Want to join a global 🌎 initiative to test the thermal limits of 🐟 using standardised approach? Led by @patricepottier.bsky.social, we are planning a globally distributed experiment to collect data on fish embryonic heat tolerance 🌡️. Make this experiment global! 🔗: www.thermalecologyalliance.org

"A systems-modelling approach to predict biological responses to extreme heat" doi.org/10.32942/X2B...

Very important study!! Check out the physiological and life-history to experimental evolution for thermal tolerance 👇 Some surprising results that help us better understand trade-offs and physiological mechanisms conferring thermal sensitivity 🐟🌡️

Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠@jutfelt.bsky.social · last yr.

How do fish evolve to tolerate higher temperatures, and are there trade-offs? We explore these questions in our new paper @natclimate.nature.com led by Anna Andreassen @annahandreassen.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🐟🦑

One of my studies, written with wonderful @itchyshin.bsky.social Sammy Burke @patricepottier.bsky.social Trace Ainsworth & Losia Łagisz earned a #TopCitedArticle badge. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... We showed that coral diseases may get upended by climate change, wiping out most of corals

The impact of rising temperatures on the prevalence of coral diseases and its predictability: A global meta‐analysis

We conducted a global meta-analysis using 30 years of coral reef surveys and sea surface temperature records to identify the interaction between coral disease prevalence and rising ocean temperatures...

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We made the cover www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The latest issue of @nature.com sports a charismatic cover image ooooof... A frog! :) our recent paper on amphibians and the ways global climate change is bound to affect them (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) found its way to the cover of Nature. 💜💚🐸

How vulnerable are #amphibians to extreme heat? 🐸🌡️ Our paper in @nature.com shows that many amphibians are already overheating, and many more species will be impacted by climate warming globally. See the thread below for a digest 🧵 Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #Nature

New paper in @nature.com led by @patricepottier.bsky.social! We demonstrated global vulnerability of amphibians to warming, threatening 10% of >5,000 species examined. How did we do it? See thread🧵 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amphibians are at risk of overheating due to climate change in both hemispheres 2% species are currently exposed to overheating even in shaded conditions, so water bodies are essential for them to buffer the effects of heat waves @patricepottier.bsky.social @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An accessible summary of our paper is also available to read from the @aunz.theconversation.com | theconversation.com/hot-frogs-an...

Hot frogs and sizzling salamanders: climate change is pushing amphibians to their limits

New research shows frogs and other amphibians are already on the brink of overheating in a warming world. Here’s how many will suffer as global temperatures rise.

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6) Microhabitats that include shade, vegetation, & water bodies are critical for buffering the effects of climate change 🌏. Immediate action is needed to manage these microhabitat features (especially water sources!).

5) The results are alarming. Even accounting for shade, skin wetness & acclimation, the risk of overheating under a warming climate is high globally 🔥. The risk is 4-folds higher under +4C than a +2C scenario.

4) Hourly body temperature can be extracted from the biophysical models to estimate thermal safety margins & the number of overheating events 🥵.

3) We then used biophysical models to calculate the microclimate in each species range under 3 habitats (arboreal, aquatic, terrestrial) & 2 future climate scenarios (+2 or +4C warming). Totalling >100K models! This took supercomputers from @unsw.bsky.social to achieve!

2) For thermal limits, @patricepottier.bsky.social developed a novel imputation method to predict CTmax of 5.2K species from a known dataset. This imputation accounted for within-species variation, acclimation, & phylogeny.

1) For each 🐸 species, we needed to know their thermal tolerance, distribution range, & the microclimates experienced in their range and across time. We used multiple data sources to get this data.

How vulnerable are amphibians to global warming? 🐸🌡️ Check out the amazing research by @patricepottier.bsky.social et al. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Vulnerability of amphibians to global warming - Nature

A 4 °C global temperature increase would push 7.5% of amphibian species beyond their physiological limits.

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Happy to see this out and congrats in particular to @patricepottier.bsky.social after leading such a huge effort! I think there are some really interesting findings here that challenge common ideas about the geography of warming risk and how we measure it

Szymek Drobniak@szymekdr.bsky.social · 2y ago

@nature.com has just published online our new paper!🎉🐸🌡️Lead by @patricepottier.bsky.social and supervised by myself and @itchyshin.bsky.social: in this massive research effort we overcome several common convictions related to the topics we studied. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here are take-homes.

@nature.com has just published online our new paper!🎉🐸🌡️Lead by @patricepottier.bsky.social and supervised by myself and @itchyshin.bsky.social: in this massive research effort we overcome several common convictions related to the topics we studied. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here are take-homes.

Vulnerability of amphibians to global warming - Nature

A 4 °C global temperature increase would push 7.5% of amphibian species beyond their physiological limits.

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The deadline to submit abstracts is approaching!!! ⏰ (March 7th) Consider submitting an abstract for a talk or poster in our session (A14) if you study the vulnerability of early life stages to environmental stressors! 🐣 The early bird registration deadline is May 16th.

Jeremy De Bonville@jaydebon.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hey you! Yes...you! You study early life stages? You like multiple taxa? You should consider presenting in our session: Vulnerability and adaptations of early life stages to environmental stressors (A14). 🚨Deadline : March 7th 🚨 See you at the #SEBCONFERENCE in Antwerp!✌️ @sebiology.bsky.social

The deadline is approaching!! Please submit your abstracts for the next #SEBConference if you haven't already 👇👇 It's going to be a ton of fun!

Patrice Pottier@patricepottier.bsky.social · 2y ago

Abstract submission for the next #SEBConference are closing soon! We'd be very keen to receive more abstracts on the responses of early life stages and environmental stressors (session A14) 🙌 Check it out below 👇

Abstract submission for the next #SEBConference are closing soon! We'd be very keen to receive more abstracts on the responses of early life stages and environmental stressors (session A14) 🙌 Check it out below 👇

Jeremy De Bonville@jaydebon.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hey you! Yes...you! You study early life stages? You like multiple taxa? You should consider presenting in our session: Vulnerability and adaptations of early life stages to environmental stressors (A14). 🚨Deadline : March 7th 🚨 See you at the #SEBCONFERENCE in Antwerp!✌️ @sebiology.bsky.social

Check out this brillant session by Pat Monaghan, Valeria Marasco, @patricepottier.bsky.social, @jaydebon.bsky.social , Tiana Kohlsdorf & Zara-Louise Cowan www.sebiology.org/events/seb-annual-conference-antwerp-2025/sessions-2025/animal.html

SEB Annual Conference Antwerp 2025

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Jeremy De Bonville@jaydebon.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hey you! Yes...you! You study early life stages? You like multiple taxa? You should consider presenting in our session: Vulnerability and adaptations of early life stages to environmental stressors (A14). 🚨Deadline : March 7th 🚨 See you at the #SEBCONFERENCE in Antwerp!✌️ @sebiology.bsky.social

Hey you! Yes...you! You study early life stages? You like multiple taxa? You should consider presenting in our session: Vulnerability and adaptations of early life stages to environmental stressors (A14). 🚨Deadline : March 7th 🚨 See you at the #SEBCONFERENCE in Antwerp!✌️ @sebiology.bsky.social

Excited to share our new paper, led by @danielwanoble.bsky.social, in @royalsocietypublishing.org! ‘We believe that the future of preprints is bright, and community-driven initiatives, such as EcoEvoRxiv, will play a crucial role in the future of scientific publishing.’ tinyurl.com/4tpbj859

New paper led by Losia Lagisz out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org! 'We recommend tangible actions towards making learned societies more affordable and accessible.' tinyurl.com/2jww44j2

The first many-analysts study in ecology is finally published! 🥳🙌 300+ coauthors and 5+ years, this was a massive effort by @elliotgould.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Tim Parker and co. Open access 👉 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Do your (often subjective) choices done during data analysis change their outcomes? Unfortunately and strikingly 🤯 yes! A stellar team of authors (the paper resembles some of CERN outputs in terms of authors number ;) clearly shows that biases may be severe! bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology - BMC Biology

Although variation in effect sizes and predicted values among studies of similar phenomena is inevitable, such variation far exceeds what might be produced by sampling error alone. One possible explan...

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Check out this special issue in The Journal of Thermal Biology! 🌡️🔥🌡️ If you've done some work that advances our understanding of the variation in thermal responses across life stages, this one is for you👇

Katharina Ruthsatz@kruthsatz.bsky.social · 2y ago

CALL FOR PAPERS 🌡️ @jthermbiol.bsky.social Working on life-stage-specific thermal sensitivity? Check out our #SpecialIssue on ontogenetic variation in thermal biology! 🐘🐦🐸🐝🐟🐚🕷️🐍🦈 (all taxa welcome!) @patricepottier.bsky.social @elisathrl.bsky.social, ZL Cowan, F Dahlke 👉https://shorturl.at/D3Bow

It took four days from submission to publication, and nearly five years from publication to retraction. After campaigning by many, many scientists, and an investigation by Elsevier, an infamous paper on hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment has been retracted. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted

Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds

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