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Mark Westneat 🐟 @mwestneat.bsky.social · 1d

Seems worth noting this award in light of the present circumstances. Get the troops out of our fair city please, perhaps after they enjoy a great Malnati’s pizza!

Headline photo of Chicago skyline with note about award for being the best big city.

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James Albert @gymnotus.bsky.social · 4d

The C-value paradox: no simple correlation between the total amount of genomic DNA (C-value) and perceived biological complexity.

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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 6d

If conservationists work from a compromised baseline, our notions of abundance, scarcity, and ecological wellbeing will keep getting defined downward:
"The researchers show that using the 1970s as a baseline tends to normalize an already severely degraded state."
phys.org/news/2025-10...

Bird conservation threatened by shifting baseline syndrome

New research shows that populations of dozens of waterbird and seabird species have been declining for much longer than previously thought in Europe. The article "Shifting the baseline for waterbird a...

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 4d

There’s a straight line from Republican talking points to this gutless destruction

onion person @junlper.beer · 4d

i just can’t get over ICE going into the streets of the city i live in, throwing gas at citizens, invading people who live here. this is state sponsored terrorism being enacted on americans

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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 26d

“The insect populations were found to have declined by an average 6.6% annually — a 72.4% drop over the 20-year period.”

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NPR @npr.org · 26d

Research published this month found that even in pristine, untouched areas, insect populations are still on the decline. Climate change is a likely culprit.

Insect populations drop even without direct human interference, a new study finds

Research published this month found that even in pristine, untouched areas, insect populations are still on the decline. Climate change is a likely culprit.

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James Albert @gymnotus.bsky.social · 4d

The transition of vegetation from the lowly water-stressed forest with high tree cover to a savanna-grassland regime with low tree cover and the utilization of rootzone storage capacity to cope with the spatial change to a drier climate.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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James Albert @gymnotus.bsky.social · 4d

Cosmic microwave background radiation in 1965 by American radio astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson. Primary evidence of the Big Bang.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 4d

A 2024 study found that ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence.

Learn more on #WorldAnimalDay: https://scim.ag/42nMvQJ

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 9d

🐟 Not all fish are cold-blooded! New research led by @arciladk.bsky.social, curator of the Marine Vertebrate Collection & recent PhD grad Fernando Melendez, explores how ecological interactions + evolutionary innovation reshaped life in the ocean. 🌊

Why did some fishes evolve to be warm-blooded? - Dahiana Arcila and Fernando Melendez

YouTube video by FishEvolutionLab-Edu

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Kory Evans Ph.D @sternarchella.bsky.social · 9d

New paper alert!!!🚨 in our new study we find that Antarctic icefishes added a new module in their skulls during their adaptive radiation special shout out to @mayaranevesbio.bsky.social who led this project!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Climate, Ecology, War & More by Dr. Glen Barry, BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.bsky.social · 9d

Brazil soy expansion drives deforestation fears ahead of Cop30 summit
->New Zealand Herald | #Deforestation | More from BigEarthData.ai

Brazil soy expansion drives deforestation fears ahead of Cop30 summit

A landmark industry pact – the Amazon Soy Moratorium, which prohibits traders from buying soy grown on recently deforested land – is now fraying as the country’s Government investigates whether it has created a cartel in the export market. And...

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 14d

“Ecuador’s plans to auction new oil blocks in the Amazon are doomed to fail. Indigenous resistance, civil society mobilization, & growing international pressure will continue to expose these projects as illegitimate, unlawful, & unfinanceable.”-Kevin Koenig of @AmazonWatch apnews.com/article/oil-...

Indigenous groups criticize Ecuador’s $47 billion oil expansion plan in Amazon

Ecuador’s plans to offer dozens of blocks of land for oil exploration for more than $47 billion has prompted opposition from seven Indigenous peoples in the Amazon.

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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 15d

"Cutting down the Amazon will bring extreme rain, wind and heat.
We used to think that deforestation in the Amazon would dry out the local climate, but the effects may be even more extreme and varied." 🌍 www.newscientist.com/article/2497...

Cutting down the Amazon will bring extreme rain, wind and heat

We used to think that deforestation in the Amazon would dry out the local climate, but the effects may be even more extreme and varied

www.newscientist.com

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John P. Sullivan @halooie1.bsky.social · 15d

Wow, more 'myrids described in "Review of the southern African slender stonebashers, genus Heteromormyrus Steindachner 1866 (Teleostei: Mormyridae), with description of six new species" by Mutizwa, Kadye, Bragança & Chakona, open access in J Fish Biol. doi.org/10.1111/jfb....

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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 15d

Bumping to the Fishes! and Science feeds🐟🧪

John P. Sullivan @halooie1.bsky.social · 15d

Wow, more 'myrids described in "Review of the southern African slender stonebashers, genus Heteromormyrus Steindachner 1866 (Teleostei: Mormyridae), with description of six new species" by Mutizwa, Kadye, Bragança & Chakona, open access in J Fish Biol. doi.org/10.1111/jfb....

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James Albert @gymnotus.bsky.social · 15d

It really helps to think of all vertebrates as fish. The position of the anus is a very stable feature of the vertebrate body plan, indicated by the red arrows in these images of embryos in four species.

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James Albert @gymnotus.bsky.social · 16d

The position of the anus is a core feature of the vertebrate body plan. And there are really no other landmarks on the belly side of a developing vertebrate to help guide gene expression and cellular differentiation.

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🦕Journal of Systematic Palaeontology🦴 @journalsystpal.bsky.social · 16d

A new study shows that the earliest gobioid fishes were coral-reef associated dwarfs. Results suggest that dwarf gobies achieved ecological success early in gobioid evolution, arising through convergent evolution across different lineages🐟 Read more: buff.ly/GVMpJaF
#Fossilfish #PaleoSky #Evolution

Earliest gobioid fishes were coral-reef associated dwarfs: New evidence from the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy

The earliest skeleton-based gobioid fish, the minute goby †Carlomonnius quasigobius Bannikov and Carnevale, 2016 (13 mm standard length), originates from the Lower Eocene coral reef fish assemblage...

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James Albert @gymnotus.bsky.social · 16d

Makes sense, many biological systems show an intermediate sweet spot reflecting trade-offs at more extreme parameter values

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Amazon Watch @amazonwatch.org · 16d

"Conservation dividends from community-based protection are unprecedented & deployed at a tiny fraction of the financial costs of traditional protection mechanisms... this makes local land managers true 'unsung heroes' in the cacophony of theoretical conservation discourse."
phys.org/news/2025-09...

Community management of protected areas in the Amazon offers 'unprecedented' results

New research reveals "unprecedented" conservation results of community-based management of protected areas in the Amazon—as many face a future in which they may become increasingly degraded due to low...

phys.org

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James Albert @gymnotus.bsky.social · 17d

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James Albert @gymnotus.bsky.social · 17d

Although chromosome-level macrosynteny is broadly conserved among cypriniforms, we demonstrate that microsynteny can resolve deep phylogenetic nodes. Both sequence-based and microsynteny-based analyses find that Gyrinocheilidae is the sister lineage to all other cypriniforms

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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 17d

Bumping to the Fishes! feed🐟

Corey Bradshaw @conservbytes.bsky.social · 18d

Trait-space disparity in fish communities spanning 380 million years from the Late #Devonian to present www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#traits #fish #evolution #ecology 🌏🧪

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 18d

Hope you’re cruising into the weekend like these sleek and shimmering silver kings ✌️🪙👑🐟✨🐟✨🐟✨ #tarpon #silverking #silver #sleek #shimmer #cruising #weekend #tgif #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

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