Our new paper on shieldtail conservation is out in @animalconserv.bsky.social Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/acv....

Many large biodiversity datasets (occurrences, traits, and so on) used in comparative studies are limited by the quality of raw data present in taxonomic literature. Read this commentary advocating for a 'digitally native species' which could greatly speed up research in taxonomy and biodiversity.

🦋 The Swiss Node of GBIF (GBIF.ch) and #SwissNatColl has transformed access to Switzerland’s natural history collections by launching a national data aggregator that improves the discoverability, standardization and reusability of specimen data.

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

Narwhals (Monodon monoceros) are called the unicorn of the sea — for obvious reasons. This illustration by Louis A. Sargent comes from "The wild beasts of the world", v. 2 (1909), contributed to BHL by @uoftlibraries.bsky.social: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19657038 #SciArt #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🌊

Rudolf Meier paraphrases a post from @rdmpage.bsky.social : as ~ 2/3 of the records in GBIF are birds, @gbif.org is primarily a Global Bird Information Facility. To correct this bias, we need to focus on the “ugly” biodiversity. 🪰 🪱 🪳 🦟 @mfnberlin.bsky.social #LivingData2025 x.com/rdmpage/stat...

Did you know? The toad fly lays its eggs in an unusual place: a toad’s nostrils. When its eggs hatch, the larvae feed on the toad’s face and body. Unfortunately, this leads to the toad’s demise. Jona263d, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

New on global conservation science: Empowerment is central to people-centered conservation but rarely defined or grounded in theory. A review finds rhetoric often outweighs practice & research often focuses on communities in the Global South. Petriello et al. in Cons. Biol. doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

#LatestPublicationAlert! Nishant Narayanasamy & team from Dr @stpalli.bsky.social's lab investigated how early multicellular clusters may have overcome this diffusion barrier to facilitate nutrient transport and exponential growth. Congratulations to the team!🎉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Six actions for ecologists in times of planetary crisis: www.nature.com/articles/s41... ✅Explicitly recognize and address the #biodiversity crisis ✅Explore positive futures ✅Defend academic freedom ✅Go political ✅Inspire society ✅Address the colonial legacy of ecology Free to read: rdcu.be/eqjlk

Two straight sets! What an incredible game ✨

Beautiful turquoise water near Exmouth, WA last month. We were sharing the beach with this bizarre-looking Lerista skink (second photo: L. planiventralis) that had left trails all over the sand.

Data are everywhere… “Here, we examine an unusual source of information: classic Chinese poetry. From 724 ancient poems containing references to the Yangtze finless porpoise (N. asiaeorientalis), we infer that the range of this subspecies has contracted by at least 65% over the past 1400 years.”

Dive into our latest issue!🌊 www.cell.com/issue/S0960-... On the cover:Yangtze porpoises in troubled waters🐬 by Yaoyao Zhang and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...

New species alert! 🦎🧪 We (myself, Glenn Shea, Stephen Richards and Paul Oliver) just published a description of a fantastic new species of Prasinohaema from New Guinea. A short thread:

New paper led by Miranda Sherlock on "Submerged Corridors of Ancient Gene Flow in an Island Amphibian". In this paper we found that populations of the Seychelles #caecilian Hypogeophis rostratus would have been connected by palaeo-islands across Seychelles onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧪🐸🐍

Very happy and humbled to have received this award. A huge thanks to all my wonderful colleagues @scienceanu.bsky.social and abroad who made this possible!

Check out our big new meta-analysis looking at plasticity and changes in physiological rate variance under climate change. Huge effort with a great team of fantastic thinkers! @itchyshin.bsky.social @fontikar.bsky.social Frank Seebacher and Alex Bush

Blue azurite and green malachite from the Singing Stone!

'Cherry Blossom' painting by contemporary U.S impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt #Spring

How vulnerable are #amphibians to extreme heat? 🐸🌡️ Our paper in @nature.com shows that many amphibians are already overheating, and many more species will be impacted by climate warming globally. See the thread below for a digest 🧵 Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #Nature

I don’t feel like I have anything to contribute to the conversation right now except possibly distraction by means of pretty frogs. So, here is Platypelis tuberifera. A personal favourite. 🐸💚🧪

New paper out in @animalecology.bsky.social! In this study, led by Avik Banerjee, we examined the link between stress and nutrition in wild lizards. Stress levels influence nutrient retention, not dietary composition, in these colourful agamids! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Northern fungoid frogs (Hydrophylax bahuvistara) getting it on in the Western Ghats

Flipping rocks in the chir pine forests of Western Himalaya led us to a Mackinnon's Wolf Snake. It's still cold here- perhaps we were its first visitors since winter began.

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One thing Bluesky has reminded me of is how social media can be really useful *before it goes evil*. Facebook was like this ~10-15 years ago. Like, I remember back when I used to watch my stat counters, you could post to Facebook and immediately get a lot of traffic.