Matt Kerr

The giant oyster lays on a size 44 (European size) wellington boot.

It’s time to show oysters some love because it’s World Oyster Day! 🦪🦪🦪🦪🦪🦪

Did you know that the largest oyster ever found was a Pacific oyster that was 35.5 cm long?

To put that in perspective, normally, Pacific oysters reach 15-20 centimetres.

📷 Wadden Sea Center
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digitized color book plate in portrait orientation, natural history art, scientific illustration of an oyster specimen, outer and inner shell views

Today is also #WorldOysterDay 🦪 - on a #MolluscMonday !
“Denticulated Oyster” (Striostrea denticulata)
illustration by R. P. Nodder in George Shaw’s _The naturalist's miscellany_ Vol. 16, London, 1804-5
Via Biodiversity Heritage Library : www.flickr.com/photos/biodi...

Shannon's H, Simpson's D, and Pielou's J are useless in ecology. Fitting data with a compound abundance distribution based on the geometric series is a better way to quantify variation – and to estimate species richness. New paper in Ecology Letters.

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Please repost. For those who might have missed it, our School has three ongoing positions advertised. The work environment here at Monash is top notch: supportive, collegiate and inclusive. And Melbourne is an awesome city to live in. Deadline fast approaching. Get cracking on those applications!

Welcome to our 2025 Annual Meeting - British Ecological Society Join ecologists from around the world for Europe’s largest and most welcoming conference dedicated to ecology.

Registration and abstract submission are now open for BES2025.

Learn more 👉

Student Conference on Conservation Science - Welcome SCCS helps young conservation scientists gain experience, learn new ideas and make contacts that will be valuable for their future careers.

25th Student Conference in Conservation Science, Cambridge, 31 March – 2 April 2026. Looking for postgraduate students and early-career conservation scientists, in a broad range of fields, to apply to present talks or posters on their work.
www.sccs-cam.org

5 papers all computational biologists should read 🧵

1. A Quick Guide to Organizing Computational Biology Projects
journals.plos.org/ploscompbio...

Best practices for LGBTQ+ inclusion during ecological fieldwork: Considering safety, cis/heteronormativity and structural barriers We recommend that mentors and institutions take action on the safety, financial, medical and administrative support needed by field researchers who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer or other m...

Just became aware of this paper - lots of great ideas for how to make sure field trips support LGBTQ+ ecologists besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Aarhus postdocs past and present representing well at #BESMacro2025

🐠🦈 Just out: In this paper we ask "How has reef trophic structure changed since humans started removing predatory fishes from Caribbean coral reefs?".

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Illustrations @cookedillustrations.com

The Journal of Animal Ecology's 5th Sidnie Manton award is now open to proposals!🚨
Read more about the award here: buff.ly/BV6OT1P
...and submit your proposal here: buff.ly/YsnYe29
The deadline for proposals will be 1 September 2025.

Lunes.

New preprint: we advertise DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly eco-evo-archaeo journals. 1/6
#AcademicPublishing #ecoevo #archaeology #EthicalPublishing #SocietyJournals #DiamondOpenAccess
doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Screenshot of the full text PDF of Nature Ecology & Evolution's June 2025 Editorial entitled "Accessibility for all"

Accessibility for all www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our June Editorial discusses the many barriers and challenges scientists with disabilities face during their careers, and highlights actions journals can take to improve accessibility

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.

What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?

A 🧵

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Have you developed a computational method or tool which would be useful to palaeobiologists? 🧰 If you might be interested in presenting in our Lecture Series later in the year, please get in touch with us! 🗓️ #FossilFriday

We are advertising for a data scientist in our team! Working on pipelines for biodiversity monitoring. Collaborative, impactful work with nice people. Happy to answer any Qs about working at UKCEH ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca...

Competence-based education - British Ecological Society Join the Teaching and Learning Special Interest Group for this webinar on using competency-based frameworks in ecological education

Join the BES Teaching and Learning Group for this webinar on using competency-based frameworks in ecological education.
Date: Tuesday 03 June 2025
Location: Online
Time: 10:00 – 12:00 (BST)
Registration: Free ⬇️
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/ecol...

Global change reshuffles species communities: who could interact with whom? We introduce new ways to measure the capacity of species & communities to rewire interactions, which can be used to predict how ecological networks might adapt to changing conditions.

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BES Macro 2025 A British Ecological Society specialist group conference for researchers in macroecology and/or macroevolution at any academic career stage.

Planning to attend BES Macro? Been procrastinating on registration? The deadline for in-person registration is May 31, aka NEXT WEEK. Come join us in beautiful York for excellent macroecological & macroevolutionary talks, posters, and workshops!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...

BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...

BioTime v2 is out!!🚨 - Explore the largest #database of #biodiversity time-series studies in the world.

Now with more studies🗄️🔍👩‍💻, more species 🌱🦎🦇🐟🌳🐜🐚🪸🐀, more locations 🌐…just more!

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Free to download, free to use!
#BioTime #Macroecology #GlobalChange

@naturebasedsols.bsky.social @ninadm.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk @eci-bio.bsky.social

Are you an ecologist looking for a community to discuss gender related topics in ecology?

Then, the BES Edge Network is for you! EDGE Network is hosting an online mixer to network and build community with its members.

⏰7 May, 3 pm BST 
📍Zoom, online

**Join Our Team! 🚀**
🌟 **Exciting Postdoc Opportunity!** @econovoau.bsky.social 🌍
Dive into groundbreaking research that explores how rising ecological novelty transforms #biodiversity and #vegetation! 🌿 —apply now! 👉 shorturl.at/t45JT #ecology #ecologyjob #macroecology

Final thoughts and beers with @jcsvenning.bsky.social and @anordonez1.bsky.social after a great week sharing ideas and meeting colleagues at the symposium hosted by @noveleco.bsky.social and expertly led by @marcuscollier.bsky.social #novelecosystems

211-0238/25-2N Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator of Paleontology Tenure-track Assistant Professor and Curator in Paleontology Natural History Museum Denmark Faculty of Science University of Copenhagen The Natural History Muse

Great job opportunity for a vertebrate palaeontologist in Copenhagen: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Conversations getting deeper, as we dive into the concepts past, present, and future. So many ideas!

How do we move forward with the novel ecosystem concept? Some deep and exciting conversations happening at the symposium hosted by @noveleco.bsky.social #NovelEcosystems

This was Day 0 @noveleco.bsky.social with the awesome @mattkerr.bsky.social