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Bram De Ridder @bramderidder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

ERC Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship applications went from just 7.000 applicants in 2022 to over 21.000 this year 🤯🤯🤯

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...

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mta-lace.bsky.social @mta-lace.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Our findings reveal global patterns consistent with the framework of top-down and bottom-up effects, the relative balance of which varies significantly depending on the ecosystem and management type.

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Moritz Peter Fritschle @moritzfritschle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The euro banknotes seem to get a new look, and the @ecb.europa.eu has hosted a survey, asking which desing is the preferred one. I really like the stork on the 50€ banknote. surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknote...

three buildings with storks on a 50 € note

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Min Chao @wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The deadliest myth regarding the pangolin is the persistent, unscientific belief in the healing powers of its carapace. Despite the keratin scales having the same remedial properties as human nails, traditional Chinese homeopathic medicine underpins the robust demand for illegal pangolin body parts.

Taipei Zoo is the world's leading pangolin rehabilitation and breeding expert

https://wordsfromtaiwan.medium.com/taiwan-nature-mythical-pangolins-vintage-art-and-modern-icons-06596ed9ba00

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American Statistical Association History of Statistics @hos-asa.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Few statisticians know that Frank Yates, pioneer of experimental design, is responsible for the annoying practice of indicating 3 tiers of statistical significance by stars (*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001). He soon regretted it and “vehemently opposed its unthinking use”. And here we are.

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🍁 Alex Smith 🍁 @alexsmithants.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🧪🧵 🪰 🐜🪲🐞🦗🐛🦋🪳🦟 How many species of insect are there? A seemingly simple question, but one that has been 'bugging' scientists for years. Our work out today suggests that there are millions more than we had previously expected. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... @gdfcf.bsky.social

This photo was taken in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste

This microgastrine wasp was named by co-author Jose Fernandez-Triana in honour of Costa Rican parataxonomist Roberto Espinoza in recognition of his contribution to understanding the plant biology of ACG. The species is Snellenius robertoespinozai. The image is Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0) so can reused provided the original author (Jose Fernandez-Triana) and the source are properly cited. The source is: Fernandez-Triana JL, Whitfield JB, Smith MA, Kula RR, Hallwachs W, Janzen DH (2015) Revision of the genera Microplitis and Snellenius (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica, with a key to all species previously described from Mesoamerica. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 62(2): 137-201. https://doi.org/10.3897/dez.62.5276

image of a Malaise trap in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

GERMANY IS AN OVEN 41.5c Möckern-Drewitz HOTTEST DAY IN GERMAN HISTORY 417 RECORDS BROKEN ALLOVER THE COUNTRY 40 stations >40C ! See Thread with the all time records courtesy of Mtwetter (many pages !)

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Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

When I first spotted this butterfly a couple of hours ago, the first thing I had to do was stop my hands shaking. It's one of the rarest butterflies in France, a vanishing species in much of Europe. It's the mountain Apollo (Parnassius Apollo). Just in time for #InsectThursday #lepidoptera

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) was a pioneering naturalist, entomologist & scientific illustrator whose meticulous artwork & observations: 🦋 Revolutionized the study of insects 🐜 Laid early groundwork for #ecology 🐞 Permanently changed how we understand insect life It's #InsectWeek #WomenInSTEM

A side-by-side image of the German-Dutch naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717), celebrated for her groundbreaking contributions to entomology and ecology. On the left, a formal historical oil portrait depicts Merian as a young woman from the chest up against a dark, minimalist backdrop. Facing forward with a slight turn to the right, she maintains a calm, serious expression. She wears a black dress accented by a wide, sheer white lace collar draped over her shoulders, a dark jeweled brooch, a double-strand pearl necklace, and large teardrop pearl earrings. Her brown curly hair is partially covered by a black fabric head cap. On the right is a vibrant book cover titled "Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis." The cream-colored cover features her detailed scientific illustrations, including a large blue and brown butterfly, a yellow butterfly, a lizard, caterpillars, a large blue passionflower, and assorted foliage, showcasing her legacy of documenting insect life cycles and host plants.

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Frank Swain @frank-swain.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It's probably time European journalists wrapped their heads around Heat Index (temp + relative humidity). In high humidity, sweating is less efficient, making heat worse, e.g.: Experiencing 35°C in London UK (70% RH) is more dangerous than 50°C in Phoenix Arizona (15% RH)

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Fresh off the press! 📄We find that crop fields and semi-natural grasslands support complementary #biodiversity across #Europe. Semi-natural habitats alone are insufficient to ensure farmland biodiversity - biodiversity-friendly management of crop fields is essential. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Sybrand Frietema @frietema.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Dat jullie allemaal even oppassen. Vlaggetjes of steun uitspreken voor ‘terroristische organisatie’ kan je binnenkort gevangenisstraf van max. 3 jaar opleveren. Met dank aan D66… En niet vergeten: VVD bepaalt het liefst zelf - met extreemrechts - wat zoal ‘terroristisch’ is, bv. Antifa. Of XR.

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Wetsvoorstel om verheerlijken van terrorisme strafbaar te stellen naar Raad van State | Rijksoverheid.nl

Terrorisme vormt een ernstige bedreiging voor de democratische rechtsstaat en de veiligheid van de Nederlandse samenleving. Terroristische en gewelddadige boodschappen verspreiden zich, zeker online, ...

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Malin Tälle @malintalle.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Our latest meta-analysis on how restoration practices affect forest biodiversity is now out in Conservation Biology: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪

Graph showing the response of different species groups to five different forest restoration practices

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Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

For #MothersDay : Charley Harper (USA, 1922-2007) “Momatee” Original gouache on artist board c.1960s; later published in Jan. 1972 issue of Ford Times Magazine www.facebook.com/share/p/15ZM... Lithograph: www.charleyharperartstudio.com/momatee.html #Manatees

Charley Harper art original depicting a grey mother manatee swimming vertically in frame (tail at top head at bottom) in olive green water with pinkish baby on back, top down view of them with heads poking up out of water looking back at viewer; in the artist’s signature “minimal realism” graphic art style

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Meet #Licinus cassideus — a beetle that hunts snails, loves sun-scorched calcareous grasslands, and hadn't been seen in #Unterfranken since 1955. After being undetected for 71 years, we found it again in its typical habitat. #Carabidae #beetles #biodiversity #fieldwork @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social

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Butterfly @butterfly-project.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

World Bee Day is coming! 🐝 But 20 May is also a day for all pollinators, including flies. True flies (dipterans) are essential pollinators! 🪰 Read the paper about dipterans: doi.org/10.1111/eea.... Learn more about World Bee Day: www.fao.org/world-bee-da... #WorldBeeDay #Diptera

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Contributions of Dipterans to Pollination Services and Biological Control

The work highlights the roles of dipterans, including pollination and biological control. These combined functions demonstrate their importance in sustaining ecosystem services and enhancing agricult...

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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Flies (Diptera) contribute substantially to pollination and biological control. They visit approximately 72% of the world's major crops and dominate pollination networks in alpine, arctic and shaded habitats where bees are scarce. #pollinators #flies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Contributions of Dipterans to Pollination Services and Biological Control

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Terrestrial Ecology Research Group - TUM @terrecolgroup.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

We currently are looking for a postdoctoral research associate (3 years with possibility to extend) with experience in community ecology, and ideally a good match with our group profile; biodiversity, land use change and urban ecology. Please share for max reach www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I can't upload half of my posts, because apparently "failed to load blob"

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years

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Cassy Vogel @cassyvogel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

What a great idea for a special issue! Sometimes you learn more from failure than from success 🫠

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Niki Hubbard, PhD 🐙🦀 @nikihubbard.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs. But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅 First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti. #rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Close up with a beautiful nudibranch on a rocky reef. The lower half of the image is a palette of swatches made from the nudi's vibrant colours.

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Johanna Asch @johannaasch.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

5 years ago I joined a field work campaign in the stunningly beautiful Swedish primary forests, still one of my all-time favourite fieldwork experiences!🌲🌿 Now there is a new study out lead by Didac Pascual and Anders Ahlström from Lund University www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Higher carbon storage in primary than secondary boreal forests in Sweden

Boreal forests provide considerable global land carbon storage and uptake, but they are being rapidly transformed to managed secondary forests, with poorly quantified implications for ecosystem carbon...

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

When the top 10% of consumers make up half of all spending, the economy can at the same time be technically going well while the majority of people struggle massively. This is the US right now. Hope that helps when thinking about societal problems.

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

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Leonid Schneider @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Well done, @springernature.com ! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

“Measured coastal sea level is higher than assumed in most hazard assessments…the measured values suggest that with 1 m of relative sea-level rise… 48–68% more people (increasing estimates to 77–132 million) would fall below sea level.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments
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Álvaro Luna @alvaroluna87.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Unveiling the urban colonization of the Asian water monitor (Varanus salvator) across its distribution range using citizen science peerj.com/articles/173...

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Derek Hennen, Ph.D. @derekhennen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Good article, but the framing is wrong. There is not a dearth of interest in taxonomy. There is a scarcity of funding and positions, which is a deliberate choice by funding agencies and institutions. The youth love taxonomy! It's the olds that are failing to meet their passion!

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Years ago in another life I gave a guest lecture at The Hague warning “AI weapons” could be invoked to remove accountability for war crimes from the chain of command. I said “there are no autonomous weapons, only unsupervised ones,” and sadly it seems I was cooking with that one

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James B Dorey @jamesbeedorey.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

New paper alert! "Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps" suggests that we have thousands of bee species left to describe and decades of taxonomic work ahead of us. We also provide the methods needed to apply more broadly :) doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps - Nature Communications

Bees are crucial for the maintenance of healthy ecosystems, yet rigorous estimates of their species’ richness are lacking. This study estimates taxonomic gaps for bees around the world and provides a ...

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Johanna Asch @johannaasch.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

New paper out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! We investigated how forest structural heterogeneity and climate influence temperate dung beetles in production forests. 🪲

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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Periodic reminder that we should avoid testing the Normality of the response variable. For a linear model, what matters is the Normality of residuals (and not that much). Visual checks better than test. #statistics

A Shapiro-Wilk test of the response variable concludes very significant deviation of Normality. But residuals of linear model consistent with Normal distribution.

Visual check of the linear model with DHARMa

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Gerrit Hiemstra🐇 @gerrithiemstra.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Wat een belachelijk en #misleidend artikel! Wie de moeite neemt de wetenschappelijke publicatie waarnaar verwezen wordt, er op na te lezen, trekt een hele andere conclusie. Uit dat artikel blijkt dat er helemaal geen sprake is van een duidelijke linkse dominantie op de universiteiten! 1/4

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Dr. Aletta Jacobs was born #OTD in 1854. + First woman officially to attend a Dutch university + First female physician in the #Netherlands, 1879 + Founded the world's first birth control clinic, Amsterdam, 1882 + Led women's rights & suffrage campaigns #WomenInSTEM

Black-and-white historical portrait of Dr. Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs (1854–1929), the pioneering Dutch physician and women's rights activist, shown in a circular frame with a textured border. She has curly dark hair piled up, a serious expression, and wears a high-necked dress with elaborate floral embroidery on the bodice. As the first woman to officially attend a Dutch university and earn a medical doctorate in the Netherlands (graduating in 1879), she became one of the country's first female doctors. In 1882, she opened the world's first birth control clinic in Amsterdam, advocated for women's suffrage, better working conditions for women, the regulation of prostitution, and international peace efforts.

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Has @elsevierconnect.bsky.social hit a new low? I just recieved a demanding email imforming me that my review was a negative three days late ... three days before the deadline for my review. This is honestly not ok.

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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

reading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum define term “eplungulate” - lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous

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Conservation Biology and Forest Ecology @cofeuniwue.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

🔍 We’re hiring! Our chair is looking for a motivated Researcher to join our team! 🌳 The aim of the project is to analyse insect communities and their responses to different forest structural conditions. 🪲🦋 We’re looking forward to your application. 🌲📩 www.greenjobs.de/stellenanzei...

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Stelle im wissenschaftlichen Dienst - Bereich: Waldökologie - in Teilzeit / researcher [...]

Am Lehrstuhl für Naturschutzbiologie und Waldökologie der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg ist frühestens zum 01.04.2026 eine Stelle imWissenschaftlichen Dienstin Teilzeit (65%) befristet für 3...

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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Alongside “AI colonialism”, the other big worry with this is that modelling results are never confronted with reality, they exist in some kind of desk-based bubble. All models are wrong, only some are useful. It’s by going out & touching the grass that we can sort the useful from the nonsensical.

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/01/2026

Hunter-gatherers in southern Africa laced their stone arrow tips with poison roughly 60,000 years ago, a new #ScienceAdvances study finds. The discovery pushes back the timeline for poison weapon use from the mid-Holocene to the Late Pleistocene. scim.ag/4aQDXqI

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Direct evidence for poison use on microlithic arrowheads in Southern Africa at 60,000 years ago

Earliest proof of plant poisons on arrows reveals complex Pleistocene hunting in southern Africa.

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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

DFG erlaubt Einsatz von KI in der Begutachtung. Wenn wir jetzt noch die AI dazu kriegen, die komplette Forschung zu machen, haben wir den Menschen komplett von der Last des Forschungsprozzeses befreit und er kann sich komplett auf wichtige Dinge wie Reisekostenerstattungsanträge konzentrieren.

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Künstliche Intelligenz in der Begutachtung

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David @incnaturalist.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

There is impossible wonder in the forests of city state Singapore. I find indescribable magic in the shiny eyes of this beautiful, peaceful Sunda Colugo.

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Fabian A. Boetzl @fboetzl.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

At the start of the year I hit 2,000 species on @inaturalist.bsky.social and set myself the goal of adding 1,000 more this year. I finish the year with 1,600 new species recorded. Enormous thanks to the 635 identifiers who helped along the way! 🙌 #iNaturalist #Biodiversity

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