1/ Remember when Ted Cruz went to Cancún as the Texas power grid failed? It wasn't just the people of TX left behind, it was also the wildlife. Out now @natecoevo.nature.com, our paper led by @mstager.bsky.social & @treeswallows.bsky.social documents how bad the storms were for birds.
rdcu.be/e7aUy
New paper! Bird nests (Wood Warblers) are hubs of invertebrate biodiversity on forest floor, hosting more species/individuals than leaf litter. Probably due to heat & food detritus. Losing Wood Warblers = ecological networks lost. #ornithology
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A drawing titled "psst genetic engineers: I have a proposal." It shows ten duck species being combined into one best duck, which has a long-tailed duck's tail plumes, a king eider's wing spikes, a hooded merganser's hood, a white-winged scoter's eye markings, a redhead's eye and red head, a ring-necked duck's bill pattern, a northern shoveler's bill shape, a northern pintail's neck pattern, a harlequin duck's blue, and a ruddy duck's upturned tail.
An oldie about ducks and ignoring scientific ethics.
Reposting for Sarah's power stance.
It's Fish Doorbell season again!! I am completely obsessed with this thing. It's an aquatic gate in the Netherlands that lets fish pass through so they can go about their lives despite the dam. Watch the livestream. If you see a fish, ring the doorbell, and the gates open!! 🐟❤️
visdeurbel.nl/en/
Phainopepla nitens
btw, this project and projects like it are funded by t-shirts like this one (and you should buy one at SquidFacts.net, they're super cute)
requiem for vanished birdsong
A large-scale analysis of changes in fish biomass over 25 years identifies average biomass declines associated with long-term warming, as well as sharp decreases and increases associated with heatwaves at the warm and cold edges of species’ ranges, respectively 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
LLMs as contrast dye for where resources are missing.
Click the fish.
a print with skulls and a kitty cat watering plants that says please plant native plants or go to hell, with water spraying everywhere
Sometimes you're done with asking nicely.
Our friend @the666cat.bsky.social put a decidedly Philadelphia spin on the appeal to plant native plants in our city.
Please plant native plants
or
Go to hell!
Get prints (11x14in) at SquidFacts.net
This sobering story highlights the work of WOS members Bette Loiselle and John Blake. #ornithology
Researchers in the US might be having feelings about writing grants atm-I know I am!
We still need to write them. In this Evolution Exchange, I again chat with Sam Scheiner, who summarizes how to write a competitive proposal.
His advice is gold, and helpful regardless of funder. Pls RT!
Just published in Peer Community Journal: A perspective on Global North–South inequalities in science and how language and funding barriers shape who gets to participate in global knowledge production. 🌍📚
👉 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....
Lead author Wes Walsh, his tattoo of Agelenopsis pennsylvanica (the Pennsylvanian grass spider) and one of the inspirations for this study, a live Platycryptus undatus (tan jumping spider). Credit: Wes Walsh
🕸️ Scared of spiders? The real horror could be a world without them. New UMass Amherst research shows spiders & other arachnids are vital for healthy ecosystems, yet most have no conservation status.
https://www.umass.edu/news/article/scared-spiders-real-horror-story-world-without-them
This is a great awards program for science communication. Enter now (before April 3) and/or please encourage others to do so. Categories include researchers (early, mid- & late career), journalists, independent & institutional. From @nationalacademies.org & @schmidtsciences.bsky.social
We’re so proud of the Queer Ecology issue, and honored to be a finalist for best single-topic issue. If you want to get your own for your collection, you can do so here.
orionmagazine.org/product/spri...
I am reminded that the entire Jurassic Park franchise, going back to the original book, is grounded in the concept of transsexual dinosaurs, and really there's a lot of people who need their faces bitten as a reminder.
Rawr.🦖
39 years ago, there were only 27 California condors in the world. As of 2025, we now have 607, including 392 that are living free in the wild.
"Put that in your doom and smoke it" -Ursula Vernon
www.fws.gov/media/2025-c...
Realizing I should include the main things you should do to support native bees/other insects
1) Plant native plants
2) Don't use pesticides, and tell your friends and neighbors to stop using pesticides
3) Leave fallen leaves in the winter
4) Leave dead stems over winter for overwintering critters
Mothmom
#kaseyart #penandink
So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the “Example...” button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).
When pets devour biodiversity. My new article on the European edition of @uk.theconversation.com about the impacts of pet-wildlife interactions and the opportunities for their legal regulation in the EU. theconversation.com/our-pets-are.... Related paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Today I learned that I can film darter gill parasites live!! Here's a fantail darter parasite throwing the teeniest tiniest tantrum I have ever witnessed (40x magnification).This might be the first time this species has ever been filmed. Look how cute it is!!
Limitations of molecular dating using constant birth-death rate priors in deep time reflected in Brachiopoda evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
