Nile Stephenson
@nis38.bsky.social
PhD student at the University of Cambridge studying coral reef and Ediacaran ecology
He/him 🪸🪼🦈
He/him 🪸🪼🦈
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Social media can help scientists track animal species as they relocate in response to #climatechange, new research shows
Full study here 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Read our press release below 👇
@nis38.bsky.social @pettorelli.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
Full study here 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Read our press release below 👇
@nis38.bsky.social @pettorelli.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
Social media can help track species as climate changes
Social media can help scientists track animal species as they relocate in response to climate change, new research shows. The “range” inhabited by many species is shifting, and this is mostly tracked ...
news.exeter.ac.uk
March 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Social media can help scientists track animal species as they relocate in response to #climatechange, new research shows
Full study here 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Read our press release below 👇
@nis38.bsky.social @pettorelli.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
Full study here 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Read our press release below 👇
@nis38.bsky.social @pettorelli.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
New paper alert!!
With @pettorelli.bsky.social and Regan Early
We asked whether social media records could be used to study species distributions - and it turns out they can!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
With @pettorelli.bsky.social and Regan Early
We asked whether social media records could be used to study species distributions - and it turns out they can!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Occupancy of Urban Habitats by the Jersey Tiger Moth Is Revealed by Social Media Data but Not Traditional Monitoring
Photos posted on social media could provide information on species' responses to climate change that is up to date and from areas under-represented in traditional biological record data. Instagram an...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
New paper alert!!
With @pettorelli.bsky.social and Regan Early
We asked whether social media records could be used to study species distributions - and it turns out they can!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
With @pettorelli.bsky.social and Regan Early
We asked whether social media records could be used to study species distributions - and it turns out they can!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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River-lovers: the Riverfly initiative is a brilliant way to help protect your local river.
Get trained as a citizen-scientist: learn to monitor your local river via key inverts, report pollution, create data-sets: riverflies.org
Get hands-on, get wet, make a difference!
@paulpowlesland.bsky.social
Get trained as a citizen-scientist: learn to monitor your local river via key inverts, report pollution, create data-sets: riverflies.org
Get hands-on, get wet, make a difference!
@paulpowlesland.bsky.social
March 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
River-lovers: the Riverfly initiative is a brilliant way to help protect your local river.
Get trained as a citizen-scientist: learn to monitor your local river via key inverts, report pollution, create data-sets: riverflies.org
Get hands-on, get wet, make a difference!
@paulpowlesland.bsky.social
Get trained as a citizen-scientist: learn to monitor your local river via key inverts, report pollution, create data-sets: riverflies.org
Get hands-on, get wet, make a difference!
@paulpowlesland.bsky.social
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Bioturbation on the map - delighted to see a nice accessible summary of our work by @alisoncribb.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social, read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu.... We are working on a follow up, watch this space! In (A) bioturbation intensity, in (C) the mixed depth.
November 26, 2024 at 1:34 AM
Bioturbation on the map - delighted to see a nice accessible summary of our work by @alisoncribb.bsky.social in @currentbiology.bsky.social, read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu.... We are working on a follow up, watch this space! In (A) bioturbation intensity, in (C) the mixed depth.
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A spectacle to behold, in the shallows, hugging this island, we see broad cowtail rays and mangrove whiprays - and looking with a close eye, few juvenile blacktip reef sharks weave between the rays.
Footage by Sebastian Staines.
#saveourseasfoundation #sharksandrays #conservation #videography
Footage by Sebastian Staines.
#saveourseasfoundation #sharksandrays #conservation #videography
February 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
A spectacle to behold, in the shallows, hugging this island, we see broad cowtail rays and mangrove whiprays - and looking with a close eye, few juvenile blacktip reef sharks weave between the rays.
Footage by Sebastian Staines.
#saveourseasfoundation #sharksandrays #conservation #videography
Footage by Sebastian Staines.
#saveourseasfoundation #sharksandrays #conservation #videography
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I'm #hiring: PDRA to join my #ukriflf project to understand how forest structure, function and dynamics are linked in Europe, using high resolution remote sensing data (TLS, UAV-LS). Based in Cambridge.
Please share! 🌳⚡🛰️🌲
Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50447/
#pdra #forests #lidar
Please share! 🌳⚡🛰️🌲
Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50447/
#pdra #forests #lidar
Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
February 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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🚨Publication alert!🚨
Thrilled to share that our paper, “Ancient frameworks as modern templates: exploring rubble consolidation in an ancient reef system”, is now out and is open access.
We found that 🪸 rubble in the Late Triassic shared similar consolidation processes to modern reefs.
Thrilled to share that our paper, “Ancient frameworks as modern templates: exploring rubble consolidation in an ancient reef system”, is now out and is open access.
We found that 🪸 rubble in the Late Triassic shared similar consolidation processes to modern reefs.
February 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM
🚨Publication alert!🚨
Thrilled to share that our paper, “Ancient frameworks as modern templates: exploring rubble consolidation in an ancient reef system”, is now out and is open access.
We found that 🪸 rubble in the Late Triassic shared similar consolidation processes to modern reefs.
Thrilled to share that our paper, “Ancient frameworks as modern templates: exploring rubble consolidation in an ancient reef system”, is now out and is open access.
We found that 🪸 rubble in the Late Triassic shared similar consolidation processes to modern reefs.
Reposted by Nile Stephenson
1/11
New preprint out with @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @erikpostma.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Why do we age? And can a “natural experiment” during the Great Finnish Famine with long-term data help provide some answers?
New preprint out with @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @erikpostma.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Why do we age? And can a “natural experiment” during the Great Finnish Famine with long-term data help provide some answers?
February 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
1/11
New preprint out with @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @erikpostma.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Why do we age? And can a “natural experiment” during the Great Finnish Famine with long-term data help provide some answers?
New preprint out with @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @erikpostma.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Why do we age? And can a “natural experiment” during the Great Finnish Famine with long-term data help provide some answers?
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A new assemblage of Cambrian 'ecological pioneers' colonising extreme environments at the edge of habitability for marine animals onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #FossilFriday
February 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
A new assemblage of Cambrian 'ecological pioneers' colonising extreme environments at the edge of habitability for marine animals onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #FossilFriday
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We’re hiring! 🌊💼 Are you looking for the opportunity to join a dynamic team at our iconic waterfront location in Plymouth? If you're passionate about marine science and want to support the MBA’s vital marine research, we want to hear from you.
We have several roles available ➡️ buff.ly/44FsDse
We have several roles available ➡️ buff.ly/44FsDse
January 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
We’re hiring! 🌊💼 Are you looking for the opportunity to join a dynamic team at our iconic waterfront location in Plymouth? If you're passionate about marine science and want to support the MBA’s vital marine research, we want to hear from you.
We have several roles available ➡️ buff.ly/44FsDse
We have several roles available ➡️ buff.ly/44FsDse
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Super excited that our review on the ecology of the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition is now out on how ecology changes across scales from organisms to communities to the world through time. Fab art @franzanth.bsky.social showing the build up of ecological complexity
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Super excited that our review on the ecology of the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition is now out on how ecology changes across scales from organisms to communities to the world through time. Fab art @franzanth.bsky.social showing the build up of ecological complexity
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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🚨 REMINDER 🚨
Abstract submission for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium closes soon!
🗓️ Abstract deadline: Feb 1st, 2025
🕒 Early bird pricing ends: April 1st, 2025
Details on keynote speakers, deadlines, fees, workshops & more below!
👉 cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html
# CPEGCPB25
Abstract submission for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium closes soon!
🗓️ Abstract deadline: Feb 1st, 2025
🕒 Early bird pricing ends: April 1st, 2025
Details on keynote speakers, deadlines, fees, workshops & more below!
👉 cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html
# CPEGCPB25
| Crossing the Paleontological-Ecological Gap & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium | Zurich, 2025 | UZH
cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch
January 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🚨 REMINDER 🚨
Abstract submission for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium closes soon!
🗓️ Abstract deadline: Feb 1st, 2025
🕒 Early bird pricing ends: April 1st, 2025
Details on keynote speakers, deadlines, fees, workshops & more below!
👉 cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html
# CPEGCPB25
Abstract submission for the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium closes soon!
🗓️ Abstract deadline: Feb 1st, 2025
🕒 Early bird pricing ends: April 1st, 2025
Details on keynote speakers, deadlines, fees, workshops & more below!
👉 cpeg-cpb25.uzh.ch/en.html
# CPEGCPB25
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Just finished some fantastic fieldwork in Fiji with Victor Bonito @ Reef Explorer Fiji. We have started out a long-term project looking at soft corals on the reef flats mapping out multiple plots from four different sites to see what the ecological dynamics are & how they change through time.
January 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Just finished some fantastic fieldwork in Fiji with Victor Bonito @ Reef Explorer Fiji. We have started out a long-term project looking at soft corals on the reef flats mapping out multiple plots from four different sites to see what the ecological dynamics are & how they change through time.
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Fish diversity has changed dramatically on the Great Barrier Reef @earthdotcom.bsky.social
www.earth.com/news/fish-di...
www.earth.com/news/fish-di...
Fish diversity has changed dramatically on the Great Barrier Reef
The team found that the diversity of fish communities across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) have changed dramatically since the 1990s.
www.earth.com
January 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Fish diversity has changed dramatically on the Great Barrier Reef @earthdotcom.bsky.social
www.earth.com/news/fish-di...
www.earth.com/news/fish-di...
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Still hope for coral reefs. Using 28-years of data in Seychelles, we find reefs recovering 4-5 years faster from the 2016 bleaching event, than they did after 1998. Also, a reef that had regime-shifted to macroalgae for over 15 years, is recovering to coral.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Increased resilience and a regime shift reversal through repeat mass coral bleaching
Assessing coral reefs across the inner Seychelles islands, using a 28-year dataset, we document faster coral recovery from the 2016 than the 1998 marine heatwave events. Further, a reef that had regi....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Still hope for coral reefs. Using 28-years of data in Seychelles, we find reefs recovering 4-5 years faster from the 2016 bleaching event, than they did after 1998. Also, a reef that had regime-shifted to macroalgae for over 15 years, is recovering to coral.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Interested in Conservation Palaeobiology, corals, and predictive modelling? 🪸
PhD project supervised by myself and Nadia Santodomingo on the tropicalisation of marine communities across time and space available @treesdla.bsky.social
🗓️ Apply by 20th Jan 2025
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/les...
PhD project supervised by myself and Nadia Santodomingo on the tropicalisation of marine communities across time and space available @treesdla.bsky.social
🗓️ Apply by 20th Jan 2025
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/les...
Lessons from the past: predicting the tropicalisation of marine communities | TREES DLA
Global climate change is warming temperate coastal waters, causing ecological disturbances and range shifts of marine organisms. Recently, hermatypic corals (reef-building corals) have expanded polewa...
www.trees-dla.ac.uk
December 19, 2024 at 12:27 PM
Interested in Conservation Palaeobiology, corals, and predictive modelling? 🪸
PhD project supervised by myself and Nadia Santodomingo on the tropicalisation of marine communities across time and space available @treesdla.bsky.social
🗓️ Apply by 20th Jan 2025
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/les...
PhD project supervised by myself and Nadia Santodomingo on the tropicalisation of marine communities across time and space available @treesdla.bsky.social
🗓️ Apply by 20th Jan 2025
www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/les...
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🚨New postdoc positions available: we are looking for 2 postdoctoral researchers to join a large, collaborative effort to document, describe, and investigate the biodiversity of tiny, cryptobenthic fishes in the Indo-Pacific 🤏🐠🧪. More details: fishandfunctions.com/join%F0%9F%9...
Please repost 🦑🧪
Please repost 🦑🧪
December 18, 2024 at 10:09 PM
🚨New postdoc positions available: we are looking for 2 postdoctoral researchers to join a large, collaborative effort to document, describe, and investigate the biodiversity of tiny, cryptobenthic fishes in the Indo-Pacific 🤏🐠🧪. More details: fishandfunctions.com/join%F0%9F%9...
Please repost 🦑🧪
Please repost 🦑🧪
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Reminder of the January 8th deadline for this reef palaeoecology PhD project at @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social with @tomezard.bsky.social + @chrisgoatley.bsky.social :)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
December 18, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Reminder of the January 8th deadline for this reef palaeoecology PhD project at @sotonoceanearth.bsky.social with @tomezard.bsky.social + @chrisgoatley.bsky.social :)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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🚨We are HIRING! 🧪 Please repost!
Lecturer/Senior lecturer in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Priority areas:
‘Responding to anthropogenic change’
‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Lecturer/Senior lecturer in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Priority areas:
‘Responding to anthropogenic change’
‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
December 17, 2024 at 12:07 PM
🚨We are HIRING! 🧪 Please repost!
Lecturer/Senior lecturer in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Priority areas:
‘Responding to anthropogenic change’
‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Lecturer/Senior lecturer in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Priority areas:
‘Responding to anthropogenic change’
‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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🚨We are recruiting one or more new Lecturers/Senior Lecturers in Biological Sciences (broadly defined, including ecology & global change) here in Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Apply and spread the word - Bristol is a wonderful place to live and work! Feel free to get in touch with questions.
Apply and spread the word - Bristol is a wonderful place to live and work! Feel free to get in touch with questions.
December 17, 2024 at 2:25 PM
🚨We are recruiting one or more new Lecturers/Senior Lecturers in Biological Sciences (broadly defined, including ecology & global change) here in Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Apply and spread the word - Bristol is a wonderful place to live and work! Feel free to get in touch with questions.
Apply and spread the word - Bristol is a wonderful place to live and work! Feel free to get in touch with questions.
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If you’re a PhD student (or you know one) working on questions of an evolutionary flavour, then check out EMPSEB, an amazing student-organised meeting taking place June 2025 in the Czech Republic! empseb30.mpipz.mpg.de
Hello Bluesky,
We're so excited to be launching our first post for EMPSEB30! 🎉🤩
We've got lots of news to share! We've found an amazing venue and some fantastic plenary speakers, and we're on the lookout for sponsors!
Visit empseb30.mpipz.mpg.de to dive in!
#EMPSEB30 #Students #Conference
We're so excited to be launching our first post for EMPSEB30! 🎉🤩
We've got lots of news to share! We've found an amazing venue and some fantastic plenary speakers, and we're on the lookout for sponsors!
Visit empseb30.mpipz.mpg.de to dive in!
#EMPSEB30 #Students #Conference
December 14, 2024 at 3:11 PM
If you’re a PhD student (or you know one) working on questions of an evolutionary flavour, then check out EMPSEB, an amazing student-organised meeting taking place June 2025 in the Czech Republic! empseb30.mpipz.mpg.de
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PhDs with competitive funding from myself and Davide Pisani (Jan 13+20 deadlines)
o Evolutionary origin and assembly of animal bodyplans
o Evaluating new data and methods to solve animal phylogeny
o The taphonomy of organelles and the origin of eukaryotes
o Early fossil record of sponges and animals
o Evolutionary origin and assembly of animal bodyplans
o Evaluating new data and methods to solve animal phylogeny
o The taphonomy of organelles and the origin of eukaryotes
o Early fossil record of sponges and animals
Postgraduate research projects
www.bristol.ac.uk
December 13, 2024 at 4:58 PM
PhDs with competitive funding from myself and Davide Pisani (Jan 13+20 deadlines)
o Evolutionary origin and assembly of animal bodyplans
o Evaluating new data and methods to solve animal phylogeny
o The taphonomy of organelles and the origin of eukaryotes
o Early fossil record of sponges and animals
o Evolutionary origin and assembly of animal bodyplans
o Evaluating new data and methods to solve animal phylogeny
o The taphonomy of organelles and the origin of eukaryotes
o Early fossil record of sponges and animals
Reposted by Nile Stephenson
📣 We are recruiting! Please spread the word!
We look to hire an associate professor in animal ecology, specializing in evolutionary ecology. Apply by Feb 7 2025. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden!
Application page and contact info 🔗👇 #ecology #evolution #job
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
We look to hire an associate professor in animal ecology, specializing in evolutionary ecology. Apply by Feb 7 2025. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden!
Application page and contact info 🔗👇 #ecology #evolution #job
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Associate Professor in Animal Ecology with specialization in Evolutionary Ecology - Uppsala University
Associate Professor in Animal Ecology with specialization in Evolutionary Ecology , Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University
www.uu.se
December 11, 2024 at 4:36 PM
📣 We are recruiting! Please spread the word!
We look to hire an associate professor in animal ecology, specializing in evolutionary ecology. Apply by Feb 7 2025. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden!
Application page and contact info 🔗👇 #ecology #evolution #job
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
We look to hire an associate professor in animal ecology, specializing in evolutionary ecology. Apply by Feb 7 2025. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden!
Application page and contact info 🔗👇 #ecology #evolution #job
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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Congratulations to @princessairab.bsky.social for winning a Presidents talk Prize 🥳
December 12, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Congratulations to @princessairab.bsky.social for winning a Presidents talk Prize 🥳
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Go check out @nis38.bsky.social ‘s poster on secondary succession in the Avalon Ediacaran at #PalAss24!
December 12, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Go check out @nis38.bsky.social ‘s poster on secondary succession in the Avalon Ediacaran at #PalAss24!