It isn't a ceasefire if the firing hasn't ceased?

Arthropod Photo of the Week: October 15, 2025 Tangerine furry-legs moth Acraga moorei Lepidoptera: Dalceridae By Tom Myers, Kentucky, USA #arthropodPOTW

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Today (date), the Slender-billed Curlew was declared extinct. The first bird extinction on mainland Europe in 500 years — on our watch. Extinction is final. No going back. Think about that.

Spookiest decoration at the "Zoo Goes Boo" event at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids? Giant model of parasitoid wasps hatching from cocoons affixed to their caterpillar host.

#ScienceSky, tell your colleagues to leave X, delete those x buttons on your lab page and replace with a butterfly. I declare #Bluesky the official social network for science and by scientists (you and your network of colleagues operate as your own algorithm determining what you see here). 🩺 🧪

every single dem should be taking notes. this is how you message around trans issues (of note: i believe he is the only cis candidate for office to have trans people consult on his lgtbq+ policy platform)

At a time when queer existence in universities is treated as an “ideology,” I’m proud to be on display at work being unapologetically gay.

burn in hell ian watkins

It's also not "just another" extinction, it's the first from mainland Europe in centuries. CENTURIES. And there will be others within our lifetime. That's biodiversity loss. We'll never hear this sound, ever again xeno-canto.org/398794

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today. Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

Thanks to London’s bold action, almost 10 million people are now breathing cleaner air. That means fewer children will grow up with stunted lungs and fewer people will have to suffer from asthma, dementia and heart disease.

🥹 #PhDSky #AcademicSky

[NEW PAPER OUT] 🦇 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗱𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 ! A deep dive into optimal foraging theory and social foraging through this bat study: flight speed, tolerance to conspecifics, and adjustments in the presence of heterospecifics revealed via 3D tracking.

Palestinians will feel understandable relief. The West should feel nothing but shame. Gaza has been obliterated. The territory rendered uninhabitable. Tens of thousands murdered in cold blood. The entire population subjected to starvation tactics. And now, colonial subjugation under Trump and Blair

Such a sad story, but good that it can be told in full in museums now. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Suriname steps up and wants to protect 90% of its #forests reports the @rainforetrust.bsky.social 🌍 #30x30 #Rewilding #HalfEarth #TropicalForests www.rainforesttrust.org/our-impact/r...

Homie got 229 pairs of chromosomes www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

I might be biased but I think my lesbian enamel pin designs are some of my best. Happy #InternationalLesbianDay! canopyrobin.etsy.com

Monitoring changes in UK temperature To (almost) no-one’s surprise, multiple sources of data agree on the long-term trends in UK temperatures. climatelabbook.substack.com/p/monitoring...

Clown wrasses, like all wrasses and parrotfish, start their lives biologically female and transition through a series of color phases before ending as a male in their ‘terminal phase’. Here we see a male terminal phase clown wrasse chasing a female initial phase #coralcitycamera #miami #coralcity

Vocal learning in wild birds! Today I spoke about our collaborative studies of Savannah Sparrows. Followed by great talks by Alex Kirschel, David Wheatcroft, Julie Elie, and Frédéric Theunissen. An information-rich day in Ste. Etienne. Thank you @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social

Political violence is bad but me and my mates need to set fire to this hotel because it contains people I don’t know personally but don’t like the idea of. Political violence is bad but I support the right of a country to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians because I’ve deemed them terrorists

Whilst Starmer, who said Israel has the right to withhold water from Palestinian civilians, hosts its President at Number 10. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I haven't seen as many Castianeira this year as I usually do, but this magnificent lass showed up at the end of my walk today and made me happy. Red lightning in the sand. ♥️ (still unclear which species this is, 4+ years after my first sighting)

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Thanks to UK leadership, a global 30x30 target was adopted at COP15 in 2022 as part of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. But last year, the Government appeared to be sleepwalking with only 3% of land in England effectively protected. Today, we are moonwalking at just 2.8%. 🧪🌎

[opposing devastating cuts to welfare] You can no longer be a Labour MP [sending birthday messages to convicted paedophile, sex trafficker and "best pal" Jeffrey Epstein then continuing contact after his first conviction] Well now hold on a second he's said he's sorry jeez

BREAKING: They're scrubbing @banksy The court is erasing Banksy's mural just like it's erasing our right to protest.

Banksy is a pillar of British culture. He’s been daubing walls for three decades. As soon as he satirises peaceful protesters being dragged through the courts for holding placards opposing Israel’s genocide, he faces being unmasked and prosecuted.

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

A picture of my former hummingbird tree for #NationalHummingbirdDay 🪶

Linehan’s court case making it very clear indeed exactly how wacky this stuff always was, and that people like him have always been about incoherent hatred. e.g. the Harry Potter lady and those ex-Guardian colonists aren’t more reasonable than this: they are *more careful about public perception*.

Acting like they played no role in his rise, like they were just innocent bystanders reporting and not vehicles used to platform him, like they haven't legitimised many of his talking points despite knowing they were lies. You said just last week people are right to be concerned ffs.

none of my business

Climate crisis will increase frequency of lightning-sparked wildfires, study finds. These wildfires tend to burn in more remote areas and grow larger faster, posing a higher risk to public safety and health. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Surely they will have to admit this is untenable. Solidarity with everyone standing up against our authoritarian, genocide-enabling government.

just updating my friends on the latest glinner situation and i just presented these two accounts side my side. i'm howling [1) glinner's blog, tw: transphobia obviously; 2) the met's comments]

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Behold the gloriously weird Spotted Ratfish. It has teeth on its forehead for sex. The teeth line a cartilaginous appendage called a tenaculum that in males can be erected and used to grasp a female during mating 🧪

It's been a great week for weird biology: ants defying the species concept, fluorescing birds of paradise and now forehead teeth in ratfish

"Instead of catching real criminals and terrorists, we are arresting pensioners and disabled people calling for the saving of children’s lives,"Officer A continued. "It makes me question why I’m even in this career anymore." Then leave. Nobody is forcing you to stay novaramedia.com/2025/09/04/p...

Good insight here from NERF about why these so-called 'partnerships' to tackle the illegal killing of birds of prey repeatedly fail in the UK (spoiler alert - don't include reps from the industry responsible for doing the killing). #RaptorResearch raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/04/s...

Dusky Brocade (Apamea remissa), Carms 2020. Welsh name Brithyn Llwydolau - meaning dusky speckled one. #mothsmatter #TeamMoth

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

“We're seeing more people trapped in severe and sustained poverty, turning to food banks because they have nowhere else to go" @helenbarnard.bsky.social 📝 The cross-party Poverty Strategy Commission report is out today. It would lift 4.2 million people out of poverty. 1/2

i also visited the museum to see our welsh deino and was very happy to see a whole section about the brymbo fossil forest - a 300 million year old fossilised forest near where i'm from, on the site of the steelworks my granddad used to work on!

had a brilliant couple of days in cardiff/caerdydd (my first visit to the city!) starting my internship with the welsh government. the city is a beautiful display of welsh history, culture, and community

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world, a group of scientists and researchers in Aotearoa New Zealand dropped everything they were doing and rolled up their sleeves to help the response. This response ultimately saved around 20,000 lives 🧪 🧵