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7. Professor Fiffy Saikim - Community-based Biodiversity Conservation & Ecotourism - The Biodiversity Impact Podcast

Dr Fevziye Hasan @fevziye.bsky.social · 24d

This episode #BiodiversityImpactPodcast Associate Professor Dr. Fiffy Saikim, Director of the Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation at Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Her message: sustainability = harmony between people, planet & economy: “Don’t be ego — be eco”
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6. Dr Caroline Dingle, Evolutionary Ecologist - The Biodiversity Impact Podcast

Dr Fevziye Hasan @fevziye.bsky.social · Sep 6

This episode #BiodiversityImpactPodcast features Dr. Caroline Dingle, evolutionary ecologist at Capilano University in Vancouver, Canada. Recorded in Borneo’s Danum Valley, she shares research on duetting birds, Asian songbird trade &the endangered helmeted hornbill.
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5. Dr Anna Goldman, Naturalist & Biodiversity Scientist - The Biodiversity Impact Podcast

Dr Fevziye Hasan @fevziye.bsky.social · Aug 29

This episode #BiodiversityImpactPodcast features Dr. Anna Goldman, a Naturalist and Biodiversity Scientist currently working as the lead natural history museum curator at California Polytechnic University in Humboldt, USA. Follow Anna on Instagram: @annabumblebee open.spotify.com/episode/7ua6...

2. Dr. Julio A. Díaz, Marine Biologist – The Biodiversity Impact Podcast

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Paco Cardenas @paccardenas.bsky.social · Apr 5

Uppsala University donated yesterday to our Museum hundreds of zoology posters previously used for teaching, most of them dating back to 1840-1890s ! What a treasure! I can't wait to sort them 🤩

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Paco Cardenas @paccardenas.bsky.social · Aug 10

In this podcast episode of 'Biodiversity Impact', scientist Julio Díaz from the Museum of Evolution (Uppsala University) talks about his journey, his job and, of course, sponges 🙂

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Inside Academia’s Broken System: The Lawsuit That Changes Everything

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Dr Fevziye Hasan @fevziye.bsky.social · Jul 27

Check out the profit margins!

Dr Fevziye Hasan @fevziye.bsky.social · Jul 27

Inside Academia’s Broken System: The Lawsuit That Changes Everything youtu.be/3Si-UHkAT_A?... via @YouTube

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3. Professor Tim Bonebrake, Global change & tropical conservation biologist - The Biodiversity Impact Podcast

Dr Fevziye Hasan @fevziye.bsky.social · Jul 27

#BiodiversityImpactPodcast Prof. Tim Bonebrake, a global change & tropical conservation biologist, shares what drew him to the field, his inspirations, challenges & what’s ahead, including his new popular science book about crime & pangolins. Listen here! open.spotify.com/episode/1GZe...

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Itzhak Perlman & John Williams - Por Una Cabeza, Carlos Gardel

Dr Fevziye Hasan @fevziye.bsky.social · Jul 7

Fill your hearts:

Itzhak Perlman & John Williams - Por Una Cabeza, Carlos Gardel
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Dr Fevziye Hasan @fevziye.bsky.social · Jul 4

Biodiversity Impact: A podcast about people, planet & profit. Dr Julio A Díaz, marine biologist at Uppsala University’s Museum of Evolution, talks about sponge taxonomy, how he came to it, what the field demands, and why naming species still matters. open.spotify.com/episode/085Y...

2. Dr. Julio A. Díaz, Marine Biologist – The Biodiversity Impact Podcast

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My abstract has been accepted for presentation at Living Data 2025, an international conference on biodiversity data, held this October in Bogotá, Colombia! | Fevziye Hasan

Dr Fevziye Hasan @fevziye.bsky.social · Jun 30

I’m looking to raise 40,000 SEK/~€3,500 to attend Living Data 2025, Bogotá, where I’ll present the business case for investing in biodiversity data! If you know of any travel funding, grants, or independent sponsorship, I’d be truly grateful for your recommendations
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My abstract has been accepted for presentation at Living Data 2025, an international conference on biodiversity data, held this October in Bogotá, Colombia! But, I need your help! I’m currently seek...

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Dr Fevziye Hasan @fevziye.bsky.social · Jun 27

Excited to be back in Hong Kong for the Ecology and Biodiversity Seminar Series! Come along today: Friday 27th June @ 16:00 in room 3N01 - #HongKongUniversity - where I will talk about the business case for investing in biodiversity data! #HongKong #Biodiversity #BiodiversityData #BiodiversityImpact

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Dr Fevziye Hasan @fevziye.bsky.social · Jun 27

Huge thanks to Professor Louise Ashton for running an exceptional field course and bringing together a great team of museum and university experts, providing diverse perspectives, to stimulate and support the learning about “Tropical Ecosystems in a Changing World.”

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This past month has been fantastic. | Fevziye Hasan

This past month has been fantastic. I have travelled from the concrete jungle of Hong Kong to the pristine primary tropical rainforest of Danum Valley in Borneo. What an engaging group of bright, pass...

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Two teens and 5,000 ants: how a smuggling bust shed new light on a booming trade

Dr Fevziye Hasan @fevziye.bsky.social · Jun 13

Please share our new fundraising initiative, Biodiversity Beyond Linnaeus, as widely as possible! Our goal is to raise 100 million SEK to engage biodiversity experts at Uppsala University Evolutionsmuseet. Find out more at www.biodiversitybeyondlinnaeus.com
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Dr Fevziye Hasan @fevziye.bsky.social · May 7

Uppsala University, Blåsenhus, lärosal 13:028-7 May, 15:15 – 16:30: Mehmet Somel, Human Past Senior Fellow 2024-25, professor of biology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara: his group generated 30 new paleogenomes from six settlements in West & Central Anatolia dating back c.10,000-8,000 yrs.

Dr Fevziye Hasan @fevziye.bsky.social · Apr 27

Two teens and 5,000 ants: how a smuggling bust shed new light on a booming trade www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Two Belgian 19-year-olds have pleaded guilty to wildlife piracy – but the raid that caught them has shone a spotlight on a booming global trade

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Hundratals ormar från hela världen ska undersökas – letar dödlig svampsjukdom

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Franck Courchamp @franckcourchamp.bsky.social · Apr 25

Ecological impacts of biological invasions are so numerous & diverse, it's a mess
+, we often mix mechanisms & impacts, causes & consequences
So, we created a structured typology of these impacts.
Now that it's done, it looks simple & obvious 🤓
read&share🙏
👉 authors.elsevier.com/a/1k%7EhNcZ3...

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Dr Fevziye Hasan @fevziye.bsky.social · Apr 22

Uppsala University Evolutionsmuseet Research: Hundreds of snakes from around the world to be examined – looking for deadly fungal disease @paccardenas.bsky.social www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...

Hundratals ormar från hela världen ska undersökas i jakten på Ophidiomyces ophidiicola. En svampinfektion som har gäckat forskare som nu hoppas förstå den bättre. I Uppsala började projektet i ett dam...

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Mauri mahi, mauri ora: "Do the mahi, get the treats" (through work, we prosper)

Dr Fevziye Hasan @fevziye.bsky.social · Apr 16

I like to keep this Maori Proverb in mind when there's lots to do:
Mauri mahi, mauri ora :)
"Do the mahi, get the treats" (through work, we prosper)
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Mauri mahi, mauri ora

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