During this year’s summer break I spent a few days in the beautiful Durmitor National Park, in Montenegro 🇲🇪 Great place to wonder about the beauty of nature and think about the next biodiversity projects to come! #biodiversity #nature #life #mountains

In the Anthropocene, ecosystems are changing rapidly. But why species responses to vary so drastically? In this interview, Tom Matthews discusses how we can predict species extinction and why some species are better able to cope with environmental change than others 🎙️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrbH...

Can We Predict Extinction? with Dr. Tom Matthews | EcolClips

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1/29 Los incendios forestales no van a desaparecer. Las soluciones simplistas solo sirven para reforzar prejuicios, no para entender el fenómeno.🧵

New paper out! 🖨️ Glad to be part of this study, out in Science Advances: "Emergent patterns of island biodiversity in the Anthropocene" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Much of what looks natural in island biodiversity is a legacy of human impacts going back millennia. See main findings 👇🧵 (1/8)

Emergent patterns of island biodiversity in the Anthropocene

Human impacts substantially affect our ability to detect and understand natural biodiversity patterns.

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Just presented AVONICHE database paper at @besmacro.bsky.social meeting held at @uniofreading.bsky.social Hope it will be useful for many macroecologists! #macroecology #birds

🚨Out today in @society4conbio.bsky.social, in my new paper with @birdmapper.bsky.social, we show a positive relationship between exinction risk and colourfulness across the world's passerine birds! conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The link between colorfulness and extinction risk across the world's passerine birds

Many of the functional traits that mediate extinction risk across the range of biodiversity relate indirectly to a species’ ability to persist in a changing world, yet certain traits such as colorati...

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🧵Las colonias de gatos, 'Felis catus', están reduciendo las poblaciones y el tamaño corporal del lagarto tizón, 'Gallotia galloti', en la isla de Tenerife. Así lo confirma un estudio tras analizar más de 200 lagartos en las proximidades de 22 colonias. www.mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicac...

Holocene makes bears small (in Iberia) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #Macroecology

Frontiers of Biogeography, the scientific journal of The International Biogeography Society, is seeking new editors to join the team! If interested, please see the solicitation here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ap...

📢 💥 Excited to share our latest study as part of my PhD, published in the special issue Emerging Tools for Infection Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Spread Control in @pubs.acs.org #ACSInfectiousDiseases. 🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Metabolic Screening of Gut Microbiota by Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

Short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) are bacterial metabolites with crucial roles in host homeostasis and immune system modulation. Given their benefits, they have been proposed as markers of healthy micro...

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🌿 We are hiring a new 2-yr postdoc in @econovoau.bsky.social at @aarhusuniint.bsky.social, on large-#herbivore ecology, trophic #rewilding & novel ecosystems- asking when alien & feral #ungulates enhance biodiversity & when they contribute to degradation🐪🐎🦓 Deadline: 28 June 2026. Details below 👇

2026. Trophic rewilding by large herbivores supports insect diversity, scientists find. [horses, aurochs cattle, and wisents] phys.org/news/2026-05...

Trophic rewilding by large herbivores supports insect diversity, scientists find

Insects are declining across Europe. Czech scientists have determined this decline can be mitigated by returning large ungulates—horses, aurochs cattle, and wisents—to landscapes. This has been shown ...

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Thank you @jonastrepel.bsky.social for including me in these reflections! It has been a pleasure working with you and learning more about the impact of large terrestrial herbivores on plant communities! 🦏🌱 ⬇️ See below for the link to the @funecology.bsky.social paper and summary

Jonas Trepel@jonastrepel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hurray - new paper out in Functional Ecology! @funecology.bsky.social @econovoau.bsky.social 
Wild large herbivores promote plant diversity and functional redundancy by reducing dominance: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 1/5

Friends in Australia, and beyond: you must check out this new book from @justinehausheer.bsky.social ! Her debut! Engrossing, captivating, and full of heart and adventure. A soliloquy to the weird and wonderful animals of Australia, and a clarion call for their conservation.

I couldn’t agree more, Sir David! “It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.” 🐿️🌺🌵🍄🐙🐠🦁🦜 Happy 💯 Birthday!

Megafaunal extinctions, including saber-toothed cats and ground sloths, simplified food webs in the American tropics, which now feature smaller predators and fewer prey species per predator, compared with tropical food webs in Africa and Asia. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/o1mi50YV4M3

Our recent paper on human-induced trait shifts and predator–prey interactions is on the cover of the May issue of Trends in Ecology & Evolution 😭😵‍💫 The paper is available open access here -> www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

New paper out! doi.org/10.1073/pnas... We examined how historical legacies of evolution history, environmental dynamics, and past species losses have shaped today's mammal food webs 🐅🐆🦁 🦌🦓🐗across the globe. #MammalFoodweb #DietaryNiche #Extinction #MacroEcoEvo #EcologicalNetwork

Giants that vanished 10,000 years ago triggered ripple effects that are still felt today, and here’s where

Between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, many of the world’s largest mammals disappeared. Picture creatures like saber-toothed cats with 7-inch fangs and elephant-sized sloths. A new study reveals h...

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New Science Advances paper: 60 years of change across European plant communities reveals a widespread shift toward denser vegetation, with increasing shade tolerance across habitats. Proud to co-author this important work🍃 #ecology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Sixty years of plant community change in Europe indicate a shift toward nutrient-richer and denser vegetation

Bioindication reveals a 60-year shift toward denser, more productive vegetation, but a weak thermophilization signal.

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"(sin estudiar evolución en la enseñanza obligatoria) se convierte en prescindible el marco conceptual que da sentido a toda la biología". "no es una cuestión (sólo) académica, es una herramienta de ciudadanía critica", "con consecuencias culturales" Un artículo de lectura muy recomendada.

Ricard Solé@ricardsole.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Es pot tenir una societat d’individus amb sentit crític sense coneixements científics? La ciència, la filosofia i, en particular, la teoria de l’evolució són puntals necessaris que s’han de reforçar, no debilitar, en el sistema educatiu. @ara.cat @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social

🚨 #PaperAlert! #Neanderthals were elephant gourmets, but also not picky eaters! Our new study at Lehringen (~125 ka) shows evidence of elephant butchery associated with a wooden spear, alongside the exploitation of bears, beavers, and ungulates. Flexible hunters with everything on the menu 🐘🍽️ 🦣🏺🧪

Faunal exploitation at the elephant hunting site of Lehringen, Germany, 125,000 years ago - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Faunal exploitation at the elephant hunting site of Lehringen, Germany, 125,000 years ago

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First time all my PhD students met in person! It was the perfect excuse to spent the day in Montseny Natural Park and setting camera traps for the wildcat monitoring project. A great day of fieldwork and teamwork! Marina, Natàlia, Ignasi, Nerea, Maria, I am very proud of all your hard work 💪🏻

Indigenous knowledge confirms what scientists observe: Large birds are disappearing 🦜🦚🦉 #defaunation #birds

Indigenous knowledge confirms what scientists observe: Large birds are disappearing

Indigenous knowledge confirms a trend scientists have observed- large bird populations are declining faster than small birds.

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Wolves kill—and ravens remember where | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #raven #wolves #scavengers

Wolves kill—and ravens remember where

Do ravens follow wolves to feed on their kills? For decades, biologists assumed they did. Ravens are often seen flying with wolves, following their tracks, or gathering quickly at fresh carcasses A t...

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Please repost! We are looking for two field technicians to work on our deer mouse project in the Colorado Rockies this spring-fall. Learn about physiology, ecology, and evolution, all in one project! Not to mention that you get to be in the ⛰️. Reach out if you have any questions.

Jon Velotta@jpvelotta.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join us! @ssenese.bsky.social. @drgodwit.bsky.social jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...

New paper! 🚨 Nice collaboration with @predator-smarts.bsky.social and other colleagues on the role of predatory-prey interactions in shaping animals cognition 🧠 #cognition #brain #animals #macroevolution

Eamonn Wooster@predator-smarts.bsky.social · 5mo ago

How and why does cognition vary so greatly between individuals and species? In @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, we propose the "Predatory Intelligence Hypothesis" which posits that the cognitive challenges associated with predator–prey interactions drive a cognitive co-evolutionary arms race rdcu.be/e5KIj

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

🚨Paper alert🚨 Very happy to see our paper published in @science.org #ScienceAdv. Very greatful to have worked with such a great team @duncanobrien.bsky.social #tomJohnson @robinfreeman.bsky.social #ValentinaMarconi #LouiseMcRae @expecocons.bsky.social 👇Check the main findings below!

Halting predicted vertebrate declines requires tackling multiple drivers of biodiversity loss

Global vertebrate populations decline faster in the presence of multiple threats compared to single threats.

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OTD 217 year ago, Charles #Darwin was born. Not only one of the most brilliant scientists and thinkers, but an inspiration on the power of knowledge and intellectual bravery. Values that are now more important to cherish than ever. Happy #DarwinDay!!!

It's MSCA results day. Congrats to all the successful applicants! Commiserations to those (including those I supported) who didn't make the cut. It was so competitive this year, even more than usual (>96.8% cut-off!). Be proud of your work and treat yourself to consolation cake/beverage/walk.