This was a huge effort from a lot of people over many years. Most are not on BlueSky (Stephen Richards, Glenn Shea, Michael Mahony, et al.) but thanks to @stevedonnellan.bsky.social @keoghlabanu.bsky.social and @damienesquerre.bsky.social

Butterfly populations falling on average 1.3% per year in the continental US, with some populations falling by as much as 40%. With 650 recorded species, only 342 were present in enough numbers to calculate trends. 🧪🌎🐛🦋 #EcoSky #EvoSky #Lepidoptera #Biology #Entomology phys.org/news/2025-03...

The Greenland shark genome: insights into deep-sea ecology and lifespan extremes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.19.638963v1

I’m in the Western Australian mining town of Kalgoorlie where I’ve set up a makeshift grasshopper brothel in a cabin at a caravan park. In this historically male-dominate town of humans one of the grasshoppers - Warramaba virgo - is all female …

Coancestry superposed on admixed populations yields measures of relatedness at individual-level resolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.29.630632v1

Wow wow wow! My upcoming book #NaturesMemory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History #Museums is in the Guardian's list of the biggest #books of the year! 🤩🤩 It comes out in April. They're offering 10% discount on pre-orders. www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...