Bioinvasions & planetary biosecurity: Given the possibility that extraterrestrial life introduced to Earth could behave like invasive species, we propose that a lunar base be used for biocontainment of extraterrestrial samples (eg. from Mars missions). rdcu.be/flg0u link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Trump and the Illinois governor keep feuding over an invasive fish

I've just finished HG Wells' sci-fi classic The War of the Worlds (1898). Firstly, it's very fun. Secondly, Wells drops in a number of invasion ecology themes and ideas 60 years before Elton's The Ecology of Invasions (spoilers incoming).

www.nature.com/articles/s44... Emily Zohar and colleagues take a different angle focusing on what the ease of AI does to researchers. The authors argue that we need friction in our lives for satisfaction and growth - and AI makes our world too smooth, depriving us of challenge.

Budapest Pride thread, from the ground

🗞️Authors from the @ipbes.net #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report have published the Global Impacts Dataset of Invasive Alien Species derived from the report, creating a global resource for investigating and managing the impacts of invasive alien species. 🌍🧪 Read more in ‪@nature.com‬ bit.ly/43APoP7

VOTE NOW! Mollusc of the Year 2025 Arctica islandica - world’s oldest mollusc Cellana exarata - Hawaiian limpet Glaucus atlanticus - blue dragon Muusoctopus sp. - Dorado Octopus Xenophora conchyliophora - shell / collector YOU decide - we do its genome moty.senckenberg.science @cgreve.bsky.social

Happy to say our gammarid competition study is out now in @neobiota.pensoft.net. Thanks to an amazing team of co-authors for making it possible.

🏙️ Animal populations from urban areas show significantly higher resilience to stressful environmental conditions. 💡This was found by international researchers led by Dr Elizabeta Briski (GEOMAR). The study is published today in the journal Ecology Letters. 🔗 www.geomar.de/en/news/arti...