Hansraj Gautam

Since we're talking about trade sanctions, this is what Indian environmentalist Anil Agarwal, founder of the Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi wrote in 1998. Applies for all kinds of sanctions and not just those related to environmental issues. www.downtoearth.org.in/environment/...

Workshop on Animal Social Evolution! July 13th-15th, Heraklion (Greece)

We are inviting early-career researchers from Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean to a hands-on, three-day workshop dedicated to methods and tools in social behaviour and evolution

marinapapa.github.io/TRASEworksho...

West Asia absolutely needs, and can create, a regional security framework that removes and prohibits any US military bases going forward. This is a *minimal* condition for regional peace and stability.

The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.

Decluttering Seed Dispersal Modes: Bringing Clarity to Seed Dispersal Ecology Ambiguity and redundancy in seed dispersal modes hinder ecological research and its applications. This viewpoint argues for the need for systematic simplification by proposing a framework for declutt...

Decluttering Seed Dispersal Modes: Bringing Clarity to Seed Dispersal Ecology - Yadav - 2026 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Chimpanzees are not more aggressive than bonobos but target sexes differently Chimpanzees and bonobos differ in aggression distribution but not magnitude.

Yet, that doesn't mean these sister species distribute aggression equally... 👀

Read to find out more as we discuss the significance of these results in light of evolutionary explanations of aggression in the Pan species and our own! ⬇️

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Photo credit: Jake S. Brooker

New publication, and first one as a first author for me! 🥳

Have you heard of the brutal chimpanzee and "hippie" bonobo dichotomy? ☠️🕊️

Today, we report similar aggression magnitudes in 22 captive chimpanzees and bonobos groups - be it all aggression or restricted to contact.

When a US missile killed 160 children, president shits-a-lot claimed Iran stole the missile and fired at the school. When asked why he was the only one making this claim, he said "because I just don't know enough about it".
Go ahead. See if you can make this make sense.
(Source: RB Hubbell)

Blue Whale and a Freediver by Darin Sakdatorn/AdobeStock

Ben JJ Walker / UNSW Sydney, CC BY-NC-ND

Super excited to share that the first article from my PhD has been published!

Taking 60 years of research, we looked at how long distance vocal communication in aquatic and land mammals has evolved and why.

Read here: tinyurl.com/3eydkwwc

The Conversation article: tinyurl.com/mryr7sme

3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama!

Three positions, each including salary & a research budget.

Applications due April, 15th.

DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us!

stri.si.edu/academic-pro...

My view of the #deextinction hype, encapsulated below.

With @saramitri.bsky.social, @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social and L. Lehmann we’ve launched the UNIL Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution @unil.bsky.social🇨🇭

To kick things off, we’re offering short visiting fellowships for theorists in ecology & evolution. Apply & pls RP 😀

tinyurl.com/2wem36zz

🦖 Free Webinar: 200 Years of Vertebrate Paleontology in South Asia
Join Dr. Advait Jukar for a fascinating look at the history and future of vertebrate paleontology in South Asia.
📅 March 11 | 12-1 PM ET
🔗 Register: anatomy.org/ANATOMY/Meet...

The US War Machine Is Run By Deranged Armageddon Cultists Reading by Tim Foley:

The US War Machine Is Run By Deranged Armageddon Cultists

They are everything they accuse Iran of being. They are dangerous religious fanatics. They cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons. They are the tyrants. They are the monsters.

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-us-war...

Initial reaction of some climate folk too was that this was for oil even though there was no evidence to substantiate the claim. This was about oil 75 yrs ago (crucially, when the US did not have much domestic supply). Today, it is about control i.e. taming Israel's only real adversary in the region

Multispecies Mutualisms - Join Our Research Team! We’re hiring 4 Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRAs) In this video, members of the team share insights into four exciting PDRA opportunities currently available. If you are ready to take the next s...

1/ Calling all ECRs - we have 4x3 year post docs on Multispecies Mutualisms working with us at Sheffield.
Don't want to read through all the stuff to work out if its right for you? Here is a short video explainer 🎥
digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

Rising temperatures pose a threat to tropical insects An assessment of sensitivity to increasing temperature for thousands of insect species in mountainous terrain reveals a risk of insect biodiversity loss in tropical lowlands.

An assessment of sensitivity to increasing temperature for thousands of insect species reveals a risk of insect biodiversity loss

go.nature.com/4leGXQO

At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war

In Gaza, Israel and Biden normalized war crimes beyond anything we have seen before.

And now, Israel and Trump are using that model against Iranian civilians.

At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

First Lady of Iraq:

"Leave The Kurds Alone. We Are Not Guns For Hire."

I’ll start to regularly post photos of Lebanese fossils alongside links to charities supporting the thousands displaced in this war. Even the smallest donations can save lives

Fossils on display at Memory of Time, Jbeil, and you can donate here: gofund.me/24a3cee49

Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @nature.com! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗
@ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social
@biologie-uniwue.bsky.social
@uni-wuerzburg.de

Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks.

They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors.

Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption.

Watch how they vote this week.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Pedro Sanchez continues his run as the only world leader convincingly acting like he cares to defend a rules based world order

So the admin's argument is that they knew that Iran would attack the US IF Iran itself was attacked. So it was self-defense against an imminent attack (!!??)

Even the Bush admin did not sink this low.

This opens up for George W. Bush to run in 2028 as the "peace candidate"...

Trump's trying to find the guy who did this.

Apply for the #ABS2026 Turner program! This award is aimed at supporting undergraduates from groups historically underrepresented in science in attending the conference.

See here for more info: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards.php

US Calls Iranian Retaliatory Strikes "Unprovoked", And Other Notes Reading by Tim Foley:

Only the United States could bomb a country, kill its leader, massacre its children, declare the intention to destroy its military and topple its government, and then call that country’s retaliation against US military bases “unprovoked”.

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/us-calls-i...

Seldom has a vassal state been so loyal to ANOTHER vassal of the actual superpower...