Very proud of this paper in BioScience : « Too cute to be wild: what teddy bears reveal about our disconnection from nature » 🧸 are more than toys, they shape among our first emotional connections to nature. But their design may also distort how we see wildlife ! 👉 doi.org/10.1093/bios... 🧪🦤

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #32, Sept 15-22, 26 posts! ✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... DM if you want to receive the link weekly 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Sounds like a conspiration against Hedonism !!

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #languagebarriers

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #31, Sept 08-15, 28 posts! ✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... DM if you want to receive the link weekly 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

#CNRSnews 🗞️ The CNRS mathematician and computer scientist Stéphane Mallat receives the CNRS 2025 Gold Medal for his achievements in applied maths and signal processing, including the JPEG 2000 image compression standard and mathematical foundations of AI.

What future does AI hold? With @paulbrainey.bsky.social, we hypothesize that human-AI coevolution is leading to the emergence of a new evolutionary unit of selection. Science fiction or looming fact? Read our paper and judge for yourself. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Massive datasets in #ScienceAdvances confirm that higher adherence to a diet friendly to Earth and human health correlates with lower all-cause mortality. https://scim.ag/46bE644

Climate change increasingly alters the interactions between forest disturbances. Here we present a framework for quantifying dist. interactions and compile evidence for their impacts. Led by @dudney-joan.bsky.social with @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social & @julieedtree.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu...

First post on Bluesky! 🌿 Excited to share our new study in Ecography, led by Maxime Lenormand: combining naturalist inventories and satellite data to map plant biodiversity. Here’s a bioregionalization of the flora of France! 🔗 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #30, Sept 02-08, 33 posts! ✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... DM if you want to receive the link weekly 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

I am so glad to have contributed airborne lidar scanning #ALS data from several temperate forests 🌳🌳🌳 in 🇨🇵 #IMPRINT Plenty to do w/ this global atlas on tree canopies #GCA, the 8th contient 🌐🌎🌲🌳 @agencerecherche.bsky.social @cnrs-hautsdefrance.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

Human-driven extinction event not yet the "sixth mass extinction", but is very likely the largest extinction event of the last 66 million yrs. 🌏 🧪 Read about it in our new paper led by @jackhhatfield.bsky.social and Katie Davis @anthropocenebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Meet Grimpoteuthis discoveryi, a Dumbo octopus! 🐙💫 Found up to 4,870 m in the NE Atlantic, it glides on ear‑like fins. It feeds on worms & crustaceans & helps transfer energy through deep‑sea food webs. Its fragile world face future threats from deep-sea mining ⚠️🌊⛏️ #Biodiful 🌍 photo (c) MBARI

The latest paper from the DISCAR synthesis group is out at Ecology Letters! We discuss the key approaches to predicting human impacts on wildlife populations, highlighting avenues for incorporating indirect effects, such as energetic modelling. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

New paper: The role of fire on Earth doi.org/10.1093/bios... BioScience @aibsbiology.bsky.social Fire affects all major components of the Earth system: atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, anthroposphere, & biosphere. Fire is an intrinsic factor on our planet. 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🌐 wildfire

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #29, August, 58 posts! ✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... DM if you want to receive the link weekly 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

The science of cuteness: where teddy bears’ beauty, comfort and care converge! 🧸✨ Check out our latest paper in The Journal of Positive Psychology, where we explore how beauty & emotional comfort shape our care motivations 🫶🌈❤️ 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1743... #TeddyBears #PositivePsychology 🧪

How can beauty be measured? Find out how a team of marine scientists have devised a way to measure the beauty of coral reefs in order to aid restoration and sustainable tourism practices in this new article, co-authored by Dr Tim Lamont of @lec-reefs.bsky.social for @uk.theconversation.com 👇

What is spectral biology? We explain in this synthesis article on “Spectral biology across scales in changing environments” esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/R6QXPK www.spectralbiology.org

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #27, July 15-21, 27 posts! ✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... DM if you want to receive the link weekly 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Sharing some time with the #CESAB postdocs during our annual 3 days retreat in Montpellier. Amazing people, great science, and, above all, human kindness! Love you all 🫶 🧪

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #27, July 08-15, 18posts! ✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... DM if you want to receive the link weekly 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Macrosystems ecology: A new engine and frontier in contemporary ecosystem science ? let's have a look : doi.org/10.1016/j.ge... 🌐🧪

The least scary animal, according to Zeller etc al. (2025), is the European rabbit. Cue the inevitable response from fans of Monty Python. 🧪🌏

🌐 Global Ecology Digest #26, June 30-July 08, 42 posts! ✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... DM if you want to receive the link weekly 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Check out our new study by Gita Alisa et al., showing that large-scale restoration of coral reefs not only brings back ecological health but recovers aesthetic value to levels of healthy reefs in three years only ! 👉 Beauty, biodiversity, and people, all connected 💙 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🧪🌐🦑🦤

🚨 Hot off the press! We show that species loss from key habitats (like wetlands) accelerates secondary extinction in regional multi-habitat food webs. Also, we show the importance of common species to regional food web robustness. doi.org/10.1038/s420... #Ecology #FoodWebs #Biodiversity #Metaweb

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🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #25, June 23-30, 37 posts! ✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... DM if you want to receive the link weekly 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Meet Strigops habroptilus, the kākāpō! 🦜🌿 This flightless parrot from New Zealand is critically endangered, with only 242 left! It aids forest health by dispersing seeds and pruning vegetation. Thanks to dedicated conservation, its numbers are slowly rising.   #Biodiful photo (c) S. Mcinnes 🌍

Could manage to add a bluesky widget on my website 🙌 ✨ 👉 nicolasmouquet.free.fr 🤖 how to here : github.com/Vincenius/bs... 💡use you DID identifiers rather than your handle in the code (here is where to find it : ilo.so/bluesky-did/) 👏 thanks to @vincentwill.com for sharing 🧪

Introducing the Nature Relationship Index — a new approach to assess how people and nature can thrive together. Perspective just out in @nature.com , calling for interdisciplinary input. Read & share ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #NatureRecovery

The aesthetic appeal of reef fish is highest in diverse, well-protected tropical areas, highlighting the importance of conservation for both ecosystem health and human well-being. doi.org/g9qw78

New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6 #AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess doi.org/10.32942/X24...

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #24, June 16-23, 32 posts! ✨For the lazy (we are) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... DM if you want to receive the link weekly 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Conserving the beauty of the world’s reef fish assemblages 💙 Check out our last paper @pnas.org We mapped what makes reef fish assemblages beautiful worldwide! 🌍 MPAs boost aesthetic, and developing countries have a chance to align conservation with local benefits doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🌐🧪🦑🦤

Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

⚡ New version of #rgbif has just been released to CRAN! Version 3.8.2 new features: 🔹occ_download_doi() accepts a GBIF download DOI and returns the download key. occ_download() now supports download via institutionKey. Learn more: 🔗docs.ropensci.org/rg...#rgbif

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #23, June 09-16, 38 posts! ✨For the lazy (we are) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... DM if you want to receive the link weekly 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

A monumental taxonomy unification effort has just been published - thanks to all those who've collaborated for years to make this happen! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/avi...

Meet Dracaena cinnabari, the dragon’s blood tree! 🌳🐲🩸 This iconic Socotran species, with its umbrella-like canopy, provides shade, prevents erosion, and supports endemic wildlife. Classified as Vulnerable, it’s threatened by overgrazing and climate change. #Biodiful photo (c) Alex38 🌍🪴🍁

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #22, June 03-10, 32 posts! ✨For the lazy (we are) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... DM if you want to receive the link weekly 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

For many marine species, all we have is a name. Now, thanks to a huge effort led by @drcraigmc.bsky.social, for 85,000 species we have body size as well. Version 1 of the MOBS database is published today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Enjoy! 🌐🧪

🧵New paper + open database drop! The Marine Organismal Body Size ( #MOBS ) Database is now live—85,000+ marine species, from plankton to whales, with standardized size data. A huge leap for biodiversity, conservation, and climate science. #science #marinelife onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

NEW in @science.org Global tracking #MarineMegafauna shows <8% of areas used overlap w/ existing MPAs, while >75% of important areas overlapped by threats like #fishing #shipping & ocean warming - 30x30 goal will be insufficient for their conservation www.megamove.org @thembauk.bsky.social

Our next #CESABINAR will take place on June 19th, 4:00-5:15 pm, Paris time B. Mérigot and D. Palomares will present the work of the #FISHGLOB group: 👉 Fish biodiversity under global change: a worldwide assessment zoom : us06web.zoom.us/j/8969028431... key: 333782 🧪🌐🌍🦑🦤

Emergence and Dynamics of Regional Species Pools...The Need for a Theory of Regional Species Pools onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🧪🌐

Drought, fires, and human activities have reversed the accumulation of live biomass #carbon in the Northern Hemisphere, with total biomass shifting from a positive to a negative trend around 2016. #livebiomass #ClimateChange #HumanDisturbance www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Say hello to kuzco, an LLM-powered computer vision assistant package in #RStats! @frankiethull.bsky.social's kuzco leverages Ollama to bring computer vision capabilities into your R workflow. Learn about classification, image recognition, and sentiment analysis in kuzco: posit.co/blog/kuzco-c...