Simon Harold
@simonharold.bsky.social
Chief Editor, Nature Ecology & Evolution. Views my own. nature.com/natecolevol/
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Our November Issue is now live: www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
Featuring research on 🧪
🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC
Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Featuring research on 🧪
🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC
Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Our November Issue is now live: www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
Featuring research on 🧪
🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC
Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Featuring research on 🧪
🦆Threats to migratory shorebirds
🌍Phosphorus constraints on global photosynthesis
🦠Evolution of the meerkat MHC
Cover shows a larva of an emperor moth, from Li et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New Comment 👇
Combining science and policy for a unified global soil biodiversity observatory www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Parnell et al. outline the Global Soil Biodiversity Observatory, an initiative that aims to develop standardized indicators to support evidence-based policymaking
Combining science and policy for a unified global soil biodiversity observatory www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Parnell et al. outline the Global Soil Biodiversity Observatory, an initiative that aims to develop standardized indicators to support evidence-based policymaking
Combining science and policy for a unified global soil biodiversity observatory - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The effective conservation of soil biodiversity and ecosystem services in the face of global-change threats requires improvements in national monitoring. We outline the Global Soil Biodiversity Observ...
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July 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
New Comment 👇
Combining science and policy for a unified global soil biodiversity observatory www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Parnell et al. outline the Global Soil Biodiversity Observatory, an initiative that aims to develop standardized indicators to support evidence-based policymaking
Combining science and policy for a unified global soil biodiversity observatory www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Parnell et al. outline the Global Soil Biodiversity Observatory, an initiative that aims to develop standardized indicators to support evidence-based policymaking
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Our July issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
🧪Featuring research on:
🌴Regenerating tropical forests
🐊Early archosauromorph reptiles
🦑Bobtail squid visual and nervous systems
Cover shows an orchid mantis, from Pei et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪Featuring research on:
🌴Regenerating tropical forests
🐊Early archosauromorph reptiles
🦑Bobtail squid visual and nervous systems
Cover shows an orchid mantis, from Pei et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Our July issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
🧪Featuring research on:
🌴Regenerating tropical forests
🐊Early archosauromorph reptiles
🦑Bobtail squid visual and nervous systems
Cover shows an orchid mantis, from Pei et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪Featuring research on:
🌴Regenerating tropical forests
🐊Early archosauromorph reptiles
🦑Bobtail squid visual and nervous systems
Cover shows an orchid mantis, from Pei et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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"We urge delegates to the third United Nations Ocean Conference to recognize that these critical risks require responses that move beyond symbolic commitments"
As the UN Ocean Conference #UNOC3 begins, Gattuso et al argue that US federal science cuts pose a profound global challenge rdcu.be/ep896 🌊
As the UN Ocean Conference #UNOC3 begins, Gattuso et al argue that US federal science cuts pose a profound global challenge rdcu.be/ep896 🌊
US federal cuts threaten international ocean science and diplomacy - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Nature Ecology & Evolution - US federal cuts threaten international ocean science and diplomacy
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June 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"We urge delegates to the third United Nations Ocean Conference to recognize that these critical risks require responses that move beyond symbolic commitments"
As the UN Ocean Conference #UNOC3 begins, Gattuso et al argue that US federal science cuts pose a profound global challenge rdcu.be/ep896 🌊
As the UN Ocean Conference #UNOC3 begins, Gattuso et al argue that US federal science cuts pose a profound global challenge rdcu.be/ep896 🌊
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News coverage on this article over in @science.org : www.science.org/content/arti...
June 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
News coverage on this article over in @science.org : www.science.org/content/arti...
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New Perspective 👇
Precision ecology for targeted conservation action www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Spake et al. argue that applied ecologists should draw on insight from medicine and marketing to provide decision-makers with specific, site-level intervention strategies
Precision ecology for targeted conservation action www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Spake et al. argue that applied ecologists should draw on insight from medicine and marketing to provide decision-makers with specific, site-level intervention strategies
Precision ecology for targeted conservation action - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The fields of medicine and marketing use large data volumes and computational power to target individuals. This Perspective argues that applied ecologists should draw on such approaches to provide dec...
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June 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
New Perspective 👇
Precision ecology for targeted conservation action www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Spake et al. argue that applied ecologists should draw on insight from medicine and marketing to provide decision-makers with specific, site-level intervention strategies
Precision ecology for targeted conservation action www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Spake et al. argue that applied ecologists should draw on insight from medicine and marketing to provide decision-makers with specific, site-level intervention strategies
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Our May issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
Featuring research on:
🦠 Primordial metabolism
🦋 Butterfly diversity
🪸 Reef restoration
Cover shows a prothonotary warbler at the entrance of a nest cavity. From Lipshutz et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Featuring research on:
🦠 Primordial metabolism
🦋 Butterfly diversity
🪸 Reef restoration
Cover shows a prothonotary warbler at the entrance of a nest cavity. From Lipshutz et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
May 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Our May issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
Featuring research on:
🦠 Primordial metabolism
🦋 Butterfly diversity
🪸 Reef restoration
Cover shows a prothonotary warbler at the entrance of a nest cavity. From Lipshutz et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Featuring research on:
🦠 Primordial metabolism
🦋 Butterfly diversity
🪸 Reef restoration
Cover shows a prothonotary warbler at the entrance of a nest cavity. From Lipshutz et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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In honour of David Attenborough's 99th birthday, why not revisit our series of tv reviews of Blue Planet II way back in 2017 (that's nothing in Attenborough years...). The links to the individual posts are threaded below : communities.springernature.com/posts/circum...
Circumnavigating Blue Planet II
Rounding up our expert tv reviews of Blue Planet II we identify the highs and (minimal) lows of a stunning series.
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May 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
In honour of David Attenborough's 99th birthday, why not revisit our series of tv reviews of Blue Planet II way back in 2017 (that's nothing in Attenborough years...). The links to the individual posts are threaded below : communities.springernature.com/posts/circum...
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New Progress article 👇
Plastic waste in the environment can modify habitats and change the mating, feeding and dispersal behaviours of organisms. Haney & Rochman discuss the emerging understanding of the ecological and evolutionary consequences of these effects www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plastic waste in the environment can modify habitats and change the mating, feeding and dispersal behaviours of organisms. Haney & Rochman discuss the emerging understanding of the ecological and evolutionary consequences of these effects www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plastic pollution has the potential to alter ecological and evolutionary processes in aquatic ecosystems - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Plastic waste in the environment can modify habitats and change the mating, feeding and dispersal behaviours of organisms. This Progress discusses the emerging understanding of the ecological and evol...
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April 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
New Progress article 👇
Plastic waste in the environment can modify habitats and change the mating, feeding and dispersal behaviours of organisms. Haney & Rochman discuss the emerging understanding of the ecological and evolutionary consequences of these effects www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plastic waste in the environment can modify habitats and change the mating, feeding and dispersal behaviours of organisms. Haney & Rochman discuss the emerging understanding of the ecological and evolutionary consequences of these effects www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Great @nature.com editorial and @naturepodcast.bsky.social series referencing ongoing coverage in @natureecoevo.bsky.social of the taxonomic furore regarding eponyms www.nature.com/articles/d41... (Check out rdcu.be/eja4P for the most recent NEE piece following last year's IBC votes)
Scientific naming conventions should keep in step with contemporary science
A three-part Nature Podcast series explores the importance of scientific naming conventions — and talks to researchers looking at how to make them more inclusive.
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April 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Great @nature.com editorial and @naturepodcast.bsky.social series referencing ongoing coverage in @natureecoevo.bsky.social of the taxonomic furore regarding eponyms www.nature.com/articles/d41... (Check out rdcu.be/eja4P for the most recent NEE piece following last year's IBC votes)
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New genomic & genetic insights into Mendel’s pea genes, including previously uncharacterised alleles
159 years after Mendel published his work, this is a real delight (especially for a geneticist)
🧪
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
159 years after Mendel published his work, this is a real delight (especially for a geneticist)
🧪
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genomic and genetic insights into Mendel’s pea genes - Nature
Characterization of the genetic architecture underlying the 7 pairs of contrasting traits studied by Mendel and the over 70 additional agronomic traits in pea (Pisum sativum) reveals their m...
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April 24, 2025 at 5:38 AM
New genomic & genetic insights into Mendel’s pea genes, including previously uncharacterised alleles
159 years after Mendel published his work, this is a real delight (especially for a geneticist)
🧪
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
159 years after Mendel published his work, this is a real delight (especially for a geneticist)
🧪
@nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Our April issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
Featuring research on:
🐟 mariculture impacts on biodiversity
🌿 genetics of plant camouflage
🫁 lung evolution
Cover shows an overwintering boreal fire in the Northwest Territories, Canada from Baltzer et al www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Featuring research on:
🐟 mariculture impacts on biodiversity
🌿 genetics of plant camouflage
🫁 lung evolution
Cover shows an overwintering boreal fire in the Northwest Territories, Canada from Baltzer et al www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Our April issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
Featuring research on:
🐟 mariculture impacts on biodiversity
🌿 genetics of plant camouflage
🫁 lung evolution
Cover shows an overwintering boreal fire in the Northwest Territories, Canada from Baltzer et al www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Featuring research on:
🐟 mariculture impacts on biodiversity
🌿 genetics of plant camouflage
🫁 lung evolution
Cover shows an overwintering boreal fire in the Northwest Territories, Canada from Baltzer et al www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Our latest Editorial discusses the impact of mariculture on biodiversity, and its role in sustainably meeting future food demands 🐟🦐 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Seafood for thought - Nature Ecology & Evolution
There is hope that sustainable mariculture can have a major role in helping to meet future global food demands, but this will require strategic planning to reduce its effects on marine biodiversity.
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April 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Our latest Editorial discusses the impact of mariculture on biodiversity, and its role in sustainably meeting future food demands 🐟🦐 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New Perspective:
Ecological network research typically focuses on flows of matter and energy, but species also exchange information signals and cues that influence behaviour and movement. Here, Brose et al argue that the information network of nature is a crucial aspect of community organization.
Ecological network research typically focuses on flows of matter and energy, but species also exchange information signals and cues that influence behaviour and movement. Here, Brose et al argue that the information network of nature is a crucial aspect of community organization.
Embedding information flows within ecological networks - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Ecological network research has typically focused on flows of matter and energy, but species also exchange information signals and cues that influence behaviour and movement. This Perspective argues t...
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April 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
New Perspective:
Ecological network research typically focuses on flows of matter and energy, but species also exchange information signals and cues that influence behaviour and movement. Here, Brose et al argue that the information network of nature is a crucial aspect of community organization.
Ecological network research typically focuses on flows of matter and energy, but species also exchange information signals and cues that influence behaviour and movement. Here, Brose et al argue that the information network of nature is a crucial aspect of community organization.
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Check out our March issue: nature.com/nrbd/volumes...
Review and opinion topics this month include:
🦴 Digitizing natural history collections
🌊 Seagrass ecosystems
💻 AI as a way to fill biodiversity gaps
🍃 Biodiversity offsets
🔁 Conservation translocations
🌎🧪
Review and opinion topics this month include:
🦴 Digitizing natural history collections
🌊 Seagrass ecosystems
💻 AI as a way to fill biodiversity gaps
🍃 Biodiversity offsets
🔁 Conservation translocations
🌎🧪
Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Volume 1 Issue 3, March 2025
Seagrass ecosystems support critical marine biodiversity and ecosystem function; inspired by the Review from Duarte et al.
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March 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Check out our March issue: nature.com/nrbd/volumes...
Review and opinion topics this month include:
🦴 Digitizing natural history collections
🌊 Seagrass ecosystems
💻 AI as a way to fill biodiversity gaps
🍃 Biodiversity offsets
🔁 Conservation translocations
🌎🧪
Review and opinion topics this month include:
🦴 Digitizing natural history collections
🌊 Seagrass ecosystems
💻 AI as a way to fill biodiversity gaps
🍃 Biodiversity offsets
🔁 Conservation translocations
🌎🧪
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Nature review article: Long-term studies provide unique insights into evolution
https://go.nature.com/3Rjd1ol
https://go.nature.com/3Rjd1ol
Long-term studies provide unique insights into evolution - Nature
Long-term studies provide insights into the complex interplay between evolutionary process and pattern across multiple systems and timescales.
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March 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Nature review article: Long-term studies provide unique insights into evolution
https://go.nature.com/3Rjd1ol
https://go.nature.com/3Rjd1ol
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Some scientists in the United States have told Nature that they are considering leaving the country in the wake of widespread disruption to research brought in by the Trump administration
Are you thinking about leaving?
https://go.nature.com/424ejK8
Are you thinking about leaving?
https://go.nature.com/424ejK8
These frustrated scientists want to leave the United States – do you? Take Nature’s poll
In the wake of the Trump administration’s funding freezes and job cuts, some researchers are planning their next move.
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March 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Some scientists in the United States have told Nature that they are considering leaving the country in the wake of widespread disruption to research brought in by the Trump administration
Are you thinking about leaving?
https://go.nature.com/424ejK8
Are you thinking about leaving?
https://go.nature.com/424ejK8
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A reminder that IPBES is seeking experts for the 2nd global assessment on biodiversity. This will be a hugely important report for the future of biodiversity. Experts are needed, especially, interdisciplinary experts and those from the Global South.
Application as an expert for the second global assessment | IPBES secretariat
Application is open!
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March 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A reminder that IPBES is seeking experts for the 2nd global assessment on biodiversity. This will be a hugely important report for the future of biodiversity. Experts are needed, especially, interdisciplinary experts and those from the Global South.
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New Species Spotlight 🦋
Joana Meier @joanameier.bsky.social is fascinated by the diversity and mimetic colour patterns of glasswing butterflies rdcu.be/edgxh
Joana Meier @joanameier.bsky.social is fascinated by the diversity and mimetic colour patterns of glasswing butterflies rdcu.be/edgxh
Glasswing butterfly (Mechanitis messenoides)
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Joana Meier is fascinated by the diversity and mimetic colour patterns of glasswing butterflies.
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March 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
New Species Spotlight 🦋
Joana Meier @joanameier.bsky.social is fascinated by the diversity and mimetic colour patterns of glasswing butterflies rdcu.be/edgxh
Joana Meier @joanameier.bsky.social is fascinated by the diversity and mimetic colour patterns of glasswing butterflies rdcu.be/edgxh
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The BMC Ecology and Evolution & BMC #Zoology annual image competition is now open! Submit your best photos for a chance to see your work featured in BMC Ecology and Evolution: https://go.sn.pub/ceq0z7
@biomedcentral.bsky.social #ecoevo #evosky 🌏
@biomedcentral.bsky.social #ecoevo #evosky 🌏
March 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The BMC Ecology and Evolution & BMC #Zoology annual image competition is now open! Submit your best photos for a chance to see your work featured in BMC Ecology and Evolution: https://go.sn.pub/ceq0z7
@biomedcentral.bsky.social #ecoevo #evosky 🌏
@biomedcentral.bsky.social #ecoevo #evosky 🌏
Love this month’s cover
Our March issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/...
Featuring research on:
🌲boreal forest resilience
🦠microbial community invasion
🧬evolutionary divergence of X–Y chromosome genes
Cover shows a micro-CT scan of the humpback #anglerfish from Miller et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Featuring research on:
🌲boreal forest resilience
🦠microbial community invasion
🧬evolutionary divergence of X–Y chromosome genes
Cover shows a micro-CT scan of the humpback #anglerfish from Miller et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Love this month’s cover
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A generalizable, functional-trait-based approach for quantifying the effects of disturbances to ecosystem services and economic outcomes, including under climate change, highlights the need for incorporating disturbances in ecosystem services assessments rdcu.be/ecSjg
Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate
Nature Ecology & Evolution - A generalizable, functional-trait-based approach for quantifying the effects of disturbances to ecosystem services and economic outcomes, including under climate...
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March 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A generalizable, functional-trait-based approach for quantifying the effects of disturbances to ecosystem services and economic outcomes, including under climate change, highlights the need for incorporating disturbances in ecosystem services assessments rdcu.be/ecSjg
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Meet Maud Horman-Fisher.
We don’t know what she looks like, or very much about her life. ❓
Still - we’d like to turn the spotlight on this former employee this #InternationalWomensDay, for a few particular reasons.
We don’t know what she looks like, or very much about her life. ❓
Still - we’d like to turn the spotlight on this former employee this #InternationalWomensDay, for a few particular reasons.
March 8, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Meet Maud Horman-Fisher.
We don’t know what she looks like, or very much about her life. ❓
Still - we’d like to turn the spotlight on this former employee this #InternationalWomensDay, for a few particular reasons.
We don’t know what she looks like, or very much about her life. ❓
Still - we’d like to turn the spotlight on this former employee this #InternationalWomensDay, for a few particular reasons.
My heart goes out to all researchers impacted by this assault on US science, these impacts will be felt around the world
In our latest Editorial we discuss the continuing damage being done to US science, and its impact on researchers and the environment 👇
Deep cuts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Deep cuts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
My heart goes out to all researchers impacted by this assault on US science, these impacts will be felt around the world