Opinion piece: #AI will likely reorganize #science. Will #research remain a human enterprise? In PNAS Front Matter: https://ow.ly/fBac50Zv3ju #SciencePublishing #ScienceFunding #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMs #MachineLearning #ScienceEnterprise #CreativeDestruction #evolution

E4 award winner: Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization vist.ly/5c7kv #ECR #MonetaryPrize

🧠 Why is eating an enemy more taboo than killing one? New in PNAS: our colleague @turecek.bsky.social presents a mathematical model showing why cannibalism remained rare despite occasional benefits: repeated cannibalism amplifies pathogen transmission. 🔗 doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2605120123

🌐Local bird species richness is regulated—not by diversity-dependent extinctions, but by diversity-dependent colonization as communities approach equilibrium.

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🐦 Is local species richness regulated, and if so, how? In a new paper in 🌍 GEB, our colleagues David Storch and @elbohdalkova.bsky.social show that diversity-dependent colonization regulates local richness, while extinction rates shape differences among communities. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/geb....

🐦 Is local species richness regulated, and if so, how? In a new paper in 🌍 GEB, our colleagues David Storch and @elbohdalkova.bsky.social show that diversity-dependent colonization regulates local richness, while extinction rates shape differences among communities. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Diversity Regulation in Local Communities: Colonization and Extinction Dynamics in North American Birds

Aim Species richness of local communities may be regulated via negative diversity dependence of colonization or positive diversity dependence of extinction rate. We explore whether and how bird comm...

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Today's @theguardian.com long read philosophically scrutinises academic concepts of 'ecosystem function' and 'ecosystem services'. Recommended reading!

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

Can ecosystems ‘malfunction’?

Can biodiversity equilibria be tested? David Storch & @graceridder.bsky.social argue that they can and that tests support the Equilibrium Theory of Biodiversity Dynamics as a parsimonious explanation of global diversity patterns. Read their response in TREE: 🔗 authors.elsevier.com/a/1nFXkcZ3X7...

New in TREE: David Storch & @graceridder.bsky.social respond to a comment on their paper, arguing that the Equilibrium Theory of Biodiversity Dynamics is testable and supported by current evidence as a parsimonious explanation of global diversity patterns. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2026.05.011

Are you looking for a PhD on the intersection between evolutionary and ecological theory? Join us @univie. Fully funded PhD position in fundamental eco-evolutionary theory, open to international students. Apply by 13.7.2026: ecoevo.owlstown.net/search Reposting appreciated. #evolbio #evoeco #ecology

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Where is the evidence for biodiversity equilibria? Follow the debate in the following publications. Our original paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... The response: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... Our reply: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Sad to hear of the passing of Robert Ricklefs - a giant of Ecology who simultaneously pushed forward big ideas at multiple biological levels yet took time for detailed natural history .. McGill does a nice job summarizing his impressive contributions 🌐🧪 dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/r...

Robert Ricklefs – in memoriam

Robert Ricklefs, a giant of ecology, passed away on Sunday. It is hard to overstate the extensive impact Bob had on the field. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the US,…

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Bob Ricklefs RIP. One of the giants of ecology. His textbooks were the gateway to the field for many students. His papers were invariably thoughtful, well-argued and provocative, even those I disagreed with. 🌏🧪🌐

Since January, I have gotten 8 desk rejections. Is this a new normal and a response to a deluge of AI-enabled papers journals are now receiving and/or dwindling availability of reviewers, or is our science not seen as novel enough (the latter I don't want to believe is true 😆)?

A sad task, well done—Brian McGill pens a tribute to Bob Ricklefs. One measure of Ricklefs’ influence: Ecology students from the 70s on were trained on “Ricklefs”: an imposing tome weaving graphs and equations together with fine, dense prose. Thanks Bob. dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/r...

Join us at @cts.cuni.cz for two years of academic freedom and transdisciplinary exchange in Prague

Center for Theoretical Study@cts.cuni.cz · 2mo ago

📢 Postdoctoral position at the Center for Theoretical Study (CTS), Charles University For researchers interested in any field developed at CTS and in transdisciplinary dialogue across the sciences and humanities. 📍 Prague | 🗓️ Start: January 2027 | ⏳ Apply by: 30 September 2026 ⬇️ More information

If you’re interested in editorial work and want to contribute to our society @biogeography.bsky.social, consider applying to become a new editor of our society’s journal!

The International Biogeography Society@biogeography.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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...

📚 Srdečně zveme na křest nové knihy našeho kolegy @janturek.bsky.social: První Evropané. 🎤 Křtem provede Jaroslav Hutka 📅 11. června 2026 v 17:00 📍 Knihkupectví Academia, Václavské náměstí 34, Praha (kavárna, 1. patro)

Watch this space & spread the word. New @idiv-research.bsky.social synthesis working group & fellowship (ie Sabbatical) calls coming these days. Great funding opportunities to collaborate with researchers in and visit @idiv-research.bsky.social

Fantastic funding opportunities for biodiversity related research projects👇 1. Synthesis Working Groups 2. Senior Fellows Please spread the words & apply :)

iDiv Biodiversity Research@idiv-research.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 Two major iDiv calls are now accepting applications! 🔹 iDiv Synthesis Centre Working Group Call 🔹 iDiv Fellowship Programme Call 🔗 More info, application criteria + deadlines: www.idiv.de

#anthropocene interdisciplinary course by @cts.cuni.cz at Charles University, Prague

Center for Theoretical Study@cts.cuni.cz · 4mo ago

📢 Join us for the course “Anthropocene: The Contemporary World in Transdisciplinary Perspective”! ⏳ Registration extended to April 30 — apply soon! 🔗 www.anthropocene.cz/en/micro-cre

Congratulations to the author team from @cts.cuni.cz on winning the Magnesia Litera Award for Best Non-fiction Book! 📖 Hinterland (eds. Petr Pokorný & Petr Šída)

Center for Theoretical Study@cts.cuni.cz · 4mo ago

Petr Pokorný, Petr Šída a kolektiv: Hinterland: Archeologie severočeských pískovcových krajin (Kodudek, 2025).

Nice and important work! Congratulations @cerezer.bsky.social @smyckaj.bsky.social @inirubio.bsky.social @mquetin.bsky.social

Center for Theoretical Study@cts.cuni.cz · 4mo ago

New PLoS Biol paper led by @cerezer.bsky.social & David Storch (CTS): across tetrapods, species richness patterns are mainly shaped by equilibrium dynamics modulated by environmental productivity, rather than by speciation rates or time for species accumulation. 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

New PLoS Biol paper led by @cerezer.bsky.social & David Storch (CTS): across tetrapods, species richness patterns are mainly shaped by equilibrium dynamics modulated by environmental productivity, rather than by speciation rates or time for species accumulation. 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Diversity patterns in terrestrial tetrapod clades are governed by equilibrium dynamics

Why do some groups contain far more species than others? By testing competing explanations across terrestrial vertebrates, this study shows that biodiversity patterns are most often shaped by long-ter...

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Our new article in Science Advances, led by Gabriele Midolo, identifies the main factors driving changes in the species composition of plant communities across Europe: eutrophication, denser, more productive vegetation, and drying of wetlands. doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Check out the new blog post on our latest #BIEN paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social BIEN 4.2: A Reproducible Standard for Global Plant Biodiversity Data 🧪🌐🌾

Methods in Ecology and Evolution@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New blog post!🚨 The BIEN working group give the story behind their new paper "BIEN: A biodiversity informatics ecosystem advancing open and reproducible workflows for plant observation, plot and trait data"🪴🌍 🧪 Read here 👇 buff.ly/PZcecxJ

Happy to see our antifragility paper published! With @jonaswickman.bsky.social and @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social.

American Naturalist / ASN 🐌@asn-amnat.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Antifragility: A Cross-Cutting Concept for Understanding Ecological Responses to Variability by Wickman et al. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Congratulations ‪@bjenquist.bsky.social‬ for leading the amazing BIEN. Biodiversity science is immensely richer, more reliable and more integrated thanks to BIEN. This new paper shows how and why.

Brian J. Enquist@bjenquist.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our new #BIEN biodiversity data workflow paper is out! BIEN is an ecosystem of modular, open-source BIEN tools for collecting, harmonizing, and validating biodiversity data -- and an integrated global database (BIEN db) of plant occurrences, traits & geographic ranges. doi.org/10.1111/2041... 🧪🌐🌾🌵

Our new #BIEN biodiversity data workflow paper is out! BIEN is an ecosystem of modular, open-source BIEN tools for collecting, harmonizing, and validating biodiversity data -- and an integrated global database (BIEN db) of plant occurrences, traits & geographic ranges. doi.org/10.1111/2041... 🧪🌐🌾🌵

BIEN: A biodiversity informatics ecosystem advancing open and reproducible workflows for plant observation, plot and trait data

The rapid expansion of biodiversity data presents new opportunities to understand and forecast biosphere dynamics. However, disparate and dispersed data, taxonomic and geographic inconsistencies, ...

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📚 Dnes! Zveme na křest nové knihy našeho kolegy Radana Haluzíka Turbo-venkov: plné krajiny a prázdné domy (nejen) na Balkáně (Academia) 📍 CAMP, Vyšehradská 57 🕖 19:00 Součástí bude i krátká přednáška s obrázky. 🔗 praha.camp/program/deta...

Turbo-venkov: Plné krajiny prázdných domů

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European #forests, #grasslands, and #alpine plant communities are reflecting climate warming differently See our new study in @nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415... #forestREplot #GLORIAnetwork #thermophilization #forestecol