Ferran Sayol

@ferransayol.bsky.social

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RyC fellow at BETA-UVic & BiBio research team, interested on how biodiversity is organized and how it can be impacted by humans. Focus on terrestrial vertebrates 🦜🐯🧑🏽‍💻 #biodiversity #macroecology #macroevolution #extinction #vertebrates .. more

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Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · 17d

New paper out! 🐦📊

We realease AVONICHE, a global dataset with detailed information on the proportional use of 32 foraging niches, combining dietary categories with the behaviours and substrates used to access resources.

Openly access the paper and data in GEB: doi.org/10.1111/geb....

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 3d

@hoyporhoy.bsky.social, la anguila europea es una especie En Peligro Crítico de Extinción, la misma categoría de amenaza que tenía el lince ibérico en su peor momento. El lince, en recuperación, pasó a En Peligro y ahora se considera Vulnerable
El peor momento de la anguila es ahora. Y empeorando

Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · 5d

So now it seems birds are not animals anymore? 🧐

USA is a failed state 🇺🇦 @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 9d

A Beneficial Role For Orange Pigments In Birds And Animals

#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#physiology #cancer #pigments🎨 #pheomelanin🟠 #evolution #ecology #birds🦉 #ornithology🪶 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

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USA is a failed state 🇺🇦 @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 9d

Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · 12d

A fun fact, the initial idea from this came during the conference dinner of @biogeography.bsky.social in Prague 2024. The results where presented two years later at @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social, and the paper was published online on the exact day of the conference dinner!

📷 Søren talk at TIBS 2026

Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · 12d

🔎 Major findings:

🐦 The unrecorded avian extinctions seem to had a lower PD compared to the recorded extinctions.

🏝️ Why? A disproportionate number of unrecorded extinctions are predicted to have been from islands in the eastern Pacific, which tend to have lower PD compared to other regions.

Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 New paper out in @ecography.bsky.social ! 📝

Led by Dr. Søren Faurby, we built upon the estimated unrecorded bird extinctions by @r-cooke.bsky.social et al. 2023 and try to estimate the corresponding unrecorded loss of phylogenetic diversity. 🦤🧬

Check the full paper here:
doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

Quantifying the unrecorded loss of avian phylogenetic diversity

Humans have drastically reduced avian diversity, with the majority of extinctions occurring on islands. Previous studies have quantified various aspects of this decline, including both taxonomic and ...

doi.org

Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · 15d

It was an amazing week in Aarhus for @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social, attending so many great talks and catching up with colleagues and collaborators. A big congrats to the local organizers! Long live to @biogeography.bsky.social 🌍🌐

Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · 17d

This database was initiated by @josephtobias.bsky.social @alexpigot.bsky.social @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social @sheardcat.bsky.social whom I am grateful to have invited me to join the project and lead the paper.

#Birds #Macroecology #FunctionalTraits #Niche #OpenData

Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · 17d

We hope this dataset will spur macroecology & macroevolution research to move beyond simplified diets to behaviour-aware niches, opening new doors for understanding ecosystem roles, trait evolution, and vulnerability to global change.

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Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · 17d

@ferransayol.bsky.social presents exciting results on the loss of functional diversity of birds on islands via extinctions. Check out their amazing Avotrex database on extinct birds and their traits datadryad.org/dataset/doi:... #TIBS2026

Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · 19d

First day in Aarhus, joining the @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social biennal conference of TIBS @biogeography.bsky.social. Very nice to meet many colleagues and collaborators, looking forward to three days of talks on spatial patterns of biodiversity 🦏🐅🐊🐟🦆🦀🐙🌲🌴🌹🌻🍄
#science #conferences #biogeography

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Stelios Katsanevakis @skatsanevakis.bsky.social · 19d

Point of no return: academic #funding is at a tipping point. When the effort and money spent applying for grants equals or exceeds the funding awarded, the system stops serving science and starts draining it. Time to rethink how we fund #research.
🧪🌐🌍
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Point of no returns: researchers are crossing a threshold in the fight for funding

With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.

www.nature.com

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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · Dec 11

Kakapo, the world's only flightless parrot, has enjoyed its most productive breeding season since 1977:

Best breeding season for Kakapo since 1977

New data from New Zealand’s conservation authorities show one of the world’s rarest parrots, Kakapo, has produced a record number of chicks in 2025-26 – its best season since 1977 and a major conservation success story.

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Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · Dec 11

Congratulations Tim!

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Science Magazine @science.org · Dec 8

"Having someone beside me changed everything. It was a means to ensure accountability." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4rFa7LM

An illustration of people writing on papers, with text: Academic writing was a struggle—until I formed a peer group with other graduate students

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Germán Orizaola @gorizaola.bsky.social · Nov 24

OTD 166 years ago (1859), Charles #Darwin published the first edition of "On the Origin of Species", the beginning of modern biology and one of the most fundamental books in human history.

darwin-online.org.uk/contents.htm...

Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · Nov 19

Excited to start the workshop on the potential link between animal and plant traits to ecosystem functioning, taking place in Frankfurt, Germany. 🇩🇪🌳🐦‍⬛🦌🌎
#science #biodiversity #ecosystems #resilience

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Oliver L. Phillips, Simon L. Lewis , and 19 more Jens‐Christian Svenning, Oliver L. Phillips, Simon L. Lewis, Ana S. L. Rodrigues, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Mathias Disney, Pieter A. Zuidema, Patrick A. Jansen, Stephen D. Murphy, Tommaso Jucker, Markus P. Eichhorn, Andrew Hacket‐Pain, Ferran Sayol, Darío Martin‐Benito, Shan Kothari, Joan Dudney, Joshua S. Lynn, Jonathan von Oppen, Karl Andraczek, Orlando Schwery, Jonas Trepel, Benjamin Wildermuth

Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Oct 21

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

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Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · Oct 20

PhD offer on island extinctions. Last week to apply! 👇🏼

Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · Sep 25

🚨PhD offer 👩‍🎓:
Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years.
Deadline: 27 Oct 2025
Selection: ~November
Starting: ~January 2026
Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me
More info👇

Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · Oct 9

Interesting talks on the Living Planet Index applied to the catalan territory (LPI-Cat) at @biologiaub.bsky.social. Amazing work to document biodiversity changes in the last decades, and many more to be done! 🦊🦌🦇🐦‍⬛🦋🐸🐟

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Steve Carver, Ferran Sayol

Ordo Fraterna Fibonacci @ordofibonacci.bsky.social · Oct 2

Extinct megafauna dominated human subsistence in southern South America before 11,600 years ago
Science Advances
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Extinct megafauna dominated human subsistence in southern South America before 11,600 years ago

The high position of megafauna among the hunting prey of humans in South America reinforces their central role in extinctions.

www.science.org

Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · Oct 2

🏝️4-year funded PhD opportunity to study biodiversity change on islands

Work with datasets of mammals, birds & plants 🐦‍⬛🦌🌳

Supervisors: @sandranogue.bsky.social & myself

👉 Apply by 27 Oct 2025

More info:
🔗 creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...

#PhD #Ecology #Palaeoecology #Biodiversity

CREAF - Job offers, offices and team

Check out all the job offers at CREAF. Get to know the team, see our offices, learn about our values, and discover the benefits of working at CREAF

creaf.factorialhr.com

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Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social · Oct 1

Sad news: Jane Goodall has died. She did more than any other human for our understanding and appreciation of our closest relatives, the chimpanzees.

That chimpanzees are Endangered tells you everything about our species and about what made her so exceptional.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...