Purabi Deshpande

Wrapping up my two-week research visit to the ECONOVO center at @au.dk today! Feeling grateful to have had this opportunity and looking forward to developing the project we planned here with Celina Aznarez @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social , Ujala Ejaz and @jcsvenning.bsky.social .

We are offering registration fee waivers to support early-career conservationists and practitioners facing financial barriers to attend the next ECCB @eccb26leiden.bsky.social in Leiden!

📅 Deadline March 15th
📢 Results by April 5th

Details & how to apply: www.scbeurope.org/en/actualiti...

As we return to a pre-WW2 order, the middle powers face a challenge With economic stagnation and extremes of inequality comes corrosion of trust in democratic institutions. So Trump may be a symptom, not a cause, of what Carney called a "rupture" with the post-WW2 ord...

Well worth a read www.bbc.com/news/article...

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R

Delighted to publish Forum Article by @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social et al:

"Journals run by learned societies or universities have more ethical policies while being cheaper and similarly cited"

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Thank you for choosing JEB - we encourage the support of #societyjournals

Did you publish with researchers outside your lab during grad school? Or published as faculty with a student not under your supervision?

I’m collecting examples of cross-lab collaboration in graduate training.

Please share your experience & this post!

Repository: bit.ly/4pT66BE

Interested in #RaptorResearch and #MovementEcology? 🧪
The #AnimalEcology Lab at @utu.fi has an open #PhDposition!

We’ll be tagging WTEs with cutting-edge #GPS devices to study their early-life journeys.

Curious to learn more? See the advert: shorturl.at/HMZ84

#PhDOpening #PhDChat #BioLogging

Northern populations of Finnish raccoon dogs are active at the range edge and unhindered by movement boundaries - Movement Ecology Studying movements of invasive species is important for controlling their spread into new areas and understanding how their populations can be controlled in the regions where they have already spread....

Read more about these results from work done by @tonilaaksonen.bsky.social, @pyrynestori.bsky.social, me and others (not on bluesky yet!) here: 1. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
2. movementecologyjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Here's an update about #raccoondogs in #Finland! Extensive #hunting has made a dent in the number of raccoon dogs and this is reflected in reduced nest predation of #waterfowl. Also! Raccoon dogs in the north move longer distances than those in the south, unhindered by barriers like roads. (1/2)

Five reasons urban trees make sense Comment: The trees lining our streets and parks are quietly delivering a host of benefits – from cooling and cleaning the air to improving our health and wellbeing.

Native trees support specialist invertebrates, fungi and birds that co-evolved with them - if we only plant exotics, we lose those relationships and end up with cities dominated by generalist species like sparrows and pigeons.🧪🌏 #urban #trees #urbanforest #biodiversity

Today IUCN has officially declared the Slender-billed Curlew extinct, marking the first known global extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species whose range included mainland Europe, North Africa, and West Asia.

Read more here ⬇️
www.unep-aewa.org/fr/node/6632

Interested in #alien species - check our graduated framework for #nativeness here 🌿🌐 #invasivespecies #nonnative

A graduated nativeness definition for overcoming dilemmas and difficulties of vascular plant species Nativeness is a concept central to biodiversity conservation and invasion biology, but there are several problems related to a classic binary nativeness definition. Dilemmas arise from the dynamic na...

Nativeness cannot be binary, if is to make sense and be practically applicable at the scale of countries.
We propose a graduated definition, in which species native to neighbouring territories are considered "near-native"
doi.org/10.1002/oik....

The 8th European Congress for Conservation Biology will take place in Leiden, NL! They will explore how #biodiversity can be safeguarded effectively in the long term. First call is open now! Check out: eccb26leiden.eu/calls/ for more info, we are looking forward to your contributions!

📢🌿Available #traits #FunctionalTraits PhD position in my group @westsyduhie.bsky.social, closes 30th Oct. Topics: “Climate adaptations in Australian native grasses”; OR “Plant resource economics”. Apply via WSU Online Portal. Eligibility and other key info here: wrightlab.wordpress.com/news/

Apply for funding to advance science–policy collaboration in your country

- Up to AUD 9,500 in funding
- Mentorship by leading experts
- Capacity-building at national or institutional levels

Deadline: 25 August 2025
https://council.science/news/seeds-of-science-launch/

Global change reshuffles species communities: who could interact with whom? We introduce new ways to measure the capacity of species & communities to rewire interactions, which can be used to predict how ecological networks might adapt to changing conditions.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New on European conservation science:

Urban impervious surfaces sharply reduce reproductive success in great & blue tits. 50% increase near nests can halve number of fledglings ➡️ cities shape reproductive outcomes for wildlife.

Corsini & Szulkin in Conservation Letters doi.org/10.1111/conl...

New on European conservation science:

Concrete-heavy habitats drastically reduce the reproductive success of two urban bird species in Warsaw, Poland. More greenery & natural surfaces could help mitigate these effects.

Corsini & Szulkin in Conservation Letters doi.org/10.1111/conl...

Syken postdoc-ohjelman rekrytointi jatkuu seitsemällä avoimella paikalla Valtion T&K-rahoitukseen perustuvaan tutkimuslaitosten yhteiseen postdoc-ohjelmaan rekrytoidaan yhteensä 85 tutkijaa, joista ensimmäiset 35 paikkaa on nyt avattu ja loput täytetään vuoden 2025 aikana.

Syken postdoc-ohjelman rekrytointi jatkuu 7 avoimella paikalla! Avatut paikat keskittyvät sellaisiin luonnon ekosysteemien ja yhteiskunnan sekä talouden järjestelmien tutkimuskysymyksiin, joihin kohdistuu tiedollisia odotuksia hallinnossa ja elinkeinoelämässä. Lue lisää: www.syke.fi/fi/tietoa-me...

Academic mentees thrive in big groups, but survive in small groups - Nature Human Behaviour Using longitudinal genealogical data on mentor–mentee relations and their publications, the authors find that mentees trained in larger groups tend to exhibit superior academic performance compared wi...

Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Now out in npj Biodiversity: Multispecies relations shape bird-feeding practices

Link: doi.org/10.1038/s441...
From the bird-feeding section of
@helsinkirats.bsky.social w/ @informedbirds.bsky.social @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social

A short thread:
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@oikosfinland.bsky.social

Hello to everyone at Oikos Finland 2025! I will be presenting the first results of our experiments with using scent as chemical camouflage tomorrow in session A4 predation. See you there!

Happy to share we have a new postdoc position in "Biogeography of genetic diversity changes or Macrogenetics" at @utu.fi to work on large-scale patterns of genetic diversity using Lepidoptera= moths and butterflies 🦋🦋 Applications are open until March 10!
ats.talentadore.com/apply/tutkij...

The web-pages of our research group @hkilabornithology.bsky.social @nathist.bsky.social @helsinkiuni.bsky.social have been updated, incl. a video about our work. Please have a look!

www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...

youtu.be/ugiyHy86taw

Thank you! Hope its useful! :)

Its been a long wait, but some work from my Masters' thesis is also finally out 😁

Changing Bird Migration Patterns Have Potential to Enhance Dispersal of Alien Plants From Urban Centres Urban birds opportunistically eat fruit from native and alien plants in Helsinki, Finland. As autumns get warmer with climate change, these bird–plant interactions could help alien species spread out...

Using my debut BlueSky post to announce that my final #PhD paper is out! We find that #birds in #Helsinki eat fruits available in the #city without discriminating by origin. Read more here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social @johanssonnr.bsky.social