Just a few quotes from the Declaration of Independence

New paper out today in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com by the #GlobalSharkTrends team: Bending back the curve of shark & ray biodiversity loss; Read the paper here: rdcu.be/eZ9n9 @sfu.ca @sfubiosciences.bsky.social @earth2ocean.bsky.social

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

🚨Job alert! The ENDOW project is hiring a Research Officer in Research Database Management, to be based at @lsemethodology.bsky.social. Oversee & expand our database & contribute to research on social & economic inequality. Deadline 15 February. Share & reach out! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Yet another example of what happens if we allow LLMs to become a form of epistemic grounding for society.

Really fun to go on ABC News Australia to talk about @tom-pienkowski.bsky.social, @morenamills.bsky.social, and my new paper (along with several coauthors not on bluesky). See more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... @catalyzconserv.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au @ic-cep.bsky.social

Out today in @natecoevo.nature.com 'Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot'. Co-led by me and @tom-pienkowski.bsky.social as part of @catalyzconserv.bsky.social at @ic-cep.bsky.social & @imperialsci.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out @ranjmurali.bsky.social's new paper "Understanding multiple pathways of the impacts ofsocio-economic shocks on large carnivores" in plain language! relationalthinkingblog.com/2025/09/18/p...

We're hiring a climate scientist here at @umassboston.bsky.social in the School for the Environment! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us... - more on the call in the image and its alt text. COME JOIN US! #climatescience

[COMMENTARY] “Now is the time for Zanzibar’s government to reexamine past and future investment decisions to ensure they respect Zanzibar’s natural heritage and conserve it for future generations,” says a new op-ed. ** Views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily of Mongabay.

Another nice write up on our letter in Science, this time through @mongabay.com and with some great images. news.mongabay.com/2025/10/zanz...

Nice write-up by The Citizen on our recent letter in @science.org. They do a great job presenting the counterargument made by developers: www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/zan...

Redefine how the world measures progress! 🌍🧑‍🌾🌽🌎🌴🐬🌏🚵‍♀️🍄🌐👍 Join the Global Expert Consultation to develop The Nature Relationship Index (NRI) @undp.org <15 mins to make a difference anu.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... > Deadline: Oct 15, 2025 > Background: rdcu.be/etpiQ

Human transformation of past terrestrial ecosystems @natrevbiodiv.nature.com #anthromes 🌍🌐 doi.org/10.1038/s443...

This is extremely cool: 700 years worth of archaeological artefacts being collected from old nests of bearded vultures (strong contender for the best vulture) www.popsci.com/environment/...

Sharp rise in US whale entanglements after NOAA cut-backs oceanographicmagazine.com/news/sharp-r...

Out in @science.org today. The Ngezi forest of Zanzibar is likely the most intact oldgrowth tropical dry forest in East Africa, if not the continent; it also houses tons of endemic species and gives resources to thousands of people. Bulldozers are waiting at its edge www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Massive cross-institutional paper out today, bringing in almost 40 co-authors across 20 institutions and 9 countries 🌍. Led by @tom-pienkowski.bsky.social. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

new paper, led by @nkolarik.bsky.social: monitoring outcomes of ecological restoration is challenging. Satellite imagery could help, but interpretation requires statistics that can identify breakpoints in messy time-series data. We provide a practical guide: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New super cool paper out last week that you should definitely check out! 🚨😎🐮🌧️ We show that across space and time, economic wellbeing determines how communities respond to precipitation variability in South Africa: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our book is now available online at the African Books Collective here: africanbookscollective.com/books/mangro... Reminder that 100% of proceeds to go mangrove conservation and education programs in Pemba, Tanzania.

🚨New PhD paper out today in @natcomms.nature.com with @renatoamorais.bsky.social and Dave Bellwood! 🚨 Marine fishes exhibit extraordinary patterns of diversity, but how does this diversity relate to their productivity? 🐟🐠🐡 🌐 🦑🧪 🔗 nature.com/articles/s41...

Increasing global human exposure to wildland fires despite declining burned area Seyd+ doi.org/10.1126/science.adu6408 "population directly exposed to wildland fires increased 40% globally from 2002 to 2021 despite a 26% decline in burned area ... 85% of global exposures occurred in Africa"

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Another @stanforddoerr.bsky.social Stanford search for a Tenured Professor in Climate Science! Applications due Oct. 30 🌊 🌎 🌡️ facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Please repost and amplify ! We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina! Check us out and come be our colleague! sc.edu/study/colleg... Deadline for applications is Oct 1 #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Conservation postdoc in Brisbane, Australia 🧪

Collaborate with researchers globally. Chart your transdisciplinary path. Apply to SFI's 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. Competitive pay, research funds, and generous benefits to become a leader in transdisciplinary research. Deadline: Oct 1, 2025 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

Full-time, permanent Lectureship in Forestry or Agroforestry at Bangor University, which has an excellent reputation in forest sciences. jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....

Really amazed by the turnout for our launch of 'Mangroves of Pemba' in Stonetown this past weekend, including the head of the heads of Zanzibar's of the Ministry Natural Resources and Dept. of Forests See: shorturl.at/zwMYN @ic-cep.bsky.social @imperiallifesci.bsky.social @imperialsci.bsky.social

Zanzibar-based people. Come by Emerson Spice in Stonetown this Saturday if you like free food and books about mangroves. Event in collaboration with the Zanzibar Dept of Forests and Mkuki na Nyota Publishers.

We're missing the trees by focusing on the forest!

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As someone who regularly uses computer simulations (ABMs) to look at this type of thing but secretly hates them, this is very very cool.

Are you a PhD student, have an offer, or have had an offer recently rescinded from a US university? If so, Western (in London, ON, Canada) has a new scholarship program for you! Check out this news story. I can vouch for this university! You will love it. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships are open. The scheme provides exceptional UK-based early-career researchers with the chance to enhance their research and teaching experience within an academic setting. Learn more and apply: buff.ly/McS8lRk

Amazing opportunity. Come and help preserve #biodiversity in Australia! 🧪🐨

🌡️ 34°C+ in June? Once rare in the UK, now increasingly normal. "This heatwave is hotter than it would have been without our continued burning of oil, coal and gas," says Dr Friederike Otto (@frediotto.bsky.social) Climate change is rewriting our summers. #Heatwave #ClimateCrisis

📖Published📖 Check out our new Perspective article 👉 Empirical ecology to support mechanistic modelling: Different objectives, better approaches and unique benefits 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/obwawk5

In about a week we (Biological Sciences @ Monash Uni in Melbourne, Australia) will be opening a search for 3 (!!!) permanent academic positions (40% research, 40% teaching, 20% service) at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. 1 Genomics, 2 Ecology. Please share, email me, DM, follow, send carrier pigeons…

Here's a glimpse of our science-ballet dance following a short presentation describing our research on how conservation initiatives can "go to scale". It was a full house at the Victoria and Albert Museum!!

Join us as a Postdoctoral fellow! We’re seeking a Postdoctoral fellow to join the INSPIRI project, which focuses on co-creating imaginative, stakeholder-driven visions for Europe’s ocean and water systems. Learn more and apply by 31 August 2025: www.stockholmresilience.org/about-us/car...

Our new paper led by Jenicca Poongavanan. Predicting #dengue in Africa using disaggregation regression (bottom right in the inset image) and comparing to other methods. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Preprint alert!🚨 You want biomass data without clipping the vegetation? Use your smartphone for a 3D scan! In our manuscript you get instructions & a complete Jupyter notebook for immediate use! doi.org/10.32942/X2T... 🪴+📱=💚 #biodiversity #ecology #globalchange #photogrammetry

This has been so fun to work on. London folks, come check out how we've turned our science into a ballet 👯🩰. Catch us at the Victoria and Albert Museum this Sunday at 3pm, in the Lydia Manfred lecture theater as part of the Great Exhibition Road Festival @ic-cep.bsky.social @imperialsci.bsky.social

Some papers are really good because they make just one point, but they make it really clearly — such as “Statistical Control Requires Causal Justification” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How do we decide on conservation actions in the face of context dependency? In our new paper on ‘Precision Ecology’ we show how methods developed in medicine & marketing can be applied to predict site-specific outcomes allowing effective & targeted conservation doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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

🌿 Many congratulations to Caroline Howe (@carolinehowe.bsky.social) for being named on the 2025 #ENDSPowerList! Announced on #InternationalBiodiversityDay, it's a fitting recognition of her impactful research on how biodiversity underpins human well-being, climate, food, water & health. 🌍🌱