Shawan Chowdhury

Read our latest #research on #UrbanBirds and #UrbanLandscapeEcology, published with
@springernature.com in Biodiversity and Conservation journal: rdcu.be/eHFZX

@animalecourban.bsky.social
lab identifies which #UrbanBirds species 🐦🐦‍⬛🦆 indicate different configurations of #UrbanLandscape

A nice podcast about the mind-blowing ants whose queens host and give birth to two species. Amazing
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

One more thing:
The fire severity data used to conduct this study can be downloaded here. This is a gridded dataset of satellite-derived fire severity and pre-fire NDVI for all fires in the western US that burned from 1985 to 2022.
🔥🌍🧪 #OpenScience

🚨Job Alert!! Assistant professor vacancy ‘plant abiotic stress resilience’ in our group @uuplants.bsky.social Come for the science, stay for the amazing colleagues 😀More details here www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share!!

The defensive function of mutualistic ants for the Reverdin's Blue butterfly against two groups of parasitoids (tachinid flies and mermithid nematodes) differs among ant species, and this is affected by the number of precipitation days in the larval period of the butterfly. Camponotus japonicus is the most effective against flies, while Lasius japonicus against nematodes. The effect of rainfall is negative for fly parasitism but positive for nematode parasitism. Note that darker blue circles in the triangle indicate lower AIC values.

#OpenAccess
Disentangling biotic and abiotic factors influencing host–parasitoid interactions of butterflies, tachinid flies, and nematodes

Yen-Hua Yeh, Hidenori Deto, Tadashi Miyashita
doi.org/10.1111/1440...

food web/ grassland/ Lycaenidae/ mutualistic ant/ precipitation

Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in Calgary, ... Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in Calgary, ...

Assistant Professor, Freshwater Ecologist, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary in Canada #academicjob careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1652277...

Contrasting biological production trends over land and ocean - Nature Climate Change The authors jointly assess the changes in land and ocean net primary production from 2003 to 2021. They show contrasting trends, with overall planetary increases (0.11 ± 0.13 PgC yr−1) driven by terrestrial enhancement and offset by oceanic decline.

A study published in Nature Climate Change analyses net primary production (NPP) trends from 2003 to 2021, revealing an overall increase in planetary NPP, primarily due to terrestrial enhancements despite a decline in oceanic productivity. go.nature.com/4fP7uBA 🧪

Is growth restricted by physical limitation of gills as GOLT theory predicts? CB Scholfield and Criag White test this by rearing cane toad tadpoles at different oxygen concentrations.
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

This new paper documents a tenfold increase in research papers using community-collected iNaturalist data over just five years: tr.ee/89Ot3I

According to the study, here are four key ways that iNaturalist data directly powers science 🧵⤵️

iNaturalist accelerates biodiversity research Abstract. Participatory citizen science is expanding, with iNaturalist emerging as one of the most widely used platforms globally. However, its application

Brittany Mason and co-authors provide a snapshot of current iNaturalist data use, highlighting its taxonomic and geographic breadth and its growing impact on biodiversity research.

academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

iNaturalist is shaping the future of biodiversity research. See our recent paper, published in Bioscience. doi.org/10.1093/bios...

Thrilled to share our new article in @pnas.org highlighting global gaps in where we study animal movement—and outlining the next generation of smart bio-loggers.

👉 Read the full study in PNAS: lnkd.in/exP8NCeZ
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I wanted to thank everyone for sharing the PhD opportunity in animal migration. I received ~100 applications from all over the world and have found someone with the skills I was looking for. There were so many talented students with similar skills, and it was extremely challenging to choose one.

MERGE - Master of Global Change Ecology

We’re excited to launch our Double Degree Master’s in Global Change Ecology – a unique collaboration between the University of Würzburg (Germany) and the University of Bergen (Norway)! Passionate about biodiversity🐛, ecosystems🗻, and today’s urgent environmental challenges🌍? This program is for you!

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.

Could you add me to the starter package, please? Thanks, Brooke.

Lecturer, Animal Ecology - Townsville, QLD, Australia James Cook University (JCU) is creating a brighter future for life in the Tropics and beyond, through education and research that makes a difference locally and globally.  We now have an opportunity a...

Ongoing academic position lecturer in terrestrial animal ecology at JCU Australia. Deadline 8th August 2025. careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...

Please share: PhD scholarship opportunity in mathematical ecology on the value of information for improving ecological management, open to international students, with a great team @hugepossum.bsky.social, Katriona Shea, Kate Helmstedt, & me at UQ, Australia 🌍 🧮, study.uq.edu.au/study-option...

"...the rate of research on the Antarctic and Southern Ocean is falling at exactly the time when it should be increasing. Moreover, research leadership is changing, with China taking the lead for the first time."

- Elizabeth Leane @utas.edu.au and Keith Larson @umeauniversitet.bsky.social ⬇️

Come and be our colleague at Monash, there can’t be any better place! ;)

Two ecologists: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

One genomics: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

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#PhDposition #Ecology #Conservation #Migration #Rstats #AcademicTwitter

Please share.
We have a fully-funded PhD position on animal migration. If interested, please apply by 27 July. More about us: shawanchowdhury.com. @idiv-research.bsky.social @monashbiol.bsky.social @uq-cbcs.bsky.social

#PhDposition #Ecology #Conservation #Migration #Rstats #AcademicTwitter

🚨 Behold a second impressive paper from @kerrys189.bsky.social to celebrate her just-finished PhD. A rising 🌟!

This study examines AVONET data to show how even threat abatement leaves large areas of avian functional diversity at risk, and in need of targeted management.

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An amazing place to work..

Trump to strip protections from millions of acres of national forests The USDA announced it would begin the process of rolling back protections for nearly 59 million roadless acres of the National Forest system.

There are way too many things to be upset about these days, but I believe the destruction of public lands should be near the top of the list: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

What an amazing session, organised by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social et al. @scboceania.org @conbiology.bsky.social #iccb2025

Shawan Chowdhury Lab School of Biological Sciences, Monash University

#OneHealthOpportunity
The Shawan Chowdhury is hiring domestic and international PhD students to work on citizen science and insect migration or insect conservation at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

shawanchowdhury.com

#OneHealth #OneHealthResources #Ecology

If you are attending #iccb2025 and interested in insect migration or conservation, feel free to drop by poster board 21.

FISHGLOB: A collaborative infrastructure to bridge the gap between scientific monitoring and marine biodiversity conservation FISHGLOB brings together experts in and users of fish monitoring data to support biodiversity research and conservation across oceans.

in 2023 we published a high-impact data paper for the world's open-source bottom trawl surveys.

A. Maureaud, @zoejean88.bsky.social, & the rest of us wrote in @conservationsp.bsky.social about the community and social and technical infrastructure that made it possible: doi.org/10.1111/csp2...

Prescribed fire, it's a very 🔥 topic! What do we know though?

Find out today! Plaza Level Meeting Room P3, 11:06 am. #ICCB2025