🚨 My latest paper has just been published! 🎉 For the Horizon Europe project #Re-Livestock , we studied in vitro methane production in 48 male dairy calves from 3 genotypes raised in 4 grass-based systems. Main result: feeding system mattered more than genotype. doi.org/10.1016/j.li... 🧪 🧵 1/4

Good news!🚀 Booklet and Book of Abstracts of the EAAP Mountain Grassland and Livestock Joint Conference is now available! The event will take place in Plantahof, Landquart (Switzerland), from 15th to 17th June 2026 Have a look here and register to the event!🧐 mlg2026.eaap.org

The prize that could make ‘talking to the animals’ a reality Scientists are decoding the chirps, squeaks and calls of finches, bonobos and more in pursuit of a $10m award aimed at understanding how animals communicate, James Tapper reports https://bit.ly/4nDelSF

Parution de l'Atlas de la flore des Terres australes françaises, premier ouvrage de référence entièrement consacré à la flore des îles australes françaises #TAAF, publié aux éditions Biotope en coédition avec les Publications scientifiques du @mnhn.fr. taaf.fr/actualite/pu...

Have you heard the propaganda about how C02 pollution is "plant food"? Yes, it causes crops to grow faster and produce higher yields, but it also means there's more sugar and fewer nutrients. Fossil fuels damage food supplies at a time when billions are already suffering from nutrient deficiency.

77th EAAP Annual Meeting in Hamburg: Register by June 1st to Benefit from Early-Bird Rates ⏳ The countdown is on! Join us in Hamburg from 7–11 September 2026 🌍 🎯 Early-bird deadline: June 1st, 2026 Register now to save your spot (and money!) 💸 🔗 eaap2026.org See you in Hamburg 🇩🇪

NEWS: The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about changes to the re-submission rules, intended to manage the surge in demand for grants. The Scientific Council will readjust some of the changes: link.europa.eu/TBqRQJ

Five more days to apply! PhD position in our long-term Arctic project based at Leibniz University Hannover with fieldwork in Abisko. Focus: berries, functional traits, climate change & future food systems (with a microclimate angle). Please share: www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/8...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Our letter in @science.org on the scientific consensus behind our conclusion: "legislation should prioritize and scale up sustainable practices & alternatives to pesticides, [...] and provide sustained support to farmers committed to agroecological transition."

Frontlines of the climate crisis: 1 in 3 people in Somalia face severe food insecurity. Repeated droughts, harvest failures and livestock losses are fueling conflict and displacement, while food and energy prices surge.

Beef is rising, herds are shrinking...how can solar help? cleantechnica.com/2026/04/23/s... #solar #solarpower #solarenergy #agrivoltaic #agripv #agrisolar #solarfarms #solarpowerplants #beef #cattle #cows #livestock #solargrazing #sustainable #csr #solarindustry #agriculture #farms #farming

We're accepting proposals for our Special Feature! We invite scientists and practitioners to share experiences from management projects that didn't go to plan, but still provided important insights into how best to manage ecosystems and species🌱 ⏰Submit by 30th April More here👇 buff.ly/EXXBFsJ

'Environmental claims, climate promises, and ‘greenwashing’ by meat and dairy companies' Relevant paper by Bach et al. in PLOS Climate doi.org/10.1371/jour...

🌳🌱🍄‍🟫🪲🕷️🐜 This week we are sampling micro, meso and #macrofauna in our fodder #tree #hedgerows and in adjacent grazed #grassland to assess the impact of this #agroforestry system on #soil #biodiversity #AgroForageTreeProject @snsf.ch @agroscope.bsky.social

📢 #PhD offer: "Towards better carbon accounting for agroforestry systems at global scale" 🌳 🌽 🐄 🌍 . Fully funded by @cirad.bsky.social and GALILEO EU-AU project. Deadline to apply: May 31, 2026. #agroforestry #carbon #IPCC #naturalclimatesolution More details here: www.cirad.fr/content/down...

📢 Join our #EcologySeminar! Dr. Filip Harabiš will shed light on the question of whether ponds in agricultural landscapes function as biodiversity hotspots or ecological traps 🐸 🌾 🪲 📅 Wed 22April at 10:15 AM ❗️ Only online 📩 DM for webinar link @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de

In a world that often feels deeply polarized, it is rare to find a topic where almost everyone agrees. The treatment of farm animals is one of them. Surveys across many countries show that a strong majority of people, regardless of their diet, oppose common practices in animal agriculture.

📖 Yellow fever outbreak temporarily changes dispersal patterns in an endangered primate These results indicate a spatial rearrangement of individuals during the outbreak potentially due to non-random mortality leading to changes in social group structure🐵 🧪 🦠 🔎 buff.ly/ioA0767

Grassland management & wild #bee biodiversity: conservation lessons from native & non-native systems in S Ontario. New review, led by Kyr Lightburn, discusses the importance of integrating incentive-based management & targeted restoration in working lands to enhance habitat: doi.org/10.1139/face...

Received a review request for a journal I wasn't aware of. Manuscript title and abstract were fanciful. An opportunity to "discover" 😆 that Springer Nature copied MDPI with a bunch of (semi)predatory journals named "discover something". Be sure not to review or publish in these journals. ⚒️ 🧪 1/2

COMING SOON...🌳🐄 Our latest Tech Guide and online Hub (released later this week) will explore the role of #TreeFodder as a supplementary livestock feed, bringing together peer-reviewed research & farmer experience. We can't wait to share this one with you! 🤩

🚨 L'agroforesterie sélectionnée comme "Faits marquants" de @inrae-france.bsky.social AgroEcoSystem 🐮❤️🌳 Je suis très heureux de la mise en avant de mon premier article de postdoc ! Les feuilles d’arbres comme fourrage en période de sécheresse ? ▶️ doi.org/10.1007/s104...

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