Pumped to share our work on bird behavior and the 2024 Eclipse, in today's @science.org. 100k bird vocalizations + 10k continent-wide observations from the public = really fun collab led by Liz Aguilar, with @juncowren.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @imillercrews.bsky.social #NSF

The limiting nutrient in these waters is iron & whales are the final step in a chain that moves iron from lower levels back up to the surface waters, where it can cause phytoplankton blooms.

Guess what eats phytoplankton? That's right: krill.

The whales are farming their food.

Whales feed on deep-living krill, but their POOP is 'flocculent' (fluffy?) & floats to the surface.

The nutrients they obtain from eating krill are cycled UPWARDS.

When a krill dies 'naturally' or is eaten by a fish, that poop forms "marine snow" and SINKS where it no longer cycles.

We have several open MSc thesis projects!

Here is one of those:

she is 22 years old and she is braver than all of us.

ACE Teaching Innovation Awards empower scholars to incorporate high-quality cultural evolution course materials into their teaching. This is a great opportunity for those from majority-world countries and ECR academics, but everyone can apply!

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I have often observed people say they would like more diversity, more Global South voices, more African voices. But it only goes so far. Once sharp voices with hard critique emerge, people would rather ignore them quietly

Critique of Jane Goodall's legacy from a prominent Kenyan voice on conservation

Source page for the graph: globalinequality.org/imperial-pow...

Substack essay: jasonhickel.substack.com/p/the-stagge...

Lancet study: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

New research published in The Lancet finds that Western unilateral sanctions have caused 38 million deaths since 1970. The average death toll ranges from 400,000 to over 1 million per year.

Staggering levels of violence. This system is intolerable and must be replaced.

New research shows that ocean acidification has now crossed the planetary boundary. That's 7 of 9 boundaries crossed. Capitalism is driving ecological catastrophe and will continue to do so until we align production to a new law of value.

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Several years ago, I watched the National Geographic "Jane" documentary, and wrote a Twitter thread about it, then rewrote it in blog form for the @peopleprimate.bsky.social. And I'm dismayed to see so much of her memorials repeating this narrative (2/10)

human-primate-interactions.org/blog/

EMERGENCY: ISRAEL ATTACKS GSF
Israel has attacked the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters. People of conscience have been abducted.
The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and the Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.

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While Goodall received her PhD in the 1960s, it was not until the 2000s that Ugandan Emily Otali became the first African woman to complete a PhD on chimpanzee behavior. The networks that facilitated European and North Americans researchers impeded the same opportunities for Africans (9/10)

When we hear about a lone scientist who made groundbreaking discoveries on their own, it’s usually erasing the truth that science is a team sport, and field research builds on the local knowledge and expertise of the people that live there (8/10)

Leakey told Japanese primatologist Junichiro Itani that he could take over Gombe research in 1961, but when Goodall decided to stay on, Leakey denied them access, and the Japanese researchers spent several years exploring nearby sites before establishing long-term research at Mahale Mountains (7/10)

What the narrative leaves out is the contributions of the local Tanzanians who assisted and facilitated Goodall's early research, as well as preceding and concurrent research. Nat Geo created a story about a lone white woman alone with chimpanzees, erasing the Africans that were beside her (3/10)

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare.

However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

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I screen out Frontiers emails so hadn't seen a colleague's invite to their editorial board. so the colleague emailed me directly to ask again (we're friendly w/ each other)

I don't like saying 'no' to service for good colleagues, but one must act on principle against bad publishers. here's my reply

The strain on scientific publishing 🧪 is unsustainable

And some publishers are exploiting #OpenAccess better than others

MDPI now second only to Elsevier in articles published

Excellent talk by Matthias Egger at visit to Monash Malaysia @kentbuse.bsky.social

We're excited to announce our plan to make the Royal Society journals fully open access in 2026 by adopting the ‘Subscribe to Open’ model. This change supports global access to research without shifting costs to authors and relies on continued library participation. Find out more: buff.ly/18m5g6z