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phd student studying the evolution of sociality in subsocial insects (aka cockroach whisperer) @ the uni of aberdeen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 entomology, animal behaviour, horror films, and all things welsh all views my own 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉

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georgia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @blahttodea.bsky.social · Nov 11

hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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BIOLOGY Ecology Macroecology https://go.bsky.app/GBn9pNZ Global ecology https://go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv Trait based ecology and evolution https://go.bsky.app/PThMXeX Invasion biology https://go.b...

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 4h

It's also not "just another" extinction, it's the first from mainland Europe in centuries. CENTURIES.

And there will be others within our lifetime.

That's biodiversity loss.

We'll never hear this sound, ever again xeno-canto.org/398794

XC398794 Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris)

Awful wind noise in the original! See sonogram and notes of the recording circumstances on p12 of Gretton A. (1991) The ecology and conservation of the Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris). ...

xeno-canto.org

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 4h

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 1d

Thanks to London’s bold action, almost 10 million people are now breathing cleaner air.

That means fewer children will grow up with stunted lungs and fewer people will have to suffer from asthma, dementia and heart disease.

London hits clean air milestone 184 years early - ULEZ makes 'big difference'

A professor has branded the success a 'truly remarkable turnaround for the city's air quality'

www.mylondon.news

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Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · 2d

🥹 #PhDSky #AcademicSky

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Bat Research Team @bat-cesco.bsky.social · 2d

[NEW PAPER OUT]

🦇 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗱𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 !

A deep dive into optimal foraging theory and social foraging through this bat study: flight speed, tolerance to conspecifics, and adjustments in the presence of heterospecifics revealed via 3D tracking.

Foraging flight strategy varies with species identity of co-occurring individuals in bats

The presence of individuals from a different species induces a change in bat's flight strategy, that probably reflects an increase in competitiveness. Inde

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

Palestinians will feel understandable relief. The West should feel nothing but shame. Gaza has been obliterated. The territory rendered uninhabitable. Tens of thousands murdered in cold blood. The entire population subjected to starvation tactics. And now, colonial subjugation under Trump and Blair

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Niels de Winter @nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 3d

Such a sad story, but good that it can be told in full in museums now.
doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Fate of the last female great auk is finally solved

DNA and historical sleuthing have traced the extinct bird’s remains to a museum in Ohio

doi.org

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International Biodiversity @ibioconsultants.com · 1d

Suriname steps up and wants to protect 90% of its #forests reports the @rainforetrust.bsky.social 🌍

#30x30 #Rewilding #HalfEarth #TropicalForests

www.rainforesttrust.org/our-impact/r...

Suriname pledges to permanently protect 90% of its forests, far exceeding the 30x30 global goal for climate and biodiversity protection – Rainforest Trust

Suriname pledges to permanently protect 90% of its forests, a significant commitment for global climate action and biodiversity.

www.rainforesttrust.org

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Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬 @crvscience.com · 5d

Homie got 229 pairs of chromosomes

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

This tiny butterfly has the most chromosomes of any animal on Earth

Scientists have confirmed that the Atlas blue butterfly carries the most chromosomes of any animal, with 229 pairs. Unlike duplication, its chromosomes split apart, reshaping its genome in surprising ...

www.sciencedaily.com

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 2d

I might be biased but I think my lesbian enamel pin designs are some of my best.

Happy #InternationalLesbianDay! canopyrobin.etsy.com

three enamel pins in lesbian colours: a frog, a circle that says "It's Dr, actually", and a rectangular lesbian flag with a trans inclusive chevron on the left.

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 2d

Monitoring changes in UK temperature

To (almost) no-one’s surprise, multiple sources of data agree on the long-term trends in UK temperatures.

climatelabbook.substack.com/p/monitoring...

Monitoring changes in UK temperature

Multiple sources of data agree on long-term observed trends

climatelabbook.substack.com

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 1d

Clown wrasses, like all wrasses and parrotfish, start their lives biologically female and transition through a series of color phases before ending as a male in their ‘terminal phase’. Here we see a male terminal phase clown wrasse chasing a female initial phase #coralcitycamera #miami #coralcity

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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 16d

Vocal learning in wild birds! Today I spoke about our collaborative studies of Savannah Sparrows. Followed by great talks by Alex Kirschel, David Wheatcroft, Julie Elie, and Frédéric Theunissen. An information-rich day in Ste. Etienne. Thank you @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social

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Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 29d

Political violence is bad but me and my mates need to set fire to this hotel because it contains people I don’t know personally but don’t like the idea of. Political violence is bad but I support the right of a country to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians because I’ve deemed them terrorists

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 29d

Whilst Starmer, who said Israel has the right to withhold water from Palestinian civilians, hosts its President at Number 10. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Ursula von der Leyen calls for suspension of EU trade with Israel

Commission president cites illegal West Bank settlement plans, Gaza and attempts to ‘undermine two-state solution’

www.theguardian.com

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Séance and Spooky Spood-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · Sep 10

I haven't seen as many Castianeira this year as I usually do, but this magnificent lass showed up at the end of my walk today and made me happy. Red lightning in the sand. ♥️
(still unclear which species this is, 4+ years after my first sighting)

Bright red ant mimic sac spider with stripy black and white and red legs and a white stripe down her carapace. She's chilling in my hand, grooming a foot

Face of the gorgeous creature, chilling in my hand.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Sep 10

- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Adrian+Shane @adrianandshane.bsky.social · Sep 10

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

Side-by-side images of Banksy’s mural on the Royal Courts of Justice in London. On the left, the artwork appears faded and scrubbed, leaving only a ghostly outline of a judge raising a gavel over a protester holding a placard. On the right, the mural is fully visible in sharp black and white stencil, showing a judge in a traditional white wig and robes striking down at a protester who defends himself with a bloodied sign.

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · Sep 10

Thanks to UK leadership, a global 30x30 target was adopted at COP15 in 2022 as part of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

But last year, the Government appeared to be sleepwalking with only 3% of land in England effectively protected. Today, we are moonwalking at just 2.8%.

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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · Sep 10

[opposing devastating cuts to welfare]

You can no longer be a Labour MP

[sending birthday messages to convicted paedophile, sex trafficker and "best pal" Jeffrey Epstein then continuing contact after his first conviction]

Well now hold on a second he's said he's sorry jeez

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · Sep 10

BREAKING: They're scrubbing @banksy

The court is erasing Banksy's mural just like it's erasing our right to protest.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Sep 10

Banksy is a pillar of British culture.

He’s been daubing walls for three decades.

As soon as he satirises peaceful protesters being dragged through the courts for holding placards opposing Israel’s genocide, he faces being unmasked and prosecuted.

Banksy could be unmasked as police probe 'criminal damage' over Royal Courts of Justice artwork | LBC

Police have launched an investigation into a new Banksy artwork depicting a judge attacking a protestor with a gavel.

www.lbc.co.uk

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Adrian+Shane @adrianandshane.bsky.social · Sep 10

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · Sep 6

A picture of my former hummingbird tree for #NationalHummingbirdDay 🪶

Nine Anna's hummingbirds hanging around the tree that they perch on while waiting to visit the feeders. Half are perched and half are flying.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · Sep 6

Linehan’s court case making it very clear indeed exactly how wacky this stuff always was, and that people like him have always been about incoherent hatred. e.g. the Harry Potter lady and those ex-Guardian colonists aren’t more reasonable than this: they are *more careful about public perception*.

Linehan making himself look positively unhinged on the stand with his conspiratorial nonsense.
Linehan adde: 'You're trying to make out I'm a bigot because I believe in women's rights and oppose men trying to intimidate and bully women.
He said Ms Brooks has been involved in trans activism since 2013.
Prosecutor Julia Faure Walker said Ms
Brooks would have been six years old at that time.
'So he says,' Linehan replied.
Ms Faure Walker said that Ms Brooks' driving licence proves she is 18.
'If you can lie about your name and sex you can lie about anything,' Linehan replied.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Sep 5

Acting like they played no role in his rise, like they were just innocent bystanders reporting and not vehicles used to platform him, like they haven't legitimised many of his talking points despite knowing they were lies.

You said just last week people are right to be concerned ffs.

The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · Sep 4

"Of course Britain’s broken – Farage has done everything he can to break it. Now he's off abroad to tell everyone how broken we are!"

Clacton's MP is across the pond slagging the state of the country – but didn’t he help break it?

@maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social

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