Fires beyond fire-prone ecosystems: the erosion of beech forest doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... @globalchangebio.bsky.social Global warming weakens the flammability barrier & enables fire to spread beyond fire-prone ecosystems, into fire-sensitive spp 🧪🌍🔥🪴🌱🍁🌐 wildfire #ClimateChange #GlobalChange #Fagus

Kudos to @science.org for this self-analysis of the peer review process. These kind of data are never shared and don't have to be. Wildly refreshing to see it out in the open. Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals

Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.

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"Drawing on an analysis of over 100000 articles in ecology-related disciplines [...], we show that the shift to pay-to-publish OA has already reduced participation by researchers from many middle-income countries." nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Payment‐based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology

Opening access to the products of scientific research is widely considered a key step toward both fairness and better science worldwide. Since the 1990s, different forms of open access (OA) to journa...

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Scientists who use large language models (LLMs) to help them with their research will spend less time refining their work and instead jump quickly to fresh projects, according to a modelling study. go.nature.com/451DgXl

Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predicts

Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.

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10 questions I ask myself — some explicit, some implicit. Starting with: is this pattern real, or am I just primed to see it? New post out today 👇

10 questions I ask myself

I don't always have the answers. These are the questions I keep coming back to.

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📖 New research Anthropogenic disturbance modifies spatial patterns of reef sharks🦈 🌊 🌏️ 🔎 Find out more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Most statistical models focus on a single question: How does an explanatory variable affect the mean response? But environmental and biological systems are often shaped not only by changes in the mean, but also by changes in variability, skewness, thresholds, and the frequency of extreme outcomes.

"For the Coorong, (summer is) probably the critical time when you're going to have issues because that's when you've got vast numbers of birds using this system," Dr David Paton says. #H5N1 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

'Sacred' Coorong wetlands bracing for impact of bird flu

South Australia's Coorong is a sanctuary for birds and marine life but it is increasingly under threat with the arrival of bird flu in Australia the latest in a rolling barrage of crises.

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Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of the Earth's climate system. #climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-gra...

The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News

Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most ...

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"Changes in wildlife activity patterns in response to war in Ukraine" @science.org #ChornobylWildlife www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Changes in wildlife activity patterns in response to war in Ukraine

Conflict zones are inherently hazardous and inaccessible for researchers, which results in a knowledge gap about the immediate effects of armed conflicts on the environment, particularly wildlife. We ...

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Just out--excited to share: The land surrounding remaining habitats has outsized effects for species--as large or larger than habitat loss & fragmentation. It was a huge experimental effort to isolate attribution for landscape ecology & conservation. @camzoology.bsky.social @brunalab.bsky.social

Landscape quality drives ecological responses to habitat loss and fragmentation - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Habitat loss and fragmentation are among the greatest threats to biodiversity. Here the authors show that habitat quality of the surrounding landscape can also affect demographic rates and population ...

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There is growing evidence that extreme events linked to anthropogenic climate change can have important effects on biodiversity. A paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution assesses the exposure of terrestrial vertebrates to multiple types of extreme climate events globally. go.nature.com/4e7pMiC 🌍🧪

Torpor-assisted migration: Regular use of shallow torpor reduces rest-phase energy expenditure for songbirds during migration🐦‍⬛ 🎶 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/ARrm6Ia

Fancy a permanent lectureship in ecology at a great little uni in Aotearoa New Zealand? We have TWO roles available as part of our Joint Institute programme with Huazhong Agriculture University in Wuhan, China; 16 weeks teaching there, the rest at LU. careers.lincoln.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

🚨NEW SCIENCE ALERT!🚨Read our new, open-access publication in Scientific Reports (@nature.com) describing #biofluorescence in #cassowary casques! Very excited to unveil this after keeping it secret for 5 years⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... NYITCOM @akiopteryx.bsky.social @jonathanberman.bsky.social

For millions of years the traits of predators and prey have dictated their interactions. In the Anthropocene, humans are altering these traits. In @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social, we explore how human-induced traits shifts reshape predator-prey interactions. tinyurl.com/TREEshifts

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own. Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think. We must not give away that gift. doi.org/10.1002/fee....

Thinking like a mountain in the age of AI

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🔥 New paper in npj Natural Hazards. Analysing 11,403 wildfires across Mediterranean Europe (2008–2022), we show that megafires emerge when drought aligns with extreme fire weather, especially warm nights and strong winds near ignition. www.nature.com/articles/s44... #Wildfires #ClimateChange

Megafires in Mediterranean Europe: the compound role of fire weather and drought - npj Natural Hazards

npj Natural Hazards - Megafires in Mediterranean Europe: the compound role of fire weather and drought

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Open access makes the rich get richer #science #publishing #academia 🧪🗺️ nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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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Breaking: APVMA suspends sale of persistent owl poisons in Australia! We have fought tirelessly for years and after meeting with them last week this is not an outcome we had anticipated! www.apvma.gov.au/news-and-pub...

PhD opportunity: Maximising the resilience of grasslands in an age of rapid environmental change Brief Project Summary: This project aims to address the significant knowledge gap of how species composition may change due to extreme rainfall events (droughts and flooding rainfall), grazing and…

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

Mapping Your Data with ggplot2 in R with Basemaps and Insets oliverstringham.com/blog/data-vi...

Mapping Your Data with ggplot2 in R with Basemaps and Insets | Oliver C. Stringham

Personal website of Oliver C. Stringham

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Where will novel fire regimes threaten birds? Our paper in @natcomms.nature.com shows that most bird diversity hotspots facing future high-sev fire occur in places that historically burned at low severity - a critical mismatch. These are the spots to focus restoration. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exposure of western United States bird communities to predicted high severity fire - Nature Communications

Changing fire regimes, leading to higher likelihood of high severity fire, are having unknown impacts on biodiversity. This study identifies regions of high avian biodiversity and individual bird spec...

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Common myna suppression reduced myna relative abundance, but not bird richness or diversity. Species responses were varied, including an increase in noisy miners. This suggests suppression can reshuffle dominance dynamics rather than deliver straightforward community recovery doi.org/10.1071/WR25...

Humans alter the daily timing of animal activity, potentially reshaping predator–prey interactions. This meta-analysis reveals that large predators overlap less with their prey, and large prey overlap more with their predators. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Does human disturbance disrupt predator-prey temporal niche partitioning? Today in @natcomms.nature.com we show that while there is no overall effect, the larger species of the dyad "loses" the temporal response race to humans. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looking back at the fire year that was. The map-graphic shows the ten biggest fire events across Australia in 2025. Two "Terra" fires (>1million ha) burnt over 3.7 million ha. The combined total, including the 8 other "Giga" fires (>100k ha) burnt close to 10million ha in 2025.