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New postdoc position starting this summer with the Living Data Project based in Montréal with @JennSunday Timothée Poisot, Ph.D. Sandra Binning 🇨🇦🇺🇦 and I. We seek someone interested in saving data, teaching, reproducible research and ecological models. qbiodiversity.org/join-us/

For a close-up of the black (purple) hole, see the beautiful globe of all gbif observations from Guillaume Larocque glaroc.github.io/gbif_globe/

Now with a filter for certain taxonomic groups, highlighting the large discrepancies between groups. glaroc.github.io/gbif_globe/

We have 2 postdoc positions open in Quantitative #Biodiversity and Conservation McGill University #Montreal Come join Laura Pollock and I McGill Biology Keywords: Network connectivity, monitoring, indicators, spatial planning Details + salary here 👇 Please RT far and wide thegonzalezlab.org/postdoc-positi…

Coming to #ESA2022? Want to grab a coffee or get some work done between talks? I've lived in #Montreal for 7 years now and these are my top 10 (in no order) recommendations for cafes near Palais des Congres ! 1/11 Full Map: shorturl.at/bnRVZ CSEE SCEE Meetings Ecological Society

Want to learn how we can design better protected areas that prioritize #biodiversity AND #climatechange resilience? Come check out my talk at #ESA2022 #CSEE2022! eventscribe.net/2022/ESA/fsPop… I promise nice maps and a fun trivia! Laura Pollock Ecological Society ESA Student Section CSEE SCEE Meetings

Brian Leung, McGill Biology Prof., quoted here explaining what the scary numbers in the Living Planet report say about the state of nature worldwide. vox.com/platform/amp/d…

We are at #COP15montreal advocating for indicators that value the Tree of Life in conservation. Check out our events and position paper here: pdtf.org/cbd

Join us at #CBDCOP15 for a lively discussion on conserving weird and wonderful species across the tree of life! Tues 13th Dec 10AM - 12 at Intercontinental #COP15

Check it out! We show the potential for improving biodiversity in tree plantings relative to business-as-usual (planting the same common species repeatedly). Led by Olivia St-Laurent (honours McGill Biology) with Karel Mokany CSIRO. New plantings dataset appliedecologistsblog.com/2023/01/06/for…

A fantastic session at the CSBQ-QCBS retreat on visioning a #biodiversity data culture + methods: for remote sensing CABO Science by Etienne Laliberté, collections with Canadensys GBIF @biodiversity.social/@gbif by Anne Bruneau, Living Data Project by Laura Pollock and GEO BON BON-in-a-Box by Jean Michel Lord.

Super excited to part of the Center in AI and Biodiversity Change with some brilliant Canadian and US collaborators! We are building an early warning system for northward colonizing species and strengthening the link between ecology and AI mcgill.ca/channels/chann…

Breaking news! Research out today, led by EDGE’s @rikkigumbs and published in Science Advances, shows that prioritising evolutionary history can be a viable strategy for conserving utilised bird species and maintaining benefits to people. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Thread (1/10)

At #GEOBONconf2023? Come to our workshop ‘tracking a moving target’ where we collectively identify strengths and gaps in biodiversity indicators across time, space, and uses. Either 2pm or 4pm today.

Our review "Novel community data in ecology-properties and prospects" now out Trends in Ecology & Evolution - 50 day free access via authors.elsevier.com/a/1i3CTcZ3WyH4T Joint work of an iDiv Biodiversity Research working group with Jonathan Chase Gurutzeta Guillera alexbush Loïc Pellissier Maximilian Pichler Laura Pollock @ZurellLab

From mallees to mountain ash, SLA is coordinated with eucalypt tree stature, resprouting, stem construction, and fruit size publish.csiro.au/BT/BT23028 Excited to share the team effort. Antoinette Portelli Dr Saras Windecker 2 Wills, Laura Pollock Rohan Khot. support by Eucalypt Australia

Day two of our #allhands meeting is underway. Starting the morning with an #ideation session on mapping the abc universe. Who are our partners, what are our points of connection, what future directions exist?

Fantastic opening keynote by Laura Pollock at CSBQ-QCBS conference #CSBQ2024 “The subtle art of forecasting #biodiversity change” Rich insights on the strengths + limits of species distribution models for projecting and protecting Canada’s biodiversity (eg. 30 x 30).

|| OUT NOW || Vulnerability of terrestrial vertebrate food webs to anthropogenic threats in Europe 📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… @lmjoconnor Laura Pollock @LuiMajo74 Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine Mike Harfoot