Commentary is provided on the use of barcoding and metabarcoding in diatom studies and its broader relevance to the principles of taxonomy. The claims that taxonomy, however it is performed, is time-...

Environmentalists worry that the post-Brexit legislation will allow the destruction of rare and fragile ecosystems

An analysis of habitat fragmentation using a dataset of more than 4,000 species worldwide shows that fragmentation reduces biodiversity at all scales, and that increases in β diversity do not compensa...

Populations of many migratory taxa have been declining over recent decades. This study examines how well protected areas in Europe cover the dynamic distributions of migratory birds throughout their a...

Frustule deformations are common in diatoms, especially when stressed. In publications mentioning these teratologies, the presence of toxic contaminants (e.g. trace metals) is the most often mentioned...

About 20,000 of the most cited researchers have 'implausibly high' publication and new co-author rates

Jack Dorsey weighed in on people leaving one platform he founded (X, formerly Twitter) to join another he helped create (BlueSky).

A model analysis shows interactions between climate, lightning, wildfires, and changes in the interactions with global warming.

U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.

The professional society for microbiologists stripped content about Black, female, and LGBTQ scientists from its website

“I think it’s a much bigger threat this time around.”

This study investigates the digitization of insect collections and the application of deep learning

Bem, todos sabemos: o Twitter foi bloqueado no Brasil. O capítulo do bloqueio é apenas um de uma longa batalha que o empresário Elon Musk vem travando contra

DiatoViz provides silhouettes of diatoms to be plotted in graphs in R. The use can be made either by the scientific name or by the OMNIDIA code.