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Neil Gilbert

@gilbert-lab.bsky.social
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assistant professor @ oklahoma state university | global change ecology, stats, birds, mammals | www.gilbertecology.com

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Aimee M. Van Tatenhove @full-o-fulmars.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Two acoustic integration #postdoc positions at @cornellbirds.bsky.social: Statistical integration of eBird and acoustic data academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32523 Acoustic abundance estimation with eBird data academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32728 Please share and reach out with any questions!
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Cornell University, Lab of Ornithology
Job #AJO32523, WDR-00061235 Postdoc Associate eBird-acoustic statistical integration, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New Yor...
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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fantastic Asst Professor positions open across multiple UC Berkeley departments @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Plant/Algae/Microb aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522 Plant/Env aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 Gen/Dev/Evo aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481 Eco aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489
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Assistant Professor – Plant or Macroalgae-Associated Microbial Communities and Interactions - Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Benjamin Freeman @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
cool job alert broad call that includes coastal bird populations + migrations I visited Dauphin Island Sea Lab last year and it's a sweet spot with good folks & located right on a bird migration hotspot www.disl.edu/about/employ...
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Faculty Position, Marine Science
Posted: September 4, 2026 The Dauphin Island Sea Lab invites applications for an open-rank faculty position in Marine Science. We seek a faculty member to join and strengthen our growing community of ...
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Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
How are fire regimes changing and how will animals adapt to these changes? @biodiversityguy.bsky.social and I use "fire regime velocity" to try and predict how animals might adapt to rapidly changing fire regimes. Out today in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Peter Santema @petersantema.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New #ornithology paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org! We show that female dotterels can move across large distances within a single breeding season in search of mating opportunities, visiting up to five different sites (median: 3) and travelling up to 1000 km between sites (median: 71 km). 1/n
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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Work with Michael!!
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
TIL that glmmTMB can fit phylogenetic generalized mixed models. is there anything this package can't do??
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I am excited to announce a job for an Asst Prof in Plant Evolution in the dept. of Evolution and Ecology at @ucdavis.bsky.social. We're looking broadly, from macro (speciation, comparative genomics, evo-devo) to micro (pop biology, adaptive evolution, evo-eco). recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777
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Catherine Sheard @sheardcat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Oh, rock on: Limited Evidence That Interspecific Nest-Site Competition and Facilitation Drive Range Limits | Gilbert et al., GEB (I do love a clear title!) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Limited Evidence That Interspecific Nest‐Site Competition and Facilitation Drive Range Limits
Aim Biotic interactions form a pillar of niche concepts but are frequently overlooked as range-limiting factors. At local scales, ‘non-excavator’ bird species—those that nest in tree cavities but ca...
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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
recruiting a couple new grad students to start in january, please share! www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities
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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Peak bird migration is nearly upon us. May your mornings be full of warblers, orioles, grosbeaks and tanagers!
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Our new paper on the cover of PNAS, led by Anderson Bueno and Chase Mendenhall, shows that that terrestrial matrices and higher nearby tree cover reduce bird extirpations and boost species richness in forest remnants #ornithology www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🪶🌍
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years
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Catherine Sheard @sheardcat.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Well, that's fun. Link to the paper if you're curious: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Behavioural co‐option of plant secondary compounds by a cavity‐nesting bird is an adaptation against competition and predation
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
🚨 Hiring a postdoc (2 years)! We’re looking for someone with skills in data science, remote sensing, or computer science: 🛰️ Build next-gen nighttime light products 🦅 Link light spectra to migration & collision risk Apply or reach out! aeroecolab.com/opportunities
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Purdue AeroEco Lab Opportunities
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Lucas R Moreira @lucasrocm.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
All 33 shrike species trace their roots to Africa ~8 million years ago, when C4 grasses exploded across the continent. Oh, and Magpie Shrikes? Just big Lanius. The first complete shrike phylogeny reveals Laniidae is basically one giant genus. doi.org/10.1111/zsc.... #2026MMM #RIP
"Majority Clade Credibility tree results from the partitioned Bayesian analyses of the concatenated data set (cytochrome b,
MB, ODC) calibrated using three fossils. Numbers close to the nodes refer to maximum likelihood bootstrap support/concatenated beast posterior probabilities/species tree posterior probabilities. Values are indicated when at least one the three values was ≥70%, ≥0.95 or ≥0.95, respectively."
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Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...
IMAGE SHOWS GRAPHIC OF CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY PHYLOGENY EXPLORER TOOL.
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Jan-Ole Fischer @olemole.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Our paper on #HMMs with periodically ⏰ varying transition probabilities is published! 🎉 @carlinafeldmann.bsky.social, Sina Mews, @rmichels.bsky.social @rolandlangrock.bsky.social doi.org/10.1214/25-AOAS2107 We derive the periodically #stationary distribution and the implied dwell-time distribution
Periodically stationary distribution (probability that the fly is active) as a function of the time of day.
True stationary distribution is compared to biased approximation, and we see a substantial difference.
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Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
A massive thank you to @ecolsocaus.bsky.social for the "Next Generation Ecologist" Award and for having me give a plenary (😵‍💫). A whirlwind of a week
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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Hey prospective PhD students 👋 happy to work with students interested in developing a proposal
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
We have a new paper developing methods for looking at bird-fire macroecology. What’s most fascinating to me is that the magnitude *and* direction of fire effects can vary enormously across a species range. Stationarity is dead!! Long live non-stationarity!! doi.org/10.1002/fee....
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Evaluating macroecological fire impacts on bird populations
Fire regimes are context-dependent, as are the ways that animals respond. However, most information on animal responses to fire comes from short-term local field studies, which are hard to extrapolat....
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Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🚨 🐜 is there a Bluesky starter pack for researchers who don’t study ants but who get lightheaded every time there’s an awesome ant paper? CC @mariusw.bsky.social @jrichardalbert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...
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Kristy Ferraro @kristymferraro.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Animals don’t just live in their environments—they transform them. And in doing so, they may also shape their own evolutionary trajectories. Our new paper in Trends in Ecology & Evolution introduces a framework for zoogeochemical niche construction. A thread 👇
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Andre Moncrieff @andremoncrieff.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
🐦🔬 Recruiting PhD students! 🌎🧬 I’m looking for 1–2 PhD students to join our team starting Fall 2026 at the Sam Noble Museum & University of Oklahoma. Our research: 🐦 birds • 🌍 biogeography • 🌴 Neotropics • 🧬 population genomics • 🌱 speciation 👉 Learn more: www.moncriefflab.org Please share!
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Moncrieff Lab | Bird Evolution
The Moncrieff Lab is a research lab based at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. Research in the lab involves museum specimens, fieldwork, and...
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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
A recent Statistical Report in "Ecology"👇
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Matt Gonnerman @mattgonnerman.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
New pub alert! Very excited to share work providing actionable insights into how we can better implement biosecurity and plan surveillance for avian influenza in the US. This virus doesn’t look to be going away so best to adjust accordingly.
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Avian influenza spillover into poultry: environmental influences and biosecurity protections
With the continued spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), understanding the complex dynamics of virus transfer at the wild – agriculture …
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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
All hail Anonymous Potato 🫡
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Cody Limber @codylimber.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
My feather cell type paper is finally out! doi.org/10.1111/ede.... We’ve packed a ton of stuff into this paper but I’ll go through some highlights in this thread!
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Genetic Characterization of the Cell Types in Developing Feathers, and the Evolution of Feather Complexity
We used single cell sequencing to investigate the cell types of developing chicken feathers. From these data, we are able to describe the transcriptional profile of feather cell types, look at their ....
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Sébastien Roques @sebroques.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
🦩🦩🦩 First paper from my last postdoc at @tourduvalat.bsky.social, co-first authored with Hugo Cayuela, is now published in @pnas.org. Thanks to a wonderful dataset on the Greater Flamingo in southern France, we investigated the relationship between migratory behaviour and ageing. 🦩🦩🦩
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Migration shapes senescence in a long-lived bird | PNAS
Each year, billions of animals migrate across the globe on diverse spatial and temporal scales. Migration behavior thus plays a fundamental role in...
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Jim was an incredible ecologist. I own several of his books, and cite his research reguarly. www.butlernature.com/2025/08/20/j...
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Jim Estes, biologist who revealed how sea otters shape entire ecosystems, died on May 20, aged 79
When Jim Estes first arrived in the Aleutian Islands in 1970, he expected a routine wildlife survey. What he found was the outline of a scientific revelation. In places where sea otters thrived, the…
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Benjamin Freeman @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
nice scientific writing alert -- check out the first line from this new Science paper by @gilbert-lab.bsky.social & Brent Pease "in many parts of the world, the night is no longer dark" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Cassie Speakman @cassiespeakman.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
The latest paper from the DISCAR synthesis group is out at Ecology Letters! We discuss the key approaches to predicting human impacts on wildlife populations, highlighting avenues for incorporating indirect effects, such as energetic modelling. doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Title and author list for the synthesis paper titled "Understanding and Predicting Population Response to Anthropogenic Disturbance: Current Approaches and Novel Opportunities" published in Ecology Letters.
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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
PSA: all y'all should hire Joel for your scientific illustrating needs. He's an up-and-coming artist and is great to work with!!
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Hengxing Zou @hengxingzou.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
First postdoc paper just dropped! Using 50 years of Breeding Bird Survey data, we found that the unexpected functional shifts of bird communities in North America do not track species-level expectations, and these unexpected shifts can be explained by just 5% of “hyper-dominant” species.
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Jacob Levine @jacoblevine.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Thrilled to announce that next year I will be joining @DukeBiology as an assistant professor! I am excited to recruit postdocs and PhD students to start as early as Fall 2026. If you are interested in plant community dynamics, global change, and/or wildfire, please see details below.
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Neil Gilbert @gilbert-lab.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
our paper on how light pollution affects bird vocal behavior is out today in Science!! w/ @brentpease.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Aimee M. Van Tatenhove @full-o-fulmars.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Hey bird postdocs! Open now: a three-year PI position with @cornellbirds.bsky.social overseeing the longterm Hubbard Brook avian monitoring program. Looking for people w/ a strong research & field background (FYI the due date is wrong—should be fixed soon) Reach out w/ questions & please share!
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Cornell University, Lab of Ornithology
Job #AJO29599, WDR-00050928 Research Associate, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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Smith Fellowship @smithfellows.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Thinking about applying for the Smith Fellowship? Watch the recording of our FAQ Webinar for answers to common questions and insights to strengthen your application here: vimeo.com/1111487510?s...
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Applicant FAQ Webinar 2026
An overview of the fellowship, application process, and selection process, followed by common questions and answers, and an open Q&A session hosted by Smith…
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Lauren Whitenack @laurenwhitenack.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
My 4th chapter was published today! Using 11 years of data on mountain chickadees, we showed that lay dates and clutch sizes were repeatable. We found variation among individual females in how much they shifted their lay dates year to year based on climate. 🪶 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Individual repeatability and plasticity of reproductive phenology in a resident montane bird - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Phenological plasticity involves the ability of organisms to adjust the timing of life history events such as reproduction in response to different environmental conditions. Global climate change can ...
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Wilma Miles @wilma-miles1.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
#LightPollution What about the light that spills into our oceans? darksky.org/news/into-th...
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Understanding marine light pollution
Artificial light at night (ALAN) has long been studied for its impacts on humans and wildlife on land…
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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 11/08/2025
Kotz, Amano & Watson show that exposure to heat extremes is associated with declines in bird populations, especially in tropical regions @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social ‪ @pik-potsdam.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Large reductions in tropical bird abundance attributable to heat extreme intensification - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Climate change poses a growing threat to biodiversity, but disentangling its overall impact from other anthropogenic stressors is challenging. Here the authors use a data-driven climate attribution fr...
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
New newer. I think we’ve added four or five since I posted this in June.
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Dr. Marta Jarzyna @majarzyna.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The 12th Biannual Conference of @biogeography.bsky.social is coming to the beautiful city of Aarhus, Denmark in January 2026! Abstract submissions are now open until Sept 1. Attendance is capped at 400—submit early to secure your spot! More details below. conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-...
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The International Biogeography Society Conference Jan 7-9, 2026 Aarhus
The International Biogeography Society and Aarhus University are excited to welcome you to the 12th Biannual Conference in Aarhus, the city of Smiles.
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Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
this is probably in the "being an academic 101" syllabus but I've found that even reviewers who are completely wrong or missed the point can provide an opportunity to improve wording so that other readers are less likely to make the same error, even if you don't do what they ask
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Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Happy to share new work from the lab and a wonderful group of co-authors: We argue that conservation biology needs to move beyond the current focus on species richness metrics. While this has been argued before, we highlight the unappreciated impacts of using richness for a variety of problems:
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Beyond Species Richness for Biological Conservation
Recent global policy developments have highlighted the need for straightforward, robust, and meaningful biodiversity metrics. However, much of conservation science is dominated by the use of a single....
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Adam Sharp @adam-sharp.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
New article out today in Nature - intensified El Niño events under climate change appear to be chipping away at tropical forest arthropod diversity. This is already leading to substantial losses in arthropod function in primary forests across the tropics. rdcu.be/ezAxP
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Stronger El Niños reduce tropical forest arthropod diversity and function
Nature - Time-series data from tropical forests tracking weather and declines in arthropod diversity and function show that fluctuations in species were largely dependent on their El Niño...
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Mike Moore @gypsumbotany.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
🚨🚨 New tenure track position in #ConservationBiology @oberlincollege.bsky.social in the #Biology department--come join us, and contribute to our brand new Environmental Science major too! #biologyjobs #ecologyjobs jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/16671
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Assistant Professor of Biology
The Biology Department at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time tenure track faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences in conservation ecology. Initial appointment to this po...
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Matías I. Muñoz @matiasimunoz.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Do birds tune their songs to their hearing? Is there tight coevolution between avian vocal signals and hearing-or do signallers and perceivers evolve more loosely? It turns out perfect tuning is not required... Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #bioacoustics #prattle 💬 #ornithology 🪶
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