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/...
It’s important not to let them pin this all on Trump, in the same way it’s important not to let them pin Israel’s crimes on Netanyahu. Everything we are seeing with this disastrous Iran war is the product of the entire power structure which gave rise to it, not one guy’s dopey decisions.
Elephants 🐘 were recently said to use name-like calls 🔊 to communicate. A new study shows that the evidence for name-like calls in elephants remains inconclusive
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Intact #tropical #forests 🌴🌴 can buffer hot and dry extremes 🌞 by >6°C. When do recovering #secondary forests recover this capability?
New paper Felicity Newell et al. in Agricult Forest Meteorol
#forestecol #restoration #climate @jocotoco.bsky.social
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To be clear: any outlet that reports "Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz" without reporting "because they explicitly said the ceasefire must include Lebanon and Israel is continuing to bomb Lebanon" is an outlet you cannot trust.
Congratulations!
It's now been 3 hours since our supposed "ally" Donald Trump threatened genocide on a country of 93 million people.
We've had absolutely nothing from the UK government.
This doesn't come in a vacuum either - every day the US & Israel have been murdering innocent people.
I am waiting to hear European condemnations of this genocidal statement. I expect to be disappointed...
Perhaps the German Chancellor will once again say that the time for discussing international law is not now...
FINE April 7th 2026, Vidya T.N.C., Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India
Title: Group size and social relationships in female Asian elephants
Zoom
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Holy shit. This is like if a foreign country bombed MIT. Sharif University is the top science and engineering institution in Iran, and one of the top in the world. Absolutely unconscionable www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Congrats!
🌳 Excited to share our data paper: Urban Trees of India (UTI). A first-of-its-kind national database documenting 742 tree spp across 380 urban areas.
🌱 Key insights: ~58% spp are evergreen; ~41% non-native spp reflect urban biogeographic mixing; ~10% spp are threatened
doi.org/10.1111/1440...
Oh nothing, just a peer reviewed paper my colleagues found...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...
"1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample and unprotected to light for 7 min."
Even AI knows what's wrong here, but @elsevierconnect.bsky.social doesn't.
Teaching and research postdoc in GISc on the development of movement models www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/t... initially one-year that can be extended to a maximum of three years
Post-doc opportunity on comparative cognition and movement dynamics in corvids with the brilliant Prof Debbie Kelly at the University of Manitoba
Trump: "He [Saudi Arabia's MBS] didn't think he'd be kissing my ass... But now he has to be nice to me."
This is the choice the GCC will face post-war. If it moves toward deeper dependence on the US to balance Iran, they'll become spineless vassals similar to Europe, who have to "kiss Trump's ass."
Congrats to all those journal editors & peer reviewers who legitimised Lynn’s “national IQ” database by letting it into their journals. Truly, it’s a victory for academic freedom to publish papers which claim that children living in a refugee camp constitute a nationally representative sample 👏👏
Only Israelis could bomb neighboring populations every single day for years and then go “NOBODY IN THE WORLD CAN IMAGINE WHAT IT’S LIKE TO LIVE IN FEAR OF AIRSTRIKES”
Fully-funded PhD with me in beautiful North Wales (field work in Sumatra). From conflict to coexistence: how can new biodiversity finance approaches promote elephants and humans living in harmony? With @wwf.org.uk, @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
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If You'd Only Oppose The Iran War When There's Boots On The Ground, You're A Scumbag
"Sure you can rain hellfire on hospitals, homes and schools for weeks, just make sure you do all your massacring from the sky where nobody can return fire."
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-youd-on...
#EleFunFriday, gene edited Asian elephants are just GMOs — Asian elephants designed to look like Wooly mammoths. They’re just GMOs, designed art forms…
🚨🚨 #Spain takes victory lap as EU coalesces around #Sánchez’s anti-war position.
Spanish FM José Manuel #Albares says the bloc is finally standing up in defense of the rules-based order and against “a unilateral war that is not our own.” 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/spai...
Swedish old-growth forests store 78-89% more carbon than managed forests do, a difference in carbon storage larger than Sweden’s cumulative emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels since 1834.
The same probably also applies to Finland.
theconversation.com/swedens-old-...
France 24 news release: NATO "temporarily" withdraws iraq mission, iraq officials say The NATO mission in iraq has temporarily withdrawn from the country two iraq security officials told AFP citing the impact of the war in the middle east. "There is no disagreement" with the iraq government, one official told AFP on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the subject. "It's a temporary withdrawal. They are worried because of the situation", he added. Another official said "the entire NATO mission has withdrawn", accept for a small number of personnel. The NATO mission is headquartered in an iraqi military base in baghdad's green zone near the US embassy, which, since the start of the war, has been targeted multiple times.
🔥🔥 🔥 NATO out of Iraq!
600 soldiers were evacuated in emergency procedures, and the "Mission" in Iraq has officially been withdrawn after 2 weeks of resistance strikes on the US HQ in the American Embassy of Baghdad.
Never forget that when the US and NATO invaded, bombed and regime-changed Libya they did it in the name of “human rights”… and in the process transformed one of the most developed countries in Africa into a place riddled with civil war and infamous for open-air slave markets.
This needs attention. Suzanne Simard threatened legal action against a journalist asking critical questions. This is not how science works. Brave of @aislingirwin.bsky.social to report.
NYT: Trump Says U.S. and Qatar Not Involved in Strike on Iran’s South Pars Gas Field
Dear news media,
When you write a “Trump says …” headline and don’t express any skepticism, you’re quite likely to be amplifying a lie.
Please circulate widely!
Open positions at the Vision Lab, Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
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Since we're talking about trade sanctions, this is what Indian environmentalist Anil Agarwal, founder of the Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi wrote in 1998. Applies for all kinds of sanctions and not just those related to environmental issues. www.downtoearth.org.in/environment/...
