After lots of discussions and drawing on insights from case studies across five continents, we present five key principles for sustainable mountain futures @anthropocenebio.bsky.social @yesiuoy.bsky.social Cell Reports Sustainability: Cell Reports Sustainability www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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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🌐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....

A team led by @anthropocenebio.bsky.social and @sangerinstitute.bsky.social with researchers from South America has found that some butterfly and moth species reuse the same two genes to evolve near identical colour patterns 🦋 Open access paper in @plosbiology.org doi.org/10.1371/jour... 🔓 📄

Evolution has reused the same genes for 120 million years, study shows

Scientists have shown that evolution has been using the same genetic ‘cheat sheet’ for over 120 million years, suggesting that life on earth may be more predictable than first imagined.

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New Science Advances paper: 60 years of change across European plant communities reveals a widespread shift toward denser vegetation, with increasing shade tolerance across habitats. Proud to co-author this important work🍃 #ecology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Sixty years of plant community change in Europe indicate a shift toward nutrient-richer and denser vegetation

Bioindication reveals a 60-year shift toward denser, more productive vegetation, but a weak thermophilization signal.

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Better late than never - we were delighted to host Maastricht University System Earth Science researchers at York recently. Our discussions were focused on identifying research synergies and priorities across a range of areas. Looking forward to where these conversations lead!

What is resilience for a landscape? Check out our (with Charles Cunningham, @hannalp.bsky.social, Lauren Barnes, Chris Thomas and @janehillyork.bsky.social ) new paper now out in @peopleandnature.bsky.social Early View @anthropocenebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/pan3...

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

What can biodiversity patterns during the Black Death tell us about our relationships with nature? (hint: its not all bad!) Read more in our new paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌏🧪🌐

Last few days for this!

Jonny Gordon @jonathan-gdon.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Only a few weeks left to get your abstracts in for our session at INQUA 2027! "Re-evaluating Long-Term Human–Biodiversity Relationships" A session to highlight positive human–nature relations from across the palaeosciences ⏰Deadline: 15 Feb 2026 🌏🧪🌐 www.inquaindia2027.in/sessions/s-120

Clemency Cooper’s PhD research aims to understand how perceptions of the landscape have shaped the North York Moors, and how evidence of past change might influence decisions about its future character. @northyorkmoors.org.uk www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

Our new paper presents a framework for analysing the processes that generate novel ecosystems, discussing different conceptual and practical approaches across ecological disciplines. You can read it, open access, in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The making of novel ecosystems: A process‐based framework for measurement, analysis and application

Ecological novelty is emerging rapidly due to global change drivers such as climate shifts, species introductions, defaunation, and land-use transformation. These changes challenge how we assess, ...

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🚨 Hot off the press: Our look into of the palaeontological database landscape and its sustainability into the future. Palaeo databases are invaluable and continue to transform our research field - but they are vulnerable... (1/6) 🧪 ⛏️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The billion-dollar case for sustaining palaeontology’s digital databases - Nature Ecology & Evolution

The authors survey community palaeontological databases, documenting their contributions to science as well as their vulnerabilities, and provide recommendations for the future of open science databas...

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I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Bluesky Map

Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

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The mainstream aim to restore “native reference ecosystems” Reminds me of people of my age who go to see touring bands from their youth Trying to recreate something that never quite existed And has limited relevance in a changing world doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

Future restoration should enhance ecological complexity and emergent properties at multiple scales

Ecological restoration has a paradigm of re-establishing ‘indigenous reference' communities. One resulting concern is that focussing on target communities may not necessarily create systems which fun...

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Academics, policy makers and businesses are coming together this week at #IPBES12 in Manchester. LCAB researchers are official observers at this important plenary meeting which will have a particular focus on business and biodiversity and the nature-positive approaches companies can adopt.

Only a few weeks left to get your abstracts in for our session at INQUA 2027! "Re-evaluating Long-Term Human–Biodiversity Relationships" A session to highlight positive human–nature relations from across the palaeosciences ⏰Deadline: 15 Feb 2026 🌏🧪🌐 www.inquaindia2027.in/sessions/s-120

"How AI Impacts Skill Formation", by Judy Hanwen Shen and Alex Tamkin, both working at Anthropic: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

The Global Ecology feed is growing fast, now >30 posts/week on large-scale biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation science 🌍🧪🦤🦑🪴🍁 Join the convo, DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join and be added to the list of contributors ! Let’s build a community together ✨🌈💚 👉 bsky.app/profile/nmou...

Are narratives of total biosphere collapse helpful? Is ecological 'novelty' necessarily bad? What can the past tell us about the human capacity to mould and adapt to future conditions? Red more in our new paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B: doi.org/10.1098/rstb... 🌏🧪🌐

Life on New Earth: biodiversity change and humanity in a novel future

Abstract. Accounting for ecological novelty, gains and past human experiences through social–ecological–technological systems (SETS) can help society navig

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Are widespread, generalist species the main drivers of biotic homogenisation? Doesn't look like it... localised species contribute more to spatial beta diversity change than widespread species across groups. Read our new paper, led by @jackhhatfield.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/geb.... 🌏🧪🌐

Rooted in environmental psychology, nature connection can be understood as an eighteenth-century phenomenon. Here Harrie Neal explores how nature connection has become a highly influential psychological framework across the environmental sciences and civil society. www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

1/🧵 Paper out! 🎉🌿🔒 VegVault is now published in Nature Scientific Data: a global database linking palaeo + modern vegetation with traits + climate/soil drivers. 🌐website: bit.ly/VegVault 📜paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #VegVault #Ecology #Paleoecology #Vegetation #FunctionalTraits

New paper! Led by @jackhhatfield.bsky.social we looked at species driving biotic homogenisation (biological communities becoming more similar). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... Current wisdom assumes expansion of human-associated common species is the cause of homogenisation, but is it?🌍🧪1/5

📣 Call for Abstracts | INQUA Congress 2027 📍 Lucknow, India | 🗓 Jan 28–Feb 3, 2027 Re-evaluating Long-Term Human–Biodiversity Relationships. Case studies & syntheses highlighting positive human–nature relations from archaeology & across the palaeosciences ⏰Deadline: 15 Feb 2026 🌏🧪🌐 #INQUA2027

My first PhD paper is out today in Conservation Biology! @society4conbio.bsky.social Freely available to read here: doi.org/10.1111/cobi... Tldr 🧵 below!

Humans have driven biodiversity gains in Europe for eight millennia. Are we simply the latest megafaunal species to generate the complex, diversity-boosting habitat mosaics Europe's ecosystems need? 🌏🧪🌐 Read OA here: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/23... #Biodiversity #ScienceSky #SciComm

Increasing human ecological impact over the Holocene (11,700 - 150 years ago) led to biodiversity gains in Europe. Why? From ~8,500 years ago, the spread of farming created heterogeneous, habitat-rich landscapes that enhanced biodiversity. Read our new paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.... 🌏 🧪

🌱 The Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity @anthropocenebio.bsky.social has been the most inspiring interdisciplinary home over the past 3.5 years. I’ve worked alongside sociologists, biologists, historians, economists, mathematicians, artists + more. Truly a dream environment. ✨

Funded PhD opportunity!!🧪🌎 Wanna improve how biodiversity is monitored & protected? Keen to work with large datasets & quantitative methods? This PhD could be for you! Fully-funded PhD at University of Reading with IoZ & UKCEH (UK or settled status applicants) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

CR2026_23: Monitoring and protecting biodiversity across all its dimensions – taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - CR2026_23: Monitoring and protecting biodiversity across all its dimensions – taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com

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