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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Our October issue is out now! 🚨 This month's cover image shows a red fox (Vulpes vulpes) beside a mountain road. The image highlights the vulnerability of wildlife moving through landscapes crossed by human infrastructure 🛣️ Find out more and read the whole issue now 👇 buff.ly/ibUvY8k

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Data Management Better Science Guide has been updated! 🚨 A big thank you to Natalie Cooper and Robert Barber for editing the guide, and everyone who contributed to the writing! (1/3)

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

📖Published📖 This paper introduces bacpipe, a collection of bioacoustic deep learning models and evaluation pipelines accessible through a graphical and programming interface, designed for both ecologists and computer scientists 🌍 🧪 Read here👇 buff.ly/EzLAHDM

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

📖Published📖 A validated 3D point-cloud analysis workflow for the creation of seagrass canopy height models 🌍 🧪 Read the article here👇 buff.ly/euhptKZ

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

📖Published📖 This study presents a novel method for obtaining population-genetic information of individual vertebrates via eDNA samples by integrating molecular sexing with targeted analysis of mitochondrial variants obtained via long-range PCR and ONT sequencing 🧬🐋 Read here👇 buff.ly/xHE1iLc

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

📖Published📖 This article developed a standardized protocol for simultaneously monitoring the leaf phenology of canopy and ground-layer vegetation in tropical dry ecosystems, using pole and tree-mounted trail cameras 🌳 📸 🌍 🧪 Read here👇 buff.ly/PZKVaRk

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📖Published📖 This study investigates the practical application and sensitivity of eRNA for detecting fish in the wild🧬🐟️ Find out more here 👇 buff.ly/yq0tRrh

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

📖Published📖 Here, authors present the Descriptron-GBIF Annotator, a browser-based tool for the biological community that lets anyone create structured, ontology-linked morphological annotations of GBIF and literature specimen images with AI assistance. Read the article here👇 buff.ly/sMNiWaM

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

📖 Published📖 Mind(the)Plant provides a novel methodological framework for studying plant behaviour, signalling and phenotypic plasticity in ecological and evolutionary research 🌿 🌱 🧪 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/RtefLho

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

📖 Published📖 This study presents a reproducible, LiDAR-native framework for quantifying and comparing 3D crown morphology within and across species 🌲 🌳 🪾 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/7nZk4Y4

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

📖 Published📖 This work underscores the synergy of human expertise and LLM capabilities, offering a robust, transparent pipeline for efficient, large-scale literature mining in ecology and conservation 📃 🖥️ 🌏️ 🔎 buff.ly/1tOvEVE

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

📖 Published📖 A method to estimate actual infrastructure-induced mortality by integrating hierarchical sources of imperfect detection 🧪 📈 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/1CLbCww

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This #PeerReviewWeek we want to send a big thank-you to everyone who reviewed for us over the past year 📚 Your time and expertise have been vital in helping us publish top-quality research 🌟 Names listed below: buff.ly/thMQTv8

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

📖 Published📖 By combining bioacoustic foundation models with lightweight recurrent modelling, this approach provides a scalable, CPU-efficient tool for autonomous wildlife monitoring, particularly for species with extended or structurally complex vocalizations 🐦‍⬛ 🔊 🧪 🔎 buff.ly/pLEvjWn

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

📖 Published📖 By enabling reliable and comparatively affordable collection, DeepZoo expands sampling capacity into environments previously constrained by cost and logistical barriers, supporting biodiversity and connectivity studies in the deep ocean 🦠 🌊 🐙 🔎 buff.ly/7ya6ymS

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We're hiring Code Integrity and Accessibility editors at MEE! Ideal for people experienced in testing and validating code, and confidence working with at least one language - open to all career stages. Deadline 25th September ⏰️ Read the role description and apply👇 buff.ly/UaSg5au

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Don't forget to register for our next MEE live! Antica Čulina will introduce the concept of Risk of Bias (RoB), and discusses why RoB assessment matters for producing reliable systematic reviews and meta-analyses 🌍🧪 Find out more and register👇 buff.ly/8Hj79o9

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

📖 Published📖 This study explored a set of options for bridging the gap between large databases of opportunistic biodiversity surveys and the sampling frameworks underlying models that correct for imperfect detection of organisms 🧪 🌍️🦅 👉️ buff.ly/RgA9cxB

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Our September issue is out!🚨 This month's cover features a green and golden bell frog 🐸 Difficult to detect through traditional survey methods, it exemplifies the need for innovative monitoring approaches that can support biodiversity management. Read the full issue here 👇 buff.ly/GKuOtB4

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

📖 Published📖 This perspective demonstrates how global research coordination networks can actively create, review, and implement high-quality interactive open materials 📚️ 🌴 🐆 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

📖 Published📖 VTMaxBox offers an accessible and reproducible platform for incorporating behavioural thermal avoidance into comparative thermal ecology, conservation physiology and teaching 🌡️ 🦎 📈 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

📖 Published📖 These results highlight the potential of low-cost transmittance meters, assembled using inexpensive and readily available components, for rapid non-destructive assessment of leaf water status🌾 💦 🍃 buff.ly/byXqotg

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

📖 Published📖 This study develops a spatially realistic dynamic N-mixture model that allows dispersal to be driven by environmental conditions and population density🦅 🐸 🌏️ besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We're hiring Code Integrity and Accessibility! Ideal for people experienced in testing and validating code, and confidence working with at least one language - open to all career stages. ⏰️Deadline for applications is the 25th September. Read the role description and apply👇 buff.ly/6zFYKZj

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sign up for our new MEE live! In this free webinar, Antica Čulina willintroduce the concept of Risk of Bias (RoB), and discusses why RoB assessment matters for producing reliable systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Find out more and register👇 buff.ly/0zFxUZ8

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We are looking for proposals for our new cross journal special feature! It will highlight research across ecological genetics, emphasising how genetic and genomic insights inform broader ecological processes, conservation management, and environmental policy 🧬 Find out more👇 buff.ly/OOdzPWu

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

📖 Published📖 These findings show that zero-shot learning can support practical acoustic monitoring of rare or previously unrecorded species under real-world conditions 🐸🔊 🌏️ besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

📖 Published📖 This study's design provides an improved non-invasive monitoring technique for physiological research and a standardized approach for studying cardiovascular responses in small vertebrates 🦎 🫀 🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

📖 Published📖 Metabarcoding replicate detection frequency tracks ddPCR copy number for cod and herring eDNA in ancient marine sediments 🧬 🐟️ 🪸 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

📖 Published📖 By characterizing the spatial distribution of individuals, these tools allow space use to be readily compared across time and species and provide early warning signals of population fragmentation 🦌 ⛰️ 🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Three weeks left to submit your photos to our competition, Capturing Ecology 2026. Whether it's a picture in the field or something that offers a different perspective to our ecological world, we encourage you to submit! Competition closes on 31 August. Find out more below 👇 buff.ly/ANpnIuZ

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

📖 Published📖 Contrastive ecoacoustic indices: Large-scale global soundscape characterization with contrastive inference🔉 🌏️ 🌳 buff.ly/vtF6yuH

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

📖 Published📖 This study develops a method to delineate habitat patches that are biologically relevant for simulating demographic processes of the species of interest🐿️ 🌲 🌏️ buff.ly/AlBfLTR

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

📖 Published📖 ESO: An evolutionary algorithm for efficient model reduction via automated frequency band selection in passive acoustic monitoring🔊 🦜 🧪 buff.ly/sa9xIkx

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

📖 Published📖 This framework generalizes to diverse meta-network contexts and provides a useful tool for link prediction in the face of biased interaction data🦇 🌿 buff.ly/1DlamBp

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Our July Issue is now out! 🚨 This months cover shows Grévy's zebras grazing beneath gathering clouds at Mpala, Kenya, during an evening drone mission conducted in 2022 as part of the WildCap project 🦓 Find out more and read the whole issue here 👇 buff.ly/WM9obOy

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

📖 Published📖 This study sheds light on the strengths and limitations of different classification algorithms across taxonomic groups and barcode characteristics🧬 🍄 🧪 buff.ly/5ZfeMC2

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

📖Published📖 This study introduces a methodological framework to examine the association between morphology and motion. Authors applied the workflow to the analysis of respiratory function, proposing it as a new method to analyse the variability of breathing patterns 🫁👇 buff.ly/9knyZRU

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

📖 Published📖 Modelling density surfaces from integrated passive acoustic and point count data streams 🐦️ 🔊 🧪 Read more👇️ buff.ly/8r6vPVU

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

📖 Published📖 SANE has the potential to assess the relative contribution of different noise types to overall acoustic pollution, opening new research avenues regarding the effects of acoustic pollution on wildlife🔊 🦅 🏙️ 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/J0XiUKy

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

🎧️ New podcast episode! In this episode, we talk to authors András Zábó and Aamir Ahmad about their new paper on animal pattern recognition 👇️ Spotify: buff.ly/sjZ0APW Soundcloud: buff.ly/ECzGyPi

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

📖 Published📖 Magnetic geolocation is a viable complementary tool for tracking small avian species, particularly in contexts where pressure-based methods cannot be used🐦️ 🌏️ 🧪 buff.ly/qjJvgZt

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

New blog post 🚨 Hubert A. Szczygieł goes through the story behind Mothbox and Mothbot, and automated light trap and data processing system for scalable insect monitoring 📸 🐜 buff.ly/fhgIhzK

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Read our new blog post! Forking anatomy: borrowing software’s best idea to build 3D atlases together 🌍🧪 Read here👇 buff.ly/2438L2P

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Just a few days left to submit a proposal for our latest special feature! 🌍 🧪 Deadline for proposals is the 10th July, and paper submission will be due in February 2027⏰️ Find out more and submit a proposal 👇 buff.ly/AP33DCC

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We're doing another MEE live! 🚨 Join us on the 23rd July at 3pm BST to learn more about the R package multinomialTS! 🌍 🧪 Find out more and register here 👇 buff.ly/ynJ3nNl

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Enjoying the scenery while at #ExE2026 this week! Maybe all conferences should be by the sea?

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A great start to #ExE2026 this morning! We’ll be at our stand if you want to chat about anything MEE or BES (or if you just want to draw your study organism!)

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

📖Published📖 In this article, authors introduce MorphoDepot, a framework that adapts the ‘fork-and-contribute’ model—a cornerstone of modern open-source software development—for collaborative management of 3D morphological data 🌍 🧪 Read more 👇 buff.ly/6m1W4Nw

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

📖Published📖 Read our new research article 👉 Complete elliptic Fourier descriptor normalization and its application in quantitative morphological analysis 🥬 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/Jd2mUYe

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