An ecosystem services game! I made a tool to teach how biodiversity supports us that's based on the output from my lab's recent global analysis of ecosystem function (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), and I personally think it's quite fun to play... substack.com/home/post/p-...

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A map of records of migrating Nutcracker - seemingly all Slender-billed (machrorhynchos) - from Southern Sweden in the last week. Also this great video of 48 migrating SW at Falsterbo today. Definitely something afoot with this species this autumn... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol-I...

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Fascinating paper about how women's campaigning against feathers in fashion led to the creation of the RSPB and helped transform Britain's relationship with birds

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New Paper: Ornaments evolve faster than weapons Combining a new theoretical model of sexually selected trait evolution with comparative analyses across ten clades, we suggest that drift in female preferences accelerates the rate of ornament evolution. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

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Social selection > sexual selection! 💪

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