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Ceres Barros
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Ecological modelling; ecosystem resilience and stability to global change; international rep @ BESMacroecology SIG; AE @ Ecological Solutions & Evidence; Research Scientist @ Canadian Forest Service
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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · Oct 14
🌲 Calling all #ForestBiodiversity champions!🌿

Submit your abstract to our session “Effectively bridging science and practice for actionable biodiversity conservation in forest management” at #WBF2026, 14–19 June in Davos 🇨🇭.

🗓️ Deadline: Nov 18, 2025
🔗 worldbiodiversityforum.org/call-for-abs...
Call for Abstracts
Call for oral and poster abstracts for WBF2026 More than 90 sessions, in 10 thematic tracks will bring together international researchers, artists, practitioners, companies and policy makers from a va...
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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · 3h
#ResponseDiversityNetwork Seminar starting in 10min! Happy to host Prof Dominique Gravel today!
If you didn't get an email about the seminar, join our mailing list:
Join us
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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · 23h
If you want to learn more about the #RDN, check out our website:
responsediversitynetwork.github.io/RDN-website/
Welcome
responsediversitynetwork.github.io

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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · 23h
🚨The #ResponseDiversityNetwork (RDN)'s first publication is out!
Response diversity still sails in muddy waters, with researchers disagreeing on definitions, applicable scales and how it relates to ecological stability. These and other findings will guide #RDN innitiatives and work.
Stay tuned!
Expert‐led priorities for a response diversity research agenda in ecology
Response diversity describes variation in ecological responses to environmental change. Response diversity is expected to drive ecological stability since a wider variety of responses to one or more ...
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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · 12d
Maybe too late but try Ben Blonder? He's work on leaf trait spectrum -- not sure about biochem.

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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · 12d
There's still time to join the BES Macroecology SIG Steering Committee! Come over to the Macro-side!
Click this 👇 to find out more!
www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...

www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/macr...
Macroecology Group | Forum for Researchers in Ecology
Join the Macroecology Group, a forum connecting researchers across ecology groups and networks to share data, methods, and interdisciplinary insights.
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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · 14d
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Thank you. We need more (well-established) labs and people leading by example. In my case, I feel like I'm being pushed against a wall and if I don't use AI I'll be doomed to be less productive, less competitive, less etc etc etc.

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 14d
We are now accepting grant applications to fund ecological research and outreach worldwide.

⏰Apply before 10 March 2026!

Find out what grants you can apply to 👇
https://f.mtr.cool/cucxadvxjq

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BES grant application is now open. Image shows a diver photographing a large whale shark underwater, with the British Ecological Society logo.

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BES Macro @besmacro.bsky.social · 16d
Are you into macroecology and/or macroevolution? Want to make our field a better place?

Please consider joining the BES Macro SIG Committee! We're currently recruiting for a vice chair and ordinary member(s).

More info and how to apply (deadline Jan 20th!): mcusercontent.com/a9537304d9bd...
a screenshot of a flyer about the BES Macro SIG -- there's a meandering river, pink 'British Ecological Society' branding, and the title 'BES Macro Group Volunteer Opportunities'

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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · Oct 14
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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · Oct 14
We’re spotlighting tools, case studies & community-led solutions—inclusive of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, scientists, managers & policymakers.

Let’s transform forest management—together.

🤝 WBF is a non-profit event by @UZH_news—all proceeds go to conference costs

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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · Oct 2
American colleagues I feel for you...!

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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · Oct 2
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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · Jul 10
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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · Jul 10
Can't access the paper? PM me, or ask for a copy on ResearchGate:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Overcoming the disconnect between species interaction networks and biodiversity conservation | Request PDF
Request PDF | On Jul 1, 2025, Gabriel Dansereau and others published Overcoming the disconnect between species interaction networks and biodiversity conservation | Find, read and cite all the research...
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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · Jul 10
Our plea to ecological interation network (EINs) researchers and managers/decision-makers to _explicitly_ integrate the science into practice! Yes, there's is a LOT of uncertainty, but we've come far in our knowledge about EINs and have far more data than before. The time is NOW
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Redirecting
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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · Nov 18
Uh oh

phys.org/news/2024-11...
NASA satellites reveal abrupt drop in global freshwater levels
An international team of scientists using observations from NASA-German satellites found evidence that Earth's total amount of freshwater dropped abruptly starting in May 2014 and has remained low eve...
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Maarten van Smeden @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social · Nov 18
I made one for stats papers
A joke about statistics papers

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · Nov 13
Grant-funded labs are incentivized to admit students who already know how to do research to serve as cheap labor. That puts students who’ve had the most access and resources at a major advantage. This shapes admissions practices more than people are willing to admit but yelling about testing is easy
The Normal Rockwell painting of a guy standing up at a meeting to voice an unpopular opinion. You know the one, it’s a meme now.

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Charles Melnyk @charlesmelnyk.bsky.social · Nov 12
A Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor position is available in the Plant Biology Department at SLU, related to how plants grow, develop & interact with their environment. Come join us in a welcoming and dynamic department in Uppsala, Sweden! More info below:
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
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Jobs and vacancies at SLU. Read more about each job by clicking the job title. Please, follow the instructions closely when applying.
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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · Nov 6
Is it me, or do I see many of my colleagues joining Bluesky post/during US elections?

Also, I feel for you US ecologists... Stay strong

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Sep 30
“a global heritage that should be permanently safeguarded for future reference. Here we provide a set of recommended best practices for the sustainable, equitable and ethical sampling of herbarium specimens” www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌎🌾
Guidelines for the effective and ethical sampling of herbaria - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Greater availability of digital herbarium data is leading to more researchers seeking to sample physical herbarium collections. This Perspective provides recommendations for stewards and users of herb...
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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · Sep 29
#Climate models predict abrupt intensification of northern #wildfires due to permafrost thawing phys.org/news/2024-09...
Climate models predict abrupt intensification of northern wildfires due to permafrost thawing
A study, published in the journal Nature Communications by an international team of climate scientists and permafrost experts shows that, according to new climate computer model simulations, global wa...
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Aug 5
#Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 4th lowest on record (JAXA data)

• about 340,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,190,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,030,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,770,000 km² below the 1980s mean

Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
Line graph time series of 2024's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with white for the 1980s, green for the 1990s, blue for the 2000s, and purple for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2002 to 2022. 2024 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between May and August by looking at the decadal average line positions.

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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · Jul 25
Not that it's an insult by default, but commenting on strangers' sexual preferences is not the nicest thing to do.

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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · Jul 25
Jeez. I wonder if I'd been able to prevent myself from pointing back and clearly saying "low IQ"

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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · Jul 25
Oh I thought they literally supported magical creatures -- I'd have taken that as a massive compliment, big Harry Potter fan

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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · Jul 25
We also demonstrated the importance of rapid and integrated validation to judge model quality. "More data" and "more complex calibration" were not ubiquitously best, and the more data-hungry model actually performed worse at predicting simple forest properties.

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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · Jul 25
By integrating data sourcing, data prep., model calibration and prediction/forecasting, validation and visualisation, we were able to more easily transfer and adapt our modeling workflows to new contexts and new data.

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Ceres Barros @ceresbarros.bsky.social · Jul 25
Our paper provides demonstrations of how integrated modelling workflows can be developed in R with the aid of the SpaDES suite of R packages, which bring useful tools like caching and automated (spatial and aspatial) data downloading and munging to ecologists