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Katherine Hébert

@katherinehebert.bsky.social
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Hi! I'm (she/her) a Postdoc in the Quantitative Biodiversity Lab at McGill University working on how to measure biodiversity change. 📈🦉🐟🦎🐿🐳🐢 katherinehebert.github.io

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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Lettre par 5 anciens présidents du Comité sur la Situation des Espèces en Péril au Canada, dont moi, dénonçant le document de travail sur les projets majeurs fédéraux qui propose d'ignorer la Loi sur les Espèces en Péril. Je suis le contact pour médias francophones www.sfu.ca/~amooers/sci...
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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This was a massive collaborative effort from #MoveBon, led by Ruth Oliver, to think about how we could use movement data to understand more about biodiversity, how it is changing, and what we need to know for decision-making. I can't wait to see these ideas come to life !
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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
For biodiversity indicators to influence decisions, we need to trust them - and to trust them, we need to test them. Happy to share our new paper about how to do that (for genetic diversity) with @seanmhoban.bsky.social & @laura-pollock.bsky.social 😊 📝 doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2026.111824
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seanmhoban.bsky.social @seanmhoban.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This report just posted addresses one of the biggest questions that countries always ask about the genetic diversity indicators: how often and how much monitoring is needed for the Ne500 indicator, in realistic situations? ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... @katherinehebert.bsky.social
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How much monitoring is needed to reliably track progress towards genetic diversity targets?
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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Blitz the Gap was recently featured in Le Devoir with an action shot of @laura-pollock.bsky.social blitzing the gap! 🌱 Seems crazy that there are only 9 days left to the project's first summer to fill gaps in Canadian #biodiversity data with #iNaturalist. We've reached >2,500,000 observations!
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La biodiversité canadienne étalée sur une carte
Les espèces de la faune et de la flore canadiennes ont été répertoriées dans d’un projet scientifique citoyen.
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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
So many indicators, so little time! ⏰ We wrote a guide to streamline the choice of indicators for tracking biodiversity targets, thanks to key criteria, evaluation sheets, and most importantly - collaborations! 🌱 @biodiversite-quebec.ca
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Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Peter Soroye @wcscanada.org explains how @inaturalist.bsky.social data factors into Key Biodiversity Areas (@keybiodiversity.bsky.social). Join them in Blitz The Gap 2025! blitzthegap.org #CSEE2025
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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Last week, I had the very cool opportunity to talk about Blitz the Gap (our Canada-wide initiative to fill biodiversity data gaps this summer blitzthegap.org) on Moteur de Recherche at Radio-Canada. I had a blast! Listen here (in French) 🔊 shorturl.at/lJisw
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Vendredi 4 juill. 2025 : Les premières frontières terrestres, et la psychologie des foules | OHdio | Radio-Canada
Écoutez l’épisode de l’émission Moteur de recherche : Vendredi 4 juill. 2025 : Les premières frontières terrestres, et la psychologie des foules
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Lucas Eckert @lucaseckert.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
In case you missed my talk at #CSEE2025, you can explore your own collaborative networks and see a little summary on my website! www.lucaseckert.ca/side-project...
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Janaina Serrano @janaserrano.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
pollocklab.github.io/blitz-the-ga... This summer, we are trying to Blitz the Gap 🕵️ in our knowledge about species 🦇🐛🦉🐟🐸🌿 that haven't been seen for 15, 30 or 50+ years in Canada! Check it out!👇
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Lucas Eckert @lucaseckert.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This map ⬇️ is from a challenge I designed that encourages people to go out and observe the major group of taxa 🐟🍄🐍🪲🦫🪻 that is unusually under-represented in their county 🇨🇦
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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
One week until Blitz the Gap (www.blitzthegap.org) starts - a Canada-wide event to fill biodiversity data gaps with iNaturalist! @laura-pollock.bsky.social
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Blitz the Gap 2025
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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · 20/05/2025
In our May issue: Journal Club from Katherine Hébert "Biodiversity change is more than the sum of its parts" go.nature.com/4jY31h2
Screenshot of a short article
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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I wrote a journal club for Nature Reviews Biodiversity to reflect on the ways one of my favourite papers shaped (and keeps shaping) my research! Spoiler alert: We need to summarise biodiversity change as a multi-species process, rather than a collection of separate trends doi.org/10.1038/s443...
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Biodiversity change is more than the sum of its parts - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Biodiversity change is more than the sum of its parts
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UCL Faculty of Life Sciences @ucllifesciences.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A new study by @alexpigot.bsky.social and colleagues reveals the critical role of biodiversity in the functioning of ecosystems. @uclcber.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Macroecological rules predict how biomass scales with species richness in nature
Despite advances in theory and experiments, how biodiversity influences the structure and functioning of natural ecosystems remains debated. By applying new theory to data on 84,695 plant, animal, and...
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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Global progress towards our 2030 biodiversity targets starts with local, short-term change - but are we equipped to capture these changes? 🤔 Well, the link between on-the-ground conservation and global indicators is not always clear. We have some ideas about how to clarify & strengthen this link 📝 :
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Five recommendations to fill the blank space in indicators at local and short-term scales
The year 2030 is rapidly approaching. Building, monitoring, and reporting indicators to evaluate the 2030 targets in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodi…
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Joe Bennett @joebennett.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
New work by @adbinley.bsky.social and others: 61% of endangered species in Canada lack research on what conservation actions work. We need more action-based research. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Endangered species lack research on the outcomes of conservation action
Summary of the available peer-reviewed literature for 209 terrestrial species at risk listed as Endangered in Canada. The number of species in each category is noted in the rectangle to the right of ...
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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Which indicators do we need to track and report biodiversity change? Our new preprint 📝 presents the indicator selection process we built to recommend 15 indicators for Québec's 2030 Nature Plan. We share guidelines, outcomes, and recommendations to choose your own shortlist! doi.org/10.32942/X2J...
SMART+C criteria used to select a shortlist of indicators for subnational biodiversity strategies. S = Specific, M = Measurable, A = Achievable, R = Relevant, T = Timely, C = Communicable. A short description of each term is shown in the figure.
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Macroecology lab @unipotsdam @zurelllab.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Check out our new paper in @ecography.bsky.social led by Jamie Kass! big team of #R pkg developers show how to improve analysis standards by combining different pkgs for species distribution models #SDM, provide a #shiny app to catalog & explore them, 3 extensive tutorials. doi.org/10.1111/ecog...
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Achieving higher standards in species distribution modeling by leveraging the diversity of available software
The increasing online availability of biodiversity data and advances in ecological modeling have led to a proliferation of open-source modeling tools. In particular, R packages for species distributi....
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...
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Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science - Mike Young Academy
Scientific Twitter is about to find its true successor. And it is not X. This, our latest release, shows that the Bluesky network of scientists is growing — and growing.
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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I am super excited to join my fellow panelists to talk about why biodiversity 🌱 and climate 🌡️ must be considered together if we want to stop biodiversity loss. Register to watch on Thursday, November 21st at 12PM EST (in French) 📺! shorturl.at/UzWm3
Biodiversity panel announcement about COP-16 and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework on November 21, 12H-13H online with a description and photos of the panelists: Leila Cantave, Anne-Céline Guyon, Laura Fequine, Joëlle Voglimacci, and Katherine Hébert.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 14/11/2024
Time for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change... "Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪
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Katherine Hébert @katherinehebert.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Time for me to make my first post on here! Happy to announce that I'll be sitting at a table in the Montreal Planetarium this Friday night, ready to chat about what we should talk about when we summarise biodiversity change! 🐛🦋🦎🐍🦞🐡🐳🐘🦇🦉🍄🌳🌱 shorturl.at/FDlsq
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La Nuit des chercheuses et des chercheurs
Espace pour la vie
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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 11/10/2024
An important column by @oaggimenez.bsky.social, on how he reacted when colleagues found a fundamental flaw in one of his published papers (thanks to code he and his coauthors had shared) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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My paper was proved wrong. After a sleepless night, here’s what I did next
As part of a healthy scientific community, I accepted my mistake — but I’ve come to realize that authors of reply papers need more support.
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