📖 Published📖 This study develops a method to delineate habitat patches that are biologically relevant for simulating demographic processes of the species of interest🐿️ 🌲 🌏️ buff.ly/AlBfLTR
A global research coordination programme is urgently needed for biodiversity rdcu.be/fqDcP Urban et al. call for the creation of a World Biodiversity Research Programme to translate knowledge gaps highlighted by IPBES @ipbes.net and other organizations into global research questions and priorities
A global research coordination programme is urgently needed for biodiversity
Nature Ecology & Evolution - A global research coordination programme is urgently needed for biodiversity
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Excited to be in Davos for #WBF2026! And *really* looking forward to this discussion of what to do about the lack of a biodiversity analogue of the World Climate Research Program. Please do come along and contribute - Wednesday, 12:00-13:00, in room Wisshorn! And please pass the word on 😀.
1/🧵 📢New Release: #RangeShifter 3.0📢 — available for both the batch interface and #RangeShiftR. RangeShifter is a spatially explicit, individual-based simulation platform for #modelling species’ range dynamics, dispersal, and #eco-evolutionary processes across landscapes.
Why biodiversity science needs its own model intercomparison projects 👇. Lessons from climate science, applied to biodiversity & policy. 🌍🧬 by @geobon.org #EcoCode team @mark-urban.bsky.social @gretabocedi.bsky.social @sjevelazco.bsky.social
Nature Reviews Biodiversity@natrevbiodiv.nature.com · 7mo agoNew online! Biodiversity science and policy need more model intercomparisons
To celebrate #LGBTQPlusInSTEMDay, hear from our Staff Pride Network, Fellows’ Pride network, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and Diversity and Inclusion team for their reflections on what it meant to them to march in Pride. Read on our blog: https://royalsociety.org/blog/2025/11/lgbtq-in-stem/
Supporting science with Pride: reflections on Pride in London 2025 | Royal Society
The Royal Society first marched in Pride in London in 2024 and participated again in 2025. Pride in London is an annual LGBTQ+ festival and parade held in London. This year, the Society’s presence was...
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Last year I wrote this for Transgender Awareness Week because of the challenges I've faced in my institution. Sharing it again as this week we celebrate trans identities and remember those who have been targeted for being themselves www.britishecologicalsociety.org/five-steps-t...
Five steps towards being a trans ally - BES
Five steps towards being a trans ally - BES is the largest scientific society for ecologists in Europe. We're working towards a world in which nature and people thrive.
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📢 PhD opportunity: ‘Understanding the ecological interplay between tree planting and natural processes to create future forests’ 🪴🌱🌳 working on space-for-time & @forestresearchuk.bsky.social large-scale experiment network (LERN) iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Understanding the ecological interplay between tree planting and natural processes to create future forests
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Please repost! I am looking for a passionate and hard-working PhD student to work in southern Africa on experimental defaunation and rewilding of megafauna. See the link below for more information: @camzoology.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk
Reversing defaunation through rewilding and its consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem function | Department of Zoology
Reversing defaunation through rewilding and its consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem function Supervisor: Professor Rob Fletcher The world is facing several global challenges that are transform...
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Without forward-looking models, biodiversity policy risks missing the road to recovery. Our new PNAS article calls for predictive tools and a World Biodiversity Research Programme to guide global action. 👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #Biodiversity #Conservation #PredictiveModels #PNAS
Led by the #EcoCode group of @geobon.org, we call for a World Biodiversity Research Programme to coordinate global modelling and support the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. #GBF #PredictiveModels @mark-urban.bsky.social @gretabocedi.bsky.social @sjevelazco.bsky.social
it’s time, EMPSEB begins tomorrow! Follow our conference account to get updates on all the cool science and community-finding that will happen at this cozy, almost*-all-PhD-student conference 😊 (*except for our wonderful invited speakers, of course)
EMPSEB 31@empseb.bsky.social · last yr.The time has finally come to meet the people behind EMPSEB30! 🤩 First up is @gauravathreya.bsky.social from the University of Mainz in Germany. His responsibilities include managing the website and organising the EDI panel. #empseb30 #conference #organisers
Signed! Very well put!
Caroline Dodds Pennock@carolinepennock.bsky.social · last yr.I am proud to be a signatory to this letter speaking out in support of our trans siblings in the face of the current appalling assault on their rights and safety. If you are a feminist academic or educator please do read, share and consider signing. #transrightsarehumanrights #CisWithTheT
“E questo è il fiore del partigiano morto per la libertà!” ✊
My homeland celebrating 80 years from the liberation from fascism and still fighting! Buon 25 Aprile!! www.facebook.com/share/r/1Cmq...
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uni of aberdeen sbs biologists (and bonus morrigan the geoscientist) say biologists for trans rights! despite what transphobes like to claim, the proven science DOES NOT AGREE with them. trans women are women, trans men are men, and biology is much more complex than year 9 science lessons
It is an important time to support our trans family, friends and colleagues. A wonderful turnout of wonderfully diverse people in Aberdeen today.
ISBE26-the 20th International Society for Behavioral Ecology Conference will take place in Turin, Italy, from 20-24th of July 2026. We invite you to join us to enjoy a 5-day meeting rich in top-notch science and ample networking opportunities, in our beautiful city. Website out soon! #ISBE26
Torino the place To be - short 1'
YouTube video by Turismo Torino e Provincia
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It's driving me up the wall that legal definitions are increasingly based on (at best) primary school-level takes on complex concepts (like 'biological sex') which, I don't know, you should probably consult actual experts on. Also: trans rights are human rights; no LGB without the T(QIA+), ever!
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺@katherineschof8.bsky.social · last yr.My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Along with @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social, we've published our reaction to the judgement in the UK Supreme Court today. There will be more we want to say to trans people directly once we have a chance to catch our breath. www.equality-network.org/uk-supreme-c...
Hopeless 😞 We just keep falling back in the dark ages with the glee of a large part of society. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS! Whether hateful and intolerant people and institutions like it or not.
This is huge. My petition got approved. It challenges the UK government to the lift the Puberty Blocker ban on the grounds that it contradicts article 8 of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child. Please sign and Repost ✊️🏳️⚧️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Lift restrictions on prescribing puberty blockers to trans children.
We want the Government to reverse the restrictions it has introduced relating to the prescription of puberty blockers to children. The Government introduced legislation banning them from being prescri...
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I wrote this 5 years ago describing Eric Kaufmann/Policy Exchange's agenda on academic freedom as "McCarthyite." Today Kaufmann says that Trump's impact on academic freedom is "likely to be net positive". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The rightwing defence of 'academic freedom' masks a McCarthyite agenda | Jonathan Portes
Are rightwing academics being silenced? The Policy Exchange thinktank says they are – and has plans for cracking down, says professor of economics Jonathan Portes
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www.theguardian.com/education/20... I cannot believe it! This is so dangerous and disheartening, undermining all the progress hardly achieved to protect diversity and vulnerable groups. We should all speak up in support of University of Sussex to avoid spiralling down into a hateful society
University of Sussex fine sparks fears of bigger penalties for other institutions
Universities UK says ruling raises concerns about how to prevent harassment and hate speech on campus
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Call for applicants: fully-funded ISPF British Council Workshop on Future range of Amazonian Biodiversity, 27/7-2/8 in Manaus. We will train UK- and Brazil-based ecologists and conservationists on mechanistic range models and on Amazonian ecosystems. Details: shorturl.at/hIa7Z. Re-post, please!
ISPF UK-Amazonia Workshop Future range of Amazonian Biodiversity - University of Birmingham
Call for participants in a fully funded workshop on modelling Amazonian biodiversity
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🌍 Nature is declining faster than ever. Since 1700: 🔹 Wetlands: -85% 🌊 🔹 Coral Reefs: -50% 🪸 🔹 Forests: -32% 🌳 🔹 Ecosystems: -47% overall A great visualization of @ipbes.net data by Visual Capitalist and Zero Carbon Analytics ⤵️ www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/visualizi...
Visualizing the Decline of Earth’s Ecosystems
Critical ecosystems that sustain life on Earth have faced devastating declines over the past few centuries.
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I am so happy to see this review online finally! A lot of work, but a lot of fun too! Thank you to all the co-authors! @gretabocedi.bsky.social @trinebilde.bsky.social @jevbio.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
Perspectives on mating–system evolution: comparing concepts in plants and animals
Abstract. The study of mating systems, defined as the distribution of who mates with whom and how often in a sexually reproducing population, forms a core
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