📢CALL FOR COLLABORATION📢

My PhD student Warre is looking for flies infected with #Laboulbeniales fungi. Especially Musca domestica!

If you have any, store in 96% ethanol or in the freezer, record on @inaturalist.bsky.social, and/or contact Warre.

#TeamLaboul #LFEE #LuminaQuaeruntur

Conservation depends on rangers. Their wellbeing is often an afterthought The gunfire began just before six in the morning. At first, Christine Lain thought it might be a drill. Upemba National Park had run exercises like this before. Rangers had trained for the possibility...

Many rangers work under sustained pressure, with repeated exposure to trauma, long absences from family, and little access to mental health care. #conservation #rangers

An underwater split-level photograph of a baby sea turtle swimming towards the ocean surface. Text overlay reads: 'One hour to find their way to the ocean against all odds.'

Nature knows how to make an hour count. ⌛

In one week, it's our turn.

This #EarthHour, 28th March, switch off for our world. 🌍

Promotional poster with a desert landscape background featuring tall cacti. Green banner at top reads "MEDIA GRANTS." Large white text: "Biodiversity Media Grants 2026." Body text states EJN offers grants of 10,000–12,000 EUR to media organizations in low- and middle-income countries for projects strengthening media reporting on biodiversity issues. Green banner reads "APPLY BY MARCH 28." Earth Journalism Network and Internews logos appear at the bottom.

Internews' Earth Journalism Network is offering grants of €10,000–€12,000 to 3–4 media organizations in low- & middle-income countries to boost biodiversity reporting.

✍️ Applications close March 28, 2026.

Learn more with @earthjournalism.bsky.social: earthjournalism.net/opportunitie...

Windows to the 19th Century Ocean - Charles Darwin Foundation Collected more than 130 years ago, some of the oldest marine specimens from Galápagos are preserved at the Marine Organisms Collection of the CDRS.

Preserved in the Marine Organisms Collection at the Charles Darwin Research Station, these specimens are windows into the ocean of the 19th century.
📖 Read the blog here: www.darwinfoundation.org/en/news/all-...

Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.

How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

‪Tell me the truth...I'm ready.

New IPBES report finds that $220 billion were directed to conservation & restoration of biodiversity in 2023...

yet $7.3 trillion flowed toward subsidies that directly harm nature.

IPBES Business & Biodiversity Assessment www.ipbes.net/business-imp...
@ipbes.net

Forecasting the Next Pandemic Led by scientists from Yale and the University of Oklahoma, the Viral Emergence Research Initiative (Verena) is one of the largest pandemic prevention research

Very special to wake up today to a profile of @viralemergence.org from Yale. We’re in month eight of turmoil right now, and it’s hard to focus on the science, but the truth is: we have a lot more work to do.

ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Botswana shows how smarter cattle herding can save lions, reopen ancient wildlife pathways The lions that roamed the plains of northern Botswana were dying. One by one, the big cats were succumbing to poisoned bait planted by exasperated villagers. The lions had been chipping away at their ...

Restoring traditional herding practices in northern #Botswana has led to a huge decrease in cattle predation + retaliatory lion poisonings.
More #lion cubs are now surviving, with the lion population in northern Botswana up 50% over the past 4 years.
#conservationoptimism

Is #AI turning grant evaluation into a lottery? 🎲

The 2025 generative AI improvement coincides with ~20% of proposals scoring >95% in EU #MSCA call.

We’ve reached "excellence saturation."

Time to rethink funding?

👉 doi.org/10.31222/osf...

w/ @birder158.bsky.social
#MetaScience #AcademicSky

New 2026 paper led by @patricepottier.bsky.social, @kruthsatz.bsky.social & I in @conphysjournal.bsky.social show studies on embryos make up <10% of conservation physiology studies, highlighting a major blind spot in predicting vulnerable life stages to climate change.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/conp...

😂😂😂 just write personal observation LOL

Aww Alice! Thanks for the advertisement 🫶🏽
I’m looking forward to what comes next after the PhD

This is awesome! Unfortunately not fitting with the current emigration system I guess 😕

To make peace with nature, we need a fossil fuel-free Amazon It is necessary to support Brazil’s proposal to develop a roadmap for carrying out the comprehensive transition to renewable energy

Colombia's president not only understands the urgency, he actually supports doing something about it. Unlike so many other leaders.

He supports the call to "develop a roadmap to break dependence on fossil fuels."

#COP30 #ClimateCrisis #EndFossilFuels

english.elpais.com/opinion/2025...

Sex, drugs and the conscious brain: Francis Crick beyond the double helix A thoroughly researched account of the history and relationships that shaped the scientist who co-discovered the structure of DNA.

Book review 📚 Sex, drugs and the conscious brain: Francis Crick beyond the double helix

go.nature.com/4oJQAra

Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking? Nature - Millions of students arriving at campuses are now using artificial intelligence. Worries abound.

There is one point of agreement among both enthusiasts and sceptics: the future has already arrived

go.nature.com/48M5Xuu

Our body is a mosaic of fungi. Some scientists think they could be influencing our brain The fungi within our bodies may have a much greater effect on our health than we've long given them credit for.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

New microorganism survival commission aims to fill critical conservation gap | Penn State University For the first time, the International Union for Conservation of Nature is formally including all microbial life in its framework by establishing a Microbial Conservation Specialist Group, which includ...

For the first time, microbes are part of global conservation efforts. 🌍🧫

The IUCN’s new Microbial Conservation Specialist Group— including @symbionticism.bsky.social —aims to protect the unseen majority of life on Earth.

Read more:
www.psu.edu/news/eberly-...

Avian futures | #BOUasm26 - British Ornithologists' Union

Do you know someone who does outstanding work on avian pop modelling & forecasting? Or who works at interface of avian conservation and decision making given uncertain futures? Submit a keynote nomination for the BOU conference Avian Futures here: bou.org.uk/event/avian-... . Deadline is next week!

Editorial: Accountability, voice, and trust - responsible use of GenAI in scientific publishing Over the last few years, the development and rapid advancement of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatG

Many of us are using LLMs in coding and scientific writing. They are very helpful tools, but we need to be thoughtful as we integrate them into our work flows to preserve accountability, voice and trust. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan.... An editorial at @evolletters.bsky.social for discussion:

A young Indigenous girl with long dark hair and red face paint looks slightly upward, wearing a beaded necklace, with other community members blurred in the background. The UN Environment Programme logo is in the top right, and white text reads “Indigenous Peoples are too often the unsung heroes of conservation.”

Indigenous Peoples make up less than 5% of the world’s population, yet they protect significant amounts of global biodiversity.

#IndigenousPeoplesDay

A postdoc position working on marine phage - please share widely!

Job opportunities at Retraction Watch Assistant researcher, Retraction Watch Database The Center For Scientific Integrity, a U.S.-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, is looking for a full-time Assistant Researcher to join our crew in…

We're hiring an assistant researcher for the Retraction Watch Database.

Find out more here:

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I'm excited to announce that the theme of the 2027 BOU conference is Avian Disease Ecology!

📍 Nottingham, UK
📅 6–8 April 2027

🔗 Full details: lnkd.in/gPvFFDJe

Please share widely!

#BOU2027 #Ornithology #WildlifeDisease #AvianDisease #EcoHealth

The ocean forecast is in… and it’s alarming.

Climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution are pushing our ocean to the brink. Protecting it means protecting all life on Earth.

Join our #WorldOceanDay call for greater efforts to #SaveOurOcean.
www.unep.org/topics/ocean...

The Amazon rainforest may hold the title of my favorite place on Earth, but my admiration for the marine environment runs just as deep. A world that amaze me! Just take a look at this magnificent eagle ray I encountered at Galapagos National Park. Isn’t nature incredible? 🌊💙 #HappyWorldOceanDay

Last week, I returned from an inspiring workshop about communication and using large language models (LLMs) in research. We had enriching discussions with a diverse group of researchers about the pros and cons of using LLMs. It was an excellent environment for sharing ideas and mutual growth. 🫶

Origins of the ‘vampire fungus’ that causes white-nose syndrome in bats An emerging fungal infection is endangering bats in America. DNA analysis reveals that the infection first arose in Europe, mediated by two fungal culprits.

An emerging fungal infection is endangering bats in America

https://go.nature.com/450a44e