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🌍 Gaia Hypothesis | Scientific insights into Ecosystems as self-regulating systems | Bridging nature and knowledge | Crafted with love 💚 by @nmouquet.bsky.social | #Gaia #Biodiversity #EarthSystems #Ecosystems 🌈
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🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #39, Nov 10-17, 26 posts!

✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share

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bluesky Global Ecology Feed Digest #38
Curated digest of the bluesky Global Ecology feed on biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation at large scales. Terrestrial, freswater & marine realms.
globalecologybs.github.io
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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📢 Global Ecology feed !

A new feed for large scale biodiversity, ecosystems and conservation sciences, covering both terrestrial & marine realms

- DM @nmouquet.bsky.social to be added as contributors

- Tag posts with globe meridian emoji 🌐 to show up in this feed

bsky.app/profile/nmou...

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November 24, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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Clam shells sound warning of Atlantic ‘tipping point'.
New research from @exeter.ac.uk using centuries-old clam shells has found signs that key Atlantic Ocean currents may be losing stability.

Full paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🦑🐟🧪🌐🌍🌊 #AcademicSky @uniofexeternews.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."
Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience
A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.
www.nature.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Meet Grimpoteuthis discoveryi, a Dumbo octopus! 🐙💫

Found up to 4,870 m in the NE Atlantic, it glides on ear‑like fins.

It feeds on worms & crustaceans & helps transfer energy through deep‑sea food webs.

Its fragile world face future threats from deep-sea mining ⚠️🌊⛏️

#Biodiful 🌍
photo (c) MBARI
September 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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The science of cuteness: where teddy bears’ beauty, comfort and care converge! 🧸✨

Check out our latest paper in The Journal of Positive Psychology, where we explore how beauty & emotional comfort shape our care motivations 🫶🌈❤️

👉 doi.org/10.1080/1743...

#TeddyBears #PositivePsychology 🧪
July 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Macrosystems ecology: A new engine and frontier in contemporary ecosystem science ?

let's have a look :

doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

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July 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Check out our new study by Gita Alisa et al., showing that large-scale restoration of coral reefs not only brings back ecological health but recovers aesthetic value to levels of healthy reefs in three years only !

👉 Beauty, biodiversity, and people, all connected 💙

🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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July 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Still time to apply to the #CESAB IdeaShare & DataShare call to advance BIODIVERSITY research & interdisciplinary collaboration

💡 IdeaShare: develop new concepts, models & methods

📊 DataShare: assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets

📆 deadline: september 2025

👉 bit.ly/4loI2oI

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[Call for proposals IDEASHARE & DATASHARE 2025] - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
The FRB-CESAB, in partnership with the HEIRS (hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis), with the support of the PNDB, are launching a call to fund two types of complementary groups: the IdeaShare a...
bit.ly
May 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Seasonal dynamics of #detritus flows and #decomposition across #ecosystem boundaries:

We quantified annual dynamics of #leaf litter input 🍂🍃 & decomposition 🍽️ in temperate #forest — headwater #stream #meta-ecosystems 🌍🌐🔬🌳🦐

@cellpress.bsky.social #CurrentBiology
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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May 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Is there a global pattern in our planet's chemistry consistent with life? Looking at our atmosphere, Mars, Venus, and interstellar space, we found that Earth follows the same architecture as a living cell, while the others do not. Would this be used as a biosignature? web.archive.org/web/20060113...
May 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Meet Nepenthes attenboroughii, a giant pitcher plant from the Philippines!

It traps rainwater in its leaves, creating tiny aquatic worlds. These mini-ponds host unique invertebrates—some found nowhere else!

A whole ecosystem inside a single leaf. 🌱🪰

#Biodiful 🌍
photo (c) Alastair Robinson
May 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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The Global Ecology feed is growing — 20-30 posts/week on large-scale biodiversity science — 390 contributors! 🌍🧪🦤🦑🪴🍁

DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join and tag 🌐 in your posts to see them on the feed

Let’s build a engaged community together ✨🌈💚

Pls share to spread!

👉 bsky.app/profile/nmou...
April 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Meet Pseudocreobotra wahlbergi, the spiny flower mantis! 🪷

A floral mimic & fierce predator from eastern Africa. It controls insect populations while hiding in plain sight—tiny but mighty for ecosystem health, biodiversity, and balance!

#Biodiful 🌍
photo (c) Jimmy Hoffman
April 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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How do biological systems cope with their changing worlds? This is a deep problem within evolutionary biology. In this paper by @sfiscience.bsky.social external faculty Lauren Ancel Meyers and James Bull, an elegant unifying picture is provided zo.utexas.edu/research/mey...
April 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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‪The #CESAB open a call to fund IdeaShare & DataShare projects, advancing BIODIVERSITY research & interdisciplinary collaboration

💡 IdeaShare: develop new concepts, models & methods

📊 DataShare: assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets

📆 deadline: september 2025

👉 bit.ly/4loI2oI

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[Call for proposals IDEASHARE & DATASHARE 2025] - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
The FRB-CESAB, in partnership with the HEIRS (hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis), with the support of the PNDB, are launching a call to fund two types of complementary groups: the IdeaShare a...
bit.ly
April 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Global Ecology 🌐 starter pack vol 1 & 2 are full and curated !! ✨💚

Please share so they will fly into the blue sky 🦋🌈

Vol1 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack...

Vol2 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack...

Will start a Vol. 3 soon, please reply if you want to be in !

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February 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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“ “It’s the song not the singer” (ITSNTS) theory does that, also claiming that evolution by natural selection of processes is more easily understood and explained as differential persistence than as differential reproduction”

🧪🌐🧬🦠 #ComplexSystems

www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Processes and patterns of interaction as units of selection: An introduction to ITSNTS thinking | PNAS
Many practicing biologists accept that nothing in their discipline makes sense except in the light of evolution, and that natural selection is evol...
www.pnas.org
February 6, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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How do we test the (Gaia) theory of planetary self-regulation (Lovelock-Margulis)? We just started our experimental implementation on bioreactors using #synbio to bring planetary scale to the Lab.Exciting day! @vmaull.bsky.social @ftmaestre.bsky.social @vdlorenzo.bsky.social @jordiplam.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Viruses aren't just killers! They can drive a « shunt » in the ocean, creating a self-regulating cycle of nutrient recycling.

👉 N.E. Gilbert et al. Jan 2025 in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🔑 This boosts phytoplankton & is key to maintaining oxygen levels!

🌐 #GaiaTheory
February 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
#Gaia breathing: Vegetation actively shapes climate!

👉 D Miralles et al. Jan 2025 in Annals of the NY Acad. of Sci.
doi.org/10.1111/nyas...

🔑 This review explores how plants modulate energy, water, & carbon cycles, impacting everything from local microclimates to global weather.

🌐 #GaiaTheory
January 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Science under threats !

A call to action addressing global threats to academic research. From public mistrust to barriers in collaboration, this paper outlines solutions to safeguard science and advance progress.

👉 G. Piret et al. in @theinnovation.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.xi...

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January 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
🌍 Ecosystems are shaped by feedbacks! ✨

From tipping points to spatial patterns, this study by @ricardsole.bsky.social shows how non-linear thresholds govern biodiversity loss and resilience 🌳🔥

👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

🔑 Embracing #Gaia’s complexity is key to conservation!

🌐🌍🦤🍁#GaiaTheory
January 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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📢 Global Ecology feed Digest #7, Jan 20-27, 2025 - 25 posts

✨For the lazy (yes we are) & friends who don't like social media (yes they can) but might benefit from Global Ecology feed, here’s a online DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share ! 🌈

👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g...

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January 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM