RESEARCH ARTICLE High Densities of Large Herbivores Rapidly Disrupt Ecosystem Integrity 🔗 buff.ly/1PJhtAu

Exhilarated to share a 2nd @science.org cover article this month from our lab @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social! A collaboration with US & Mexico colleagues on the role of a Mexican biogeographic holding pen in shaping the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI)(1/11) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A 10-million-year biogeographic holding pen primed the Great American Biotic Interchange | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A 10-million-year biogeographic holding pen primed the Great American Biotic Interchange

The movement of taxa between North and South America across the Panamanian land bridge, known as the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI), established modern-day mammal assemblages in the Americas...

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3 postdoc open positions in our lab on a project developing new AI methods to integrate genetics and ecological data to predict the impact of global change on species - see below

A reconstruction of the evolutionary history of passerine body plans over the past ~50 Myr shows rare bursts of phenotypic innovation near the origin of major taxonomic groups that are temporally aligned with periods of increased climatic instability 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rates of passerine body plan evolution in time and space - Nature Ecology & Evolution

A reconstruction of the evolutionary history of passerine body plans over the past ~50 Myr shows rare bursts of phenotypic innovation near the origin of major taxonomic groups that are temporally alig...

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We published a new study in npj Biodiversity showing how geopolitical inequalities continue to shape biodiversity documentation of new mammal species 🦇🐒🦥📚 🌐. Follow the thread 🧵(1/9)! @mmoroti.bsky.social @karolceron.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com @agenciafapesp.bsky.social

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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🚨 🧵👇 New paper out, and the 2nd chapter of my PhD thesis! We just published a comprehensive spatially-explicit and species-specific dataset of hunting impacts on both tropical mammal and bird species 🌍🦍🦜. Link: tinyurl.com/438xzrcr

🪹 Millions of songbirds in Southeast Asia are trapped and smuggled each year for keeping as pets or entering in competitions. Scientists warn that it's fueling a crisis. ✍️ Sandy Ong: knowmag.org/3QMv7mi

The lucrative bird-singing contests that are pushing species to the brink

Millions of songbirds in Southeast Asia are trapped and smuggled each year for keeping as pets or entering in competitions. Scientists warn that it's fueling a crisis.

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"Resident mortality determines grey wolf range dynamics", superbly lead by Ana Morales-González. It is a modelling effort, connecting dispersal and mortality over habitat availability (yes, for wolves habitat means prey, and no guns). 1/2 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Resident mortality determines grey wolf range dynamics

In the Iberian Peninsula, enabling recovery may require effective population-level protection. More broadly, down- and de-listing policies should be supported by explicit evaluation of the indirect d...

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Now out in @rsecjournal.bsky.social: frontiermetrics: An R Package for Characterizing Deforestation Frontiers - led by Pablo Yair Huais 👉 doi.org/10.1002/rse2... @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #SystemShift

Pangolins are pursued globally but what regions are most implicated in trafficking? By decoding DNA from museum specimens & seizures, this study reveals hidden #pangolin trade routes & #trafficking hotspots, to inform disruption of the global illegal wildlife trade @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4tkYRDO

🌐🌴 Current global hunting threat maps treat species as equally at risk everywhere in their range. We attempted to address this by combining where hunters actually go with which species are most likely to be targeted and least able to cope, for 6k+ trop. birds and 4k+ mammals: doi.org/10.32942/X24...

What is the role of social learning in adopting novel food? Study of urban #cockatoos by @julia-penndorf.bsky.social @clevercockierp.bsky.social &co shows that they rapidly adopt novel food via #SocialLearning, with juveniles showing conformist preferences @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4uq6NVq

[📃Article] The Hidden Power of Citations What if citations were choices that shape science? Citing builds knowledge but also visibility and power. 🔧 fairpub helps reveal biases in your references Read the article: bit.ly/4cJzJlm 🧪🌐

📜New Paper📜@ecography.bsky.social Species distributions aren’t just about where species occur, but how survival, reproduction and development vary across environments. We formalise the Demographic Niche Concept to link niche theory and demography. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Miguel de Felipe (EBD-CSIC) publica el primer mapa actualizado del Parque Nacional de #Doñana en ~30 años: lagunas temporales, marismas, toponimia y datos abiertos. Visor interactivo, mapas históricos y descarga libre de la cartografía: 👉 migdetor.github.io/topodonana.g... @ebdonana.bsky.social

🐺 La alta densidad de población humana, de asentamientos humanos y de carreteras son los principales factores que limitan sus movimientos de los lobos ibéricos. Es el resultado de un nuevo estudio liderado por la @ebdonana.bsky.social y la @udc.gal. ➡️ www.ebd.csic.es/divulgacion/...

Just released mori 0.1.0 on CRAN — a new R package for shared memory across processes. Parallel R no longer has to mean duplicating your dataset in every worker's RAM. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... 🧵 1/3

mori: Shared memory for R objects

mori is a new R package for sharing R objects across processes via OS-level shared memory. Parallel workers get zero-copy, lazy ALTREP access to the same physical pages — share once, read anywhere.

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🧵Descubren un ecosistema formado por 7 microorganimos que consume el metano antes de ascender al subsuelo marino. El hallazgo demuestra que se estaba subestimando el papel que los ecosistemas microbianos organizados desempeñan en la retención del metano. www.mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicac...

Postdoc position available! We're seeking a great postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the responses of tropical tree populations and communities to climate variation and species loss. jedediahbrodie.weebly.com/prospective-...

Prospective students

Postdoc position Position description Our lab is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for an NSF-funded project on the responses of tropical tree populations and communities to climate variation and...

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Are you the less lucky of the co-first or co-last authors? @shougroup.bsky.social makes the case for changes to the way that equal contribution information is sent to indexing sites such as #PubMed. 🧪 #AcademicSky #publishing

We need to correct the wide-spread omission of equal contribution in article indexing

Equal contribution designations (co-first and co-last authorship) is on the rise, yet this information is routinely lost, creating inequity in recognition and crediting. This Perspective calls for…

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Apply!! 3 open postdocs in biome biogeography and macroecology in @nezimmermann.bsky.social's amazing ERC project on global biome mapping and evolution: 1) apply.refline.ch/273855/1856/... 2) apply.refline.ch/273855/1857/... 3) apply.refline.ch/273855/1858/...

Can you believe that until now there were more genomes sequenced for the woolly mammoth than for living African elephants? Today, we bring you the first genomic, continent-scale analyses of 232 high-quality genomes of both species, the savanna and forest elephant. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm willing to support a MSCA application to host a postdoc in Vilnius, Lithuania on all things animal movement, habitat selection and connectivity - if you're interested, let's discuss Theme & rules: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting... More on my research and supervision: fattebert.weebly.com

EU Science, Research & Innovation@scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu · 4mo ago

€399M in EU funding is available to support around 1,600 researchers in their postdoctoral journey. You can choose your path: 🧪 European fellowships: 12-24 months in Europe 🧪 Global fellowships: 12-24 months abroad + return Deadline: 9 September (17:00 CEST) More info: link.europa.eu/t6jYb3

Biodiversity of #rainforest can recover within decades when located in highly connected landscapes because animal mobility drives natural recovery. Our @reassemblynet.bsky.social synthesis paper is out @nature.com: tinyurl.com/4w24a96b @sgn.one @unimarburg.bsky.social @jocotoco.bsky.social 🌐🌎🧪

1/8 🐺📢 Our study in Behavioral Ecology is out now! We explore the drivers of daily movements of wolves in human-dominated landscapes and found out that they shorten considerably their movements 🔗 Paper: sl1nk.com/xkue00q 🧵👇 (📸 Francisco J. Lema Fuentes).

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We have organised this event in Earth Day to commemorate the memory and legacy and Dom Phillips and Bruno Perreira and celebrate the launch of the paperback of Don’s book and explore futures. In person only , at Oxford’s beautiful Natural History Museum - all welcome @naturerecovery.bsky.social

Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery@naturerecovery.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join us on Earth Day for a special event: How to Save the Amazon-Solutions from the Forest. An evening showcasing Indigenous voices & culture alongside cutting-edge science & data 📅 22 April, 19:00–22:00 📍 Oxford Natural History Museum With @morethanadodo.bsky.social @globalcanopy.org

Climate niche models underestimate the speed with which species move in response to climate change, according to comparisons between the models and observed shifts for more than 3,500 species. Median rates were four times faster than predicted. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Mokn50YCqty