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Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · Jun 10

Very proud: 'The Lives of Frogs' is published today! Hardback and ebook available globally 🐸 #frogs #amphibians #conservation #ecology #naturalhistory #biodiversity 🐸 @princetonupress.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk ac.uk 🐸 🧪

Jim Labisko and Richard Griffiths holding copies of their new book 'The Lives of Frogs' at the soft-launch event in May 2025. Frog-themed wine and beer consumed but not shown. Special mention of Richard's tropical forest and frog-themed shirt putting an underdressed Jim to shame

Photo by Chloe Wellecomme

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Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 2d

Going extinct ‘right under our noses’: the quiet plight of Australia’s rarest bird of prey

Restricted now to the tropical north, the mysterious red goshawk is fast disappearing as a result of climate change and habitat loss

www.theguardian.com

Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 3d

Blew my mind when I first heard this, specifically Björk's voice

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 3d

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Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 3d

Wow

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Jennifer Campbell-Smith, PhD 𓄿𓃥 @jcampbellsmith.bsky.social · 5d

"I Contain Multitudes"

This digitally painted piece honors coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our cities and the wilderness today.

The thread gives descriptions of all the extinct organisms shown in this piece (not to scale)

This digitally painted piece honors the survivor spirit of the coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our landscapes today. Below the horizon, carefully chosen ancestors mark pivotal moments in adaptation, each contributing to the form and survivor we see today. Above the horizon, Coyote stands alert at the center, framed by both Denver’s skyline and a mountain backdrop, symbols of their ability to thrive in cities as well as wilderness. Embedded in the ground are the skulls and bones of carnivores whose lineages ended long ago, emphasizing Coyote’s persistence in contrast.

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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚 @notjustdna.bsky.social · 4d

Startling tidbits and quite readable, The Bearded Vulture as an accumulator of historical [human] remains

Quotes:

- “C-14 analyses of fecal material accumulated in a Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) eyrie in Greenland demonstrated that it had been occupied for at least 2500 years”

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 5d

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 6d

🧠 Long COVID and the brain

Researchers found that people with long COVID and memory problems show higher levels of AMPA receptors, which help brain cells communicate. This overactivity may disrupt thinking and cause lasting damage.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/brai...

#SciComm #LongCOVID 🧪

Systemic increase of AMPA receptors associated with cognitive impairment of long COVID

Fujimoto et al. report that the patients with cognitive impairments after SARS-CoV-2 infection showed significant AMPA receptors upregulation across their

doi.org

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Tim Blackburn @mothyblackburn.bsky.social · 6d

Happy biodiversity scientists (and Cliff). #TeamMoth

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Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 6d

OHMYOHMYOHMY! Love love love this track!

Never heard anyone else mention or play it (which could simply suggest I should've got out more... but you get my point).

wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 6d

It just occurred to me that on this day 35 years ago (some of) the seeds were sown for jungle…

Derek Sinclair @mossieposse.bsky.social · 7d

Released OTD 35 years ago. Tell Me Why? by the Sindecut. This mad talented UK crew mixed hip-hop, soul and reggae similarly to Massive Attack and Soul II Soul. Despite a deal with Virgin, and a fearsome live reputation they never quite broke thru. That baseline tho'..

youtu.be/eFmcrqZCw2s?...

Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 7d

Common toad is becoming uncommon in UK, study shows

Species’ population has almost halved in a generation and urgent action is needed to protect it, analysis finds

www.theguardian.com

Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 7d

Better news will come if they actually end up paying it 🤞

Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 7d

Rubbish news

Jane Goodall, chimpanzee expert and animal rights campaigner, dies age 91 - follow live

The campaigner, a

www.bbc.co.uk

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Diogo Veríssimo @diogoverissimo.bsky.social · 8d

🌍 Languages of Life | Línguas da Vida | Bahasa Kehidupan 🗣️🌱

Biodiversity doesn’t speak only English. 🌳🐒
If species cross borders, our words should too.
New paper in @ConLetters : why saving life also means using more languages

🔗https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/conl.13139

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Jim Labisko💚🐸🦎🐍🐢🦇🐆🧪💙😷4/4 @jimlabisko.bsky.social · 8d

#skills

I wonder what @labisiffre.bsky.social thinks?

Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 8d

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

actually it's ok to look things up in the dictionary instead of blaming the author for using a word you didn't know

learning is good

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 9d

Terrible headline on a good article. It’s the world’s taste for MEAT that’s fuelling Amazon destruction. The soya is cattle feed.

How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon

Cultivation of the crop has made a few wealthy but at a huge cost to untouched forest as it spreads across vast areas of former wilderness

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Susie Maidment @tweetisaurus.bsky.social · 8d

AMAZING JOB ALERT!!! Dorset Council are recruiting a World Heritage Officer to support the management of the Jurassic Coast! Would suit an Earth Science graduate with an interest in digital comms and content: deets here: www.jobs.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/vacancies/32...

World Heritage Officer in Dorchester | Dorset Council

View details and apply for this World Heritage Officer vacancy in Dorchester. Join a passionate and collaborative team at the heart of Dorset's environmental and heritage work. As part of the Dor...

www.jobs.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk

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David Bentley @sussextangerine.bsky.social · 10d

The Friends of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve have loved leading a range of Rye Arts Festival events, closing with today's community wildlife art panel workshop, celebrating our wading birds. Thank you James Tomlinson!
Please join us.
ryeharbourfriends.net/join-us
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social