The astonishing #thejury programmes shockingly revealed the serious failings of group decision making that apply to jurys, job appointments, the cabinet, SAGE and any collective decision. The masses of science on the problems and solutions is almost never used. A thread 1/7

XC is now open to all frogs and toads of the world! We start off with several hundred recordings from several decades ago, by Marinus Hoogmoed, former curator of herpetofauna at Naturalis Biodiversity Center. Made possible by NLBIF

Does tweeting increase citations? We conducted an experiment with 110 tweeted papers and 440 controls, waited 3 years for citations to accumulate... and found no significant increase in citations journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

🌱 Introducing RMAVIS, our new #RShiny app for assigning vegetation plot data to GB National Vegetation Classification (NVC) communities. It succeeds MAVIS, used widely by UK researchers, ecologists & NGOs. ➡️ ceh.ac.uk/rmavis 1/2

A thread on inappropriate (re)introductions. It’s a little long (sorry) and perhaps a little grumpy (sorry again). Arguing against the work of others is rarely a good look, especially as we are all, essentially, on the same side, but… 1/21

Seawatch update: 16,210 Common Terns, 3,104 Arctic Terns, 48,BlackTerns, 154 Little Terns, 51 Arctic Skuas, 7 Pomarine Skua, 2 Bonxie etc up to 17.00

Empirical results show dispersal proxies fail to predict actual dispersal. Greater progress may lie in employing innovative measurement of actual dispersal in the field. These words COULD be about seed dispersal, but are from a new aquatic insect paper👉 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10…

"A random half of panelists were shown a CV and only a one-paragraph summary of the proposed research, while the other half were shown a CV and a full proposal. We find that withholding proposal texts from panelists did not detectibly impact rankings." link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Bat Detector is now live on the App Store! Free forever, no ads. Connect an inexpensive USB microphone and your iPhone / iPad device becomes a full-featured bat detector and ultrasonic recorder with real-time time-expansion. Bat Conservation Trust

No more typos & some bonus sonograms…tada!

As an ecologist specialising in species' responses to climate change, I am deeply troubled by growing calls pushing for assisted colonisation. Whilst well meaning, this concept is built on a very outdated understanding of how species interact with climate. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

If, like me, you find it fascinating that small migratory birds reach altitudes of 5,000 or 6,000m when crossing ecological barriers, check out our new preprint. We equipped 16 nocturnal migratory species with multi-sensor loggers to study their migration: tinyurl.com/2xs7nvaz

11 - 16.06.2024 Ballester Alpine Swift Tachymarptis melba

seems like the proposal for a new name to the northern giant hummingbird (Patagona chaski) was unnecessary, and is now been 'synonymized' by a century-old name: peruviana The late Ecuadorian ornithologist Fernando Ortiz Crespo was right (I highly recommend his 1974 paper)

The most remarkable story I have covered: the origin of oak mildews is astonishing. Also fascinated by how they make mature trees more susceptible to drought and hinder woodland regeneration. More videos: youtube.com/@bill_sutherla…

Newly published research on rapid selection for increased #dispersal rates by the #endangered #butterfly #Phengaris (#Maculinea) arion across #RestoredLandscapes Read the #EarlyView here⬇️ resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ic… Royal Entomological Society @WileyEcolEnt #OpenAccess #LargeBlue #reintroduction

"Most of the peer-reviewed academic articles referenced in ESA listings came from low-IF or no-IF journals that tended to focus on specific taxa or regions." - conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30

🚨Really excited to share our new preprint on the multi-dimensionality of climate-driven shifts! Species have many nested spatial and temporal thermal gradients along which they could shift, but which will they choose? Big thanks to a great team! #SOTM doi.org/10.32942/X2G902

African birds colonising Europe. This is one of the most interesting things I have read this year, in Ardeola by Ernest Garcia. ardeola.org/en/volumes/712…