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Ecology was represented at a recent Science Meets Parliament 2025 #SMP2025 with Jo Cosham, @zoexiro and @ch_birnbaum in attendance! @EcolSocAus @ScienceAU

Excited to share our new paper, led by @DanielWANoble, in @RSocPublishing! ‘We believe that the future of preprints is bright, and community-driven initiatives, such as EcoEvoRxiv, will play a crucial role in the future of scientific publishing.’ 👉tinyurl.com/4tpbj859

#AcademicTwitter Yep! #phdlife #phdvoice

This emerging Desert Pancratium plant (Pancratium sickenbergeri), seen in Libya by abdulnaser, is our Observation of the Day! More details at: inaturalist.org/observations/2…

Easily interpret regression models with clear visualizations! The ggcoefstats() function from the ggstatsplot package generates dot-and-whisker plots, providing essential statistical details for models saved in a tidy data frame. ✔️ Visualize Model Estimates: Each plot displays…

Congratulations to the Blue Banded Bee! And what better time to take out the title than Australian @PollinatorWeek! abc.net.au/news/2024-11-0…

Do you estimate species cover as part of your research? Check out our (Maddy Cruickshank, @AngelaMoles1 + Sam Debono ) new training application - COVERater (coverater.com) which helps improve and standardise visual cover estimates! Paper here: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7…

❗️Paper alert: Global assessment of diversity, endemism, threat & conservation of island plants 🌴🏝️ Key result: 31% of spp native / 21% endemic to islands, island endemics disproportionately threatened by extinction, islands insufficiently protected 🧵/1 doi.org/10.1038/s41586…

Our meta-analysis on the effects of silicon-based plant defences on different herbivore functional groups is out now in @Ecology_Letters! This was a great team effort with @ScottJohnsonLab @itchyshin @profSueHartley @CookeJulia @jmwryalls & Losia Lagisz. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

10 research gap types and how to bridge them

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This is a great and quick read for people who want a refresher on brevity in scientific writing. Love to see a paper that practices what it preaches! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

"The promise of community-driven preprints in ecology and evolution" A brilliant exploration of the first 1000+ #preprints published in @ecoevorxiv. Brilliantly led by @DanielWANoble with a stellar list of co-authors. 📰doi.org/10.32942/X2SS46 Materials: github.com/daniel1noble/e…

The FANCIEST room I’ve ever spoken in 🫢 I had the pleasure of opening the debate for @ScienceTalksAU on the affirmative for the topic “AI will destroy humanity”. A bit outside my usual repertoire but our team secured the win 🏆

Mushie hunting with @InnaOsmol was a success 🍄‍🟫 (and we saw glow worms)

Small but connected islands can maintain populations and genetic diversity under climate change nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec… #Marten #GeneticDiversity #Modelling @NordicOikos @WileyEcolEvol

You might know that introduced species can escape their enemies in new ranges, but did you know they can also lose their friends? 🪻💔🐝 Check out our (@AngelaMoles1 @JeffOllerton et al.) newly published cross-continental study: doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

Introduced species shed friends as well as enemies – a new study published this week by @zoexiro and @AngelaMoles1 #ecology #biodiversity #pollinators #invasivespecies jeffollerton.co.uk/2024/05/16/int…

Hump day made instantly better after spotting a nudibranch