A global #biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action

Excited to share 70+ coauthored Comment @NatureEcoEvo
Read it here 👇
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02171-0

Join us online for a seminar on:
Detecting and attributing the causes of #biodiversity change: needs, gaps, and solutions
with Eden Tekwa, Ruth Oliver & Isidora Ávila-Thieme
🗓️ Thursday 13th Jul 2023
⏲️ 15 - 16:00 PM (London)
https://cassyni.com/events/T3xHscQ7ofi2BZfAe7dND/speakers?cb=functi

Here’s a link to the special issue on this topic:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2023/378/1881

I am very happy to have been selected to join the UN CBD Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on indicators for the Global Biodiversity Framework.

I will try to support countries with the task of measuring and guiding progress to the goals and targets with @geobon knowledge

https://www.cbd.int/gbf/monitoring/ind/

Mass production of unvouchered records fails to represent global #biodiversity patterns

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02047-3

No sign of decrease in global #CO2 emissions

Global #carbon #emissions in 2022 remain at record levels – with no sign of the decrease that is urgently needed to limit warming to 1.5°C, according to the #GlobalCarbonProject science team.
If current emissions levels persist, there is now a 50% chance that #GlobalWarming of 1.5°C will be exceeded in 9 years.

https://globalcarbonbudget.org/no-sign-of-decrease-in-global-co2-emissions/

Article:
https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/14/4811/2022/

Join us at the @GEOBON_org conference in #Montreal this October. A key theme is monitoring #biodiversity to guide conservation action to achieve the 2030 targets of the @UNBiodiversity Global Biodiversity Framework.

See link bellow to propose a session👇
https://geobon.org/geo-bon-global-conference-monitoring-biodiversity-for-action/

On my to-read list 👇
A density functional theory for ecology across scales
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36628-4
"Here we use density functional theory, a computational method for many-body problems in physics, to develop a computational framework for ecosystem modelling." #biodiversity

The stability and collapse of marine ecosystems during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction

Remarkable paleo reconstruction from fossil record of how loss of ecosystem stability occurred thousands of years after the loss of species

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00146-X?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS096098222300146X%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

I gave a webinar today on
"Detection and attribution of #biodiversity change: a role for AI"
#aiforgood
It is now ready to watch on YT here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/WAoUxRzzhZE?feature=share

Eye-popping art and data infographics telling the story of insect diversity and declines.

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GLOBAL-ENVIRONMENT/INSECT-APOCALYPSE/egpbykdxjvq/

How many unsolved problems are there in ecology? How do we know when a problem is solved?

Here’s a perfect book for a reading group - chapters focused on thorny problems grouped into 7 parts.

I see the chapters as a springboard for discussion and debate.

@StephanMatthiesen PDF sent

🧵🗺️📌 Do you care about species interactions and how we sample them across landscapes?

If so, you may be interested in my first PhD chapter (w/ @tpoisot, Laura Pollock, @bio_diverse) on discerning true from false-negatives in interaction networks, now preprinted https://doi.org/10.32942/X2DW22

@StephanMatthiesen ah, yes, the irony. happy to send you the PDF.

@anarodrigues yes, that passage is a bitter pill to swallow. What has been your experience of what works?

I have found that actionable information (re planning for ecological connectivity) has to be jointly developed and shared in the context of long term partnerships built on real trust.

Do you often wonder whether we are communicating science effectively? I do.

This paper is good:
Why facts don't change minds: Insights from cognitive science for the improved communication of conservation research

Adresses 4 myths:
1 Facts change minds,
2 Scientific literacy leads to enhanced research uptake,
3 Individual attitude change will shift collective behaviors,
4 Broad dissemination is best.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320722004396?via%3Dihub

PNAS has now published a total of five responses to our study on the "hidden universe of uncertainty" in scientific research.

The original article is best read in combination with these contributions as they add crucial perspectives and correct mistakes we made.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2203150119

Where do global greenhouse gas emissions come from?

In this article my colleague Hannah Ritchie breaks it down, sector by sector: https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector

RT @Albert_Ruhi
🚨 We are looking for an Assistant Professor in the area of Conservation Science @ESPM_Berkeley! Apply by Feb 2, full description here:
https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03613 Please RT! #AcademicJobs

Desperately seeking a lab manager 😄 @BioMcGill
Here’s the description:
https://www.thegonzalezlab.org/p-join-us
@mcgillu
Part-time at 3 days/week. Please apply if you are passionate about #biodiversity science and working with bright minds to achieve their research and career goals.