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Ferran Sayol
@ferransayol.bsky.social
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Researcher at BETA-UVic, interested on how biodiversity is organized and how it can be impacted by humans. Focus on terrestrial vertebrates 🦜🐯🧑🏽‍💻 #biodiversity #macroecology #defaunation #extinctions

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 21d
Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

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Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · 21d
PhD offer on island extinctions. Last week to apply! 👇🏼
ferransayol.bsky.social Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · Sep 25
🚨PhD offer 👩‍🎓:
Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years.
Deadline: 27 Oct 2025
Selection: ~November
Starting: ~January 2026
Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me
More info👇

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Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · Oct 9
Interesting talks on the Living Planet Index applied to the catalan territory (LPI-Cat) at @biologiaub.bsky.social. Amazing work to document biodiversity changes in the last decades, and many more to be done! 🦊🦌🦇🐦‍⬛🦋🐸🐟

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Steve Carver, Ferran Sayol

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Ordo Fraterna Fibonacci @ordofibonacci.bsky.social · Oct 2
Extinct megafauna dominated human subsistence in southern South America before 11,600 years ago
Science Advances
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Extinct megafauna dominated human subsistence in southern South America before 11,600 years ago
The high position of megafauna among the hunting prey of humans in South America reinforces their central role in extinctions.
www.science.org

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Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · Oct 2
🏝️4-year funded PhD opportunity to study biodiversity change on islands

Work with datasets of mammals, birds & plants 🐦‍⬛🦌🌳

Supervisors: @sandranogue.bsky.social & myself

👉 Apply by 27 Oct 2025

More info:
🔗 creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...

#PhD #Ecology #Palaeoecology #Biodiversity
CREAF - Job offers, offices and team
Check out all the job offers at CREAF. Get to know the team, see our offices, learn about our values, and discover the benefits of working at CREAF
creaf.factorialhr.com

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · Oct 1
Sad news: Jane Goodall has died. She did more than any other human for our understanding and appreciation of our closest relatives, the chimpanzees.

That chimpanzees are Endangered tells you everything about our species and about what made her so exceptional.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
www.nytimes.com

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Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · Sep 25
🌴 Want to work at the intersection of ecology, palaeoecology & global change biology?

This is your chance to uncover how humans + nature shaped island life over millennia.

👉 Apply by 27 Oct 2025

🔗 creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...

#PhDposition #Ecology #Palaeoecology #Biodiversity
PREDOCTORAL RESEARCHER FOR SEVERO OCHOA PROJECT LONG-TERM BI
Apply today to PREDOCTORAL RESEARCHER FOR SEVERO OCHOA PROJECT LONG-TERM BIODIVERSITY DYNAMICS OF ISLAND FLORA AND FAUNA (REF. 25-065-95001) job
creaf.factorialhr.com

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Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · Sep 25
👩‍🏫Supervision:
· Dr. Sandra Nogué @sandranogue.bsky.social at @creaf.cat
· Dr. Ferran Sayol (BETA-UVic-UCC)
+ a network of international collaborators!

📝 To apply, submit via CREAF job board:
1. CVA form
2. Motivation letter
3. Academic transcripts
4. Contact info of 2 referees

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Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · Sep 25
🛠️ Methods & data:
· Fossil pollen 🌴 + faunal records 🦣🦤
· Trait-based & temporal biodiversity modelling
· Spatial ecology analyses
· (Possibly) sediment core sampling 🌊
A chance to work with both existing & new palaeoecological data!

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Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · Sep 25
The PhD will study biodiversity change across the Holocene using plants 🌱, mammals 🦣 & birds 🦤.
📚 PhD goals:
1️⃣ Analyse shifts in 🌱🦣🦤 diversity in relation to island features + human impacts
2️⃣ Assess human-driven biotic homogenisation through time

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Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · Sep 25
🚨PhD offer 👩‍🎓:
Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years.
Deadline: 27 Oct 2025
Selection: ~November
Starting: ~January 2026
Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me
More info👇

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Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · Sep 17
Totally agree - plus their argument of restoring ecosystems is not very convincing. If the money spent on editing genomes was put into stoping current threats, it would be better spent for the conservation aim imo.💰🕊️

Reposted by Tatsuya Amano, Ferran Sayol, Flavia Montaño‐Centellas

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · Sep 17
Did you know that all of our journals offer authors the chance to improve their manuscript's clarity for free? ✍️

This #PeerReviewWeek check out our post which explains why we made the decision to offer the Writefull service to all 👇

https://f.mtr.cool/rooofhshdm

Reposted by Ferran Sayol, Maria Faticov

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Sep 12
Check our review on historical #ecology 📚🖼🏰🦁🦣

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Sep 4
🌍 The International Biogeography Society’s 12th Biennial Conference — TIBS Aarhus 2026 — will take place Jan 6–10 in Aarhus, Denmark: conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-... 🐘🍃🌴We're looking forward to hosting it!
#Biogeography is central to understanding the #biosphere & is more important than ever!♨️

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Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · Sep 4
♥️🐜 an ant queen giving birth to another species? 😱😱 so crazy!

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Nature @nature.com · Sep 3
A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species

go.nature.com/4mOb5T9
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
go.nature.com

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Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · Aug 25
While working from home, Iet’s make sure to be surrounded by nice creatures 🐦‍⬛🐅🌱
It helps to remember me that all these .csv and .doc files in my pc relate to real live out there 🌏

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Franck Courchamp @franckcourchamp.bsky.social · Aug 13
Read our latest paper on the trends and statuses of #biologicalinvasions worldwide.
Led by @hannoseebens.bsky.social , L Meyerson, P Pyšek and D Richardson and ~60 other coauthors, and based on Chap2 of the #IAS #IPBES Report, it has all the basic info you need!
A MUST READ!
doi.org/10.1111/brv....
Biological invasions: a global assessment of geographic distributions, long‐term trends, and data gaps
Biological invasions are one of the major drivers of biodiversity decline and have been shown to have far-reaching consequences for society and the economy. Preventing the introduction and spread of ...
doi.org

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Catalina Pimiento 🆓🇵🇸 @pimientoc.bsky.social · Aug 11
Check out our perceptive on the Emerging uses of artificial intelligence in deep time biodiversity research www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#AI #paleontology
Emerging uses of artificial intelligence in deep time biodiversity research - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
This Perspective explores the existing and potential applications of artificial intelligence in deep time biodiversity research as well as offer guidelines on equitable and ethical use of artificial i...
www.nature.com

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Nicolas Gonzalez @nicosgonzalez.bsky.social · Aug 5
"Just 5 percent of species make up 80 percent of the total declines in avian abundance." www.audubon.org/magazine/com...
Common Birds Are Declining the Fastest, and Habitat Loss Is to Blame, a New Study Finds
As humans have transformed the natural environment, abundant birds have suffered the most—while some rare species have increased.
www.audubon.org

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Will Gearty @willgearty.bsky.social · Jul 28
📢 rredlist 📦 1.1.0 is now on #CRAN!!!

- wrapper to download multiple assessments ⬇️
- wrapper to extract assessment data from lists of assessments 🐍
- filter latest assessment to a particular scope 🌏

Docs 👉 docs.ropensci.org/rredlist/ind...

#rstats #iucn #redlist #api
IUCN Red List Client
IUCN Red List (<https://api.iucnredlist.org/>) client. The IUCN Red List is a global list of threatened and endangered species. Functions cover all of the Red List API routes. An API key is required.
docs.ropensci.org

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 26
2 in 5 arrested over last summer’s riots had been reported for domestic abuse
2 in 5 arrested over last summer’s riots had been reported for domestic abuse
Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse Two out of every five people arrested after participating in last summer’s riots had been previously reported to the police for domestic abuse, the Guardian can disclose. Police data released under freedom of information (FoI) laws shows that 41% of 899 people arrested for taking part in the violent disorder last July and August had been reported for crimes associated with intimate partner violence. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com

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Fernando Ojeda @ojedacopete.bsky.social · Jul 22
Comparto un breve documental que ha realizado mi hijo como TFM de su máster en Comunicación Científica y Medioambiental de la UPF. Ha contado con el asesoramiento científico de investigadores reconocidos (y amables!!) Espero que os guste.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=emk2...
He visto un lindo asesino
YouTube video by Guillermo Ojeda Muñoz
m.youtube.com

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Rosa M. Tristán @rosatristan.bsky.social · Jul 19
La UE (conservadora que no conserva) decide eliminar el programa LIFE del nuevo presupuesto de la UE. Gracias a él se salvan especies pero hay que gastar en armas , dicen. efe.com/euro-efe/bru...
Bruselas decide eliminar el programa LIFE del nuevo presupuesto de la UE - EFE
La CE ha decide eliminar en su borrador de presupuesto el programa LIFE, dedicado a invertir en acciones beneficiosas para el medioambiente.
efe.com

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · Jul 7
New double-page spread for PALEOCENE #5. Going for a pulp-y feel on this one.

The Kickstarter campaign is in its final stretch—check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kee...

#paleoart #sciart #comics #comicart
A band of primate-like animals, led by a one-armed primate, fend off a pack of stem-carnivoran predators.

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Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · Jul 3
Bird Book of the Dead no. 39 - Huia

A member of the New Zealand endemic Wattlebird family with significant ties to Maori culture. Extremely unusually, they have incredibly sexually dimorphic bills with this image being a female with a long curved beak while the male had a shorter starling like beak
An illustration of a female huia - a robust black bird with a vermillion cheek pouch, a white tip to the tail and a long curved beak. It is accompanied by the text Heteralocha acutirostris, Extinct 1907.

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Jun 30
🦣 New paper: Megafauna with large size & flat-footedness + less related to tropical African/Asian fauna were more likely to go extinct in recent prehistory; consistent w direct hunting including pre-sapiens human filtering👣👉 doi.org/10.1111/geb....
#Megafauna #Extinction #TraitEcology #Palaeoecology
Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late‐Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity
Aim The late-Quaternary extinctions, which affected primarily large mammals, are strongly connected to the migration of modern humans out of sub-Saharan Africa and tropical Asia (the Palaeotropics),...
doi.org

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Eamonn Wooster @predator-smarts.bsky.social · Jun 29
The Predatory Intelligence Hypothesis. Happy to share this new preprint about how predator-prey interactions drive cognitive evolution and maintain cognitive variation.

ecoevorxiv.org/repository/d...

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Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · Jun 28
Super nice work! In case you are interested, we recently published a database with all known human-caused extinctions, including 610 species.
doi.org/10.1111/geb....
AVOTREX: A Global Dataset of Extinct Birds and Their Traits
Motivation Human activities have been reshaping the natural world for tens of thousands of years, leading to the extinction of hundreds of bird species. Past research has provided evidence of extinc...
doi.org