#conservation #sciencecommunication
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Urban habitats impose an “urban penalty."
Implication: Designing wildlife-friendly cities is essential for sustaining urban bird populations. 💚
@vinitagowda.bsky.social
🌍 Also read our work featured here: india.mongabay.com/2026/02/urba...
Rare turquoise gem #ginger #plant species described in @phytokeys.pensoft.net
See: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.272.171221
Long-term collaboration between @thebotanics.bsky.social and Indonesian botanical institutions resulted in the discovery of #Hellwigia opalina only found in #Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Advertising for 1-2 PhD positions @treelab.bsky.social
Possible three projects:
plant systematics, population genetics requiring interest and prior training in bioinformatics, and landscape ecology.
Look for admission requirements and qualifications @ 👇🏾
phdadmission.iiserb.ac.in
Advertising for 1-2 PhD positions @treelab.bsky.social
Possible three projects:
plant systematics, population genetics requiring interest and prior training in bioinformatics, and landscape ecology.
Look for admission requirements and qualifications @ 👇🏾
phdadmission.iiserb.ac.in
Oh! I did not realise that. William inform the journal about it.. @biotropica.bsky.social
This already happened but super thanks to @trishg.bsky.social and @britishecologicalsociety.org for starting this trend.
This was also the first collab between #associationOfTropicalBiologyandConservation (ATBC) DEI and BES. Its time different societies and researchers work united! 💪🏾✊🏾
❤️ I know!!!
Really a very good reason to bring your good work to @biotropica.bsky.social and support #ATBC !
Also, check out the abstract in Tamil by using the toggle option!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bt…
A small step towards making #science more accessible
@vinita_gowda @TrEE_Lab
#ScienceForAll #BirdResearch
Read: researchmatters.in/news/urban-str��� to deep-dive!
🔥 Hot out of press 🧵
The high price of urban living in house sparrows
doi.org/10.1111/btp.70…
We studied sex-based differences in parental care across rural and urban habitats and their implications on the reproductive success in sparrows.
@Biotropica @theATBC @agnesFrancila
Another lovely article this week, this time by #alejandraJaramillo et al., especially for those who want to learn more about what can university botanical gardens do?
Definitely read and send it to university policy makers...
doi.org/10.1002/bod2...
New article! 🚨
Recognized Indigenous-managed forests in the Amazon can prevent fire-related and zoonotic and vector borne diseases in humans, especially in highly forest-degraded municipalities.
Collaborative work led by Paula Prist and Julia Barreto
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Why living near a forest matters...
You probably will live longer, especially with good health.
@farahcarrasco.bsky.social
Confused writing is usually a symptom of confused thinking. As we struggle to clarify writing, we clarify our thoughts. AI writing aids rob us of that struggle, leaving clean-looking text and thoughts still confused for lack of inspection. Writing is not just a product; it is a diagnostic tool.
Bottom line:
Even in highly seasonal habitats, synchrony is rare! Except for the mass-flowering species that dominate the landscape.
This work sets the stage for further long-term phenology & pollination studies in India’s fragile lateritic plateaus.
breathtaking “super bloom” landscapes Kaas is famous for.
💧Flowering strongly linked to water availability & rainfall patterns (including lag effects).
🐝 Plant–pollinator networks shifted with flowering peaks, highlighting dynamic interactions in this short but intense season.
We developed 2 synchrony indices that capture synchrony in time & abundance, and observed pollinator interactions.
We found that:
🌸Overall, flowering was surprisingly asynchronous—likely due to competition for pollinators.
💐But ~30% of species showed mass flowering, driving the
Edited from Saket's X tweet/Xweet!
We studied the phenology of 76 herb. spp. on the Kaas plateau, Western Ghats, India, for over 3 yrs.
We asked:
🌼Do plants in this seasonal sky-island community flower in synchrony?
🐝Does the plant-pollinator network remain stable across the flowering season?
Understanding mass flowering/flowering synchrony on a laterite plateau from the Western Ghats.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@saaaakeeeet.bsky.social @sukhrajkaur.bsky.social
#DhargalkarRahul & #najla
3 master's students & countless years!
@biotropica.bsky.social #ATBC
#iiserbhopal
@brodieecology.bsky.social @vinitagowda.bsky.social @santiago-ecofiz.bsky.social @flamontano.bsky.social
@biotropica.bsky.social
The ATBC Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics have been published as announcements at Biotropica. Both codes result from collective efforts involving ATBC DEI Committee members and ATBC Council and Leadership members.
Code of Conduct: lnkd.in/dRDhwDsM
Code of Ethics: lnkd.in/dHE93NSe
#ATBC
Paper flowers. #Mescal in grande size ONLY! Everyday invasive is a native somewhere.
The red walls highlight the contrast in colors at #Mitla
#Mictlan in #Nahuatl probably from #cochineal that live on #Opuntia & are the source of #carmine !!!
#amazingZapotecs #IKS #IndigenousKnowledgeSysrems
There was the fantastic #atbc2025 in #oaxaca and then there was the botanical garden in Oaxaca city! Here’s the wild maize (#teosinte), #burseraceae (highest endemicity and diversity in Oaxaca!! Me for reference, look at those peeling barks!), and #ceiba
#iAmABotanist
White flower with white moth about to lay eggs
Ornamental Yucca filamentosa #flower in #Ithaca, NY (considered somewhat native) ... Rob Raguso says #yucca #moths have been moving North, here they are! In a tense #mutualism relationship, moths pay with active #pollination and purloin with seed #predation (larvae eat ovules). #NaturalHistory
Swept Away
Somedays my brain is too fried from everything going on, so I just doodle some mindless wiggly lines that make me happy
#art
Also, enough about the selective understanding of the global south issues in science, which seems to disappear when one is NOT a collaborator!
One more..
Reviewers - I think you should get XYZ data, although it may not be relevant to this paper, and should be in a different paper.
(!!)
Me - 👇🏾
Reviewers stop with these statements..
...I would like to see whole genome data or more genome data, although you have already presented it and I understand that it will not be possible for you to generate it...
Me- I did not realise that a review is where one self-talks !!!
#getALife
This... 💯 true for any region...
NOT supporting anti-free speech obviously, but let's improve our schools and universities, and be better.
Students:
Reading is not a project. Definitely not a summer project.
That's what students do.
Just like breathing is what living organisms do.
@treelab.bsky.social there are no reading projects, but you can borrow books, or we can direct you to the aisle in the #iiserbhopal library.