Publishing analytical, practical and conceptual advances in methods across all areas of ecology and evolutionary biology. A @britishecologicalsociety.org journal.
Congratulations to Jenna Kline, winner of the BES 2025 Robert May prize in Methods in Ecology and Evolution! Jenna et al. set a benchmark with AI drones capturing real-time behaviour of group-living animals. @jennakline.bsky.social https://bit.ly/44jPtpW
Registration and call for abstracts for the BES Annual Meeting 2026 are now open 🔥 Our sold-out and Europe's largest ecology conference is returning this year to Birmingham's ICC on 14–17 December, and we can't wait to see you there. Find out more here 👇 https://tinyurl.com/2s3nupvu
What does it mean to be an ecologist? 🔎🔬📸 The Ecologists in Action category of our Capturing Ecology competition celebrates the people behind ecology, working to understand and protect our natural world. Submit your photos by 31 August 👇 BES members enter for free.
Ecology Photo Competition | Capturing Ecology 2026 | BESEnter the BES 2026 annual ecology photo competition and submit pictures of ecology that showcase nature, wildlife and research for a chance to win prizes.f.mtr.cool
We’re very excited to confirm that Rosemary Grant will be giving our inaugural online webinar in September. It’s free to all, so please look out for details of how to sign up for tickets.
Are our ecological conclusions built on shaky foundations? Our latest paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social highlights that Risk of Bias (RoB) assessment, crucial for ensuring the internal validity of research, is almost never used in #systematicreviews in eco & evo 📉 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/2041...
The latest study from #ProyectoSAFE has been accepted for publication in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! We look forward to sharing all the details with you soon. #RoadEcology @britishecologicalsociety.org @ebdonana.bsky.social
Our new #OA paper on importance of risk of bias assessment for ecology and evolutionary biology is out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. It was great to be part of this project brilliantly led by @anticac.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🚨Journal of Ecology is seeking an Associate Editor with data integrity expertise! 📈 join us in improving the clarity, transparency, & accessibility of ecological research. 🌷more information on the role and how to apply can be found here 👉️ buff.ly/R8z4TLe
New paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social that presents multinomialTS, a state-space model to test hypotheses about environmental and biotic drivers of community dynamics. Designed for irregular time series. Led by Quinn Asena&Tony Ives, me, et al besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Statistical analyses of ecological multinomial time series to identify environmental drivers and biotic interactionsUnderstanding the drivers of change in communities is a major goal of paleoecology and community ecology, but statistical inference from multivariate time series is challenged by relative (rather ...besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Here's a nice article by Hubert in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social blog about the history of our Mothbox project! methodsblog.com/2026/06/30/d...
Developing the Mothbox automated light trapBlog post provided by Hubert A. Szczygieł Origins Back in 2022, I was in Panama working on landscape-scale biodiversity monitoring. The system I was testing included a lot of standard approaches – …methodsblog.com
Day 2 of #ExE2026 ! Thank you to all our sponsor journals. I am proud to say ExE is sponsored strictly by society and non-profit journals! 👌📄 A huge thanks to our journal sponsors (see next post), who take their APC revenue and use it to support the sci communities like ExE ❤️ 1/2
🚨We're recruiting for a Commissioning Editor 🌱Join us in playing a vital role in bringing new ideas to Applied Ecology 🌏Commission new Reviews, Perspectives, Practitioner's Perspectives and Policy Directions as part of a global team 🔎Find out more below: apply.workable.com/britishecolo...
🌈 As #PrideMonth draws to a close, we'd like to celebrate people helping make #entomology more inclusive, accessible and welcoming for all. Huge congrats to Connor Butler on his feature in the BBC for his work connecting people with nature & #InsectScience through #QueerEcology 🦋
Love Pride but hate big parades? These places are doing it differentlyAt the RES, we believe insect science is for everyone, and we're proud to celebrate those helping build a more diverse, accessible, and inspiring future for entomology.buff.ly
📢 Call for proposals! This Special Feature explores the advancement of ecovoltaics - the development of ecologically informed photovoltaic (PV) designs that co-prioritise PV electricity generation with ecosystem function 🌿💡 ⏰ Submit by 31 July buff.ly/GoQvVTz
Happy Pride from those of us at BES Macro! We celebrate all axes of diversity in our science and in our members. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
📣 We're recruiting for an Associate Editor with data integrity expertise! 📊 join us in improving the clarity, transparency, & accessibility of ecological research. 🌿 more information on the role and how to apply can be found here 👉️ buff.ly/R8z4TLe
25 years, 4 colonies across the Arctic: satellite snowmelt data & nest monitoring show that earlier snowmelt advances hatching in little auks — but fitness consequences are mixed. Will earlier breeding help in future? 📝 paper: buff.ly/G49YbQW 🎙️ podcast: buff.ly/LPMOT9w 🧊 blog: buff.ly/lMPDKkD
📣 We're recruiting for an Associate Editor with data integrity expertise! 📊 join us in improving the clarity, transparency, & accessibility of ecological research. 🌿 more information on the role and how to apply can be found here 👉️ buff.ly/R8z4TLe