Katherine Hébert
@katherinehebert.bsky.social
Hi! I'm (she/her) a Postdoc in the Quantitative Biodiversity Lab at McGill University working on how to measure biodiversity change. 📈🦉🐟🦎🐿🐳🐢
https://katherinehebert.github.io/
https://katherinehebert.github.io/
Blitz the Gap was recently featured in Le Devoir with an action shot of @laura-pollock.bsky.social blitzing the gap! 🌱 Seems crazy that there are only 9 days left to the project's first summer to fill gaps in Canadian #biodiversity data with #iNaturalist. We've reached >2,500,000 observations!
La biodiversité canadienne étalée sur une carte
Les espèces de la faune et de la flore canadiennes ont été répertoriées dans d’un projet scientifique citoyen.
www.ledevoir.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Blitz the Gap was recently featured in Le Devoir with an action shot of @laura-pollock.bsky.social blitzing the gap! 🌱 Seems crazy that there are only 9 days left to the project's first summer to fill gaps in Canadian #biodiversity data with #iNaturalist. We've reached >2,500,000 observations!
So many indicators, so little time! ⏰ We wrote a guide to streamline the choice of indicators for tracking biodiversity targets, thanks to key criteria, evaluation sheets, and most importantly - collaborations! 🌱 @biodiversite-quebec.ca
September 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
So many indicators, so little time! ⏰ We wrote a guide to streamline the choice of indicators for tracking biodiversity targets, thanks to key criteria, evaluation sheets, and most importantly - collaborations! 🌱 @biodiversite-quebec.ca
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Peter Soroye @wcscanada.org explains how @inaturalist.bsky.social data factors into Key Biodiversity Areas (@keybiodiversity.bsky.social).
Join them in Blitz The Gap 2025! blitzthegap.org
#CSEE2025
Join them in Blitz The Gap 2025! blitzthegap.org
#CSEE2025
July 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Peter Soroye @wcscanada.org explains how @inaturalist.bsky.social data factors into Key Biodiversity Areas (@keybiodiversity.bsky.social).
Join them in Blitz The Gap 2025! blitzthegap.org
#CSEE2025
Join them in Blitz The Gap 2025! blitzthegap.org
#CSEE2025
Last week, I had the very cool opportunity to talk about Blitz the Gap (our Canada-wide initiative to fill biodiversity data gaps this summer blitzthegap.org) on Moteur de Recherche at Radio-Canada. I had a blast! Listen here (in French) 🔊 shorturl.at/lJisw
Vendredi 4 juill. 2025 : Les premières frontières terrestres, et la psychologie des foules | OHdio | Radio-Canada
Écoutez l’épisode de l’émission Moteur de recherche : Vendredi 4 juill. 2025 : Les premières frontières terrestres, et la psychologie des foules
ici.radio-canada.ca
July 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Last week, I had the very cool opportunity to talk about Blitz the Gap (our Canada-wide initiative to fill biodiversity data gaps this summer blitzthegap.org) on Moteur de Recherche at Radio-Canada. I had a blast! Listen here (in French) 🔊 shorturl.at/lJisw
Reposted by Katherine Hébert
In case you missed my talk at #CSEE2025, you can explore your own collaborative networks and see a little summary on my website!
www.lucaseckert.ca/side-project...
www.lucaseckert.ca/side-project...
July 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
In case you missed my talk at #CSEE2025, you can explore your own collaborative networks and see a little summary on my website!
www.lucaseckert.ca/side-project...
www.lucaseckert.ca/side-project...
Reposted by Katherine Hébert
pollocklab.github.io/blitz-the-ga...
This summer, we are trying to Blitz the Gap 🕵️ in our knowledge about species 🦇🐛🦉🐟🐸🌿 that haven't been seen for 15, 30 or 50+ years in Canada!
Check it out!👇
This summer, we are trying to Blitz the Gap 🕵️ in our knowledge about species 🦇🐛🦉🐟🐸🌿 that haven't been seen for 15, 30 or 50+ years in Canada!
Check it out!👇
May 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
pollocklab.github.io/blitz-the-ga...
This summer, we are trying to Blitz the Gap 🕵️ in our knowledge about species 🦇🐛🦉🐟🐸🌿 that haven't been seen for 15, 30 or 50+ years in Canada!
Check it out!👇
This summer, we are trying to Blitz the Gap 🕵️ in our knowledge about species 🦇🐛🦉🐟🐸🌿 that haven't been seen for 15, 30 or 50+ years in Canada!
Check it out!👇
Reposted by Katherine Hébert
This map ⬇️ is from a challenge I designed that encourages people to go out and observe the major group of taxa 🐟🍄🐍🪲🦫🪻 that is unusually under-represented in their county 🇨🇦
A series of 🏆 Challenges 🏆 were designed by graduate students, researchers, avid iNat users, conservation practioners, and more throughout Canada to highlight species and places that deserve a little more attention:
pollocklab.github.io/blitz-the-gap/
pollocklab.github.io/blitz-the-gap/
May 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This map ⬇️ is from a challenge I designed that encourages people to go out and observe the major group of taxa 🐟🍄🐍🪲🦫🪻 that is unusually under-represented in their county 🇨🇦
One week until Blitz the Gap (www.blitzthegap.org) starts - a Canada-wide event to fill biodiversity data gaps with iNaturalist! @laura-pollock.bsky.social
Blitz the Gap 2025
www.blitzthegap.org
May 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
One week until Blitz the Gap (www.blitzthegap.org) starts - a Canada-wide event to fill biodiversity data gaps with iNaturalist! @laura-pollock.bsky.social
Reposted by Katherine Hébert
In our May issue: Journal Club from Katherine Hébert "Biodiversity change is more than the sum of its parts"
go.nature.com/4jY31h2
go.nature.com/4jY31h2
May 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
In our May issue: Journal Club from Katherine Hébert "Biodiversity change is more than the sum of its parts"
go.nature.com/4jY31h2
go.nature.com/4jY31h2
I wrote a journal club for Nature Reviews Biodiversity to reflect on the ways one of my favourite papers shaped (and keeps shaping) my research!
Spoiler alert: We need to summarise biodiversity change as a multi-species process, rather than a collection of separate trends
doi.org/10.1038/s443...
Spoiler alert: We need to summarise biodiversity change as a multi-species process, rather than a collection of separate trends
doi.org/10.1038/s443...
Biodiversity change is more than the sum of its parts - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Biodiversity change is more than the sum of its parts
doi.org
May 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I wrote a journal club for Nature Reviews Biodiversity to reflect on the ways one of my favourite papers shaped (and keeps shaping) my research!
Spoiler alert: We need to summarise biodiversity change as a multi-species process, rather than a collection of separate trends
doi.org/10.1038/s443...
Spoiler alert: We need to summarise biodiversity change as a multi-species process, rather than a collection of separate trends
doi.org/10.1038/s443...
Reposted by Katherine Hébert
A new study by @alexpigot.bsky.social and colleagues reveals the critical role of biodiversity in the functioning of ecosystems.
@uclcber.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@uclcber.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Macroecological rules predict how biomass scales with species richness in nature
Despite advances in theory and experiments, how biodiversity influences the structure and functioning of natural ecosystems remains debated. By applying new theory to data on 84,695 plant, animal, and...
www.science.org
March 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
A new study by @alexpigot.bsky.social and colleagues reveals the critical role of biodiversity in the functioning of ecosystems.
@uclcber.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@uclcber.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Global progress towards our 2030 biodiversity targets starts with local, short-term change - but are we equipped to capture these changes? 🤔 Well, the link between on-the-ground conservation and global indicators is not always clear. We have some ideas about how to clarify & strengthen this link 📝 :
Five recommendations to fill the blank space in indicators at local and short-term scales
The year 2030 is rapidly approaching. Building, monitoring, and reporting indicators to evaluate the 2030 targets in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodi…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Global progress towards our 2030 biodiversity targets starts with local, short-term change - but are we equipped to capture these changes? 🤔 Well, the link between on-the-ground conservation and global indicators is not always clear. We have some ideas about how to clarify & strengthen this link 📝 :
Reposted by Katherine Hébert
New work by @adbinley.bsky.social and others: 61% of endangered species in Canada lack research on what conservation actions work. We need more action-based research. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Endangered species lack research on the outcomes of conservation action
Summary of the available peer-reviewed literature for 209 terrestrial species at risk listed as Endangered in Canada. The number of species in each category is noted in the rectangle to the right of ...
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
New work by @adbinley.bsky.social and others: 61% of endangered species in Canada lack research on what conservation actions work. We need more action-based research. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Which indicators do we need to track and report biodiversity change? Our new preprint 📝 presents the indicator selection process we built to recommend 15 indicators for Québec's 2030 Nature Plan. We share guidelines, outcomes, and recommendations to choose your own shortlist! doi.org/10.32942/X2J...
January 6, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Which indicators do we need to track and report biodiversity change? Our new preprint 📝 presents the indicator selection process we built to recommend 15 indicators for Québec's 2030 Nature Plan. We share guidelines, outcomes, and recommendations to choose your own shortlist! doi.org/10.32942/X2J...
Reposted by Katherine Hébert
Check out our new paper in @ecography.bsky.social
led by Jamie Kass! big team of #R pkg developers show how to improve analysis standards by combining different pkgs for species distribution models #SDM, provide a #shiny app to catalog & explore them, 3 extensive tutorials. doi.org/10.1111/ecog...
led by Jamie Kass! big team of #R pkg developers show how to improve analysis standards by combining different pkgs for species distribution models #SDM, provide a #shiny app to catalog & explore them, 3 extensive tutorials. doi.org/10.1111/ecog...
Achieving higher standards in species distribution modeling by leveraging the diversity of available software
The increasing online availability of biodiversity data and advances in ecological modeling have led to a proliferation of open-source modeling tools. In particular, R packages for species distributi....
doi.org
November 24, 2024 at 9:27 AM
Check out our new paper in @ecography.bsky.social
led by Jamie Kass! big team of #R pkg developers show how to improve analysis standards by combining different pkgs for species distribution models #SDM, provide a #shiny app to catalog & explore them, 3 extensive tutorials. doi.org/10.1111/ecog...
led by Jamie Kass! big team of #R pkg developers show how to improve analysis standards by combining different pkgs for species distribution models #SDM, provide a #shiny app to catalog & explore them, 3 extensive tutorials. doi.org/10.1111/ecog...
Reposted by Katherine Hébert
I am super excited to join my fellow panelists to talk about why biodiversity 🌱 and climate 🌡️ must be considered together if we want to stop biodiversity loss. Register to watch on Thursday, November 21st at 12PM EST (in French) 📺! shorturl.at/UzWm3
November 19, 2024 at 10:32 PM
I am super excited to join my fellow panelists to talk about why biodiversity 🌱 and climate 🌡️ must be considered together if we want to stop biodiversity loss. Register to watch on Thursday, November 21st at 12PM EST (in French) 📺! shorturl.at/UzWm3
Reposted by Katherine Hébert
Time for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change...
"Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪
"Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪
November 14, 2024 at 12:59 AM
Time for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change...
"Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪
"Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪
Time for me to make my first post on here! Happy to announce that I'll be sitting at a table in the Montreal Planetarium this Friday night, ready to chat about what we should talk about when we summarise biodiversity change! 🐛🦋🦎🐍🦞🐡🐳🐘🦇🦉🍄🌳🌱 shorturl.at/FDlsq
La Nuit des chercheuses et des chercheurs
Espace pour la vie
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November 13, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Time for me to make my first post on here! Happy to announce that I'll be sitting at a table in the Montreal Planetarium this Friday night, ready to chat about what we should talk about when we summarise biodiversity change! 🐛🦋🦎🐍🦞🐡🐳🐘🦇🦉🍄🌳🌱 shorturl.at/FDlsq
Reposted by Katherine Hébert
An important column by @oaggimenez.bsky.social, on how he reacted when colleagues found a fundamental flaw in one of his published papers (thanks to code he and his coauthors had shared)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
My paper was proved wrong. After a sleepless night, here’s what I did next
As part of a healthy scientific community, I accepted my mistake — but I’ve come to realize that authors of reply papers need more support.
www.nature.com
October 11, 2024 at 4:25 PM
An important column by @oaggimenez.bsky.social, on how he reacted when colleagues found a fundamental flaw in one of his published papers (thanks to code he and his coauthors had shared)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...