Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.

Call me old-fashioned, but I always look at a paper before I cite it

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This looks like a great PhD on #rhinos opportunity with an excellent team at @dice-kent.bsky.social !

Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Once lost, now found: Five “missing” bird species rediscovered in 2025, offering hope Five “missing” bird species — not seen, heard or documented in the wild for a decade or more — were “found” in 2025, according to the 2026 annual update to the Lost Birds List. It’s a tally of…

Five “missing” bird species were rediscovered in 2025, including one not documented in 94 years.

These finds in Southeast Asia and Oceania offer hope for conservation as the Lost Birds List drops to 120 species, down from 163 in 2022.

@spoorthyraman.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.

Reform cold calling public in bid to find ‘paper’ candidates for local elections Guardian journalist among those to get surprise request, though Farage denies party are ‘begging’ people to stand

Proud to say I haven't received a call

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Not a good look for climate scientists to be flying around the world to discuss climate change
#FlightFree

Misty cliffs win South West Coast Path photography competition Organisers say entries capture memorable moments along the South West Coast Path.

Rolling mist over cliffs wins #photography contest
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Book launch discussion - 'The Economics of the Wildlife Trade' This book fills this gap by presenting a theoretical framework built on a foundation of microeconomic theory that is used to analyze the trade in wildlife…

Should be a good discussion!

#wildlife #trade #IWT #economics

www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/econo...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Kenya's queen ants worth $220 each fuel booming global wildlife black market The craze for collecting ants takes Kenya by surprise as smugglers zone in to make a profit.

Kenya's queen ants worth $220 each fuel booming global wildlife black market with the potential to disrupt #ecosystems and #agriculture in Kenya and in destination countries such as China. #IWT #invasive #species

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Huge crowds take part in London march against the far right – live Organisers claim half a million people are marching through central London, protesting against the rise of the far right

Good-humoured, peaceful marchers, calling for love & tolerance - must be the woke lefties
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Do your duty! Watch an hour of GB News We need Ofcom to act against a TV channel out of control. Here’s how you can help

No, really! The blatant 'ReformTV' propaganda needs to be reported to Ofcom and @thenewworldmag.bsky.social has set up a system to compile complaints app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/153028...

I have stage four cancer – there will be no cure, but death isn’t necessarily imminent: this is how it feels to live in the long middle When you are cured, the world cheers; when you are dying, it mourns. But when you are simply maintaining, the world is at a loss

This was beautifully thought provoking

🔥 Whale Shark gliding through Bioluminescent Algae looks like its floating through space. By Mike Nulty

Using Art to Connect Us to the Microplastic Within • The Revelator By using microplastic to create artistic collages, I’ve helped people relate to and understand the crisis of plastic pollution and its dangerous health risks.

"By using #microplastic to create artistic collages, I’ve helped people relate to and understand the crisis of #plasticpollution and its dangerous health risks." -- by Erica Cirino today on @therevelator.org therevelator.org/art-micropla...

I agree with you actually. I was using rewilding in the reintroduction sense that it is sometimes used in, and because the original article used it. But I do prefer the original distinction between rewilding and reintroduction

Mummified cheetahs found in Saudi caves could shape rewilding plans Researchers exploring a cave network in northern Saudi Arabia have made an unexpected find: seven naturally mummified cheetahs, along with the skeletal remains of 54 more, preserved for up to 4,000 ye...

#AncientDNA analysis of naturally mummified #Cheetah for the first time, showed that two subspecies historically inhabited the Saudi Arabia region, not one as previously assumed. This new evidence for a second subspecies is significant for #rewilding planners

news.mongabay.com/2026/02/mumm...

‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics Plastic production has doubled over the last 20 years – and will likely double again. For author Beth Gardiner, metal water bottles and canvas tote bags are not the solution. So what is?

Trying to use less plastic?

Big Oil and the plastics industry are spending billions to make sure everyone else uses more.

“I think what stood out most is the deliberateness and intentionality over the years of pushing plastic into our lives,” said @bethgardiner.bsky.social. “It was such a shock."

Secret of hedgehog hearing discovered at far beyond human range Researchers played a sountrack to hedgehogs to identify the frequency of sounds they can hear

Secret of hedgehog hearing discovered at far beyond human range
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New Guinea The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says

Wow! Some astonishing news
#ConservationOptimism

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Sea Levels Are Already Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows

Alarming to say the least

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/c...

Sign the petition: Reform: hands off our hard-won rights! Reform UK just announced plans to scrap loads of our rights🚨 ❌ Water down our rights in work ❌ End anti-discrimination laws. ❌ Bin renter protections against unfair evictions I just signed the petit...

act.38degrees.org.uk/act/reform-r...

Restoration Update: In the Wake of Klamath Dam Removal • The Revelator Conservation crews have helped plant and seed thousands of native trees and other vegetation. Salmon have responded in kind.

Our readers are clamoring for positive environmental news. This story took off like a rocket when we published it this morning. #conservationoptimism

Restoration Update: In the Wake of Klamath Dam Removal @therevelator.org therevelator.org/klamath-rest...

If Americans discovered how good the average British grocery store is versus what they get, they'd riot, I swear.

Interesting conversation with someone recently who had been to a big ecology conference

They were amazed at the lack of a sense of urgency about the nature crisis

and that many of the studies presented - while often name-checking the crisis - were pursuing quite esoteric objectives

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Naz Shah MP on Gorton and Denton Claims: ‘How Do Supposedly “Sectarian Muslims” End Up Voting for a Radically Progressive Party with a Gay Jewish Leader?’ The Labour MP told Byline Times that, from her experience of 'clan-based politics', it was not present in the Manchester by-election as Reform UK claims

🔴 Naz Shah MP on Gorton & Denton Claims: 'How Do Supposedly Sectarian Muslims End Up Voting for a Radically Progressive Party with a Gay Jewish Leader?'

The MP for Bradford West told Byline Times: "I know what clan-based politics looks like, I have a history of fighting it, this isn't what this is"

What's a Deputy Chief Inspector? I thought DCI, in the context of the police at least, was Detective Chief Inspector. Does the leader of the Conservative Party not know the background of her party's candidate, demoting her in this statement?

What's a Deputy Chief Inspector? I thought DCI, in the context of the police at least, was Detective Chief Inspector. Does the leader of the Conservative Party not know the background of her party's candidate?