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After years of discussion a Social-Ecological Systems Society (SocSES) socses.org is launching March 27 2025, 2:30 - 4pm CET you can register for the virtual launch event here zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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The Faculty of Environment and Natural Resource, University of Freiburg invites applications for a Full Professorship (W 3) for Fire Ecology in the Department of Forest Sciences. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

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🌿🌳 Rethinking Europe’s #Nature🍃🐘 Our new study challenges the closed-forest paradigm—pre-Homo sapiens landscapes were a fine-grained mosaic of open areas, closed #forest & light #woodland, likely linked to the rich #megafauna🐂🏵️https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950475925000061

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We are hiring! We're looking to fill a PostDoc position on social-ecological systems. Are you excited about the spatio-temporal dynamics of coupled human and natural mountain systems? Then come join us, and work in a wonderful & diverse team + beautiful environment! www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

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JOB ALERT 3-yr postdoc for a qualitative researcher on the role of land rights in a just transition to a decarbonised future. Join an awesome team @official-uom.bsky.social and contribute to cutting edge research, with sites in Mexico, Brazil and Ghana. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Long overdue analysis to show how global supply chains stretch around the world to have a major impact on biodiversity in distant countries - those outsourcing resource needs are responsible for much greater cumulative range loss to species outside their own borders than within

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4-years PhD position in the BRIGHT-Futures project with Prof Ingo Grass at the University of Hohenheim in Germany: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of Tropical Smallholder Agriculture Apply by 24.03.25 www.uni-hohenheim.de/en/job-openi...

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On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples. 1. Women are credited less in science than men. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Open PhD position with the amazing Berta Martín-López at Leuphana University Lüneburg within our Kili-SES project! The PhD will focus on understanding the role of initiatives’ values, rules and knowledge for social-ecological transformations at Mount Kilimanjaro. www.leuphana.de/en/universit...

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Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

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This Registered Report masterpiece just dropped at BMC Biology, brilliantly led by a great team with the help of 300+ analysts & reviewers Same question, same data: go figure! tl;dr: Substantial heterogeneity among results comes from differences among analytical choices 🔗 doi.org/10.1186/s129...

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Open PhD position with the amazing Berta Martín-López at Leuphana University Lüneburg within our Kili-SES project! The PhD will focus on understanding the role of initiatives’ values, rules and knowledge for social-ecological transformations at Mount Kilimanjaro. www.leuphana.de/en/universit...

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Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰

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Ecologists given the same dataset diverge in their statistical approach and come up with different answers. New paper by Gould et al. 🌏 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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I want all scientists to be clear--this is not a case of "neutral" science getting inadvertently swallowed up in a purge targeting "woke" science that "went too far." Researchers will not be safe if they offer to just censor their work.

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The text on the front banners say 'We are the Firewall'. Massive demo in Berlin today against right-wing extremism.

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🧐How are biological and human cultural diversity interlinked and changing over time? Emmeline Topp addressed these questions through oral history interviews in three contrasting regions of Germany. Read the latest on People • Nature • Landscapes for more on her fascinating results: t1p.de/4sjk4

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Pet owners accidentally poisoning garden birds. Our latest research finds pet flea treatments (fipronil and imidacloprid) in 100% of blue tit and great tit nests, with nestling mortality higher in the more contaminated nest. @SongBirdSBS @SussexUni @CannelleTassin

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Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

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Described by @markscherz.bsky.social et al. 👇👇👇

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Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

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Exciting PostDoc opportunity in the second phase of our Kilimanjaro Social-Ecological System project! The 4-y position based at @ufz.de in Leipzig focuses on the environmental social science part of the synthesis subproject. Advert: recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/31... Deadline: 16.2.

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Madagascar gets a big boost! 🌍💚 $8.56M from GBFF to protect 1.24M ha of priority areas, including 80k ha of marine habitats. A major win for biodiversity. But! transparency and accountability will be key to success! #MadagascarConservation #TransparencyForBiodiversity #BioTAct

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Cool new PNAS paper by Prof Carter Smith @uwsafs.bsky.social, about how ecosystem restoration enhances human wellbeing fish.uw.edu/2025/01/beyo...

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1/ I'm constantly amazed at the naivety of so much of conservation science (& other mission-driven disciplines) As if all we have to do is generate the evidence and society's leaders will use it to do what's needed As if there's no-one trying to make sure that doesn't happen

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1/n New paper relevant to those interested in scaling forest restoration: Spatial predictors of landowners' engagement in the restoration of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (doi.org/10.1002/pan3...)

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Our research project "Considering local demand for more effective restoration in Madagascar" is now on BlueSky! Want to hear how restoration can be more effective for people and nature? Follow us for project updates @demand4restoration.bsky.social!

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🚨In Nature🚨 Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias? We this test empirically & find that conservatives * ARE suspended more * BUT share more misinfo So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Interested in a PhD position where you contribute to innovative transdisciplinary research on forest recovery? We have a position available with fieldwork in Mexico @w-u-r.bsky.social More info & how to apply: tinyurl.com/3bpy65xs

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Here is our OA review of the overlooked yet significant consequences of #languagebarriers in #conservation. An outcome based on 5 years of work at our translatE project, supported by over 130 collaborators around the world. @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/4

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We're offering a PhD place on Rewilding! This PhD will study the wilder grazing at Purbeck Heaths ‘Super National Nature Reserve’, which is shifting towards the restoration of natural processes to create a more dynamic, complex landscape www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Check out our latest review on the links between animals, plants, and carbon, and explore the complex interactions between defaunation and ecosystem carbon in Earth's most biodiverse and carbon-rich biome, tropical rainforests. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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I'd like to encourage folks to publish their code. Not only does it make studies more transparent and reproducible, but it also increases citation rates! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Integrated landscape approaches stand out as a "win-win-win-win" for biodiversity, water, food & climate (& health) in the new @ipbes.bsky.social nexus assessment. Great recognition for the 1000s of initiatives fostering landscapes for people, food & nature worldwide. www.ipbes.net/nexus/media-....

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New piece showing the effects of climate shocks: "as respondents across the political spectrum perceived the impact of a greater array of severe weather events in their area, their distress related to climate change and their desire and plans for action increased." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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1/ 🚨 Many transdisciplinary food or land system research projects stumble because they overlook a crucial aspect: values. Without addressing the values that underpin their goals, researchers risk losing stakeholder trust and derailing project outcomes. 🧵

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Wondering why acoustic indices may also correlate with diversity metrics of non-vocalizing species? Check out our new paper led by @saskiadroege.bsky.social with acoustic, habitat quality, and multi-taxa biodiversity data from northeastern Madagascar! doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

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In many countries a National Park is publicly owned land set aside for nature In the UK they're almost entirely privately owned and - quite incredibly - landowners don't have any real obligation to manage for nature They're a bit of a joke, but this begins to address that

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In 2024, wildfires burned a record number of forests participating in California's forest offset program, exposing the danger of relying on forests to slow climate change. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Important piece by Gittleman - “It’s impossible to separate human health from health of the natural world. Ecology is the unifying science that integrates knowledge..[the] One Health approach is unlimited, exciting, & necessary for the health of life on our planet” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪🌎🌐🌾

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The wonderful Dr Sarobidy Rakotonarivo (formerly of @bangorcosepgr.bsky.social) has been awarded a L'Oreal-UNESCO women in science prize. If you don't know about her work on conservation and development, check out her website mitsilo.org

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Excellent #BES2024 talk by Jamie Lorimer exploring the ‘politics of mess’ and polarised debates around rewilding & messy nature

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For those who - like me! - missed Wednesday's #BES2024 talk by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social , here's a link to his highly cited 2021 @plosbiology.org paper on the problems of ignoring the non-English-language ecology literature: plos.io/3uZHsEb

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Excited to share a new opportunity in my new lab at Cambridge! We are looking for a highly motivated, early-career, postdoctoral scientist to be part of a growing effort in #connectivity conservation. 3-yr position housed in the Cambridge Conservation Initiative! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49330/

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Land is absorbing less carbon & countries are not keeping up with this, therefore making needed emissions reductions even more than thought. "The cumulative net CO2 emissions to global net-zero CO2 also decreases by 15–18% because of extra land-based carbon removal" www.nature.com/articles/s41....

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This has always been my worst fear about climate change: the worse it gets, the more geopolitical chaos it causes; the more geopolitical chaos there is, the harder it is to cooperate to fight climate change. theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...

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To accompany all those Bluesky science/academia #starterpacks, let's share introductions to the literature of our different fields. Below, I humbly submit 12 main types of scientific papers on food, agriculture, land, & natural climate solutions (inspired by the amazing @xkcd.com). #FoodStudies 🧪

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📣 Fully funded PhD project supervised by me & @philstevenson.bsky.social within @treesdla.bsky.social on effects of forest diversity on floral reward production for pollinators. Nice mix of fieldwork in Finland & pollen and nectar chemistry 🐝🌼🌳🌲 🧪🌍 Apply by 20 Jan www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...

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### NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ### Global Joint Synthesis Call "𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲" Funding of: ➡️ Working groups ➡️ Postdocs @several synthesis centres/initiatives🔥❤️😍 PLEASE SPREAD WIDELY! THX! www.idiv.de/research/sdi...

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