Such a powerful image in Le Monde. (The writing on the plane says "Neutral athletes") Cartoon by: Letton Gatis Sluka

”Nyt ei ole aika perustaa luonnonpuistoja” T. Sari Multala

Czech PM Babiš ruled out sending L-159 jets to Ukraine, calling the matter "closed." He slammed army chief Řehka for backing the sale publicly, saying he "should have stayed silent," iDNES reports. www.idnes.cz/zpravy/domac...

Aramco have acquired a majority stake in chemicals + plastics firm SABIC, + bought into huge Chinese plastics + chemicals projects from Korea to Texas, with the aim that production of plastics 'would drive nearly half of oil-demand growth by mid-century': www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Israel har alltså bara börjat riva FNs kontor för palestinska flyktingar i Jerusalem och avfyrar dessutom tårgas mot en FN-skola på Västbanken och omvärlden bara rycker på axlarna www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

How can we make conservation fieldwork more inclusive and just? New document by the SCB Europe's DEIJ Committee summarizes key barriers to participation and practical, evidence-based actions and ways forward. See a couple of examples below. 🔗 www.scbeurope.org/en/deij-comm...

📢 Save the date! Society for Conservation Biology – Europe Region will hold the Annual Members' Meeting on January 23rd 12:00–13:00 CET. Want to join? Sign up for the newsletter here: www.scbeurope.org/en/sign-up-f... We will share the Zoom link on our newsletter a few days before the meeting.

SCB Europe @scbeurope.bsky.social Annual Membership Meeting will take place on Friday 23 January 2026. 12h CET. Sign up below to participate! ➡️https://www.scbeurope.org/en/sign-up-for-the-europe-region-email @scbitaly.bsky.social @scbnordicchapter.bsky.social @society4conbio.bsky.social

CALL FOR PARALLEL SESSIONS! You can now submit your abstract for the parallel (regular) sessions: oral presentations, posters, or speed talks. Deadline: February 15th, 2026. Find more on our website: eccb26leiden.eu/parallel-ses... #biodiversity #Leiden

Palaearctic Grasslands 65 is published vegsciblog.org/2025/12/03/p...

One day to go: The US wants to cancel the law defending roadless areas. Public comment period for opposing this rollback closes Sep. 19, 2025. An open letter by SCB (@society4conbio.bsky.social) explains why this is a poor idea and how to comment. See more here: conbio.org/publications...

VACANCY ALERT - We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join our team as a Bat Group Officer. DEADLINE for Applications: 10am Monday 30th June 2025. FIND OUT MORE HERE: www.bats.org.uk/the-trust/jo...

The Amazon is being destroyed by a most deadly trio: • Livestock farming • Organised crime • Climate breakdown If the planet's biggest rainforest ecosystem is lost, we're lost too. Our fate is totally inseparable from that of the natural world. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

holy shit. Cuomo halted an investigation into the Weinstein case after a donation from Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm to his reelection campaign… guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant

This is wildly cruel. "Many Palestinian citizens of Israel found themselves excluded from life-saving infrastructure during the worst nights of the Iran-Israel conflict to date."

I’d like to see the same tough stance on Russia’s threat to Europe, a key US trade partner, and Ukraine - a partner in mineral deal, Budapest Memorandum guarantor, and a military partner. No one is calling for bombing - just a firmer line on Russia: stronger aid and sanctions

There is a greater than zero chance that we went to war with Iran today because everyone made fun of the president when he said two weeks.

Last night, Russia hit Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. Two killed, 13 injured in Donetsk region from Russian shelling.

🤬 Odesa, local chats report about "arrivals" in the city. 🙏 Also massive UAVs attack on Kremenchuk!

Great workshop this morning led by Mike Dawson on navigating scientific publishing and responsibility and opportunities we have at making it better. Includes great examples of long lasting impacts of society run journals (love seeing @asn-amnat.bsky.social at the top!) #Evol2025

In just the past 14 days, Russia attacked Ukraine with 2,800 strike drones, nearly 3,000 guided bombs, and 140 missiles of various types. European allies' fighter jets remain comfortably parked on their respective airfields because [insert rationalization for cowardice here].

‼️JOB VACANCY ‼️ Become a Citizen Science Coordinator with the Chilterns Chalk Streams Project!  Two weeks until we close! ⌛ Deadline: 30 June 2025

Only today I learned about the shrine in Tokyo to insects killed for science.

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

Senior Wagiman Traditional Owner, Jabul Huddlestone "I don’t want this rubbish, knocking down trees on my country...No goanna, no kangaroo, you can’t find green plum, black plum...too many trees being knocked down...nothing now...all knocked down."

🦉Rat poisons are killing Aussie birds — 281 experts unite to say enough is enough. These deadly second-generation poisons are harming our birds, wildlife and pets. A federal review is underway, with a decision expected very soon. Visit: actforbirds.org/ratpoison to have your say!

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Starting in August 2024, an unprecedented heatwave has swept across Western Australia’s reefs, turning corals white from the World Heritage-listed Ningaloo all the way to Ashmore Reef, about 1,500km north-east.

Adding to the 🧪 feed

Stephen Venn joins the SCB Europe Board! Thank you to all members who voted in the election for the open seat in the SCB Europe Board. Stephen @stiivi1.bsky.social is affiliated with the University of Lodz (Poland) & University of Helsinki (Finland) and will start as board member in August 2025.

Note that several of the Tu-95 aircraft that were hit in Operation Spiderweb, already had X-101 missiles loaded on them in preparation of yet another massive Russian attack on Ukraine.

🚨 Ukraine's GUR military intelligence warns Russia is recruiting Ukrainian refugees in Europe for terror attacks and espionage. Those who fled Russia-occupied territories in Ukraine are especially vulnerable to blackmail as family/friends still trapped by the Russian fascists.

Agentstvo finds that the collapsed railway overpass in Bryansk was recently outfitted with a security surveillance system. Also, the local govt has twice signed and then canceled repair contracts since 2021. www.agents.media/most-ruhnuvs...

Palaearctic Grasslands 64 is published at: edgg.org/sites/defaul.... It includes the second call of the XX Eurasian Grassland Conference, which is also directly available as an article at: edgg.org/sites/defaul...

The House’s 10-year ban on state AI regulation would wreak havoc on our country. The language is so broad that it could upend everything from state privacy law to contract law. It could even break the internet. I will do everything in my power to stop it. www.techpolicy.press/the-big-beau...

🌏 Rare opportunity to join us! We’re hiring two new Lecturer/Senior Lecturers in the School of Earth Atmosphere & Environment #MonashUni, a top 50 global university 🔬 Isotope Geochemistry 🛰️ Remote Sensing/Geospatial careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE PROPOSED NSF BUDGET CUTS NEARLY A QUARTER OF A MILLION PEOPLE FROM NSF ACTIVITIES. FOR INSTANCE, JOBS.

Remember folks, the budget cuts for NSF and NIH *can still be stopped*. That is a luxury not granted to our agency science colleagues who have or could still lose their jobs from the top down. So - Fight! Speak up! Pay attention!

Nella zuppa Vatnik di oggi, vi presentiamo una propagandista russa, Xenia Fedorova. È nota per aver diretto i media statali russi in Francia e per essersi lamentata, in un libro, della loro chiusura da parte dell’UE dopo l’invasione russa dell’Europa. 1/22

A portrait of ecocide, Irish style. Priest's Leap Valley, West Cork, still has a smattering of old scots pine and a dozen or so other native tree species, but they're dying on their feet due to sheep grazing, maintained by YOUR taxes. Rewilding places like this is just such. A total. No-brainer. 🌏

Brazil’s environmental movement is under threat – and Lula is siding with oil industry

A vital new environmental campaign, SAVE OUR SPRAT, was recently launched to fight the industrial pillage of Bantry Bay's sprat population for fish farm feed. This is what the very best of local communities coming together to fight for wild nature looks like. Please follow and support them!! 🙏

"Shameful" The Inquiry hears from expert virologist Prof. Deenan Pillay that the Government chose to spend billions on private consultants from Deloitte instead of listening to experts. The labs they set up have since been dismantled. 'We've been left with nothing'.

Updated flyer for the XX Eurasian Grassland Conference EGC2025. Please share widely. Registration is open and full information is available at edgg.org/egc2025

Please use this A4 poster to inform people who might be interested to participate in the XX #EGC2026 Eurasian Grassland Conference! More information at EDGG.org/egc2025

Late last year, Indonesian investigators arrested four men for allegedly attempting to traffic nearly 1.2 metric tons of scales from critically endangered pangolins. Prosecutors allege that the mastermind of the scheme was a police officer who removed the pangolin scales from a police warehouse.

Roundup of #ConservationJobs in 🇨🇦 (plus a few cool ones abroad). 💫 All job ads show the salary 💫 Please share www.linkedin.com/posts/aerinj...

A wild carbon credit boondoggle in which Chevron bought credits for a project on Indigenous land that residents didn't (and still don't) know anything about, painstakingly documented by the great Andres Bermudez-Lievano @elclip.bsky.social @mongabaylatam.bsky.social drilled.media/news/CLIP-Ch...

Russia is now bombarding Odesa with ballistic missiles. Remember, European leadership pledged that if Russia did not agree to a 30-day unconditional ceasefire by yesterday, they would hit Russia with super new sanctions. Yet, here we are…

...it concluded since the landslide was triggered by the melting glacier, and since *that* happened due to rising global temperatures... This was a signal - and a warning - from our rapidly changing world, heard in every single part of it. Best we listen up. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 10/

Ruoka ja lääkintätarvikkeet ovat loppumassa, ja polttoaine on vähissä. Samaan aikaan iskuissa kuolee ja haavoittuu kymmeniä ihmisiä päivittäin. Lisää ihmisiä tulee kuolemaan, ellei Israel lopeta Gazan saartoa nyt. 2/3