There's a lot of evidence that grazing can improve plant biodiversity (although there are exceptions). Mostly, though, it doesn't seem to improve carbon sequestration, and sometimes decreases it. But grazing, like politics, is local. All depends on conditions/climate/management.

We’re conducting a short 5-minute survey to support the development of a practical tool for non-human primates welfare. Researchers, keepers, and vets in zoos, sanctuaries, and rescue centres: your input would be incredibly valuable. forms.gle/SPN7PHVPpzF5... Open until 10 April. Please share!

My first time doing botanical relevé under the snow! ☃️ But the Cardamine pratensis are already blooming, a sign of the beginning of the grazing season...and of the pasture sampling ☘️🐄 Thanks @scale-it-heproject.bsky.social for this new experience 😉

Dès ses premiers jours, un poussin reconnaît sa mère et ses congénères, révélant des capacités cognitives surprenantes. Pour approfondir, découvrez un extrait de *Bien-être et comportement des poules domestiques* de Cécile Arnould (éd. Quae).

In academia, we're good at talking about successes, but sweep unfunded grants & unsuccessful job apps under the rug. It can be a tough road, filled w/ failure* For anyone discouraged about the process, here's my failure CV #AcademicSky 🧪 *None are really failures if you learn from them

We have a starter pack for scientists using camera traps! 📸 If you work with camera trap data in any way, either collecting data, running ecological models, training CV/ML models, let me know I’ll add you to this list 🎉 go.bsky.app/CbJkbVw

How do you design a camera-trap workflow that is field-resilient and analysis-ready?  Join Applied Ecology Resources' free webinar as Dr Hugo Magaldi and Prof. Sabrina Krief discuss camera‑trapping in Uganda and their development of DeepForestVision for AI species labelling and quality control 📸

A few days after planting the trees, we’re now watering them to help the soil settle around the roots 💦🌳 And because it’s March… and it hasn’t rained in weeks 😱

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

"There's five times as many butterflies on cattle grazing sites compared with sheep grazed sites," @bcyorkshire.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our #agroforestry plot @FiBL 🇨🇭 is growing! After the first planting of timber and fruit trees a year ago, we now added forage trees for the dairy cows 🐮🌳🌿 More than 110 trees have been planted in just one day 🎉 The next step is to mulch and water all of them to ensure sufficient soil moisture 🫗

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

📢 Calling all primatologists 📢 EFP2026 in Montpellier is now open for abstracts & registration! 🗓 Deadline for abstract : 13 March 2026 (before if mobility grant application) Submit: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/abs... Register: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/reg... All abstracts will be accepted!

🐐🐑🐄 #SIA2026 | On vous résume (en quelques slides)... la conférence "Quelle place pour le pastoralisme dans les systèmes alimentaires de demain ?" Avec le @cirad.bsky.social nous faisons toute la lumière sur ces pratiques agricoles cruciales pour des millions de personnes à travers le monde ! 👇

📢 Abstracts Submission 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟔𝐭𝐡! 🧬🐄🐖🐑 📍 Hamburg, Germany 📅 7–11 September 2026 Submit your abstract here: eaap2026.org 🚀 Don’t miss this opportunity!

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...

Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money 1 in 8 'special issues' is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI @manuelansede.bsky.social english.elpais.com/science-tech...

An IL‑based study is taking a fresh look at windbreaks—tree and shrub systems that protect farms from extreme weather and soil loss—to show how they can still pay off for farmers today. Supporters say removing them can actually cost farmers money. #ClimateResilience @savannainstitute.bsky.social

Once again, this study on the Pampa grasslands shows cattle exclusion is an easy but not optimal solution to improve plant diversity 🐮🌿 The challenge is to find the perfect balance, which may depend on grassland, soil, year, season, etc, if this "perfect balance" exists...

Finally a package to easily annotate ggplot? That looks great!

I started making this R package 6 years ago. I finally have it in a state I'm happy with, thanks to Claude Code #Rstats github.com/MattCowgill/...

Our first round of ABC microgrants for 2026 is done, and for the first time, we were able to fund each and every eligible application! 🎉🎉🎉 We funded a total of 5 applications – this was made possible thanks to our generous donors! 🙏🏽

Very excited to share that my first first-author paper is out in the Journal of Vegetation Science! 🌱🥳 Our paper used a 20-year grazing experiment in the Scottish uplands to assess how grass community traits shift in response to grazing. 📖 Paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 The call for abstract for #EURAF2026 is officially open! ☘️🌳🐄 Submit your abstract by the 15th of March on the conference website: www.euraf2026.ch/index.php/en... 📃 Looking forward to seeing you in June in Neuchâtel! 🇨🇭

📢 Join our team: Are you interested in the synthesis of ecological data? We are offering a postdoctoral researcher position on the effects of collaborative agri-environment measures on multiple taxa and ecosystem services. See #job advert www.uni-goettingen.de/en/vacancy+f...

💡📣 Two weeks left to submit your proposal to the @geomountains.bsky.social Small Grants Call 2026–2027! #ResearchFunding up to CHF 10k for projects on #mountain monitoring, #data, & info. 🗓 Deadline: 20 Feb 🔗 More info: buff.ly/FOkFRZT #OurChangingMountains #MountainsMatter

Interested in a PhD in European wetland flora and vegetation? See details here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/r5ob6...

📢 Upcoming #EcologySeminar! Dr. Alina Twerski will give a talk about grasslands’ multifunctionality and it's restoration 🌾 📅 Wed 4. Feb at 10:15 AM 📩 DM for webinar link @hsanhalt.bsky.social @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de

Yesterday, I successfully defended my PhD dissertation about Free-ranging cattle in the boreal forest. A huge thanks to my supervisors, the farmers, and anyone who I met along the way giving ideas and inspiration. Read here the digital version: lnkd.in/eNxD7eJf

Happy to share that our new paper is out! We quantify multiple ecosystem services in rangelands with standardized global data from #NutNet 🦌🐄🦬, and show how their synergies and trade-offs shift with grazing exclusion and fertilization 🌿🌏💫 doi.org/10.1002/fee.... @esajournals.bsky.social

🥬 🍅 OYEZ, les HOMMES VÉGÉTA*IENS ou PESCO-VÉGÉTARIENS ! Participez à une recherche sur le genre et l'alimentation, dans le cadre d'un mémoire de recherche de Master 2 en psychologie clinique : ci-dessous l'appel à candidature, cinq questions ! memoirederechercheregnier.limesurvey.net/932347?lang=...

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🌲 🌳 🌍 📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration? 💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models? 🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town? Come and join us at KIT! Application details: t1p.de/qctj7

Great postdoc opportunity in Sweden!! With the one and only David Wardle 🧪🌐 www.umu.se/en/work-with...

🥁🌱 Kick-off in Frick, Switzerland - hosted by FiBL! 36 partners, 16 countries, 4 years of scaling up #OrganicFarming with #SCALE_it 🌿 Highlights: 🔹 65+ demo trials 🎨 New visual ID 🐄 Field visits More to come - stay tuned! #HorizonEurope #NatureBasedInputs #OrganicFuture

🚨New animal linguistics paper🚨 Together with @geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social and @maelmleroux.bsky.social, we tried to finally answer this question: Do titi monkeys have complex syntactic skills? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

La plus forte éruption solaire depuis 2003 provoque actuellement des aurores boréales spectaculaires visibles sur l'ensemble de la France. Sortez tout de suite regarder au nord. Surtout dans les zones où le ciel est dégagé au nord-est du pays ! Un message d'apaisement à faire passer #Greenland

rspatialdata: a repository of spatial datasets & tutorials for spatial analysis & visualization in #rstats, supporting real-world applications such as estimating air pollution, quantifying disease burden, and monitoring progress toward the SDGs🌍💻📊 👉 rspatialdata.github.io

Same-sex sexual behaviour is part of the normal social life of some primates and could play an important part in their long-term success go.nature.com/4qNGo1I

Researchers from our Dept. of Biochemistry and @uni-kiel.de led by @sunsicker.bsky.social show in @pnas.org that the loss of plant diversity has an impact on the odor signals emitted by plant communities—with consequences for their interactions with other organisms. www.ice.mpg.de/527832/PR_Me...

📢 Call for Abstracts Open! The 77th EAAP Annual Meeting will take place in Hamburg 7–11 Sept 2026. 🔬 Present your research 🌍 Connect with the global animal science community 📝 Abstract limit extended to 4,000 characters 👉 Don’t miss it! eaap2026.org

Almost all livestock in the United States is factory-farmed— It’s difficult to quantify animal suffering in a single number, but one metric often used to measure living conditions is the number of animals raised on “factory farms”.

Interested in how life history may shape the gut microbiome of a wild mammal? Keen on getting to work with an iconic long-term study system in Scotland? Check out this PhD opportunity with me, Josephine Pemberton and @gfalbery.bsky.social Reach out to chat more! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🌿Join the 68th IAVS Annual Symposium.🌿 ⌛️ Early bird registrations are now open. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to connect with fellow vegetation scientists! Take advantage of the early bird rates. Location: Gijón, Spain. Apply here—https://2026gijon.iavs-meetings.org/.

🌿 4th EAAP Regional Meeting – Mediterranean Region - ✨Registrations and Abstract Submission are still open! 📅 20–22 May 2026 🇮🇹 Sassari, Sardinia (Italy) 📌 Submit your abstract by 23 January 2026 and register here 👉 regional2026.eaap.org

"Les contaminations [...], notamment en Occitanie, sont en réalité le résultat de déplacements illicites de bovins contagieux à partir de la zone réglementée [...]" Rappelons que la Coordination Rurale demande un arrêt des controls 😑 www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Dermatose nodulaire contagieuse : les vétérinaires victimes d’une épidémie de désinformation

🚨New paper out🚨 Grazing improves immune parameters and complete blood count in calves ☘️🐮🌿 www.agrarforschungschweiz.ch/en/2025/12/g... Published just before Christmas 🎄🎁 🧪

Two advertisements for PhD projects in our group at @uni-konstanz.de, including one in my recently funded project on the role of soil biodiversity in plant responses to drought. Deadline on January 12th. Sharing would be appreciated! More info here: www.biologie.uni-konstanz.de/kleunen/news...

Join us! ETH Zürich and the Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS) is seeking an Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Sustainable Plant Nutrition @usyseth.bsky.social ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...

Je fais des recherches pour une chronique sur la détox à la rentrée, c’est quoi les dernières pratiques qui tournent dans votre entourage ? Toujours citron, artichaut, jeûne ou bien y a de la nouveauté ?