Paul R. Ehrlich, Who Alarmed the World With ‘The Population Bomb,’ Dies at 93

Paul R. Ehrlich, Who Alarmed the World With ‘The Population Bomb,’ Dies at 93 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/b...

Where have the Christmas beetles gone? Christmas beetles, once the glittering party crashers of Australian summers, are vanishing.

‘tis the season to be aware of Christmas beetle decline.

“Researchers point to several possible causes including drought, climate change and the loss of eucalypt forest and woodland habitats, which are essential for the beetles’ survival.”

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www.northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au/council/news...

I’m going to LOVE adding this next part of the story to #ZOO2700 in January!

The Durham cathedral

A male smoky rubyspot damselfly

Looking for a PhD opportunity? I'm hoping to recruit someone to my group at Durham University to work on a project combining fieldwork and labwork to study speciation in rubyspot damselflies: iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Get in touch if you want to chat!

The University of Plymouth is #recruiting a Technical Specialist (Skipper) to support teaching & research at our Marine Station Operate the 14m Falcon Spirit and small-craft fleet, ensuring safe, high-quality marine operations.
hrservices.plymouth.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
#MaritimeJobs #MarineScience

I really can’t fathom why COP30 didn’t deliver what was needed 🤔 (from @privateeyenews.bsky.social)

We’re recruiting a Professor of Marine Technology & Autonomy at the @plymuni.bsky.social, to help drive and expand our new cross-disciplinary research centre, #CMAST, the Centre for Marine Autonomy, Maritime Cyber-Security and Technology.
#AcademicJob
hrservices.plymouth.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

PhyloWeaver – Interactive phylogenetic tree editor Edit and visualize phylogenetic trees directly in your browser. PhyloWeaver lets you interactively rearrange tree topologies and export high-quality figures for publications and presentations.

I’ve released a tool to sketch and edit phylogenetic trees!
yawak.jp/PhyloWeaver/

Load a Newick file and intuitively add/remove/resize branches.
Useful for quick conceptual trees, extracting subtrees, or turning ideas into Newick.

Skating into the weekend . . . like a cartilaginous fish! Related to sharks w/wings for hovering & flying over the seafloor & a long, whiplike tail for steering. We see them during ROV dives, burrowed into the sediment, utterly still until they can ambush their next meal.

235m #Taleof2Canyons

[New Paper] Two shrimp species, Rimicaris loihi and R. cambonae, live side by side at hydrothermal vents — yet remain genetically distinct. Our genomic data and decadal sampling reveal insights on their demography and speciation!

Out now in Molecular Ecology, OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1111/mec....

Increased drought drives avian community declines in the warm deserts of the United States The frequencies, intensities, and durations of extreme weather are increasing under climate change, furthering biodiversity loss. In the Southwestern …

New research from our lab documents important drought impacts on desert bird communities in the SW United States 🌎🐦

25 years of bird data across the Mojave & Sonoran deserts, show drought drives clear declines in bird abundance & species richness.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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New PhD Studentship Opportunity!
Work with @exeter.ac.uk and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) on this exciting project. The programme offers 4-year fully-funded PhD studentships to support Black British researchers.
@uniexecec.bsky.social @cornwall.exeter.ac.uk @sarahenelms.bsky.social

We are advertising a 28-mo postdoc on hybrid #ecoengineering in #saltmarshes @ University College Cork, @ucc.ie 🇮🇪🇪🇺. Ref no 087274.
EU & @marineinst.bsky.social funded BLUESHORES Project. State date: 1st Sept 2025. Salary: €45,847–€52,339. 🌱🌊🦀🐌
See link: universityvacancies.com/university-c...

Wow…

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A sea star, despite a friendly-sounding name, is a carnivore that envelops prey—expelling a cardiac stomach from the center of its body to engulf & dissolve its meal into a gastric soup. Read full caption & @echinoblog.bsky.social paper on sea star predation here: www.instagram.com/reel/DKcp9OB...

How to create a thriving forest, not box-checking ‘tree cover’ The UK is set to plant 20 million trees to form a new ‘national forest’ in the west of England.

Dr Thomas Murphy, @plymuni.bsky.social has written for @uk.theconversation.com about the most effective and sustainable ways to meet the growing demand for more forests.🍁🌍
theconversation.com/how-to-creat...

I will second that 🙌

Do beetle families show a common pattern of taxon or phylogenetic diversity across elevation? - Journal Highlight - Royal Entomological Society Do beetle families show a common pattern of taxon or phylogenetic diversity across elevation?  First published: 16 April 2025 A recent review article by Alexandre M. M. C. Loureiro and M. Alex Smith i...

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📢 a neat news piece from @respublications.bsky.social
#RESEcolEnt about the @alexandreloureiro.bsky.social led global #meta-analysis of #elevation & #biodiversity for #beetle #Coleoptera families.

www.royensoc.co.uk/news/do-beet...

Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/een....

What an honour, thank you 👍❤️👍❤️

Mangrove Comeback: Restoring West Africa’s Coast

Our new paper shows how hydrological repair and invasive grass removal successfully restored degraded mangrove communities in Benin achieving 90% survival over 2 years

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#mangroves #restoration #climateaction

What an honour, thank you 👍❤️👍❤️

Wow 🤩

#home, for a bit

peerj.com/blog/post/11...

I learned a lot from you as well. Great paper 👍❤️, grateful we worked together

From undergraduate thesis to published paper 📑 🦈

“Future climate-driven habitat loss and range shift of the Critically Endangered whitefin swellshark (Cephaloscyllium albipinnum)”

🔗 doi.org/10.7717/peer...

#climatechange #sharks #UniversityofPlymouth #SharkResearch #SharkConservation #JCU

2nd year #marinebiology students learning how to identify #plymouth sound marine organisms 👍❤️@plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social

New PhD opportunity with me, Mirjam Schilling
@aphapublichealth.bsky.social and Klara Wanelik at U. Surrey

This project will use metagenomics to study fox microbiome dynamics 🦊 and investigate their potential to act as sentinels of disease spread.
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