🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests ? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲

👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest

This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!

Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚

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Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R

Responsible publication of your research!

To help you do this @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social and coauthors have put together a handy database of academia-friendly journals, DAFNEE. You can read about it in their article recently published in @jevbio.bsky.social:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

🔥 The Omnibus proposal frames unlimited approval as administrative simplification. In reality, it removes a fundamental public health & environmental protection mechanism.
📢 We urge the @europarl.europa.eu & @consilium.europa.eu to oppose and reject this proposal: www.pan-europe.info/sites/pan-eu...

Weakening of pesticide protection standards is unlawful - Legal opinion criticises draft EU legislation The European Commission's planned abolition of pesticide protection standards is unlawful. This is shown by a legal opinion published today. The legal opinion, commissioned by the Aurelia Foundation, ...

The @ec.europa.eu's planned abolition of #pesticide protection standards is unlawful. This is shown by a legal opinion published today.
www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

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Participants can apply for Best Poster and Best Oral Presentation Awards (separate prizes for Master’s and PhD students), generously funded by BelTox - Belgian Society of Toxicology and Ecotoxicology.

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This conference has been created by young researchers, for young researchers, with the goal of offering a supportive, stimulating and accessible platform for early-career scientists.

BCE - 2026 Welcome to the first edition of BCE 2026

📢 Call for Abstracts is open for the 1st edition of the Belgian Conference on Ecotoxicology (BCE 2026), which will take place at UMONS (BE) from 28 to 30 October 2026.

🗓️ Submission deadline: 21 June 2026
📩 Notification of acceptance: 21 July 2026

👉 More information sites.google.com/view/bce-202...

Against Omnibus VII ? Here is another initiative from Belgium: www.natagora.be/ditesnonauxp...

End The Toxic Pesticide Age Do you want healthy food for you and your children? Do you care about biodiversity and clean water? Beware! The European Commission is currently proposing a series of measures to massively deregulate ...

Against Omnibus VII ? Here is another initiative: www.pan-europe.info/end-toxic-pe...

Non à la dérégulation des pesticides ! Signez la pétition de POLLINIS pour exiger le retrait du texte omnibus qui veut déréguler les pesticides néfastes pour le Vivant.

mobilisation.pollinis.org/non-autorisa...

Ce que l’on sait de « Tapinoma magnum », la fourmi noire et brillante qui envahit l’Europe La fourmi noire « Tapinoma magnum », dont l’invasion en Europe aurait été facilitée par le changement climatique, inquiète. Voici comment l’identifier et comment bien réagir si vous suspectez sa prése...

Elle est petite, noire, brillante… et elle conquiert l’Europe 🐜
Découvrez notre article dans The Conversation sur Tapinoma magnum 👉 theconversation.com/ce-que-lon-s...

📢NEW PAPER OUT! We investigated the short-term impact of exposure to field-realistic doses of phthalates DnBP and DEHP on the survival of Bombus terrestris workers 🐝
Find our work here: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm (Gift Article) More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.

Holy shit. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say they’re trying to kill us all.

“The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists”

"Across the 1705 papers, the effect of new vs. old pesticides was similar [...] There was, therefore, limited evidence that the negative environmental impact of pesticides on wider biodiversity has been reduced by the development and authorisation of novel active ingredients and formulations".

An introduction to bee and pesticide research Our article is a starting point for those entering bee and pesticide research, and can help introduce the complex concepts and terminology of the field. We point to some further reading and resources...

ATTENTION ECOTOX PEOPLE: We wrote a primer on bee and pesticide science! Specifically written to be an accessible short guide for post / undergrads. It explains all the basic lingo and concepts in simple language. A great resource for the community! @darastanley.bsky.social
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🐝 Introducing the first #WildPoshSpecies: Bombus terrestris!

A curious fact is that individuals learn to visit unfamiliar but rewarding flowers faster when they observe another member of their species foraging on the same type of flower.

Explore more species here: wildposh.eu/media-center...