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Julien Foucaud

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Evolutionary biologist plasticity♻️, cognition🧠 and adaptation🧬 in ants🐜 beetles🐞 and flies🪰 @ CBGP, INRAE, Montpellier

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Jeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNAS
In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ...
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ISYEB @isyeb.mnhn.fr · 09/07/2026
Les podcast des chroniques du bord de mer (du 4 et 5 juillet) de Marc-André Selosse, micro-biologiste et professeur @isyeb.mnhn.fr diffusées sur @franceinter.fr en partenariat avec le @mnhn.fr sont accessibles 🏖️ www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
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Chroniques du bord de mer : écouter le podcast et replay | France Inter
En partenariat avec le Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/06/2026
Report: Ants Having Some Kind Of Party Inside Crack In Pavement theonion.com/report-ants-having-som…
Report: Ants Having Some Kind Of Party Inside Crack In Pavement
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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
As AI is applied in more and more settings, entomologists say it is boosting efficiency in insect science, as well. From translating outreach to tracking pests, entomologists are putting AI into action, but it still requires human oversight to expand discovery while preserving scientific rigor.
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Who Will Guide the Use of AI in Entomology? Entomologists!
As artificial intelligence is applied in more and more settings, entomologists say it is boosting efficiency in insect science, as well, but it still requires careful human oversight.
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Julien Foucaud @julienfoucaud.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
www.ladepeche.fr/2026/04/16/u... @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social 🐜🐜🐜👀
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Un troisième foyer de fourmis électriques découvert dans le Var : l’Occitanie doit-elle s’inquiéter ?
La fourmi électrique inquiète le sud de la France. Trois foyers ont été détectés dans le Var en quelques années, et un traitement insecticide est prévu en mai. L’espèce invasive pourrait-elle désormai...
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Julien Foucaud @julienfoucaud.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Renforcer et coordonner l'action publique - Espèces exotiques envahissantes (EEE) - Faune, flore, animaux de Cie, protection, régulation des espèces, chasse... - Actions de l'État - Les services de l’État dans le Var share.google/DXYP4UuS0SvP... @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social
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Renforcer et coordonner l'action publique
Portail de l'Etat en Les services de l’État dans le Var
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Nancy 🪲SciBugs🪲 Miorelli @scibugs.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I like the beetles clever little white line. "Nothing to see here... I totally have an ant waist"
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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Call for Review Articles: Annals of the ESA Proposal Deadline: This Saturday, February 28 Learn more: academic.oup.com/insect-scien... @academic.oup.com
The graphic includes white text on a slate background that includes the title of the Annals of the Entomological Society of America, and text that says, “Call for Review Articles. Proposal Deadline: February 28.” There is also a photo of a beetle, a cover image of the Annals of the ESA, and the ESA logo. 
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JJ @jjodx.eurosky.social · 18/02/2026
"the currency of scholarship—publication—is becoming increasingly detached from the notion that publication is meant to add to the sum of human knowledge. "
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Stefan Lucien @stefanlucien.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
1er jour de #gelée blanche en région parisienne. La vue de #Meteosat est explicite. On distingue même de 36 000 km quasiment toutes les vallées fluviales et leurs affluents sur cette image. On voit la neige sur les Pyrénées et Alpes sur les Données @eumetsat.int #SDK #Arcgis
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ISYEB @isyeb.mnhn.fr · 20/10/2025
In @biolinvasions.bsky.social 27(10) "Co-occurrence patterns of introduced terrestrial flatworms in metropolitan France revealed by citizen science" Fourcade,Y., @jean-lou-justine.bsky.social @isyeb.mnhn.fr et al. #Platyhelminthes #Citizen_science #Invasion #Soil_ecosystems 🪱 doi.org/10.1007/s105...
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Co-occurrence patterns of introduced terrestrial flatworms in metropolitan France revealed by citizen science - Biological Invasions
Terrestrial flatworms are a group of successful carnivorous invaders that have been introduced to many regions outside their native range. In France, six different species have been recorded in signif...
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Transparency International @anticorruption.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Transparency International strongly condemns the recent attacks against our chapter in Brazil. www.transparency.org/en/press/tra...
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Transparency International faces new attacks in Brazil - Press
Transparency International is the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption.
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
📣 Save the date for the 12th PCI webinar on September 18, 2025, at 4 PM CET!! Dorothy Bishop (@deevybee.bsky.social) will present "Editors matter: How negligent publishers subvert quality control in scientific publishing ". For more details and registration, visit:
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PCI Webinar Series - Peer Community In
The PCI webinar series is a series of seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research, organised by Peer Community In
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ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas @ergabiodiv.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
As a community, it’s wonderful to meet in person after so many online meetings! 📸 Here are some of the many #ERGA members at #ESEB2025. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth to say hi and learn more about ERGA! #GenomesForBiodiversity
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Gael Kergoat @gkergoat.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Our study on the recent invasion of the Little Fire #Ant in Southern Europe (including France!) was published today in Diversity & Distribution @consbiog.bsky.social #OA great collaborative work led by @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Wasmaniia auropunctata queen
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INRAE Département SPE @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
🐜⚡ La #fourmi électrique, espèce invasive classée préoccupante par l’UE, progresse en Europe. 🔬 Une étude #INRAE réalisée sur plus de 6000 fourmis dans le monde révèle ses voies d'introduction et appelle à mieux surveiller les foyers pour prévenir sa propagation 🌎 👉 www.inrae.fr/actualites/i...
Nid de fourmis électriques, Wasmannia auropunctata, d'une population envahissante en Nouvelle-Calédonie.
Photo : INRAE, Gaël Kergoat
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
It's official, I'm off Substack and done with the Nazis. I've moved over to Ghost! Want to provide some positive reinforcement? Please subscribe. It's entirely free, and always will be. scienceforeveryone.science
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Science For Everyone
This site is focused on practical challenges we face as human beings doing science. The process of science, academic job market, publishing, getting funded, mentoring, equity and justice, collaboratio...
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Echtzeit - Digitale Kultur @echtzeitkultur.org · 06/08/2025
Bravo, les ami .es français.es ! 🤩 [FR] www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12... Cooler Arte-Tracks-Beitrag über Livecoding, Algraves und unsere Freunde vom Cookie Collective! [DE] www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...
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Tracks - Algorave : la teuf en open source ? - Regarder l’émission complète | ARTE
Ils contrôlent ce que vous voyez passer sur vos réseaux sociaux, avec qui vous ferez votre prochain date ou encore la marque de votre future paire de baskets… Difficile d’imaginer les algorithmes sort...
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
PCI was interviewed by Damon Orion, a writer for the Local Peace Economy media. Don’t miss the fantastic blog article here! 👇 observatory.wiki/How_Academic...
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How Academics Are Pushing Back on the For-Profit Academic Publishing Industry
These scholars are fighting the rampant exploitation and high article processing charges in traditional academic publishing.
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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 17/06/2025
"AllTrails has a new generative AI feature that can be asked to 'shorten my route' or 'make this more scenic.' But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers say the feature is going to exacerbate an issue they’ve been warning about for years: hiking apps providing false information."
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AllTrails launches AI route-making tool, worrying search-and-rescue members
One of the world’s most popular hiking apps has a new generative AI feature that can be asked to "shorten my route" or "make this more scenic." But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers sa...
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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🐙🌿🐍🐛 Nope, it's not a snake - it's the caterpillar of a sphinx moth (Hemeroplanes sp.)., found by our guides in Corcovado Natl. Park., Costa Rica. Normally the caterpillars blend with the vegetation, but if disturbed they twist their head upside down to reveal a "snake," and even wave around to--
A photo of what looks a lot like a mottled brownish, olive green, and white snake hanging out in the vegetation, with leaves in the background. But a closer look reveals that it's actually a caterpillar with markings that mimic a snake's face and eyes. The caterpillar has twisted its body so that its head is upside down, revealing false eyes on the underside. It has even flared its thorax to create the illusion of a snake's triangular, tapered head.
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
What's happening in LA? Here's what I see. scienceforeveryone.science/p/a-quick-re...
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A quick report from Los Angeles
Immigrants and the rule of law in the world's 4th largest economy
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 29/05/2025
Cypriot political parties received more than 1m euros in donations connected to the country’s “golden passport” program, which was later shut down amid corruption allegations, according to audits. The 3 larger parties said there was nothing wrong or illegal about the donations.
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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.
A set of eight rectangular cookies arranged on a square white plate against a dark wooden background. Each cookie is inspired by a wallpaper design by Morris & Co. The patterns represented feature different floral and leaf shapes in shades of baby blue, soft pink, leafy green, mustard yellow, cream, and dark grey.
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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
#BugSex It's leptogaster (robberfly) sex
Two slender brown robberflies with a damselfly-ish body plan; female at rest on a dried stalk, male attached to her, ass to ass, just hanging there, legs flailing
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Model and mimic: a clever longhorn beetle (Euderces reichei, at right) tries its best to look like a local carpenter ant, Campontous decipiens, as they both feed on a spring dogwood flower. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas.
Macro photograph, in top view, of two insects standing on a cluster of small, 4-petalled white flowers. Both insects have a red head and thorax and black at their back ends. The beetle on the right is slightly broader, and has a narrow white line separating the red and black parts of its body, as to suggest a narrow ant waist.
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Holy smokes! I've got the male too! I'm tearing up. Just heard from the scientist that described the new species and this handsome lad is the male. So awesome! (Chrysometa chuchaqui)
A skinny spider with swirly light sockets for pedipalps, a tan cephalothorax, cone shaped abdomen with shiny plates. He is sitting on a leaf.
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Katherine Yngve ❌👑 @purpletiger.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
ICYMI. @standupforscience.bsky.social #academicsky #science #resist #HandsOff
Poster with images of test tubes and atoms.  It says: Hello, my name is Science (Inigo Montoya is crossed out).  You killed my Funding (Father is crossed out). Prepare to Die."
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 17/04/2025
87 years ago. In April 1938, Guy Callendar published the first evidence from thermometer observations that the world’s land areas were warming. He also linked the observed warming to the increase in atmospheric CO₂ from burning coal. 87 years ago. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
A hand drawn graph showing the rise in global land temperatures published in 1938.
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Peer Community In @peercommunityin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
🤓 Ever heard of PCI-friendly journals? These journals either ✅ directly accept preprints or registered reports recommended by PCI, or ✉️ provide an answer (accept, reject, review) within 5-10 days. For more details and the list of these 💯 journals 👉 buff.ly/lNn7rPx
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Alan @bikesnfoodnbeer.eurosky.social · 15/04/2025
This seems relevant:
A two panel cartoon. Panel one shows a man telling a woman “A.I. Turns this single bullet point into a long email I can pretend I wrote.” Panel two shows a woman telling a man “A.I. Makes a single bullet point out of this long email I can pretend I read.” Credit to marketoonist.com
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
In 2016, the Kishony Lab at Harvard Medical School put together this demonstration of acquired antibiotic resistance in E. coli bacteria, creating a mega-Petri dish (2' x 4') with a stepped gradient of antibiotic. Seeing the mutants emerge & spread is an elegant demo of evolutionary change.
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The Evolution of Bacteria on a “Mega-Plate” Petri Dish (Kishony Lab)
YouTube video by Harvard Medical School
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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people. Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much. Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
How many freestanding structures and/or buildings has each country had that, at some point since 4000 BC, held the title of the tallest in the world? Full list: brilliantmaps.com/tallest-b...
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wint @dril.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content
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Entomological Society of America @entsocamerica.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Arthropod Photo of the Week: April 2, 2025 Thick-headed flies Zodion sp. Diptera: Conopidae By Rick Malad (@rickmalad.bsky.social), Indiana, USA #arthropodPOTW
Two flies with reddish eyes and translucent wings are positioned one behind the other on a green leaf. The background is blurred, highlighting the intricate details of the insects' bodies.
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Mathieu Gautier @mgda76.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
🚨 Postdoc Opportunity in Quantitative & Population Genetics! We’re hiring a 2-year postdoc at CBGP (INRAE, Montpellier, France) to work on quantitative and population genetics applied to Drosophila biarmipes. 📍 More details: umr-cbgp.fr/rejoindre-le... #Postdoc #Genetics #Drosophila
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Karen, unfortunately @idrawpicsallday.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The CDC illustration team that created the infamous "spiky blob seen around the world," this SARS-CoV-2 illustration, was fired yesterday. Call your congressfolks. Save science. #medicalillustration #SciArt
This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically.
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Kenneth Becker @geophotographer.org · 30/03/2025
Here is another EMV (earth movement visualization) for the M7.7 Myanmar earthquake, this time showing the waves passing seismic sensors in Europe. 🧪
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵
US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.
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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🐞 Spread the word! Registration and abstract submission are now open for our annual conference, #Ento25! Join the entomological community in-person or online this September, with opportunities to present your work, meet new contacts and build collaborations 🔽 buff.ly/tKyJIbN
Abstract submission and registration are now open for Ento25 - advertisement featuring a Violet Leaf Beetle (Chrysolina strumi), photo (c) Tyler Redford 2024
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ISYEB @isyeb.mnhn.fr · 26/03/2025
🗓️02/04 au 30/11/2025, L'exposition"Déserts"ouvrira ses portes au @mnhn.fr Voyagez à travers les milieux les + extrêmes de notre planète et découvrez les incroyables stratégies d’adaptation du vivant @audelalis.bsky.social @isyeb.mnhn.fr spécialiste de la biodiversité polaire, commissaire de l'expo
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Marshal Hedin @mhedin.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Great time on SAT teaching a Macro Workshop with @tjalamont.bsky.social, hosted by the Anza Borrego Foundation. despite dry conditions we found some things, including this crab spider with leaf-cutter bee prey found by one of the participants looking forward to doing this again in the future
yellow crab spider on yellow flower, with a captured leaf-cutter bee, the bee itself with a black and yellow striped abdomen
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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Obligatory Condylostylus mundus picture, when they first appear in the spring 💙
Brilliant shiny blue/purple long-legged fly on a palmetto frond
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests. So, best we share all the footage we can here! This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu. 🇹🇷 #Turkey
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Ian Andrews @suillia.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Dolerus madidus...a common early-spring sawfly associated with Juncus meadows and always one of the first sawflies to appear each year. East Yorkshire today. #sawflies #ento #yorkshiresawflies #ukwildlife #symphyta
The sawfly Dolerus madidus. A male, so all black apart from a red band round the middle segments of the abdomen. The light is catching its fringe of pale hairs as it clings to a Juncus rush stem.
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David Kroodsma @davidkroodsma.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We have just updated our public fishing activity data. You can now download data for 2012-2024! Learn more: globalfishingwatch.org/insights/ask... Here is fishing effort by latitude and day, across 12 years.
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Fred Lebreton @fredcolby.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Cette photo symbolique a été prise par Bruno Spire. On y voit des panneaux de posters scientifiques vides car ils ont du être retirés en raison des décision de l'administration Trump. S'en prendre à l'éducation, à la recherche et à la science, ce sont les outils de l'obscurantisme et du fascisme.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 11/03/2025
The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects
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Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts
Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.
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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Zebra jumping spider (Salticus scenicus) on lichen. #NaturePhotography #Inverts
Macro photo of a spider with brown and black and white short hairs all over its body and legs. It is on a grayish concrete surface dotted with yellow-orange and deeper orange lichen.
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