Behavioural ecology in the twenty-first century - Nature Ecology & Evolution This Perspective discusses how the field of behavioural ecology has contributed to fundamental science and tackling global challenges, ranging from understanding how natural selection leads to adaptat...

2025. Behavioural ecology in the twenty-first century - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Land-use change undermines the stability of avian functional diversity - Nature Large-scale analyses of bird species traits reveal that land-use change reduces resilience of key ecological functions more than previously thought.

Land-use change undermines the stability of avian functional diversity - new #OA @nature.com paper with @patrickawalkden.bsky.social @josephtobias.bsky.social, combining #PredictsProject with #Avonet doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Our new paper in @plosbiology.org reveals that life history evolution is at the core of an eco-evolutionary feedback that promotes diversity.
Do you want to know how? read more in: plos.io/4p7YT0a

Behavioral data can be very detailed but are usually aggregated and normalized in ways that smother the dynamics. Ben wrote a continuous-time Markov model to improve on this, and also wrote simulations for exploring and validating pipelines. All the code is here: github.com/BenKawam/ASN...

Happy to share our new review in @royalsocietypublishing.org on the role of chemical pollutants in shaping biological invasions

Part of our upcoming Special Feature issue on 'Wildlife behaviour and movement ecology in a human-dominated world'!

Available Open Access 👉 tinyurl.com/ptsjmbpn

Parallel shifts in differential gene expression reveal convergent miniaturization in fishes | PNAS Body size variation in vertebrates is a complex polygenic trait, tightly correlated with numerous aspects of a species’ biology, ecology, and physi...

Why are some species smaller than a paperclip while others grow longer than a school bus? How is body size evolution governed in animals? Out now in @pnas.org we tackle these longstanding questions through a genetic lens using my favorite group of fishes as our model!! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Examples of some recent papers from graduate students in my group - a full list of recent papers and preprints can be found here (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=pTdxVdIAAAAJ) and profile of the group here: https://egioxford.web.ox.ac.uk/members

The annual Wytham Field Team Photo!

Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025

Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford

Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🏝️4-year funded PhD opportunity to study biodiversity change on islands

Work with datasets of mammals, birds & plants 🐦‍⬛🦌🌳

Supervisors: @sandranogue.bsky.social & myself

👉 Apply by 27 Oct 2025

More info:
🔗 creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...

#PhD #Ecology #Palaeoecology #Biodiversity

🚨Our new paper introduces the #AirQualityStripes – a visual tool to show how outdoor air pollution (PM2.5) has changed in 🌍 cities since 1850. Inspired by the iconic #WarmingStripes. Led by @kirstypringle.bsky.social & @jimmcquaid.bsky.social
🔗 airqualitystripes.info
📄 doi.org/10.5194/gc-8...
🧵👇

#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com

@behavecol.bsky.social

Hybridization and introgression are major evolutionary processes. Since the 1940s, the prevailing view has been that they shape plants far more than animals. In our new study (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
), we find the opposite: animals exchange genes more, and for longer, than plants

Same here! A preprint will be great…congratulations !!! @ecarlen.bsky.social and team 🌹❤️‍🔥

Legacy effects of religion, politics and war on urban evolutionary biology - Nature Cities Cities affect biological evolution, but traditionally researchers focus on the biophysical influence of urban environments. Instead, this Review explores how the social processes of religion, politics...

I am thrilled that this manuscript is now out in the world! If you saw my talk at #Evol2025 you may remember me discussing how religion, politics & war shape urban evolution & now you can read all about it here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity - Nature Ecology & Evolution Projections of extinctions of bird species and losses of functional diversity over the next 100 years suggest that even immediate and widespread threat abatement would be insufficient to prevent losse...

For sauropsids lovers: Two fresh papers map trait spaces of birds, turtles and crocodiles to reveal what disappears when species go extinct

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🧪🌐🪶 🧮➕📏

#trait, #traits, #FunctionalTraits

New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6
#AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess
doi.org/10.32942/X24...

The Human Shield Hypothesis: Does Predator Avoidance of Humans Create Refuges for Prey? The human shield hypothesis posits that predators avoid areas of human disturbance due to perceived risk from humans, and prey therefore seeks refuge in these areas of perceived safety. Our systemati....

Have you ever cited or come across a mention of the 'human shield hypothesis' and wondered: what is the evidence for this hypothesis, and what is the quality of that evidence? Wonder no more!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How the disappearance of mastodons still threatens native South American forests Ten thousand years ago, mastodons vanished from South America. With them, an ecologically vital function also disappeared: the dispersal of seeds from large-fruited plants. A new study led by the Univ...

How the disappearance of mastodons still threatens native South American forests phys.org/news/2025-06...

Creating Online Books using Quarto and Github Pages YouTube video by James Bartlett

My conference roadshow is running workshops on creating open educational materials. In preparation, I've recorded a walkthrough of creating your own online book using Quarto and Github pages. The walkthrough is available on Youtube: youtu.be/Hbixs7ACvvw?...

Our guidelines on how to give linguistically friendly presentations in English for #ICCB2025 are now on @figshare.com - please use and disseminate it widely!
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
#languagebarriers

Parallels between biological invasions and human migration are flawed and undermine both disciplines. Response to Ahmed et al. A recent article by Ahmed and colleagues (2025) attempt to draw parallels and assess distinctions between biological invasions and human migration. This co

This was not an easy one.

🚨 A recent article by Ahmed et al. (2025) attempted to draw parallels between biological invasions and human migration.

While intended to explore interdisciplinary insights, the analogy raises serious conceptual and ethical concerns. 🧵

A general rule on the organization of biodiversity in Earth’s biogeographical regions - Nature Ecology & Evolution Ecological assemblages may be spatially organized by both context dependency and general processes. Here the authors find general patterns in the organization of regional biodiversity in biogeographic...

New paper! led by Ruben Bernardo-Madrid "A general rule on the organization of biodiversity in Earth’s biogeographical regions" in NEE @natureportfolio.nature.com

Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

“Humans, livestock, and pets now comprise 94% of the global mammalian biomass” ☹️☹️☹️ ⬇️

2025. A universally applicable definition for domestication | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

An image of two lionfish. Overlay text reads: Major New Resource, Global Impacts Dataset of Invasive Alien Species

🗞️Authors from the @ipbes.net #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report have published the Global Impacts Dataset of Invasive Alien Species derived from the report, creating a global resource for investigating and managing the impacts of invasive alien species. 🌍🧪

Read more in ‪@nature.com‬ bit.ly/43APoP7

*** Academic BFD alert ***

We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The Global Ecology feed is growing — 20-30 posts/week on large-scale biodiversity science — 390 contributors! 🌍🧪🦤🦑🪴🍁

DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join and tag 🌐 in your posts to see them on the feed

Let’s build a engaged community together ✨🌈💚

Pls share to spread!

👉 bsky.app/profile/nmou...

Key to the high aggressiveness of pancreatic cancer identified Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive cancers and has one of the lowest survival rates—only 10% after five years. One of the factors contributing to its aggressiveness is its tumor microenvi...

Key to the high aggressiveness of pancreatic cancer

There may be a cure for Pancreatic Cancer rather shortly. It appears there is a new protein called Galectin-1 inside the nuclei of fibroblasts. This protein causes proliferation of aggressive cancer cells.

This is a very well done short video and full-length lesson plan around data literacy and interpreting graphs. It's designed from 9th grade on up, and I think it would work nicely in our college course as well.

Great work from Daero (Keum) as part of his Master’s project at UCL, including a visit to Tring’s @nhm-london.bsky.social avian collections.