Neat dataset, we need more benchmarks like this!

Oumnia Ennaji@omniaennaji.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm pleased to share that our paper has been published in Earth System Science Data (ESSD). I am grateful to my incredible co-authors and collaborators for their contributions throughout the project. essd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...

Thrilled that our Review in TREE is now the cover article-- featuring one of my favorite species from Madagascar, the neon day gecko! Gorgeous lil guys. And we hope this review will be useful for the community: lessons learned on matching climate to biological scales www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

As someone trained as both a field ecologist and quantitative scientist, this tension runs deep for me. Some of my group are entrenched in the field whereas others work with models for a living. ‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI www.nature.com/articles/d41... 1/4

New paper in TREE: we propose a framework to think more clearly about the scale of climate exposure of organisms—and why mismatches between climate data and biology can mislead ecological inference. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... @ilyamaclean.bsky.social @ecophys.bsky.social @marthamunoz.bsky.social

Matching climate to biological scales

Recent advances in climate modeling and remote sensing have increased the expectation that finer-grained climate data will improve biological relevance. However, the appropriate scale for biology depe...

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This is how scientific discourse should operate. A respectful + insightful comment by Tomas Uxa on the limits of ML from @jlembrechts.bsky.social's high-impact paper, yet still celebrating it. In return, Jonas applauds Tomas for his detective work. Well done, Tomas and Jonas! A model for us all.

Jonas Lembrechts@jlembrechts.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Did we rewrite the laws of physics - or did our ML model predict things that are physically impossible? Tomas Uxa just published a Commentary on our 'Global maps of soil temp', arguing the latter I break down the what, the how, and the what next here 👇 the3dlab.org/2025/12/22/d...

Early 🎄🎁: TWO interdisciplinary, funded PhDs! One w me as lead - ecosystem & human health outcomes of Biodiversity Net Gain w @northwildlife.bsky.social & Dr Auriba Raza @glasgow.ac.uk. Other led by Dr Katrin Prager @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social looking at nature markets for small-scale organic growers

Our review outlining how we can better use climate data for understanding ecology and evolution— now published in TREE! I’ll give it a rundown after the holidays.

Trends in Ecology & Evolution@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Online now: Matching climate to biological scales

A really important & fascinating contribution led by @lysoifer.bsky.social-- the concept of "climate velocities" has been around for 15 years, but for the first time she shows how different velocities are when 1) you consider microclimate and 2) consider 3D structure of vegetation. Check it out!

Lydia Soifer@lysoifer.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Near-ground and 3D microclimates slow down climate velocity and alter their direction with important implications for range shifting specise. Check out our work from my time in the Coomes lab at Cambridge: www.nature.com/articles/s41....

(Plz share) We're hiring! 5-year PhD student to join our new lab at Rutgers University. Broadly, exploring how climate change impacts terrestrial species, ecosystems and biodiversity – compute, field, or lab! See here: ecoclimateglobal.org/join/ (hiring a 2-yr postdoc too, more news on that soon)

New for all microclimate enthusiasts! A step-by-step workflow to build your own sensor network - with awesome R code for site selection + tips on engagement, fieldwork & outreach. Led with @thenaturedave.bsky.social and @rebeccasenior.bsky.social 🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/08/16/h...

How to set up your own microclimate network

Back in 2021, we had an important thought: maybe we should start treating microclimate the same way we treat macroclimate. Weather and climate are monitored by national governments through organize…

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Excited to share the news that I have accepted a TT assistant professor position at @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social in the Dept of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources! I will be recruiting a postdoc and grad students soon for my wildlife disease ecology lab, so check back in here!

Great to have this one finally out-- our open-access workflow for optimized deployment of microclimate networks! Collab b/w ecologists, data scientists and computational engineers. Check out the GitHub repo for the R software (soon to be a package): github.com/dklinges9/Mi...

Rebecca Senior@rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Thrilled to share this OA paper (with code!) for designing #microclimate sensor networks. Led by @thenaturedave.bsky.social & @jlembrechts.bsky.social, plus Stijn Van de Vondel, Eric Greenlee, and former @durham-university.bsky.social student, Kian Hayles-Cotton www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thrilled to have accepted a TT faculty position in the Dept of Ecology, Evolution & Natural Resources at Rutgers ‪@rutgersuniversity.bsky.social‬! Keen on climate change ecology, Madagascar, amphibians, range shifts? Visit our lab website & watch for upcoming PhD + postdoc ads! ecoclimateglobal.org

The capstone paper from our community-based wildlife monitoring project in Madagascar, led by @lysoifer.bsky.social : employing local communities is more cost effective than hiring just scientists, even when you put a high premium on quality biodiversity data BioCon paper: tinyurl.com/53h6vx84 (1/4)

The word is out officially, now: SoilTemp has finished its transformation into 'The MEB-network' - a fully-fledged research network that goes far beyond just being a database. And boy, does that make me proud! Let me show you all the ways you can get involved here: the3dlab.org/2025/05/31/s...

SoilTemp is now MEB!

Over the past six years, I’ve poured my heart into SoilTemp. What started as a vision for a global soil temperature database quickly grew into something much more: a living, breathing community of …

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I FOUND IT. I once read a great line about how weather station data are only useful for things living on the weather station. I wanted to cite it but could never remember the damn paper! By sheer luck, it found me. From @mikekaspari.bsky.social in @globalchangebio.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2jyd4z72

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NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring

Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff

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In response to climate change #CC, #species #shift in many dimensions, moving in space along many climatic clines, including #microclimatic ones (horizontally & vertically) & adjusting their #phenology & #behaviour in time 🧪🌐🌍🍁🌳🌲🌴🦔🦅🦎🐝🦐🦑🐠🦈🐋 @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social shorturl.at/W9fGd

Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF: Dear members: The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.

I wish I could say I can’t believe this. But I guess I could.

Ethan White@ethanwhite.weecology.org · last yr.

"Under the agreement being pursued by the University of Florida, participating officers would have the authority to interrogate “any alien or person believed to be an alien” about their right to remain in the country, as well as the power to make arrests without a warrant in some cases."

"Under the agreement being pursued by the University of Florida, participating officers would have the authority to interrogate “any alien or person believed to be an alien” about their right to remain in the country, as well as the power to make arrests without a warrant in some cases."

UF, other Florida universities to deputize campus police for immigration enforcement

The police departments of at least three public universities in Florida are seeking agreements with the federal government to carry out immigration enforcement on campus.

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Worth a visit at the Yale Peabody for those in the New Haven area!

Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration@lifesciencestudios.bsky.social · last yr.

It’s so cool to see my paintings in a museum! Dream come true. Check out the new exhibit showcasing @marthamunoz.bsky.social and @saulguerrero.bsky.social’s work on anole heat tolerance at the Yale Peabody Museum! #sciart Special thanks to @thenaturedave.bsky.social for sending me the photo

We are very happy to announce that the next Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography (MEB) conference will happen in Montpellier (FRANCE), 1 - 5 June 2026 ☀️ meb-network.com/meb-2026/ Microclimate scientists: save the date in your agenda!!

Trying to confirm. This is terrible for so many reasons

Brian Taylor@bdtaylor-su.bsky.social · last yr.

Getting informal reports that as part of the mass layoffs at the Department of Education, the International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) Office has been "abolished." IFLE administers Title VI and Fulbright-Hays grant and fellowship programs. A disaster. www.ed.gov/about/ed-off...

Need some excitement for research these days? Look no further than our most recent (open-access) paper in PeerJ: the exhilarating study of marsh snail grazing behaviors! But, these are RAVE snails....see the video supplement: 1/7 peerj.com/articles/190...

Interrupting our doom-scrolling with a ray of ☀️ that was Orlando's @oacevedocharry.bsky.social wonderful seminar (to a packed room!) on his PhD work, from fusing standardized surveys + citizen science for improved population viability analysis, to global island biogeography. Check out his work!

Of course many federal workers can just “find another job”. But the point is that the jobs we do are done for the *public good*. There are no private sector corollaries. We do things that are largely not profitable and that is on purpose. We do work that benefits everyone, if sometimes indirectly.

I think this is my favourite report cover of all time. Any others?

🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐 🐋 Consider submitting your coolest / best / latest research, especially on large / global / macroscale ecology, to nonprofit IOP Publishing’s Environmental Research Ecology. publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/journals/env...