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Hothouse climate change | Mayan trade | Invasive flatworms

Contrary to a popular and seductive misconception — science rarely moves in great leaps, with eureka moments bursting from subversive mavericks.

Contrary to a popular and seductive consensus — science rarely moves in great leaps, with eureka moments bursting from subversive mavericks.

Tobias et al., 2025 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

BREAKING NEWS… Further to this morning’s blog, gamekeeper Racster Dingwall has pleaded guilty to two charges, including conspiracy to kill a Hen Harrier on a grouse moor on the Coniston…

Tobias et al., 2025 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

In the middle of December, my partner and I day-tripped to the Isle of Mull in Scotland. We journeyed in many layers, and with a concurrently...

Contrary to a popular and seductive consensus — science rarely moves in great leaps, with eureka moments bursting from subversive mavericks.

Some papers from the past week

Environmental DNA use is becoming more common, but there are dilemmas about how it should be harnessed for the future

Deep learning methods identified a large and evolutionarily conserved X-linked low recombination region in placental mammals that serves as both a barrier to gene flow in hybridizing lineages and an a...

How animals enviably disappear

The short answer is on Instagram.

The short answer is on Instagram.

(As a plant)

(As a plant)

By Robert Macfarlane

By Robert Macfarlane

Ministers understood to be drawing up amendments to bill to try to head off threatened rebellion by two dozen MPs

Hitchin, Hertfordshire: We have a local speciality here, the rue-leaved saxifrage, poking up in street cracks and wall crannies. It’s worth lying on the pavement for

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Thanks for reading Jacob’s Science Substack!