✨ PhD opportunity studying drought and heatwave effects on threatened plants ✨🔥 Funded by an ARC DECRA awarded to the amazing Dr Ilaíne Matos and co-supervised by Dr Sami Rifai and me! Limited by the character limit here, so please see the attached flyer for all the details - please share widely!

New @econovoau.bsky.social paper in Global #Ecology & #Biogeography - on #ungulates in North American ecosystems. Key point: alien ungulates can enhance herbivore diversity & partially restore lost #ecosystem functions 🦌🌿🐂 🐎Link in comment #Rewilding #Megafauna #Macroecology #TIBS2026

Tomorrow #TIBS2026 is starting! 🌐 We can't wait for the first workshops to begin! 📌To register, please join us at our Welcome Reception: you will be able to follow guided tours to better navigate #TIBS2026 venue 🗺️ get the program booklet 📖 personalize your name badges and meet colleagues !

🚨 Pre-announcement! 🚨 We’re hiring for 2 x two-year, full-time roles to join me and the wider @palaeoverse.bsky.social team @es-ucl.bsky.social. - Research Software Engineer (REF: B04-06999): lnkd.in/eNRBiPnP - Community Engagement Coordinator (REF: B04-06998): lnkd.in/ejUACCzn

90% of all marine life lives in the photic zone of the ocean, but research reveals that between 2003 & 2022, ocean darkening reduced the photic zone depth by over 50m in 9% of the ocean, with likely severe consequences. 🆕 study by Thomas W. Davies & Tim Smyth: https://ow.ly/gza550XAw6p

I personally am hoping to finally find out the favourite R package of @cmlmagneville.bsky.social during #TIBS2026

If you're an ECR attending #TIBS2026 in Aarhus in a couple of weeks, remember to sign up to our two exciting events! They have already been exceptionally popular, so don't miss out! You should have received an email with all the details, but if you need any extra information, please let me know 🌐

We are excited to announce that we are running two events for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) at #TIBS2026 in Aarhus 🎉 Registrations are closing on the 31st December, so check your emails! ✉️ Can't wait to see you there! @biogeography.bsky.social

Happy to see our paper out! 🎉 We assess the relative roles of past/present environmental & anthropogenic drivers shaping functional & phylogenetic diversity in Mediterranean forests, highlighting the key role of past climate stability 🌳 ➡️https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.70177 (1/8)

Huge opportunity for marine scholarships! 🌊💸🧪 💸 2x £30k scholarships available 🎓 Available to black British students 🐟 Eligible courses: MSc Marine Environmental Management or MSc Marine Vertebrate Ecology & Conservation www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... @exetermarine.bsky.social

Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...

Curatorial job with significant geological and palaeontological collections at Warwick Museums. www.wmjobs.co.uk/job/250490/c...

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

COOLEST RUNNINGS,,, cuz it’s Cooler than Cool Runnings. Your boy Flavor Flav is now an Official Sponsor and The Official Hype Man of the USA Olympic Bobsled + Skeleton team. YEAH BOOYYYEEEE,!!

"We conducted a host of sensitivity analyses and found our model was robust to a variety of assumptions and alternative specifications." Translation: "I released my imposter syndrome from its mental prison, dialed up my anxiety to max and imagined the ways I could be made to look like a fraud"

This Discussion-Reply is WILD As pointed out in the Reply, the language used in the Discussion is 100% inappropriate and in my view, a failure of the editorial process www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10....

Open Letter by scientists to the Council: "Climate Neutrality Is Europe’s Greatest Economic Opportunity”. Ahead of the European Council meeting on 23.10.2025, 2,178 scientists urge EU Heads of States & Governments to take ambitious decisions for the 2040 targets. zenodo.org/records/1739...

📣Calling ecological leaders! We're looking for people with a passion for effective leadership and management in the ecology workplace to join our Emerging Leaders and Managers (ELM) network committee.

Back in June we were back on the Oxfordshire “dinosaur highway”, excavating more dinosaur tracks with our teams from the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford & Liverpool John Moores. The BBC have a story out today about our work at the site: www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Looking forward to this! I will be helping @josephtobias.bsky.social lead discussions on what preregistration could look like for macroecology - join us on Wednesday 📝🌍

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists. We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still. Archaeologists 🥺 www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

I rely heavily on Untitled1 through Untitled30 for support! I should acknowledge them more.

Untitled1 is the one true way

JOBS JOBS JOBS! Stony Brook are advertising two assistant professorships in vertebrate palaeo/evolution, one focused on (in the words of the SVP programme) NOT DINOSAURS and the other on evolutionary neurology: apply.interfolio.com/172502 apply.interfolio.com/172517

Forgotten Victorian hobby: seaweed herbariums bound in scallop shells www.sturgisantiques.com/items/victor...

If you know anyone interested in starting a Master's project working on ammonoid phylogenetics (or the phylogenetics of a mollusc group spanning the OAE2 event in the Late Cretaceous), then ask them to get in touch with me. The situation is a little tricky, as it would be funded by the remainder…

🚨 New paper in PLOS Biology! 📉 Women publish up to 45% fewer papers than men 📉 Non-native English speakers: –35% 📉 Triple barrier (woman + non-native English + low-income): –70% 🌍 Language & equity matter in science! 👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #EquityInScience #LanguageMatters #OpenScience

We have a lab slack channel called Bad Plots. I added this beauty today (boxplots always give me problems), but at least my lab is extremely supportive.

With this methodology, you'd also find that native herbivores generally "harm" plants and native carnivores generally "harm" their prey & competition - unsurprisingly, intuitively & given the huge literature on herbivory, competition, predation etc 🌿

Early registration (and the best possible rates) still open for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting 2025 in Birmingham, but it closes on Thursday. Register now if you haven't already! #SVP2025 #2025SVP vertpaleo.org/2025-registr...

Check out the graphical abstract for a paper recently published in Ecological Modelling. I have papers published in Ecological Modelling. Never again, I guess.

Don't share too many mini photos since the move to blue sky - but I've been really enjoying painting models from the Grand Cathay range! Still some work to do, but I think these may get a spot on the shelf. Really beautiful sculpts.

I’m very happy to share our new paper “Intensive feeding modifies nutrient patterns in a strictly protected area” (doi.org/10.1016/j.je...), just out in Journal of Environmental Management. We explore underestimated consequences of a common management practice: supplementary feeding of deer. (1/5)

Do you love alpine plants, ancient DNA, and/or population genetics? My lab will be hiring a postdoc soon to be based at the University of Maine! We’re looking for someone who uses genetic tools and thinks like a community ecologist. Happy to chat at #ESA2025 if you’re interested.

It’s time to show oysters some love because it’s World Oyster Day! 🦪🦪🦪🦪🦪🦪 Did you know that the largest oyster ever found was a Pacific oyster that was 35.5 cm long? To put that in perspective, normally, Pacific oysters reach 15-20 centimetres. 📷 Wadden Sea Center 1/3

Today is also #WorldOysterDay 🦪 - on a #MolluscMonday ! “Denticulated Oyster” (Striostrea denticulata) illustration by R. P. Nodder in George Shaw’s _The naturalist's miscellany_ Vol. 16, London, 1804-5 Via Biodiversity Heritage Library : www.flickr.com/photos/biodi...

Shannon's H, Simpson's D, and Pielou's J are useless in ecology. Fitting data with a compound abundance distribution based on the geometric series is a better way to quantify variation – and to estimate species richness. New paper in Ecology Letters. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Please repost. For those who might have missed it, our School has three ongoing positions advertised. The work environment here at Monash is top notch: supportive, collegiate and inclusive. And Melbourne is an awesome city to live in. Deadline fast approaching. Get cracking on those applications!

Registration and abstract submission are now open for BES2025. Learn more 👉

25th Student Conference in Conservation Science, Cambridge, 31 March – 2 April 2026. Looking for postgraduate students and early-career conservation scientists, in a broad range of fields, to apply to present talks or posters on their work. www.sccs-cam.org

5 papers all computational biologists should read 🧵 1. A Quick Guide to Organizing Computational Biology Projects journals.plos.org/ploscompbio...

Just became aware of this paper - lots of great ideas for how to make sure field trips support LGBTQ+ ecologists besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Aarhus postdocs past and present representing well at #BESMacro2025

🐠🦈 Just out: In this paper we ask "How has reef trophic structure changed since humans started removing predatory fishes from Caribbean coral reefs?". www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com

The Journal of Animal Ecology's 5th Sidnie Manton award is now open to proposals!🚨 Read more about the award here: buff.ly/BV6OT1P ...and submit your proposal here: buff.ly/YsnYe29 The deadline for proposals will be 1 September 2025.

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New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6 #AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Accessibility for all www.nature.com/articles/s41... Our June Editorial discusses the many barriers and challenges scientists with disabilities face during their careers, and highlights actions journals can take to improve accessibility