Jeremy Cohen

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social

16 July

I'm joining Rutgers DEENR in a tenure-track faculty position this fall! I'll be recruiting a quantitative postdoc in climate change wildlife ecology (start fall 26 or jan 27) and PhD student doing bioacoustics to study avian responses to extreme weather (start fall 27). More- www.gcmelab.com/join-us

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.

If you care about keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open to the public in Philadelphia, I need you to read and share this thread. Trish Wellenbach was sent from the mayor's office to oversee the Academy of Natural sciences situation. She needs to hear from us. Here comes the action item:

@globalchangebio.bsky.social

21 Sept

Have you given a lecture on the broad topic of Macroecology and would be willing to share slides? Anything from a few slides to a full hour lecture would be helpful!

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Global Change Biology

3 Sept

PERSPECTIVE A Trait‐Based Approach to Studying Animal Movement Responses to Extreme Events 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Nicholas D Carter

@nicholasdcarter.bsky.social

18 Aug

Counter doom by: 1. Communicating the threat accurately, 2. prebunk against emotionally manipulative narratives, & 3. pair the problem with credible solutions & agency. Full study & coverage below: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Sander van der Linden@profsanderlinden.bsky.social

Climate doom may discourage climate action, but here's a way to counter it, our new research in @theconversation.com with the brill @racheloboyle.bsky.social @tylershores.bsky.social! theconversation.com/climate-doom...

theconversation.comClimate doom may discourage climate action, but there’s a way to counter itOne way to guard against misinformation is to empower people to identify climate doom in the first place.

19 Aug

Doing a bioacoustics project somewhere in the eastern US? For a large-scale study exploring how bird communities react to disturbance across regions/habitats, we are looking for daytime recordings at consistent sites over 2+ years, during the same season(s) each year. Please get in touch!

13 Aug

🚨🚨🚨 NOW OUT at @globalchangebio.bsky.social! "Continental‐Scale Biodiversity Predictions Are Influenced by Climatic Variability and Extreme Weather" – collab with @diegoellissoto.bsky.social and others from Yale BGC! 🧪🌐🪶 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Biodiversity (richness) predictions were more accurate with variability/extreme weather included, and models with mean climate only greatly overpredicted biodiversity in regions prone to weather variability, the great plains and southwest!

13 Aug

Biodiversity predictions that account for variability and extreme weather are critical for reliably predicting biodiversity patterns! They might otherwise be greatly overpredicted. If you find this stuff cool, check out postdoc/phd opportunities in my new group at Rutgers! www.gcmelab.com/join-us

With extreme weather and variability included, winter ranges shrunk on average 10% across species, with breeding ranges shrinking 6%

doi.orgTemporal Autocorrelation Increases Temperature‐Driven Extinction Risk by Clustering Stressful ConditionsExtinction risk forecasting typically relies on comparing thermal tolerance data to predicted shifts in thermal distributions. However, changing temporal sequencing of temperatures may exacerbate the....

13 Aug

Models with variable and extreme weather were much more conservative around the range edges – where such weather could push species past physiological limits - conforming more closely to expert-drawn range borders

We found that including information about weather variability and extreme weather risk in distribution models (not just temp/precip averages) greatly changed the estimated distributions for many species (purple areas are no longer suitable)

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Alison Robey

@alisonrobey.bsky.social

18 July

Second dissertation chapter just dropped at Ecology Letters! doi.org/10.1111/ele.70441 Across theory, stochastic models, and protist microcosms, we show how rising temporal autocorrelation drives predictable increases in extinction risk under warming (ft. coauthor @mtkummel.bsky.social!)

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Erin Sauer

@sauerscientist.bsky.social

2 July

I am recruiting a PhD student interested in the disease ecology of cavity nesting birds to start Fall 2027! Interested applicants can contact me by filling out the linked form. I will also be at ESA 2026 and am happy to meet! More info on my website: sauerlab.com Please share!

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academic.oup.comExtreme Heat as the New Normal: A Methodological Roadmap Incorporating Behavior, Physiology, and Species DistributionsAbstract. A defining feature of climate change is the increasing frequency, intensity, and severity of extreme weather events. Among them, extreme heat is

15 May

We have a new perspective piece out about incorporating extreme heat in ecological research - academic.oup.com/icb/advance-...

@diegoellissoto.bsky.social @alisonrobey.bsky.social

15 May

onlinelibrary.wiley.comModel‐Based Data Integration Improves Species Distribution Models for Data‐Deficient and Narrow‐Ranged Hummingbird SpeciesAim For species with narrow ranges or low population sizes, a deficiency of species occurrence records can limit the capacity to build accurate species distribution models (SDMs). Model-based integr...

27 Mar

🚨Now out! For 98 hummingbird species, we jointly model presence-only GBIF data + presence-absence ebird data, leveraging both simultaneously to arrive at more accurate predictions for under-surveyed species. And got the cover! Led by Jussi Mäkinen 🧪🌐 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

science.orgAcceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agricultureHuman activities might have accelerated declines of population abundance, but this acceleration remains underexplored. Using 1033 North American Breeding Bird Survey routes, we analyze abundance chang...

3 Mar

Exciting to be a part of this!

Diego Ellis Soto@diegoellissoto.bsky.social

Thrilled to share our new preprint: “Extreme Heat as the New Normal” 🌡️🔥 We introduce a roadmap + code for identifying and mapping extreme heat 📏 and linking it to ecology: 🧭 Species distribution models 🐦 🌿 Biophysical models & microclimates 🦎 📉 Population dynamics 👥 doi.org/10.64898/202... 🧵 ⬇️

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Dr. Marta Jarzyna

@majarzyna.bsky.social

26 Feb

Thrilled to share our new paper out in @science.org, led by François Leroy and Petr Keil! Using the Breeding Bird Survey, we document not only a continent-wide decline in bird abundance since the 1980s — but, crucially, the acceleration of these declines over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

3 Nov 2025

Leading a organized session at #WBF2026 on climate change and biodiversity! Titled "Linking anthropogenic climate change to shifting biodiversity patterns". If submitting an abstract, you can send it directly to the session (under NEX track)! worldbiodiversityforum.org

2 Sept 2025

🚨Now out in @pnas.org! Our group provides a framework to mathematically link environmental niches from individual to population and species scales. Our approach enables more accurate forecasting of biodiversity change across organismal levels. 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

nature.comSome birds are left behind in a race to beat the heat - Nature Ecology & EvolutionTwenty years of occurrence data for North American birds suggest that range shifts in some, but not all, bird species have partly mitigated the effects of climate change.

9 July 2025

Nature Ecology & Evolution highlights our paper about bird niches keeping pace with climate change in a news & views feature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW SCIENCE! 🚨🚨🚨🧪🪶🌐 Our paper is now online at @natecoevo.nature.com! “Geographic redistributions are insufficient to mitigate exposure to climate change in North American birds”. We know birds are moving north with climate change, but what are the consequences? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We found similar results when repeating these analyses using eBird alone or Breeding Bird Survey data, highlighting the robustness of the findings.

Species’ historical niches are becoming increasingly mismatched with contemporary climates even in a highly mobile taxon like birds, raising concerns about the ability of other wildlife to persist in a warmer world. Other wildlife may have to rely on phenological or behavioral changes.

Species moving the furthest north succeeded most in limiting their niche loss. Move north, avoid warming. However, only very few species moved north far enough to fully erase their exposure, and in most cases they only partially limited their exposure.

Species possessing traits associated with dispersal, such as long-distance migratory behavior or high hand-wing index, succeeded most in limiting their niche loss (partial residual plots).

Most redistributions were only partially effective. Species moved their ranges ~0.65° latitude north in both seasons, mitigating their expected exposure by ~1.28 °C in summer (48% of expected if they were stationary), while only mitigating ~0.47 °C (11% of expected) in winter.

Therefore- species averted much more of their expected exposure in summer, when they are more at risk of physiological consequences of heat stress- but still only avoided half of the expected warming in this season.

As climate change accelerates, species can move poleward (north, in North America) or up mountains to limit their exposure to heat. While these movements have been extensively reported, it remains unclear whether species have succeeded in limiting their exposure to novel conditions.

journals.biologists.comA high-lipid diet leads to greater pathology and lower tolerance during infectionSummary: Canaries fed a diet high in lipids show more severe disease outcomes than those fed a high-protein diet, with important implications for human and wildlife disease transmission.

We developed a method to account for biases in tens of millions of species observations from GBIF and evaluate how 406 bird species native to the US and Canada have mitigated their environmental niche loss using geographical redistributions from 2000-2020.

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Sarah DuRant

@durantlab.bsky.social

5 Mar 2025

A high lipid diet leads to worse infectious disease outcomes. Interesting implications for wildlife food supplementation. Always exciting to have a new manuscript out! Congrats @ashley-love.bsky.social @sauerscientist.bsky.social @jexpbiol.Bsky.social journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

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Volker Rudolf

@volkerrudolf.bsky.social

8 Jan 2025

To understand how climate change affects natural ecosystems we need to know how warming influences species interactions. In our newest paper we show that predator-prey interactions fundamentally change across latitude leading to context dependent effects of warming. 🧪 doi.org/10.1111/oik....

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Peter Gleick

@petergleick.bsky.social

27 Dec 2024

The #climate/water paradox: As temperatures rise, more #water evaporates into the atmosphere & more precipitation occurs. But land areas are getting drier not wetter. Why? Because more water evaporates from soils. The rain that falls is in intense events in fewer regions, leading to worse #floods 👉

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Neil Renic

@ncrenic.bsky.social

10 Dec 2024

Just had an idea

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Kristin Winchell

@kmwinchell.bsky.social

5 Dec 2024

‼️📝 New paper! 1st undergrad honor thesis from the lab! Hannah Owen looked at thousands of #spottedlanternfly @inaturalist.bsky.social images to study spatio-temporal & phenology patterns of the invasion, and to understand the role of #urban environments in their spread www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

nyu.eduSpotted Lanternflies in the US Are Living Longer—and Cities May be Helping Them SpreadNYU researchers find longer life cycles and urban connection for the invasive insects, which could spell trouble for local ecosystems, but also point to cities as “early-detection zones” for controlli...

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4 Dec 2024

Saw/heard 104 bird species in Florida over Thanksgiving... crossing 100 was a goal I slowly become obsessed with, made tougher with all the best spots being closed due to hurricane. Here's a prairie warbler ebird.org/tripreport/2... 🪶 #birds

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Kevin Bonham

@kevinbonham.com

28 Nov 2024

Wait, do I want cool science to drown out all of the politics?! Yes. Yes, I do. 🧪

Meghie Rodrigues@meghier.bsky.social

Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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gavin jones

@ecologyofgavin.bsky.social

24 Nov 2024

Recently discovered a fun webpage called Probability Playground where you can interactively explore probability distributions. It’s helpful especially for distributions with parameters that are not immediately intuitive. Very cool! www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~adamcunn/pr...

onlinelibrary.wiley.comFine‐Grain Predictions Are Key to Accurately Represent Continental‐Scale Biodiversity PatternsAim As global change accelerates, accurate predictions of species distributions and biodiversity patterns are critical to limit biodiversity loss. Numerous studies have found that coarse-grain speci...

🚨 NOW ONLINE- global ecol & biogeog As global change accelerates, accurate predictions are critical to limit biodiversity loss. With many continental predictions at coarse grain, it's unclear how grain-size biases vary across space/time, giving poor predictions for some regions, seasons, species 🧪

Biases were greatest in desert regions with patchier habitat and for range-restricted and habitat-specialist species. Predictions based on coarse-grain models overpredicted avian diversity in the west and underpredicted it in the great plains, prairie pothole region and boreal zones.

Coarse-grain models can bias seasonal & continental estimates of biodiversity patterns across space and time and grain-related biases intensify during summer & in patchier landscapes, esp. for range-restricted, habitat specialist species at risk of population declines.

In both seasons, 1 km models more accurately predicted species presence, absence and richness at local sites.

Coarse-grain models (even at 3 km) consistently under-predicted range area, potentially missing important habitat. This bias intensified during summer (83%–86% of species) when many birds have smaller ‘operational scales’ via localized home ranges while breeding.

Eg, coarse-grain biases may intensify in patchy landscapes, accumulating to produce misleading estimates of continental/seasonal biodiversity