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Jonny Gordon
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Palaeoecologist and archaeologist interested in the long term histories of human impacts on biodiversity.

Post-doc @anthropocenebio.bsky.social, University of York.
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Jonny Gordon @jonathan-gdon.bsky.social · Jul 10
New paper out looking at human - biodiversity relationships over the last ~12,000 years across the Earth.

Biodiversity increases in many locations associated with raised human landscape modification over pre-history!

Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Funded PhD opportunity!!🧪🌎

Wanna improve how biodiversity is monitored & protected?
Keen to work with large datasets & quantitative methods?

This PhD could be for you!

Fully-funded PhD at University of Reading with IoZ & UKCEH
(UK or settled status applicants)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
CR2026_23: Monitoring and protecting biodiversity across all its dimensions – taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - CR2026_23: Monitoring and protecting biodiversity across all its dimensions – taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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njclark.bsky.social
Compositional data needs models that respect its constraints. I show how Dirichlet regression with GPs captures nonlinear environmental effects on plant communities while respecting the dependence of the data #rstats #dataviz ecogambler.netlify.app/blog/plant-c...
October 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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palaeoverse.bsky.social
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️25th September 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️

Join us next week to hear from @nmkphylo.bsky.social and @russellgarwood.co.uk, on “The Tree of Life and Death: What do Fossil Taxa Contribute to Morphological Phylogenetics?” 🌳🐣⚰️

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
Flyer for the next instalment of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series. The flyer features a yellow cartoon trilobite, and pictures of Drs. Mongiardino Koch and Garwood. Mongiardino Koch wears a grey t-shirt and glasses, while Garwood wears a white shirt and is holding a glass trophy.
September 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
jonathan-gdon.bsky.social
Human-driven extinction event not yet the "sixth mass extinction", but is very likely the largest extinction event of the last 66 million yrs. 🌏 🧪

Read about it in our new paper led by @jackhhatfield.bsky.social
and Katie Davis @anthropocenebio.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
The Greatest Extinction Event in 66 Million Years? Contextualising Anthropogenic Extinctions
Species and ecosystems are changing rapidly in response to human actions, but how does this compare with the deeper past? We review and compare the current extinction event to those over the last 66 ....
doi.org
September 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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gsimpson.bsky.social
🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out!

Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos...

Experimental parallel processing ⚡

New assemble() for building plots 🎨

Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪

Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨

👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/

#Rstats
An R package for working with generalized additive models
Graceful 'ggplot'-based graphics and utility functions for working with generalized additive models (GAMs) fitted using the 'mgcv' package.
gavinsimpson.github.io
August 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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anthropocenebio.bsky.social
We are seeking an enthusiastic Postdoctoral Research Associate with analytical skills and knowledge of biodiversity to plan and lead research on how biodiversity change is unfolding in the Anthropocene.

Find out more and apply by 10 August
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
July 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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rob-marchant.bsky.social
30 years in the making! Using multisite pollen data we show how Afromontane ecosystems responded to climate change and human interaction over the last 50,000 years
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/PB5HDV...
@anthropocenebio.bsky.social
@biogeography.bsky.social
@uoyenvironment.bsky.social
@york.ac.uk
June 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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inesismartins.bsky.social
BioTime v2 is out!!🚨 - Explore the largest #database of #biodiversity time-series studies in the world.

Now with more studies🗄️🔍👩‍💻, more species 🌱🦎🦇🐟🌳🐜🐚🪸🐀, more locations 🌐…just more!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Free to download, free to use!
#BioTime #Macroecology #GlobalChange
BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series
Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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anthropocenebio.bsky.social
New initiative brings together @york.ac.uk researchers & local communities to create shared visions of their future landscapes. Working with landowners & NGOs they'll explore the past & future of landscapes in the @northyorkmoors.org.uk & @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social

www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
Valuing Voices: A new collaboration for shared landscape futures
A new initiative aims to bring together University of York researchers with local communities to create shared visions of their future landscapes.
www.york.ac.uk
May 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
jonathan-gdon.bsky.social
Summer (paid) internship opportunity with two great colleagues here at @anthropocenebio.bsky.social, investigating avian (species, phylo. and functional) diversity throughout the Mesozoic.

Please share! 🌏 🧪

york.joinhandshake.co.uk/jobs/172817/...
YCEDE Research Assistant: Department of Biology & Leverhulme Centre, University of York | Handshake
£1260-1260 - Full-Time
york.joinhandshake.co.uk
April 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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anthropocenebio.bsky.social
Spot an animal on your way to work or school? See an insect on a plant near your home? Take a photo & upload it to iNaturalist to contribute to observations of biodiversity during the York City Nature Challenge from 25-28 April.

Find out more: yorkcitynaturechal.wixsite.com/yorkcnc/how-...
April 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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felixthehauskat.bsky.social
Interested in humans from a macro-ecological/macro-archaeological perspective? Here's the right postdoc for you international.au.dk/about/profil... - deadline tomorrow April 1st at 2359 CEST!
2-yr postdoc on human macroecology in a functional trait perspective Aarhus University (re-advertisement) - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Department of Heritage Studies, Aarhus University
international.au.dk
March 31, 2025 at 8:37 AM
jonathan-gdon.bsky.social
Just a few days left (Feb 2nd!) to apply for this fully funded, interdisciplinary PhD with Lindsey Gilson, Brennen Fagan and me at @anthropocenebio.bsky.social looking at past-present-future variation in savanna carbon stocks!

Please do share 🌏 🧪

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Fully Funded PhD in Biology: Past-present-future variations in carbon stocks, and trade-offs with other ecosystem services in the Kruger National Park, South Africa at University of York on FindAPhD.c...
PhD Project - Fully Funded PhD in Biology: Past-present-future variations in carbon stocks, and trade-offs with other ecosystem services in the Kruger National Park, South Africa at University of York...
www.findaphd.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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uk.theconversation.com
Guerrilla rewilders want to atone for past extinctions and create more vibrant ecosystems.
Lynx in Scotland: why illegal attempts to reintroduce lost species are surprisingly common
Guerrilla rewilders want to atone for past extinctions and create more vibrant ecosystems.
theconversation.com
January 15, 2025 at 7:59 AM
jonathan-gdon.bsky.social
Interested in the palaeoecology of savanna ecosystems, carbon stocks, ecosystem services and data science? Come and do your fully funded interdisciplinary PhD with me and some great people at @anthropocenebio.bsky.social, University of York, UK!

Please share! 🌏 🧪

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Fully Funded PhD in Biology: Past-present-future variations in carbon stocks, and trade-offs with other ecosystem services in the Kruger National Park, South Africa at University of York on FindAPhD.c...
PhD Project - Fully Funded PhD in Biology: Past-present-future variations in carbon stocks, and trade-offs with other ecosystem services in the Kruger National Park, South Africa at University of York...
www.findaphd.com
December 5, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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inesismartins.bsky.social
🚨Fully-Funded UK PhD Opportunity!🚨

I’m hiring a #PhD exploring the complexities of #biodiversity change across space and time 🌐. Join @cmbeale.bsky.social and me at #York and for this exciting opportunity!

Please share and/or message me if interested. More info and how to apply: shorturl.at/Zu7ED
November 28, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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anthropocenebio.bsky.social
Through collaborative, interdisciplinary research #LCAB aims to develop an improved understanding of biodiversity gains, as well as losses, and inform and influence how society responds to these changes.

Find out more about our work and meet our researchers: www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
LCAB researchers on a vist to Knepp
November 28, 2024 at 3:55 PM
jonathan-gdon.bsky.social
Does anyone know whether there is such a thing as an open access Holocene XRF geochem database?
November 18, 2024 at 9:18 AM
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jonathan-gdon.bsky.social
Interested in the palaeoecology of savanna ecosystems, carbon stocks and ecosystem services? Come and do your fully funded interdisciplinary PhD with us at at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, UoY!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Fully Funded PhD in Biology: Past-present-future variations in carbon stocks, and trade-offs with other ecosystem services in the Kruger National Park, South Africa at University of York on FindAPhD.c...
PhD Project - Fully Funded PhD in Biology: Past-present-future variations in carbon stocks, and trade-offs with other ecosystem services in the Kruger National Park, South Africa at University of York...
www.findaphd.com
November 7, 2024 at 8:29 AM
jonathan-gdon.bsky.social
Interested in the palaeoecology of savanna ecosystems, carbon stocks and ecosystem services? Come and do your fully funded interdisciplinary PhD with us at at the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, UoY!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Fully Funded PhD in Biology: Past-present-future variations in carbon stocks, and trade-offs with other ecosystem services in the Kruger National Park, South Africa at University of York on FindAPhD.c...
PhD Project - Fully Funded PhD in Biology: Past-present-future variations in carbon stocks, and trade-offs with other ecosystem services in the Kruger National Park, South Africa at University of York...
www.findaphd.com
November 7, 2024 at 8:29 AM
jonathan-gdon.bsky.social
How has biodiversity changed since the last ice age? Have humans had any effect on these changes? And what (if anything) does this mean for conservation?

theconversation.com/the-first-fa...
The first farmers often made landscapes more biodiverse – our research could have lessons for rewilding today
Scientists analysed thousands of years of pollen data and made a surprising discovery.
theconversation.com
July 26, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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killgrove.bsky.social
New from me for Live Science - ancient Argentinians ate enormous armadillos. 🏺🧪
Humans reached Argentina by 20,000 years ago — and they may have survived by eating giant armadillos, study suggests
The discovery of butchered bones belonging to a glyptodont, a giant relative of the armadillo, suggests that humans were living in Argentina 20,000 years ago.
www.livescience.com
July 17, 2024 at 8:29 PM
jonathan-gdon.bsky.social
New paper out looking at human - biodiversity relationships over the last ~12,000 years across the Earth.

Biodiversity increases in many locations associated with raised human landscape modification over pre-history!

Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 10, 2024 at 7:44 AM