A 33-year study on Costa Rica’s white-faced capuchin monkeys reveals that extreme climate events force the primates to abandon their social norms. Severe droughts cause food scarcity, driving intense competition, territorial sensitivity and shifting group dynamics. Adam Litchkofski reports.

How Costa Rica’s extreme climate changes the social behaviors of white-faced capuchin

COSTA RICA: Dawn is yet to break when primatologist Susan Perry and her field research team move through Costa Rica’s tropical dry forest for a day in the field studying Central American white-faced…

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🎉 Excited to share that my first PhD paper from the #DryMountProject is now published in Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment! @pierremariotte.bsky.social @agroscope.bsky.social #GrasslandEcology#ForageProduction#FunctionalTraits

Community leaf dry matter content mediates the impact of mixture composition on forage yield and nutritive value in temporary mountain grasslands

Mountain forage production is increasingly threatened by grassland degradation and limited adaptation to climate change. Regenerating these grasslands…

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🚨 New paper out! 🚨 When studying grazing behaviour, results are often reported at the herd level. But individual cows can differ considerably in what they choose to eat 🐄🌱 ▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.va... 🧵 1/5 🧪

In terms of temperature anomaly for the last three months (MJJ 2026 period), France is the most anomalous country in the world with +2.8 °C above the 1991-2020 average.

Question: do I know anyone near Nantes who would be willing to pick up a dead gull-billed tern and its logger? L49 has sadly been killed near a road. I’d be very grateful for a picture and the logger and would of course reimburse postage.

Europe is losing more than €50 billion annually because of its degraded soils write leading scientists in an op-ed for Euronews. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Degraded soils : Europe is losing more than €50 billion annually

Europe is losing more than €50 billion annually because of its degraded soils write leading scientists in an op-ed for Euronews. They found a way to deliver healthier soils using AI. They say AI-drive...

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Last week I had the pleasure of attending #EURAF2026 in beautiful Neuchâtel, Switzerland 🇨🇭 A great conference with inspiring talks, friendly discussions, excellent food, and a venue just a few steps from the lake. Thanks to the organisers for a fantastic event!

Situation que la loi d’urgence agricole ne fera qu’empirer : les mégabassines ne compenseront pas l’échaudage, agrandir les élevages ne les protègera pas et l’acétamipride ne rafraîchira pas les cultures. Deux VRAIS problèmes de l’agriculture : le changement climatique et les prix d’achat #Duplomb

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Situation de crise pour l’agriculture française, entre deux canicules : « Tout le monde a la boule au ventre »

Today is the last day to apply to our open PhD position working on plant-associated above-belowground fungal microbiomes across the Galapagos! Based at the amazing @niooknaw.bsky.social 🌱🍄

PhD: Biogeography of plant-associated fungi on the Galapagos islands

In this project, you will investigate the biogeography of above- and belowground fungi associated with several Scalesia species. We aim to develop an integrated view of diversity and distribution of t...

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👋 sheep lovers, new paper online "Replacing external inputs with ecosystem services to produce lamb meat can increase exposure to ecosystem disservices" ✅ 29 indicators were used to assess the scores for services and disservices flowing from and into 5 lamb meat systems 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S174...

We recently published a paper looking at archiving of code and data at the BES, giving recommendations for improvements. buff.ly/jqekQBr This paper has 138 authors from 29 countries! 🌍 Read below to find out how this paper came to be👇 (1)

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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🚨 Excited to be among the co-authors of this new paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social 🎉 We analysed 1,861 papers from @britishecologicalsociety.org journals (2017–2024): while data are usually archived, code is still often missing and unclear, limiting reusability. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/2041... 🧪

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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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.....

Happy Tuesday! Who's ready to hear about 1. Flesh-eating maggots (mostly go after cattle) 2. They're native to the US 3. The USDA has kept them out of the US since the 1960s 4. But the flesh-eating maggots are making a 21st century comeback. And believe it or not it may be thanks to MAGA.

🚨 My latest paper has just been published! 🎉 For the Horizon Europe project #Re-Livestock , we studied in vitro methane production in 48 male dairy calves from 3 genotypes raised in 4 grass-based systems. Main result: feeding system mattered more than genotype. doi.org/10.1016/j.li... 🧪 🧵 1/4

Good news!🚀 Booklet and Book of Abstracts of the EAAP Mountain Grassland and Livestock Joint Conference is now available! The event will take place in Plantahof, Landquart (Switzerland), from 15th to 17th June 2026 Have a look here and register to the event!🧐 mlg2026.eaap.org

The prize that could make ‘talking to the animals’ a reality Scientists are decoding the chirps, squeaks and calls of finches, bonobos and more in pursuit of a $10m award aimed at understanding how animals communicate, James Tapper reports https://bit.ly/4nDelSF

The prize that could make ‘talking to the animals’ a reality

Scientists are decoding the chirps, squeaks and calls of finches, bonobos and more in pursuit of a $10m award aimed at understanding how animals communicate

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Parution de l'Atlas de la flore des Terres australes françaises, premier ouvrage de référence entièrement consacré à la flore des îles australes françaises #TAAF, publié aux éditions Biotope en coédition avec les Publications scientifiques du @mnhn.fr. taaf.fr/actualite/pu...

Have you heard the propaganda about how C02 pollution is "plant food"? Yes, it causes crops to grow faster and produce higher yields, but it also means there's more sugar and fewer nutrients. Fossil fuels damage food supplies at a time when billions are already suffering from nutrient deficiency.

The invisible force making food less nutritious

Surging concentrations of carbon in the atmosphere have produced potent changes in the way plants grow, draining the nutrients from food.

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77th EAAP Annual Meeting in Hamburg: Register by June 1st to Benefit from Early-Bird Rates ⏳ The countdown is on! Join us in Hamburg from 7–11 September 2026 🌍 🎯 Early-bird deadline: June 1st, 2026 Register now to save your spot (and money!) 💸 🔗 eaap2026.org See you in Hamburg 🇩🇪

NEWS: The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about changes to the re-submission rules, intended to manage the surge in demand for grants. The Scientific Council will readjust some of the changes: link.europa.eu/TBqRQJ

ERC Scientific Council readjusts rules for reapplication

The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about the recent announcement on changes to the re-submission rules. The changes, intended to manage the ...

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Five more days to apply! PhD position in our long-term Arctic project based at Leibniz University Hannover with fieldwork in Abisko. Focus: berries, functional traits, climate change & future food systems (with a microclimate angle). Please share: www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/8...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Our letter in @science.org on the scientific consensus behind our conclusion: "legislation should prioritize and scale up sustainable practices & alternatives to pesticides, [...] and provide sustained support to farmers committed to agroecological transition."

France must protect pollinators over pesticides

Pollinating insects, which are essential to biodiversity, plant reproduction, and crop production, are in decline (1, 2). In Europe, pollinator populations have declined markedly over recent decades (...

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Frontlines of the climate crisis: 1 in 3 people in Somalia face severe food insecurity. Repeated droughts, harvest failures and livestock losses are fueling conflict and displacement, while food and energy prices surge.

More than 6 million Somalis face hunger amid climate shocks and conflict

Drought, failed rains, and conflict drive 6.5 million Somalis into hunger; children face acute malnutrition risks.

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Beef is rising, herds are shrinking...how can solar help? cleantechnica.com/2026/04/23/s... #solar #solarpower #solarenergy #agrivoltaic #agripv #agrisolar #solarfarms #solarpowerplants #beef #cattle #cows #livestock #solargrazing #sustainable #csr #solarindustry #agriculture #farms #farming

Solar Grazing Is Not Just For Sheep Any More

The US solar developer Silicon Ranch is exploring a new solar grazing model optimized for cattle ranching, and land restoration.

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We're accepting proposals for our Special Feature! We invite scientists and practitioners to share experiences from management projects that didn't go to plan, but still provided important insights into how best to manage ecosystems and species🌱 ⏰Submit by 30th April More here👇 buff.ly/EXXBFsJ

'Environmental claims, climate promises, and ‘greenwashing’ by meat and dairy companies' Relevant paper by Bach et al. in PLOS Climate doi.org/10.1371/jour...

🌳🌱🍄‍🟫🪲🕷️🐜 This week we are sampling micro, meso and #macrofauna in our fodder #tree #hedgerows and in adjacent grazed #grassland to assess the impact of this #agroforestry system on #soil #biodiversity #AgroForageTreeProject @snsf.ch @agroscope.bsky.social

📢 #PhD offer: "Towards better carbon accounting for agroforestry systems at global scale" 🌳 🌽 🐄 🌍 . Fully funded by @cirad.bsky.social and GALILEO EU-AU project. Deadline to apply: May 31, 2026. #agroforestry #carbon #IPCC #naturalclimatesolution More details here: www.cirad.fr/content/down...

📢 Join our #EcologySeminar! Dr. Filip Harabiš will shed light on the question of whether ponds in agricultural landscapes function as biodiversity hotspots or ecological traps 🐸 🌾 🪲 📅 Wed 22April at 10:15 AM ❗️ Only online 📩 DM for webinar link @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de

In a world that often feels deeply polarized, it is rare to find a topic where almost everyone agrees. The treatment of farm animals is one of them. Surveys across many countries show that a strong majority of people, regardless of their diet, oppose common practices in animal agriculture.