Sean Pang

Photo of construction cranes silhouetted against a hazy, warm-toned sky. A construction site is visible below. A green-teal overlay covers the lower half. IPBES logo in the top right reads "Science and Policy for People and Nature." Text reads: "IPBES #BizBiodiversity Assessment. Public disclosure of lobbying activities is crucial for maintaining trust in the integrity of businesses."

The new IPBES #BizBiodiversity Assessment Report makes clear: business transparency is essential to maintain trust. 📢

Access the full media kit, including the Summary for Policymakers (SPM), multilingual press releases, and various multimedia assets at this link: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media

Good morning #BES2025! Curious about demographic niches? Decomposing the vital rates that make up a species niche? Head down to poster B14.26 later today to find out more! Let's chat science! @britishecologicalsociety.org

Remembering #JaneGoodall and her life's dedication to understanding primates, conservation, and reaching out to the next generation of nature lovers. There's always a bit of sadness, in hearing about the passing of great figures, but more important is that we remember their work.

Even when the sky is falling, there will be a hole for you to squeeze through
#AcademicLife #lifequotes

‘There will be nothing left’: researchers fear collapse of science in Argentina One year into Javier Milei’s presidency, scientists are exiting the country in the face of big budget cuts.

So sad to read this 😢

As someone working in 🇦🇷 for 10+ years I know that Argentine colleagues always had to face difficult and often unpredictable conditions. But the Milei government is dismantling Argentina's scientific system with unprecedented aggression - www.nature.com/articles/d41...

EvoDemoS 2025 EvoDemoS 2025 International Conference. The local organising committee welcomes you to the 10th International Conference of the Evolutionary Demography Society, hosted at Pembroke College, Oxford, bet...

Deadline for the EvoDemoS conference 2 wks away! Join us at @PembrokeOxford @UniofOxford to discuss the breath and depth of demographic theory and applications in Sept evodemo2025.weebly.com Please retweet @biology.ox.ac.uk @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

An important but often overlooked aspect of rewilding or any restoration science is that IT TAKES TIME for nature to come back! We may remove the farm and even seed the land, but what if the little mice, katydid, spider, or bird is 200 km away? Conservation needs to be active!

Exciting work done by @erolafenollosa.bsky.social as part of her #MSCA with @robsalgo.bsky.social @salgoteam.bsky.social, also with Natalie Briscoe and Antoine Guisan @ecospat-ch.bsky.social! It was a pleasure to have worked on this piece with everyone!

📌Essential reading for: Ecologists modeling invasive species, Conservation biologists investigating global change impacts, Anyone building models beyond correlative SDMs!

📚The advantages, risks, data requirements, and modelling pitfalls, all compiled neatly for your viewing!

👀In a walnut-sized-shell
– Systematic review of MNMs in invasion biology
– Clear roadmap for building MNMs with real physiological data
– Highlights risks of niche shifts, source–sink bias, and correlative SDM failures
– Potential for MNMs predicting over novel environments

Powerful yet challenging: mechanistic niche models for predicting invasive species potential distribution under climate change Risk assessments of invasive species present one of the most challenging applications of species distribution models (SDMs) due to the fundamental issues of distributional disequilibrium, niche chang...

🚨New review out in @ecography.bsky.social!
🔥Mechanistic niche models (MNMs) are the future—but they’re not plug-and-play.
Our paper lays out how and when to use MNMs to predict invasive species distributions under climate change.
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Big Thanks to @econovoau.bsky.social and @anneblachovergaard.bsky.social for helping me realise this Talk and for hosting this at @au.dk!
#ADHD #Neurodiversity #Academia #MentalHealth #ADHDAwareness #InvisibleDisabilities

In the talk, I covered how ADHD shows up at work:
🔹Missed deadlines
🔹Overwhelm, burnout
🔹Mental spirals + emotional regulation
But also:
🔹Creative ideas and divergent thinking
🔹Passion-driven deep dives
🔹A very different — but valuable — way of thinking
Compassion, not control, helps us thrive

I gave my first ADHD talk 2 weeks ago.
Posting now because… ADHD.
But this was also my first step in speaking publicly and raising awareness about what ADHD really is — especially in academic and workplace spaces. 🧠

#ECONOVOStories 🌍✨

@joe-atkinson.bsky.social, @mattkerr.bsky.social, @cmlmagneville.bsky.social, and @seh-pang.bsky.social attended the BES Annual Meeting 2024, sharing insights on from their research at ECONOVO!
#ECONOVO #Ecology #Biodiversity #AarhusUniversity #BritishEcologicalSociety

Integrating #MetabolicScalingTheory into species distribution models...MetaRange.jl: A Dynamic and Metabolic Species Range Model for Plant Species onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Can 19th-century land use still influence today’s grasslands?
Our research suggests it can—though the effects are subtle! Led by Gabri Midolo, our new article in Landscape Ecology explores how historical land use shapes the plant composition of current grasslands.

Global potential for natural regeneration in deforested tropical regions - Nature An estimated area of 215 million hectares has the potential for natural forest regeneration across tropical forested countries and biomes, representing an above-ground carbon sequestration potential o...

There is a huge potential for #tropical #forest #regeneration, either naturally or through #restoration efforts. Several countries stand out, Brazil, Indonesia, China, Mexico and Colombia. While there is a lot of doom-and-gloom in science, there is also hope.

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