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Benjamin Larue @benjaminlarue.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful!

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 3d

Lichens on a stick. Left to right - Vulpicidia, Xanthoria (I think), Physcia, and Hypogymnia. Northwest Territories, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Several colourful lichens on a twig. From left to right the colours are yellow, orange and grey.

Benjamin Larue @benjaminlarue.bsky.social · 2d

Great work by DeCesare! All you need to know about moose in Montana

Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 3d

DeCesare: weak effects of predation on moose pop dynamics in Montana. Age, nutrition affect both adult ♀️ survival and reproduction. Surprising +ve effect of summer temp on survival, no effect of ticks but -ve effect of arterial worms 🧪 wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

TWS Journals

Despite concerns surrounding the dynamics of moose along their southern range extent in North America, population growth rate estimates indicated stable to increasing trends within 3 study areas repr...

wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Benjamin Larue @benjaminlarue.bsky.social · 2d

Do it for the birds!

Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 2d

WTAF:

@cityofwinnipeg.bsky.social considering removing bylaw for bird-friendly windows.

Bylaw only applies to new builds along major corridors & near malls!

But industry doesn’t like it. So nature takes the hit, literally.

Winnipeggers, you gotta write to council.

www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Researcher 'shocked' as Winnipeg considers scrapping recent bird-friendly window bylaw

The City of Winnipeg is considering 'deleting' its bird-friendly window requirements for a mix of new builds along major corridors and near malls based on industry feedback that suggested the rule was...

www.cbc.ca

Benjamin Larue @benjaminlarue.bsky.social · 2d

We must stop worshipping the detached standalone home and instead focus on shared space, shared land, and collective living as the real path to sustainable lifestyles. 🌍💚

Why Grand Designs-style eco-homes aren’t a good blueprint for sustainable living

We can’t all live in rural idyll.

theconversation.com

Benjamin Larue @benjaminlarue.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds like an incredible job!!!

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone interested in being the next polar bear biologist for Nunavut? Starting at $143,000/year including northern living allowance is not shabby though cost of living is truly insano up there. There is an opportunity for some work from home.

www.gov.nu.ca/en/jobs/wild...

www.gov.nu.ca

Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 2d

Conservation groups and an Iñupiat-led grassroots organization filed a lawsuit today seeking to overturn the Trump administration’s approval of ConocoPhillips’ winter seismic and exploration #drilling program in the Western #Arctic ➡️ bit.ly/3MWgiuM

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In the foreground is striking, yellowed grasses. Pools of shimmering water dot the landscape. In the background is a formidable wall of pointed, snowcapped mountains. The sky above them is clear and blue.

Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone interested in being the next polar bear biologist for Nunavut? Starting at $143,000/year including northern living allowance is not shabby though cost of living is truly insano up there. There is an opportunity for some work from home.

www.gov.nu.ca/en/jobs/wild...

www.gov.nu.ca

Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 2d

I tested GPTzero's ability to identify hallucinated articles. It flagged real articles as fake sometimes. Worse, it flagged many hallucinated articles as real. And the kicker: it even gave me (hallucinated) links as evidence that the fake articles were real.

Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 2d

WTAF:

@cityofwinnipeg.bsky.social considering removing bylaw for bird-friendly windows.

Bylaw only applies to new builds along major corridors & near malls!

But industry doesn’t like it. So nature takes the hit, literally.

Winnipeggers, you gotta write to council.

www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Researcher 'shocked' as Winnipeg considers scrapping recent bird-friendly window bylaw

The City of Winnipeg is considering 'deleting' its bird-friendly window requirements for a mix of new builds along major corridors and near malls based on industry feedback that suggested the rule was...

www.cbc.ca

Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 3d

DeCesare: weak effects of predation on moose pop dynamics in Montana. Age, nutrition affect both adult ♀️ survival and reproduction. Surprising +ve effect of summer temp on survival, no effect of ticks but -ve effect of arterial worms 🧪 wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

TWS Journals

Despite concerns surrounding the dynamics of moose along their southern range extent in North America, population growth rate estimates indicated stable to increasing trends within 3 study areas repr...

wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 3d

Lichens on a stick. Left to right - Vulpicidia, Xanthoria (I think), Physcia, and Hypogymnia. Northwest Territories, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Stuart McDaniel @stuartmcdaniel.bsky.social · 3d

UF Biology is searching for an Asst Prof in Evolution, Ecology of Infectious Disease - spread the word! @ufresearch.bsky.social @ufgeog.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social

explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

University of Florida - Details - Assistant Professor in Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease

explore.jobs.ufl.edu

Benjamin Larue @benjaminlarue.bsky.social · 3d

Go Fort Peck! We need more bison restoration projects 🦬🦬🦬

Sophie Gilbert @sophielgilbert.bsky.social · 4d

Can biodiversity credits help pay for bison restoration? A test of the idea is underway! montanafreepress.org/2025/11/28/f...

Fort Peck’s vision for ‘endless’ buffalo prairie

Taking a page from studies in Yellowstone National Park and the Blackfeet Reservation, Fort Peck is joining Montana groups and seeking to quantify value of bison grazing through biodiversity credit pr...

montanafreepress.org

Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 4d

Short-term gain for long-term pain: after the feds, Quebéc's provincial gov't proposes a law stating that major projects can bypass Environmental and Endangered Species laws. These projects may be examined and amended, but WILL be approved.

Alexandre Shields @alexandreshields.bsky.social · 4d

Projet de loi de la CAQ pour accélérer des projets majeurs: le gouvernement Legault se donne le droit de ne pas appliquer des dispositions des lois qui sont censées protéger la faune et la flore, dont les espèces menacées:

Sophie Gilbert @sophielgilbert.bsky.social · 4d

Can biodiversity credits help pay for bison restoration? A test of the idea is underway! montanafreepress.org/2025/11/28/f...

Fort Peck’s vision for ‘endless’ buffalo prairie

Taking a page from studies in Yellowstone National Park and the Blackfeet Reservation, Fort Peck is joining Montana groups and seeking to quantify value of bison grazing through biodiversity credit pr...

montanafreepress.org

Davis Bickford @davis.social · 4d

Woke and saw a News notification on my phone, and thought, “FINALLY, some fun news, instead of more hate and dread to start my day.”

And then I saw everyone’s favorite Bluesky Dino expert wrote it 🥰 @restingdinoface.bsky.social

How dinosaur vomit has solved these prehistoric mysteries
A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from prehistoric excretions.
BY RILEY BLACK
PUBLISHED DECEMBER 08,2025

Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 4d

Lichen collage. On lakeside rock, Northwest Territories, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Photo of a rock surface completely covered in multiple lichen species. Colours include orange, yellow, grey, white and black.

Benjamin Larue @benjaminlarue.bsky.social · 6d

Great to see some good news! :)

Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 6d

...the OL has begun to recover. Scientists estimate that the ban will enable a recovery of the OL over the Antarctic, where it is thinnest, to 1980 levels by 2066. This is what can happen when the world works together to address global environmental issues: www.theguardian.com/environment/...? 🌎

Hole in Antarctic ozone layer shrinks to smallest since 2019, scientists say

EU’s Copernicus monitoring service hails ‘reassuring sign’ of progress observed this year in hole’s size and duration

www.theguardian.com

Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 6d

...the OL has begun to recover. Scientists estimate that the ban will enable a recovery of the OL over the Antarctic, where it is thinnest, to 1980 levels by 2066. This is what can happen when the world works together to address global environmental issues: www.theguardian.com/environment/...? 🌎

Hole in Antarctic ozone layer shrinks to smallest since 2019, scientists say

EU’s Copernicus monitoring service hails ‘reassuring sign’ of progress observed this year in hole’s size and duration

www.theguardian.com

Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 8d

📚 our latest Special Feature, "Using Movement Ecology to Connect Individuals, Communities, and Ecosystems", is open to proposals!
⏲️ deadline: 15 February 2026
📝 read more and submit your proposal here: buff.ly/5PCHtCS
@allegralove.bsky.social

Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social · 8d

Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds 🌎 🪶

Source: The Guardian
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60,000 African penguins starve to death after sardine numbers collapse – study

Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds

search.app

Ekwo-tuktu-caribou @ekwo-tuktu.bsky.social · 9d

More first nations call for a moratorium in hunting #caribou along a winter road in the Northwest Territories following further herd declines. New in our news section, www.northerncaribou.ca/news

International Biodiversity @ibioconsultants.com · 11d

Californian squirrels go predator mode! 🌍

#FoodWebs #Predators #Adaptation

www.latimes.com/california/s...

California squirrels are now apparently hunting and eating other rodents

A UC Davis study found a population of Bay Area ground squirrels hunting and eating voles, suggesting the species may be more flexible in its diet than previously thought.

www.latimes.com

Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 11d

"I used to cut trees and never took the titís into account,” says Centena, calling the cotton-tops by their local name. “I ignored them. I didn’t know that they were in danger of extinction, I only knew I had to feed my family. But now we have become friends.”
🧪🌎🏺

‘They’re a lot like us’: saving the tiny punk monkeys facing extinction

In the tropical dry forests of northern Colombia, a small team is gradually restoring the degraded habitat of the rare cotton-top tamarin

www.theguardian.com

lucaswaldron.bsky.social @lucaswaldron.bsky.social · 12d

We found that the BLM skipped environmental review on 75% of its grazing land. Our new @propublica.org story explains the ”loophole” that allows BLM to bypass enviro reviews. www.propublica.org/article/graz...

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23d

Trump has murdered at least 83 people with extrajudicial military strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats.

He needs to face consequences for this.

His secretary of DHHS, RFK Jr., will kill several orders of magnitude more with this disinformation.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 24d

This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says:

“The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.

Vaccine Safety
MENU V
For Everyone
NOV. 19, 2025
KEY POINTS
• The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.
• Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.
• HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism,
including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.

Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 24d

Our largest intact tract of public land and a place of staggering beauty, the Western Arctic in Alaska is a globally significant ecosystem supporting countless species and plays a critical role in stabilizing our climate. Now, as a gift to the fossil fuel industry, Trump is moving to open more...

Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · Nov 13

This is an interesting, complex interaction.

An *introduced* moth affects fruit characteristics, causing more animals to eat it. That could mean more seed dispersal, and it could also mean more seeds getting eaten and destroyed.

🪲🪳🌎🧪

fesummaries.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/b...

Raquel Muñoz-Gallego, Anna Traveset, Jose M. Fedriani This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Animals such as birds and mammals eat the fl…

fesummaries.wordpress.com

Benjamin Larue @benjaminlarue.bsky.social · Nov 13

A powerful reminder that even the smallest migrants depend on places we’re still putting at risk!

Sierra Magazine @sierramagazine.bsky.social · Nov 10

This long-distance trekker has relied on a slimy goop to fuel its global journey between North and South America. Now, a shipping container port threatens this delicate balance between life and death. 🌎

Is It Too Late for the Western Sandpipers of Roberts Bank?

A major expansion of a British Columbia port threatens the sandpipers' feeding grounds

www.sierraclub.org

Benjamin Larue @benjaminlarue.bsky.social · Nov 13

Seems like a great opportunity for early career conservationists in California and New England!

Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · Nov 11

Applications are now open for the 2026 Switzer Fellowships. It's a brilliant program with a strong alumni follow-up element, and open to graduate students in California or New England. Focus is on interdisciplinary environmental problem-solving and social equity. 🌎

Become a Fellow | Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation

www.switzernetwork.org

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