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Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · Jun 10

Very proud: 'The Lives of Frogs' is published today! Hardback and ebook available globally 🐸 #frogs #amphibians #conservation #ecology #naturalhistory #biodiversity 🐸 @princetonupress.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk ac.uk 🐸 🧪

Jim Labisko and Richard Griffiths holding copies of their new book 'The Lives of Frogs' at the soft-launch event in May 2025. Frog-themed wine and beer consumed but not shown. Special mention of Richard's tropical forest and frog-themed shirt putting an underdressed Jim to shame

Photo by Chloe Wellecomme

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Seirian Sumner @waspwoman.bsky.social · 12h

Looking forward to sharing some #WaspLove at #UnknownWales2025 in #Cardiff today #AmgueddfaCymru.

museum.wales/cardiff/what...

@uclcber.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
@jimlabisko.bsky.social - your gorgeous wasp photo continues its travels around the world 🥰

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Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 3h

I'm in

Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 21h

Don’t know who made this but it’s pretty great!

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 11h

Loved writing this piece

FRBH Recordings @frbhrecs.bsky.social · 11h

Cheer up your Saturday with this article by @wrongtom.bsky.social on the formidable Shut Up & Dance - special mention for “18 Inch Speaker” as well

daily.bandcamp.com/features/shu...

How Shut Up & Dance Cross-Wired Reggae With Rave, Techno, Jungle, and More

In the late ’80s and early ’90s Hackney’s PJ and Smiley had UK dance music in their grip.

daily.bandcamp.com

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Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 3h

I used to listen to DJ Hype on Fantasy Radio waaay back when. Introduced me to a whole new world, including SUAD and Ragga Twins. Think I still have some Fantasy FM tapes somewhere. I remember one show where Hype was having cockroach issues!

Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 10h

❤️🐝🐝🐝❤️

Seirian Sumner @waspwoman.bsky.social · 12h

Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, sorry - invasive alien species

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 1d

Are we the bad guys? How did newts, bats and now snails become the unlikely poster children of an anti-growth narrative? A healthy, functioning natural environment is not a luxury — it’s essential to economic resilience, public health, and wellbeing.

buff.ly/TVQrBD0

Newts, bats and snails against a red background

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Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 1d

IAS in action

Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 1d

A parakeet is hogging this prime nest site - just watched a great spotted woodpecker scouting on this oak but the parakeet ain’t moving

Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 1d

‘We’ve all done stupid things but we’re all capable of redemption’

‘We’ve all done stupid things but we’re all capable of redemption’: spoken-word artist Joshua Idehen on fighting hate with hope

His poem Mum Does the Washing went viral – but he started out parroting conservative talking points online. Now the British-Nigerian vocalist preaches a message of radical positivity

www.theguardian.com

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 1d

I feel your pain. A fair few munch on frogs too.

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 1d

As if them eating moths wasn't bad enough...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight

Despite billions of passerines seasonally migrating during the night at high altitudes, only three bat species have been found to consistently tap into this rich prey resource. However, it remains unk...

www.science.org

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Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 1d

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’

www.theguardian.com

Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely stunning ❤️

Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 2d

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 2d

Wholesome content to brighten your day 😊

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah everything SUCKS but humans are still silly wonderful beautiful creatures who collaborate with slugs to make videos like this. So. All is not lost.

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2d

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 5d

Going extinct ‘right under our noses’: the quiet plight of Australia’s rarest bird of prey

Restricted now to the tropical north, the mysterious red goshawk is fast disappearing as a result of climate change and habitat loss

www.theguardian.com

Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 6d

Blew my mind when I first heard this, specifically Björk's voice

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 6d

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Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 6d

Wow

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 6d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Jennifer Campbell-Smith, PhD 𓄿𓃥 @jcampbellsmith.bsky.social · 8d

"I Contain Multitudes"

This digitally painted piece honors coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our cities and the wilderness today.

The thread gives descriptions of all the extinct organisms shown in this piece (not to scale)

This digitally painted piece honors the survivor spirit of the coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our landscapes today. Below the horizon, carefully chosen ancestors mark pivotal moments in adaptation, each contributing to the form and survivor we see today. Above the horizon, Coyote stands alert at the center, framed by both Denver’s skyline and a mountain backdrop, symbols of their ability to thrive in cities as well as wilderness. Embedded in the ground are the skulls and bones of carnivores whose lineages ended long ago, emphasizing Coyote’s persistence in contrast.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 7d

Startling tidbits and quite readable, The Bearded Vulture as an accumulator of historical [human] remains

Quotes:

- “C-14 analyses of fecal material accumulated in a Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) eyrie in Greenland demonstrated that it had been occupied for at least 2500 years”

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 8d

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 9d

🧠 Long COVID and the brain

Researchers found that people with long COVID and memory problems show higher levels of AMPA receptors, which help brain cells communicate. This overactivity may disrupt thinking and cause lasting damage.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/brai...

#SciComm #LongCOVID 🧪

Systemic increase of AMPA receptors associated with cognitive impairment of long COVID

Fujimoto et al. report that the patients with cognitive impairments after SARS-CoV-2 infection showed significant AMPA receptors upregulation across their

doi.org

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 9d

Happy biodiversity scientists (and Cliff). #TeamMoth

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Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 9d

OHMYOHMYOHMY! Love love love this track!

Never heard anyone else mention or play it (which could simply suggest I should've got out more... but you get my point).

wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 9d

It just occurred to me that on this day 35 years ago (some of) the seeds were sown for jungle…

Derek Sinclair @mossieposse.bsky.social · 10d

Released OTD 35 years ago. Tell Me Why? by the Sindecut. This mad talented UK crew mixed hip-hop, soul and reggae similarly to Massive Attack and Soul II Soul. Despite a deal with Virgin, and a fearsome live reputation they never quite broke thru. That baseline tho'..

youtu.be/eFmcrqZCw2s?...

Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 9d

Common toad is becoming uncommon in UK, study shows

Species’ population has almost halved in a generation and urgent action is needed to protect it, analysis finds

www.theguardian.com

Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 10d

Better news will come if they actually end up paying it 🤞