New Science Advances paper: 60 years of change across European plant communities reveals a widespread shift toward denser vegetation, with increasing shade tolerance across habitats. Proud to co-author this important work🍃 #ecology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Better late than never - we were delighted to host Maastricht University System Earth Science researchers at York recently. Our discussions were focused on identifying research synergies and priorities across a range of areas. Looking forward to where these conversations lead!
What is resilience for a landscape? Check out our (with Charles Cunningham, @hannalp.bsky.social, Lauren Barnes, Chris Thomas and @janehillyork.bsky.social ) new paper now out in @peopleandnature.bsky.social Early View @anthropocenebio.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/pan3...
🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲
👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest
This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!
Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚
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Hm I'm afraid I'm not sure!
Article is up on RG now.
sent!
Thanks! I will put on Research Gate tomorrow - you can dm me your email if you'd like a copy sooner
research funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk @anthropocenebio.bsky.social at @uoylibrary.bsky.social @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social @biologyatyork.bsky.social @york.ac.uk
What can biodiversity patterns during the Black Death tell us about our relationships with nature?
(hint: its not all bad!)
Read more in our new paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Last few days for this!
Clemency Cooper’s PhD research aims to understand how perceptions of the landscape have shaped the North York Moors, and how evidence of past change might influence decisions about its future character.
@northyorkmoors.org.uk
www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
me pls!
Our new paper presents a framework for analysing the processes that generate novel ecosystems, discussing different conceptual and practical approaches across ecological disciplines. You can read it, open access, in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🚨 Hot off the press: Our look into of the palaeontological database landscape and its sustainability into the future.
Palaeo databases are invaluable and continue to transform our research field - but they are vulnerable... (1/6) 🧪 ⛏️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
The mainstream aim to restore “native reference ecosystems”
Reminds me of people of my age who go to see touring bands from their youth
Trying to recreate something that never quite existed
And has limited relevance in a changing world
doi.org/10.1111/ecog...
Academics, policy makers and businesses are coming together this week at #IPBES12 in Manchester. LCAB researchers are official observers at this important plenary meeting which will have a particular focus on business and biodiversity and the nature-positive approaches companies can adopt.
Only a few weeks left to get your abstracts in for our session at INQUA 2027!
"Re-evaluating Long-Term Human–Biodiversity Relationships"
A session to highlight positive human–nature relations from across the palaeosciences
⏰Deadline: 15 Feb 2026
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www.inquaindia2027.in/sessions/s-120
igure 1: Overview of results: (Left) We find a significant decrease in library-specific skills (conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging) among workers using AI assistance for completing tasks with a new python library. (Right) We categorize AI usage patterns and found three high skill development patterns where participants stay cognitively engaged when using AI assistance.
"How AI Impacts Skill Formation", by Judy Hanwen Shen and Alex Tamkin, both working at Anthropic: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245
The Global Ecology feed is growing fast, now >30 posts/week on large-scale biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation science 🌍🧪🦤🦑🪴🍁
Join the convo, DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join and be added to the list of contributors !
Let’s build a community together ✨🌈💚
👉 bsky.app/profile/nmou...
Work led by Chris Lyon, funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk @anthropocenebio.bsky.social
Are narratives of total biosphere collapse helpful?
Is ecological 'novelty' necessarily bad?
What can the past tell us about the human capacity to mould and adapt to future conditions?
Red more in our new paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
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Are widespread, generalist species the main drivers of biotic homogenisation?
Doesn't look like it... localised species contribute more to spatial beta diversity change than widespread species across groups.
Read our new paper, led by @jackhhatfield.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/geb....
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Rooted in environmental psychology, nature connection can be understood as an eighteenth-century phenomenon. Here Harrie Neal explores how nature connection has become a highly influential psychological framework across the environmental sciences and civil society.
www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
VegVault logo
printscreen of the paper on the webpage of Nature Scientific Data https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-06176-1
1/🧵 Paper out! 🎉🌿🔒
VegVault is now published in Nature Scientific Data: a global database linking palaeo + modern vegetation with traits + climate/soil drivers.
🌐website: bit.ly/VegVault
📜paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#VegVault #Ecology #Paleoecology #Vegetation #FunctionalTraits
Yellow-collared Lovebirds - two small green parrots with yellow breasts and collars and black heads. White eyelinter and a sharp red beak. They're cute. Mnay lovebirds are kept as pets but escape sometimes and have colonised lots of places they weren't in before.
New paper! Led by @jackhhatfield.bsky.social we looked at species driving biotic homogenisation (biological communities becoming more similar). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... Current wisdom assumes expansion of human-associated common species is the cause of homogenisation, but is it?🌍🧪1/5
Co-convened with Lindsey Gillson and @conservepalaeolab.bsky.social.
Link: www.inquaindia2027.in/sessions/s-120
📣 Call for Abstracts | INQUA Congress 2027
📍 Lucknow, India | 🗓 Jan 28–Feb 3, 2027
Re-evaluating Long-Term Human–Biodiversity Relationships.
Case studies & syntheses highlighting positive human–nature relations from archaeology & across the palaeosciences
⏰Deadline: 15 Feb 2026
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#INQUA2027
cheers 😉
An African savanna elephant using its trunk to pull branches towards its mouth.
My first PhD paper is out today in Conservation Biology! @society4conbio.bsky.social
Freely available to read here: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Tldr 🧵 below!