Global biodiversity models exhibit low predictive accuracy on local scales 🌐🌎 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global biodiversity models exhibit low predictive accuracy on local scales - Nature Ecology & Evolution

An evaluation of global pressure–response models for predicting local biodiversity finds that ecologically structured models have higher interpolation accuracy than study-centric mixed-effects models,...

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Perhaps the most startling breakthrough in @ec-euclid.bsky.social data is the avalanche of gravitational lenses: background galaxies warped by foreground curved space (and, weirdly, curved time too). Most of the warping is done by dark matter - one of the few clues we have on how DM behaves 🔭

Our study shows that warming reorganises core species in food webs, increasing energy flow and buffering networks against species loss, despite reduced connectivity and greater vulnerability to secondary extinctions 🔗 nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03813-4 @kratina.bsky.social @commsearth.nature.com

Core reorganisation in food webs buffers ecosystems against warming - Communications Earth & Environment

Reorganization in food webs under warming reshapes core species, reducing stability through lower connectance but enhancing energy flux and robustness via core dynamics, based on observations across a...

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A great adventure published right the day after my birthday! An amazing gift from @funecology.bsky.social Check out part of the team behind this work : bsky.app/profile/cuni...

David Cunillera-Montcusí@cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social · 5d ago

📢 An amazing gift from @funecology.bsky.social right after my birthday! An exciting work that we co-leaded with @anna-equisuany.bsky.social exploring #FunctionalAssembly using #network and #metacommunity perspectives! Check it out 👇 #IEA #GRECO #FunMetaNet onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I don't know who is behind tidyecology.com (maybe an AI?) but it has an amazing coverage of tutorials for all kinds of statistical modelling in #ecology with #rstats

Tidy Ecology: R & QGIS tutorials for ecologists

Reproducible R and QGIS tutorials for ecologists: diversity, ordination, occupancy and spatial analysis, each with the model checks that go with it.

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Eerste exemplaar van de Vogelatlas voor @inbo.be en @natuurpunt.bsky.social

🌊 New paper: @tiaanderlini.bsky.social @seos-uvic.bsky.social @jgroceans.bsky.social 4 years of sampling the gateways of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago shows Arctic waters are a significant source of trace metals to the North Atlantic doi.org/10.1029/2026...

Market share for Battery Electric Vehicles in new car registrations in the EU.

This piece of land art is the burrow of a mud-shrimp. One example of animals as geological agents, burrowing through and mixing sediments. Such 'Bioturbation' is the focus of a primer in our Life&Earth special, from the doyen of the field, Jack Middelburg Dig in! 🪏 👇 www.cell.com/current-biol...

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

Scientists find nine new sponge species in glimpse of Alaska’s deep-sea diversity www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Scientists find nine new sponge species in glimpse of Alaska’s deep-sea diversity

But their habitat is threatened by bottom trawling in the region and Trump’s plan to expand seafloor mining

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Authors!🚨 While you scramble for scarce $ 🤔 “Springer Nature reports revenue growth of 6.2%..and adjusted operating profit growth of 7.7%. They reported even more stunning submission growth of 30% and published article growth of 13%.” Publishing in society journals helps YOU not them👇🏻. Pass it on.

Man Lying on a Pile of Money

ALT: Man Lying on a Pile of Money

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🦞 Repurposing a snorkel mouthpiece and soft Velcro, WHOI’s Sensory Ecology lab researchers made these "lobster FitBits" to record the crustaceans' response to noise from wind farm construction. 👉Learn more from Oceanus: go.whoi.edu/lobstersoundcheck

New species of pigeon from the Philippines, the Tawi-Tawi imperial pigeon (Ducula tawitawi): bioone.org/journals/bul... 🪶🧪 (📷 @matthewhalley.bsky.social)

As oceans warm, Southern bluefin tuna larvae are changing their diets. In 1987, they fed almost exclusively on copepods. By 2022, appendicularians made up 59% of their diet—and larval growth rates have increased. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/OVoI50ZFVTi

Does anyone have informed perspectives on this paper? Seems important if true, important to refute if false. "Our results provide the first observational evidence that low clouds have partially offset recent warming, ... " agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @jvt.bsky.social als gecertificeerd hater juich ik dit toe. www.volkskrant.nl/volkskrant-m...

Goed haten - een handleiding door schrijver Jan van Tienen: ‘Haat moet je dusdanig inspireren dat het je artistiek in beweging brengt’

Schrijver Jan van Tienen weet (net als de meesten van ons) hoe lekker het koesteren van weerzin kan voelen. Maar hij weet ook dat de hater er niet goed op staat. Moet-ie aan zichzelf werken en een pos...

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In 2024, someone identified what looked to be an impact crater located about 100 km north of Magpie, Quebec, as seen in this image from Google Earth. Researchers recently confirmed it was in fact a 390-million-year-old meteor crater — never before identified.

He saw a pit on Google Maps. It turned out to be a 390-million-year-old meteor crater | CBC News

Joël Lapointe, stumbled upon what he thought looked like a suspicious pit in Quebec's Côte-Nord region while he was wandering with his Google Maps cursor in 2024. But it turned out to be a 390-million...

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Klimaatplannen voor Zeeuwse delta: maximaal zoet water vasthouden en brede dijkzones met natuur

Klimaatplannen voor Zeeuwse delta: maximaal zoet water vasthouden en brede dijkzones met natuur

Alles moet uit de kast om meer zoet water voor de landbouw te regelen.

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Deep-sea trenches as natural carbon sinks: International team investigates sedimentation mechanisms in the hadal zone. Read more about it here ➡️ www.marum.de/en/Deep-sea-...

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).

I'm looking for a postdoc to work on an Australian Research Council Laureate Project on climate change responses, applying a Julia implementation of the NicheMapR package. The work could go in control theory, DEB theory or population process directions unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/UoM_External...

Sounds like a good idea @natureportfolio.nature.com @egu.eu

Alison Hoens@physioktbroker.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Paying journal articles reviewers results in faster and higher quality reviews 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Paying journal articles reviewers results in faster and higher quality reviews 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief

A biology journal that paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.

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Important study -> More complex ecosystems, especially those with higher #diversity of #predators, function more effectively! Led by @barnesecodiv.bsky.social. Exciting to see this published in @nature.com. @qmulsbbs.bsky.social

Andrew Barnes @barnesecodiv.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Published today in @nature.com, our study shows that the #foodweb trophic structure is critical for #ecosystemfunctioning. Read it here: rdcu.be/frxEl This has been an incredibly rewarding collaboration with many amazing scientists! 🌐🧪🦑🍁🌱 @waikatouniversity.bsky.social @idiv-research.bsky.social

(1/3) I’m happy to share a manuscript we wrote entitled “How to build Dynamic Energy Budget models: Practical guidelines for model development“. Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) models are widely recognized as useful. However, these models are often perceived as complicated and difficult to implement.

🥳Something to celebrate: 25 years of ecological time-series studies at the LTER Observatory HAUSGARTEN! As we see right now, it's not easy to sustain time series over long times -especially covering all spheres- yet it's vital to monitor #ClimateChange. @awi.de www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌩 Zwaar #onweer trok gisteravond over (een deel van) Nederland! Wij waren al vroeg naar Zeeland afgereisd om de buien langs de Westerschelde binnen te zien komen. Het onweer werd ingeluid met een fenomenale shelfcloud; hieronder een panorama van 7 foto's... www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

🚨 Paper Alert! ! New iMARES_group study, titled: Comparing methodological choices for cumulative environmental pressure analysis: The Black Sea as a case study 🌍🐟 👉 Access: www.sciencedirect.co... ICM-CSIC 🧵👇 Thread

Comparing methodological choices for cumulative environmental pressure analysis: The Black Sea as a case study

Climate change is reshaping marine ecosystems worldwide, yet climate-driven environmental changes are heterogeneously distributed across space and tim…

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After decades of warnings, new data suggest the Atlantic’s vital circulation may withstand climate warming better than feared. Learn more: https://scim.ag/43Afi4T