Trophy hunting is a divisive topic, and so it’s unsurprising that debate is emotive and fierce, but is it crossing a line? In new research, we characterise the trophy hunting debate on Twitter - get ready for a bumpy ride… Uni of Reading The University of Sheffield conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

SCOOP: Twitter’s new API access starts at $42,000 a month for 0.3% of Twitter’s data. My latest for WIRED speaks to researchers who say that’s a non-starter wired.com/story/twitter-…

After a bit of back and forth with the journal, the article is now confirmed as open access!

|| NEW RESEARCH || Mechanisms underpinning community stability along a latitudinal gradient: insights from a niche‐based approach 📄 bit.ly/3Jx0Q33 Luke C Evans

Causal inference and large‐scale expert validation shed light on the drivers of SDM accuracy and variance onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dd…

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New on global conservation science: Dissection of trophy hunting debate on social media: few support, many oppose & many abusive posts. Knowing this can help contextualizing public responses & communicating conservation evidence. Evans et al. Conservation Biology conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

New in Conservation Letters, we propose that conservation culturomics/iEcology approaches should be embedded within the KM Global Biodiversity Framework. These approaches can help us track multiple targets at the interface of human-nature interactions. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Great to see this study on booming blue tit populations using data from Insect Survey and Breeding Bird Surveys Luke C Evans UoR BioSci RSPB Science Faculty of Biological Sciences skynews.icu/science/559542…

New open access Ecology Letters paper showing how insect abundance affects birds, from analysis of monitoring data from 100s of UK sites collected by expert volunteers. Uni of Reading team led by Luke C Evans collaborators Bill Kunin Leeds & RSPB Science onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

New in nature, we show that commonly applied approaches have failed to accurately represent global trends in biodiversity. So what's the problem and what's the solution? nature.com/articles/s4158…