🔥 What happens after Europe’s NGOs are dismantled? Last week, @alemanno.bsky.social mapped how civic space in Europe is being suffocated – how NGOs die. This week, we asked the next question: what happens when they do? 🧵👇 euobserver.com/eu-political...

My 4y old son wanted to see real mice. So I set up four life traps in the garden, prebaited for 2 days and then we put them on sharp yesterday evening. We checked just before his bedtime around 19:00. Nothing yet....

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

What a remarkable discovery! In SW Turkey a new species of Lycaenid was discovered, Rapala suleymani sp.n., of a genus that was only known from the eastern palearctic & indomalayan realms, it's closest relative flies 7000km away! doi.org/10.31184/M00...

Discover a new data paper by Barberis, Bitonto, Costantino et al. where they make "Insect-flower interactions in the Mediterranean area: a Citizen Science dataset collated within the Life4Pollinators project" available: doi.org/10.26786/192...

Vrijheid van vereniging bedreigd door onze regering: www.demorgen.be/meningen/de-...

Check out our new insect decline paper. By analysing 36 yrs of German ground beetle distribution data, we show: - ~80% of species have declined, with significant declines for >50%. - The decline was similar across species traits and threatened status. doi.org/10.1111/ddi.... @consbiog.bsky.social

Het kolonistengeweld tegen Palestijnen op de bezette Westelijke Jordaanoever is nog nooit zo hevig geweest. Belangrijk mikpunt is de Palestijnse olijvenoogst. https://rightsforum.org/kolonistenterreur-houdt-westoever-in-zijn-greep/

Stigmella naturnella was discovered only recently in the low countries (nl.pensoft.net/article/99360/) but in my region (Ghent, Belgium) it already seems to be the most common birch #leafminer. It probably spread naturally from S Central Europe. Here's how the mines look. #mothsmatter #teammoth

Green islands on beech leaves with Stigmella tityrella mines and galls caused by Hartigiola annulipes

While getting wood out of the shed at my parents, I found this Nathusius's Pipistrelle. It has probably flown 1000+ km to get there. I placed it back, hoping it can safely spend its winter there!

Gelechioidea, that superdiverse superfamily of Lepidoptera that has been a super mess taxonomically, finally gets some structure at the family level with phylogenomics! Read all about it in our article led by PhD student @etkayapar.bsky.social ! resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

1/6 The Cooperative-Breeding Database (Co-BreeD) is alive! Co-BreeD covers key biological parameters relevant to cooperative breeding research in birds and mammals. Get your copy of this updateable & open-access database: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @animalecology.bsky.social

On my latest Alpine trip I took the time to make some more pictures of a few widespread mountain species, like these Aricia artaxerxes and Erebia melampus. More #butterfly pictures of this trip on my flickr page: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCyeci

📢New paper: Night-flying insects over UK in decline, weather radar study reveals @universityofleeds.bsky.social with Rothamsted Insect Survey🦋🐝🪰🦟 Full story 👇 www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/trillio...

Jongens en meisjes, de organisatie die het dichtst bij mijn hart ligt, Een Hart Voor Vluchtelingen, heeft middelen nodig met het oog op de winter. Met het weghalen van de middelen voor de daklozen door ons Anneleen, zitten ze in de shit. Alle info op de prent en hier 👇 eenhartvoorvluchtelingen.be

De Nacht van de Nacht of: waarom minder licht ‘s nachts gewenst is #vogels #vleermuizen #insecten www.naturetoday.com/intl/nl/natu... #natuur

Love @royalholloway.bsky.social campus! Short walk around my office building provided sufficient material to demonstrate green islands phenmenon at today's lectures on herbivory simonleather.wordpress.com/tag/green-is...

Tijd voor een nieuwe campagne.

I finally managed to get the pictures of my summer trip online. 500+ pictures of mainly #butterflies (with the odd bird & dragonfly or two) from the SW Alps! Check it out here: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCyeci #westpalbutterflies

Highly pathogenic avian influenza kills more than thousand Eurasian cranes in the German state of Brandenburg. Crane mortality also recorded in states of Thüringen, Sachsen-Anhalt und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Nederlandse opvang is geen opvang meer maar een strafsysteem. Angst, onverschilligheid, trauma’s, zelfs kinderen lijden onder honger en wanhoop. De menselijkheid verdwijnt met elke dag die voorbijgaat. Wat een verschrikkelijk land zijn we geworden. www.groene.nl/artikel/stee...

Fascinating Swedish study proving that threatened butterflies can still disperse surprisingly long distances eg Marsh Fritillary >8km and more than 10% of Large Blues travelled at least 1km resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌍

"De fundamenten zélf van cruciale regels om mensen en de planeet te beschermen worden door de ‘christendemocraten’ immers in een rotvaart onderuitgehaald." schrijft @wieswillems.bsky.social in #opinie #CSDDD @wouterbeke.bsky.social @liesbetsommen.bsky.social 👇 broederlijkdelen.be/nl/nieuws/de...

Despite being among the most carbon-intensive modes of transport, aviation and shipping continue to enjoy generous VAT exemptions across Europe. This is costing governments billions in lost revenue and putting cleaner forms of passenger transport at a competitive disadvantage. 🧵⤵️

Really nice paper from @tiff-ki.bsky.social & co. shows no overall decline in butterfly species richness in Sulawesi over 166 yrs, but changing communities with endemics & forest specialists declining. Short-term trends unreliable measures of long term. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🌏

Slender-billed Curlew has officially been declared extinct by the IUCN following a formal Red List reassessment, marking a sad milestone in wader conservation:

Very cool paper from @rogervilalab.bsky.social on the Canary islands Hipparchia butterflies just came out! Each island has its own species, seems like no gene flow between the islands! academic.oup.com/isd/article/...

Nieuwe tarieven #nmbs: hou er rekening mee dat je bij een heen-en-terug-ticket nu effectief twee tickets uit de automaat moet halen (itt alle info op 1 ticket voorheen). Ik ben dus op weg naar Brussel met alleen een enkel-ticket voor de dubbele prijs 🙄

1/3 Excited that my final PhD MS is online! Big thanks to Ullasa (PI) (vanasiri.in) & collaborators Freerk and Urszula. Turns out humidity, not just temperature, plays a major role in butterfly eyespot plasticity. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Onze grootouders werden opgevangen toen ze vluchtten voor oorlog. Vandaag slapen mensen op straat in Europa. Hebben we dan niets geleerd? Empathie is geen verleden tijd. Mijn opiniestuk over #vluchtelingen vandaag in @demorgen.be: www.demorgen.be/meningen/onz...

Fascists like this 👍

New research in #RESSystematicEnt Elaborating the #phylogeny of #Noctuidae by focusing on relationships between northern European taxa doi.org/10.1111/syen.70010 #Phylogenomics @gkergoat.bsky.social @wiley.com

Meer malaria, meer hiv-doden, meer kindersterfte, meer complicaties bij zwangerschappen, meer honger Zeg waarop het staat als je meer wilt besparen op internationale solidariteit.

Wanneer budgetten voor solidariteit krimpen, verdwijnen er niet gewoon budgetlijnen. Er verdwijnen vaccins, dokters, scholen, mensenrechten, levens. In deze tijden is pleiten voor minder solidariteit niet neutraal. Het is een keuze — tegen mensenlevens

Minder ontwikkelingssamenwerking betekent niet dat de wereld stopt met branden. Alleen dat wij wegkijken terwijl ze brandt. De prijs van besparen is duidelijk: instabiliteit, onveiligheid, verloren geloofwaardigheid, gebroken mensenlevens.

Fantastisch! Al 1000 nieuwe proMO*'s op 3 weken tijd! Dat zijn 1000 nieuwe mensen die MO* structureel steunen met een maandelijkse of jaarlijkse bijdrage. 1000 keer bedankt! Word vandaag nog proMO* via buff.ly/iDUrh9M RED MO*!

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE. It’s time to cancel your account.

Quote: "It is very hard to interpret big data in ecology in meaningful ways if you do not know anything about who the organisms are and what they do in the environment." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

In the new Butterfly Red List, sp that live solely on mountain tops are especially threatened as they need to move uphill as their habitats get warmer, but are running out of space. In mountains of S Spain, 3 endemic sp are now Endangered : Agriades zullichi; Polyommatus golgus; P. violetae.

Don’t know who made this but it’s pretty great!

The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europe’s 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...

We are also deeply saddened that the Madeiran Large White, Pieris wollastoni, is now officially extinct: it was last seen in 1986. The full report can be downloaded here www.bc-europe.eu/documents/68...

The new European Butterfly Red List shows that butterflies are under increasing threat across Europe, with the number of species at risk of extinction up from 37 to 65 (73%) in the last 10 years. See our Press Release www.bc-europe.eu/documents/68...

‘Remigratie’ duikt op in de nieuwe verkiezingsprogramma’s van PVV, FvD, BBB en JA21. Dat is geen extremisme, beweren ze, slecht ‘een oplossing’. Maar is het echt zo onschuldig? Experts waarschuwen: ‘remigratie’ is in werkelijkheid een verhullende term voor deportatie.

Patrijzen zijn meer dan gehalveerd. Jagers: nee hoor! Wij hebben ze geteld. 800 hectare tellen, in 2 uur? Nou euhh .. wij zijn héél snel! www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...