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Charlie Hackforth @hackforth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Funded international workshop - please repost! 📍 Alter do Chão, Pará 📅 8–11 December 2026 Join other interdisciplinary researchers from UK & Brazil to explore the integration of ancestral and innovative technologies for monitoring Amazonian Sociobiodiversity. Funded by the British Council.

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Filipe França @filipemfranca.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Our TropEco Lab has been busy in the last three months: three teams across four regions in the Brazilian Amazon and Ghanaian forests. A quick summary of the joy and madness of our #fieldwork across continents.

Image was taken from a tower with camera facing down. It shows the forest from the top, a dirty road crossing the Center and disappearing under the tree canopy. Also shows a small fieldwork white truck and solar panel used to power the equipment in the tower.

Image shows a massive Bako tree (Tieghemella heckelii) with a scientist standing with arms up to show the large dimensions of the tree. The background is mostly green with smaller trees and the ground is brown with multiple dry leaves.

Image shows a baby white-cheeked spider monkey (Ateles marginatus) trying to hide in the black hair of the scientist. The scientist is looking down, so you can see most of its hair and the baby monkey in the top, looking to the side. In the blurred background, it is possible to see the Indigenous houses made of wood walls and leaf roofs, a bright blue sky and some trees in the Panará Indigenous Territory, in Brazil.

Image shows four man trying to carry a tree trunk they just cut to build a bridge to cross a river, so they can continue their track to the field plot. The photo shows the base of cut tree. The fallen tree is on the side. The man wear long sleeves (two with dark blue,’one gray, one black) and all are holding the tree trunk, trying to carry it.

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Filipe França @filipemfranca.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Watch out for the next generation of tropical ecologists and #insect taxonomists. Amazonian #fieldwork already finished in two regions, moving our lab to the next region tomorrow! A joint effort to monitor insect biodiversity changes across the tropics. #WeAreUKRI #UKRIFLF #CienciaBrasileira #CNPq

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INFRACURSIONS Project @infracursions.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

An overwhelming majority of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is unauthorized (illegal). A data-driven report from August/2023 to July/2024, cross-referencing deforestation with clearing permits, confirms this heartbreaking reality. Read more below ⬇️ #AmazonDeforestation #LawEnforcement

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91% of Brazilian Amazon deforestation last year was illegal, report finds

Nearly all deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in the past year was illegal, a new report finds. Between August 2023 and July 2024, 91% of forest clearing in the Amazon lacked authorization, accordi...

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Filipe França @filipemfranca.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

🔎👀 TropEco Lab is hiring, please share! 🚨 🌍🌴 Position: Senior Research Associate / Research Associate in Field and Molecular Ecology. 🪲🐝🦋 Task: You will use iDNA & eDNA to build bee-plant and dung beetle-mammal networks in the Brazilian Amazonia, Ghana, & Malaysia. Further details -> bit.ly/4lurR9z

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Filipe França @filipemfranca.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

🚨Edital c/ 25 vagas, pf RT🚨 O CAPACREAM abriu 25 vagas de bolsa em diferentes disciplinas. A iniciativa multidisciplinar é co-cordenada pela UNIFAP, UFPA, e Universidade de Bristol, e conta com 111 participantes de 37 instituições. Prazo: 28/Fev. Veja detalhes em: bit.ly/EditalBolsas...

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Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Please share: New opportunity➡️ University of Cambridge has a new program to provide fully funded opportunities for 5 #Brazilian Mphil students a year! For more details and opportunities to link up with the Conservation Research institute, see: conservation.cam.ac.uk/suzano-maste...

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Jérémy Cours 🌳 @jeremycours.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

First post on Bluesky, let’s share some websites offering many free illustrations for scientific figures 🖼️ 🧪 🌍 : scidraw.io bioart.niaid.nih.gov www.phylopic.org More well known but very nice though: www.freepik.com

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SciDraw | Scientific Drawings

SciDraw - an open repository of science drawings

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Martin Dovciak🌳🌱🌻 @dovciak-lab.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

🌎🧪Forest Ecology Starter Pack now available for those studying various aspects of forest 🌲🌳🌴ecosystems. The starter pack is limited to 150 names & it is now full. To grow your network: follow folks, get followed, re-post, & enjoy! go.bsky.app/8ZNK9jy

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Martijn Slot @martijnslot.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The BCI book is out! Almost 100 chapters of science about Barro Colorado Island plant and ecosystem science. scholarlypress.si.edu/store/all/th... Edited by STRI colleagues Helene Muller-Landau and Joe Wright. When I get my hardcopy, I'll want to read this cover to cover (1/2)

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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 19/11/2024

The taxonomic biases in biodiversity data are growing over time. The amount of data we are collecting is growing, but the biases get bigger. We need to make a conscious effort to study the understudied! #SciComms #Science #Taxonomy 🧪 image from Troudet et al 2018 @natureportfolio.bsky.social

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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

There are many ways in which the potential marriage of the goals tackling climate change and restoring biodiversity is a good thing. But also real dangers of an abusive relationship if biodiversity is subordinated to an overpowering drive for carbon sequestration and biofuels.

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The climate and biodiversity crises are entwined, but we risk pitting one against the other

In our race to cool the planet, we must not compromise the ecosystems on which we depend.

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Filipe França @filipemfranca.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The little things we find doing #fieldwork in the #AmazonForest. Unsure about the wasp species, but amazed with the nest structure.

A wasp nest behind a leaf. The nest is built as a very thin layer in the back of the leaf, occupying the center of the leaf while leaving 1-2 cm borders of leaf. The back of the leaf is green, while the nest has a mix of green and light brown straps that gives the look of a dry leaf. There is an opening in the bottom of the nest, where 4 to five time wasps are positioned. Other wasps are present at the borders of the leaf, around the nest. There is some signs of herbivore on the leaf, and the nest follows the shape of the herbivore marks.

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