Our new paper is out in @consletters.bsky.social ! Social media can help conservation, but virality should not be confused with conservation impact. The real question is whether online visibility produces positive net conservation outcomes. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/con4...

Is #AI turning grant evaluation into a lottery? 🎲 The 2025 generative AI improvement coincides with ~20% of proposals scoring >95% in EU #MSCA call. We’ve reached "excellence saturation." Time to rethink funding? 👉 doi.org/10.31222/osf... w/ @birder158.bsky.social #MetaScience #AcademicSky

Have you ever notice that while speaking about biotic homogenization, we almost never speak about behavior? It’s literally true. But that doesn’t mean behavioral homogenization isn't happening. Our new paper is finally out! plos.io/4b6FcRb

Behavioral convergence under urbanization: An overlooked dimension of biotic homogenization

A consequence of Anthropogenic change is behavioral homogenization: the human-driven convergence of behavioral traits across individuals, populations, and species across space and time, often in urban...

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PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 5mo ago

Anthropogenic change is causing behavioral traits to converge across individuals, populations, and species, often in urban environments. @birder158.bsky.social &co describe these changes and discusses their ecological and evolutionary consequences. 🧪 #EcoSky #GlobalChangeBiology plos.io/4b6FcRb

Is #AI turning grant calls into a lottery? 🎲 We show how AI assisted grant-writing collapsed the signal-to-noise ratio with ~20% of grants scoring >95% in the recent EU #MSCA call, opening the debate on waste of public money and change in funding system 👉 doi.org/10.31222/osf...

Our new paper is out! Thanks all colleagues for a fruitful collaboration.

Invasion Culturomics and iEcology@invaculture.net · 6mo ago

On the use of #socialmedia data to uncover #behavior of #invasivespecies – new paper by @birder158.bsky.social et al. now out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/2041... #biologicalinvasions #alienspecies #nonnative #invasive #conservation #iEcology #animalbehavior #animalbehaviour

Our newest paper on long-term urbanization effects on bird tolerance to humans is finally out!

Caitlyn Cardetti, PhD@caitlyncardetti.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A new #OpenAccess study by @birder158.bsky.social et al. found that the timing of urban colonization better predicts reduced fear of humans in birds than present-day urban tolerance. bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #BMCBiology

We're looking for a new #postdoc colleague to join our team at CULS, Prague (Czechia). Ideally, someone with expertise in macroecological and macroevolutionary analysis to help fill our knowledge gaps in this area :) Full call: researchgate.net/job/1021667_... #postdoccall

Food availability influences bird migratory routes, but little is known about co-migration between insectivorous birds and their insect prey. We found a strong temporal overlap between number of migrating hoverflies and insectivorous birds in Czechia. 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Our new paper on escape decisions in dragonflies.

RES Publications@respublications.bsky.social · last yr.

How do #insects respond to humans? 🦋 The newest article in #RESEcolEnt, by @birder158.bsky.social and colleagues, shows that urbanization has a weak effect on escape behavior of #dragonflies and #damselflies, but high human presence delays their flight. See the paper: https://buff.ly/4bj2YZE @wil…

Our new study is out! 🏙️🦟Do invertebrates, like vertebrates, increase their tolerance to humans in cities? We found that dragonflies & damselflies don’t respond to urbanization itself, but rather to the level of human activity at the site. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/een....