RECRUITING 3 Senior Research Associates to develop responsible AI-enabled approaches to unlock animal behaviour for conservation. Roles include: 🧠 AI/Computer Vision 🐠 Behavioural Ecology 🌊 Marine Field Ecology Join @lec-reefs.bsky.social & @dsailu.bsky.social, Lancaster Uni, UK. Ads coming soon!

How easy is it to scare a yellow-bellied marmot? That depends on levels of human disturbance. Nice applied use of #TLS #LiDAR 🧪🌎 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Cities dismantled their tram networks to become “motor cities of the future”. The result? You could travel further within 30 mins via public transport in 1957 than you can in 2026. Cities are seeking billions to rebuild networks. Incredible piece of work this.

The Exchange@theexchangeleeds.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you stood on Briggate at 8am on a weekday in 1957, and stood there again in 2026, in which year could you reach more of the city in half an hour? Samuel Bancroft has crunched the numbers. Since the 1950s, Leeds has got bigger - but the city has effectively shrunk.

Essential purchase for the big game hunters among us.

Terry O'Connor@osteoconnor.bsky.social · 2w ago

New book purchase. Disgraceful self-indulgence.

Translation: as a grown-up I can be trusted to use AI responsibly but not these kids. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It's still summer. I do not need this now.

Please upload your report to our website. The site only permits access from a Windows computer using an Edge brower purged of all cookies which accepts pop-ups and has no ad-blockers on a Tuesday when the moon is full within 17 minutes of hearing an owl.

Registration is open for the @britishecologicalsociety.org Annual Meeting in December! Don't wait to sign up, we ran out of space last year. #BES2026 www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/bes-...

Major revisions! I'll take it.

Teen Titans Raven: High Fives! Come On!

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Spotted in the Reading University Natural History Museum

Am I hungry or just hot and tired.

How can an extremely simple equation open the door to virtually infinite complexity? Fifty years ago, Bob May’s classic paper in @nature.com on chaos showed how deterministic rules can generate unpredictability, with deep implications for ecology, physics & beyond. mym.iimas.unam.mx/ramon/docs/M...

Attempting to tidy the 8yo's room. Wife: What's this? 8yo: It's my smell jar. Wife: What's in it? 8yo: *rolls eyes* Smells. Wife: *sniffs* Oh, it smells like orange blossom! 8yo: See?

My neurological type is instinctively scratching my shoulders and neck whenever I'm in a meeting or in-depth conversation.

I’m looking to recruit a postdoc to join my research group at University of Iowa to work on disturbance ecology and biodiversity! Start date flexible, lots of opportunity for skill development, collaboration, and mentorship. Will review applicants in mid-August! Link: gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

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BIG NEWS! The Jones Lab will be relocating to the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability (SEES) at the University of Iowa in Fall 2026. Our work on disturbance ecology and conservation sc…

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Nonsense. Everyone knows the Germans are in West Cork, and the Spanish are on the Beara but we don't talk about that. #SpeirGorm

Is the golden age of field-based ecology only just about to begin? An interesting argument that AI will displace demand for computational skills but increase the need for real data. 🧪🌏

AI, Comparative Advantage, and the Next Decade of Ecological Research

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Last chance to apply for this fully-funded 4-year PhD scholarship on forest structural assessment using terrestrial LiDAR @ucc.ie. The project includes an industry placement and an overseas secondment for training. Deadline 5 July. www.ucc.ie/en/bees/rese...

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Two jobs for graduate ecologists @hometreecharity.bsky.social, a brilliant NGO for nature restoration in the west of Ireland. 🌏🌲🌳

Opportunities — Hometree

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Reminder that we currently have an open fully-funded 4-year PhD scholarship in Forest Structural Assessment @ucc.ie. Join us!

Markus Eichhorn@markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

PhD studentship in forest structural assessment, suitable for candidates with backgrounds in ecology, forestry or remote sensing 🌳🌲🌏. Fully-funded 4-year programme. Deadline 5 July. Application details here:

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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As Ireland begins its presidency of the EU, it's worth recalling that Nigel Farage confidently predicted that Ireland would follow the UK in leaving. No regrets on this side of the water.

Ceremony launching Ireland's EU Presidency begins

Follow live coverage as the Government formally launches Ireland's six-month Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

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Call me old-fashioned but I remember when receiving manuscript proofs was a joyful celebration rather than a day lost doing the journal's editorial job for them.

Submission, first review, revisions, second review, more revisions, final review, acceptance: 12 months. At least. Proofs arrive:

Chris Pratt: Right Now!

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"That's what ChatGPT told me to do." If you outsource your thinking to a machine, and turns out to be wrong, then the mistake is yours. You own it.

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Northern Exposure: Lanzamiento de Caja

Alt: The flying piano scene from Northern Exposure

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Today is the last day to apply to our open PhD position working on plant-associated above-belowground fungal microbiomes across the Galapagos! Based at the amazing @niooknaw.bsky.social 🌱🍄

PhD: Biogeography of plant-associated fungi on the Galapagos islands

In this project, you will investigate the biogeography of above- and belowground fungi associated with several Scalesia species. We aim to develop an integrated view of diversity and distribution of t...

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Reminder that we currently have an open fully-funded 4-year PhD scholarship in Forest Structural Assessment @ucc.ie. Join us!

Markus Eichhorn@markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

PhD studentship in forest structural assessment, suitable for candidates with backgrounds in ecology, forestry or remote sensing 🌳🌲🌏. Fully-funded 4-year programme. Deadline 5 July. Application details here:

Two jobs for graduate ecologists @hometreecharity.bsky.social, a brilliant NGO for nature restoration in the west of Ireland. 🌏🌲🌳

Opportunities — Hometree

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I wrote about this trend years years ago. When we commodify education we encourage students to view it as a transaction rather than a process that is valuable in itself.

Trumpets are meant for blowing

A man walks up to a brass band, and asks one of the musicians whether he can buy her trumpet. Confused by the request, the musician replies that she wasn’t planning to sell the instrument, bu…

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Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · last mo.

This is one of the dumbest and saddest things I've ever seen. We should not think of universities in this way, and if we do that'll destroy everything that is both useful and good about them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...