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Manish Ravi @manish-ecol.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Specimen collection is just the tip of the iceberg! It's in the hands of the collector to make sure it reaches the right hands with the right information... 🐝🦋🐞🐜🪳🪰 Shoutout to @corriemoreau.bsky.social for bringing this point at #Ento26 #RoyEntSoc #Cardiff

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I thought I'd repost this piece quoting the first sentence. Then I thought, no, the first paragraph. No, the first three. And I went on doing that until the final word. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

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‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom

Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?

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Baheerathan @baheerathanm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

If you are attending @isbe2026.bsky.social , come to the Agnelli auditorium to watch some bamboo bat action from India at 12:45 pm. Concurrent 5A Conservation Behaviour session #ISBE2026

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Gifty Alin Jacob @giftyalinjacob.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Excited to talk about how anthropogenic landscapes🌳🌾🏙️ influence the foraging behavior of honey bees in Asia🐝 at ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social Talk at 10am today (21.07) at Berlino room. Please join for some new insights on tropical bees! #ISBE2026

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Most of the statistical tests you learned in stats class — t-test, ANOVA, correlation — are actually special cases of a single thing: linear regression. Ch 7 of Experimentology argues that thinking in models, not tests, is more flexible and a better foundation for theory. 🧵 experimentology.io

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Thejasvi Beleyur @beleyurthejasvi.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Knowing even a little bit of how DAGs work, and tiny pieces of causal inference can mean...you suddenly realise some (new and old) 'big' papers in your field arent really showing what they claim..even if there is a 'positive' signal...sigh...

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Andrea Baronchelli @baronca.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The essay was never just words on a page. It was a promise. My new post, "The Student Who Wasn't There," is about what AI does to that promise, and how to keep it. baronca.substack.com/p/the-studen...

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Manjari Jain @manjarijain.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

We hope that science policy makers, administrators and funders will take note and push for this. Also, more than political will, I think this endeavour needs field ecologists in India to come together for a larger good as opposed to individual pursuits.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

These claims about what AI can do truly need citations. Checking statistics isn’t routine work, nor is whether citations to the literature are sensible. Whether statistics are appropriate and render reasonable inferences is inherently a question of human judgement.

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Sachin Bhaskar @sachinbhaskar.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Excited to be at the British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2025. Presenting a part of my PhD that looks at Nectar robbery. Not all flower visitors are pollinators, some are cheaters too! Poster: A4.83 16th Dec 2025 Lennox Suite 18:00-19:30 (GMT) @britishecologicalsociety.org

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Kit @ascolotl.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 17/07/2025

A new evolutionary analysis of butterflies finds their “false heads” arose from the coalescence of multiple traits. scim.ag/3IsE93l

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Some butterflies adapted to have second ‘heads’ that confuse predators

A new evolutionary analysis of butterflies finds “false heads” arose from the coalescence of multiple traits

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Tarunkishwor Yumnam ꯇꯔꯨꯟ ꯌꯨꯝꯅꯥꯝ @tarunyumnam.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Our false head work is out! By analysing ~1000 #butterflies, we found many traits at posterior end of hindwings evolved correlatedly, likely forming a trait complex w/adaptive function to dupe predators into thinking these traits together are actual head!! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 28/05/2025

Fitting a generalized mixed model with a gamma distribution log link and random slopes to reaction time data to arrive at precisely the same point estimate as the authors did by simply averaging and conducting a t-test:

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Entomemeology @entomemeology.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Save the native pollinators

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

My new substack newsletter explains the fundamental trade-off in experiments in ecology and environmental sciences: you can either have mechanistic resolution or realism, but not both in the same experiment. #ecology #environment #science matthiasrillig.substack.com/p/why-you-ca...

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Why you can't have it all in experiments in ecology

The trade-off between realism and mechanistic resolution, and why this is important.

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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This week’s newsletter talks about why science is so hard, or at least one reason….this was something I struggled with at the beginning of my PhD. I wonder if other people feel or felt the same way? Let me know…. #AcademicSky open.substack.com/pub/matthias...

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Why science is hard, or at least one reason why it is difficult

And how to cope (at least with this one particular aspect)

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