Andy Purvis
@andypurvisnhm.bsky.social
Co-lead of the Biodiversity Futures Lab and PREDICTS project at the Natural History Museum and Imperial College in London, UK. Working for a nature-positive future with an ADHD present. Views my own. He/him.
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Andy Purvis
@andypurvisnhm.bsky.social
· Feb 13
Geospatial Analyst:South Kensington
jobs.nhm.ac.uk
Come and join us in @nhm-london.bsky.social's Biodiversity Futures Lab! We're looking for a geospatial analyst to join the #PredictsProject team for 12 months (with possibility to extend) to help us further develop the Biodiversity Intactness Index. #job deadline 3 Mar jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...
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Really sad to report that our friend and colleague Richard Fortey passed away this morning after a short battle with cancer. We’ll all miss his wit and wisdom. Here he is checking out a dino footprint we found while filming together on the Isle of Wight
March 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Really sad to report that our friend and colleague Richard Fortey passed away this morning after a short battle with cancer. We’ll all miss his wit and wisdom. Here he is checking out a dino footprint we found while filming together on the Isle of Wight
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OPEN biodiversity DATA ALERT: iNaturalist has released range data for 100k+ taxa: www.inaturalist.org/posts/106918 🌍🧪
Celebrating 100,000 Modeled Taxa with the iNaturalist Open Range Map Dataset
A Major Milestone for Biodiversity Mapping We passed a major milestone with today’s update to iNaturalist’s Computer Vision and Geomodel—100,000 modeled taxa! To mark this achievement, we’re excited t...
www.inaturalist.org
March 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
OPEN biodiversity DATA ALERT: iNaturalist has released range data for 100k+ taxa: www.inaturalist.org/posts/106918 🌍🧪
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Tropical forests are not all the same: they show many shades of geographical variation. Our new paper in Nature led by @jeaggu.bsky.social combines field and satellite data to make a first map the canopy functional traits of the world’s tropical forests: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests - Nature
Data from a variety of sources—including satellite, climate and soil data, as well as field-collected information on plant traits—are pooled and analysed to map the functional diversity of tropical fo...
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Tropical forests are not all the same: they show many shades of geographical variation. Our new paper in Nature led by @jeaggu.bsky.social combines field and satellite data to make a first map the canopy functional traits of the world’s tropical forests: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
So I read this as 'parents'...
Patents should expire after 2-3 years max. Just because you invented something doesn't mean you're the best custodian of it.
March 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
So I read this as 'parents'...
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I will close the letter for signatures at 17:00 today (UK time). Last chance to voice your support before this evening's meeting of the Royal Society.
There are now over 3000 signatories to my letter asking the Royal Society to explain why it has taken no action and said nothing about evident contraventions of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS.
forms.gle/dBGaHk7SYUNA...
forms.gle/dBGaHk7SYUNA...
Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values
If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...
forms.gle
March 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I will close the letter for signatures at 17:00 today (UK time). Last chance to voice your support before this evening's meeting of the Royal Society.
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🌍 The resumed 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity #COP16Resumed has concluded with a historic agreement to enhance global biodiversity monitoring.
Muchas gracias Colombia for your leadership in this crucial meeting! 🇨🇴 #KMGBF #Biodiversity
Muchas gracias Colombia for your leadership in this crucial meeting! 🇨🇴 #KMGBF #Biodiversity
Governments agree on the way forward to mobilise the resources needed to protect biodiversity for people and planet
Governments agreed, on 27 February 2025, in Rome on the strategy to raise the funds needed to protect biodiversity and achieve the action targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework ...
www.cbd.int
February 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
🌍 The resumed 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity #COP16Resumed has concluded with a historic agreement to enhance global biodiversity monitoring.
Muchas gracias Colombia for your leadership in this crucial meeting! 🇨🇴 #KMGBF #Biodiversity
Muchas gracias Colombia for your leadership in this crucial meeting! 🇨🇴 #KMGBF #Biodiversity
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🔄 How do we turn raw biodiversity data into actionable insights for policy and conservation?
Jory Griffith shows how Bon in a Box #BiaB can be used to support the calculation of biodiversity indicators📊
Watch her speak at the @wildlabs.bsky.social series:
youtu.be/YXp9xlDvY8I?...
Jory Griffith shows how Bon in a Box #BiaB can be used to support the calculation of biodiversity indicators📊
Watch her speak at the @wildlabs.bsky.social series:
youtu.be/YXp9xlDvY8I?...
Jory Griffith: GEO BON
YouTube video by WILDLABS.NET
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February 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🔄 How do we turn raw biodiversity data into actionable insights for policy and conservation?
Jory Griffith shows how Bon in a Box #BiaB can be used to support the calculation of biodiversity indicators📊
Watch her speak at the @wildlabs.bsky.social series:
youtu.be/YXp9xlDvY8I?...
Jory Griffith shows how Bon in a Box #BiaB can be used to support the calculation of biodiversity indicators📊
Watch her speak at the @wildlabs.bsky.social series:
youtu.be/YXp9xlDvY8I?...
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Our 1st Biodiversity Science-Policy 'starter pack' is now full (150 accounts). Access at: go.bsky.app/LjV86zg
There's a 2nd starter pack already filling up: go.bsky.app/GzM8eok
NB: these are mainly IPBES authors & stakeholders regularly engaged with IPBES work. Please follow & share widely! 🌍🧪
There's a 2nd starter pack already filling up: go.bsky.app/GzM8eok
NB: these are mainly IPBES authors & stakeholders regularly engaged with IPBES work. Please follow & share widely! 🌍🧪
February 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Our 1st Biodiversity Science-Policy 'starter pack' is now full (150 accounts). Access at: go.bsky.app/LjV86zg
There's a 2nd starter pack already filling up: go.bsky.app/GzM8eok
NB: these are mainly IPBES authors & stakeholders regularly engaged with IPBES work. Please follow & share widely! 🌍🧪
There's a 2nd starter pack already filling up: go.bsky.app/GzM8eok
NB: these are mainly IPBES authors & stakeholders regularly engaged with IPBES work. Please follow & share widely! 🌍🧪
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In the meantime, you can still add your voice to the call for the RS to stand up for its values, as over 3300 members of the scientific community have already done. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
An open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values | Reciprocal Space
occamstypewriter.org
February 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
In the meantime, you can still add your voice to the call for the RS to stand up for its values, as over 3300 members of the scientific community have already done. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
The line between “Hear no evil” and “Speak evil” can be a very fine one. (H/t @jcsvenning.bsky.social)
February 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The line between “Hear no evil” and “Speak evil” can be a very fine one. (H/t @jcsvenning.bsky.social)
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A parable about reforming institutions and why it should be approached with a degree of caution.
Once upon a time, some villagers came across a large, ornate wooden box in the local woods. On the side of the box was a message:
“Whatever money you put in this box will, in future, grow to become 2.5 times larger.”
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“Whatever money you put in this box will, in future, grow to become 2.5 times larger.”
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February 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
A parable about reforming institutions and why it should be approached with a degree of caution.
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Now over 2700 signatories and still rising. Please keep sharing.
Tally just ticked past 1900 signatures. Please keep spreading the word about the letter & asking people to sign. It's important to make the Royal Society aware (at their meeting on 03 March) just how much the scientific community wants them to speak up for their values. forms.gle/SfsDemyS8QhP...
February 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Now over 2700 signatories and still rising. Please keep sharing.
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Come and join us in @nhm-london.bsky.social's Biodiversity Futures Lab! We're looking for a geospatial analyst to join the #PredictsProject team for 12 months (with possibility to extend) to help us further develop the Biodiversity Intactness Index. #job deadline 3 Mar jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...
Geospatial Analyst:South Kensington
jobs.nhm.ac.uk
February 13, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Come and join us in @nhm-london.bsky.social's Biodiversity Futures Lab! We're looking for a geospatial analyst to join the #PredictsProject team for 12 months (with possibility to extend) to help us further develop the Biodiversity Intactness Index. #job deadline 3 Mar jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...
Is it just me, or have the recent episodes of reality not been as good as in the earlier seasons?
February 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Is it just me, or have the recent episodes of reality not been as good as in the earlier seasons?
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I don’t think it’s good enough for the Royal Society to keep pushing the line that “issues raised about individual fellows are dealt with in confidence”, because Musk’s problematic actions are a matter of public record.
So please keep signing & sharing the letter: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/
So please keep signing & sharing the letter: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/
Reciprocal Space | Occam's Typewriter
occamstypewriter.org
February 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I don’t think it’s good enough for the Royal Society to keep pushing the line that “issues raised about individual fellows are dealt with in confidence”, because Musk’s problematic actions are a matter of public record.
So please keep signing & sharing the letter: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/
So please keep signing & sharing the letter: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/
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New review: #Pesticides have negative effects on non-target organisms
"we show negative responses of the growth, reproduction, behaviour and other biomarkers within terrestrial and aquatic systems"
"results question the sustainability of current pesticide use"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"we show negative responses of the growth, reproduction, behaviour and other biomarkers within terrestrial and aquatic systems"
"results question the sustainability of current pesticide use"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pesticides have negative effects on non-target organisms - Nature Communications
Pesticides affect a diverse range of non-target species and the magnitude of this hazard remains only partially understood. Wan et al. found that insecticides, fungicides and herbicides have negative ...
www.nature.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
New review: #Pesticides have negative effects on non-target organisms
"we show negative responses of the growth, reproduction, behaviour and other biomarkers within terrestrial and aquatic systems"
"results question the sustainability of current pesticide use"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"we show negative responses of the growth, reproduction, behaviour and other biomarkers within terrestrial and aquatic systems"
"results question the sustainability of current pesticide use"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Come and join us in @nhm-london.bsky.social's Biodiversity Futures Lab! We're looking for a geospatial analyst to join the #PredictsProject team for 12 months (with possibility to extend) to help us further develop the Biodiversity Intactness Index. #job deadline 3 Mar jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...
Geospatial Analyst:South Kensington
jobs.nhm.ac.uk
February 13, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Come and join us in @nhm-london.bsky.social's Biodiversity Futures Lab! We're looking for a geospatial analyst to join the #PredictsProject team for 12 months (with possibility to extend) to help us further develop the Biodiversity Intactness Index. #job deadline 3 Mar jobs.nhm.ac.uk/internal/Job...
More than their self-confidence, I envy them for their lack of climate anxiety
I envy climate change deniers. Imagine believing you know better than the entire scientific community. What must it be like to be walking around with that level of confidence in yourself.
February 13, 2025 at 10:06 AM
More than their self-confidence, I envy them for their lack of climate anxiety
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Thanks to the more than *1100* members of the scientific community who have signed the letter to insist that the Royal Society remains true to values that we all hold dear but that Musk FRS has ridden roughshod over.
Please keep signing & sharing.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please keep signing & sharing.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values
If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...
docs.google.com
February 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Thanks to the more than *1100* members of the scientific community who have signed the letter to insist that the Royal Society remains true to values that we all hold dear but that Musk FRS has ridden roughshod over.
Please keep signing & sharing.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please keep signing & sharing.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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As I move on after more than 23 years working with CBD colleagues, government delegates, indigenous peoples & local communities, women & youth, civil society, business & academia, I am proud of what we have achieved together; immensely grateful for the opportunity to serve multilateralism. #KMGBF
February 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
As I move on after more than 23 years working with CBD colleagues, government delegates, indigenous peoples & local communities, women & youth, civil society, business & academia, I am proud of what we have achieved together; immensely grateful for the opportunity to serve multilateralism. #KMGBF
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Good for Britain’s neonicotinoid ban, giving bees priority over sugar beet www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Good for Britain’s neonicotinoid ban, giving bees priority over sugar beet | Letters
Letters: Asher Minns writes that farmers have been incentivised to grow a crop that causes obesity, while Prof Richard Evershed says they should turn their skills to growing genuinely nutritious food
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Good for Britain’s neonicotinoid ban, giving bees priority over sugar beet www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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good news for the day: amazon deforestation down for the second year in a row
January 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
good news for the day: amazon deforestation down for the second year in a row
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If you're an early-career researcher outside the UK and want to come work with my at the @nhm-london.bsky.social node of @adriftlab.bsky.social, consider applying for the Royal Society's Newton Fellowships! Deadline 17 March. Get in touch!
royalsociety.org/grants/newto... #ornithology
royalsociety.org/grants/newto... #ornithology
Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society
This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.
royalsociety.org
January 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
If you're an early-career researcher outside the UK and want to come work with my at the @nhm-london.bsky.social node of @adriftlab.bsky.social, consider applying for the Royal Society's Newton Fellowships! Deadline 17 March. Get in touch!
royalsociety.org/grants/newto... #ornithology
royalsociety.org/grants/newto... #ornithology
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Male southern elephant seals are 5.3 times heavier than females but female helmeted water toads are 21 times heavier than males. What is the reason for sexual size dimorphism in evolutionary terms? #NHMScience @nhcooper123.bsky.social & al investigate www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evolution of sexual size dimorphism in tetrapods is driven by varying patterns of sex-specific selection on size - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A phylogenetic comparative analysis of male and female body size across tetrapods globally shows that directional change in size is usually greater in males but reveals different underlying mechanisms...
www.nature.com
January 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Male southern elephant seals are 5.3 times heavier than females but female helmeted water toads are 21 times heavier than males. What is the reason for sexual size dimorphism in evolutionary terms? #NHMScience @nhcooper123.bsky.social & al investigate www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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