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Maja Mielke (she/her) @maja-mielke.bsky.social · 9h

Retrieving cached food requires much more than just remembering where you buried your snacks. Scrub jays also remember what they cached and when—and retrieve perishable snacks first! 🐦️🧠🩵 👇️ Learn more in my latest post for Beaks & Bones! 🪶🧪 beaksandbones.substack.com/p/episodic-l... #ornithology

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Scrub jays know the best-before date of their cached food

When retrieving cached food, scrub jays consider what they cached, where they cached it, and when—indicating cognitive traits long believed to be unique to humans.

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Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 6h

Early spring arrival in Iceland creates opportunities to adapt to breeding conditions - something that may pay dividends in a changing climate. wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/09/30/f... Blog about paper by Josh Nightingale in IBIS onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #ornithology

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 5h

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Rewriting the evolutionary history of the Pied Flycatcher avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/r... #ornithology

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Rewriting the evolutionary history of the Pied Flycatcher

More precise mutation rate provides detailed insights into past demographic changes.

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European Ornithologists' Union @eounion.bsky.social · 3h

💡Plenary Spotlight Bart Kempenaers – Max Planck Institute, Germany Bart is an expert in avian mating systems, currently exploring how sexual selection affects the activity and movement of shorebirds. #EOU2027 | 23-27 August | Brno, CZ Submit symposia: www.eou27.cz/call-for-sym... #Ornithology

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W. P. Mueller @wpmueller.bsky.social · 14m

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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A map of records of migrating Nutcracker - seemingly all Slender-billed (machrorhynchos) - from Southern Sweden in the last week. Also this great video of 48 migrating SW at Falsterbo today. Definitely something afoot with this species this autumn... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol-I...

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Vesta Eleuteri @vestaeleuteri.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

8 years ago I started monitoring the Marakele wild elephants and dreaming of one day studying their communication. Today my first wild elephant paper exploring intentional gestural communication in the Marakele and Addo populations is out, marking a key personal moment 🐘❤️. rdcu.be/87qLLG6DSs7a 1/4

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Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‼️Now published @evolletters.bsky.social Developmental differences between males and females alter the sex ratio. 🐥🧵 about this study 1/9

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Dr Lauren K. Common @laurenkcommon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So pleased to have published my first foray into movement ecology, with my co-first author @varalikajain.bsky.social ! These geese are TRAVELLING (or not!), with some going north for the winter! 🪿❄️

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 21h

Timeline cleanse. This relative of the Monarch is called a Queen butterfly, and is often mistaken for a Monarch. Took the shot at a great birding place called Big Morongo near Joshua Tree and Palm Springs . #invertebrate 🌿

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 19h

Caladenia paludosa - Swamp Spider Orchid Often found growing in dense coastal heathland in areas that are swampy in winter, hence its common name. Endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling 🌿

Picture of a single orchid flower that has long, thin petals and sepals that are greenish yellow in colour with a deep red tip to the central labellum. The labellum has long red-tipped fringing. The ends of the three sepals have think brown tips.

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MTH @megt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"They have put a spotlight on what they argue are dangerous conditions caused by extreme heat and cold in Texas prisons.... This week... a federal judge ruled that the state must air-condition all Texas prisons by the end of 2029." 🌎 19thnews.org/2026/09/wome...

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The ‘lionesses’ who sued to get air conditioning in every Texas prison — and won

A group led by formerly incarcerated women spent years advocating for those trapped inside prison walls during Texas’ hot summers.

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Point Blue Conservation Science @pointblue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🦉🧪🌎 The Palomarin spring banding summary is here! The season brought spring migrants, the return of summer residents, and a few exciting captures! Some highlights: Black-headed Grosbeaks, Sharp-shinned Hawks, Red-breasted Nuthatches, and juvenile Black Phoebes. Learn more: shorturl.at/X7ymm

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 23h

The gentoo penguin complex is historically treated as a single species, but a study in Communications Biology shows the existence of four divergent evolutionary lineages. The authors propose treating the lineages as four distinct species. go.nature.com/4iVxVZQ #evosky 🧬🌎🧪

A Gentoo penguin with a black head, white eye patch, and bright orange beak and feet walks on a sandy beach. Its white chest contrasts with its black back. The ocean with gentle waves is blurred in the background. Adobe stock image.

This is figure 7, which shows synonymy and divergence of gentoo penguins.

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MTH @megt.bsky.social · 21h

"The West Elk coal mine in Gunnison County is violating emissions release limits at nearly four times the permitted rate, according to state compliance notices, adding supercharged greenhouse gases to Colorado’s air and producing compounds that worsen ozone." 🌎 coloradosun.com/2026/09/28/c...

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Western Colorado coal mine violates emissions caps nearly 4 times over, state says

Colorado's West Elk coal mine is violating methane leak caps, the state says, and environmental groups want strict enforcement.

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Mike Moore @moore-evo-eco.bsky.social · 17h

go work with @bbtumolo.bsky.social! 🧪🌎🐙

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 26/09/2026

Dubbed a "chemical bomb," discarded cigarette butts leach heavy metals, nicotine, and microplastics into water, accounting for 12% of global aquatic litter. Researchers highlight beach smoking bans with targeted fines as an effective way to protect fragile marine ecosystems. mongabay.cc/M2FAoc

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Cigarette butts make up 12% of aquatic litter, global review finds

Cigarette butts account for roughly 12% of the litter found in rivers, lakes and beaches surveyed for a recent global review. Researchers pooled data from 130 studies conducted in 55 countries…

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Climate change affects everything. "These threats are not regarded as some far-off or remote contingency: disastrous impacts, for instance on the UK’s food supply, could be expected as soon as 2030, it warns."

What is the report?
In the first report of its kind, the UK’s spy chiefs set out stark warnings of the catastrophic risks to the UK from the collapse of vital ecosystems around the world, driven by the climate crisis and our failures to protect nature. The Guardian has seen part of the report and has spoken to a large number of people familiar with its contents, which warn of food shortages, conflicts, mass migration and other threats to the UK’s national security, including going as far as the risk of nuclear war or the breakdown of society. These threats are not regarded as some far-off or remote contingency: disastrous impacts, for instance on the UK’s food supply, could be expected as soon as 2030, it warns.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Instead of a thousand words. Pavlo, a Ukrainian Defender who has returned from Russian captivity, takes down his picture from a wall of missing and captives. He spent 50 months in Russian captivity. That's over four years.... 📷: iamslimaa/Threads

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social reopened the Epstein case; Heidi Blake seems to have restarted the UK prosecuting Andrew Tate; Ronan Farrow, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor made the system finally go after Weinstein for real. Journalism has again and again made the justice system do its job.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh this is lovely.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.

A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Friday was the hottest day *ever recorded* for Earth's oceans, on average. Oceans continue to absorb more than 90% of the excess heat from global warming: www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti... via @sfchronicle.com

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Earth’s oceans just broke a heat record. The implications will be massive

Human-caused global warming and a strong El Niño are adding excess heat to the oceans, threatening marine life and providing storms with more energy and moisture.

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Jack Hill @jackhill.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Robert DeNiro Supports Canada in ridiculous Trade War ! #cdnpoli #entertainment

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 28/09/2026

Rising residential school denialism and anti-Indigenous racism have created an environment where white supremacists feel emboldened to target and intimidate First Nations in their communities. It’s disgusting and completely unacceptable.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

JUST FILED: Sitting behind her desk in central North Carolina, Amy Beros warned me: “It’s really hard for people in the United States to understand the scale……” of what’s about to unfold macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/they-dont-...

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Exactly. As he becomes more deranged and politically weaker, he will become more desperate and more dangerous.

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Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

rachelcarsoncouncil.org/rachel-carso... Please promote far and wide! College students to explore climate action, hope, and environmental justice through poetry, short stories, and essays. Inspired by Rachel Carson’s legacy as both a scientist and storyteller. Submit by Dec. 31, 2026.

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