I'm so proud of this project. Its an interesting story (involving a plucky masters student, wasted resources and how lack of follow up means valuable lessons in conservation are lost). Thread......

'Open access has been a disaster' 'What do we do going forward?'
'The state of academic publishing in 3 graphs, 6 trends, and 4 thoughts' Dynamic Ecology
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Journal editors often complain that it's harder to find reviewers than it used to be. What do the numbers say? For Conservation Letters, the proportion of accepted review invitations is down 10.4% and number of completed reviews after invitation is down 12.8% relative to 2019.

Invasive alien species are a threat to #nature , nature’s contributions to people, and good quality of life. 🐜🌱

Read the IPBES #InvasiveAlienSpecies report ➡️ipbes.net/ias

#ForNature ipbes

An experiment that highlights the importance of ecoevolutionary experience in mediating invader impact. Here, exposing Australian lizards to newly hatched cane toads teaches lizards to avoid toxic toads as prey, but without lizard mortality in the process. science.org/content/articl…

In the 1970s Jaap Kalff founded McGill's Limnology Research Centre, with its field station on Lake Memphrémagog. It became a world renowned group led by Kalff, Frank Rigler, Bill Leggett, Rob Peters and Joe Rasmussen. They trained generations of aquatic scientists (including me).

New open access in Hydrobiologia: Ecosystem changes in eight Danish lakes after #ZebraMussel invasion doi.org/10.1007/s10750…

🔥 Urgent Alert: Fire ants spotted near Murray-Darling Basin! Spread towards Great Dividing Range raises alarms. Early detection crucial.
Learn more loom.ly/qbk0-Tk
#FireAnts #InvasiveSpecies

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#GoodNews - Conservation Works!

See our new paper led by Penny Langhammer Re:wild in Science Magazine

And... eradication & control of #InvasiveSpecies showed the largest impact of conservation action

If GBF Targets to be met - need increased investment

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Quote: 'Interventions targeted at species and ecosystems, such as invasive species control, habitat loss reduction and restoration, protected areas, and sustainable management, are highly effective and have large effect sizes.' science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

New in Science Magazine!
What's the role of behavior in evolution? Is curiosity linked to diversification? And how is curiosity encoded in the DNA?
These questions motivated our study: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
#ScienceResearch

Does conservation work? Our paper by Re:wild shows that it does: a global analysis of 665 trials (incl. several by RSPB Science) found that conservation improved the state of biodiversity or slowed declines in two-thirds of cases BirdLife Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Global trends and scenarios for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services from 1900 to 2050. Our paper Science Magazine shows declines in biodiversity and regulating services driven by land-use can be slowed but climate impacts are accelerating #1/ science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

theconversation.com/nature-conserv…

Ignoring the international scientific consensus that nonnative
species generally pose serious ecological & socioeconomic threats (2023 IPBES report), another opinion article tries to dismiss an entire field of science by claiming bias. Here is our reply:
researchgate.net/publication/37…

Quote: 'Time in the field provides an opportunity to define a space not only for the students, but also for myself. It’s where I stand on the shoulders of my teachers to teach the next generation — where I share my interpretations and myself'. nature.com/articles/d4158…