El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de los Estados Unidos de Donald Trump quiere sacar al gobierno de Sánchez y poner uno afín. No lo digo yo, lo dicen ellos.
Maria Paniw
@paniw.bsky.social
RyC fellow at EBD-CSIC & scientific coordinator of LifeWatch ERIC Spain Distributed Center| Global-change ecology| forecasting| multi-species demographic models. For more info: https://globalchangeeco.com/ and also https://euro-ecoforecast.wordpress.com/
Might be on interest for my ecology friends here 🧪, we shown how even 40 years of observations does not rarefy completely diversity of insect groups with prevalent dark taxa (looking at you, 🪰) @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @steveormerod.bsky.social @stephenbheard.bsky.social @cschaboo.bsky.social
Nathan Jay Baker@nathanjaybaker.bsky.social · 3w agoInsect decline usually focuses on species we can name. But "dark taxa" like true flies kept revealing new species over 37-years of sampling a German stream, while well-studied mayflies/stoneflies/caddisflies plateaued with far fewer individuals. doi.org/10.1111/icad... @swarmofthoughts.bsky.social
New paper out from the lab!! 📢
Iago Ferreiro@iagoferreiro.bsky.social · 3w ago🚨 🧵👇 New paper out, and the 2nd chapter of my PhD thesis! We just published a comprehensive spatially-explicit and species-specific dataset of hunting impacts on both tropical mammal and bird species 🌍🦍🦜. Link: tinyurl.com/438xzrcr
🐺 📉Reducir apenas un 10% la mortalidad de los lobos ibéricos que viven en grupos familiares permitiría mejorar su estado de conservación y duplicar su área de distribución en 30 años. Más info: www.ebd.csic.es/divulgacion/... Estudio completo: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
First 🐰 forecast challenges are up and running thanks to the excellent work by @sanneevers.bsky.social presenting at ECCB 2026. Check them out here: donanadt.lifewatch.dev/app/donana-f... & contribute your own forecast! Winners will be announced by the end of summer - and will get a 👕
Ecological Digital Twins + Forecasting Standards + e-Infrastructure = Effective Conservation. Representing @lifewatcheric.bsky.social and @ecoforecast.bsky.social at @eccb26leiden.bsky.social. 🧪🌎
Why haven't 🐺 in 🇪🇸 expanded their range despite lots of suitable habitat? It may be due to high resident mortality! A 10% reduction in mortality in established packs could double the occupied range, even if disperser mortality doesn't change: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Resident mortality determines grey wolf range dynamics
In the Iberian Peninsula, enabling recovery may require effective population-level protection. More broadly, down- and de-listing policies should be supported by explicit evaluation of the indirect d...
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La mortalidad del lobo ibérico impide su expansión a través de diferentes mecanismos demográficos. Como decía mi profesor de física: no hay mas cera que la que arde besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🚨Job alert 🚨 I am looking for a PhD student to join our DEMOCAST team (globalchangeeco.com/jobs). The general project is about ecological forecasting, but there is lots of flexibility to develop the thesis. We are at @eccb26leiden.bsky.social this week if anyone is interested and wants to chat.
Join us!!!!!
Billur Bektaş 🍃@billurbektas.bsky.social · last mo.Join us for a workshop at the Joint NSO-GfÖ Conference 2026 on ecological forecasting challenges! --> Using and Participating in Ecological Forecasting Challenges for Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Forecasts. @nordicoikos.bsky.social nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/joint-...
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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TY @ktoussaint.bsky.social for covering the extremely urgent shift required in media coverage of deadly fossil fuel disasters - go read the full article, it's an excellent summary of this problem (and share it) www.fastcompany.com/91563140/sto...
There's a deadly heat wave in Europe. Experts are begging media outlets to stop making it look fun
Images of crowded beaches or people swimming in pools are known to make extreme weather seem less dangerous.
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In Bayern werden jene Leute abgeschoben, die kooperativ sind und sich an Regeln halten, weil sie leichte Beute sind. Menschen, die einen Arbeitsplatz haben und in die Sozialsysteme einzahlen. Menschen wie Rugiatu Kamara aus Passau. Es ist eine Schande! www.taz.de/!6185924
Abgeschobene Frau in Passau: „Nix Stammtisch, stinksauer bin i“
Ende April wurde in Passau eine Frau, die seit sechs Jahren in einem Traditionsgasthaus angestellt war, abgeschoben. Seither probt der Wirt den Aufstand.
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📣 LifeWatch ERIC is looking for its next Chief Executive Officer, through an international open competition, to lead the organisation into its next phase of development. More info ➡️ bit.ly/4qY0lmn
Check out this new review👇️ malddaba: An open-access database of age-specific mammalian demography for comparative analyses in evolutionary biology and demography🌍 🐵 🔎 buff.ly/sUF7wDu
What do you do if THE top researchers in your field ask if they can use your published code to "stress test" your model results? 😨 You say: Go ahead! But you think: Nothing I can do about it, it's all out there now 😅 Anyway, this turned out to be a fun collaboration 🧪: doi.org/10.1111/2041...
Challenging and diagnosing structured population models by testing predictions from stochastic demography
Structured population models are parameterized to accurately project expected population sizes, stage/state distributions and population growth rates, but they also predict the variation in outcom...
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Check out the wonders that crawl beneath your feet if you visit the Kalahari desert
Andrea Fuller@andreafuller.bsky.social · 2mo agoA blog on our new paper! 🐜 🪲 🐛 🕷️ 🦂
How can we sample life below the ground? New paper describing a subterranean trap for invertebrates, with Walter Jubber and @paniw.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Capturing the unseen: A low‐cost method for stratified subterranean sampling of soil invertebrates in drylands
We developed a low-cost, stratified subterranean trap for live capture of soil macrofauna in the sandy, dryland soils of the southern Kalahari. The subterranean traps sampled below-ground taxa and li...
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🐜 🪲 🐛 Drylands are seasonally 🌡️ and so, many species, especially ectotherms, spend part, or most, of their life below-ground. But how do we access this hidden world? We have developed a cheap and scalable method to do just that that works great in sandy soils. 🧪 doi.org/10.1002/2688...
Capturing the unseen: A low‐cost method for stratified subterranean sampling of soil invertebrates in drylands
We developed a low-cost, stratified subterranean trap for live capture of soil macrofauna in the sandy, dryland soils of the southern Kalahari. The subterranean traps sampled below-ground taxa and li...
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The complex interactive effects of global change stressors and cascading species interactions require integrative approaches that study and conserve ecosystems beyond individual species. This was a beautiful collaborative experience with colleagues from EBD
Maria Paniw@paniw.bsky.social · 2mo ago🧪 Mediterranean ecosystems are changing fast & in dynamic, interconnected ways, but we rarely look at the interconnections. Doñana National Park is a great example of how multiple global-change drivers ripple through ecosystems via species interactions, trophic cascades, and habitat change. 🌍🧩
We couldn't be happier to have Emma on board! Highly qualified AND a lovely human 😍
Emma L Underwood@geospatialemma.bsky.social · 2mo agoI’m happy to share that I recently joined @paniw.bsky.social at @ebdonana.bsky.social!🌿 The PREDICT project will develop and deploy an open, reusable, interoperable, and scalable cyberinfrastructure (LifeWatch Eric) for biodiversity forecasts, evaluation, and dissemination. 👩💻
I’m happy to share that I recently joined @paniw.bsky.social at @ebdonana.bsky.social!🌿 The PREDICT project will develop and deploy an open, reusable, interoperable, and scalable cyberinfrastructure (LifeWatch Eric) for biodiversity forecasts, evaluation, and dissemination. 👩💻
🔄 Last week, we completed our 1st joined workshop of the Modelling WG and the National Distributed Center of @lifewatcheric.bsky.social.
🧪 Mediterranean ecosystems are changing fast & in dynamic, interconnected ways, but we rarely look at the interconnections. Doñana National Park is a great example of how multiple global-change drivers ripple through ecosystems via species interactions, trophic cascades, and habitat change. 🌍🧩
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Exciting to see our new paper exploring how human activities reshape predator–prey interactions featured on this month's cover of TREE! A big thanks to @predator-smarts.bsky.social and the team, and to Angus Emmott for the fantastic cover photo! Open-Access paper 👉 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
🌸 🐝 Have you ever seen a bee sleeping? This tiny solitary bee in Doñana has found the perfect spot to rest among the petals of a flower. Our fieldwork sometimes gives us moments like this. Beautiful reminders of just how extraordinary wildlife is.
Our manuscript “Multiple global-change drivers and cascading effects in Mediterranean ecosystems: Lessons from an iconic national park” has been accepted for publication in @conservationsp.bsky.social. The preprint is available here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... @ebdonana.bsky.social #Doñana
Reminder, next Monday, April 13, at noon ET is the next webinar in our Statistical Methods series co-hosted with the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social. Abby Keller will present on “The {eDNAjoint} R package to analyze environmental DNA data” Register: bit.ly/40TyxVy Details: bit.ly/efi-esa-stat...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: EFI-ESA Stats Seminar: The {eDNAjoint} R package to analyze environmental DNA data. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
This Statistical Methods seminar by the Ecological Forecasting Initiative and the Ecological Society of America Statistical Ecology Section is hosting Abby Keller (University of California, Berkeley), who will talk about “The {eDNAjoint} R package to analyze environmental DNA data.”
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