Ana S. L. Rodrigues

A white-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides) decides whether to consume a warningly colored white-barred acraea butterfly (Telchinia encedon). Photo (c) Mike Rowe

📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org

We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Hey you. Wanna apply for a fellowship on collections? the AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural & heritage institutions are open!

The Natural History Museum priorities are below.

If you wanna talk birds, hit me up. Collectors, colonialism, Canada, Australia & more

www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

PhD studentship in bird ecology and behaviour at the Museum of Natural History in Madrid

Glimmer of hope: Sought-after lost bird rediscovered in India After more than 20 years, the Critically Endangered Jerdon’s Courser has been documented again.

Lost bird rediscovered! 🙌

After more than 20 years, the Critically Endangered Jerdon's Courser has been documented again by a team of Indian birdwatchers. 🎉

Find out more about the ‘Search for Lost Birds’ here 👉
www.birdlife.org/news/2025/09...

These bones could have been obtained from naturally beached animals, so they are not evidence of whaling. Fin, blue, and sperm whales: almost certainly NOT hunted (given available technology). Gray and right whales (= coastal species): hunting is not impossible.

Late Paleolithic whale bone tools reveal human and whale ecology in the Bay of Biscay - Nature Communications Here the authors apply ZooMS, radiocarbon, and stable isotope analyses to whale bones from the Bay of Biscay. They find that humans were utilizing the remains of at least five species of whales from 2...

Humans have been interacting with whales for a long time. This paper describes tools made from whale bones up to 20,000 years ago in the Bay of Biscay - including from gray and right whales, two species since extirpated from European shores.
🧪🌎 #History #envhist
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dating the first historic extirpation of a whale species: The demise of the grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) in the eastern North Atlantic The grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus), once present in both the eastern and western North Atlantic, is the only whale species to have been extirpated…

New paper led by @cetaceanyouri.bsky.social sheds new light into the gray whale's mysterious early demise from European shores: likely the result of medieval whaling all along its migratory route, gone by the mid-14th Century. Death by a thousand cuts. 🧪🌎

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our September jobs round-up has arrived (early), with lots of great UK marine roles.

Please share this thread widely with your network of ECRs/marine conservationists.

🦑🌍🌐🧪🌊🐟
#PhDsky #academiasky #conservationjobs #sciencejobs

Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it:
rdcu.be/eEcIt

Global distribution of forest landscapes covered by airborne LiDAR

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!

The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems

📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

In our new Nature Communications article led by Rashmi Paudel, we show that plant species that spread within their native range have a higher probability of becoming established outside their native range.
🔗https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63293-6
🔗Sharable PDF link: rdcu.be/eEmQr

Looking for a #postdoct for a NSF project integrating ecosystem productivity, hyperspectral remote sensing and airborne LiDAR to test prominent hypothesis of the effect of #biodiversity on #forest #productivity @fluxnetecn.bsky.social @ngaps.bsky.social Apply at: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

Come work with us in beautiful Basel & in the mountains around the world! Great working environment & fab collaborators on top ☺️🌐
Happy to answer non-project-related questions via DM!

This is figure 4, which shows the relative contributions of climate change and deforestation to the Amazonian climate.

Deforestation is responsible for nearly 75% of dry season rainfall reduction in the Amazon rainforest since 1985, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/3I2xPzr ⚒️ 🧪

First post on Bluesky! 🌿
Excited to share our new study in Ecography, led by Maxime Lenormand: combining naturalist inventories and satellite data to map plant biodiversity.
Here’s a bioregionalization of the flora of France!
🔗 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Migratory birds aren’t equally efficient at all speeds. A new Lund University study shows thrush nightingales fly most efficiently at 7–8 m/s – the speed they actually use on migration.
@pablomaciastorres.bsky.social & Prof. Anders Hedenström, Animal Flight Lab.

www.biology.lu.se/article/not-...

Photo of Metallic Poison Frog (Ranitomeya aquamarina)

Some validation for my recent efforts in uploading some old images of unidentified species to @inaturalist.bsky.social – turns out I photographed an undescribed poison-dart frog in the Western Amazon 18 years ago 🌎 🧪🐸🪶 #ornithology #herpetology 🧵1/21

Map showing locations where high-quality mtDNA samples have been recovered from mammoths. The dot size corresponds to the approximate number of samples recovered. Columbian mammoths recently discovered in Mexico are the first from a tropical area to yield mtDNA; the Basin of Mexico location is the largest dot on the map and the furthest south. Columbian mammoths in North America descend from a 1-million-year-old steppe mammoth discovered in Krestovka, Russia, with additional ancestry from woolly mammoths.

A military megaproject led to Mexico’s biggest paleontological discovery—and is now reshaping what we know about mammoths.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/45PD8M0

🌍 The International Biogeography Society’s 12th Biennial Conference — TIBS Aarhus 2026 — will take place Jan 6–10 in Aarhus, Denmark: conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-... 🐘🍃🌴We're looking forward to hosting it!
#Biogeography is central to understanding the #biosphere & is more important than ever!♨️

We can't wait to hear Dr.Brian McGill's talk for this month's Funk lecture! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/se...

Quite some interests in the #Macroecology session of our Macrecology interest group wothin @gfoesoc.bsky.social #gfoe2025

gfoe.org/en/specialis...

If you want to be part of our highly international email list for jobs & more PM me.

a raven in flight about to alight on the ground (in this case the summit of Pen y Fan mountain in the Brecon Beacons, South Wales, UK)

Nature (trail) cameras 'can greatly inflate nest predation rates'

especially with canny curious corvids in open landscapes

wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#wildlife #conservation #ornithology 🧪

Group Leader Career Development Fellowships - Dunn School Are you an early career researcher interested in the cell or molecular mechanisms underlying disease? Do you have an outstanding record and an innovative research plan?

Are you a postdoc interested in the mechanisms of disease?

Do you have a great record and an exciting vision?

Come and start your own lab @dunnschool.bsky.social by applying for sponsorship for early career fellowships.

Deadline 30th September...pass it on!

www.path.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us...

Let's talk about *how we can know* that crows understand geometry. 🧪

The study from Univ. of Tübingen faculty on two male carrion crows (Corvus corone) trained to select "outliers" from a set of shapes in exchange for a food reward.

The set member that doesn't "belong" is called the "intruder".

Cooperation between ecologists and historians has allowed a robust reconstruction of the historical introduction of the Italian crayfish, Austropotamobius fulcisianus, to Spain in the late-16th century
@ebdonana.bsky.social @um.es
New OA paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are very excited to announce that applications are now open for a new permanent, full-time programme officer position for the IUCN SSC Orchid Specialist Group. | Amy Hinsley We are very excited to announce that applications are now open for a new permanent, full-time programme officer position for the IUCN SSC Orchid Specialist Group. This will really transform how the sp...

@iucn-orchids.bsky.social is hiring a Programme Officer in Germany. Apply by 20 Sept. www.linkedin.com/posts/amy-hi... #orchids #biodiversity-jobs

It was a pleasure and an honour to present at the Ecology & Behaviour Conference in Montpellier, to a very international audience of enthusiastic young researchers.

A wonderful conference, expertly organised by my young colleagues at the CEFE - what a showcase for our laboratory!

#ecobhvr2025

Few weeks left to apply for a fully funded PhD studentship in my lab @rhulbiology.bsky.social as part of new EU project Trees4Adapt
🌲🌳 Fieldwork in forest diversity experiments in Finland www.sataforestdiversity.org
📆 Apply by Sept 8th, start date - Jan 2026
👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🍁🌍🧪

🌊 We're recruiting an MS student! 🌿
Join my lab at Bridgewater State Uni, MA.
✅Conduct your own thesis in Cape Verde’s #marine & #coastal ecosystems
✅ mentor undergrads
✅ RA + #NSF summer stipend

@ #ESA2025 come find me or DM—love to chat!
📩 tsurasinghe@bridgew.edu