Wenyuan Zhang

Less than a week left to apply for this PhD position.

If interested, email me by 27 July (5 PM, Melbourne time). Please review the application requirements carefully before submitting your application. See more about our research here shawanchowdhurylab.com.

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Just signed off all the necessary documents today and I'm happy to announce that I officially join the School of Life Science at Nanjing University as an assistant professor!

Postdoc position with Erin Saupe at Oxford on whales past and present my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Erin’s great! And who doesn’t like whales? 🐋🐳

Blitz the Gap 2025

One week until Blitz the Gap (www.blitzthegap.org) starts - a Canada-wide event to fill biodiversity data gaps with iNaturalist! @laura-pollock.bsky.social

Deadline tomorrow 12th of May
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Submit your abstract for presentations, lightning talks or posters at #LivingData2025 ⭐

Deadline: 20 May 2025
Submit now: 🔗 livingdata2025.com/sessions.html

Join @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org and #InstitutoHumboldt in Bogota (Oct 21–24)

Spatial climate analogs in climate change research, impact assessment, and decision-making Abstract. Climate adaptation requires actionable scientific information about potential climate impacts. Spatial climate analogs answer the question, ‘wher

Please check out our new review in BioScience!

We describe how spatial climate analogs can be used in climate change research, impact assessment, decision-making, and communication.

#MacroEcology
#ClimateChange
#GlobalChange

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Our PhD level course Ecology of Animal Migration at @biologylu.bsky.social is now open for applications! The course will run this November (3-14th) and cover various theoretical and practical aspects of migration ecology.

See: www.biology.lu.se/phd-studies/...

I wrote a journal club for Nature Reviews Biodiversity to reflect on the ways one of my favourite papers shaped (and keeps shaping) my research!

Spoiler alert: We need to summarise biodiversity change as a multi-species process, rather than a collection of separate trends
doi.org/10.1038/s443...

Are we communicating biodiversity change effectively? Andy Gonzalez (@bio-diverse.bsky.social) argues that focusing solely on loss risks disengagement — scientists must highlight solutions too. 🌱Tune in to #InsideBiodiversity tomorrow and subscribe today: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

*** Academic BFD alert ***

We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement Global biodiversity targets focus on landscape and seascape connectivity as a foundational component of biodiversity conservation, including networks of connected protected areas. Recent advances allo...

So happy to share our Review paper

A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement
@science.org

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

🐦Post-doctoral position in Avian Behaviour.🐦

Examining the evolution of escape behaviour in threatened bird species as part of an ARC-funded project

Deakin Careers: careers.pageuppeople.com/949/cw/en/jo...

Seek: www.seek.com.au/job/83533248

PhD position - Resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes

We are looking for two PhD researchers to work on the resilience of #biodiversity and ecosystem functions across a landscape gradient in the #Netherlands!

4-years, fully funded, great place @w-u-r.bsky.social, apply by 12.5.24.

Feel free to get in touch with questions!

www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

Why ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves are a Trojan horse to hide humanity’s destruction of nature Extinction is, for the time being, forever – and a symptom of our global economic system.

“It’s like claiming to have brought Napoleon back from the dead by asking a short French man to wear his hat.”

A short piece in The Conversation by me on why “de-extinction” is nothing of the sort, and bad, bad conservation.

theconversation.com/why-de-extin...

This is brilliant from Rich Grenyer on the Dire Wolf hype: "It’s like claiming to have brought Napoleon back from the dead by asking a short French man to wear his hat"

Drivers of avian genomic change revealed by evolutionary rate decomposition - Nature Genomic evolutionary rates are decomposed to identify the dominant lineages and genes driving rate variation across the phylogeny of birds.

🚨 Macro-scale analyses linking bird traits and genomics reveal that the ancestors of modern birds underwent major pulses of evolutionary change related to ecological niche expansion immediately after the Cretaceous–Palaeogene transition. 🧪🌐🪶 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @jyang19.bsky.social

Picture of a dwarf kingfisher eating a lizard, showing how images uploaded to eBird can provide important dietary information.

A call to arms for eBirders and iNaturalists. 🚨

We want your bird photos! If you photograph feeding birds with flowers, fruit, seeds or prey, upload the image with locality details. We are data-harvesting species, size and type of food/prey to study foodwebs and species interactions. Thanks! 🧪🌐🪶

Intentional and unintentional changes to avian and mammalian diversities in the UK Rewilding is emerging as a promising restoration strategy to tackle the challenges posed by global change and maintain natural ecosystems and their biodiversity. However, rewilding has also been crit...

Rewilding is a promising tool to restore ecosystem. By comparing rewilding with species introduction, natural colonisation and expiration in changing diversities in the U.K., we tested the degree to which rewilding can fill native functional gaps.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Extinction of experience among ecologists Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining. We call for greater attention to this ongoing loss of direct field experience within the e...

Unsurprisingly I am very much in agreement with this article. I've put a lot of effort in recently to prevent the undermining of field-based teaching, including pointing out the invisible subsidy that field-based teaching (& research) provide other teaching & research

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

The first week reading is difficult but salutary! I'm happy to continue the challenge and the second book will be "the crow: a study of the popular mind" by Gustave Le Bon. I'd be more than happy to read books that you recommended! So please fee free to nominate! 13/13. #reading #resolution2025

I also gratified by the thoughts of the author on reading: "The booking is happening to us; we are happening to it…if we make books happen, they make us happen as well". 12/n

I can understand the implications of this thought, but might never have a chance to practice...11/n

That being said, there seems another genre in Zen arguing that the core of all existence is emptiness, we do not necessarily need the process to learn things (step 2) as there is no room for the mind to be tainted with other's thinkings, your desires, ego or delusions. 10/n

It is similar to some perspective in Taoism that the learning of knowledge is often one of continuous addition, whereas the path to Tao (or getting close to the reality, from my understanding) is not about accumulation, but removal. 9/n

This would be a natural path to understand things on the basis of enough reading and interacting with real world (step 2). 8/n