New blog: New data published on post-fire recovery of threatened plants #bushfirerecoveryAU ecologyisnotadirtyword.com/2024/04/03/new…

📢 It's next week!

Join us on 10 April for our first online talk of 2024.

Highlighting key research on 'The Ecology & Conservation of #UrbanInsects ' from a recent #SpecialIssue of our journal InsectConservation.

Free for RES members.

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Happy to finally share this🌱🔥
Rapid on-ground survey of 21 rare & threatened plant species in northern NSW after 2019 #BlackSummer fires reveals new info on ecology, pop size & distribution #fireecology #threatenedspecies Rose Andrew Elizabeth Wandrag onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Neat little experiment. From my experience, agree that sharing my research on social media had little impact on citations...but I think it has helped my collabs, community and network connections, which are rapidly fragmenting and rewiring as SM collapses

There’s a wealth of quality data about long COVID from around the world - including the Parliamentary Health Committee’s report from last year.

It’s disappointing to see The Guardian give such credence to a pretty poor piece of unpublished medical research.

New blog: how do you navigate a reaearch career crossroads? #AcademicChatter ecologyisnotadirtyword.com/2024/03/16/sha…

And MSM platforms that study, even though 99% of peer reviewed published work shows otherwise.... it's not naive. It's deliberate. We know that 'studies' and 'opinions' that minimise the impacts of COVID-19 get huge platforms, even when they don't represent consensus evidence.

Felipe Walter Pereira, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)

The potential of iNaturalist for bee conservation research: doi.org/10.1111/icad.1…

This Brazilian case study finds while iNaturalist can give biased representation of #bee fauna, it can still be useful for monitoring.

Cecilie Svenningsen, Natural History Museum of Denmark

Insect biomass shows a stronger decrease than species richness along urban gradients: doi.org/10.1111/icad.1…

Using #CitizenScience in Denmark, the study suggested urban cover has a negative impact on insect communities.

Royal Entomological Society will be holding an Online Talk on 10 April (16:00 BST) focused on this Issue!
Register to hear two authors speak live about their research, and to hear short videos from other authors.

Details and registration at royensoc.co.uk/event/online-t…

Speakers' papers below! ⬇️

Why not read the #FreeAccess #Editorial ?

Insect ecology and conservation in urban areas: An overview of knowledge and needs - doi.org/10.1111/icad.1…

Here, The Editors used a literature search to identify research priorities and put the collected papers into context!

The Ecology and Conservation of #UrbanInsects Special Issue is now live!

Edited by Tilly Collins & Dr @manusaunders.bsky.social, the papers emphasise the need for research and syntheses to inform urban conservation action.

Take a look at the contents here:
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17524598/2…

Wiley Ecology & Evolution

Utterly thrilled to share the US/Canada and UK covers for DISPERSALS, a collection of essays on plants, borders, and belonging, coming spring 2024. Full details and preorder links on my website: jessicajleewrites.com/dispersals

Ecology of most insects in urban areas is largely unexplored. Our editorial for this #urbanecology SI InsectConservation uses a structured literature search to frame the SI contents and highlight research priorities Tilly Collins #insectconservation resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ic…

The Ecology & Conservation of Urban Insects SI, now published! A great set of papers covering a range of taxa and urban locations around the world! InsectConservation Tilly Collins #urbanecology #insectconservation resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17524598/2…

New work by Anna Schleimer, PhD et al. finds that genetic connectivity is maintained in two insect #pollinators across a human-altered landscape: doi.org/10.1111/icad.1…
#OpenAccess #Andrena #Bombylius #PopulationGenetics Wiley Ecology & Evolution MNHNLzoology MNHNL - natur musée

I wrote about NPR 's decision to frame disabled people's ongoing exclusion from all public spaces as an annoyance to be navigated by individuals, rather than a massive civil rights violation to be challenged by the collective.

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The open call for the InsectConservation 'Restoration and rescue in an age of extinction: advances in arthropod reintroduction (and translocation)' Special Issue is still live!

Deadline: 31 March 2024
Editors Nusha Keyghobadi & Jaret Daniels

Details at ow.ly/Vjtu50PqCwZ

N95 Masks vs. KN95 Masks: Which Face Coverings Should We Be Wearing Right Now? | Rollingstone

'Researchers say an N95 mask is still the most effective form of protection against COVID as new variants continue to linger'

#COVID19 #Masks 😷 #COVIDisNotOver
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