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Potentially of interest for non-Somerville residents as well as SomerPoli folks, you can also go to the EPA website and calculate your household's carbon footprint, so you know what the federal gov't thinks is impactful for carbon tracking […]

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My classmate Emmanuel has gotten IRB approval to run a quick study of Somerville residents -- see if ppl might be willing to track carbon emissions, and if so, how he can help! I can vouch for Emma's good intent. I had a convo w/him today about if he does produce an app, what might be helpful […]

A photo of a small group from our class walking down a steep slope of burnt forest. In the background are mountains cloaked in mountain beech forest.

A photo in the forest of Frank Ashwood holding a rotting log while student Linus photographs a springtail and another student Viola looks on.

A photo of part of the class in an area of burnt beech forest. On the course we set up 30 m by 30 m plots in the different habitats to assess the vegetation, invertebrates, birds, and fungi. This photo is in one of the plots. Despite the fire being back in December 2024, the recovery has only recently started with most of the ground still being bare.

A photo of retired forester and restoration ecologist Nick Ledgard shows the class some of his restoration trial plots. There are cages and uncaged plots on the burnt forest floor, some with native seedlings planted in them and others have forest litter. The cages are to protect from the deer and hares that are widespread in the area.

I spent this week up in the Craigieburn Forest Park of the NZ Southern Alps helping to teach our Masters level Conservation Biology course at #LincolnUniversityNZ.

This is the first year we've run the course field trip at this location. We did so to better […]

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Marine Worms Face 'Silent Extinction' Before Scientists Can Name Them Many marine annelid species may vanish before being identified. The EuroWorm project will build an open-access genomic database of European segmented worms to accelerate discovery, though the pace of ...

📍Marine Worms Face 'Silent Extinction' Before Scientists Can Name Them.

Many marine annelid species may vanish before being identified. The EuroWorm project will build an open-access genomic database of European...

#Science #Ecology #GenomicDatabase #ScienceNews

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An unexpected reason for your weakened #immune system.
#nanoplastics #microplastics #health #ecology

The R package mpmaggregate (v0.2.5) is now available on CRAN.

The package aggregates matrix population models into lower-dimensional models.

Thanks to my coauthors, Roberto Salguero-Gómez and Hiroyuki Yokomizo.

@robsalgo.bsky.social
#rstats #ecology #demography

#tech #ecology

Site planning is the first, essential step in building a new house or deciding which house to buy. For more, Read Sustainably Yours at moorepartners.substack.com.
#Sustainability #Ecology #Environment #earthchangers #sustainabilityhub

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Falling apples and crumbling algos The tragic tale of a modern-day Isaac Newton, plus some thoughts from beyond the recursive loop. Gil Scott-Heron performs in Chicago on Nov 4, 1978. Paul Natkin/G...

#ecology #decentralization #ux #data-science #ai

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£90 Million Species Recovery Fund Signals Scale of England’s Biodiversity Challenge - Inside Ecology A new £90 million government funding package for species recovery in England brings both opportunity and a reminder of the scale of biodiversity loss still unfolding across the country.Announced this ...

£90 Million Species Recovery Fund Signals Scale of England’s Biodiversity Challenge #rewilding #nature #wildlife #biodiversity #ecology #environment #habitats #conservation #climatechange
insideecology.com/2026/04/04/9...

Nature Recovery Strategy Consultation | Ulster Wildlife DAERA is developing a new Nature Recovery Strategy for Northern Ireland, and this is your chance to help shape it. We have provided eight talking points to help you respond. The more people speak up, ...

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What Are Great Tits Showing Us About The Genetics Of Personality? Research suggests that personality variations are heritable in humans and in other animal species, and there are many hypotheses as to why…

What Are Great Tits Showing Us About The Genetics Of Personality?

#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#behavior #personality #birds🦉 #evolution #ecology grrlscientist.medium.com/what-are-gre...

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#AI #ethics #sustainability #ecology #ecotoxicology #womenshealth #health #aging #gerontology #phthtalates #DEHP #SDGs

A lack of ethical guardrails in
preventive healthcare AI

results in harmful neglect of
human biomonitoring of priority pollutants
and identification of sources of exposure.

Where We Go From Here: Harnessing Queer Perspectives to Advance Practice in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Science and society continuously shape one another; this relationship determines what science is funded, which inquiries are pursued, and whose voices are included in the production and dissemination...

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Drawing from queer lived experiences, we offer new perspectives to confront existing biases in #ecology and #evolution.

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"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light." – Theodore Roethke

#wildflowers #nature #pnw #forest #landscapephotography #naturescape #ecology #environment #pnwphotography #zenmoment #trillium #optoutside #hike #walking #relax #naturelover

#sustainability #ecology #agedcare #publichealth #epidemiology #health #SDGs

Determining which environmental pollutants
have accumulated in the liver
for each subtype of disease
and identifying sources of exposure

can contribute to
protecting others and future generations
from harmful toxins.
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80% of eBird checklists in Austria are within 500m of a parking lot.

That species gradient you're mapping? It's a gradient of where people stop their cars.

#ecology

Teenager’s Fossil Find Leads to Discovery of Shark Teeth in 5 Million-Year-Old Whale Skull Shark teeth found in 5-million-year-old whale skulls provide direct evidence of ancient feeding behavior and predator-prey relationships in the North Sea.

Shark teeth found in 5-million-year-old whale skulls provide direct evidence of ancient feeding behaviour and predator-prey relationships in the North Sea. scitechdaily.com/teenagers-fo... #palaeontology #science #ecology #SciChat

At least one of the reasons why we're here is to be caretakers of Mother Earth. #pagansky #ecology #environmentalism

A global butterfly index could advance insect conservation worldwide | The-14 A global butterfly index could help track insect decline worldwide. Scientists say better data is key to protecting ecosystems and guiding conservation efforts.

A global butterfly index could advance insect conservation worldwide
#Biodiversity #Insects #Butterfly #Conservation #Environment #ClimateChange #Ecosystems #Wildlife #Sustainability #Nature #Science #GlobalSouth #Ecology #Pollinators #EnvironmentalCrisis
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A global butterfly index could advance insect conservation worldwide | The-14 A global butterfly index could help track insect decline worldwide. Scientists say better data is key to protecting ecosystems and guiding conservation efforts.

A global butterfly index could advance insect conservation worldwide
#Biodiversity #Insects #Butterfly #Conservation #Environment #ClimateChange #Ecosystems #Wildlife #Sustainability #Nature #Science #GlobalSouth #Ecology #Pollinators #EnvironmentalCrisis
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What’s the most harmful introduced species on earth? Many would say that’s it’s the domestic cat! And one simple thing we can do to help protect our birds is to keep cats inside.

#cats #cat #bird #birds #nature #ecology #ecosystem #wildlife

How far can frugivorous birds disperse seeds during migration? Abstract. Long-distance seed dispersal plays a crucial role in shaping plant distributions. The annual migration of millions of frugivorous birds holds sub

How far do birds spread plant #seeds? Here's a cool paper that answers that very question.

Dispersal range across plant species:
- mean = 9–45 km
- max = 58–521 km

In the context of #agriculture, this means constant weed seed rain.
#ecology

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Engineering the bite of ancient marine predators An international team of researchers has investigated the biting capabilities of extinct predatory marine reptiles, revealing how these formidable predators could coexist within the same ecosystem. This work sheds new light on the hunting strategies of long-extinct predators that dominated the seas during the Age of Dinosaurs.

3-Apr-2026
Engineering the bite of ancient marine predators
A new study compares the bite efficiency of #fossil #reptiles using advanced #engineering #simulations.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1122694

#science #ecology #paleontology #biomechanics

The Work Behind the Win: The Long, Collective Effort Behind the Moments Conservation Celebrates • The Revelator Conservation victories often look like moments. In reality they’re the visible tip of years — sometimes decades — of work, and we all too often fail to recognize the people responsible.

Caretaking is a long hard slog
"Conservation victories often look like moments. In reality they’re the visible tip of years — sometimes decades — of work that happened long before the announcement."
#Conservation #Restoration #Sustainability #Ecology

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Happy #GoodAllDay!

We're grateful to have been alive at the same time as Jane Goodall and appreciate all the hard work she's done to pave the way for the rest of us. 

#conservation #wildlife #wildlifeconservation #ecology #sustainability

Secret night operations between moths and colored-nectar flowers Researchers Soma Chiyoda, Ko Mochizuki, and Atsushi Kawakita from the University of Tokyo have discovered that nocturnal hawkmoths are the main pollinators of Jasminanthes mucronata, a plant species native to Japan that produces black nectar. This is the first time that a colored-nectar flower is confirmed to be mainly pollinated by nocturnal insects. The discovery thus promotes further research into this so far unexplored ecology. The findings were published in the journal Ecology.

3-Apr-2026
Secret night operations between #moths and colored-nectar flowers
Nocturnal #hawkmoths found to pollinate #flowers that produce colored #nectar for the first time

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1122197 #science #ecology #pollinators

Sign up now for the EMBO Workshop "#MolecularBiology of #Archaea: Life Through the Prism of Archaea" in Cambridge, UK, 6–10 July 2026.

Deadline: 15 April

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