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Kate Jones 🦇
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Director, UCL People & Nature Lab, Prof of Ecology & Biodiversity #CBER. Passionate about finding solutions for both ecological & human health. Exploring #OneHealth, #Climate, #AI, #Tech4Nature, #ResilientCities https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/35481-kate-jones
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Just shows how awesome they are #teambat
October 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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erleellis.bsky.social
Human transformation of past terrestrial ecosystems @natrevbiodiv.nature.com #anthromes 🌍🌐
doi.org/10.1038/s443...
Human transformation of past terrestrial ecosystems - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Human actions have shaped ecosystems for thousands of years, and have profound effects on biodiversity and environmental processes. This Review explores the ways that humans have modified past ecosystems and the methods available for researchers to study these changes, as well as indicating how understanding historic change can inform conservation strategies.
doi.org
October 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Adaptive ecosystem restoration to mitigate zoonotic risks www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This Perspective discusses essential considerations for how ecosystem restoration may influence spillover of zoonotic pathogens, and how such considerations may be integrated into restoration design 🧪
Fig 2 from Ecke et al 2025 in Nature Ecology Evolution. The figure legend reads "Zoonotic hazard as a function of habitat degradation and ecosystem restoration" and depicts 6 different habitat scenarios represented by a taiga forest in which habitat degradation, restoration and recovery can potentially influence the levels of zoonotic hazard
October 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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gkalinkat.bsky.social
New study 🎓 by @robinheinennl.bsky.social

Variation in artificial light at night (ALAN) 💡 affects ecosystem functions: An experimental approach using plasticine caterpillar 🐛 predation in an urban environment 🧪

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🔓
Variation in artificial light at night (ALAN) affects ecosystem functions: An experimental approach using plasticine caterpillar predation in an urban environment
Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) is changing our nocturnal landscape. Recent research reveals the negative impacts on biodiversity, including individu…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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ucllifesciences.bsky.social
🎙️ New BBC podcast: Digital Dolittles – Talking to the animals? 🐘🦉

Featuring UCL’s Prof. Kate Jones @profkatej.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social and UCL's PhD students, exploring how tech is changing the way we listen to nature 🌍✨

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October 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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And available in the UK RIGHT NOW of course.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1399806378
The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle
Buy The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle by Telford, Max (ISBN: 9781399806374) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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August 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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My book "The Tree of Life" has been selected as one of Apple Books most anticipated books of the fall! Out in the USA November 11th. Available for Preorder now!
www.amazon.com/dp/1324065427
August 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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globalvectorhub.bsky.social
🦟" #OneHealth approach uncovers emergence and dynamics of #Usutu and #WestNile viruses in the #Netherlands 🇳🇱" by ‪ @emmanuellemunger.bsky.social, @marionkoopmans.bsky.social et al. @erasmusmc.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 25, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Identifying the climate sensitivity of infectious diseases: a conceptual framework #climate #health #disease #policy www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Identifying the climate sensitivity of infectious diseases: a conceptual framework
Infectious diseases pose a substantial threat to public health, affecting billions and straining health-care systems worldwide. There is growing concern over how anthropogenic climate change might agg...
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August 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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markuseichhorn.bsky.social
Sure, 3D forest surveys sound cool, but how would you go about actually doing them? We have a new paper for that. 🌳🌲🧪🌏
Terrestrial and mobile laser scanning for national forest inventories: From theory to implementation
Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) has emerged as an important data source for monitoring forest resources. Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) and Mobi…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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wanderinggaia.bsky.social
So pleased to be part of this special issue following a wonderful meeting at @royalsociety.org on Chance and Purpose in the Biosphere last year. Do check it out
Planetary system evolution and the extended biosphere: we humans are products of Earth’s biosphere; we have become its co-creators; can we be its regulators? | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The energy balance of a planet is set by the sunlight entering and the heat radiating back from it. Earth’s biosphere adds new complexity as energy flows through global marine and terrestrial ecosystems altering physical and chemical systems, including ...
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August 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Wasps (and me!) in @thesundaytimes.bsky.social today. Thanks @ben-spencer.bsky.social for championing wasps!

Get involved with #WaspPicnicSurvey and #BigWaspSurvey!
#SummerOfWaspLove
Links below!
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@adamhartscience.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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UCL People and Nature Lab are looking for partner organisations in the conservation sector for Nature Smart Challenge 2026! Could you be one of them?
#UCL @freshwaterizzy.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Really excited to see our perspective on how urbanization affects species interactions out in Nature Cities, hoping to inspire more research on this topic. Hard team work led by former postdoc Pablo Moreno-García. Feel free to discuss! rdcu.be/eyjBj www.nature.com/articles/s44...
July 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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🦇 NEW RESEARCH: Our 3-year study of Australian flying foxes identified six co-circulating coronaviruses, with highest rates of infection and co-infection in young bats, and evidence of circulating recombinants 🧪🌏 🧵

Available open access in @natcomms.nature.com

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Synchronized seasonal excretion of multiple coronaviruses coincides with high rates of coinfection in immature bats - Nature Communications
Bats harbor diverse coronaviruses but temporal dynamics are less well studied. Here, the authors analyzed coronaviruses in Australian flying foxes over 3 years showing peak shedding and co-infections ...
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July 21, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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New paper alert: Citizen science in river monitoring: a systematic review of the whys and hows. Led by the incredible @uclgeography.bsky.social undergrad Gabrielle, it guides new citizen science projects to commonly used approaches that align with their goals. www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
Frontiers | Citizen science in river monitoring: a systematic literature review of the whys and hows
River monitoring is a prevalent focus within citizen science projects. Despite numerous reports and institutional manuals detailing the monitoring techniques...
www.frontiersin.org
July 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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peggybevan.bsky.social
📢 I have a new pre-print out with @sarabssethi.bsky.social, where we show that robotic-assisted #acoustic monitoring can deliver automated #biodiversity surveys. 🐒🦜 Drone assisted #PAM works well for coarse patterns of biodiversity, but less well for species-specific details.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Robotics-assisted acoustic surveys could deliver reliable, landscape-level biodiversity insights
Terrestrial remote sensing approaches, such as acoustic monitoring, deliver finely resolved and reliable biodiversity data. However, the scalability of surveys is often limited by the effort, time and...
doi.org
July 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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naturerecovery.bsky.social
📢 Just out in @nature.com: Oxford Uni, UNDP‬ & others propose a 'Nature Relationship Index', a bold new metric to track how well people & nature thrive together. A hopeful framework to reimagine progress beyond GDP.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09080-1 #NatureRecovery @ox.ac.uk @undp.org
June 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Seasonal Fattening Among Bat Populations Globally: Storing Energy for Survival in a Changing World - Wu - 2025 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Seasonal Fattening Among Bat Populations Globally: Storing Energy for Survival in a Changing World
Bats fatten to cope in environments with seasonal energy shortages, gaining more weight in seasonally cold climates and in tropical climates with highly seasonal rainfall. In cold climates, females l...
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June 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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natrevbiodiv.nature.com
ICYMI: New online! Building networks for biodiversity and food system transformation
Building networks for biodiversity and food system transformation
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 16 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00063-8The global food system accelerates biodiversity loss, which in turn undermines the resilience and sustainability of food production. Strategic, coordinated action across the food system’s diverse actors and networks is essential to drive structural change and reverse biodiversity loss.
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June 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Our new paper led by Jenicca Poongavanan. Predicting #dengue in Africa using disaggregation regression (bottom right in the inset image) and comparing to other methods. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A compound figure. The main image is of Africa with colour showing the number of models that agree in each pixel. 4 models agree in areas of west africa. 3 models agree in a large area should of the Sahara. The inset has four binary prediction maps for the different models.
June 23, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Our new article “Advancing general ecosystem models (GEMs): Towards a mechanistic understanding of the biosphere in the light of the Anthropocene” let by Joachim Paul Töpper just out at Ecological Solutions and Evidence dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688...
Advancing general ecosystem models (GEMs): Towards a mechanistic understanding of the biosphere in the light of the Anthropocene
General ecosystem models (GEMs) have been framed as the ‘climate model’ equivalents for nature, but while the latter have been continuously improved and diversified for several decades already, the f...
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June 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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katharinehayhoe.com
Yes—as @madalina.bsky.social et al found, inducing negative emotions only triggers information sharing. It does not impact policy support or personal action.

As @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social found, it’s the msgs “others care” + “there is hope/solns” that catalyze convos, policy advocacy & action.
Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries
Climate interventions increase beliefs, policy support, and willingness to share information but not higher effort action.
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June 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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These core conservation areas for rewilding eg habitat creation & introducing key species, would be interconnected with green corridors alongside sustainable agriculture practices in the remaining farmland

Full paper: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

@idiv-research.bsky.social
Infographic illustrating a combination of farming practices (precision, ecologically intensified, or extensive), on one side, and nearby separate rewilded land, on the other side, contribute to forming wilder, multifunctional agricultural landscapes. The dashed arrow from extensive farming denotes that moderate ecological integrity comes at the expense of crop production. The framework differentiates local-scale management (in blue) from landscape-scale management (in green).
June 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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What makes a place sound pleasant?

In #DeOorzaak, 4,465 people told us: natural sounds made soundscapes sound better, even with traffic.

📝 Blog: the3dlab.org/2025/06/17/w...
📄 Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We just love hearing the sound of nature
In a region like Flanders – dense, busy, and full of human activities of all shapes and sizes – the problem of noise pollution is increasingly recognized. We often think of that noise a…
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June 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM