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Snow puff! Photo from my collection, 1960.

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... indeed

It is done. My magnum opus. My legacy.

You can submit those records to our map! github.com/BrunaLab/hol...

The DOGE-ed NOAA Great Lakes lab "has been without a permanent director since ... early 2025. Jesse Feyen, the deputy director, is also performing the duties of the lab’s director. NOAA declined to comment on whether it plans to fill the role on a permanent basis." Via @michiganadvance.com -

Gotta say this one is very nice #sciart artologica.etsy.com/listing/4590...

Neil Landman, Curator Emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, reflects on his journey into paleontology, the aesthetic beauty and biology of #ammonites, and his groundbreaking research on post-impact survival near the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction boundary.

Spinosaurus mirabilis #sciart

I welcome my corvid overlords with open arms and open mind

When thousands of these birds roost together, some consider it a nuisance. But can we learn to live with them? buff.ly/KTYCHrm

One of the pleasures of writing a book on an overarching topic like bioerosion ('Life Sculpted,' 2023, @uchicagopress.bsky.social) was learning about amazing studies, such as tool use in capuchin monkeys. In one example, tool use goes back at least 3,000 years (!). www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🪨🐒

Lots of cool questions here, and I note especially the ones about #animals #animalbehavior or in #anthropology #archaeology. A favorite: 84. Can we learn what emotions animals are experiencing? #science

Sociality has evolved repeatedly across the tree of life. @meganbarkdull.bsky.social & @corriemoreau.bsky.social review how insect sociality both arises from and influences genome evolution. 🔗 academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... 📷 Philipp Hoenle #societyjournal

🐸 New paper from the META-MOSPHOSIS team! Vivien investigates how external factors (temperature, continental fragmentation) and internal factors (life-cycle traits) shape species richness in salamanders. 🌍🦎 Read the paper: doi.org/10.1093/sysb... #Salamanders #Biodiversity #Evolution #Herpetology

We now have rigorous pooled data showing that even without active restoration efforts, cleared rainforest can rebound to 75% of their former species composition and 90% of species diversity within just thirty years. #goodnews

Harlequin Ducks!! So many on rocks! I never get good shots of them. HARLEQUIN DUCKS!

good morning. I strongly suspect that we don't really know (or agree) what geographic ranges are, and therefore, our estimates of how species' ranges are shifting in the Anthropocene are uninterpretable. I wrote something about this: doi.org/10.1111/2041... and I'll share the main findings...

[5] An Irish Roost | Original Ink Drawing of an Irish Landscape with Exotic Bird Buy here: robertbohan.etsy.com/listing/4584...

I so desperately want this to be "Bisclavret" from Marie de France, but it really isn't going to be that... youtu.be/CL1EFACsWag?...

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New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm

This is from a study that investigated exactly this for a red-tailed hawk. Thanks to a friend of mine on Twitter for bringing it to my attention. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.2...

Can you #FindThatLizard?! 🦎 Lizards pant to cool themselves off when temperatures get too high! All animals need ways to cool down, lizards included, because they can overheat. Humans sweat, birds bathe or swim, and pigs roll in mud. So it makes sense that lizards would have a cooling strategy.

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Another reminder: “regenerative” grazing is *not* a real climate solution. While it might build some soil carbon, it drives far more land use and larger herd sizes than conventional beef production, which is bad enough. The better solution? Eat less, waste none. drawdown.org/insights/eig...

In many of my book events thus far, one question keeps coming up: how should we think about tech workers, their class position, and organizing them in the AI age? I have a new essay with my friend @emilymazo.bsky.social that gets at exactly this question: www.theideasletter.org/essay/syndic...

Of all mammals on Earth, 96% are either livestock or humans. Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals and half of plants www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here's a gift article on why everyone should care: share.inquirer.com/Tt1WYq

Should you wish to indulge your love of beetles (and why wouldn’t you) this brilliant and scholarly website will certainly help. It’s a work of art by a human. www.rosspiper.net/2020/01/10/s...

Our new paper on peracarid phylogeny is out in Molecular Biology and Evolution! This was a great international collaboration and part of our NSF-funded PurSUiT project. Learn more about these confusing crustaceans and our ongoing phylogenomic efforts at www.peracarida.org.

SUPER DUPER PLEASED to share the newest pub by Dr. Paige Duffin academic.oup.com/evolut/advan... In this effort, Paige, Lauren Schiebelhut, Mike Dawson and I leveraged whole-genome sequencing to study broad biogeographic patterns in the canonical keystone seastar Pisaster ochraceus. 1/2

In some areas of Lakes Michigan and Huron, almost no whitefish hatchlings have survived to adulthood for nearly two decades. Now, state and tribal scientists are collecting spawning whitefish - a kind of Noah's Ark attempt to save several distinct genetic strains bridgemi.com/michigan-env...

An update following feedback from several kind people. As before, reuse as you see fit..

How Much Plastic Does it Take to Kill a Seabird? | I love it when headlines read like Google prompts that would be read aloud at someone’s trial.

Tanzania has designated its first official wildlife corridor, allowing elephants to migrate from open savannas to mountain rainforests. Co-managed by local landowners and government, the 14-km route gives hundreds of elephants safe passage across the Kilombero Valley. Ryan Truscott reports.

Big news! The Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive has digitized + made available 450 film catalogs from Professor Gregory A. Waller's collection. Catalogues represent 16mm film sector, mostly between 1940s to '70s. Explore them here! digitalcollections.iu.edu/collections/...

ALMOST EVERY PEER REVIEWED PAPER HAS A SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS RIGHT BELOW ITS TITLE

Plectroctena ugandensis, a huntress ant from Kibale Forest, Uganda.