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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 1d

Richard Wrangham pays tribute to Jane Goodall in an obituary for Nature, outlining how she was a tireless advocate for conservation, the welfare of captive chimpanzees and the protection of habitats. 🧪

Jane Goodall obituary: pioneer primatologist who inspired generations of scientists

She was a tireless advocate for conservation, the welfare of captive chimpanzees and the protection of habitats.

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Walter Andriuzzi @walterandriuzzi.bsky.social · 1d

Sheng et al. call for greater survey efforts and broader conservation initiative to protect the 11 (ELEVEN!) felid species of the Tibetan Plateau.

(Strong contender for the Correspondence, or indeed article of any kind, with the best figure we ever published)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Protect the Tibetan Plateau’s rich felid diversity - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Protect the Tibetan Plateau’s rich felid diversity

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Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social · 1d

really want a marbled cat now

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Nic Rawlence @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social · 8d

www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Scientists targeted by dark PR tactics: Several academic scientists critical of de-extinction projects have become the targets of anonymous smear articles and weaponized copyright infringement claims:...

EMBO Press is an editorially independent publishing platform for the development of EMBO scientific publications.

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Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social · Sep 4

The archaeological record of plastics

Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social · Sep 3

A fascinating new publication: The Plastics Age: An archaeology of our time, a cross-disciplinary approach to create an overarching theory of how and in what ways plastics are forming an archaeological record.
#contemporaryarchaeology #anthropocene #plastics

Archaeological and systemic context for the plastic age: Theorising the formation of contemporary and future archaeological records | Cambridge Prisms: Plastics | Cambridge Core

Archaeological and systemic context for the plastic age: Theorising the formation of contemporary and future archaeological records - Volume 3

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Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social · Aug 22

FYI this excellent piece is now free access for a month--check it out! #palaeontology #plasticpollution

Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social · Aug 12

Sarah Gabbott's @thepalass.bsky.social plenary talk has been living rent free inside my head ever since December so I'm delighted that she's written it up as a Comment for @natecoevo.nature.com: we need taphonomy to understand plastic pollution

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Understanding environmental impacts of plastic requires a palaeontological lens - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Growing evidence suggests that timescales for plastic degradation have been vastly underestimated. The fossil record of plastic-like biopolymers might provide a perspective on plastic fossilization in...

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Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social · Aug 12

Sarah Gabbott's @thepalass.bsky.social plenary talk has been living rent free inside my head ever since December so I'm delighted that she's written it up as a Comment for @natecoevo.nature.com: we need taphonomy to understand plastic pollution

rdcu.be/eAmRU

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Understanding environmental impacts of plastic requires a palaeontological lens - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Growing evidence suggests that timescales for plastic degradation have been vastly underestimated. The fossil record of plastic-like biopolymers might provide a perspective on plastic fossilization in...

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Aug 6

Our August issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/...

🧪 Featuring research on:

🧬 The antibiotic resistome
🌍 Palaeobiogeography of lagerpetids and early pterosaurs
🫄 Evolution of mammalian pregnancy

Cover shows a pangolin from Emogor et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cover of the August issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution. The image shows a pangolin curled up in a ball in the palm of a hand. The headline reads "Threat scales"

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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · Aug 4

This company claimed to ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves. Then the fighting started. Colossal’s bold announcements have drawn criticism from many scientists, but the billion-dollar firm is not backing down. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This company claimed to ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves. Then the fighting started.

Colossal’s bold announcements have drawn criticism from many scientists, but the billion-dollar firm is not backing down.

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · Aug 1

Like science? Then you better be interested when *someone* starts putting out hit pieces on scientists. This is beyond the pale ethically and honestly anyone who doesn’t want to slide to hell on a slick of ai generated content that benefits billionaire business, maybe now is the time to get angry.

New scientist headline critics of de extinction hit by mystery smear campaign

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Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social · Jul 28

I was really looking forward to @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social but unfortunately can’t make it anymore. Hope to catch up later, but if you’ve got any #conservation #palaeobiology papers please do submit them to @natecoevo.nature.com! Or drop me a message to discuss

Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social · Jul 24

Paranthropus robustus ecology and life history via Sr isotopes from teeth

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Geochemical chronologies in Paranthropus robustus teeth inform habitat and life histories

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Strontium analysis of Paranthropus robustus teeth from two South African sites reveals that the Pleistocene hominin probably exploited both savanna and riparian...

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Jul 9

Our July issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/...

🧪Featuring research on:

🌴Regenerating tropical forests
🐊Early archosauromorph reptiles
🦑Bobtail squid visual and nervous systems

Cover shows an orchid mantis, from Pei et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cover of the July issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution showing an image of an orchid mantis. The headline reads "Mechanisms of mimicry and camouflage"

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Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social · Jul 9

Moa de-extinction, moa problems.

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · Jul 9

And here is a whole host of expert comment on the Moa/Colossal announcement -- well worth a read, with lots to think about.

www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/07/09/m...

Moa "de-extinction" plans announced - Expert Reaction

An overseas company has announced plans to "bring back" the South Island giant moa. Colossal Biosciences, working with Ngāi Tahu Research Centre and Canterbury Museum, says it expects to "resurrect" t...

www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz

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Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social · Jul 4

I can't remember the location I'm afraid but I can tell you that perusing the Argos catalogue and then going to the shop was a highlight of visiting my Ballymena granny during this time period (no Argos down south then) up there with going to Camerons, glad to hear it'll be memorialised in print.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Jul 1

Nazi Germany did literally ban Nature:

"Articles are often published in the London weekly scientific journal Nature containing outrageous and vile attacks on German science and the national socialist state.

The journal must therefore be excluded from general use in the scientific libraries."

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Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social · Jun 25

Free to read link: rdcu.be/etlmE

Early Japanese people were full of beans

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Early Japanese people were full of beans

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Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social · Jun 25

Finding out #Jomon people (hunter-fisher-gatherer-potter-beangrowers) may have #domesticated adzuki beans blew my tiny mind, so I wrote a Research Highlight about it for @natecoevo.nature.com

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(original paper is in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...)

Early Japanese people were full of beans - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Early Japanese people were full of beans

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · Jun 24

This article is the culmination of a @wennergrenorg.bsky.social project led by the iso-GOAT 🧪Judith Sealy. I'm so honored to have attended the conference, talked about open science in isotopes research, and then been part of this paper led by Max Spies 🏺https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250283

Strontium isoscapes for provenance, mobility and migration: the way forward | Royal Society Open Science

Strontium isotopes (87Sr/86Sr) are increasingly used as a provenance tool in multiple disciplines. Application to biological materials requires knowledge of the variation in bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr acr...

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Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social · Jun 24

Forests in England and Wales associated with higher human #wellbeing are in areas with the least socioeconomic deprivation according to new research from @jessjessfisher.bsky.social and colleagues from @dice-kent.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... (OA) #AccessToNature 🧪🌎

Spatio-temporal variability in forest biodiversity associated with human well-being across socio-economic deprivation gradients - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Applying a combined social science and trait-based ecology approach, the authors identify ecological traits in forests eliciting positive or negative well-being among human participants in England and...

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · Jun 24

Our alternative interpretations of the ‘king’ of Newgrange (a skull fragment from an individual who was born of incest) and his distant relations have been published! We argue for the importance of careful integration of aDNA results with detailed archaeological evidence. Such a great team effort!

Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · Jun 24

Who was NG10 and what was the world they lived in? The sister paper to our CAJ paper is now out in Antiquity and the cover image no less! Working on these papers with this group, has been one of the richest academic experiences I have had in my career. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The ‘king’ of Newgrange? A critical analysis of a Neolithic petrous fragment from the passage tomb chamber | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

The ‘king’ of Newgrange? A critical analysis of a Neolithic petrous fragment from the passage tomb chamber - Volume 99 Issue 405

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Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social · Jun 24

"museums must shift from being passive repositories of colonial-era collecting to active, ethical and inclusive participants in shaping a sustainable and just future."
Claire Browning reviews
@jackdashby.bsky.social's new book in
@natecoevo.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Museums in the age of extinction - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Museums in the age of extinction

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Davide Foffa @davfoff.bsky.social · Jun 18

‪[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.social‬ @macroecoevoale.bsky.social‬ and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The lagerpetid Scleromochlus, one of the closest relatives of pterosaurs. Artowrk by Gabriel Ugueto

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Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social · Jun 18

she's so good.

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