Never pass up a chance to share this story. There's always someone who hasn't heard it, always someone waiting to experience the joy of reading about it for the first time.

Global topsoil contains ~110 quadrillion km of fungal threads, roughly one billion times the distance from the Earth to the Sun. A new study in @science.org maps this hidden arbuscular mycorrhizal infrastructure for the first time. Explore the Mycorrhizal Infrastructure Map: buff.ly/PISOj8k

NEWS: RSPB acquires Bass Rock and Craigleith islands markavery.info/2026/06/09/s... @rspb.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social #gannet #forth #seabird #scotland

One of the sneaky feedback loops which renforce climate change is the replacement of ecological communities that remove carbon (like kelp) with others (like ascidians), which release greenhouse gases, due to warming. 🧪🌊 Link: https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lno.70154​

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

“These beds certainly harbor far more diversity than currently recognized.” https://scim.ag/4uEBWVH

"Mosses are just one part of Britain's complex biodiversity. But as our nature is classed amongst the most depleted in the world, with one in six species at risk of extinction, discovering a control on habitat destruction is a cause for hope." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Do non-US sports have stories like this to tell (and we're just not telling them)? Or is there just something about American sports that lends itself to this kind of lovable eccentricity? www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

ok this* is getting ridiculous *investors search for things that are AI boom-riding-coat-tails China’s lab-grown diamonds are emerging as a surprising beneficiary of the AI boom www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The first white-tailed eagle to fledge in Dorset for more than 240 years has gone missing on the North York Moors “The disappearance is being treated as suspicious” “Birds of prey regularly go missing in areas associated with game shooting” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

lol, s/he basically backs up to check in

What makes a coffee landscape full of birds? Is it how farms are managed, or how much forest is left around them? Read our latest paper in @jappliedecology.bsky.social and find out! And stay tuned for more news. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @selvaorgco.bsky.social

A new satellite for #wildlife monitoring – a research project by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior – aims to combat #poaching in Africa. www.bbc.com/future/artic... @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Fog: it's alive! phys.org/news/2026-05...

I really, really hate to sharing this, but last week, we @biographic.bsky.social learned that the California Academy of Sciences will no longer be providing the magazine with financial support, including money we were expecting to receive this year. We're in a real bind.

"More sheep die prematurely from disease, accidents and attacks by dogs or foxes than from wolves, the findings show. As far as damage to crops is concerned, the wolf comes in 10th behind geese and tits." www.dutchnews.nl/2026/05/wolf...

How does a spider choose its flowers? 🕷️🌸 Meet Misumena vatia – an ambush predator that hunts pollinators, takes down huge prey, and even changes colour to camouflage. Join @envirosyment.bsky.social on 2 June to see how modern ecology uncovers these secrets: 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1915221742...

BBC News - Rare species found in Scotland's declining rainforest www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Belugas join a rare animal kingdom club—they can recognize themselves in a mirror https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/beluga-whales-mirror-recognition 🐋 #cetaceans #marinemammals #marinelife #marinebiology #whales #Science #animalintelligence

"Scientists surveying the area found three times more seabed organisms and twice as many species compared to nearby unprotected waters" news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Check out our new letter in Conservation Biology where we argue that (re-)introduced large herbivores are often wrongly framed as harmful because herbivory is automatically equated with ecological damage - overlooking their potential to restore biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.

A Neolithic well bucket made of lime bast and a willow handle, dating back some 7000 years ago. Lime bast fibre is a strong and flexible inner bark of a lime (linden) tree that was, for example, used to make textiles or ropes. Found in a well in Eythra, dating 5100-5000 BC. 🧵1/2 📷 me

Last year I had the chance to visit Vacaresti, one of the strangest “natural” environments on planet Earth. It’s a place that forces us to ask how we care for the new ecosystems we are making www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I feel this needs to be better known.

Biodiversity of #rainforest can recover within decades when located in highly connected landscapes because animal mobility drives natural recovery. Our @reassemblynet.bsky.social synthesis paper is out @nature.com: tinyurl.com/4w24a96b @sgn.one @unimarburg.bsky.social @jocotoco.bsky.social 🌐🌎🧪

BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir. The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm So we’re taking legal action. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...

Hello, I wrote about Pete Hegseth’s anti-climate stance vs. the very real climate risks faced by the USM, which it is not ignoring, and how these things are in tension. Please check it out!

Excuse me what? "Some mussels, like the pocketbook, convince a fish to bite into a lure full of larvae; others first snap their shell shut around the fish’s head and spray their babies into its mouth." www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Rents staying flat very much suggests that any worries about a mass exodus of landlords in advance of the Renter's Rights Act coming in next month were unfounded.

The Wetland Project has been my favorite alternate-reality radio experience since it began. Since it only happens once a year, you can’t become accustomed to it. Close your eyes and be washed over by the sonic reality of an isolated bog on Saturna Island!

Alaskan wildfires thaw permafrost and release carbon, but Canadian wildfires tend to expose large swaths of land that, during the winter, become covered in snow—increasing albedo and contributing to a net cooling effect. eos.org/articles/ala...

Last year I had the chance to visit Vacaresti, one of the strangest “natural” environments on planet Earth. It’s a place that forces us to ask how we care for the new ecosystems we are making www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

‘Continuity over novelty’: why environmental science needs to rethink its focus www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Absolutely fascinating article by @trinamoyles.bsky.social in @cangeo.bsky.social about how declines in dall sheep in southwest Yukon might be (partly) related to increased levels of wind-blown dust following diversion of Ä’äy Chù (Slims River). 🧪⚒️🐏 @carmtree.bsky.social @draeolus.bsky.social

Went to see Romeo & Juliet at the Harold Pinter theatre yesterday and I would like to give credit to this astounding bit of merch:

After disappearing from the Milwaukee River in the early 20th century due to overfishing and habitat loss, the new discovery of an adult sturgeon 20 miles upstream from Lake Michigan is a milestone in a massive restoration project that’s been underway for 20 years www.wuwm.com/lake-sturgeo...

Our mini-documentary on our new process-based marsh creation pilot project is now online! Thanks to Fernando Lessa for the fantastic footage 📽️.

Accelerating coral assisted evolution to keep pace with climate change www.nature.com/articles/s44... (🔓 rdcu.be/faJsm)

The Pyrenees brown bear population has climbed to 130, but a new census warns of a genetic crisis. With 85-90% of bears descending from just three individuals, experts say urgent reintroductions are needed to stop inbreeding from becoming "permanently harmful." @shannahl.bsky.social reports.

Tove Jansson (Finnish, 1914–2001), Moomin and sisters Mymble and Little My paint an #Easter egg #womensart #Moomins

New preprint! We sequenced 175 'Alalā (Hawaiian crow) genomes to understand why >50% of eggs fail to hatch in a species recovered from just 9 individuals. What we found was a both exciting and surprising. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Describe a good paper badly: vertebrates are slobs whose filthy nests have a crapload of pests

World’s oldest tortoise caught in viral crypto death scam

A huge thanks to Carolyn Wells for choosing my feature for @noemamag.com “How to Build a Thousand-Year-Old Tree” among her top reads for 2025! longreads.com/2025/12/08/c... It's not too late to sit down for a longread on oak trees and advanced technologies

Good weekend read: How To Build A Thousand-Year-Old Tree. A set of experimental techniques and technologies that might seem harmful to trees is actually helping ancient forests survive. www.noemamag.com/how...

What does ecosystem #integrity mean in a rapidly changing #Anthropocene biosphere? I argue for a shift from static reference states toward 1) the ecological processes that sustain biodiversity & 2) evolutionary heritage➡️ doi.org/10.1111/rec.... #ecology #restoration #biodiversity #ecosystemintegrity

The third right arm "has the job of delivering sperm from a penis that is so small that it cannot reach the female on its own" www.newscientist.com/article/2521...