Jonny Gordon

Hm I'm afraid I'm not sure!

Article is up on RG now.

sent!

Thanks! I will put on Research Gate tomorrow - you can dm me your email if you'd like a copy sooner

research funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk @anthropocenebio.bsky.social at @uoylibrary.bsky.social @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social @biologyatyork.bsky.social @york.ac.uk

What can biodiversity patterns during the Black Death tell us about our relationships with nature?

(hint: its not all bad!)

Read more in our new paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Last few days for this!

Clemency Cooper’s PhD research aims to understand how perceptions of the landscape have shaped the North York Moors, and how evidence of past change might influence decisions about its future character.

@northyorkmoors.org.uk

www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

me pls!

The making of novel ecosystems: A process‐based framework for measurement, analysis and application Ecological novelty is emerging rapidly due to global change drivers such as climate shifts, species introductions, defaunation, and land-use transformation. These changes challenge how we assess, ...

Our new paper presents a framework for analysing the processes that generate novel ecosystems, discussing different conceptual and practical approaches across ecological disciplines. You can read it, open access, in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The billion-dollar case for sustaining palaeontology’s digital databases - Nature Ecology & Evolution The authors survey community palaeontological databases, documenting their contributions to science as well as their vulnerabilities, and provide recommendations for the future of open science databas...

🚨 Hot off the press: Our look into of the palaeontological database landscape and its sustainability into the future.

Palaeo databases are invaluable and continue to transform our research field - but they are vulnerable... (1/6) 🧪 ⛏️

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Future restoration should enhance ecological complexity and emergent properties at multiple scales Ecological restoration has a paradigm of re-establishing ‘indigenous reference' communities. One resulting concern is that focussing on target communities may not necessarily create systems which fun...

The mainstream aim to restore “native reference ecosystems”

Reminds me of people of my age who go to see touring bands from their youth

Trying to recreate something that never quite existed

And has limited relevance in a changing world
doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

Academics, policy makers and businesses are coming together this week at #IPBES12 in Manchester. LCAB researchers are official observers at this important plenary meeting which will have a particular focus on business and biodiversity and the nature-positive approaches companies can adopt.

Only a few weeks left to get your abstracts in for our session at INQUA 2027!

"Re-evaluating Long-Term Human–Biodiversity Relationships"

A session to highlight positive human–nature relations from across the palaeosciences

⏰Deadline: 15 Feb 2026

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www.inquaindia2027.in/sessions/s-120

igure 1: Overview of results: (Left) We find a significant decrease in library-specific skills (conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging) among workers using AI assistance for completing tasks with a new python library. (Right) We categorize AI usage patterns and found three high skill development patterns where participants stay cognitively engaged when using AI assistance.

"How AI Impacts Skill Formation", by Judy Hanwen Shen and Alex Tamkin, both working at Anthropic: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

The Global Ecology feed is growing fast, now >30 posts/week on large-scale biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation science 🌍🧪🦤🦑🪴🍁

Join the convo, DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join and be added to the list of contributors !

Let’s build a community together ✨🌈💚

👉 bsky.app/profile/nmou...

Work led by Chris Lyon, funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk @anthropocenebio.bsky.social

Life on New Earth: biodiversity change and humanity in a novel future Abstract. Accounting for ecological novelty, gains and past human experiences through social–ecological–technological systems (SETS) can help society navig

Are narratives of total biosphere collapse helpful?

Is ecological 'novelty' necessarily bad?

What can the past tell us about the human capacity to mould and adapt to future conditions?

Red more in our new paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B: doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

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Are widespread, generalist species the main drivers of biotic homogenisation?

Doesn't look like it... localised species contribute more to spatial beta diversity change than widespread species across groups.

Read our new paper, led by @jackhhatfield.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/geb....

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Rooted in environmental psychology, nature connection can be understood as an eighteenth-century phenomenon. Here Harrie Neal explores how nature connection has become a highly influential psychological framework across the environmental sciences and civil society.

www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...

VegVault logo

printscreen of the paper on the webpage of Nature Scientific Data https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-06176-1

1/🧵 Paper out! 🎉🌿🔒
VegVault is now published in Nature Scientific Data: a global database linking palaeo + modern vegetation with traits + climate/soil drivers.
🌐website: bit.ly/VegVault
📜paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#VegVault #Ecology #Paleoecology #Vegetation #FunctionalTraits

Yellow-collared Lovebirds - two small green parrots with yellow breasts and collars and black heads. White eyelinter and a sharp red beak. They're cute. Mnay lovebirds are kept as pets but escape sometimes and have colonised lots of places they weren't in before.

New paper! Led by @jackhhatfield.bsky.social we looked at species driving biotic homogenisation (biological communities becoming more similar). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... Current wisdom assumes expansion of human-associated common species is the cause of homogenisation, but is it?🌍🧪1/5

INQUA CONGRESS 2027 The XXII INQUA Congress 2027 in Lucknow, India brings together global researchers to advance Quaternary science, climate research, geohazards, paleoenvironment studies, and human–environment interacti...

Co-convened with Lindsey Gillson and @conservepalaeolab.bsky.social.

Link: www.inquaindia2027.in/sessions/s-120

📣 Call for Abstracts | INQUA Congress 2027
📍 Lucknow, India | 🗓 Jan 28–Feb 3, 2027

Re-evaluating Long-Term Human–Biodiversity Relationships.

Case studies & syntheses highlighting positive human–nature relations from archaeology & across the palaeosciences

⏰Deadline: 15 Feb 2026

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#INQUA2027

cheers 😉

An African savanna elephant using its trunk to pull branches towards its mouth.

My first PhD paper is out today in Conservation Biology! @society4conbio.bsky.social

Freely available to read here: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Tldr 🧵 below!

Increased Holocene Diversity in Europe Linked to Human‐Associated Vegetation Change Aim It is widely reported that aspects of present-day global biodiversity are declining, with humans largely to blame. However—perhaps paradoxically—in Europe, floristic diversity and human populati...

Wiley link: doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Humans have driven biodiversity gains in Europe for eight millennia.

Are we simply the latest megafaunal species to generate the complex, diversity-boosting habitat mosaics Europe's ecosystems need? 🌏🧪🌐

Read OA here: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/23...

#Biodiversity #ScienceSky #SciComm

🤦‍♂️apologies. will send over now

Yes I definitely think so!