Social media is accelerating the illegal wildlife trade, creating a direct digital pipeline from remote forests to urban buyers.
A recent sting in Laos, sparked by a Facebook post, resulted in the rescue of two 2-month-old Asiatic black bear cubs.
@npbrao.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.
🇧🇴 En operativos de fuerzas estatales bolivianas fueron destruidos 11 campamentos de minería ilegal en la Amazonía valuados en 12 millones de dólares. Las acciones se concentraron en ríos cercanos al Parque Nacional Madidi. ⬇️ es.mongabay.com/2026/03/boli...
There's just over one week left to soak up the excitement of Sharks, closing March 22!
@potamophile.bsky.social brings us up close to the smallest specimen of the biggest shark in the ocean, the whale shark & the 2nd smallest: the pygmy shark! Both held in the palm of his hand! ✋
Legislation enshrining scenic river protections for treasured Middle Tennessee waterways is moving forward after lawmakers rejected a change that would have removed a clause barring landfills within two miles of scenic rivers. @cstephenson.bsky.social reports.
A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell
Incredible article about Art Borkent, biting midges, and aging taxonomists.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Shout out to the inestimable Sandra Raredon, the Smithsonian Museum Specialist who made this images, and for decades has helped visiting researchers produce similar images.
I'm pleased to see the @linneansociety.bsky.social have posted a video of my talk on Discovering the Okapi on their YouTube channel, here
youtu.be/MCOHAGII0a0?...
Wegener's (1915) depiction of the breakup of Pangaea. (a) the Carboniferous, (b) the Eocene, (c) today.
OTD in 1912, Alfred Wegener delivered a lecture propounding the theory that our modern continents were formed by the splitting and drifting apart of an ancient supercontinent, which he named Pangea.
Due to his failure to offer a plausible mechanism, he was widely ridiculed.
🧠🗃️⚒️ 🧪 #HistSTM #PhilSci
Great to see a natural history collection growing in an era when the expansion of barriers to such growth is inexorable.
Exciting new #Zebrafish research from the #WeinsteinLab, led by Jong Park!
“Specialized gas-exchange endothelium of the zebrafish gill” —
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Amazing to see red blood cells moving through the gills! Don’t forget to check out the supplemental movies ;-)
Ladies, does your man hang out in the deep sea, have a cartilaginous skeleton, and teeth on his forehead? That's not your man, that is a chimera. 👻🦈
In honour of Halloween weekend, Nathan Lujan @potamophile.bsky.social Curator of Fishes at ROM) gave us a lesson on these creepy creatures.
The Royal Ontario Museum @romtoronto.bsky.social is delighted to seek a collections specialist specializing in birds and mammals. Candidates should have 3-5 years collections experience and deep knowledge of avian and mammalian taxonomy, systematics, and identification.
The Tennessee Aquarium is hiring a temporary field technician for sampling work to discover Trispot Darter distribution. Details below: 🧪🐟 #TeamFish
Alison Davis Rabosky, Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, poses in the museum’s Herpetology archives at the University of Michigan’s Research Museums Center.
Thais Vasconcelos, Director of the University of Michigan Herbarium, poses at the University of Michigan’s Research Museums Center.
Great pair of articles in this morning's Ann Arbor News highlighting the outstanding new leadership of the U-M Museum of Zoology and U-M Herbarium: Alison Davis Rabosky (left) and Thais Vasconcelos (right). 🍄🌿🌺🐚🪲🐟🐸🐍🐦🐿️
Note that the successful candidate should be qualified for university cross-appointment, demonstrate potential for teaching undergraduate and graduate students, and be eligible for NSERC funding in support of their research (record of successful grant applications, or potential).
The Royal Ontario Museum @romtoronto.bsky.social is delighted to seek a new Curator of Plants. With more than 1.1 million specimens, including the largest, most representative collection of Ontario flora available, ROM's plant collection is world-class and global in scope.
Note that the successful candidate should be qualified for university cross-appointment, demonstrate potential for teaching undergraduate and graduate students, and be eligible for NSERC funding in support of their research (record of successful grant applications, or potential).
The Royal Ontario Museum @romtoronto.bsky.social is delighted to seek a new Curator of Birds. With more than 200,000 specimens, including the world’s largest collection of bird skeletons, ROM's bird collection is the largest in Canada and one of the world's largest.
The @romtoronto.bsky.social Sharks exhibition is opening this weekend! The perfect family-friendly destination for the Thanksgiving long weekend!
And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.
Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet
An aerial view of a rainforest with a river running through it. Text on top reads "Amazon Rainforest Day".
Today is #AmazonRainforestDay! Home to 47 million people and around 10% of all species on Earth, this incredible ecosystem is under threat from mass deforestation and climate change. You can visit buff.ly/D6xZCkJ to learn more about how to help the Amazon Rainforest.
I'm excited to be traveling to Lima, Peru, tomorrow to give a keynote lecture on "New approaches to the study of neotropical fishes: Genomics, eDNA, and computed tomography" at the National Life Sciences Congress.
Proud of @romtoronto.bsky.social and @utsc.utoronto.ca Provosts Postdoctoral Fellow Tobit Liyandja for publishing this core chapter of his PhD dissertation.
Postdoc position (24 mos) in Bioinformatics for Integrative Taxonomy at MNHN, Paris. Develop software tools for taxonomy research. Apply by Sept 7: recrutement.mnhn.fr/front-jobs-detail.html #postdoc
“We are undergoing unprecedented loss of freshwater across the planet.”
And need new leadership yesterday. :/
www.newscientist.com/article/2490...
@FMNH is hiring a new curator of Invertebrate Zoology!
Fish are disappearing in an African lake that feeds the people of four countries. #Freshwater lakes may not be as vast as oceans but they are just as important. #fisheries
news-decoder.com/finally-a-fo...
