This was a massive collaborative effort from #MoveBon, led by Ruth Oliver, to think about how we could use movement data to understand more about biodiversity, how it is changing, and what we need to know for decision-making. I can't wait to see these ideas come to life !

Nature Reviews Biodiversity@natrevbiodiv.nature.com · 2mo ago

New online! A call to integrate animal movement into biodiversity indicators

For biodiversity indicators to influence decisions, we need to trust them - and to trust them, we need to test them. Happy to share our new paper about how to do that (for genetic diversity) with @seanmhoban.bsky.social & @laura-pollock.bsky.social 😊 📝 doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2026.111824

This report just posted addresses one of the biggest questions that countries always ask about the genetic diversity indicators: how often and how much monitoring is needed for the Ne500 indicator, in realistic situations? ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... @katherinehebert.bsky.social

Blitz the Gap was recently featured in Le Devoir with an action shot of @laura-pollock.bsky.social blitzing the gap! 🌱 Seems crazy that there are only 9 days left to the project's first summer to fill gaps in Canadian #biodiversity data with #iNaturalist. We've reached >2,500,000 observations!

La biodiversité canadienne étalée sur une carte

Les espèces de la faune et de la flore canadiennes ont été répertoriées dans d’un projet scientifique citoyen.

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So many indicators, so little time! ⏰ We wrote a guide to streamline the choice of indicators for tracking biodiversity targets, thanks to key criteria, evaluation sheets, and most importantly - collaborations! 🌱 @biodiversite-quebec.ca

FACETS Journal@facetsjournal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New 📰| Selecting indicators to track progress towards the Global Biodiversity Framework: a case study of Quebec's 2030 Nature Plan 🐢 buff.ly/HJhGdaN 👥 @katherinehebert.bsky.social @src-rsc.bsky.social @usherbrooke.bsky.social @qcbs.ca @ulaval.ca 📷 Dagoberto Hernandez Acevedo

Peter Soroye @wcscanada.org explains how @inaturalist.bsky.social data factors into Key Biodiversity Areas (@keybiodiversity.bsky.social). Join them in Blitz The Gap 2025! blitzthegap.org #CSEE2025

Last week, I had the very cool opportunity to talk about Blitz the Gap (our Canada-wide initiative to fill biodiversity data gaps this summer blitzthegap.org) on Moteur de Recherche at Radio-Canada. I had a blast! Listen here (in French) 🔊 shorturl.at/lJisw

Vendredi 4 juill. 2025 : Les premières frontières terrestres, et la psychologie des foules | OHdio | Radio-Canada

Écoutez l’épisode de l’émission Moteur de recherche : Vendredi 4 juill. 2025 : Les premières frontières terrestres, et la psychologie des foules

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In case you missed my talk at #CSEE2025, you can explore your own collaborative networks and see a little summary on my website! www.lucaseckert.ca/side-project...

pollocklab.github.io/blitz-the-ga... This summer, we are trying to Blitz the Gap 🕵️ in our knowledge about species 🦇🐛🦉🐟🐸🌿 that haven't been seen for 15, 30 or 50+ years in Canada! Check it out!👇

This map ⬇️ is from a challenge I designed that encourages people to go out and observe the major group of taxa 🐟🍄🐍🪲🦫🪻 that is unusually under-represented in their county 🇨🇦

Katherine Hébert@katherinehebert.bsky.social · last yr.

A series of 🏆 Challenges 🏆 were designed by graduate students, researchers, avid iNat users, conservation practioners, and more throughout Canada to highlight species and places that deserve a little more attention: pollocklab.github.io/blitz-the-gap/

One week until Blitz the Gap (www.blitzthegap.org) starts - a Canada-wide event to fill biodiversity data gaps with iNaturalist! @laura-pollock.bsky.social

Blitz the Gap 2025

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In our May issue: Journal Club from Katherine Hébert "Biodiversity change is more than the sum of its parts" go.nature.com/4jY31h2

I wrote a journal club for Nature Reviews Biodiversity to reflect on the ways one of my favourite papers shaped (and keeps shaping) my research! Spoiler alert: We need to summarise biodiversity change as a multi-species process, rather than a collection of separate trends doi.org/10.1038/s443...

A new study by @alexpigot.bsky.social and colleagues reveals the critical role of biodiversity in the functioning of ecosystems. @uclcber.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Macroecological rules predict how biomass scales with species richness in nature

Despite advances in theory and experiments, how biodiversity influences the structure and functioning of natural ecosystems remains debated. By applying new theory to data on 84,695 plant, animal, and...

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Global progress towards our 2030 biodiversity targets starts with local, short-term change - but are we equipped to capture these changes? 🤔 Well, the link between on-the-ground conservation and global indicators is not always clear. We have some ideas about how to clarify & strengthen this link 📝 :

Five recommendations to fill the blank space in indicators at local and short-term scales

The year 2030 is rapidly approaching. Building, monitoring, and reporting indicators to evaluate the 2030 targets in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodi…

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New work by @adbinley.bsky.social and others: 61% of endangered species in Canada lack research on what conservation actions work. We need more action-based research. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Endangered species lack research on the outcomes of conservation action

Summary of the available peer-reviewed literature for 209 terrestrial species at risk listed as Endangered in Canada. The number of species in each category is noted in the rectangle to the right of ...

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Which indicators do we need to track and report biodiversity change? Our new preprint 📝 presents the indicator selection process we built to recommend 15 indicators for Québec's 2030 Nature Plan. We share guidelines, outcomes, and recommendations to choose your own shortlist! doi.org/10.32942/X2J...

Check out our new paper in @ecography.bsky.social led by Jamie Kass! big team of #R pkg developers show how to improve analysis standards by combining different pkgs for species distribution models #SDM, provide a #shiny app to catalog & explore them, 3 extensive tutorials. doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

Achieving higher standards in species distribution modeling by leveraging the diversity of available software

The increasing online availability of biodiversity data and advances in ecological modeling have led to a proliferation of open-source modeling tools. In particular, R packages for species distributi....

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A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science - Mike Young Academy

Scientific Twitter is about to find its true successor. And it is not X. This, our latest release, shows that the Bluesky network of scientists is growing — and growing.

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I am super excited to join my fellow panelists to talk about why biodiversity 🌱 and climate 🌡️ must be considered together if we want to stop biodiversity loss. Register to watch on Thursday, November 21st at 12PM EST (in French) 📺! shorturl.at/UzWm3

Time for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change... "Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪

Time for me to make my first post on here! Happy to announce that I'll be sitting at a table in the Montreal Planetarium this Friday night, ready to chat about what we should talk about when we summarise biodiversity change! 🐛🦋🦎🐍🦞🐡🐳🐘🦇🦉🍄🌳🌱 shorturl.at/FDlsq

La Nuit des chercheuses et des chercheurs

Espace pour la vie

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An important column by @oaggimenez.bsky.social, on how he reacted when colleagues found a fundamental flaw in one of his published papers (thanks to code he and his coauthors had shared) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My paper was proved wrong. After a sleepless night, here’s what I did next

As part of a healthy scientific community, I accepted my mistake — but I’ve come to realize that authors of reply papers need more support.

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