The first Global Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) found widespread, accelerating declines in Earth's biodiversity and associated benefits to people from nature. Addressing these trends will require science-based policy responses to reduce impacts, especially at national to local scales. Effective scaling of sciencepolicy efforts, driven by global and national assessments, is a major challenge for turning assessment into action and will require unprecedented commitment by scientists to engage with communities of policy and practice. Fulfillment of science's social contract with society, and with nature, will require strong institutional support for scientists' participation in activities that transcend conventional research and publication. From Assessment to ActionThe first IPBES Global Assessment, released in 2019, reveals widespread, accelerating declines in our planet's biodiversity and life-support systems [1,2]. The assessment's unanimous approval by the 132 member countries, and the resounding calls by multiple stakeholders for action [3], underscore both urgency and hope for significant response i . The assessment concludes that nature's capacity to support humanity's wellbeing is threatened by habitat conversion, excessive resource harvesting, climate change, invasive species, and other impacts [2]. Declines in species viability, human safety, mental and physical health, and food and livelihood security will continue unless these trends are checked and reversed. The critical challenge now is to disseminate and apply the findings of the IPBES Global Assessment at national and local scales where most policy and management decisions affecting biodiversity and ecosystem services are made. This will require significant, long-term commitments by governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the private sector, civil society, and the scientific community. Commitments are required not only from individual scientists but also the institutions that host and fund them. The pathways and processes necessary for successful implementation transcend business-as-usual approaches and require a broader transformation in how scientists work with decision makers.Converting scientific knowledge to action is often complex, but the ingredients of success are clear. Effective, enduring action comes from collaborative, multidisciplinary science-policy processes that frame and cogenerate knowledge with decision makers and stakeholders from many sectors [1,[4][5][6][7]. A spectrum of approaches has been developed for such so-called 'translational science' and 'knowledge coproduction' practices (e.g., [8][9][10][11]), but all share key properties, including deep multidisciplinarity, close engagement and dialogue with partners, and incorporation of diverse

This study aimed to explore the personal effect of the global crisis on both New Zealanders and migrants, as well as their intentions and reasons to stay or migrate to another country. Using a mixed method design, we investigated the major concerns of workers in the Wellington region during 2009 and 2010. The main concerns were: salary, workload, job security, disposable income, work budget and job opportunity. New Zealand-born participants were as likely as migrants to express interest in leaving due to the state of the economy. However, overseas-born participants were more likely than New Zealand-born participants to say they would leave if they lost their job.

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While living collections are critical for biological research, support for these foundational infrastructure elements is inconsistent, which makes quality control, regulatory compliance, and reproducibility difficult. In recent years, the Ecological Society of America has hosted several National Science Foundation-sponsored workshops to explore and enhance the sustainability of biological research infrastructure. At the same time, the United States Culture Collection Network has brought together managers of living collections to foster collaboration and information exchange within a specific living collections community. To assess the sustainability of collections, a survey was distributed to collection scientists whose responses provide a benchmark for evaluating the resiliency of these collections. Among the key observations were that plant collections have larger staffing requirements and that living microbe collections were the most vulnerable to retirements or other disruptions. Many higher plant and vertebrate collections have institutional support and several have endowments. Other collections depend on competitive grant support in an era of intense competition for these resources. Opportunities for synergy among living collections depend upon complementing the natural strong engagement with the research communities that depend on these collections with enhanced information sharing, communication, and collective action to keep them sustainable for the future. External efforts by funding agencies and publishers could reinforce the advantages of having professional management of research resources across every discipline.