have a one-year, part-time, education-focussed Assistant Professor post in Palaeobiology. Deadline for applications is 2nd June 2026. Please see more at the below link: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

We’re hiring! We are recruiting for a Lectureship in Global History of Science to join our Department from September 2026. For more info and to apply, please visit: https://bit.ly/3R94V58 Closing Date: 9th June 2026 #WeAreSTS #Science #Historyofscience #Globalscience

Important new paper out today led by @jonastrepel.bsky.social that explains how common approaches to quantifying the impacts of #introduced #herbivores are fundamentally flawed, including those used by the #IUCN. #Rewilding doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

This has been a really fun collaboration with a wonderful team: @mattkerr.bsky.social, Rob Buitenwerf, @kristymferraro.bsky.social, Liza le Roux, Erick Lundgren, @maitner.bsky.social, @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social and @jcsvenning.bsky.social @econovoau.bsky.social. Thanks everyone!

Check out our new letter in Conservation Biology where we argue that (re-)introduced large herbivores are often wrongly framed as harmful because herbivory is automatically equated with ecological damage - overlooking their potential to restore biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.

Herbivory is a fundamental ecological process; treating it as harm (like recent work has suggested) misinforms conservation decisions about introduced herbivores. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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And when you point this out the response is usually “leave people alone” or “mind your own business,” as though an industry explicitly designed to shape aesthetics doesn’t impact people. Extreme thinness is framed as an individual choice and not something that shapes, or is shaped by, pop culture.

Open #PhD #position on “Projecting the #human #impact on #biodiversity” (fully funded 4 years position) in my group @University Zurich & @eawag.bsky.social 🌐 🌍 📈 🦀 🐟 🌳 All #details & application instructions 🎯: apply.refline.ch/673277/1356/... ❗Thx for spreading the word / apply now!

I’m super happy to share that we’re looking for a PhD student to join us! It’s an exciting project and a great opportunity to work together on big questions about biodiversity and human impacts. Come work with us! and please share with people who might be interested 👉 m.refline.ch/673277/1356/...

Great to share the podium with @lauralgovers.bsky.social at the University of Aarhus speaking about emerging novelty with the ECONOVO group. Thanks @anordonez1.bsky.social, @matt and @jcsvenning.bsky.social for hosting.

Biogeography of intertidal invertebrates is influenced by latitude along the west coast of Australia vist.ly/4zwgv #Invertebrates #MarineEcology #SDM

What do I think about the giant Cretaceous octopuses? - First that I'm delighted people are asking me 😁 - Second that WOW! Scientists used an amazing technique to discover HUGE fossil cephalopod beaks! 🤩 - Third that OH BOY do I have questions...🧵🧪🐙 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Names matter: the word ‘citizen’ carries legal, political, and cultural meanings that are not neutral, say @britishecologicalsociety.org. Instead, consider using the term ‘community science’.

It seems every week a new citation-based metric appears, claiming to fix a big problem with the old ones. Our new preprint discusses how adding new metrics would only serve to exacerbate privilege gaps in academia - worsening existing biases and introducing new ones. doi.org/10.32942/X2R...

Environmental and anthropogenic impacts on key Mediterranean Sea fishes and molluscs from the late Pleistocene until the Industrial Revolution academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti... @imares-group.bsky.social @maria-bas.bsky.social @martacoll.bsky.social @icmcsic.bsky.social

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...