This report just posted addresses one of the biggest questions that countries always ask about the genetic diversity indicators: how often and how much monitoring is needed for the Ne500 indicator, in realistic situations? ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... @katherinehebert.bsky.social
Blitz the Gap was recently featured in Le Devoir with an action shot of @laura-pollock.bsky.social blitzing the gap! 🌱 Seems crazy that there are only 9 days left to the project's first summer to fill gaps in Canadian #biodiversity data with #iNaturalist. We've reached >2,500,000 observations!
So many indicators, so little time! ⏰ We wrote a guide to streamline the choice of indicators for tracking biodiversity targets, thanks to key criteria, evaluation sheets, and most importantly - collaborations! 🌱 @biodiversite-quebec.ca
Peter Soroye @wcscanada.org explains how @inaturalist.bsky.social data factors into Key Biodiversity Areas (@keybiodiversity.bsky.social).
Join them in Blitz The Gap 2025! blitzthegap.org
#CSEE2025
Last week, I had the very cool opportunity to talk about Blitz the Gap (our Canada-wide initiative to fill biodiversity data gaps this summer blitzthegap.org) on Moteur de Recherche at Radio-Canada. I had a blast! Listen here (in French) 🔊 shorturl.at/lJisw
In case you missed my talk at #CSEE2025, you can explore your own collaborative networks and see a little summary on my website!
www.lucaseckert.ca/side-project...
pollocklab.github.io/blitz-the-ga...
This summer, we are trying to Blitz the Gap 🕵️ in our knowledge about species 🦇🐛🦉🐟🐸🌿 that haven't been seen for 15, 30 or 50+ years in Canada!
Check it out!👇
This map ⬇️ is from a challenge I designed that encourages people to go out and observe the major group of taxa 🐟🍄🐍🪲🦫🪻 that is unusually under-represented in their county 🇨🇦
and @qcbs.ca members, there are Champion Grants 💰 available to plan local bioblitzes or a field trip for you and your friends to Blitz the Gap! 🥾🌱 qcbs.ca/call-for-applications-champion-grants-to-blitz-the-gap/
Join the project on iNaturalist to Blitz the Gap with us!! 🌱🏞️ inaturalist.ca/projects/bli...
iNaturalist is a key source of information for us to better understand, monitor, and protect biodiversity! 🌎 We rely on it so much, especially in this era where funding for science and biodiversity monitoring is increasingly uncertain...
A series of 🏆 Challenges 🏆 were designed by graduate students, researchers, avid iNat users, conservation practioners, and more throughout Canada to highlight species and places that deserve a little more attention:
pollocklab.github.io/blitz-the-gap/
One week until Blitz the Gap (www.blitzthegap.org) starts - a Canada-wide event to fill biodiversity data gaps with iNaturalist! @laura-pollock.bsky.social
Screenshot of a short article
In our May issue: Journal Club from Katherine Hébert "Biodiversity change is more than the sum of its parts"
go.nature.com/4jY31h2
I wrote a journal club for Nature Reviews Biodiversity to reflect on the ways one of my favourite papers shaped (and keeps shaping) my research!
Spoiler alert: We need to summarise biodiversity change as a multi-species process, rather than a collection of separate trends
doi.org/10.1038/s443...
A new study by @alexpigot.bsky.social and colleagues reveals the critical role of biodiversity in the functioning of ecosystems.
@uclcber.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
This all started at the “Tracking a Moving Target” workshop at the @geobon.org conference in Montreal in October 2023. Thank you to all who participated and shout out to my great co-authors (Maximiliane Jousse, Janaína Serrano, @dirknkarger.bsky.social, Guillaume Blanchet, and Laura Pollock)!
Global progress towards our 2030 biodiversity targets starts with local, short-term change - but are we equipped to capture these changes? 🤔 Well, the link between on-the-ground conservation and global indicators is not always clear. We have some ideas about how to clarify & strengthen this link 📝 :
New work by @adbinley.bsky.social and others: 61% of endangered species in Canada lack research on what conservation actions work. We need more action-based research. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
SMART+C criteria used to select a shortlist of indicators for subnational biodiversity strategies. S = Specific, M = Measurable, A = Achievable, R = Relevant, T = Timely, C = Communicable. A short description of each term is shown in the figure.
Which indicators do we need to track and report biodiversity change? Our new preprint 📝 presents the indicator selection process we built to recommend 15 indicators for Québec's 2030 Nature Plan. We share guidelines, outcomes, and recommendations to choose your own shortlist! doi.org/10.32942/X2J...
Check out our new paper in @ecography.bsky.social
led by Jamie Kass! big team of #R pkg developers show how to improve analysis standards by combining different pkgs for species distribution models #SDM, provide a #shiny app to catalog & explore them, 3 extensive tutorials. doi.org/10.1111/ecog...
A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter
mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...
Biodiversity panel announcement about COP-16 and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework on November 21, 12H-13H online with a description and photos of the panelists: Leila Cantave, Anne-Céline Guyon, Laura Fequine, Joëlle Voglimacci, and Katherine Hébert.
I am super excited to join my fellow panelists to talk about why biodiversity 🌱 and climate 🌡️ must be considered together if we want to stop biodiversity loss. Register to watch on Thursday, November 21st at 12PM EST (in French) 📺! shorturl.at/UzWm3
Time for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change...
"Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪
Hi!! Could I be added to this too?
Thanks for setting this up!! Could you please add me to the list too?
Time for me to make my first post on here! Happy to announce that I'll be sitting at a table in the Montreal Planetarium this Friday night, ready to chat about what we should talk about when we summarise biodiversity change! 🐛🦋🦎🐍🦞🐡🐳🐘🦇🦉🍄🌳🌱 shorturl.at/FDlsq
An important column by @oaggimenez.bsky.social, on how he reacted when colleagues found a fundamental flaw in one of his published papers (thanks to code he and his coauthors had shared)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
