Are you passionate about code integrity and accessibility? Do you have skills in R, Python or Julia? Why not apply to be one of our new Code Integrity and Accessibility AEs? Open to any career stage. Details here: apply.workable.com/britishecolo... (sadly not paid, but comes with nice perks)

Associate Editor (Code Integrity and Accessibility) - British Ecological Society

Volunteer role: Associate Editor (Code Integrity and Accessibility) Organisation: British Ecological Society – Methods in Ecology and Evolution Term: 3 years Closing date: 25th Sept 17.00 BST Location...

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You can now read our new Forum paper published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social "A fungal perspective: Ecological reinterpretation of short-term temporal variation in airborne eDNA" doi.org/10.1111/2041...

A fungal perspective: Ecological reinterpretation of short‐term temporal variation in airborne eDNA

Airborne environmental DNA (eDNA) is a powerful tool for assessing biodiversity, but its temporal dynamics and applicability to fungi remain poorly understood. Here we discuss how short-term airbo...

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Ever wondered what a hackathon is? I wrote this to accompany our paper on data- and code- sharing where all the data came from a hackathon... methodsblog.com/2026/04/09/t... Paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The What, Why and How of Hackathons

Post provided by Natalie Cooper, MEE Senior Editor In September 2025 we ran a hackathon to collect data for a paper on data- and code-sharing across the BES journals. After the event, we thought it…

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Do check out our companion Shiny App for the project that myself, @willgearty.bsky.social, and @bethanyjallen.bsky.social put together! You can explore, visualise, and download all the data from the project there! www.lewisajones.com/shiny-bes-ha...

I'm very happy to have contributed to this collaborative hackathon project, published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social Check out our recommendations for improving data/code archiving practices, and for making ecological science more reproducible

Natalie Cooper@nhcooper123.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excited to share our new paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on data and code archiving at @britishecologicalsociety.org journals. TL;DR: Data archiving rates are high, code archiving rates are low, documentation needs to be improved! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....

Excited to share our new paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on data and code archiving at @britishecologicalsociety.org journals. TL;DR: Data archiving rates are high, code archiving rates are low, documentation needs to be improved! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....

Data‐ and code‐archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: Present status and recommendations for future improvements

Data- and code-archiving are important components of open science, as both make research more transparent, reproducible, accountable and credible, allowing future researchers to build on previous ...

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Workshop Announcement: We’re hosting a second in-person workshop from *7–11 December 2026* at the Scottish Centre for Ecology & the Natural Environment (near Glasgow)! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 In brief, the aim is to populate a database on RI 👩‍💻 To apply, please fill out this form by *May 20th*: forms.gle/ZJoqtwxDhT5g...

IOS Speciation Network Workshop - December 2026

ESEB-funded Special Topic Network, Integration Of Speciation Research (IOS) is organizing a workshop to be held later this year (7th to 11th December 2026) at the Scottish Centre for Ecology & the Nat...

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This week, the conference "Fungal Conservation in Europe" will take place at the SLU's Ultuna campus. From @mycopat.bsky.social will be presenting our poster "How many years are enough? Quantifying the temporal sampling effort required for reliable characterization of eDNA fungal communities" 🍄🧬

Do you have a passion for #fungi and an interest in raising awareness and promoting #mycology? Find out about #volunteering as a member of a BMS committee: Field Mycology & Conservation; Fungal Biology Research; Fungal Education & Outreach. www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/vacancies.html

Data- and code-archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: present status and recommendations for future improvements doi.org/10.32942/X26...

I am very interested in the application of AI-based methods in ecology and believe that it still has a long way to go. I think this special feature covers some key points in ecological inference from different perspectives, which I hope will stimulate the development of this field

Methods in Ecology and Evolution@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The first issue of 2026 is now out! 🚨 This issue contains our new special feature 'Conservation, ecology and artificial intelligence: Advances and symbiotic solutions'. 🌍 🧪 Read the whole issue here 👇 buff.ly/AmWPK0C

New paper! Here we saw how ectomycorrhizal, fungi exhibit a certain degree of functional redundancy, as different species can perform similar ecological roles, while saprotrophic fungi display higher niche complementarity. Hope you like it! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚀 We’re excited to announce the launch of ForestDrought, the new app from the Catalan Forest Laboratory! With ForestDrought, you can visualize and download daily estimates of water balance for mainland Spain. Check it out ! laboratoriforestal.creaf.cat/forestdrough...

Very interesting talk by Otso Ovaskainen on the use of JSDM & HMSC for integrating community ecology data with env. variables, species traits, phylogenetic relationships in the spatiotemporal context, for community assembly processes Missed it? check @mostfun.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@MoSTFun_EU

MoSTFun@mostfun.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨NEW WEBINAR🚨 Want to know more about Joint Species Distribution Modelling (JSDM)? Then don't miss our next webinar co-organized by #MoSTFun and @geobon.org "An introduction to Joint Species Distribution Modelling". 🕰️ 19 January 2026 at 18:00 CET ✍ Registration: mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Fantastic mycological excursion 🍄🌲 by @mycopat.bsky.social in an old-growth forests of the Lindsjön Nature Reserve, guided by Anders Dahlberg and with the wonderful collaboration of Alison Pouliot. 📸BTW, don’t miss her stunning fungal photography (and other) at alisonpouliot.com/fungal-realm/

Sampling on late growing season for FUN-URB Proj @wslresearch.bsky.social completed. With autumn arriving in Uppsala, the city’s trees and leaves look very different. How does urbanisation shape diversity and function of microbial communities on their leaves?

Albert Morera@albert-morera.bsky.social · last yr.

Having fun with the FUN-URB proj, riding around Uppsala looking for native and non-native trees to examine the diversity patterns of foliar endophytic fungi on trees along urbanization gradients across Europe @wslresearch.bsky.social @mycopat.bsky.social Project info: www.wsl.ch/en/projects/...

Just realized how many fossils cover the floors at Arlanda Airport The Öland limestone from the Ordovician and contain plenty of straight-shelled nautiloids. Not an expert, Orthoceras? If you're passing through, don't miss it. They're hard to miss once you notice them

Hackathon @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social completed 🧑‍💻 Amazing to share with so many people in such a unique environment We’ve been testing whether published data/code are truly reproducible. +1200 papers reviewed. Now waiting for the results 👀 and hoping it helps move towards a more open science

First autumn in Sweden 🍂 and I’m really enjoying the forest and the wide variety of mushroom (“svamp” in Swedish) species it hosts this time of year 🍄

“…when organisms interact can largely determine how they interact.” #Viewpoint: Is it all about timing? Identifying the symbiosis critical points that govern interactions among #bacteria, ectomycorrhizal #fungi, and land #trees By Louis Berrios 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It has been an incredible few days, sharing science, having fun together and enjoying a lot of activities 🚣‍♀️🍻🎯🍄😶‍🌫️🎉 I have recently landed in this department and I can't be happier with such a great team. tack

Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, SLU@mycopat.bsky.social · last yr.

The Department at the lovely Friibergs Herrgård, combining work and fun in the best way! The program included research presentations, discussions on research ethics, presentations of new large research programs as well as calming painting exercises. #AcademicLife #ResearchRetreat

Empieza el #9CFE y desde el @ctforestal.bsky.social @udl.cat estaremos compartiendo nuestros últimos hallazgos en temas de diversidad y productividad de hongos 🍄🌲

Having fun with the FUN-URB proj, riding around Uppsala looking for native and non-native trees to examine the diversity patterns of foliar endophytic fungi on trees along urbanization gradients across Europe @wslresearch.bsky.social @mycopat.bsky.social Project info: www.wsl.ch/en/projects/...

🚨New review out in @ecography.bsky.social! 🔥Mechanistic niche models (MNMs) are the future—but they’re not plug-and-play. Our paper lays out how and when to use MNMs to predict invasive species distributions under climate change. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Powerful yet challenging: mechanistic niche models for predicting invasive species potential distribution under climate change

Risk assessments of invasive species present one of the most challenging applications of species distribution models (SDMs) due to the fundamental issues of distributional disequilibrium, niche chang...

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This afternoon we will be presenting our poster on spatio-temporal trends of airborne pathogenic spores in Sweden at #efpp2025 10 years of continuous sampling will allow us to see how the presence of airborne pathogenic spores is related to climate change and what trends we can expect in the future

Here’s the menu for the 14th Conference of the European Foundation for Plant Pathology 🌿 #EFPP2025 #Uppsala From @mycopat.bsky.social we’ll be there bringing a few things to the table!📋😀

Threats from fungal diseases that attack pine and spruce are growing with climate change. But why are some trees more severely affected than others? Matilda Stein Åslund has investigated this in her thesis to help preserve our forests in the ongoing climate change. www.slu.se/en/ew-news/2...

Need Swedish weather data? 🌦☀☁🌨 In the 𝒔𝒎𝒉𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒐 package, I’ve implemented an easy way to access the #SMHI data. 📦Package rep: github.com/AlbertMorera... #meteo #Sweden #RStats

GitHub - AlbertMorera/smhimeteo: Access to Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) historical information

Access to Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) historical information - AlbertMorera/smhimeteo

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I have just released 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘅 🍄 an R package to automatically update fungal species names using Index Fungorum. Useful for anyone working with fungal taxonomy data. Repo: github.com/AlbertMorera... Happy to receive feedback #Bioinformatics #rstats

GitHub - AlbertMorera/fungitax: The fungitax package provides functions to update scientific names of fungi based on the data available from Index Fungorum. It allows users to get the most current nam...

The fungitax package provides functions to update scientific names of fungi based on the data available from Index Fungorum. It allows users to get the most current name of a fungus species by quer...

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Last week I had the opportunity to visit the SLU Tönnersjöhedens försökspark in south-Sweden and the spore traps I've started working with at @mycopat.bsky.social These traps have been active for more than 10 years and have been sampled weekly, resulting in an exceptional airborne spore db