Wow, this is utterly insane and really sad for those of us dedicated to 100% human-generated science.
Julian Olden
The EPT association with aerial insectivorous birds remained robust after accounting for riparian covariates describing the extent of urban, agricultural and canopy cover that may influence the magnitude and availability of emergent insect prey to foraging birds.
Since ChatGPT came online in late 2022, grant application numbers across 12 UK and EU funding bodies have increased by *57%*.
For MSCA fellowships the number is *+142%*.
I do believe that what we’re doing is insane and that we need to stop doing it IMMEDIATELY.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Julian Olden
Benjamin Braun
We combined aquatic insect data from >140,000 river sites with over 83 million bird surveys from eBird. After accounting for spatiotemporal proximity & survey effort during the insect-emergence & bird-breeding period, the final dataset had 14,177 locations & over 2 million bird obs for 288 species.
Aerial insectivorous birds exhibit more than 3-fold higher prevalence at sites with high compared with low EPT (insect) richness. This linkage holds across river types describing hydrology, temperature & geomorphology, with the strongest gains occurring in rivers with low baseline bird prevalence.
Continental-scale evidence that emergent aquatic insects sustain riparian birds, thus freshwater conservation offers considerable co-benefits to terrestrial ecosystems! A fun collaboration w/ postdoc @cschuerings.bsky.social
@uwsafs.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
This study offers strong evidence that a mechanism long established in small-scale analyses - namely, emergent aquatic insects fueling terrestrial predators - scales up to continental biodiversity patterns. Thus, protecting rivers is also a strategy for sustaining birds and their ecosystems.
New research! Noise-induced annoyance & sleep disturbance from aircraft training at Naval Air Station Whidbey Is.
@uwenvironment.bsky.social @omfishient.bsky.social @sounddefenseall.bsky.social @quietcommunities.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
Paper:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
