Proud to have been part of this submission to SCOTUS to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their decade-long disinformation about climate change. With @naomioreskes.bsky.social @geoffreysupran.bsky.social and others www.ucs.org/about/news/a...

Experts File Friend-of-the-Court Brief in Suncor v Boulder Documenting Companies’ Climate Deception

Experts File Friend-of-the-Court Brief in Supreme Court Case Documenting Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil Decades of Climate Deception

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Not 'if', but 'when'. This analysis is a great awareness tool, but likely an underestimate of impacts. This will be devastating for many species and will reshape ecological communities everywhere www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

'List of doom' outlines birds facing extinction if deadly flu spreads

A list of thousands of Australian species have been ranked by threat level as the deadly H5 bird flu spreads.

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New #OpenAccess #ConservationNote in #RESInsectConsDiv Mapping wild #bee diversity and flower use for an effective #conservation of the Doñana #biodiversity hotspot doi.org/10.1111/icad.70121 @manusaunders.bsky.social @curromolina.bsky.social @nermonper.bsky.social @ibartomeus.bsky.social

With huge community level implications: workloads increase as journal editors, grant assessors, job panels, lecturers, and research student supervisors have to spend more time assessing human integrity than scientific content. Expectations increase for all as LLM-generated careers are normalised...

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

13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

Just hit a new record for number of reviewers invited -- 24, and still counting. (If you're reading this and want to review a plant macroecology paper, lmk?)

This is basically how Science works

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 5d ago

And the reason people socially construct brute facts is that those constructions allow us to coordinate action. If we don't have units of measure, we can't easily give each other directions. If we don't have labels for symptom clusters like ADHD, we can't easily develop treatments or policies.

Stop normalising genAI.

New #ConservationNote in #RESInsectConsDiv Extreme habitat specialization by the Amazonian #DungBeetle #Canthonidia rubromaculata doi.org/10.1111/icad.70115 @manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social Photos: The study species; field areas & activities (all credits: Gabriel Herrera)

Our new commentary rdcu.be/ftx6h in @natecoevo.nature.com written with folks from @inaturalist.bsky.social and @cornellbirds.bsky.social shows that use of AI to manipulate existing or create new wildlife images undermines the huge value of vast citizen science databases. 🌍🪰🪶 #Ornithology 🧵 1/10

Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI

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An insect follow-up to the issues raised by @alexanderlees.bsky.social - a recorder asked ChatGPT to clean up a blurry photo of an insect they didn't recognise. It was then sent in as a record of a cicada. Can anyone work out what the original insect was? (Answer to follow!) bsky.app/profile/alex...

Alexander Lees@alexanderlees.bsky.social · 2w ago

Great write-up by @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social on our paper in @natecoevo.nature.com www.theguardian.com/environment/... on the impact of generative AI on biological recording #Ornithology #UKBirding 🪶🌍 1/2

I'm seeing a sudden increase in AI manuscript submissions at the journal, e.g. 90% of weekly submissions vs ~1 every few months over the last year. I now spend more time evaluating manuscripts for AI indicators, before I even get to the science #AcademicSky

"Overall, the evidence suggests a hybrid mix of work-from-home flexibility is the sweet spot for looking after both employers’ and employees’ needs." theconversation.com/narcissist-b...

‘Narcissist’ bosses are more likely to oppose work from home, studies show. But are they right?

A mix of work-from-home flexibility, with two to three days in the office, appears to be the sweet spot for looking after both employers’ and employees’ needs.

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New work in #RESInsectConsDiv #CitizenScience data reveals that earlier & shorter flight periods correlate with climate warming in the dark-edged #BeeFly doi.org/10.1111/icad.70114 #Phenology @manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social @unirdgento.bsky.social @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social

I always guide my students to do a quantitative bias assessment in their lit review, because it's the best way to highlight evidence gaps. This should be a standard for all systematic or quantitative literature reviews, not just formal meta-analyses.

Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar@asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 3w ago

Are our ecological conclusions built on shaky foundations? Our latest paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social highlights that Risk of Bias (RoB) assessment, crucial for ensuring the internal validity of research, is almost never used in #systematicreviews in eco & evo 📉 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/2041...

New blog: It matters what narratives we use to engage with science. Misinformation engages us with a fantasy. #AcademicSky #SciComm #InsectConservation ecologyisnotadirtyword.com/2026/07/10/t...

The windscreen phenomenon is misinformation

I’ve written here and here about how the flawed windscreen phenomenon is not scientifically testable. It’s a popular social media anecdote, but not actually an accurate measure of insect decline. A…

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New #Forum article in #RESInsectConsDiv Saving bees or sustaining industry? Challenging neoliberal narratives in North American pollinator research and #conservation doi.org/10.1111/icad.70108 #Pollinators #Biodiversity #InsectScience @manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

📢 #RESInsectConsDiv now publish #ConservationNotes! Learn more from one of the journal's own EiCs, @manusaunders.bsky.social, on why this new category was launched and what it hopes to achieve for evidence-based insect #conservation ⬇️ www.royensoc.co.uk/news/conserv... @wileyecology.bsky.social

A new #Review is now available in #RESInsectConsDiv, summarising the global patterns of #mining impacts on lotic #macroinvertebrates and implications for freshwater #conservation. doi.org/10.1111/icad.70104 #AquaticInsects @manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

A 2019 paper that is often used as evidence of the flawed 'windscreen phenomenon' has been retracted. I cited this paper a few years ago in explainers about why this particular anecdote cannot be used as evidence of insect decline. See thread below 👇 retractionwatch.com/2026/06/23/a...

A prolific evolutionary biologist caught faking data decades ago notches a new retraction

A study claiming a tenfold decrease in bugs splattered on evolutionary biologist Anders Møller’s windshield over two decades has been retracted. shanecotee / iStock Anders Møller, an influential ev…

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New research in #RESInsectConsDiv Urban warming alters body size in Neotropical geometrid #moths: Divergent patterns at community and intraspecific scales doi.org/10.1111/icad.70094 #UrbanInsects #Geometridae #UrbanHeatIslandEffect @manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

I got sent 11 expert scientist reactions to Australia's Bureau of Meteorology officially declaring a strong El Nino, and not a single one of the comments mentions fossil fuels, coal, gas, climate policy, power stations, transport, targets - nothing. Of course the media is going to take that lead..

New #OpenAccess work by @jjmlynarek.bsky.social et al. in #RESInsectConsDiv found Canadian boreal restored mining sites sustain diverse #pollinator communities, including species of #conservation concern doi.org/10.1111/icad.70103 #Biodiversity @manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

#AcademicSky At institutions where a hardcover bound thesis copy is not mandatory, but funds are available for the student to print them, do you still ask your completed students to print one for your collection? Is this an obsolete tradition in the digital age?

#AcademicSky At institutions where a hardcover bound thesis copy is not mandatory, but funds are available for the student to print them, do you still ask your completed students to print one for your collection? Is this an obsolete tradition in the digital age?

New #OpenAccess research in #RESInsectConsDiv Against the odds: Nesting specialization and foraging ecology provide insights into climate change responses in a mountain #bee doi.org/10.1111/icad.70090 #Exoneura #Pollinators @manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

New #OpenAccess research in #RESInsectConsDiv Non-crop #habitats and #CoverCrops as potential #EcologicalCorridors and stepping stones for autumnal migrating #hoverflies doi.org/10.1111/icad.70093 #InsectMigration @manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

New research in #RESInsectConsDiv Seasonal dynamics and site-level variation in wild #bee diversity and community composition in the Middle Atlas Mountains doi.org/10.1111/icad.70091 #Biodiversity #Pollinators #CommunityComposition @manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

New research in #RESInsectConsDiv Population assessment and long-term analysis of the endangered Comal Springs riffle #beetle, #Heterelmis comalensis doi.org/10.1111/icad.70095 #Conservation #InsectAbundance @manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

We are seeking applications for Associate Editors to join our team at #RESInsectConsDiv. We welcome applications from researchers working within the scope of our journal, with particular focus on a number of key areas 👇@royentsoc.bsky.social www.royensoc.co.uk/opportunitie...

Irony is teaching a cohort of students the dangers/ethical quandaries of genAI tools and then having to maintain my own account for said tools to collate evidence of academic misconduct for the same group of students #AcademicSky #HigherEd