I've recently made some changes to the gallery of all my data visualisations 📊
Most examples now have links to the underlying source code! If you see something you like, you can see how it was made 🤩
#DataViz #RStats
I love when new versions of the Eukaryotic tree come out, just casually reorganizing our understanding of the diversity of life.
I may study birds but showing students how incredibly animal/vertebrate-centric our understanding of biodiversity is has to be one of my absolute favorite things.
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/...
Photo of construction cranes silhouetted against a hazy, warm-toned sky. A construction site is visible below. A green-teal overlay covers the lower half. IPBES logo in the top right reads "Science and Policy for People and Nature." Text reads: "IPBES #BizBiodiversity Assessment. Public disclosure of lobbying activities is crucial for maintaining trust in the integrity of businesses."
The new IPBES #BizBiodiversity Assessment Report makes clear: business transparency is essential to maintain trust. 📢
Access the full media kit, including the Summary for Policymakers (SPM), multilingual press releases, and various multimedia assets at this link: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media
Good morning #BES2025! Curious about demographic niches? Decomposing the vital rates that make up a species niche? Head down to poster B14.26 later today to find out more! Let's chat science! @britishecologicalsociety.org
Remembering #JaneGoodall and her life's dedication to understanding primates, conservation, and reaching out to the next generation of nature lovers. There's always a bit of sadness, in hearing about the passing of great figures, but more important is that we remember their work.
Even when the sky is falling, there will be a hole for you to squeeze through
#AcademicLife #lifequotes
So sad to read this 😢
As someone working in 🇦🇷 for 10+ years I know that Argentine colleagues always had to face difficult and often unpredictable conditions. But the Milei government is dismantling Argentina's scientific system with unprecedented aggression - www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Deadline for the EvoDemoS conference 2 wks away! Join us at @PembrokeOxford @UniofOxford to discuss the breath and depth of demographic theory and applications in Sept evodemo2025.weebly.com Please retweet @biology.ox.ac.uk @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org
An important but often overlooked aspect of rewilding or any restoration science is that IT TAKES TIME for nature to come back! We may remove the farm and even seed the land, but what if the little mice, katydid, spider, or bird is 200 km away? Conservation needs to be active!
Exciting work done by @erolafenollosa.bsky.social as part of her #MSCA with @robsalgo.bsky.social @salgoteam.bsky.social, also with Natalie Briscoe and Antoine Guisan @ecospat-ch.bsky.social! It was a pleasure to have worked on this piece with everyone!
📌Essential reading for: Ecologists modeling invasive species, Conservation biologists investigating global change impacts, Anyone building models beyond correlative SDMs!
📚The advantages, risks, data requirements, and modelling pitfalls, all compiled neatly for your viewing!
👀In a walnut-sized-shell
– Systematic review of MNMs in invasion biology
– Clear roadmap for building MNMs with real physiological data
– Highlights risks of niche shifts, source–sink bias, and correlative SDM failures
– Potential for MNMs predicting over novel environments
🚨New review out in @ecography.bsky.social!
🔥Mechanistic niche models (MNMs) are the future—but they’re not plug-and-play.
Our paper lays out how and when to use MNMs to predict invasive species distributions under climate change.
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Big Thanks to @econovoau.bsky.social and @anneblachovergaard.bsky.social for helping me realise this Talk and for hosting this at @au.dk!
#ADHD #Neurodiversity #Academia #MentalHealth #ADHDAwareness #InvisibleDisabilities
In the talk, I covered how ADHD shows up at work:
🔹Missed deadlines
🔹Overwhelm, burnout
🔹Mental spirals + emotional regulation
But also:
🔹Creative ideas and divergent thinking
🔹Passion-driven deep dives
🔹A very different — but valuable — way of thinking
Compassion, not control, helps us thrive
I gave my first ADHD talk 2 weeks ago.
Posting now because… ADHD.
But this was also my first step in speaking publicly and raising awareness about what ADHD really is — especially in academic and workplace spaces. 🧠
#ECONOVOStories 🌍✨
@joe-atkinson.bsky.social, @mattkerr.bsky.social, @cmlmagneville.bsky.social, and @seh-pang.bsky.social attended the BES Annual Meeting 2024, sharing insights on from their research at ECONOVO!
#ECONOVO #Ecology #Biodiversity #AarhusUniversity #BritishEcologicalSociety
Integrating #MetabolicScalingTheory into species distribution models...MetaRange.jl: A Dynamic and Metabolic Species Range Model for Plant Species onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Can 19th-century land use still influence today’s grasslands?
Our research suggests it can—though the effects are subtle! Led by Gabri Midolo, our new article in Landscape Ecology explores how historical land use shapes the plant composition of current grasslands.
There is a huge potential for #tropical #forest #regeneration, either naturally or through #restoration efforts. Several countries stand out, Brazil, Indonesia, China, Mexico and Colombia. While there is a lot of doom-and-gloom in science, there is also hope.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...