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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Tenure-track assistant professor position in #ecology at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington: apply.interfolio.com/190454

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I’m looking to recruit a postdoc to join my research group at University of Iowa to work on disturbance ecology and biodiversity! Start date flexible, lots of opportunity for skill development, collaboration, and mentorship. Will review applicants in mid-August! Link: gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

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BIG NEWS! The Jones Lab will be relocating to the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability (SEES) at the University of Iowa in Fall 2026. Our work on disturbance ecology and conservation sc…

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Sean Pang @seh-pang.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Almost every European plant species is out of equilibrium. Climate change is only part of the story—disturbance greatly shapes where species actually occur. 🚨Our new paper 🌱in @natecoevo.nature.com analysed 3,047 species across >1.1M European vegetation plots. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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ESIIL @cu-esiil.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Join us to learn insights for ESIIL's Macrophenology working group: esiil.org/news-events/...

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Martin Jung @martinjung.eu · 01/06/2026

The @ipbes.net spatial Planning and Connectivity assessment is now open for public (upon registration) review. If you are working on conservation planning or connectivity modelling, have a look and let us know if there is something we missed. www.ipbes.net/notification...

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

17) Dismantling USAID also led to ending of a program to monitor flesh-eating screwworms in Central America, which are now back on U.S. soil for the first time since 1966. (The screwworms are typically found in warmer climates, but may now be moving further north due to climate change.)

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US plans to fight flesh-eating screwworm outbreak with flies and dogs

The insect, which has been found in America for the first time since 1966, is a growing concern in the southern US.

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The Department of Biology at the University of Iowa is hiring an evolutionary ecologist at the assistant professor level for fall 2027. Come and be my colleague! jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...

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Faculty Requisition Details - Jobs@UIOWA: Search and Apply for Jobs at The University of Iowa

Jobs@UIOWA: The official place to search and apply for jobs at The University of Iowa.

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Stockholm Resilience Centre @sthlmresilience.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

How can Indigenous Peoples and local communities have a greater say in biodiversity assessments? This Biodiversity Day, we've published a study that presents guidance for stronger inclusion of Indigenous Peoples' and local communities' knowledge within IPBES.

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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · 11/05/2026

Journal Club articles at Nature Reviews Biodiversity are pitched by early career researchers. We are grateful to everyone who has contributed these articles so far, but current submissions are heavily skewed towards men.

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 19/05/2026

Causal inference should quantify the sensitivity of results to hidden confounders (variables affecting both the location of projects and outcomes). The importance of this is illustrated using analysis of over-crediting in REDD+ projects 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Unobserved confounders cannot explain over-crediting in avoided deforestation carbon projects - Nature Ecology & Evolution

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 22/05/2026

Quasi-experimental analysis of the effects of Ethiopia’s protected areas on environmental and human wellbeing is combined with surveys of conservation professionals to explore why improving protected area effectiveness may be prioritized over network expansion 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Trade-offs between nature and people in Ethiopia’s protected areas demonstrate challenges in translating global conservation targets into national realities - Nature Ecology & Evolution

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iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Really cool paper with many applications to conservation.

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Julian Resasco @julianresasco.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

So proud of Dr. Asia Kaiser for her ESA Murray F. Buell Award & recently defending her PhD! Asia is an outstanding scientist & seeking a postdoc (urban ecology, insect biodiversity, bees, agroecosystems, & synthetic control/stat methods). Please connect w Asia w opportunities. Please boost! 🐝🌎🧪🥒🏙️🌱

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Julian Resasco @julianresasco.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Asia Kaiser has been on an incredible streak lately! This new @natecoevo.nature.com paper w @lauradee.bsky.social is the latest. Cool work showing how ecologists can use synthetic control methods to strengthen inference — highlighted using iNat bee data in cities 🐝🌎🧪🌱🌆 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Synthetic control methods enable stronger causal inference using participatory science data in cities - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Synthetic-control analysis applied to iNaturalist records identifies a decline in bee observations in the 2 years following Hurricane Ida in Philadelphia, while three conventional analyses of the same...

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Critically Speaking with Therese Markow @criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Writing isn't about getting words on paper. It's how the brain deepens understanding. When AI does that work instead, this process doesn't happen. Why does that matter? 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/criti… @natwexler.bsky.social

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Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center @nwcasc.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

💡 Reminder! We're hosting an info session for those interested in the 2027 Faculty Fellowship Program — TOMORROW, May 5 @ 11 a.m. PT 🔗 bit.ly/3RkJzBy Not sure if you're eligible? Faculty & non-faculty scientists with primary investigator status at UW, BSU, NWIC, OSU, PSU, UM, WSU & WWU can apply!

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 25/04/2026

In a coastal state, removing disclosure and permitting requirements for properties that will become dangerously flood exposed in the future isn’t a pathway to affordable AND SAFE housing.

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Powerful NJ Democrat's push to undo climate rules takes center stage at Earth Day hearing

State Senate President Nick Scutari is looking to use a legislative tool to undo the development regulations.

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 11/04/2026

How much do you know about 5 converging environmental crises? ➡️ Explore the most comprehensive assessment of links between biodiversity, water, food, health & climate. 🌏 For just & sustainable futures! Watch the IPBES #NexusAssessment video here: youtu.be/8H6aW_j2oSA?si=kcnREIc_f2c…

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NPR @npr.org · 10/04/2026

States say disaster funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency has slowed to a trickle under the Trump administration. That's delaying projects to protect communities from wildfires and hurricanes. n.pr/3NVuLIF

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Communities are waiting on billions in disaster funding from the Trump administration

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Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

📢 Content submissions for the 6th SORTEE Conference (13-14 Oct 2026) are now OPEN #SORTEE2026 Submit your proposal for an unconference, hackathon or workshop by June 7th via sortee.org/upcoming SORTEE members can attend for free. Join us sortee.org/join/

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Proposals for our Special Feature with @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social are still open 👀 We're looking to further understanding of how climate change affects plant–antagonist interactions, particularly through links to management strategies 🐛 bit.ly/45ZalEf

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I wish more people knew this. Power analysis should be based on the smallest effect size of interest. Not on a guess, or a hope. You also need to specify that effect to make your claim falsifiable, and to know when the effect is statistically significant, but practically irrelevant.

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Lucy Van Kleunen @lucyvankleunen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Happy to share that we have a new paper out based on my PhD research: "Predicting missing links in food webs using stacked models and species traits" with @lauradee.bsky.social, Kate L. Wootton, François Massol, @aaronclauset.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🧵/1

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Joe Shannon @variablesource.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

This looks exciting! Monitoring ecosystem change and attributing the impacts to planned (like forest management) and unplanned disturbances (like fire & drought) has become the primary focus of our team at work.

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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Disgusting - he should be fired

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Cabot Institute for the Environment @cabot-institute.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

We need a global assessment of avoidable climate-change risks. To understand the urgency of emissions reductions, policymakers and citizens need a full analysis of what is at stake. www.nature.com/articles/d41... from @eunicelo.bsky.social @climatedann.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @nature.com

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We need a global assessment of avoidable climate-change risks

To understand the urgency of emissions reductions, policymakers and citizens need a full analysis of what is at stake.

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Anne Scheel @annemscheel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

After learning about collider bias, reading this gave me the second-worst existential crisis about learning anything causal from data *even when you can run experiments*. Really a must-read if you’re not already familiar with this stuff.

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I saw this when it was a preprint? They have a unique version of the estimand-estimator-estimates workflow, will be useful for may biologists, not just ecologists. We need more case studies for ecologists to emulate and for norms to shift so "regression and storytelling" becomes unpublishable.

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Pulp & Politics @pulpandpolitics.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

"the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building." www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

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What Elon Has Done

Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake.

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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

New #causalinference paper just dropped! As an ecologist, I was trained to ask: "What do the data tell me?" This paper: there are only specific instances when this question is appropriate—when you lack domain knowledge, which we often have! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research 🧪 #Macroecology

A best-practice workflow that outlines the key steps and decisions for answering causal questions in ecological research.

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

So, y'all have heard me going on about #causalinference in #ecology a lot. Now our big synthetic guide "Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research" is out! Led by Hannah Correia & Paul Ferraro, it's a great walk-through for all! 🌍🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The workflow illustrates a step-by-step process for conducting causal analyses. Arrows indicate the typical flow of an analysis. Two possible pathways are shown: causal discovery approaches (blue), which aim to identify the existence of causal relationships when pre-existing knowledge is low, and causal inference approaches (yellow), which aim to quantify the direction and magnitude of causal effects when pre-existing knowledge is high. The gray feedback loop on the right highlights the iterative refinement of causal analyses based on assessments of the plausibility of causal assumptions.

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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research - Nature Communications

Different scientific traditions offer seemingly disparate approaches to inferring causal relationships in ecological systems. This Perspective unifies the causal assumptions and methods from...

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

FELLOWSHIP! We’re proud to announce the launch of the Climate Science Serving America fellowship, open to early- and mid-career scientists & engineers who work on climate solutions. Full salary, benefits, and a research stipend. Remote anywhere in the United States. drawdown.org/news/project...

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Project Drawdown launches Climate Science Serving America Fellowship to support scientists working in the public good

Fellowship seeks early- to mid-career researchers based in America who are committed to science and public expertise

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Some context for this new policy, which makes me 🤯: The last time they counted (the administration now tells us that the lawyers advise them to refrain from doing so) tenured faculty in Arts and Sciences were 70 per cent male.

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Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

⚙️ Working at the intersection of causality and networks? We're organizing a satellite event at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston on June 1st. The focus is networks science and causal inference. Submit your work by March 10th! causnets.github.io

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CausNetS: Toward a Causal Network Science

A NetSci 2026 Satellite

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Communications Sustainability @commssustain.nature.com · 10/02/2026

What happens on land shape the coastal health 🌱riparian vegetation reduces coastal turbidity up to 800 m offshore, right where #coral reefs and #seagrass thrive. Pasture and roads increase turbidity @lauradee.bsky.social @oceannoe.bsky.social 🧪▶️: www.nature.com/articles/s44458-025-00031-5

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Functional Agrobiodiversity & Agroecology @funcagroeco.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

📢 Join our team: Are you interested in the synthesis of ecological data? We are offering a postdoctoral researcher position on the effects of collaborative agri-environment measures on multiple taxa and ecosystem services. See #job advert www.uni-goettingen.de/en/vacancy+f...

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Stephen Wild @stephenjwild.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Bat signal for DiD practitioners

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