Dragonflies fun facts - Just one dragonfly can consume over 100 mosquitos in a day - Dragonflies can fly backwards - They have nearly 360° vision - Their wings inhibit bacterial growth due to their natural structures - They're actually beautiful

“The World Health Organization has recognized #glyphosate as a probable carcinogen while the #EPA continues to twist itself into pretzels to come to the opposite conclusion,” Lori Ann Burd, director of the Center’s environmental health program, told Common Dreams. #pesticides #PFAS

#Colorado Parks & Wildlife just released a report and policy recommendations that leave 14 species — including beavers, bobcats, and red foxes — at risk of being killed for their fur in unlimited numbers during hunting and trapping season. Read on ➡️ bit.ly/3MMBsvj

Did you publish with researchers outside your lab during grad school? Or published as faculty with a student not under your supervision? I’m collecting examples of cross-lab collaboration in graduate training. Please share your experience & this post! Repository: bit.ly/4pT66BE

Question from a student for @sse-evolution.bsky.social -- is there support for committee members to go to Evolution (registration covered, etc.)? I know the society has been great about making leadership more feasible for folks, just not sure what current options are.

Very pleased to have had a small part in this new paper showing that the greater chestnut weevil is not, as feared, extinct.

Shark nets are an abomination and there are much better and more wildlife-friendly ways to keep people safe! It's time to get rid of shark nets once and for all www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

I'm the incoming SSE president and am behind this idea -- if you're interested in putting together an app and have questions, pls reach out!

‘“Faragism” is neoliberalism at its most inhumane, more destructive even than [Thatcher’s] monetarism, and vindictive far beyond austerity.’ Good analysis by Gordon Brown - and why progressives should attack Farage on economics above all: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

October kickoff meeting! Our FIS project *TL-REP Thermal limits to reproduction as predictors for population vulnerability to climate warming* is ready to start with a team of talented and enthusiastic researchers!

#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com @behavecol.bsky.social

TRAVEL AWARDS - Apply for a travel award to support your trip, accommodation and registration! Application guidelines on www.isbe2026.com

Farage’s Reform is part of a “global network of rightwing billionaires” who want to undermine net zero for their “vested interests”, says Ed Miliband - as he revives pledges for a Green New Deal & 400,000 new jobs in clean energy by 2030 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Local Organizing Commitee welcomes behavioral ecologists from across the world and of all career stages to enjoy a five-day meeting rich in top-notch science and ample networking opportunities in Turin (Italy), 20-24 July 2026.

Another recent paper in #BirdStudy showed autumn densities of Pheasant & Red-Legged Partridge in southern England can be an astonishing 2,500 birds per km2 on land near releases. After winter, there were still up to 700 birds/km2. That's huge numbers. Paper: doi.org/10.1080/0006... #ornithology

If you like the new specimen of #Spicomellus, check out this film of us excavating the specimen, by Ben Webber at the @nhm-london.bsky.social youtu.be/TEeCFl0MJ0A?...

How is this possible? This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother

This is quite extraordinary!

Millionaire owner of a £4m second home Richard Tice promises to ‘scrap all inheritance tax’ and asks farmers to ‘tell him bonkers regulations’ so he can ‘scrap them’ - via Helena Horton on Twitter:

I always knew they were up to something.

Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with ‪‪@shaky-dingo.bsky.social‬ and colleagues

I heard today that the ‘small boats crisis’ was actually *caused* by Nigel Farage and Brexit. That before Brexit we had sufficient influence in the EU and could negotiate with France. The growth in numbers is linked to changes since Brexit. Farage is the *cause* not the solution.

Those Reform nutjobs reminded me: "Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, grabbing an Indian curry or Turkish kebab takeaway, then going home to sit on Swedish furniture & watch American shows on a Japanese TV, while being suspicious of anything foreign."

New meta-analysis underlines that Grey Squirrels are really a very minor nest predator in UK, despite once considered probably very important in woodland bird declines. Good example of evidence overturning dogma, allowing focus on real issues. #ornithology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢 Tampere University is seeking an Assistant professor, Associate professor or Professor in the field of English linguistics. The closing date for applications is August 18th.

Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Interested in insects? Join us at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social on Tuesday 24 June as part of @royentsoc.bsky.social’s National Insect Week! 🪰🪲🦋🐞🐝🪳

Calling young UK-based artists! To celebrate 50 years of CITES 🌍, the Royal Society of Biology @rsb.org.uk is hosting an art competition for 7–18-year-olds to draw or paint an endangered species. 🎨 🧪Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/get-involved...

We're rounding off #IAW25 with this drawing from Alfred Russel Wallace's Butterflies of Malay Archipelago notebook (MS/181). You can access this, and over 61,000 other records with over 218,000 images, at Linnean Online. linnean.access.preservica.com #ArchivesAreAccessible

One of the rarest birds in Scotland - a very fragile population discovered only a few years ago.

In an effort to balance the "Editors/Reviewers as gatekeepers" (& the "Mike's a miserable old git") narrative, I'm having a great start to today by handling a really interesting, well-written manuscript on cool niche-related things. Reach out if you'd be interested in reviewing such a manuscript! 😄

In March, Ministers launched the ‘National Estate for Nature’ group – bringing together some of England's largest landowners to do more to restore nature. I've now mapped what these landowners own - & set out what the National Estate for Nature should do next 1/ whoownsengland.org/2025/06/10/m...

Come and join us in Newcastle for a wonderful gathering of network ecologists! This year our theme is 'Network Ecology in the Anthropocene' and our plenary speakers include Jane Memmott and Paulo Guimarães. Symposium tickets are an absolute bargain, especially for students.

Come join us at the Conservation Biogeography Lab @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social and carry out work on megafauna in Europe pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/websi...

We had a great week hosting MSc students and staff from the University of Lincoln. We’d like to say a big thank you to all involved. Thanks especially to the students who really got enthused by the conservation and management of this area. Good luck with your future careers! @g-iossa.bsky.social

Do you know the pollen forecast of CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social? Check it out for grass pollen to view the situation in Europe today and the near future. Source: atmosphere.copernicus.eu/charts/packa...

Trialling out a new piece of our field-kit: a UV torch. Check out the palps on this juvenile male Copper Sun Jumper (𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘶𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘶𝘴). Really exciting to see this fluorescence - and interesting to consider what function this may have. #biofluorescence #arachnid

Day 2 with Neuchâtel and we’ve been exploring the garrigue. This is a Mediterranean scrubland habitat based on limestone soils. We found specialist plants, including orchids. Although small, one of our highlights was finding the dung beetle 𝘚𝘪𝘴𝘺𝘱𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪 rolling its balls of dung.

A very good start to our year with 509 species recorded on @inaturalist.bsky.social during the Université de Neuchâtel field course. Highlights were Early Spider Orchids, plus Southern Festoon butterflies. It will be exciting to see other universities rise to this challenge in our 2025 league table!

We’d like to say a big thank you to our visitors from KU Leuven. We had a great time hosting you all. Thanks for being so enthusiastic, in both your project work and on our excursions. We wish everyone all the best for their future studies in ecology! @aquaecoevocon-kul.bsky.social

We had a great first day with our visitors from the University of Lincoln. We explored the local habitats around the centre, and deployed our first camera traps for the week. Highlights on our walks were a paper wasp on her nest and a Violet Bird’s Nest Orchid: a parasitic species with no leaves.

Day two with MSc students from the University of Lincoln and we have focussed on insects surveys. First by identifying the contents of our moth trap, then by sweep-netting in the meadows. Highlights were this Poplar Hawk Moth and Napoleon Spider, which has markings resembling the bust of Napoleon.

Yesterday we spent a fantastic day with MSc students and staff from Lincoln, exploring the Causse Méjean. Plenty of orchid species, plus lots of birds of prey. Highlights were a very close fly-by by Short-toed Snake Eagle, plus fighting Przewalski Horse stallions at their conservation site.

While here with us, MSc students from the University of Lincoln learned a range of field techniques. One exercise focussed on freshwater invertebrate sampling and ID, which is a useful tool in assessing river health. ‬@g-iossa.bsky.social @sheborg.bsky.social

We’re gearing up to welcome our first field courses of the year, starting next month, and are looking forward to a busy spring. However, we still have availability this autumn if you or any of your colleagues need a field course location for your students.

Could this be the biggest climate story of the year? For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand Full analysis + outlook by Lauri Myllyvirta: www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7

“Eighty percent of England’s peatlands are dry and degraded, new mapping shows” Time to stop letting grouse moor owners & farmers burn them, then…! (Consultation still open on moorland burning ban plans) www.theguardian.com/environment/...