Philip Patton

Ecology postdoc opportunity based in Fort Collins, CO, developing innovative approaches to understand human disturbance of wildlife. 🐺🚶‍♂️ e.g., flyn.im/fhkLB1d Diversity of large data and collaborators with endless project opportunities! @pmanlick.bsky.social Apply here! flyn.im/ktcNgL5

Job Alert! I am recruiting for a post doc in my group. The position will focus on establishing how changes in climate cause population change in birds and mammals. @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

Ecology postdoc opportunity based in Fort Collins, CO, working with a great team Project focuses on ungulates and fire in Utah 🦌 🔥 Check it out and pass it along! 🌎 csusystem.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/fortcollins_...

I’m excited to share a PhD opportunity in my group, focussed on ecological forecasting of blue tit population responses to climate change as part of the e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk @edinburghbiology.bsky.social.

🌍 “This is no longer a warning for the future; it is a diagnosis of the present.” Our 2026 State of the Climate report finds 7 of 16 planetary vital signs at record extremes. The planetary emergency is already here. doi.org/10.1093/bios...

Two flawed rhetorical arguments are repeatedly used to downplay the risks of introduced non-native species. One argument is: “The vast majority of non-native species are not a threat to native biodiversity or ecosystems (so concern about them is overblown)”. This overlooks a few crucial points...🧵

It happened in a seminar yesterday at my institute that somebody bullied a phd student to change an analysis, because two of the predictors were correlated. Multicollinearity is a brain worm, isn't it? It never makes sense to choose control variables based on pre-model correlations.

Audubon Society Formally Excommunicates Penguins https://theonion.com/audubon-society-formally-excommunicates-penguins/

A recent survey of Aldabra giant tortoises brings some good news--about 180,000 estimated on a single island in the Seychelles! They still face threats from climate change and invasive species, so they continue to be a target of conservation efforts. 🧪🌎 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you are an academic who uses arXiv, please consider signing this. **Give Authors Control: Let Us Decide If AI Bots Can Read Our arXiv Papers** math.mit.edu/~elmos/petit...

I am recruiting a PhD student to work with our group at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior! Learn more & apply here: tinyurl.com/kd4xx4ku Deadline: 15 Nov 2026 Start date: Flexible (summer-fall 2027) @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social

Interested in eider ducks? Love to analyse spatial data? Apply to do a PhD with Mark Mallory and me! Deadline Oct 23. statisticalecology.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/...

good morning. I strongly suspect that we don't really know (or agree) what geographic ranges are, and therefore, our estimates of how species' ranges are shifting in the Anthropocene are uninterpretable. I wrote something about this: doi.org/10.1111/2041... and I'll share the main findings...

"🌿 We're hiring at @econovoau.bsky.social! Postdoc position forecasting how land-use change, climate shifts & rewilding will reshape European plant diversity. Biodiversa+ REDESIGN project, Aarhus Uni. 2 years. Closes 1 Nov 2026. 🔗 www.au.dk/om/stillinge... #ecology #postdoc

“What we are seeing now is a complete explosion of these melt rates, leading to the disintegration of glaciers. They’re really just falling apart" Europe's glaciers are accelerating even faster on the road to oblivion www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📢 Open position in Biodiversity Science The 2-year position focuses on how patterns of species co-occurrence are shifting under global change, using long-term biodiversity datasets and advanced statistics. 📍 Helsinki, Finland | ~€3,700/month 📅 Apply by 19 Oct. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

A global latitudinal decline in breeding site fidelity emerges from a single biome vist.ly/5jpgq "Arctic #Shorebirds #Dispersal

This dolphin chased a fish until it puked—then ate the vomit. The surprising behavior, known as kleptoparasitism, marks one of the few well-documented examples of a cetacean stealing food. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4xDYsP7

Dream job for an #editor & nature lover! 🐦🌿Apply now ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs 📅 Full time, Permanent. 📝 £38,710.00 per annum. 📍 BTO HQ in Thetford, Norfolk (Hybrid working). Deadline for applications: 30 September 2026. #Ornithology

Hello friends! I recently completed my Alaska Sea Grant State Fellowship and am looking for my next role. I am interested in positions involving endangered & protected species management/conservation, fisheries policy/management, but am open to other opportunities in marine science & conservation!

Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/

Proud to be a Stumpy today! @sunyesf.bsky.social

🎧 Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica ? Answer this quick 5-min survey: 👉 www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en Take a break and listen to the voice of the forest 💚 Please like & share on 🦋 to reach more participants 🙏 🌐🌍🦤🧪🍁🪴

I will be looking for a PhD student in Bayesian statistics (in collaboration with Paul Bürkner), located in Prague. Forward to students if you have somebody who could be interested. www.martinmodrak.cz/grammo-call/

ForestGEO is hiring a data scientist! This is a 2-year position based in Washington, DC. Come join us! Application deadline is Oct. 12. Please distribute widely to potential candidates. trustcareers.si.edu/postings/8a2...

Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats Just published in @pnas.org, OA for all eyes Led by the one-and-only @romero-vidal.bsky.social, with the amazing @elena-tena.bsky.social and Sonia Sánchez-Navarro @ebdonana.bsky.social LINK: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We have a really unique (and cool IMHO) opportunity open for a cooperative research faculty member at Auburn Fisheries. If you work on aquatic conservation genomics, check this out. Feel free to DM me with questions. 👇

Very forceful statement by Terry Tao about AI and math. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a... Note, he is not claiming the models aren't real and powerful. He's talking about how that power should be used. This, I believe, is what all AI discussions should center.

"Is plastic pollution getting worse?" It's the question we get asked more than any other. After 15 years of data from Lord Howe Island, we finally have a straight answer. 🧵 🔗 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo

📣 New York Botanical Garden is seeking a career-track Restoration Ecologist! 🥾 develop ext. funded, field-oriented, collections-informed, & collaborative research program 📨 Optimal consideration: Sep. 25 (open till filled) 📆 Start: Jan. 1, 2027 (negotiable) 🤑 $87.5k jobs.jobvite.com/nybg/job/o8s...

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

More than a million German households now have plugin solar on their balconies, no permits required spacedaily.com/b-more-than-...

The US House passed the Northeast Lobstermen Protection Act (H.R. 9436) by a vote of 219-196, which stops NOAA from protecting endangered right whales through to 2035 by requiring more expensive ropeless lobster pots. 1/n defenders.org/newsroom/hou...

Research Scientist in Stochastic Dynamic Programming in Montpellier, France. Develop demographic and SDP models to guide adaptive management of priority bird species. ofb.gestmax.fr/4571/1/charg...

🚨Interested in #evolutionary #genomics and #popgen #theory? My lab just opened a 1+ year #postdoc position to work on sex chromosome dosage compensation. At #CEFE in beautiful Montpellier. Deadline soon, don't be shy, apply, theory is exciting! 👉 bit.ly/4eMWDIh

🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

📢 Postdoc opportunity in interaction networks under global change @ University of Helsinki! The position includes leading fieldwork & analyses on seed dispersal networks & mentoring junior researchers. Apply by 30 Sept: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #Postdoc #Ecology #Conservation #AcademicJobs

as rising seas drown their nests along the US east coast, saltmarsh sparrows have declined by ≥90% this century. now, trump's interior department is gutting the endangered species act, and extinction looms for this long-overlooked songbird today in @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/envi...

Interior has reassigned ~30 of its most senior career staffers. Among those losing their longtime positions? The woman who directed the National Wildlife Refuge System for the last 10 years, and the man who ran the migratory bird program for the last 15.

New preprint about endemic songbirds in Hawaiʻi's largest native forest 🐦🌈🌴 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Angus McIntosh and Helen Warburton have 4 PhD scholarships in freshwater ecology available at University of Canterbury, NZ. Invasive aquatic plants in high-country springs, and native fish, springs, and birds in braided rivers

SLU Aqua is looking for a permanent full-time Researcher. The position involves fish stock assessment, quantitative analysis & modelling, & contributing to scientific advice for fisheries management. Location: West coast of Sweden Deadline: 15 Sept web103.reachmee.com/ext/I017/111...

📖 Forest cover drives bird occupancy across guilds and habitats in a Colombian coffee-farming landscape 🦜 🌳 Find out more👇️ besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An impressive visualization of urbanization and agricultural intensification over the past 70 years. Is this where 3 Billion Birds went?

Big new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper - we show for the first time that plastics affects seabirds at the POPULATION level. Plastic ingested as a chick reduces recruitment of birds to the breeding population. And the story is pretty grim. 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"I synthesized 485 studies and more than 5 million projections to produce a quantitative global assessment of #climate change extinctions. With increased certainty, this meta-analysis suggests that extinctions will accelerate rapidly if global temperatures exceed 1.5°C. "