This Hawksbill is looking for a comeback. By B.navez via Wikimedia Commons

You might have noticed the site was down during the past few weeks. We were attacked by someone who inserted malicious code into our site. I know, who would do that?! We don’t know, but we can’t be stopped. We say FLUMP that! Now we will catch you up on some of the links we so desperately wanted to send out while the site was down.  

How big is Big? How do we tell how big big is? Why does big happen? Collaborative paper in PeerJ on the biggest things in biodiversity.

The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services presents a new, more comprehensive, conceptual framework for biodiversity assessments and management plans. This framework tries to address the interdisciplinary nature of biodiversity science, as well as the growing need for cross-cultural tools for decision-making.

Also, we’ve been thinking of getting a hypeman – here are our candidates. I think I’m leaning towards ?uestdove.

– Emily Grason

Andrew Gaudet has some great advice over on Science Careers for how to make the most of the grad school experience.

A new study in Nature utilizes variables such as coral morphology and habitat depth to predict how certain species of coral will respond to climate change, specifically rising sea temperatures.

In case you haven’t seen Deep Sea News’s size week articles, they’re worth a look. You’ll never look at barrel sponges the same way again.

-Nate Johnson

On The Brink Of Extinction: 15 species whose futures could be determined — for better or worse — in 2015.

The latest issue of Oikos is dedicated to understanding the effects of phenological changes on species interaction.

“When we believe that we will be judged by silly criteria we will adapt and behave in silly ways” says Reinhard Werner, a physicist at Leibniz University, Germany, in Nature.

A new paper in TREE identifies some of the issues that should receive special attention in the conservation agenda this year. “A horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2015″.

January 23, 2015