H5N1 in marine mammals is spreading: Research tallies over 50,000 seals and sea lions killed along South America's coast When the H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus was discovered on a poultry farm in Asia in 1996, there was little indication that it would become so widespread and so destructive. Within 30 yea...

Vital reminder of how vulnerable is our natural world (including us)

#Biodiversity #H5N1 #Influenza
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This scientist is breeding billions of mosquitoes to fight disease in Brazil Nature - Luciano Moreira is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.

At the heart of the effort to breed millions of mosquitoes, aiming to fight mosquito-borne illnesses in Brazil, is Luciano Moreira

He is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025
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Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Amazônia enfrenta escalada inédita de temperaturas extremas em áreas ainda preservadas
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Hospital Staffing and Patient Outcomes After Private Equity Acquisition | Annals of Internal Medicine Background: After private equity acquisition, hospitals may experience changes in staffing with implications for patients. Objective: To examine hospital staffing and patient outcomes in emergency dep...

“Conclusion:

After private equity acquisition, hospitals on average reduced salaries and staffing relative to nonacquired hospitals…This decreased capacity to deliver care may explain the increased patient transfers to other hospitals, shortened ICU lengths of stay, and increased ED mortality.” 🩺🧪

Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.

A paper in Nature suggests a quarter of heatwave events from 2000-23 would have been near impossible without anthropogenic climate change. The paper also indicates that major carbon emitters are responsible for around 50% of the increase in intensity of these events. ⚒️ 🧪

Opinion | Brazil Just Succeeded Where America Failed

“Brazilian justices pushed back forcefully. When evidence emerged that the Bolsonaro campaign had made widespread use of misinformation during the 2018 election, the court began what became known as the Fake News Inquiry, in which it aggressively sought to crack down on dangerous misinformation.”

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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

🚨 ASSUNTO URGENTE: Justiça tributária no Brasil. Isenção do Imposto de Renda pra quem ganha até R$ 5 mil/mês, com os super-ricos pagando uma taxa mínima pra compensar. Espalha esse vídeo com a família, amigos e colegas de trabalho por um Brasil mais justo. 🇧🇷⚖️

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A figure showing that light pollution prolongs avian vocal activity by nearly an hour. (A) Most diurnal bird species show bimodal vocalization patterns with peaks in the morning and evening; in light-polluted landscapes (yellow shading), the first vocalizations occur earlier in the morning and the last vocalizations occur later in the evening. (B) Globally—averaged across species, space, and season—onset of morning vocalization shifted 18 min earlier in the brightest landscapes versus the darkest landscapes. (C) Similarly, evening cessation was delayed by an average of 32 min. In (B) and (C), lines are means and shaded regions are 95% confidence intervals (CI) of model predictions.

Light pollution is causing birds around the world to sing for longer each day, prolonging their vocalizations on average by 50 minutes, according to a new study in Science.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Uz7vzP

Acabo de crear un starter-pack para ecologós en América Latina - !!! favor de sugerir más gente !!!!
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Hola! Puedo adentrar el pack también? Gracias

Para os colegas do "sul global", olhem com calma para essas oportunidades e informem-se sobre a pessoa que faz a oferta. E para os das regiões favorecidas pela história, se vcs se reconhecem nessas palavras, é o momento de mudar e apreciar o trabalho e conhecimento dos pesquisadores locais.

Rise in dengue fever outbreaks across the Pacific driven by the climate crisis, experts say Samoa, Fiji and Tonga among the worst affected amid warning the disease and others will become ‘more common and more serious’ as the planet warms

Dr Paula Vivili, deputy director general of the Pacific Community (SPC), said historically dengue outbreaks were seasonal.

“However, due to climate change, transmission seasons are lengthening, and some areas are experiencing year-round dengue risk,”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

If you know researchers with expertise in forestry/agro forestry please share this permanent lectureship @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. The quality of life in north wales is fabulous: great colleagues & a stunning location.
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Surge in critical minerals claims puts Brazil’s land reform communities at risk The greed of mining companies in their search for critical minerals in Brazil is threatening food production and the environment, particularly in the Amazon and northeast region states. This is what…

The greed for critical minerals is invading land reform settlements in Brazil, threatening food production and environmental protection.

Almost half of the mining projects impacting rural settlements are in the Brazilian Amazon.

Thousands of mosquitoes are being dropped by drone over islands in Hawaii. - NewsBreak In an urgent effort to save Hawaii’s critically endangered native birds, drones are now being used to drop thousands of lab-bred mosquitoes into the island

In an urgent effort to save Hawaii’s critically endangered native birds from avian malaria, drones are now being used to drop #Wolbachia and thousands of lab-bred mosquitoes into the island forests. What a future come true.

www.newsbreak.com/fort-worth-l...

URGENTE: saímos do Mapa da Fome! ⚠️

A Organização das Nações Unidas para a Alimentação e a Agricultura (FAO) anunciou, com a publicação do relatório “O Estado da Segurança Alimentar e da Nutrição no Mundo 2025”, que o Brasil deixou o Mapa da Fome no triênio 2022-2024. ✅

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My academic job offer was rescinded. I’ll keep going—but U.S. researchers are running out of road Despite an uncertain future, this postdoc will “keep doing the science I love while I still have a bench”

A beautifully written piece on a terrible time

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Malaria ‘back with a vengeance’ in Zimbabwe as number of deaths from the disease triple Withdrawal of USAID funds threatens decades of progress, say experts, with cuts to research and shortage of mosquito nets putting thousands at risk across the country

Here’s a report on how the destruction of USAID is causing harm & death by cutting malaria prevention. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

What the news isn't telling you about the US floods:

🐾 Os gatinhos estão de volta para falar sobre a soberania do miau. Ou melhor: soberania nacional. 🇧🇷

No país dos gatinhos, quem manda são os próprios gatinhos. Tem presidente eleito, Justiça Felina e miado na ponta da língua pra quem tenta se meter onde não deve.

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#MicroSky

Please share: PhD scholarship opportunity in mathematical ecology on the value of information for improving ecological management, open to international students, with a great team @hugepossum.bsky.social, Katriona Shea, Kate Helmstedt, & me at UQ, Australia 🌍 🧮, study.uq.edu.au/study-option...

A global analysis shows consistent energy–diversity relationships across birds, mammals, amphibians & reptiles, resolving decades of ecological debate. Paper now out in @science.org : www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌍🌐 #ecology #MetabolicTheory

A social media tile shows a large gold medal with a star on a blue background. Text reads: "Suriname is officially malaria-free. #EndMalaria."

Congratulations 🎉 #Suriname is the first country in the Amazon region to be certified malaria-free by WHO.

This milestone is a testament to nearly 70 years of efforts to #EndMalaria across its vast rainforests & diverse communities 👉 bit.ly/44pLRCl

🔴 ⚠️ ♨️ 🛰️ Just after the end of the amazing #LPS25, a tremendous #heatwave has reached Europe from Africa, setting many records from Portugal and Spain to Germany even today. ⬇️ 24hrs of Meteosat MSG Airmass RGB until 12UTC on June 29 @giuliofirenze.bsky.social @eumetsat.int

Today is #TropicsDay !

The Americas' tropical biomes harbor incredible biodiversity but have experienced dramatic declines due to habitat change.

— @‌ipbes.net #RegionalAssessment for the #Americas

Conserving these ecosystems is crucial for our planet's future.🌎🧪

#WeAreTheTropics

WHO Oropouche virus risk assessment details two lineages

WHO risk assessment on Oropouche virus: Two distinct lineages are spreading in the Americas, primarily vectored by Culicoides midges, with Culex mosquitoes as potential secondary vectors. Be aware of this expanding threat in endemic regions.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/oropouche-vi...