🪲Submit your proposals for our new Special Feature with @jappliedecology.bsky.social & @funecology.bsky.social! This special feature will focus on how climate change affects plant–antagonist interactions, then click the link 👉️ buff.ly/SFdaRGu

Lovely sunny spring morning, perfect for walking @royalholloway.bsky.social living campus trail and enjoying daffodil display before the campus gets too busy. Nice to see bee orchid rosettes as well

Spent last few days attending the annual assembly of Biodiversity Exploratories (@bexplo.bsky.social) as an advisory board member. The quality of science produced by this long-term research programme is truly impressive. If you act quickly, you can still register for #BE20Conference to learn more

Median amount of time spent under review is 7.4–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles and the differences remain significant after controlling for several factors - analysis of >36.5 million articles in >36,000 journals doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Are you a PhD student looking for a placement? I’m offering a 3-month project at @rbgkew.bsky.social to build on @forest-protection.bsky.social research on pest and pathogen risks to trees 🪲🪾🦠🪾 Apply by 13th March! www.kew.org/science/training-and-education/placements-for-phd-students

Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New blog post!!🚨 Faith Jones, Helen Spence-Jones, and Caroline Greiser talk through their new guide for field data collection 📃 🌱 @faithamjones.bsky.social @linegreis.bsky.social 🌍 🧪 Read the blog post here 👉

Went last night to see the preview of @sofiaatsea.bsky.social show about oceans, and it was brilliant - honest, wity, moving, thought-provoking, with some unexpected twists and so cleverly put together. Congratulations, Sofia!

Many thanks to @amywalsh.bsky.social for running a session on pollen identification for my Biomes and Ecosystems @rhulbiology.bsky.social module yesterday. Loved Mickey Mouse silhouette of pine pollen!

We’re on the hunt for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board 🔎 We’re looking for a range of expertise across the whole field of applied ecology. For some particular examples take a look below! 🌎🧪 Find out more information here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...

I am delighted that our Forum paper on using long-term tree diversity experiments to explore the mechanisms of temporal shifts in forest ecosystem functioning made it to the virtual issue of the Editor's Choices of 2025 @oikosjournal.bsky.social! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Still time to submit an abstract to the BE20 meeting! Please share.

A short guide for effective field data collection by Jones et al. @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This winter has been very gloomy and rainy so far, but there are indisputable signs of spring @royalholloway.bsky.social campus #wildflowerhour

More than mitigation: The role of forests in climate adaptation | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

«It is time to recognise that evidence synthesis is its own scientific discipline. It requires expertise like other fields of science.» @sinisavilaakso.bsky.social, @nealhaddaway.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/matthe...

Very nice commentary by @robinheinennl.bsky.social on our recent meta-analysis in @newphyt.bsky.social on plant responses to sequential herbivory. Thank you, Robin!

JOB ALERT! We are excited to announce that we are recruiting three new academics at lecturer level! Click the link below for more info on how to apply, and don’t forget to explore our research themes too! We look forward to receiving your applications! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

"State-of-the-Art Meta-Analysis using JASP", the second of four summer workshops, is now open for registration. Join František Bartoš in Amsterdam or online! jasp-stats.org/2026/02/05/h...

Save the date! 48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions 📅 13–16 October 2026 📍 Leysin, Switzerland www.newphytologist.org/events/48-nps #PlantScience

🚨New deadline!🚨 ⚡️The Call for Abstracts has been extended to: ⚡️February 15, 2026, 11:59pm PST. ➡️ www.ibfra2026.org/callforabstr... #BorealForests #ForestScience #ForestResearch #WeCantLiveWithoutForests

Healthy #soils are alive with movement, feeding, digging, and tiny interactions that shape our food, climate and health. In this video, I explore soil ecoacoustics — a cutting-edge way to “listen” to the hidden world beneath our feet. youtube.com/watch?v=gkRu... 1/2

Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution position available in Biology Department at Stanford University. Apply by April 1, 2026. (Photo by Rick Morris) academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31606

A global synthesis of >600 studies finds that across agro-ecosystems, grasslands and forests in temperate and tropical zones, increasing plant diversity has a consistently positive effect on plant performance and the suppression of antagonists 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 Only 3 days left to submit abstracts for the #BE20Conference. Deadline & early-bird registration: 31 January 2026. Biodiversity researchers from around the world are invited to contribute.🌐 More info: www.biodiversity-exploratories.de/de/be20/ #Biodiversity #Ecology #ScienceCommunity #Berlin2026

Many thanks for your fascinating seminar at @rhulbiology.bsky.social @clairenarraway.bsky.social and for staying to chat to our students about your career path and your research!

Completed #BigGardenBirdwatch and the bird count came above the national average (first time ever, I think) thanks to a large flock of house sparrows. Thanks, sparrows!

Prof Julia Koricheva (@juliakoricheva.bsky.social) leads research in Finland’s long‑term forest diversity experiments within new @trees4adapt.bsky.social EU project aiming to develop tree‑based solutions to reduce risks from climate change & biodiversity loss www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/new...

New study by Medina-van Berkum et al. in @pnas.org Plant diversity influences plant volatile emission with varying effects at the species and community levels 🌱🌼🌿 -> "At the community level, plant species richness directly enhanced VOC emission and increased VOC richness" doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Introducing the second cohort of BES Fellows 🙌  We are delighted to announce that 23 outstanding ecologists have been selected to join our prestigious membership category.  👇Meet our new Fellows here 

The #ForestInvertebrates SIG brings together research on trees, invertebrates & urban ecosystems. 📅 5 March 2026 📍 Hyde Park Learning Centre 🌱 Optional field visit on 4 March Submit your research abstracts & join the conversation 🔽

Delighted to share our new paper 'Hums in the humus: opportunities and challenges for soil #ecoacoustics' and Alex Taylor's first 'first author' paper! authors.elsevier.com/a/1mRHK_3sj9... ... with an all-star soil ecoacoustics team!

🍃🌳 Read the press release about the recent start of our #HorizonEurope project @trees4adapt.bsky.social #Tree‑based solutions for climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation. 🔗 www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-D... 🧷 www.trees4adapt.eu #NatureBasedSolutions #MissionClimateAdapt

New #OA output from @uktreescapes.bsky.social #TreE_PlaNat project: a LiDAR-based comparison of structural complexity of woodlands established through planting, natural colonisation and hybrid approach, led by Sam Hughes and @thisanna.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🐝 New research finds the mechanism by which tree species richness influences bee diversity—taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional—through alterations in the microenvironmental conditions in the understory. 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/cHvVYER

The last chapter from PhD thesis by Juri Felix (co-supervised with @philstevenson.bsky.social) is now out in @oikosjournal.bsky.social! The study explores the effects of tree species identity and spatial scale on tree diversity effects #TreeDivNet nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Ecological insights from three decades of forest biodiversity experiments @natrevbiodiv.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Last sunset of 2025 at the Stiperstones NNR, Shropshire

Impressive yellow meadow ant mounds around Powis Castle, Wales

‪ Meta-analysis in R (2nd edition) — registrations open 🚀 Hands-on systematic reviews & modern meta-analysis in R with @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social & @shreyadimri.bsky.social 📅11–14 May 2026| Online |Ecology & evolution www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #MetaAnalysis #SystematicReview #Rstats

Escaliante et al. Effects of tree diversity on oak litter VOC emissions link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our #OA meta-analysis on ecological predictors of plant responses to sequential herbivory is out in @newphyt.bsky.social. It was an enjoyable collaboration with Zoë Delamore & Erik Poelman from @w-u-r.bsky.social and Zoë did a great job leading the project nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

📢Save the date and submit your abstracts! ⚡️The Call for Abstracts is now open until 1 February 2026! 🌲International Boreal Forest Research Association 2026 Conference🌳 🗓️24-27 Aug 2026; 📍Quebec City, Canada ➡️ www.ibfra2026.org/callforabstr... #ForestScience #ForestResearch #BorealForests

How to write a constructive peer review - see our new editorial, led by @biolumijeffence.bsky.social With some of the team from @conphysjournal.bsky.social

In trees, intraspecific and intraindividual leaf trait variability decrease along a gradient of tree species richness and are an important part of functional diversity in forest stands, Our new paper is already out in @natcomms.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s414... Want to know more about it? 🧵

🚨New paper in Geoderma🚨 Across 9 #TreeDivNet 🧪experiments in Europe, we show that mixed-species 🍁 #forests 🌳🌲store ~9% more #soilcarbon than monocultures. Gains are strongest on cool, <fertile, #climate stable sites, and linked to >fungal richness. #soilcarbon 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

More diverse forests have greater productivity, but do they use more water? A new meta-analysis by Shovon et al. in @journalofecology.bsky.social suggests not. 🌐🌏🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Volatile organic compounds diversity mediates tree diversity–insect herbivory relationships @oikosjournal.bsky.social #TreeDivNet nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...