📢This is an important one, so stick with me📢 1/2 Academic #publishing is broken. I see Peer Community In with its publishing model with no fees for authors and readers as part of the answer. I want to start a PCI Social and Behaviour Change, but for that I need your support!👇

Happy to see our paper in Nature Communications where we offer a new framework to quantify ecosystem complexity, ranking the contribution of both species and functions, and better assess multifunctionality's role.

Some of you have been waiting for this moment.....all lecture recordings including remote sensing and downloads of this years #Animove are online now. 🥳 Happy Learning ! MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social Safi_Lab @safilabmpi animove.org/lecture-record…

PhD Opportunity!! in my new lab FIWI Vienna 🦌 Movement Ecology of European Ungulates 🫎 Quantifying individual variation across populations in relation to resource dynamics and anthropogenic landscape changes. More info here 👉 vetmeduni.ac.at/fileadmin/v/z/… Deadline Nov 27

How to write a grant? 1. Write it for the reviewer, not you, the applicant. 2. Communicate in stories. 3. Make your story cohesive—leave no puzzling gaps. 4. Make your story resonate to keep the reviewer reading. 5. Accept chance and noise in peer-review. pnas.org/doi/epub/10.10…

New Science Magazine letter by DarCo's team, brilliantly led by Tiziana Di Lorenzo, on the need to integrate groundwater ecosystems into the EU Water Framework Directive. A vital step for sustainable water management and protecting groundwater fauna. 🌍🦐💚💧 doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

Think #stormpetrels just wing it to find a meal? 🧑‍🍳 Think again! Finally our study is out: these tiny #seabirds use ocean dynamics to find #foraging grounds in the #WestMed🌊 And guess what? Well-placed #MPAs help keep their ‘favorite restaurants’ open. 🍽️sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨The CMS Energy Task Force has launched a questionnaire on bird electrocution. Do you have a moment to complete it and to share within your contacts? We need your expertise to work on solutions to this top threat to migrant birds! ideas.ircenter.com/ankiety/ankiet…

New article! Using H5N1 risk maps, we propose a pathway for its progression to Oceania. H5N1’s epidemiological behavior—cases expanding eastward from Antarctica—suggests the Southern Ocean Flyway as a potential route of viral ingress to Oceania onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ir…

A Comment from Lambertucci et al highlighting the threat of avian influenza, documenting the range of already-threatened species that have been suffering losses from this virus, and suggesting research priorities. go.nature.com/4gMuKQh

Recent work published with Sergio Lambertucci & plazapablo on the toll of Avian Influenza virus on biodiversity and its cascading effects on the biosphere. Terrifying figures...

🦅🌍 Sardinia's #GriffonVultures are crucial for ecosystem health, preventing disease and reducing CO₂ emissions. Their presence also boosts eco-tourism. Discover their impact and the conservation efforts protecting them. 4vultures.org/blog/sardinia-… #lifesafeforvultures #research

I'm extremely happy to share this work🥳. We evaluated biases at spatial, temporal, taxonomic, conservation status and selection criteria scales, and modelled the factors influencing the probability of portrayed organisms winning the WPOTY contest besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Year 2025: Biodiversity and ecosystem health are at risk due to an emerging pathogen. Our fears have come true—join me in this tragic tale. nature.com/articles/s4435…

Do you work with rangers? Our review article on Ranger-Based Monitoring is now out in Conservation Letters SCB . Thanks so much to a wonderful team of authors! Full article: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

This brilliant cartoon clearly explains Trump’s current position on Ukraine. It is in Ukrainian with English subtitles. Share it with anyone who keeps repeating russian propaganda.

The threat of avian influenza H5N1 looms over global biodiversity nature.com/articles/s4435…

Pollinators boost the reproduction of 75% of global crops, contributing up to 8% of total food production 🐝 A study on 24 crops found that higher pollinator abundance increases yields, with stronger effects in temperate regions & conventional farms 🌍 🔗doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

🦅 Call for #cameraTrap collaborators! 📸 Do you have camera trap data focused on med/large carcasses from S & C America? Get in touch & join our #SCAVENGIST project to uncover scavenger roles in carcass consumption & implic. for pathogen transmission under global change. DM me

Humans kill ≈274,000 sharks every single day. Lewis Pugh recently completed #TheSharkSwim: a 96km-swim around Martha’s Vineyard to challenge fear-driven perceptions of sharks🦈 Changing the narrative one swimming stroke at a time: 🎥youtube.com/watch?v=u_WoxB… 📷Lewis Pugh Foundation