Arnošt Šizling from @cts.cuni.cz and colleagues just published (online) a paper in Ecography showing that all pairwise community indices can be classified into only three meaningful families, and that the popular partitioning into nestedness and turnover makes no sense.
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

Warm congratulations @elbohdalkova.bsky.social on her well-deserved PhD achievement!

The online webinar "Environmental Law and Politics between Skepticism and Activism", which we organized together with CELP Cardiff University, featured yesterday Eva Balounová, Jan Géryk, Zdeněk Konopásek, Ben Pontin, David Storch, Irena Šímová and Anna Tószögyová. Thank you!

Better at everything: how AI could make human beings irrelevant The end of civilisation might look less like a war, and more like a love story. Can we avoid being willing participants in our own downfall?

Our colleague @kulveit.bsky.social cautions that the real threat of AI lies not in dramatic extinction scenarios, but in the gradual loss of human agency. As AI systems quietly outperform us, we may lose control without even noticing.
👉 gradual-disempowerment.ai
👉 Guardian coverage: rb.gy/rsgiph

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Center for Theoretical Study (CTS), my home institute, is now on bsky @cts.cuni.cz

Despite these uncertain times, I’m delighted to have received a 3-year research grant from the Czech Science Foundation for my project, 'Equilibrium and Disequilibrium Biodiversity Dynamics: Understanding Biodiversity Responses to Environmental Changes.' 🌍🌱⏳

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Curious about the forces shaping #biodiversity and its equilibrium states? 🌍 Check out Equilibrium Theory of Biodiversity Dynamics (ETBD), developed by our team led by David Storch, offering a unifying framework to understand diversity dynamics, equilibria, and global patterns.
🧵👇 #Macroecology

The Equilibrium Theory of Biodiversity Dynamics: A General Framework for Scaling Species Richness and Community Abundance along Environmental Gradients | The American Naturalist Abstract Large-scale temporal and spatial biodiversity patterns have traditionally been explained by multitudinous particular factors and a few theories. However, these theories lack sufficient genera...

Introducing the ETBD: 🌍 A new framework linking species richness, community abundance, and resources to explain global biodiversity patterns. #Ecology #Biodiversity
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...