Biologists Announce There Absolutely Nothing We Can Learn From Clams https://theonion.com/biologists-announce-there-absolutely-nothing-we-can-learn-from-clams/

Here you go - short enough just to post here! I added the alt text so you can copy if you find it useful. The paper I cited is this one: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Update: The academic flight from Twitter is now complete and appears permanent. April 2023, after the pandemic research surge, we recorded 2,234,307 posts sharing research on Twitter. As of April this year, "X" had 896,741 posts about research. That's a 60% drop in traffic.

Fitting the geometric Weibull distribution yields low-bias species richness estimates when either museum catalogue data or citizen science observations are analysed: an example involving Australian frogs. New paper in Global Ecology and Biogeography. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

Eric Schares@eschares.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 Preprint! We combine our recent open dataset of #APC prices with the article counts per journal-year from #OpenAlex to estimate how much the academic community has paid in APCs over the last 5 years. A. $8.349 billion ($8.968 B in 2023 USD) $2.5B in 2023 alone. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551 #metasci

📢 Postdoc opportunity in interaction networks under global change @ University of Helsinki! The position includes leading fieldwork & analyses on seed dispersal networks & mentoring junior researchers. Apply by 30 Sept: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #Postdoc #Ecology #Conservation #AcademicJobs

Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Networks and Biodiversity Conservation

Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Networks and Biodiversity Conservation

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Hey Paleo Folks! Rowan Lockwood (PS President) sent me this description of the Paleobotany short course at this year's GSA. “A primer for researchers of all stages interested in trait-based paleoecology and deep time vegetation-climate interactions. Attendees will be trained to make measurements…

2026 SORTEE Conference Plenary speakers announced — Dr Lauren Cadwallader (PLOS) & Dr Tatsuya Amano (UQ)! Program & registration now open. New this year: microgrants for conference barriers, apply by Sept 6. Details available here: sortee.org/upcoming/ See you in October!

Global analysis suggests nitrogen deposition as an underestimated driver of vegetation greening vist.ly/5fcap #Anthropocence #GlobalWarming #Restoration

I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified Revolting

"interesting" that returning illegally acquired fossils to where they belong is a no no, but selling a whole collection is a yes yes 🤑 www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...

One of UK’s best fossil collections sold overseas in ‘loss to the nation’

Exclusive: Lack of funds left British museums unable to pay eight-figure sum for collection, which went to Abu Dhabi institution

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What could be causing the heating, I wonder…

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Europe is the world’s fastest warming continent. What is to blame?

Using satellite observations from 2001–2024, we assessed how vegetation greening relates to N deposition alongside climate change, fire and human land-use change. Across most major climate zones and ecosystem types, nitrogen deposition showed the strongest association with greening. (2/5)

In a recent study in Nature Climate Change, lead author and #uvic @uvicenvi.bsky.social PhD student Claire Wright and co-author Dr. Eric Higgs examines how #climatechange is driving the emergence of ecological conditions with no precedent. #ecology #environment #climate www.uvic.ca/socialscienc...

Ecological novelty - Social Sciences - University of Victoria

Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.

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New @econovoau.bsky.social study led by @jonastrepel.bsky.social: Global analysis shows that #vegetation in semi-natural areas greened (densified) faster w/ higher #Ndeposition - #nitrogen pollution may be an underestimated driver of global vegetation change🌿 doi.org/10.1002/ecog... #globalgreening

Global analysis suggests nitrogen deposition as an underestimated driver of vegetation greening

The local effects of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on plants are well established, yet a global empirical analysis of nitrogen deposition effects on vegetation dynamics is missing. Here, we assess ...

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There is ample evidence that climate change is altering ecosystems into novel configurations. Chuffed to have been part of this new paper on how climate change induces ecological novelty, and how we can possibly adapt and mitigate the impacts. www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02697-8

Ecological novelty induced by climate change - Nature Climate Change

The authors review ecological novelty—ecological situations with no precedent—arising from climate change. They discuss ecological novelty due to direct and indirect effects of climate change, and due...

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Your plots and figures deserve some sea slug style! The nudibranch colour palette package is up on CRAN! 🎨 Can now be found and installed without even needing to tab away from R Studio. cran.r-project.org/web/packages... #rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Great to see a spatial assessment of bottom trawling in Ghana’s using vessel monitoring system data. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A quick calculation suggests a maximum swept-area-ratio of about 0.16 y-1, which is very low relative to many other areas (maximum in Europe is 74 y-1).

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

National Museums Northern Ireland are hiring a curator of vertebrates!! Details here - deadline soon!! ce0568li.webitrent.com/ce0568li_web...

Was really cool to be part of data collection effort of this study - which involved a huge effort and authors from all continents. Really important results for moving forward with open science too - read for details and advice! And thanks @nhcooper123.bsky.social for leading us all with patience 🙏🏼

Natalie Cooper@nhcooper123.bsky.social · 4mo 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.....

Reptiles with longer Wikipedia pages tend to be bigger. The relationship is a power law with exponent = 0.85. I guess humans really like writing about big lizards? The longest article is the Komodo Dragon.

A nice opportunity in Nothern Ireland: @savebutterflies.bsky.social Limestone Grassland Project Manager. Deadline for applying is 8 June. More information here: butterflyconservation.livevacancies.co.uk#/job/details... #NatureRecovery #GenerationRestoration

Come join us! We have a one-year, part-time, education-focussed Assistant Professor post in Palaeobiology. Deadline for applications is 2nd June 2026. Please see more at the below link: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Assistant Professor (Education) in Palaeobiology - School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences - 107465 - Grade 8

You will contribute to a range of education-related activities. In addition you will be expected to demonstrate academic citizenship, developing and maintaining mutually respectful and supportive work...

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We’re hiring! We are recruiting for a Lectureship in Global History of Science to join our Department from September 2026. For more info and to apply, please visit: https://bit.ly/3R94V58 Closing Date: 9th June 2026 #WeAreSTS #Science #Historyofscience #Globalscience

Important new paper out today led by @jonastrepel.bsky.social that explains how common approaches to quantifying the impacts of #introduced #herbivores are fundamentally flawed, including those used by the #IUCN. #Rewilding doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

This has been a really fun collaboration with a wonderful team: @mattkerr.bsky.social, Rob Buitenwerf, @kristymferraro.bsky.social, Liza le Roux, Erick Lundgren, @maitner.bsky.social, @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social and @jcsvenning.bsky.social @econovoau.bsky.social. Thanks everyone!

Check out our new letter in Conservation Biology where we argue that (re-)introduced large herbivores are often wrongly framed as harmful because herbivory is automatically equated with ecological damage - overlooking their potential to restore biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.

Matt Kerr@mattkerr.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Herbivory is a fundamental ecological process; treating it as harm (like recent work has suggested) misinforms conservation decisions about introduced herbivores. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Herbivory is a fundamental ecological process; treating it as harm (like recent work has suggested) misinforms conservation decisions about introduced herbivores. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reevaluating introduced herbivores in conservation

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