Uri Roll
@uriroll.bsky.social
Conservation scientist, interested in biodiversity, spatial ecology, macroecology, culturomics, and iEcology.
Based at the Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Ben-Gurion University.
http://www.uriroll.com/
Based at the Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Ben-Gurion University.
http://www.uriroll.com/
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🎨🌿 NEW! “Bridging worlds: exploring synergies between the arts and biodiversity conservation” in FEE
How can art & science team up to protect nature?
🖌️ Inspire creativity & empathy
🎭 Communicate complex issues
🌍 Build connections & action
👉 doi.org/10.1002/fee....
How can art & science team up to protect nature?
🖌️ Inspire creativity & empathy
🎭 Communicate complex issues
🌍 Build connections & action
👉 doi.org/10.1002/fee....
November 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🎨🌿 NEW! “Bridging worlds: exploring synergies between the arts and biodiversity conservation” in FEE
How can art & science team up to protect nature?
🖌️ Inspire creativity & empathy
🎭 Communicate complex issues
🌍 Build connections & action
👉 doi.org/10.1002/fee....
How can art & science team up to protect nature?
🖌️ Inspire creativity & empathy
🎭 Communicate complex issues
🌍 Build connections & action
👉 doi.org/10.1002/fee....
Reposted by Uri Roll
How the #arts and #science can jointly protect #nature – our new article on building synergies between #art and #biodiversity #conservation now published in in Front. Ecol. Environ. @esajournals.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
October 31, 2025 at 7:56 AM
How the #arts and #science can jointly protect #nature – our new article on building synergies between #art and #biodiversity #conservation now published in in Front. Ecol. Environ. @esajournals.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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What was the composition of mammalian biomass on our planet in 1850? Our new study is now out in @natcomms.nature.com
1/ Wild mammals now comprise ≈5% of mammal biomass globally. How did this come to be? In our new study in @NatureComms, we estimate that in 1850, wild mammals comprised ≈50% of mammal biomass globally www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
What was the composition of mammalian biomass on our planet in 1850? Our new study is now out in @natcomms.nature.com
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Human-induced pressures are expected to intensify this century. @uriroll.bsky.social &co present #ProactiveConservationIndex, a new tool for #conservation prioritization regarding future threats for any group of species, & apply it to all terrestrial #vertebrates @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3WVRpRH
October 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Human-induced pressures are expected to intensify this century. @uriroll.bsky.social &co present #ProactiveConservationIndex, a new tool for #conservation prioritization regarding future threats for any group of species, & apply it to all terrestrial #vertebrates @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3WVRpRH
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Conservation runs on digital outreach campaigns—videos, memes, hashtags.
But do they work? In a new blog for @ConsEvidence, Gabriel Caetano & I evaluate talk about the evaluation of two campaigns using culturomics (big digital data).
👉 about.conservationevidence.com/2025/09/25/c...
But do they work? In a new blog for @ConsEvidence, Gabriel Caetano & I evaluate talk about the evaluation of two campaigns using culturomics (big digital data).
👉 about.conservationevidence.com/2025/09/25/c...
Culturomics: a low-cost opportunity to evaluate conservation campaigns | About Conservation Evidence
Diogo Veríssimo and Gabriel Caetano share their new research on the effects of conservation awareness campaigns, using Wikipedia page views as an indicator ...
about.conservationevidence.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Conservation runs on digital outreach campaigns—videos, memes, hashtags.
But do they work? In a new blog for @ConsEvidence, Gabriel Caetano & I evaluate talk about the evaluation of two campaigns using culturomics (big digital data).
👉 about.conservationevidence.com/2025/09/25/c...
But do they work? In a new blog for @ConsEvidence, Gabriel Caetano & I evaluate talk about the evaluation of two campaigns using culturomics (big digital data).
👉 about.conservationevidence.com/2025/09/25/c...
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📢 NEW PAPER 📢 Are your digital conservation campaigns moving the needle? 🤔
New study combines #ConservationCulturomics + synthetic control to measure impact! This offers a cost-effective evaluation framework #Conservation #ImpactMeasurement #DigitalMarketing #Biodiversity
Link shorturl.at/GRRdQ
New study combines #ConservationCulturomics + synthetic control to measure impact! This offers a cost-effective evaluation framework #Conservation #ImpactMeasurement #DigitalMarketing #Biodiversity
Link shorturl.at/GRRdQ
September 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
📢 NEW PAPER 📢 Are your digital conservation campaigns moving the needle? 🤔
New study combines #ConservationCulturomics + synthetic control to measure impact! This offers a cost-effective evaluation framework #Conservation #ImpactMeasurement #DigitalMarketing #Biodiversity
Link shorturl.at/GRRdQ
New study combines #ConservationCulturomics + synthetic control to measure impact! This offers a cost-effective evaluation framework #Conservation #ImpactMeasurement #DigitalMarketing #Biodiversity
Link shorturl.at/GRRdQ
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Our publication is out! We tracked 8 groups of social birds (#babblers) in the #desert, summer to winter. Did their use of man-made habitat shifted with season? It did!. #science #ecology @odedkeynan.bsky.social @uriroll.bsky.social @odedberger-tal.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
The value of human resources changes with season for a social desert passerine bird - npj Biodiversity
npj Biodiversity - The value of human resources changes with season for a social desert passerine bird
www.nature.com
April 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Our publication is out! We tracked 8 groups of social birds (#babblers) in the #desert, summer to winter. Did their use of man-made habitat shifted with season? It did!. #science #ecology @odedkeynan.bsky.social @uriroll.bsky.social @odedberger-tal.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Big thank you to my postdoctoral advisors @odedberger-tal.bsky.social and @uriroll.bsky.social, as well as a wonderful team including @constantiro.bsky.social, Krista Oswald, Kevin Gaston, and Adewale Awoyemi for thinking through these ideas collectively! (4/4)
April 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Big thank you to my postdoctoral advisors @odedberger-tal.bsky.social and @uriroll.bsky.social, as well as a wonderful team including @constantiro.bsky.social, Krista Oswald, Kevin Gaston, and Adewale Awoyemi for thinking through these ideas collectively! (4/4)
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This interesting new paper provides an overview of the extent of vertebrate #biodiversity potentially threatened by ongoing and future dryland loss. 🌍🧪
go.nature.com/4f8boF1
go.nature.com/4f8boF1
Global evaluation of current and future threats to drylands and their vertebrate biodiversity - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Drylands face multiple anthropogenic stressors globally. Here the authors assess protected area coverage and current threats of vertebrate diversity in global drylands and project impacts under future...
www.nature.com
July 8, 2024 at 4:38 PM
This interesting new paper provides an overview of the extent of vertebrate #biodiversity potentially threatened by ongoing and future dryland loss. 🌍🧪
go.nature.com/4f8boF1
go.nature.com/4f8boF1
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Our project on using iEcology & Conservation Culturomics in #bioinvasions is on Bluesky too :) @invaculture.net
#Culturomics and #iEcology provide novel opportunities to study human and social dimensions of #alienspecies #introductions – our new study is now out in Trends in Ecology and Evolution doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... #GAČR #InvasiveSpecies #nonnative #digitaldata #socialmedia #conservationculturomics
December 11, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Our project on using iEcology & Conservation Culturomics in #bioinvasions is on Bluesky too :) @invaculture.net