A fantastic opportunity!

Great working with you on this Kevin!

Ahh, thanks, Gavin!

Resurrecting habitat fragmentation as a process over time Habitat loss and fragmentation occur over time. Despite this truism, understanding the effects of habitat fragmentation has, in recent years, predominantly focused on interpreting snapshots of current...

Excited to share a new article from the lab & wonderful co-authors.

We argue that habitat fragmentation research needs to be recalibrated to focus on changes over time.

We hope that doing so will advance understanding, isolate attribution, and diminish heated debate.

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Washington Post article on STEM cuts at federal agencies. NSF tops it at -42%!

“Between January 2025 and February 2026, STEM and health employees at science-focused agencies saw nearly 15,000 jobs cut. The rate outpaced cuts among other federal workers.”

OPM data - Figure from Wash Post article 19 April. (Where US science has been hit hardest.)

NSF at -42%!

“They felt they’d been deceived.” Was Yellowstone’s celebrated wolf reintroduction all it’s cracked up to be? | Discover Wildlife It’s over 30 years since wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone but the pay-off for the park is disputed

BBC: There’s a lovely film on Youtube called How Wolves Change Rivers. It describes how wolf reintroduction to Yellowstone precipitated a series of ecological benefits…It’s a beautiful and uplifting notion but, according to some scientists, total nonsense.🧪
www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

This Monks Wood #rewilding (natural colonisation) plot is 30 years old this year. It's taken that long for this single Bluebell to migrate 20m from adjacent ancient woodland to colonise the plot. But now it's here, joining the growing trees & shrubs: future ancient woodland in the making.

Animal seed dispersers are drivers of tropical forest recovery. Picture copyright by Marco Tschapka

Biodiversity of #rainforest can recover within decades when located in highly connected landscapes because animal mobility drives natural recovery. Our @reassemblynet.bsky.social synthesis paper is out @nature.com: tinyurl.com/4w24a96b
@sgn.one @unimarburg.bsky.social @jocotoco.bsky.social 🌐🌎🧪

#wildlife #WildlifeCrossings

More photos of wildlife crossings in comments. Great idea!

LETTER | Tell Congress to Save America’s National Forests and the Science That Protects Them Sign our letter calling on Congress to to take immediate action to protect the U.S. Forest Service and the public lands it stewards.

Save the US Forest Service from destructive “restructuring” peer.org/letter-tell-...

An important paper:

Grasslands and wetlands are being cleared at a much higher rate than forests:

www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Student Conference on Conservation Science - Welcome SCCS helps young conservation scientists gain experience, learn new ideas and make contacts that will be valuable for their future careers.

Really excited for the Student Conference on Conservation Science. It starts this morning!
www.sccs-cam.org

Mongabay’s investigation into illegal bird hunting spurs policy change in Egypt - Environmental Journalism and Education A 15-month-long investigation exposed the cracks in international conservation efforts around the hunting of Maltese falcons and other species in Egypt. Despite millions of euros flowing from European...

[Nonprofit news impact] After a @mongabay.com investigation exposed a loophole in regs on hunting of Maltese falcons & other #birds, authorities reacted

Egypt’s Ministry of Environment banned hunting in two key regions, the New Valley & Lake Nasser, key areas for migratory & resident birds 🦅

From Pixels to Embeddings: TESSERA Earth Observation Foundation Model Framework Customisation By Gijs van den Dool — LinkedIn | GitHub Satellite imagery has enabled global mapping since the launch of Landsat 1 in 1972. But assigning each pixel just one label is no longer sufficient for many ap...

Community contributor Gijs van den Dool wrote up how to do end-to-end training, inference and customisation using TESSERA and Google Colab! www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-p...

Thrilled that my collaborator and friend, Ara Monadjem, will be receiving this year's Royal Society Africa Prize.

He has made such an impact across Africa for his work on ecology, evolution, and conservation.

Go see his lecture next month!

royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...

screenshot of a resignation letter expressing sadness at leaving NASA

My resignation letter

Upemba National Park staff recount assault that left seven dead When Christine Lain, the director of Upemba National Park, heard gunfire coming from the outer boundary of the park’s headquarters complex a little before 6 in the morning of March 3, her first though...

A few weeks ago the headquarters of southeastern DRC's Upemba National Park was attacked by a separatist militia, leaving 7 people dead. It's the worst conflict-related incident in conservation since 2020. I talked to some of the survivors for @mongabay.com

news.mongabay.com/2026/03/upem...

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Complementary causal approaches to support biodiversity change attribution Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 19 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-026-00146-0Attributing biodiversity change to interacting human drivers requires causal frameworks that integrate observational, experimental and mechanistic approaches across scales. In this Perspective, the authors discuss an attribution framework to strengthen causal inference and guide more effective biodiversity management under rapidly changing global conditions.

New online! Complementary causal approaches to support biodiversity change attribution

🎉🎉🎉

Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today.

You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov

New🗒️ just out - A review of bird monitoring in Africa: present state and future prospects, led by Phil Atkinson of
@btobirds.bsky.social
#Ornithology
#AfricanOrnithology

@rspbscience.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social 🐦

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Got my hands on the second edition of @fletcherecology.bsky.social’s book. Can confirm it contains nearly half an inch of new knowledge!!

Thanks for this contribution to "Ecological Applications"!🙌

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Associate Professor of Plant Science Associate Professor of Plant Science Salary: Grade 9 (£61,759 - £73,708 p.a, depending on experience)This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for elements of the job to be undertak...

Very excited to announce that we are hiring for three faculty positions at @universityofleeds.bsky.social in @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social: A/Prof Plant Science, A/Prof Animal Biology and Lecturer in Ecology, Zoology, Biodiversity or Ecosystem Management. Please do get in touch to chat. Links below:

Go work with Gavin—he is fantastic!

As did South Africa, where introduced pine trees (which consume more water than native vegetation) threaten water supplies and fuel wildfires.

Opportunities ***PhD and MSc openings – Movement ecology and conservation*** I will periodically support graduate students, postdocs, and other staff through the Biology Department at the University of New…

I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉

gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

NEW JOB in #ornithology chasing #nutcrackers in Switzerland to understand seed dispersal patterns: buff.ly/Cx0OOQy

This thread shows a deliberate defunding of U.S. science, engineering, social science, innovation, and education excellence. It’s a U.S. national security, competitiveness, and economic disaster.