Really useful new paper by @brionylatter.bsky.social @samhampton.bsky.social @lwhitmarsh.bsky.social mapping how social influence shapes climate attitudes & action. Excellent resource for thinking about designing interventions, determining best points of influence. Critically, keep talking about it

Briony Latter@brionylatter.bsky.social · yesterday

⭐ New paper in @natclimate.nature.com: Social influence shapes climate attitudes and action ⭐ Excited to share this from @samhampton.bsky.social, me & @lwhitmarsh.bsky.social, bringing together evidence on how influence operates in the context of climate action. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

I'm so happy to announce version 2.0.0 of my #Rstats package WeightIt is out on CRAN! New features: censoring weights, multilevel propensity scores, improved weights for continuous treatments, bias-reduced ordinal and multinomial models, M-estimation in subgroups Check out the website below!

Weighting for Covariate Balance in Observational Studies

Generates balancing weights for causal effect estimation in observational studies with binary, multi-category, or continuous point or longitudinal treatments by easing and extending the functionality ...

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The largest global assessment of its kind has shown that plant diversity increases populations of predators to suppress pests before they cause significant crop damage. See the open access study in Science Advances: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb8680 1/

🌊 Marine heatwaves aren’t just an ocean problem, they’re a human health issue. A new perspective highlights how MHWs can ripple through ecosystems, food systems, economies, and communities, affecting everything from seafood safety to livelihoods and mental wellbeing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Recognizing the human health impacts of marine heatwaves - Nature Sustainability

Although the physical and ecological impacts of marine heatwaves are well recognized, their cascading consequences for human health remain poorly understood. We argue that marine heatwaves pose growin...

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Humpback whales are famous for working together to trap prey in bubble nets. Now, scientists have documented them teaming up at the seafloor too, coordinating their movements to feed on sand lances. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/humpback-whale-hunting-seafloor

This humpback whale hunting strategy has been out of sight — until now

Scientists documented humpback whales hunting together at the seafloor, coordinating their arrival to scoop up sand lances.

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1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:

Offsetting is widely promoted but poorly founded in ecology Our modelling study shows: effective offsetting requires restored areas larger than those impacted & protection over long timescales high habitat conversion rates reduce offsetting success conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Have you heard about those bloomin' octopuses? Over the past couple of years, the southwest of the UK has seen more octopus than you can shake a stick at - and it could be that they are there for the long haul More in my article for @imarest.bsky.social champ.ly/U3AtkLls

Climate change sees octopus blooming in the UK

The octopus lifestyle of ‘live fast, die young and make lots of babies’ mean their populations respond quickly to a changing environment. How fisheries respond remains to be seen

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The Candy Crab camouflages itself by mimicking the Carnation Coral, changing its color and decorating itself with polyps from the coral. Can you see it? #marinelifephotography #marinelife #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #eastcoastkin #scuba #photography

A thought provoking feature on the decline in bird populations over the last fifty years, and the dangers of shifting baseline syndrome. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years

Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost

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Above-average sea surface temperatures across European seas 29 June 2026 based on data from the Copernicus Marine Service

What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.

RESEARCH: Climate change and ocean management shape marine biomass resilience in the Marine Corridor of the Eastern Tropical Pacific. #OpenAccess. @julianop.bsky.social #WilliamCheung @ubccoru.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Climate change and ocean management shape marine biomass resilience in the Marine Corridor of the Eastern Tropical Pacific - Discover Oceans

The Tropical Eastern Pacific Marine Conservation Corridor (CMAR) was established in 2004 through the cooperation of Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Panama with the objective of safeguarding the mig...

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📖 Published From individuals to networks: The role of variation in plant–pollinator communities' responses to global change🌍 🐝 🌻 🔎 Read more: buff.ly/Ad9V0oN

Quasi-experimental analysis of the effects of Ethiopia’s protected areas on environmental and human wellbeing is combined with surveys of conservation professionals to explore why improving protected area effectiveness may be prioritized over network expansion 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Trade-offs between nature and people in Ethiopia’s protected areas demonstrate challenges in translating global conservation targets into national realities - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Quasi-experimental analysis of the effects of Ethiopia’s protected areas on environmental and human wellbeing is combined with surveys of conservation professionals to explore why improving protected ...

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Asia’s oceans are storing more heat than at any point in recorded history But what happens in the ocean doesn’t stay in the ocean: 👉 Stronger cyclones 👉 More extreme rainfall 👉 Higher sea levels 👉 Greater coastal risk More ocean heat = more fuel for extreme weather www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Oceans in Asia smash heat records — what it means for extreme weather

Report shows region is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

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Bury me in the whale graveyard – let the weird starfish chew my bones | First Dog on the Moon

Bury me in the whale graveyard – let the weird starfish chew my bones | First Dog on the Moon

Scientists have discovered an enormous whale graveyard about 1,200 km long, which seems big but then so are whales * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...

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Suspected first case of H5 bird flu in Western Australia in a wild migratory bird. Last continent standing no more. Please report any sick or dead birds as per the instructions to the relevant authorities. #birds www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Suspected H5 bird flu detected in Australia

A wild migratory bird in Western Australia has returned a suspected positive result for avian influenza, which has devastated populations of seabirds, seals and other animals across the world.

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Human-driven sea-level rise has quadrupled the frequency of extreme coastal sea-level events since 1900, according to a study in Nature Climate Change. The findings suggest that climate change has already altered coastal flood risk. go.nature.com/4v1eH89 🌎🌊🧪

And I used to worry there might be dolphin in my tuna 😳

@plosbiology.org - The integration of biogeography and ecology has been limited. The emergence of new methods and high-quality ecological network data at biogeographical scales promote deeper integration of biogeography and ecology. @mncn-csic.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Biotic interactions biogeography: A framework for understanding how species interactions shape biodiversity patterns across scales

Biogeography and ecology have long developed in parallel. This Essay explores how new data on species interactions across large scales now allow their integration, opening fresh insights into how biod...

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SOCAT v2026 is released today, with 2.8 million new observations! Download the new version from socat.info/index.php/ve... The annual poster summarising the key points of the release (including the continued decline in observation coverage) is available: socat.info/wp-content/u...

Further coverage of new research quantifying the damage #scubadiving tourism caused to #coralreefs Researchers Find Hidden Damage To Coral Reefs By Scuba Divers share.google/BDbkHokFIVR0...

Researchers Find Hidden Damage To Coral Reefs By Scuba Divers

Scientists have been able to quantify the extent of damage — even unintentional — done to coral reefs by scuba divers.

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joeymaier 🌊@joeymaier.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#Scuba #coralreef Hey divers, let's all work on our buoyancy control "Overconfidence was greatest among the least competent divers, consistent with the Dunning–Kruger effect. " conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We are looking for an inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability scientist for our research project "A social-ecological analysis of co-production of Mediterranean terrace landscapes". This is a 3-year postdoc position (100%). Application deadline: 30.06.26. drive.google.com/file/d/1l1e_...

Reminder: the only Frontiers journal good for ecologists is IMO the ESA’s Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment - a different and older journal. The other Frontiers-branded journals have *always* been borderline predatory and prone to over-ride editors.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2mo ago

For those of you who had the Frontiers family of journals as the first quasi-reputable* journals to be utter enshittified by AI editorial systems, you're today's lucky winner. Thread. *this has been debatable since their inception, but they somehow have always attracted good authors.

Seamount closures for world’s largest orange roughy fishery as population plummets www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre... via @greenpeace.org.nz

Seamount closures for world’s largest orange roughy fishery as population plummets - Greenpeace Aotearoa

The New Zealand Government has announced temporary seamount closures in the world’s largest orange roughy fishery, following news that deep sea fish numbers are plummeting. The closures, set for six w...

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Fernando Arrigorriaga wildlife photographer Royal Flycatcher

Landscape efficiency frontiers for biodiversity, climate mitigation, and net economic value Polasky+ doi.org/10.1126/science.aea9058 paper shows that most countries are far from tradeoffs between nature & economy countries could simultaneously improve climate nature economy

Excellent opportunity here: a 5 year senior research fellowship in Life Sciences (broadly defined) at All Souls College Oxford. Many opportunities to work with the diverse & inclusive community here in @biology.ox.ac.uk here in the brand new Life & Mind Buiilding www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...

Deforestation-induced drying lowers Amazon climate threshold www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Deforestation-induced drying lowers Amazon climate threshold - Nature

The Amazon forest faces a near system-wide transition of 62−77% of the area under a combination of 1.5–1.9 °C global warming and 22−28% deforestation.

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