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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 7h

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Quantitative and systematic behavioral profiling reveals social complexity in eusocial naked mole-rats

Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 7h

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 11h

2025. Quantitative and systematic behavioral profiling reveals social complexity in eusocial naked mole-rats | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Automated tracking in naked mole-rats reveals behavioral specificity of breeders and diversity of nonbreeders in a colony.

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting! Modern hippos lived in Central Europe during the last ice age 🦏🦏🦣https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/pressreleases/detail/2025-10-09-hippos-lived-in-europe-in-the-last-ice-age #megafauna

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 2d

2025. Disentangling and demystifying converging crimes and illegal wildlife trade in South Africa, Hong Kong, and Canada www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Disentangling and demystifying converging crimes and illegal wildlife trade in South Africa, Hong Kong, and Canada

Illegal wildlife trade is increasingly reported as intersecting with other serious crimes, a phenomenon labelled “crime convergence”. However, there i…

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Farmed totoaba could curb poaching

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 2d

2025. Farmed totoaba could curb poaching phys.org/news/2025-10...

The trade of totoaba has all the intrigue of a crime thriller. Dollars and drugs change hands as a criminal cartel vies against the government. Communities and endangered species are caught in the cro...

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 2d

2025. Introduced animals change how island plants spread, global study finds phys.org/news/2025-10...

Introduced animals change how island plants spread, global study finds

On islands, many plants rely on animals such as birds, bats and reptiles to disperse their seeds and help them grow in new places. When native animals go extinct, this naturally reduces seed dispersal...

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Want to do disruptive science? Include more rookie researchers

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 1d

2025. #DEI. Want to do disruptive science? Include more rookie researchers. Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, study shows. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, study shows.

Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them?

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 1d

2025. (not just cancer lit....) Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them? A large language model scans abstracts and titles for signs that an article was produced by a 'paper-mill' company. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A large language model scans abstracts and titles for signs that an article was produced by a 'paper-mill' company.

How stereotypes shape AI – and what that means for the future of hiring

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 1d

2025. #DEI. How stereotypes shape AI – and what that means for the future of hiring. Images from across the web portray women as being younger than men, despite the underlying reality — plus, astronomers’ favourite exoplanets, and the 2025 Nobel prizes. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 08 October 2025

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 1d

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT."

-Faith Ringgold (1930-2024)

#WomensArt #FridayFeeling

a man and a dog are sitting at a table with a glass of wine .

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, any animal welfare "study" based on this review speed is likely not worth the paper it is written on, nor the APC! "8 August 2025 / Revised: 13 September 2025 / Accepted: 15 September 2025" - #FastScience via #mdpi

ALT: a man and a dog are sitting at a table with a glass of wine .

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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 1d

“Beginner scientists have less loyalty to prevailing assumptions, and they can take more intellectual freedom” <3

Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 1d

2025. #DEI. Want to do disruptive science? Include more rookie researchers. Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, study shows. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Want to do disruptive science? Include more rookie researchers

Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, study shows.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Shima Tamami (1937-1999), an influential Japanese printmaker who joined a Women's Print Association in her country, mid 20th century, at a time when women in the arts struggled to receive the same resources and promotion as their male equivalents #ReframingWomensPrintmakers

Print featuring three stylised black birds with long necks and beaks, grouped together on the right, against a brown background

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

The abstract paintings of Korean American contemporary artist Suzanne Song #WomensArt

Photo of a painting hanging on a white wall, the abstract artwork features a series of ´sharp regular interlocking triangles in purple and green

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Quilt art inspired by vintage photographs of African American people, by contemporary US artist Bisa Butler #WomensArt
US #BlackHistoryMonth

Textile artwork featuring standing two figures facing forwards, a Black man and woman, the man wears a patterned suit in vivid colours and the woman wears a long coat in similar patterns and colours and she wears a large rounded hat, all against a patterned pink background

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Photo of a vertical driftwood sculpture inlaid with rainbow coloured stained glass, the sculpture is sited on a wet looking shoreline by the sea under a sky with silver clouds and pale blue light

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 1d

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT."

-Faith Ringgold (1930-2024)

#WomensArt #FridayFeeling

How stereotypes shape AI – and what that means for the future of hiring

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT."

-Faith Ringgold (1930-2024)

#WomensArt #FridayFeeling

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2d

The global whaling industry experienced a boom c. 1840-1950 as technology allowed whalers to hunt the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

Under standard models, we would have expected krill populations to have *exploded*.

Instead, they DROPPED exponentially.

Let's talk about the KRILL PARADOX.

Change in distribution and abundance of southern right whales. (A) Shows historical and contemporary wintering distributions (Figure 1 from Carroll et al., 2018), and (B) shows decline in abundance and subsequent recovery (solid line is the mean, dashed line shows upper and lower 95% CI). Modified Figure 1 from Jackson et al. (2008). Contemporary sightings are divided into regions where large aggregations are seen during winter: Argentina (ARG), Brazil (BZL), South Africa (SAF), southwest Australia (SWA), south central Australia (SCA), and New Zealand sub-Antarctic (NZSA) and regions where sightings are typically of small numbers of individuals per year. The large aggregations are IWC management units and correspond to historical whaling grounds, although another 5 whaling grounds show little sign of recovery. Summer feeding areas are poorly described and so not shown.

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 1d

2025. #DEI. How stereotypes shape AI – and what that means for the future of hiring. Images from across the web portray women as being younger than men, despite the underlying reality — plus, astronomers’ favourite exoplanets, and the 2025 Nobel prizes. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 08 October 2025

Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them?

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 1d

2025. (not just cancer lit....) Low quality papers are flooding the cancer literature — can this AI tool help to catch them? A large language model scans abstracts and titles for signs that an article was produced by a 'paper-mill' company. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A large language model scans abstracts and titles for signs that an article was produced by a 'paper-mill' company.

Want to do disruptive science? Include more rookie researchers

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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 1d

2025. #DEI. Want to do disruptive science? Include more rookie researchers. Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, study shows. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, study shows.