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Lungwort (Pulmonaria officinalis), sweet violet (Viola odorata), stinking hellebore (Helleborus foetidus) and spurge laurel (Daphne laureola) are some of the #signsofspring I have spotted this week #wildflowerhour

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🪲Submit your proposals for our new Special Feature with @jappliedecology.bsky.social & @funecology.bsky.social!

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Lovely sunny spring morning, perfect for walking @royalholloway.bsky.social living campus trail and enjoying daffodil display before the campus gets too busy. Nice to see bee orchid rosettes as well

Spent last few days attending the annual assembly of Biodiversity Exploratories (@bexplo.bsky.social) as an advisory board member. The quality of science produced by this long-term research programme is truly impressive. If you act quickly, you can still register for #BE20Conference to learn more

Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...

Median amount of time spent under review is 7.4–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles and the differences remain significant after controlling for several factors - analysis of >36.5 million articles in >36,000 journals
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Placements for PhD Students We welcome PhD placement students to learn from our experts and make real contributions to our work at Kew Gardens in London or Wakehurst in Sussex.

Are you a PhD student looking for a placement? I’m offering a 3-month project at @rbgkew.bsky.social to build on @forest-protection.bsky.social research on pest and pathogen risks to trees 🪲🪾🦠🪾 Apply by 13th March! www.kew.org/science/training-and-education/placements-for-phd-students

Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A short guide for effective field data collection Post provided by Faith Jones, Helen Spence-Jones, and Caroline Greiser Fieldwork is the foundation of ecological science. From observational and monitoring studies, to experiments done in complex r…

New blog post!!🚨

Faith Jones, Helen Spence-Jones, and Caroline Greiser talk through their new guide for field data collection 📃 🌱

@faithamjones.bsky.social @linegreis.bsky.social 🌍 🧪

Read the blog post here 👉

Went last night to see the preview of @sofiaatsea.bsky.social show about oceans, and it was brilliant - honest, wity, moving, thought-provoking, with some unexpected twists and so cleverly put together. Congratulations, Sofia!

Many thanks to @amywalsh.bsky.social for running a session on pollen identification for my Biomes and Ecosystems @rhulbiology.bsky.social module yesterday. Loved Mickey Mouse silhouette of pine pollen!

We’re on the hunt for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board 🔎

We’re looking for a range of expertise across the whole field of applied ecology. For some particular examples take a look below! 🌎🧪

Find out more information here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...

I am delighted that our Forum paper on using long-term tree diversity experiments to explore the mechanisms of temporal shifts in forest ecosystem functioning made it to the virtual issue of the Editor's Choices of 2025 @oikosjournal.bsky.social!
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Still time to submit an abstract to the BE20 meeting! Please share.

A short guide for effective field data collection by Jones et al. @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This winter has been very gloomy and rainy so far, but there are indisputable signs of spring @royalholloway.bsky.social campus #wildflowerhour

More than mitigation: The role of forests in climate adaptation Forests regulate global and local climates in ways that impact human well-being. In this Review, we discuss the scale-dependent mechanisms through which forests regulate climate, highlighting their co...

More than mitigation: The role of forests in climate adaptation | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Biased evidence isn’t an accident. It’s a feature of a broken system. | Matthew Grainger "It is time to recognise that evidence synthesis is its own scientific discipline. It requires expertise like other fields of science."

«It is time to recognise that evidence synthesis is its own scientific discipline. It requires expertise like other fields of science.» @sinisavilaakso.bsky.social, @nealhaddaway.bsky.social
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Very nice commentary by @robinheinennl.bsky.social on our recent meta-analysis in @newphyt.bsky.social on plant responses to sequential herbivory. Thank you, Robin!

JOB ALERT! Lecturer in Biological Sciences Come and join us in the world class Life Sciences Building at the University of Bristol! Closing date: Sunday 8 March

JOB ALERT! Lecturer in Biological Sciences Interested in our research areas? Click the link in our bio to discover more! Closing date: Sunday 8 March

JOB ALERT!

We are excited to announce that we are recruiting three new academics at lecturer level!

Click the link below for more info on how to apply, and don’t forget to explore our research themes too!

We look forward to receiving your applications!

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Hybrid Workshop "State-of-the-Art Meta-Analysis using JASP", August 25th, 2026 - JASP - Free and User-Friendly Statistical Software We are happy to announce that the JASP team will offer a week of workshops in Amsterdam this summer.  In this blogpost we’ll highlight the second of four workshops: “State-of-the-Art Meta-Analysis usi...

"State-of-the-Art Meta-Analysis using JASP", the second of four summer workshops, is now open for registration. Join František Bartoš in Amsterdam or online!
jasp-stats.org/2026/02/05/h...

Forest interactions Explore plant interactions in forest environments at all levels from micro- to macro-scales and across the whole spectrum of plant biology.

Save the date!

48th New Phytologist Symposium: Forest interactions

📅 13–16 October 2026
📍 Leysin, Switzerland

www.newphytologist.org/events/48-nps

#PlantScience

🚨New deadline!🚨

⚡️The Call for Abstracts has been extended to:
⚡️February 15, 2026, 11:59pm PST.

➡️ www.ibfra2026.org/callforabstr...

#BorealForests #ForestScience #ForestResearch #WeCantLiveWithoutForests

Healthy #soils are alive with movement, feeding, digging, and tiny interactions that shape our food, climate and health. In this video, I explore soil ecoacoustics — a cutting-edge way to “listen” to the hidden world beneath our feet.

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Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution position available in Biology Department at Stanford University. Apply by April 1, 2026. (Photo by Rick Morris)
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Thanks for your reply! And yes, I would be happy to comment on the draft of your revised chapter on BEF when it is ready

I added some comments to your blog, hope these make sense

Global evidence that plant diversity suppresses pests and promotes plant performance and crop production - Nature Ecology & Evolution A global synthesis of >600 studies finds that across agro-ecosystems, grasslands and forests in temperate and tropical zones, increasing plant diversity has a consistently positive effect on plant ...

A global synthesis of >600 studies finds that across agro-ecosystems, grasslands and forests in temperate and tropical zones, increasing plant diversity has a consistently positive effect on plant performance and the suppression of antagonists 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 Only 3 days left to submit abstracts for the #BE20Conference.
Deadline & early-bird registration: 31 January 2026.

Biodiversity researchers from around the world are invited to contribute.🌐
More info: www.biodiversity-exploratories.de/de/be20/

#Biodiversity #Ecology #ScienceCommunity #Berlin2026

Many thanks for your fascinating seminar at @rhulbiology.bsky.social @clairenarraway.bsky.social and for staying to chat to our students about your career path and your research!