Do you like islands? And/or arthropods? Please get in touch with me (m.t.jezierski[at]bham.ac.uk) or another member of the supervisory team! We will help you study island evolution in arthropods with a (funded) PhD @unibirmingham.bsky.social. 🪲🏝️🦋 centa.ac.uk/studentship/... *Please share this!*

Interested in island life and arthropods? There's a new PhD project advertised at the University of Birmingham to study the evolution of 'island syndromes' in a chosen group of island arthropods, with both museum and fieldwork-based research are expected. More details at: centa.ac.uk/studentship/...

Interesting paper using @ukbms.bsky.social data to examine extreme weather impacts on butterfly populations. Winter heatwaves and periods of high rainfall appear bad for many species. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌍

What moths live on farmland? Despite covering 67% of England, farmland is a biodiversity “dark zone”. Discover how AI & citizen science are revealing its hidden moth life in our FREE webinar: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1496618569... @ukceh.bsky.social @abigaillowe.bsky.social @mjopocock.bsky.social

🚀 New paper led by Dr Becks Spake! We make the case for precision ecology—using big data & predictive tools to tailor conservation actions to local contexts. Can ecology learn from medicine & marketing to boost impact? We think so. Read it here: rdcu.be/eoaR4 #Conservation #Ecology #BigData

Our new GLiTRS paper! 🎉🦗🦋🐝 A tricky paper (evidence synthesis is hard!) but one with bags of potential to improve our understanding of insect biodiversity change 📊

New GLiTRS paper led by @joemillard.bsky.social 🚨📝 "Our database provides a framework for the first global meta-analytic overview of the response of insects to a range of major anthropogenic drivers" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New GLiTRS paper out today!

Our new paper combines wildlife surveillance data and spatial risk modelling to map suitability for TBEV in GB. We identified key drivers linked to TBEV exposure in deer and produced risk maps, which can guide future surveillance and interventions. www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...

Great to be at the #FutureforButterflies. Tomorrow I will speak about this new paper and our work with #biodiversitymonitoring using #Insect #cameratraps and #AI as part of @mambo-project.eu @onestop-project.eu and @insectai.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...?

It's published! The largest research work I've ever undertaken: Lords of the flies: dipteran migrants are diverse, abundant & ecologically important Published in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Thanks so much to co-authors @koralwotton.bsky.social & Myles Menz 1/x

Deadline tomorrow to apply for our paid internship on modelling restoration

Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...

Come and join us in @nhm-london.bsky.social's Biodiversity Futures Lab! We're looking for a geospatial analyst to join the #PredictsProject team for 12 months (with possibility to extend) to help us further develop the Biodiversity Intactness Index. #job deadline 3 Mar jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...

As the clowns in charge of the American circus pull out of the #ParisClimateAgreement, the @who.int, and probably a host of other international agencies, I'm reminded of this paragraph we wrote in 2021 (from doi.org/10.3389/fcos...):

🚨 Interested in using #AI to help develop real-time early warnings of human-wildlife conflict? Apply for a fully-funded #PhD supervised by Vicky Boult (University of Reading) and our own @robboyd.bsky.social Part of the AI-INTERVENE programme. Deadline 27 Jan: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Quick thread on some new papers on the science of impacts of bird feeding since the publication of our papers here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and here britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti... #Ornithoogy #UKBirding🧵 1/

My own #OA contribution is "Bending the curve of #biodiversity loss requires a ‘satnav’ for nature". I argue we'll only reach the #KMGBF goals by combining model predictions of expected future outcomes of today's choices with rapid feedback from monitoring royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

‘Bending the curve towards nature recovery: building on Georgina Mace's legacy for a biodiverse future’ - a special issue of Phil Trans R Soc B in honour of a very special biodiversity scientist - is published today by @royalsociety.org. royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

🎄🎁 Need help navigating the mFD R package for your analyses of #functionaldiversity? The team has a Christmas present for you: an FAQ based on your most common questions since 2021! ➡️ cmlmagneville.github.io/mFD/articles... + New functions to work with functional entities (in the dev vers)📦

We are thrilled to announce that it has been agreed that #IPBES12 will take place in the United Kingdom, thanks to the UK’s kind offer to host the Plenary. Thank you to UK Government, we look forward to launching the #BizBiodiversity Report in the UK.

1/ Great news! 🎉BTO, JNCC and RSPB are making decades of Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data freely available for everyone in the conservation and research community. This includes over 7 million records! 📝 Find out more ⬇️ or read the paper➡️ bit.ly/_BBSData #Ornithology #UKBirding

Digital twins AND adaptive sampling! A @ukceh.bsky.social double bill at the poster session tonight B17.10/11 #bes2024

Are you at #BES2024? Come and find us on stand 10 to learn more about the long-term environmental data we have available through our #NC-UK programme, as well as our latest #AgZero+ sustainable agriculture research  @britishecolsoc.bsky.social @ukladybirds.bsky.social

For my first post here, I’m happy to share our new paper just published in @ibisjournal.bsky.social Thanks to a great team effort, we made a small step forward in the study of Siberian vagrants in Europe and clarified the status of two (pseudo) vagrants: the YBW & the Sib Chiffchaff. Some results 🧵

It's great to be back at the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social annual meeting! Looking forward to all the brilliant talks, workshops, and socials to come. #BES2024

Our new paper in @jappliedecology.bsky.social used models informed by spread in invaded regions to assess the effectiveness of interventions targeting yellow-legged hornet (aka Asian hornet) at its invasion front in Europe. doi.org/10.1111/1365....

I have some PhD projects now available for application if you are interested in insect biodiversity change. Please check out the links below and shout if you have questions!

A while ago I realised that a baby girl born in Spain in 2016 can expect to live 85 years, which is beyond the time horizon of most climate scenarios (that range from 'not looking good, but maybe manageable for most' to 'chaotic hothouse hell-planet'). Also, that baby girl is my daughter.

🚨New Diamond 💎 Open Access Journal in Paleontology 🦴🐚!🚨 Send us your manuscripts 📜 and publish fully open access 🔓 entirely for free! #openacess #paleontology #free #palaeontology #diamond #open

Looking forward to the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social Annual Meeting next week I’ll be talking about the need to consider multiple drivers of change when considering environmental futures A sneak preview

We're offering a PhD place on Rewilding! This PhD will study the wilder grazing at Purbeck Heaths ‘Super National Nature Reserve’, which is shifting towards the restoration of natural processes to create a more dynamic, complex landscape www.findaphd.com/phds/project...