New paper and blog post by the one and only @crcruzr.bsky.social - are socio-ecological indicators ready to provide guidance for concrete biodiversity action?

epic-biodiversity.org/blog/2026/01...

The answer is: partially, but there are all sorts of interesting lessons for the future. 🧪🌎

🧪🌎 Only 12% of Colombia's Tropical Dry Forest is located within protected areas, which puts over 750 species of plants, birds, and mammals at risk of habitat loss.

Read more about our most recent paper, where we also tie this trend to national-level biodiversity commitments.

Last week, during the lab meeting, we adopted a position statement (and lab rules) on the use of generative AI.

epic-biodiversity.org/generative-ai/

In a nutshell: "The use of GenAI is disallowed-by-default", but we also go to great length to justify why.

🧪 New @mdcatchen.bsky.social preprint!

Here's how we can decide where to look for wildlife disease, based on combinations of biodiversity, uncertainty, and prevalence data. This is a really cool paper, that is pushing the boundaries of what we can do with sampling and monitoring techniques.

We have added support for ESRI administrative areas to our species distribution #JuliaLang package — a lot more stable than GADM (although limited to level 1 divisions).

📗 Read more: poisotlab.github.io/SpeciesDistr...

The impulse to use generative AI as a tool for computational ecology is just another form of statistical machismo (and will destroy the world).

We're a little more nuanced in the actual article, and encourage all ecologists to think about the possible footprint of _every_ computation.

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Today we'll be at the #OneHealth symposium of @umontreal-en.bsky.social - @ctrlalttim.com will moderate a panel on biodiversity and health, and @francisbanville.bsky.social will talk about the alignment between indicators for biodiversity and the OHHLEP action tracks, part of our @geobon.org work.

Climate change may dramatically increase the range of raccoons and skunks in Québec. Good news? Nope. They are two reservoirs of the raccoon rabies virus. In a recent preprint, we discuss how this might play out over the next 80 years. 🧪🧵

👋 Bonjour hi!

We've built a whole new website, and @ctrlalttim.com has thoughts about the long-term dynamics of research groups to share.

epic-biodiversity.org/blog/2025/11...