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Souleyman Bakker @souleymanbakker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🐌 Field day! Went out collecting freshwater snails today with Jakke and @davidboukal.bsky.social 🇨🇿 in a pond close to the Austrian border in South Bohemia. Always good to get out of the office and into the mud! #Ecology #Fieldwork #Molluscs #FreshwaterEcology #Czechia

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

If you want a six minute summary of how to support trans+ fieldworkers, then why not check out this video we made (voiced by the incredible @izzyvalkyrie.bsky.social)?

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

📣We will soon be back for a new run of open online theoretical ecology seminars! We have six exciting speakers covering topics from all corners of the field to add to your calendars: In the meantime, there are 80+ previous talks on our YouTube 📺: www.youtube.com/@theoretical... See you there!

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Urlaub in der Klimakrise. Keine KI, einfach ein Handyfoto, das ich vorhin am Strand von Lacanau (Frankreich) gemacht habe. In welchem Klima wird der kleine Junge aufwachsen? Es liegt in unserer Hand, aber die Zeit läuft uns davon.

Ein kleines Kind mit blauem T-Shirt sitzt an einem Strand mit Weltuntergangsstimmung. Rechts ist das Meer. Im Hintergrund ist eine riesige Aschewolke zu sehen. Das gesamte Bild ist orange-rötlich durch die Asche in der Luft.

Es sind mehr Menschen in der Ferne am Strand zu sehen.

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The Company of Biologists @biologists.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Funded places are available for early-career researchers at our Workshop on Integrating Physiology and Behaviour in Assessment of Ectotherm Heat Tolerance, 7 – 10 March 2027, organised by Michael Ørsted & Johannes Overgaard Find out more and apply at www.biologists.com/workshops/ma...

Integrating Physiology and Behavior in Assessment of Ectotherm Heat Tolerance
Date: 7-10 March 2027

Location: Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK

Organisers: Michael Ørsted and Johannes Overgaard

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Reweill 🍊 @reweill.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Article très intéressant. 1/ L'association des parents d'élèves ne veut pas que les élèves puissent parler à un inspecteur de l'Educ Nat sans autorisation parentale (Ils ont peur de quoi ?) www.la-croix.com/societe/prop...

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Proposition de loi post-Bétharram : l’enseignement catholique craint une perte d’indépendance

La proposition de loi issue de la commission d’enquête parlementaire sur les défaillances de l’État dans la lutte contre les violences dans les établissements scolaires sera débattue lundi 1er juin 20...

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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

All of those pearl clutching articles over the last 3 years about how women had to use AI or they'd be left behind at work and OF COURSE when people think women used AI they punish them for it. OF COURSE.

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Au Poste @auposte.media · 16/05/2026

🟧 «C'est toute une histoire de l'Afrique qui a été spoliée» Jean-Jacques Lumumba convoqué #AuPoste pour revenir sur son combat contre la corruption en Afrique, et en faveur de la restitution des œuvres pillées sur le continent africain. @michaelpauron.bsky.social @afriquexxi.bsky.social 🧵⏬

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/05/2026

Immigration make Britain brilliant

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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Bon Pote @bonpote.com · 07/05/2026

Aimer les animaux et voter à droite ou extrême droite, c'est se tirer une balle dans le pied. Bon Pote a analysé tous les votes à l'AN depuis 2022 et voici le résultat par parti. Le RN s'affiche sur les réseaux sociaux avec des photos de chat, mais dans la réalité, ils détestent les animaux.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

Screenshot of a paper's title page. Title: "The Difference Between 'Replicable' and 'Not replicable' is not Itself Scientifically Replicable". Authors: Berna Devezer and Erkan O. Buzbas, both at the University of Idaho — Devezer in the Department of Business and the Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation, Buzbas in the Department of Mathematics and Statistical Science. Authors contributed equally. Corresponding author: bdevezer@uidaho.edu.
Abstract: Replication studies estimate the replicability rate of scientific results by aggregating binary verdicts of experiments. Exact replications are rarely attainable, so most replication sequences are non-exact. Experiments differ in ways that matter and do not share a single common data-generating process. We formalize two statistical interpretations of this non-exactness. In a shared latent rate model (benchmark), experiments are exchangeable and depend on a common random replicability rate. In a conditionally independent rates model (operational), each experiment has its own replicability rate drawn independently from a population distribution. Under the shared latent rate model, even small variability among replicability rates induces an irreducible variance floor on the estimated mean replicability rate that cannot be eliminated by adding more replications. Under the conditionally independent rates model, the degree of non-exactness is not identifiable from standard replication data, because one binary verdict per experiment contains no information about between-experiment heterogeneity. Researchers therefore cannot tell which precision regime they are operating in or whether high- and low-replicability sequences can be distinguished in principle. As a result, the usual data structure of one binary verdict per experiment cannot support reliable demarcation between "replicable" and "not replicable" results and systematically understates uncertainty, making high- and low-replicability sequences appear discrim…

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ARTE @artefr.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Entre 1941 et 1945, près de 30 000 Français se sont engagés auprès des nazis ⤵️

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Julien Gossa @juliengossa.cpesr.fr · 04/04/2026

[ #VeilleESR #Demassification ] 5 700 places de moins en licence par rapport à 2025 dans #Parcoursup. Rouen : -10% Mayotte : -16% Les SHS sont particulièrement touchées avec une baisse des capacités d'accueil de 3,7 % sur un an. Par Pierre Deroudilhe pour @aefsuprecherche.bsky.social

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MISE À JOUR. Parcoursup 2026 : les universités affichent environ 5 700 places de moins en licence par rapport à 2025

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

On this Trans Day of Visibility, please enjoy & learn something from this fascinating & clarifying read from @madeline-eppley.bsky.social, @andylee.bsky.social, Robert Dellinger & @allydefduf.bsky.social Read👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (🙏 for this excellent work & actionable recs!)

Screenshot of the title page of an article in Ecology Letters

TITLE: There is No Consensus on Biological Sex

Madeline G. Eppley. A, Andy Lee Robert Dellinger, Ally Swank

First published: 05 March 2026 | https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70350

Editor: Greg F. Grether
Madeline Eppley and Andy Lee contributed equally and are co-first authors.

ABSTRACT

There is ongoing scientific and societal discourse on the definition of biological sex. At this critical moment when misinformation about sex is being applied to policy globally, scientific clarification is valuable. Here, we evaluate the primary approaches to defining sex and synthesise the active discourse to conclude that there is no current consensus on a definition of sex that is free of assumptions and limitations. While there is no current consensus, we do not advocate for a single definition and contend that a lack of unanimity is not inherently problematic. No matter what definitional choices are used, we provide actionable recommendations to improve accuracy when describing sex. Most importantly, regardless of scientific debates, no biological definition of sex should be used to dictate human rights.

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Guillaume Singelin @blackysan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Cloud City 💭

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Sebastian Roché @sebastianjroche.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Mais que serait le contrôle de la police sans les vidéos ? « le 16 mars il est alentours de 23 heures quand Yanis filme depuis son appartement l’une des vidéos qui a révolté les habitants de Noisiel et au-delà, tous les internautes » www.humanite.fr/societe/igpn...

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Mâchoire déplacée, tirs de grenades à la tête… À Noisiel, les familles de deux victimes portent plainte pour violences policières - L'Humanité

Sur les quatre personnes interpellées lors d’affrontements avec la police qui se sont déroulés à Noisiel, en Seine-et-Marne, dans la soirée du 16 mars, l’un des trois min...

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Émilien Ruiz @mxli1.eurosky.social · 13/03/2026

[#parutions] Deux ouvrages viennent de paraître, dans des logiques très différentes mais tout à fait complémentaire il me semble 🧶 👇 1/6

Couverture des deux livres cités dans le post : Légitime défiance par Alexis Spire et Service public ou barbarie par Arnaud Bontemps

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Nawak @nawak.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Colline d’Hollywood. L’inscription « Hollywood » a été remplacée par « Nom Ville »

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Alison Robey @alisonrobey.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Thrilled to share that my first dissertation chapter is now published at Ecology! dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... We embed TPCs into population dynamics to show how changing temperatures' ordering — not just its distribution — increases extinction risk (i.e. heatwaves matter!) @esajournals.bsky.social

Figure demonstrating how the ordering of temperatures through time determines whether an ectothermic population experiencing those temperatures will go extinct

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Andy Lee, PhD @andylee.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I am still actively looking for postdoc positions — please lmk if you (or your friends and colleagues) need a hardworking postdoc with field, lab, and bioinformatic skills! I am broadly interested in evolution in the ocean, conservation and population genetics, and rapid evolution.

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Published 📖 A general method for detection and segmentation of terrestrial arthropods in images🪲 flatbug offers ecologists and practitioners a ready-to-use, efficient and accurate tool for arthropod monitoring that addresses common limitations of existing methods 👇️

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Paul Vannier @paulvannier.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Un pays, deux écoles. L’école privée, massivement financée sur fonds publics, disloque notre société en séparant sa jeunesse.

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Monomarchos @monomarchos.agency · 03/03/2026

50% d'élèves dans le privé à horizon 2030 à Paris, c'est délirant.

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Ecological Dynamics Dept. | IZW Berlin @ecodynizw.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Our package estar for quantifying ecological stability is out: MEE @britishecologicalsociety.org! Provides 11 stability metrics for measuring stability at different levels of organization, from individuals to populations, communities + ecosystems. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I started making this R package 6 years ago. I finally have it in a state I'm happy with, thanks to Claude Code #Rstats github.com/MattCowgill/...

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Young Modellers in Ecology @yomoseco.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Great opportunity to interact with the French Community of Ecological Theory: "Biodiversity in Equations" Conference in Montpellier, France on April 9 and 10, 2026, organized by GDR TheoMoDive and SFE2. Registration is free! Find more info here: biodiveq.sciencesconf.org?forward-acti...

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Biodiversity in equations - Sciencesconf.org

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People

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Eddie Pérochon @eperochon.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Our new study is out in @pnas.org ! 🐜🌍 We show that the environment shapes how ant societies are distributed across the world. Accessible here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Environmental conditions shape the global distribution of ant societies | PNAS

Sociality has evolved several times and is a key strategy for overcoming environmental challenges and promoting ecological success. Yet, it remains...

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

No kidding. If you had been paying any attention whatsoever, you would know crypto is the worst….

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Ricardo Parreira @ricardoparreira.com · 17/01/2026

El Hacem Diarra, a été tué parce qu’il a refusé de se faire palper. Tasé, interpellé, il a fini par être tué par des policiers, à l’abri de tous les regards dans le commissariat. Aucune info dans les médias, rien… Pas de vidéo pas de scandale. Racisme, impunité, la police quoi.

Hommage à El Hacen DIARRA (31/12/1990 - 14/01/2026) mort entre les mains de la police du 20ème arrondissement dans la nuit du 14 au 15 janvier 2026
Foyer Père Lachaise-Mûriers, coin de la rue Fernand Léger et la rue des Pruniers, dimanche 18 janvier 2026 à 14h
El Hacen DIARRA était un jeune homme mauritanien hébergé par son cousin au foyer 16 rue Fernand Léger, Paris 20ème, métro Père Lachaise.
Le mercredi soir 14 janvier, à la suite du match entre le Sénégal et l'Égypte, il est descendu déposer un sac d'ordures à la poubelle. Ensuite il est sorti du foyer en shorts et tongs pour boire un café et fumer une cigarette sur le côté rue des Pruniers.
Une voiture de police est passée par là, s'est arrêtée. Une conversation avec les policiers s'est enclenchée. Les policiers ont voulu palper le jeune homme. Celui-ci a protesté et ne voulait pas que les policiers le touchent. Une bagarre a éclaté, un coup de taser est parti, des voitures de renfort sont arrivées. Le jeune homme en sang a été embarqué dans une des fourgonnettes, direction le commissariat.
Le lendemain matin, inquiète, sa famille s'est présentée au commissariat du 20ème pour prendre des nouvelles. Au début les agents du commissariat ont refusé de donner des informations. Ensuite une policière les a amenés dans un autre commissariat du côté de République et on leur a dit que El Hacen était mort.
Suite à Lamine Dieng (2007), suite à, Adama Traoré (2016), Liu Shaoyao (2017), Gaye Camara (2018), Aboubacar Fofana (2018), et de nombreux autres, El Hacen prend sa place dans la longue liste de victimes de l'usage disproportionné de la force mortelle par la police française et de la culture d'impunité cultivée en son sein.
Un hommage et un moment de recueillement lui sera rendu par sa famille au lieu même de l'interpellation dimanche 18 janvier à 14h.

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Is there a mathematics of discontinuous behavior? Christopher Zeeman was a leading proponent of Catastrophe Theory, a topological approach to sudden change that underpins much of today’s work on tipping points. This is his beautiful 1976 paper in @sciam.bsky.social www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2...

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Jeff Clements 🦪 @biolumijeffence.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

In my first Editorial as Associate Editor for @conphysjournal.bsky.social, we help combat this lack of training by providing some "tips and tricks" for writing constructive peer reviews, based on our collective experiences as editors for multiple scientific journals.

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Tips and tricks for writing constructive peer reviews

Peer review has been the cornerstone of scientific inquiry for centuries and is considered the backbone of scientific quality and rigour (Spier, 2002). Des

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Fabrice Arfi @fabricearfi.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Lu ce matin dans @lefigaro.fr, qui a rencontré l'ancien président pour la sortie (le 10 décembre) de son « Journal d'un prisonnier ». Not Gorafi.

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Modiie @modiie.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

IRL on me dit ne pas voir sur YT notre nouveau format avec Lumi sur le Travail donc n'oubliez pas le 👄 à 👂 On questionne l’utilité du travail sous le capitalisme. Est-on payé à détruire la 🌍 & exploiter les autres? Pq les boulot du care si important sont-ils si mal payés? youtu.be/8zmx_UJRGLI?...

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TRAVAIL : VOTRE MÉTIER EST-IL INUTILE ?

YouTube video by BLAST, Le souffle de l'info

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Docteur Bagarre @docteurbagarre.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Je sais pas si on percute que certains pensent cadrer les pratiques alimentaires des adolescents tout en refusant catégoriquement de cesser de boire sur leur lieu de travail.

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Émilien Houard-Vial @ehouardvial.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Au-delà des garanties d'anonymat, le fait de produire des statistiques sur les orientations politiques des agents de la fonction publique ne peut QUE mener à les jeter à la vindicte de médias ultra orientés, alors que la seule question est de savoir s'ils font bien leur travail.

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Gavin Simpson @gsimpson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

A new release of the mgcv #RStats 📦 is out on CRAN and Simon Wood (U Edinburgh) has added some significant new features despite the small bump in version number: 🌟 scasm() for estimating GAMs with shape constrained smooths. Can be used with any family & smoothness selection is via the EFS method

Model is:

b3 <- scasm(
y ~ s(x0, bs = "bs", k= k) + s(x1, bs = "sc", xt = "m+", k = k) +
s(x2, bs = "bs", k = k) + s(x3, bs = "bs", k = k),
family=poisson, bs=200
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The second smooth `s(x1) is a shape constrained smooth with a positive monotonicity constraint (xt = "m+").

The `bs = 200` arguments uses 200 boostrap samples, which generates bootstrap distributions for each coefficient in the model. These bootstrap samples respect the shape constraints, while the usual +/- 2 SE credible intervals may not.

The uncertainty in the partial effects is shown by two credible interval bands; a dark blue central band is a 68% Bayesian credible interval, while the lighter blue outer interval is a 95% Bayesian credible interval.

The background of each panel is light grey with white grid lines, in a similar style to ggplot2's default theme.

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Oikos @oikosjournal.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

🐜❌Effects of environmental and individual variation on time patterns of extinction in small experimental populations vist.ly/4bdf5 Decliningpopulations #Collembola #ExtinctionVortex #FolsomiaCandida, #LongTransients, #EnvironmentalEffects #SmallPopulationParadigm

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Paul Savary @psavary.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Happy to announce an open post-doctoral position (24 months) in the ThéMA lab (Besançon, CNRS-Univ.Marie et Louis Pasteur) to work on the coupled modelling of population genetic structure and metacommunity dynamics in habitat networks. Details here: shorturl.at/7muyx For any questions, contact me!

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 01/10/2025

The global economy depends on #nature but also has an impact on nature. Learn more about these interactions with this graphic from the @ipbes.net #TransformativeChange Assessment Report. Read the Summary for Policymakers: www.ipbes.net/transf...

An infographic showing global economic figures related to nature and biodiversity, displayed in a circular format with a money/globe illustration at the center. The data points are presented in descending order:

Global GDP: $105.6 trillion
GDP from nature-dependent sectors: $58 trillion
Nature decline externalities: $10.7 trillion
Subsidies to nature-declining sectors: $1.4-$3.3 trillion
Global biodiversity financing gap (annual until 2030): $598-$824 billion
Current global biodiversity funding: $135-$156 billion
The center features a mint green globe with stylized stacks of money and coins in front, using green and yellow colors. The data is arranged in a semi-circular arc, with monetary values shown in green and purple text. The visualization uses a clean, minimalist design with clear typography.

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Eddie Pérochon @eperochon.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Finally published my master’s work in Global Ecology and Biogeography! 🦋🌎Huge thanks to all coauthors for their patience and support during this project. If you’re interested in butterflies/mimicry/biogeography, or just curious, you can read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Müllerian Mimicry in Neotropical Butterflies: One Mimicry Ring to Bring Them All and in the Jungle Bind Them

Aim Uncovering the effects of Müllerian mimetic interactions on the evolution of species niches and geographic distributions at a continental scale. Location Neotropics and part of Nearctic. Tim...

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Oikos @oikosjournal.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

🥳 Meet Dr. Elise Thábault, our new subject editor from from Paris, France Read her interview here: vist.ly/43hhw

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Welcome Elisa Thébault - New SE | Oikos Journal

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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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