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Dr Jess Williams
@jjwilliams924.bsky.social
Imperial College Research Fellow 🔆 Conservation biologist interested in how local & global drivers of change impact terrestrial biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people (both good and bad) 🧗🏼‍♀️👩🏼‍🍳 🏔

https://jesswilliams92.wixsite.com/mysite
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👋🏼 As a way of an introduction, here is a short interview I did with Imperial recently! www.imperial.ac.uk/news/258219/...
Introducing Dr Jessica Williams | Imperial News | Imperial College London
We interviewed Dr Jessica Williams - a Research Fellow who joined us in September.
www.imperial.ac.uk
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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#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...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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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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May 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
✨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 🇨🇦) 🌎 🧪 🌐
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....
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May 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
⏰ “Harmonizing nature’s timescales in ecosystem models” 📑 One of the main takeaways -> transdisciplinary solutions are key 👏🏼 🧪 🌍 🌐 doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
May 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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!
April 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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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
April 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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You too can be a citizen scientist!

Dr Chris Wyver @chriswyver33.bsky.social explains just how easy it is to get involved with the #FruitWatch 2025 project.

Just take a photo of a fruit tree in your area that is starting to bloom and submit it to fruitwatch.org. 🌸
Be a Citizen Scientist and help Fruit Watch 2025
YouTube video by University of Reading
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April 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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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
March 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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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/...
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...
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March 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
🌾💦 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
March 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Help out a cool citizen science project 🌸 FruitWatch is in its 4th year - keep it going! www.fruitwatch.org 🍎🍒🍐
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Spring is back and citizen scientists are needed once again to build on the success of Fruit Watch and further help scientists understand flowering patterns in a warming world. @chriswyver33.bsky.social #climatechange #pollination #fruitblossom #fruittrees #ecology #environment

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March 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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@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.
Vulnerability of amphibians to global warming - Nature
A 4 °C global temperature increase would push 7.5% of amphibian species beyond their physiological limits.
www.nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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📢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
go.nature.com/3WD7cWa
February 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Online now: Shifting, expanding, or contracting? Range movement consequences for biodiversity
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…
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March 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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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/...
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...
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February 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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eDNA offers opportunities for improved biodiversity monitoring within forest carbon markets 🌎🧪🌐 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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...
www.nature.com
February 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Zoonotic Host Richness in the Global Wildland–Urban Interface

📄 https://buff.ly/4gsHdYl
#urbanization #zoonoticdisease #infectiousdisease
February 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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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
February 23, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Reposted by Dr Jess Williams
📣 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...
February 5, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Reposted by Dr Jess Williams
🔥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) 🧪
January 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Deadline coming up for cool biodiversity-AI PhD with the wonderful @robinfreeman.bsky.social at @zslscience.bsky.social and @wwf.org.uk and me at the glorious UCL East campus in People & Nature Lab
Looking for a PhD? We're looking to expand our understanding of biodiversity chage over time using AI, language models and predictive modelling: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Come join us - deadline is soon! 27th Jan!
January 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM