Really like the work, congrats!

Flowers for habitat enhancement primarily benefit common insect pollinators across temperate grasslands Flowers that are attractive and occupy a complementary position in interaction space could be prioritized in flower mixes to recover rare and specialized pollinators. By defining the ecological roles...

Turns out, a lot of the plants we use for bee habit enhancement are already common and mostly support those darn common generalists!

Thanks @joseblanuza.bsky.social for the help getting this across the line

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Scaling Temperature Effects on Metabolism from Individuals to Ecosystems The effects of temperature on metabolic rates are a core component of ecological change, with surprisingly regular effects across diverse ecological systems. Metabolic scaling theories can provide qua...

Excited to share our fresh-off-the-press Annual Review on the role of temperature in metabolic scaling! We review the state of the field on this topic and unpack confusion about the various ways the term "scaling" is used in metabolic theories. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

‼️🚨My first PhD paper out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

We built an automated camera system to detect plant–pollinator interactions (day & night) and compared networks from cameras vs. focal observations.

📜👉 doi.org/10.1111/2041...

@annatraveset.bsky.social
@imedea.bsky.social

Excited to share a new paper led by our colleagues at #DLR! We trained AI to recognize 15 European fly pollinator families and estimate how confident it is, helping ecologists use AI more responsibly.
Paper: lnkd.in/dBAWW3hB
Code: lnkd.in/du7dD2hc

#pollinators #aiforgood #aifornature #UFZ #iDiv

The first plant-pollinator interaction network at the European level, depicting pollinator relationships with plants across the continent!🐝

Learn how interactions are organised & what implications they have for #PollinatorConservation: lnkd.in/dErniJ8B

#SafeguardSummaries @ibartomeus.bsky.social

Older species tend to have large ranges – unless they live on islands New Nature Communication publications sheds light on how ecological, evolutionary, and geographical processes can simultaneously shape species’ vulnerability to extinction.

A new @natcomms.nature.com study led by iDiv alumna @adrianaalzate.bsky.social @naturalis.bsky.social uncovered that across >26,000 species evolutionary age is positively linked to range size, except in marine mammals.

#Biodiversity #Evolution #iDivResearch
www.idiv.de/older-specie...

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⚡ New version of #rgbif has just been released to CRAN!

Version 3.8.2 new features:
🔹occ_download_doi() accepts a GBIF download DOI and returns the download key. occ_download() now supports download via institutionKey.

Learn more:
🔗docs.ropensci.org/rg...

SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELING WITH BAYESIAN ADDITIVE REGRESSION TREE (BART) METHODS Dates 22-24 September 2025

🚨Species Distribution Modeling with BART Methods
📅 22–24 Sept
📍 Online | 🧠 Instructors: @jbyoder.org & @colincarlson.bsky.social
Learn to build powerful SDMs using #BART methods in R, using the embarcadero and dbarts packages.

www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

"On many occasions when I have used ggpairs() I’ve found myself diving into the source code to try to work out precisely what kind of plot object it produces..." -- EXACTLY my gripe.
[Another great Data Witch post!]

Thresholds of functional trait diversity driven by land use intensification - Nature Ecology & Evolution Land use intensification is a major driver of biodiversity change and ecosystem functioning. Here the authors identify thresholds of grassland plant community structure and stability in response to la...

Our new paper is out to day in Nature Ecology and Evolution!

It is called: Thresholds of functional trait diversity driven by land use intensification

⬇️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#FunctionalTraits 🌐 ➕📏

@inrae-france.bsky.social @urep.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @bexplo.bsky.social

Regional databases demonstrate macroecological patterns less clearly than systematically collected field data vist.ly/3m2e5uw #Bivalves #GBIF #Biodiversity #Databases

Las moscas florícolas (Syrphidae) son insectos altamente beneficiosos: mientras que los adultos polinizan, sus larvas contribuyen al reciclaje de la materia orgánica 🍂 o al control de plagas agrícolas.

Os dejo aquí una lámina genial con las especies del género Eristalis de la península ibérica 😉👇

Output of the #rstats code to summarise a data.frame with the {skimr} package and convert to markdown table format using the kable function from the {knitr} package.

mtcars |>
skimr::skim() |>
skimr::focus(n_missing, numeric.mean, numeric.p0, numeric.p100, numeric.hist) |>
knitr::kable(digits = 2)

So emotional seeing my first-ever teaching evaluations! 😭 Creating all the materials from scratch was tough, but incredibly rewarding.

I put a lot of thought into what students need in the AI era—sharing the complete class materials here in case they're helpful: clsong.github.io/EEB_C234/01_...

The Forest Health and Biotic Interactions Research Unit investigates the influence of biotic and abiotic interactions on ecological processes and develops scientific principles for the protection of biodiversity. Our project Spotlight funded by the SNF (Swiss National Science Foundation), will enable a two-year position n the Forest Entomology group, starting in December 2025 or upon agreement as a PostDoc on impacts of light pollution on arthropod herbivory and behavior 80-100% (f/m/d) Artificial light at night has been identified as a primary driver of environmental change in the 21st century with key consequences for the environment. You will assess the impact of different LED lighting treatments on arthropod herbivory and herbivore predation in field experiments (forest, agricultural land). You will also conduct several lab experiments and evaluate arthropod behavioral responses to different lighting treatments. You will be part of an interdisciplinary team and your scientific findings will make an important contribution to improving sustainable outdoor lighting. You have a PhD degree in, ecology, environmental / natural sciences or in a related field. You are a dedicated scientist and motivated to conduct research on ecological processes as a function of different light pollution aspects and LED luminaire treatments. You have experience in managing and conducting field work and laboratory experiments with arthropods. You have good knowledge on ecological patterns and processes as well as basic knowledge on insect taxonomy. You are highly motivated to analyze ecological data statistically and have experience with R. You are scientifically creative and interested in interdisciplinary research with project partners from different fields. You have a good publication record in peer-reviewed scientific journals. You are well organized and work efficiently. Fluency in English (oral and writing) are required as well as a Swiss or European driver’s license (Cat B).

🐜🥼#PostDoc Alert! PhD in #natural #sciences, experience with #arthropod #fieldwork and #lab as well as a good #publication record?📚Knowledge of #ecological processes, #insect #taxonomy & R? Our #Forest #Entomology group is offering a two-year PostDoc position. apply.refline.ch/273855/1720/...

What an #rstats ggplot2 gem.

Sample of 24 different types of graphs that can be made with the grafify R package, including "Dots, bar & SD", "Dots & gox", "Bar & SD", "Dots & violin". Also shows grafify hex logo.

Color samples for 17 different color-blind-safe palettes

The {grafify} #RStats 📦 aims to make it easier for R users to:
* "plot great-looking graphs with few lines of code while exploring data"
* "apply colour blind-friendly palettes to graphs plotted with grafify or ggplot2"
& more. By @avishenoy.bsky.social
grafify.shenoylab.com
#DataViz

Pictures of the flower heads of 15 species of summer-flowering Mediterranean thistles

Despite experiencing high summer temperatures, the interior of the capitula of 15 species of Mediterranean thistles blooming during the hottest time of year was substantially cooler than the air most of the time.

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

[Paywalled, DM me for pdf file ]

Congrats Lisa! 👏

Writing manuscripts in #Quarto or #Rmarkdown?

Here's how to easily generate an appendix citing the #rstats packages used with {grateful} pakillo.github.io/grateful/

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Enhorabuena!! Estoy seguro de que fue una defensa brillante. Un abrazo!

screenshot of the linked website, shows the landing page that includes a cover image made from Simpsons screencaps and some software logos below

Turned the old blog post of LLM-based tools for #rstats into a Quarto guide.

Includes even more packages now plus a roundup of relevant courses and tutorials

luisdva.github.io/llmsr-book/

## A scatterplot of a heart tilted 45° to the right with a regression line overlaid. The title says Happy Valentine's Day with p < 0.05 library(tidyverse) library(ggview) library(extrafont) ## Sample from a heart curve t <- seq(0,2*pi,length.out = 400) x <- 16*sin(t)^3 y <- 13 * cos(t) - 5 * cos(2*t) - 2*cos(3*t) - cos(4*t) dd <- matrix(c(x,y),ncol=2) # Rotate 45 degrees theta <- pi*-0.25 rotmat <- matrix(c(cos(theta),sin(theta),-sin(theta),cos(theta)), ncol = 2) dd2 <- t(rotmat %*% t(dd)) colnames(dd2) <- c("x","y") dd2 <- dd2 |> as_tibble() # Check p-value lm(y~x, data = dd2) |> summary() # Publish or perish p_heart <- dd2 |> ggplot(aes(x,y)) + geom_point(size = 0.01) + stat_smooth(formula = y~x,method = "lm", color = "firebrick", fill = "hotpink") + coord_fixed() + theme_minimal(base_family = "Karla") + theme(panel.grid.minor = element_blank()) + labs(title = "Happy Valentine's Day", subtitle = "with p < 0.05", x = NULL, y = NULL) + canvas(width = 4, height = 4, dpi = 300) p_heart |> save_ggplot("sydän/sydän.png", device = png)

Happy Valentine's Day (p<0.05). #rstats

EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant‐Pollinator Networks Motivation Pollinators play a crucial role in maintaining Earth's terrestrial biodiversity. However, rapid human-induced environmental changes are compromising the long-term persistence of plant-pol...

New article introduces the EuPPollNet database—a fully open European-level database harmonizing plant-pollinator interactions across space & time 🐝🌼 Congrats to the author team led by @joseblanuza.bsky.social & including our very own @libranembid-f.bsky.social. Check it out! doi.org/10.1111/geb....

2025 starts with a methodology publication by Ștefan et al. on Utilising affordable smartphones and open-source time-lapse photography for pollinator image collection and annotation - Happy new year!
doi.org/10.26786/192...

EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant‐Pollinator Networks Motivation Pollinators play a crucial role in maintaining Earth's terrestrial biodiversity. However, rapid human-induced environmental changes are compromising the long-term persistence of plant-pol...

🌿🐝 New paper! Sílvia Castro, Sara Lopes, @catarinasiopa.bsky.social, @jloureiro13.bsky.social & Hugo Gaspar coauthored a study on EuPPollNet, Europe’s largest plant-pollinator network database! 🌍💡

Thanks @joseblanuza.bsky.social and @ibartomeus.bsky.social for the great coordination!

📖 Read it 👇

EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant‐Pollinator Networks Motivation Pollinators play a crucial role in maintaining Earth's terrestrial biodiversity. However, rapid human-induced environmental changes are compromising the long-term persistence of plant-pol...

[new paper] EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant-Pollinator Networks
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Another wonderful paper of @joseblanuza.bsky.social making open more than >1500 networks and looking at their properties. Come for the data, stay for the cool figures!

The 31st Annual Meeting of the Scandinavian Association for Pollination Ecology (SCAPE 2017) – registration closes 15th September SCAPE is my favourite annual conference by a long margin: small, friendly, welcoming (especially for Master’s and PhD students, and postdocs), and packed full of great science.  It’s th…

This post by @jeffollerton.bsky.social shows we had online plant-pollinator databases since 1995!! jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/01/07/w... The next big one is coming soon, lead by @joseblanuza.bsky.social within the #safeguard pollinators project with more than 1000 networks