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@entobyn.bsky.social
Entomology, ecology, conservation, and science literacy.
Posts and RP my own but not endorsement.
Posts and RP my own but not endorsement.
Gen z paper: making new climbing routes where rare plants be chillin is an L for biodiversity. Stay dyno-ing with the tried and true. Conservation planning for climbing areas is giving low gravity (🧢) and less impact on plants (🚫🧢)
@jappliedecology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14785
@jappliedecology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14785
Climbing route development affects cliff vascular plants more than subsequent climbing: A guide to evidence‐based conservation management to regulate climbing
Our study shows that the climbing-related activity with the strongest impact on cliff plant communities is the opening of new climbing routes, while subsequent 30 climbing ascents generate a relative....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Gen z paper: making new climbing routes where rare plants be chillin is an L for biodiversity. Stay dyno-ing with the tried and true. Conservation planning for climbing areas is giving low gravity (🧢) and less impact on plants (🚫🧢)
@jappliedecology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14785
@jappliedecology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14785
Is it just me or do those little clear pimple stickers make it worse?
February 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Is it just me or do those little clear pimple stickers make it worse?
Not to be dramatic but I'm feeling eschatonic. Is it the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss or is my crush not texting enough?
February 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Not to be dramatic but I'm feeling eschatonic. Is it the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss or is my crush not texting enough?
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
They've been yelling about censorship for the last decade and now they're doing it
Government-wide censorship, freeze in funding, data compromise. Let's call this what it is: an authoritarian takeover. Nobody voted for this. They will take as much power as we give them. CALL your politicians now. Emails/letters are often ignored.
www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
5calls.org
www.senate.gov/senators/sen...
5calls.org
February 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
They've been yelling about censorship for the last decade and now they're doing it
The idea that balance is exponential industrial exploitation at the expense of entire species going extinct is absurd
Nature is not a blocker to growth.
The UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has claimed that 'The balance has gone too far in the direction of always protecting every bat and every newt.' But how can this statement be true when the UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world?🌍
The UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has claimed that 'The balance has gone too far in the direction of always protecting every bat and every newt.' But how can this statement be true when the UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world?🌍
January 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The idea that balance is exponential industrial exploitation at the expense of entire species going extinct is absurd
It's hard to believe gender is biological if it needs to be policed
January 27, 2025 at 2:08 AM
It's hard to believe gender is biological if it needs to be policed
Saw a Rhinoceros Auklet while paddling. Good omen 😌
January 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Saw a Rhinoceros Auklet while paddling. Good omen 😌
Trump and Canada spewing BS over conglomerating. Mid.
This is all Indigenous land and isn't theirs to fight over. Based.
This is all Indigenous land and isn't theirs to fight over. Based.
January 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Trump and Canada spewing BS over conglomerating. Mid.
This is all Indigenous land and isn't theirs to fight over. Based.
This is all Indigenous land and isn't theirs to fight over. Based.
Microplastics are straight-up sabotaging the OG native plants by slowing their germination in a major setback. But invasive species? They're simping on microplastics and might take over more land because of it. Tbh, invasives are shady for this.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Plastic particles and their additives promote plant invasion through physicochemical mechanisms on seed germination
Plastic particles and additives promote plant invasion by negatively affecting seed germination of native species while having neutral effects on invasive species. The delayed germination of natives ....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Microplastics are straight-up sabotaging the OG native plants by slowing their germination in a major setback. But invasive species? They're simping on microplastics and might take over more land because of it. Tbh, invasives are shady for this.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
✔️ Gained the trust of at least one farm cat
December 25, 2024 at 2:18 AM
✔️ Gained the trust of at least one farm cat
Alberta gov really out here getting coal for Christmas
December 22, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Alberta gov really out here getting coal for Christmas
How can we hold industry and government accountable when we don't know who they are? We need transparency
Three years later, the Alberta government has finally released names of 16 oilsands companies that allegedly flouted rules requiring them to pay for independent environmental monitoring by scientists. @mikedesouza.bsky.social obtained the data.
Alberta kept fines for 16 oilsands companies secret for three years | The Narwhal
Environment Ministry ordered to release data after keeping names of 16 oilsands companies secret
thenarwhal.ca
December 12, 2024 at 4:06 PM
How can we hold industry and government accountable when we don't know who they are? We need transparency
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Pizza pockets and skateboarding for lunch
December 6, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Pizza pockets and skateboarding for lunch
Gen Z paper abstract: honey bees (red flag: non-native) caught in 4k gooning on the same plants instead of cross pollinating, forcing those plants to produce mid offspring. Native pollinators understood the assignment and go between different plants
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Honeybees (Apis mellifera) decrease the fitness of plants they pollinate | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Most flowering plants require animal pollination and are visited by multiple pollinator species. Historically, the effects of pollinators on plant fitness have been compared using the number of pollen grains they deposit, and the number of seeds or ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
December 4, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Gen Z paper abstract: honey bees (red flag: non-native) caught in 4k gooning on the same plants instead of cross pollinating, forcing those plants to produce mid offspring. Native pollinators understood the assignment and go between different plants
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Fire isn't necessarily bad
Widespread resilience of animal species, functional diversity, and predator–prey networks to an unprecedented gigafire 📈
Suggests that interventions could instead focus on the subset of species that are vulnerable to severe fire 🔥🌏 🧪
🔗 https://buff.ly/3Zep4bx
Suggests that interventions could instead focus on the subset of species that are vulnerable to severe fire 🔥🌏 🧪
🔗 https://buff.ly/3Zep4bx
December 3, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Fire isn't necessarily bad
At a minimum, this feels like Footloose
“The bylaw, will essentially prohibit "decorative crosswalks" on town roadways, restricting them & banned flags other than the Canadian, provincial and Town of Barrhead flags from flying on municipally-owned facilities, property & flagpoles.”
#abpoli
www.townandcountrytoday.com/barrhead-new...
#abpoli
www.townandcountrytoday.com/barrhead-new...
BREAKING: Barrhead residents vote to ban Pride and decorative crosswalks, flags
Some 57 per cent of residents voted in favour of enacting the bylaw that will ban decorative crosswalks and a variety of flags
www.townandcountrytoday.com
December 3, 2024 at 3:25 PM
At a minimum, this feels like Footloose
Why is it that a lot of people who love whales for being "smart" and "personable" also claim they don't like people? Whales are overrated. But also, Orcas having their salmon hat trend is phenomenal. I love them.
November 27, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Why is it that a lot of people who love whales for being "smart" and "personable" also claim they don't like people? Whales are overrated. But also, Orcas having their salmon hat trend is phenomenal. I love them.
Not that I'm telling people what to do but biking in the middle of the road when there are no bike lanes seems like a good idea to me rn. Wear a helmet obvs
Ontario’s Bill 212 passed yesterday, empowering Doug Ford’s government to remove bike lanes and move ahead with Highway 413 without an environmental assessment. @emmamci.bsky.social looks at what it all means: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-high...
With Bill 212 passed, Highway 413 is in and bike lanes are out | The Narwhal
Ontario’s Bill 212 empowers Doug Ford’s government to move ahead with Highway 413 without a full environmental assessment, and to rip out three Toronto bike lanes
thenarwhal.ca
November 26, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Not that I'm telling people what to do but biking in the middle of the road when there are no bike lanes seems like a good idea to me rn. Wear a helmet obvs
Plants in places they're supposed to be in are better at doing stuff compared to plants in places they aren't supposed to be in. Fish out of water and all that
Native trees are responsible for the high carbon density in urban natural area forests across eight United States cities 🌲
More monitoring & increased management activities may be crucial to maintaining the high carbon storage of these ecosystems 📊🌏 🧪
🔗 https://buff.ly/4hWpJpd
More monitoring & increased management activities may be crucial to maintaining the high carbon storage of these ecosystems 📊🌏 🧪
🔗 https://buff.ly/4hWpJpd
November 26, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Plants in places they're supposed to be in are better at doing stuff compared to plants in places they aren't supposed to be in. Fish out of water and all that
Can I translate peer reviewed science into gen z language? Yes. Findings: Short king beetles, with the good good functional diversity riz, don't travel as far as big Chad beetles. Need marginal areas in cropland for pests to get ATE! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Body size mediates ground beetle dispersal from non-crop vegetation: Implications for conservation biocontrol
Intensifying agricultural landscapes by removing non-crop vegetation threatens ecosystem services like pest regulation. Non-crop areas may serve as ov…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Can I translate peer reviewed science into gen z language? Yes. Findings: Short king beetles, with the good good functional diversity riz, don't travel as far as big Chad beetles. Need marginal areas in cropland for pests to get ATE! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...