‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out

Pace of life shapes parasite defense. Fast living guppies invest less in resistance and fecundity tolerance but not mortality tolerance. Now out in Evolution Letters, by Sadie Evanov and @jfstep.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/evle... Image Credit: J Mank

Christian Nationalism is a Cult of Convenience

The degree of corruption in the current US administration is breathtaking.

Transformers! More than meets the eye!

This VERY ANGRY ROCK is actually a brown box crab (Echidnocerus foraminatus), a king crab found off the Pacific coast of North America.

The impressively compact shape is a defense posture, but there's an even neater feature not shown here.

(📷:zedasd)

There's no call for how invested I got in this.

Very happy to see this one published ! I had lots of fun participating to the adventure with an amazing group of scientists and friends.

Congratulations to @bertillemohring.bsky.social
@samanthacpatrick.bsky.social

L'ADN du suaire de Turin a parlé ! YouTube video by La Tronche en Biais

Une toute nouvelle étude vient de sortir, elle est très commentée.
L'ADN prélevé sur le suaire de Turin apporterait une confirmation de son parcours géographique depuis l'Orient : un nouvel indice d'authenticité, nous dit-on.

Et les données, que disent-elles vraiment ?
youtu.be/1VXsSTu7Tds

Sexual Selection Associated With an Aggressive Male Phenotype Reduces Population Size and Hinders Population Recovery After Heat Stress Using experiments on soil mites, we show that sexual selection associated with an armed and aggressive male phenotype can reduce population size and stability, which lowers their resilience against a...

New paper out in #Ecology Letters: We manipulated the presence of "fighter" and "scrambler" males in soil mite populations and showed that aggressive male behaviour reduces population size and stability. 🧪#SexualSelection #PopulationEcology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

The same could be said of humans.

French man, 86, issues historic apology for family’s role in transatlantic slavery Pierre Guillon de Prince believed to be first in France to formally apologise for ancestors’ allegiances to slavery An 86-year-old man has issued what is believed to be the first formal apology by someone in France for their family’s role in transatlantic slavery. Pierre Guillon de Prince’s ancestors, based in Nantes, which was the country’s largest port for transatlantic slavery, were shipowners who transported about 4,500 enslaved Africans and owned plantations in the Caribbean. Continue reading...

French man, 86, issues historic apology for family’s role in transatlantic slavery

L’actrice Nathalie Baye est morte à l’âge de 77 ans. Révélée par Truffaut dans "La Nuit américaine", elle aura traversé le cinéma pendant plus de 50 ans, de Godard à Chabrol, de Pialat à Dolan. Une présence, une voix, une manière d’être là sans forcer le trait.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/Rd4

We should be learning from other countries...

Curious tuna crabs in the Pacific show their inquisitive side as they investigate a diver. Nature’s wonders never cease to amaze us.

Israel’s new death penalty law places thousands of Palestinians at imminent risk of execution and escalates the systemized killing of Palestinians by the Israeli apartheid regime.

Man of the people.

#wildlife #WildlifeCrossings

More photos of wildlife crossings in comments. Great idea!

Päev 1514. Öösel jätkus droonirünnak, küll väiksemas mahus. Tšernihhivis tabati elektri infrat. Sumõs 1 hukkunu ja 1 vigastatu. Tiblad veavad Donetski jõudusid juurde, plaan on kogu regioon vallutada septembriks. Tiblad edenesid Udatšnes, UA Lõmanist kirdes. #SlavaUkraini

Vibrant street art in Limerick, Ireland. A standard street bollard is painted as a bright blue octopus head, with its tentacles sprawled playfully across the pavement for a local scavenger hunt.

🐙 Painted Octopus — By Lumen Street Theatre in Limerick 🇮🇪 This Is Clever (14 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/04/17/c...

Pop science doesn't reach a "general audience" Pop sci readers are wealthy, educated, and left-leaning

My post from February on pop science and the "general audience" is a good example of what's to come.

But it's not all going to be meta-scicomm.

I'll still write about science.

Just expect less "fun" and more research on science/scicomm/the info env. itself or topics with high + immediate stakes.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Un jour avec Audrey Dussutour (#leblob) Chercheuse au "Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale" à Toulouse, elle s’est faite connaître du grand public avec physarum polycephalum, alias le "blob".

REPLAY - Comment transmettre la science aujourd'hui au grand public ? Dans cet épisode, on a suivi une journée la chercheuse @docteur-drey.bsky.social, biologiste, notamment connue pour ses recherches sur le "blob".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLL_...

Viability selection on coat spot patterns correlates with temperature anomalies in Masai giraffes Spot patterns influenced giraffe survival and their effects were altered by temperature anomalies. In calves, spot size may help with thermoregulation while spot shape may conceal them from predators...

2026. Viability selection on coat spot patterns correlates with temperature anomalies in Masai giraffes. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Des soldats israéliens ont utilisé du gaz lacrymogène pour disperser des écoliers palestiniens qui participaient à un sit-in en Cisjordanie occupée lundi, après que des colons leur ont barré l'accès à leur école ⤵️

I wrote this piece after someone told me I needed to be “less emotional” and “more analytical” about Trump - as if we’re still living in a rational world, where reason and logic guide this administration, and its actions aren’t harming millions across the world. I disagree. We need to be angrier.

Great tit perched on a branch, with beak slightly open. Photo credit: Alizée Vernouillet

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us:

🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦

Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social

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