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Ashkaan K. Fahimipour @akfbio.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Reptiles with longer Wikipedia pages tend to be bigger. The relationship is a power law with exponent = 0.85. I guess humans really like writing about big lizards? The longest article is the Komodo Dragon.

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Laura Antao @lauraantao.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Really happy to announce that the updated version of BioTIME is out!!🚨 This is the largest #database of #biodiversity #timeseries - now with 708 studies and >56 thousand species from across the planet!🦊🐀🐦🐊🐟🐙🦋🐞🌲🍀 & over 400 co-authors sharing their data🤩🤩 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series

Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...

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Ryan Bates @ecologybat.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Watching the goslings grow up is one of my favourite parts of springtime on campus 🪿

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The UK Government promised a planning system that works for people & nature. But as it stands, this Bill risks fast-tracking nature’s destruction. We’ve joined others calling for urgent change. Nature mustn't be written out of our future. 🚨

A screenshot from The Guardian with the headline: “Planning bill ‘throws environmental protection to the wind’, say UK nature chiefs.” The subheading warns the proposals could push species towards extinction and lead to irreversible habitat loss. Below, a photo shows a wide view of the English countryside in autumn, with green fields, scattered trees in golden tones, and wooded hills in the distance - representing the kind of landscapes at risk.

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Ryan Bates @ecologybat.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

It's a fun time to be in academia. Join your union folks. And remember to stand in solidarity with your non-academic colleagues, nothing could run without them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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University of Nottingham plans to cut more than 250 jobs

Announcing the consultation, the university said it was a

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Great op-ed fr Prof Yates taking a stand on what's damaged when institutions fail to act "Everything is political, especially the things that people tell you are not political.Those are the most political of all [..] The intersection of science & politics is both inescapable & of vital importance."

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