Dr Jess Williams

Researchers call for urgent action on ecological feedbacks in Earth system science A new review shows that ecological feedbacks, the ways that living organisms shape and respond to their environment, are essential for regulating the...

New review from @drplanktonpoo.bsky.social & @jjwilliams924.bsky.social shows ecological feedbacks are important for climate, chemical cycles & ecosystem stability, but often simplified in Earth System Models - urgent action is needed.

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Ecological Feedbacks in the Earth System The role of our planet's diverse ecological feedbacks in Earth system processes is a major knowledge gap We review current knowledge on ecological feedbacks within ecosystems, and between ecologi...

NEW PAPER🚨Ecological Feedbacks in the Earth System🌍We present an urgent call to the scientific community for the rapid development of understanding of ecological feedbacks and integrated ecosystem—Earth system research 🌐🧪 @imperiallifesci.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Ethical and equitable approaches in AI for vector-borne disease management - AI and Ethics Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being incorporated into public health strategies for vector-borne disease (VBD) management, offering several advances in surveillance, prediction, and cont...

New paper out, a lovely way to finish 2025!✨“Ethical & equitable approaches in AI for vector-borne disease management”🦟A truly collaborative effort, this paper started as a conversation at the #InsectAI meeting, & was a joy to work on! Shout if you’d like the pdf🧪🌐🌍 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Thank you TRIBE LAB @ INESC TEC for sharing this fantastic video from part of my time at INESC TEC. It was a joy to alongside such a smart, welcoming, and collaborative group, and I look forward to future collaborations 🌎 🧪 🌐

The aim of this STSM was to examine how #insect -focused #AI -assisted technologies within agroecosystems could be upscaled to monitor risks to #biodiversity, #ecosystems, and human #health 🌎 🧪 🌐

#onehealth #agroecosystems #ai #biodiversity #insectmonitoring #sustainableagriculture #inesctec #tribelab #imperial | TRIBE LAB @ INESC TEC 🌱 Harnessing Insect-Focused AI for One Health Monitoring in Agroecosystems 🦟   From 15 to 17 July 2025, TRIBE Lab at INESC TEC, in partnership with Imperial College London, hosted a Short-Term Scient...

Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of joining the TRIBE LAB @inesctec.bsky.social in Porto, Portugal, to carry out a Short Term Scientific Mission, funded by the @insectai.bsky.social Cost Action. Check out a short video of my trip here! 🌎 🧪 🌐
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Adding to @jjwilliams924.bsky.social, land use change/pesticides, & climate change drop bumblebee spp occurrence rates by 45% in natural & 55% in human-dominated areas.

Led by @tnewbold31.bsky.social. W/ @uottawa.ca PhD alum Peter Soroye.
#pollinators 🌎 🧪 🌐
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Bumble Bee Probability of Occurrence Responds to Interactions Between Local and Landscape Land Use, Climatic Niche Properties and Climate Change We analyse a collation of bumble bee presence and absence data from across the continents of Western Europe and North America, spanning both natural and human-modified habitats. We find that bumble b....

✨Bumble bee probability of occurrence responds to interactions between local and landscape land use, climatic niche properties and climate change🐝New paper out, led by @tnewbold31.bsky.social, & with @jetkerr.bsky.social & Peter Soroye (the result of some fantastic trips across the Atlantic 🇨🇦) 🌎 🧪 🌐

⏰ “Harmonizing nature’s timescales in ecosystem models” 📑 One of the main takeaways -> transdisciplinary solutions are key 👏🏼 🧪 🌍 🌐 doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Beautiful day in York. Thank you @janehillyork.bsky.social for inviting me to give a talk at @anthropocenebio.bsky.social today. Thanks to all those I spoke with for the interesting conversations, hopefully they’ll lead to some exciting research!

Causes and consequences of insect decline in tropical forests Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 04 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00038-9Insect biodiversity in tropical forests is poorly understood but is probably facing declines, with serious consequences for ecosystem functions and services. This Review describes the major threats to insect biodiversity, which include the effects of a burgeoning human population and of climate change. The authors further highlight the urgent need for greater efforts to measure and monitor insect biodiversity in the tropics and discuss emerging approaches to facilitate such studies.

New online! Causes and consequences of insect decline in tropical forests

We are offering a two-year postdoc position to work on the spatiotemporal dynamics of native and invasive pest species in vineyard landscapes. Co-supervision between @inrae-save.bsky.social & @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social with @cnmeynard.bsky.social. More info: jobs.inrae.fr/en/ot-25562

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The #biosphere is changing: Check our global mapping of ecological novelty in wild #ecosystems (due to #climatechange, #defaunation & floristic disruption) - just out in @natureecoevo.bsky.social ♨️🐘🌿🌐 Big thx to @mattkerr.bsky.social for the huge effort! #novelecosystems #invasivespecies #megafauna

Macroecological rules predict how biomass scales with species richness in nature Despite advances in theory and experiments, how biodiversity influences the structure and functioning of natural ecosystems remains debated. By applying new theory to data on 84,695 plant, animal, and...

New 🗒️led by Alex Pigot - Macroecological rules predict how biomass scales with species richness in nature -Standing biomass increases with richness when large-bodied spp are numerically rare but independent when spp size & abundance are uncoupled. @ucl.ac.uk - Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🌾💦 Water and Food for Healthy and Resilient Societies ☀️👥 That’s the theme of the 2025 European Talent Academy! Thrilled to be taking part and looking forward to developing projects at the London meet this week 💭 @imperiallifesci.bsky.social

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Help out a cool citizen science project 🌸 FruitWatch is in its 4th year - keep it going! www.fruitwatch.org 🍎🍒🍐
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Vulnerability of amphibians to global warming - Nature A 4 °C global temperature increase would push 7.5% of amphibian species beyond their physiological limits.

@nature.com has just published online our new paper!🎉🐸🌡️Lead by @patricepottier.bsky.social and supervised by myself and @itchyshin.bsky.social: in this massive research effort we overcome several common convictions related to the topics we studied. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here are take-homes.

📢New paper!! 📢using #BioTIME #timeseries we showed that faster rates of #turnover in community composition were associated with faster rates of #temperature #change across biomes, for both cooling & warming + microclimate availability & human impacts modulate these responses
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Shifting, expanding, or contracting? Range movement consequences for biodiversity Climate change is causing species ranges to shift, expand, and contract, with divergent and underappreciated consequences for local and global biodiversity. Widespread range shifts should increase local diversity in most areas but reduce it in the…

Online now: Shifting, expanding, or contracting? Range movement consequences for biodiversity

Landscape influence on pollinator population genetic connectivity We analysed 113 studies from 59 countries, covering 96 bee and 21 hoverfly species, to review the evidence of environmental and landscape effects on the population genetic connectivity in pollinator...

How susceptible are insect pollinators to population fragmentation due to anthropogenic land-use changes? This review identifies research gaps and needs on population genetic connectivity for bees and hoverflies @respublications.bsky.social resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

eDNA offers opportunities for improved biodiversity monitoring within forest carbon markets - Communications Earth & Environment Environmental DNA studies focus more on microbes, invertebrates, and temperate ecosystems, compared to biodiversity-focused forest carbon projects, and both areas need to align to facilitate impr...

eDNA offers opportunities for improved biodiversity monitoring within forest carbon markets 🌎🧪🌐 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Zoonotic Host Richness in the Global Wildland–Urban Interface

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#urbanization #zoonoticdisease #infectiousdisease

Declining pollinator diversity harms plant reproduction—but not all pollinators or plants are affected equally. A global meta-analysis shows wild, nocturnal, and invertebrate pollinators matter most. Biodiversity loss threatens ecosystem function. #Pollination #BiodiversityCrisis

eDNA offers opportunities for improved biodiversity monitoring within forest carbon markets - Communications Earth & Environment Environmental DNA studies focus more on microbes, invertebrates, and temperate ecosystems, compared to biodiversity-focused forest carbon projects, and both areas need to align to facilitate impr...

eDNA offers opportunities for improved biodiversity monitoring within forest carbon markets.

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www.nature.com/articles/s43...

📣 We are #hiring a #postdoc to conduct research on the values of pollinators @uni-freiburg.de in the EU Horizon Project #VALOR.
Research Field: Evaluating #pollination and pollinator contributions across the EU
3 years, full-time
Starting 01.06.25
Further information: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

In Uganda, a women-led reforestation initiative fights flooding, erosion KASESE DISTRICT, Uganda — In western Uganda’s Kasese district, where the Rwenzori Mountains meet the sprawling plains of Queen Elizabeth National Park, Janet Nyakairu Abwoli is on a mission to rejuven...

In Uganda, a women-led reforestation initiative fights flooding, erosion news.mongabay.com/2025/01/in-u...

rangr: An R package for mechanistic, spatially explicit simulation of species range dynamics Global change driven by human activities is causing profound shifts in species distributions. Understanding the mechanisms that influence these dynamics is crucial for biodiversity management. Sev...

rangr: An R package for mechanistic, spatially explicit simulation of species range dynamics
#rstats 🌐🌍
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🔥The more we learn, the worse it gets…🫣 scary start to the @granthamicl.bsky.social Climate Research Showcase’s final lecture - @joerirogelj.bsky.social highlights that the global risks posed by climate change were predicted to be higher in 2022 compared to 2016 (due to new research) 🧪