I don't think I've ever seen a US gas price over $5. I'm not about to do the math at 4:45 AM, but I think this is more expensive than gas here in Scotland (which I think works out to around 7.50 USD/gallon?)

This thread is shocking in the best possible way.

The spread of non-native species is likely to be compounded by climate change and land-use. Here the authors assess the potential distribution of 9,701 naturalized non-native plant species at a 10×10km resolution & project shifts under 2 Shared Socioeconomic Pathways 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tax invisibility is a scourge in our politics > Public childcare isn't free, it's tax-funded. > People buying $34 burgers pay taxes. > Believe $34 burger eaters should pay more? wait until you hear about this idea "progressive taxation" Wow, problem solved, thanks taxes! 😀

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We’ve been talking in our lab meetings about sexual conflict and sexual dimorphism, and have some thoughts. What if animal genomes are far more sex-specific and less cosntrained than we assume? @linley-sherin.bsky.social pulled it all together here www.zoology.ubc.ca/mank-lab/pdf... 1/n

Every time I try to send something via Mailchimp on behalf of BES Macro, it's like I'm spinning the template roulette wheel. Are we earth-toned or violently pink? Are we signed with my name, Natalie Cooper's name, or the name (and picture!) of some old BES employee? Do we link to Twitter or Bluesky?

PDRA positions at Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (York, UK) These include four that I am involved with: beta diversity change ecosystem metrics ecological monitoring & Indigenous and local knowledge food system dynamics & biodiversity sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

Come ON people! “Wolf takes bite out of Hamburger” was RIGHT THERE

Also, this logo is 🔥 #MansionMeeting2027

If we want to conserve evolutionary history, we need to think about this: change the phylogenetic methods, and you change the conservation outcomes. New paper led by honours student Mina Kearns, with @alexskeels.bsky.social & @keaghanjames.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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🚨NEW SCIENCE ALERT!🚨Read our new, open-access publication in Scientific Reports (@nature.com) describing #biofluorescence in #cassowary casques! Very excited to unveil this after keeping it secret for 5 years⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... NYITCOM @akiopteryx.bsky.social @jonathanberman.bsky.social

European regulators have approved acoziborole, a new treatment for sleeping sickness that cures the disease with a single oral dose. The drug replaces complex regimens requiring hospitalisation, spinal taps and weeks of monitoring. buff.ly/KX3Ld2B #ShareGoodNewsToo

"The IOC already tried mandatory sex testing. For decades, every female Olympic athlete was screened. In all those years, it never caught a single person deliberately misrepresenting their sex. What it did was destroy the careers & lives of women with intersex conditions they didn’t know they had."

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us ❓Quantifying animal #movement patterns & behavioural #interactions in a changing world 👥Joint position in @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #MacquarieUniversity 📆19th April deadline tinyurl.com/343acaev #maths #modelling #data #fieldwork #Australia 🙏PLEASE SHARE

I wrote about the findings from the inquiry about the impact of the pandemic on the NHS, and the mistakes of the first year. I hope it makes you angry - it should make us all angry. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Climate driven extremes aren’t coming, they’re here…

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

This isn't true. I wish people would stop saying this. Specifically the banned additives. The US actually bans slightly more additives than the EU, just different ones. The EU for example allows cyclamates the US doesn't

We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social

A genre of Reddit post that I truly don't understand is people looking for validation when they break a (non-harmful) law. Like...yeah, non-EU must carry their passports in Schengen at all times. Yes, that means you. No, that doesn't mean a passport card or a drivers license -- it means a passport.

Happy to share our new paper on the thermal tolerance of phrynosomatid lizards, now out in The American Naturalist! A beautiful collaborative project across career stages, with undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs 😊🦎 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Sharing this 🎯 paper from a few years, for no particular reason, with the apt metaphor that academia is a hostile obstacle course. It’s a paper that seems to become more relevant as time goes on, not just in the US, but also in the far reaches of the academic map.

New study out with @steigerlab.bsky.social! We investigated male care in a biparentally caring 🪲. Why does male contribution vary so much? Turns out there are repeatable individual differences, and how much the female does only affects some male care behaviors. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Excited to share our new paper @royalsocietypublishing.org This one took what felt like endless maze trials. We found that even modest warming (~1°C) changed an ectotherm's behaviour such that it affected cognitive performance. Speeding them up and reducing decision accuracy.

Our new paper is out: "Acoustic differences persist in urban Parus major (Great Tit) over two decades of declining anthropogenic noise in Paris, France." A study of noise and bird song, by me and Hans Slabbekoorn, in Ornithological Applications @amornith.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/orni...

Important piece today by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social And by "important," I mean terrifying. The facts he marshals about the state of the global food system read like the summary bullet points of my lecture on system collapse in the course I just finished 😬 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

Well, that's fun. Link to the paper if you're curious: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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What is truly disconcerting about this is that, in the United States, the Girl Scouts are explicitly and vehemently trans-inclusive. Which is why I buy, and so many of my friends buy, Girl Scout cookies (amongst other things).

Are you an early career biologist looking for a position (Masters up to Faculty) and looking for community? I started a Discord server to help us find opportunities, build a network, and support one another! We're 40 strong as of posting this, come join us! discord.gg/nmktHJhUPH

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

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This story is completely nuts, as a preliminary search for "dissertation defense" on their site reveals

Gotta love the strawberry poison dart frog. (Aka, cool new colour research alert!) www.cell.com/current-biol...

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New paper 🐦 Multi-trait syndromes explain dispersal among close relatives, but simple traits (e.g. body mass) better predict across species. A case for simpler, mechanistic ecology. doi.org/10.1038/s420... Big shout out to @gfandos.bsky.social 🎉 #Ecology #Evolution #Traits #Dispersal #Birds

Really excellent paper on the genetics of caterpillar butt ornaments journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Me, after probably the eight busiest weeks of my career to date: Ah, well, at least that's now completed, time to catch up on all my other tasks. Also me: * catches hell virus * 🫠🫠🫠 (Not that any of the bazillion people I owe stuff to follow me on Bluesky, but still, apologies to the universe.)

Similarly, I was just reading an email that mentioned an event later this week taking place in Kincardineshire, a location which hasn't existed since 1975.

I'm not going to name & shame because I have some sense of decorum, but an actual legit journal in my field sent me the most *unhinged* review request last week. The most florid, whimsical phrasing. I have so many questions.

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

Welcome to the first episode of "Catherine loses her mind trying to file her US taxes". (No, I am not looking for advice. Yes, all US citizens have to file taxes, even if they live abroad.)

Really cannot overstate how bonkers the heat wave out West is. Just obliterating records. 🧪

I hadn't realised that Bob Trivers had died. What a complicated legacy. jjffh.com/tribute/deta...

fargo police apparently looked at this woman’s facebook and instagram and her drivers license then took the AI at its word and she sat in jail for almost six months. what the actual fuck

Some good news, especially after the 2019 fire: thanks to the efforts of conservationists, koalas are recovering from a severe population bottleneck that many feared would drive them to extinction:

I think a lot about the ways that straight white folks can come to feel left out in spaces and movements that are centered on multicultural identity, and what a politics of radical inclusion in such spaces and movements looks like. And apparently our mayor does too.