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Social media can help track species as climate changes Social media can help scientists track animal species as they relocate in response to climate change, new research shows. The “range” inhabited by many species is shifting, and this is mostly tracked ...

Social media can help scientists track animal species as they relocate in response to #climatechange, new research shows

Full study here 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Read our press release below 👇
@nis38.bsky.social @pettorelli.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk

This research was done by researchers at @exeter.ac.uk @zslofficial.bsky.social and @uniofcam.bsky.social

The study also reveals that plenty of people in towns and cities are interested in wildlife, which has the potential to increase connectedness to nature.

Our research showed that using Instagram and other social media data might be really useful for studying species that are shifting their ranges rapidly, which often take advantage of urban areas.

People's Instagram photos reveal that the Jersey Tiger moth lives quite widely in towns and cities, which was missed by other more traditional ways of collecting data.

Occupancy of Urban Habitats by the Jersey Tiger Moth Is Revealed by Social Media Data but Not Traditional Monitoring Photos posted on social media could provide information on species' responses to climate change that is up to date and from areas under-represented in traditional biological record data. Instagram an...

New paper alert!!

With @pettorelli.bsky.social and Regan Early

We asked whether social media records could be used to study species distributions - and it turns out they can!

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

River-lovers: the Riverfly initiative is a brilliant way to help protect your local river.
Get trained as a citizen-scientist: learn to monitor your local river via key inverts, report pollution, create data-sets: riverflies.org
Get hands-on, get wet, make a difference!
@paulpowlesland.bsky.social

Global map of bioturbation

Bioturbation on the map - delighted to see a nice accessible summary of our work by @alisoncribb.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social, read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu.... We are working on a follow up, watch this space! In (A) bioturbation intensity, in (C) the mixed depth.

A spectacle to behold, in the shallows, hugging this island, we see broad cowtail rays and mangrove whiprays - and looking with a close eye, few juvenile blacktip reef sharks weave between the rays.

Footage by Sebastian Staines.

#saveourseasfoundation #sharksandrays #conservation #videography

I'm #hiring: PDRA to join my #ukriflf project to understand how forest structure, function and dynamics are linked in Europe, using high resolution remote sensing data (TLS, UAV-LS). Based in Cambridge.

Please share! 🌳⚡🛰️🌲

Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50447/

#pdra #forests #lidar

Reconstruction of the spatial and temporal arrangement of the microfacies and fossil communities found at two of the three outcrops. Image created in collaboration with Tanner Strachan.

🚨Publication alert!🚨

Thrilled to share that our paper, “Ancient frameworks as modern templates: exploring rubble consolidation in an ancient reef system”, is now out and is open access.

We found that 🪸 rubble in the Late Triassic shared similar consolidation processes to modern reefs.

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New preprint out with @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @erikpostma.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Why do we age? And can a “natural experiment” during the Great Finnish Famine with long-term data help provide some answers?

In the centre is a map of western Canada with the locations of the Pika Biota (red) and Burgess Shale (blue) marked. Underneath is a detail of the Jasper National Park area, where the Pika Biota is found. Around the outside are brown-coloured images of fossil specimens found in this locality, with individual scale bars underneath each main specimen. Clockwise from top left: Badgiromorpha delicata (holotype; GSM 143757; scale bar 50 microns); Ottoia prolifica (GSM 143728; scale bar 50 microns), with an enlargement showing detail of pectinate scalids (scale bar 10 microns); barred chaetae attributed to cirratuliform annelids (GSM 143854; scale bar 100 microns); Wiwaxia sclerite (GSM 143808; 100 microns); Selkirkia (GSM 138107; scale bar 50 microns).

A new assemblage of Cambrian 'ecological pioneers' colonising extreme environments at the edge of habitability for marine animals onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #FossilFriday

Join our team!

We’re hiring! 🌊💼 Are you looking for the opportunity to join a dynamic team at our iconic waterfront location in Plymouth? If you're passionate about marine science and want to support the MBA’s vital marine research, we want to hear from you.

We have several roles available ➡️ buff.ly/44FsDse

Super excited that our review on the ecology of the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition is now out on how ecology changes across scales from organisms to communities to the world through time. Fab art @franzanth.bsky.social showing the build up of ecological complexity
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 REMINDER 🚨

Abstract submission for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium closes soon!

🗓️ Abstract deadline: Feb 1st, 2025
🕒 Early bird pricing ends: April 1st, 2025

Details on keynote speakers, deadlines, fees, workshops & more below!
👉 cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html

# CPEGCPB25

Just finished some fantastic fieldwork in Fiji with Victor Bonito @ Reef Explorer Fiji. We have started out a long-term project looking at soft corals on the reef flats mapping out multiple plots from four different sites to see what the ecological dynamics are & how they change through time.

Fish diversity has changed dramatically on the Great Barrier Reef The team found that the diversity of fish communities across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) have changed dramatically since the 1990s.

Fish diversity has changed dramatically on the Great Barrier Reef @earthdotcom.bsky.social

www.earth.com/news/fish-di...

Increased resilience and a regime shift reversal through repeat mass coral bleaching Assessing coral reefs across the inner Seychelles islands, using a 28-year dataset, we document faster coral recovery from the 2016 than the 1998 marine heatwave events. Further, a reef that had regi....

Still hope for coral reefs. Using 28-years of data in Seychelles, we find reefs recovering 4-5 years faster from the 2016 bleaching event, than they did after 1998. Also, a reef that had regime-shifted to macroalgae for over 15 years, is recovering to coral.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Interested in Conservation Palaeobiology, corals, and predictive modelling? 🪸

PhD project supervised by myself and Nadia Santodomingo on the tropicalisation of marine communities across time and space available @treesdla.bsky.social

🗓️ Apply by 20th Jan 2025

www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/les...

🚨New postdoc positions available: we are looking for 2 postdoctoral researchers to join a large, collaborative effort to document, describe, and investigate the biodiversity of tiny, cryptobenthic fishes in the Indo-Pacific 🤏🐠🧪. More details: fishandfunctions.com/join%F0%9F%9...

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Reminder of the January 8th deadline for this reef palaeoecology PhD project at @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social with @tomezard.bsky.social + @chrisgoatley.bsky.social :)

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨We are HIRING! 🧪 Please repost!

Lecturer/Senior lecturer in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Priority areas:

‘Responding to anthropogenic change’
‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’

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

University of Bristol Life Sciences Building

🚨We are recruiting one or more new Lecturers/Senior Lecturers in Biological Sciences (broadly defined, including ecology & global change) here in Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Apply and spread the word - Bristol is a wonderful place to live and work! Feel free to get in touch with questions.

If you’re a PhD student (or you know one) working on questions of an evolutionary flavour, then check out EMPSEB, an amazing student-organised meeting taking place June 2025 in the Czech Republic! empseb30.mpipz.mpg.de

PhDs with competitive funding from myself and Davide Pisani (Jan 13+20 deadlines)
o Evolutionary origin and assembly of animal bodyplans
o Evaluating new data and methods to solve animal phylogeny
o The taphonomy of organelles and the origin of eukaryotes
o Early fossil record of sponges and animals

Associate Professor in Animal Ecology with specialization in Evolutionary Ecology - Uppsala University Associate Professor in Animal Ecology with specialization in Evolutionary Ecology , Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University

📣 We are recruiting! Please spread the word!

We look to hire an associate professor in animal ecology, specializing in evolutionary ecology. Apply by Feb 7 2025. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden!

Application page and contact info 🔗👇 #ecology #evolution #job

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Congratulations to @princessairab.bsky.social for winning a Presidents talk Prize 🥳

Go check out @nis38.bsky.social ‘s poster on secondary succession in the Avalon Ediacaran at #PalAss24!

Fantastic talk today by @ming-tfk27.bsky.social talking about ecological complexity in the run up to the K-Pg extinction in Seymour Island