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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Neat dataset, we need more benchmarks like this!

Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

@jameststroud.bsky.social Phelsuma klemmeri, yup! If it’s the first then let’s hope it’s not the last…and looking forward to more of your anoles gracing our covers again soon 🦎

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Thrilled that our Review in TREE is now the cover article-- featuring one of my favorite species from Madagascar, the neon day gecko! Gorgeous lil guys. And we hope this review will be useful for the community: lessons learned on matching climate to biological scales www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

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Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

As someone trained as both a field ecologist and quantitative scientist, this tension runs deep for me. Some of my group are entrenched in the field whereas others work with models for a living. ‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI www.nature.com/articles/d41... 1/4

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

And, big thanks to Julie Johnson @lifesciencestudios.bsky.social for her help with scientific illustration! Take a look into her work, she's terrific!

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

We argue for integrating climatic scale + biological scale when studying vulnerability, forecasting responses to extremes, and designing conservation or management strategies. We suggest a few fruitful ways to do this – take a look!

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

A core idea: climate exposure is not just about spatial resolution. Biology filters climate. Traits, behavior, species interactions, and landscape structure all shape which microclimates organisms experience—and when.

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

This is how scientific discourse should operate. A respectful + insightful comment by Tomas Uxa on the limits of ML from @jlembrechts.bsky.social's high-impact paper, yet still celebrating it. In return, Jonas applauds Tomas for his detective work. Well done, Tomas and Jonas! A model for us all.

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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Early 🎄🎁: TWO interdisciplinary, funded PhDs! One w me as lead - ecosystem & human health outcomes of Biodiversity Net Gain w @northwildlife.bsky.social & Dr Auriba Raza @glasgow.ac.uk. Other led by Dr Katrin Prager @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social looking at nature markets for small-scale organic growers

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Our review outlining how we can better use climate data for understanding ecology and evolution— now published in TREE! I’ll give it a rundown after the holidays.

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

A really important & fascinating contribution led by @lysoifer.bsky.social-- the concept of "climate velocities" has been around for 15 years, but for the first time she shows how different velocities are when 1) you consider microclimate and 2) consider 3D structure of vegetation. Check it out!

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

(Plz share) We're hiring! 5-year PhD student to join our new lab at Rutgers University. Broadly, exploring how climate change impacts terrestrial species, ecosystems and biodiversity – compute, field, or lab! See here: ecoclimateglobal.org/join/ (hiring a 2-yr postdoc too, more news on that soon)

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Current Opportunities Please see below for current and upcoming opportunities to join the group. We always welcome inquiries from motivated potential members with research interests that fit our group...

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Jonas Lembrechts @jlembrechts.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

New for all microclimate enthusiasts! A step-by-step workflow to build your own sensor network - with awesome R code for site selection + tips on engagement, fieldwork & outreach. Led with @thenaturedave.bsky.social and @rebeccasenior.bsky.social 🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/08/16/h...

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How to set up your own microclimate network

Back in 2021, we had an important thought: maybe we should start treating microclimate the same way we treat macroclimate. Weather and climate are monitored by national governments through organize…

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Erin Sauer @sauerscientist.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Excited to share the news that I have accepted a TT assistant professor position at @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social in the Dept of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources! I will be recruiting a postdoc and grad students soon for my wildlife disease ecology lab, so check back in here!

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Great to have this one finally out-- our open-access workflow for optimized deployment of microclimate networks! Collab b/w ecologists, data scientists and computational engineers. Check out the GitHub repo for the R software (soon to be a package): github.com/dklinges9/Mi...

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GitHub - dklinges9/Microclimate-Sensor-Networks: A program for selecting sites for microclimate sensors (or other types of environmental sensors) across a landscape.

A program for selecting sites for microclimate sensors (or other types of environmental sensors) across a landscape. - dklinges9/Microclimate-Sensor-Networks

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Yes because us Jerzians are mild-mannered non-opinionated folk

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Having grown up in central NJ, can confirm! Land of the Taylor roll, pork ham, and Philadelphia Jets.

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Thrilled to have accepted a TT faculty position in the Dept of Ecology, Evolution & Natural Resources at Rutgers ‪@rutgersuniversity.bsky.social‬! Keen on climate change ecology, Madagascar, amphibians, range shifts? Visit our lab website & watch for upcoming PhD + postdoc ads! ecoclimateglobal.org

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

And if you want quality biodiversity data, cost-effectiveness, or local economic dev, it's always optimal to include community members. We're hoping to integrate more local communities into Mada park wildlife monitoring. Congrats to Lydia & Lalatiana who led this charge! (4/4) tinyurl.com/53h6vx84

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Sampling from real data from 6 protected areas in Mada, we simulated different combos of wildlife surveys by Malagasy scientists (great observations, expensive) and Malagasy community members (good observations, inexpensive) to see what proportion scientist vs community yielded best outcomes (3/4)

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Natural resource managers can have different (non-mutually exclusive) priorities: eg "eco-centric" that prioritizes knowledge of ecological outcomes, and "people-centric" that prioritizes socioeconomic development for local peoples. We can represent each with value functions...(2/4)

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The capstone paper from our community-based wildlife monitoring project in Madagascar, led by @lysoifer.bsky.social : employing local communities is more cost effective than hiring just scientists, even when you put a high premium on quality biodiversity data BioCon paper: tinyurl.com/53h6vx84 (1/4)

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

And if you want quality biodiversity data, cost-effectiveness, or local economic development, it's always optimal to include community members. We're hoping to expand integration of local communities into Mada park wildlife monitoring. Big congrats to Lydia & Lalatiana who led this charge! (4/4)

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Building on real data from 6 protected areas in Mada, we simulated different combos of wildlife surveys by Malagasy scientists (great observations, expensive) and Malagasy community members (good observations, inexpensive) to see what proportion scientist : community yielded best outcomes (3/4)

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Natural resource managers can have different (non-mutually exclusive) priorities: eg "eco-centric" that prioritizes positive ecological outcomes and associated data, and "people-centric" that prioritizes socioeconomic development for local peoples. We can represent each with value functions...(2/4)

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Jonas Lembrechts @jlembrechts.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The word is out officially, now: SoilTemp has finished its transformation into 'The MEB-network' - a fully-fledged research network that goes far beyond just being a database. And boy, does that make me proud! Let me show you all the ways you can get involved here: the3dlab.org/2025/05/31/s...

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SoilTemp is now MEB!

Over the past six years, I’ve poured my heart into SoilTemp. What started as a vision for a global soil temperature database quickly grew into something much more: a living, breathing community of …

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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I FOUND IT. I once read a great line about how weather station data are only useful for things living on the weather station. I wanted to cite it but could never remember the damn paper! By sheer luck, it found me. From @mikekaspari.bsky.social in @globalchangebio.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2jyd4z72

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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

In response to climate change #CC, #species #shift in many dimensions, moving in space along many climatic clines, including #microclimatic ones (horizontally & vertically) & adjusting their #phenology & #behaviour in time 🧪🌐🌍🍁🌳🌲🌴🦔🦅🦎🐝🦐🦑🐠🦈🐋 @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social shorturl.at/W9fGd

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF: Dear members: The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I wish I could say I can’t believe this. But I guess I could.

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Ethan White @ethanwhite.weecology.org · 14/04/2025

"Under the agreement being pursued by the University of Florida, participating officers would have the authority to interrogate “any alien or person believed to be an alien” about their right to remain in the country, as well as the power to make arrests without a warrant in some cases."

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UF, other Florida universities to deputize campus police for immigration enforcement

The police departments of at least three public universities in Florida are seeking agreements with the federal government to carry out immigration enforcement on campus.

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Worth a visit at the Yale Peabody for those in the New Haven area!

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Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography (MEB) conference @mebconf.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

We are very happy to announce that the next Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography (MEB) conference will happen in Montpellier (FRANCE), 1 - 5 June 2026 ☀️ meb-network.com/meb-2026/ Microclimate scientists: save the date in your agenda!!

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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Trying to confirm. This is terrible for so many reasons

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I’m pretty stubborn about avoiding graveyard projects, and so quite fulfilled to see this one through...even if almost a decade later than expected. Better late than never! And, recommend a visit to south Louisiana and LUMCON, I loved my time down in the swamp: lumcon.edu

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

We think it's not just because of grazing preferences, but predator avoidance: they climb sturdy stalks, eg of Juncus roemerianus, to avoid blue crabs. So snail distributions may be driven by both bottom up + top down controls. Makes a difference when there's 100s of snails per sq meter out there!

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

What'd we find? Well periwinkles indeed prefer S. alterniflora (and prefer dead / senescing plants to live green tissue), but in both the field and lab we found them choosing other plants too. Why?

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

We wanted to find out. So we set up 24-hr time trials, with a different plant species placed on each side of an area, and six snails per arena. Because these snails graze mostly at night, we had to record nocturnal behavior.....and thus the rave snails were born!

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Littoraria irrorata, the marsh periwinkle snail, is likely the most abundant herbivore in salt marshes in the Gulf (of _Mexico_) and American Atlantic coasts. Most assume they only graze on smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) and fungi, but why do we find them hanging out on other marsh plants?

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Yes, only 9 years after my long nights in the lab painting 100s of snails with neon paint, installing camera traps above salt water tanks, and sifting through 72,000 photos of snail locations (my AI skills less savvy in 2016), my undergraduate thesis is finally published....

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Need some excitement for research these days? Look no further than our most recent (open-access) paper in PeerJ: the exhilarating study of marsh snail grazing behaviors! But, these are RAVE snails....see the video supplement: 1/7 peerj.com/articles/190...

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Interrupting our doom-scrolling with a ray of ☀️ that was Orlando's @oacevedocharry.bsky.social wonderful seminar (to a packed room!) on his PhD work, from fusing standardized surveys + citizen science for improved population viability analysis, to global island biogeography. Check out his work!

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Of course many federal workers can just “find another job”. But the point is that the jobs we do are done for the *public good*. There are no private sector corollaries. We do things that are largely not profitable and that is on purpose. We do work that benefits everyone, if sometimes indirectly.

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 06/02/2025

I think this is my favourite report cover of all time. Any others?

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Scott Goetz @sjgoetz.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐 🐋 Consider submitting your coolest / best / latest research, especially on large / global / macroscale ecology, to nonprofit IOP Publishing’s Environmental Research Ecology. publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/journals/env...

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

If you haven’t yet, considering following the Global Ecology Starter Pack! bsky.app/starter-pack... And if you do ecology at scale, simply DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join

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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Very pleased to see that #microclimates are finally making their way & infusing into #biogeography 😍 If you want to learn more on microclimate processes, then you will be in very good hands 😉 w/ ⬇️ @thenaturedave.bsky.social

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