Excited to assume the role of Chair of the IUCN SSC Tapir Specialist Group! 🌱 Threats to all four tapir species demand action. Grateful to Patricia Medici for 25 years of inspiring leadership & excited to collaborate with our global network to scale conservation! #Tapirs #IUCN #Biodiversity

You call it a “rake” I call it an “avoided leaf blower”

Knowing a soil's texture (wt% sand, silt, and clay) is SUPER important for understanding #carbon, water, and nutrient cycles. Check out how the routine step of air-drying biases texture measurements, esp. in #soils with poorly crystalline minerals (data from National Cooperative Soil Survey #usda)

🧪 cool and fascinating #SciComm theconversation.com/unusual-red-...

Chicken of the (red)woods. Guess I could ask my dog if they are marked territory before eating? #cotw

"Study challenges notion that Covid is ‘mild’ for children — finds life-threatening complications for those sick with virus twice More than 6 million American children suffer from long Covid which can lead to life-threatening complications" Julia Musto www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

Speaking of which, look what just arrived from my library today. 1979 babey

So much appreciation for the Canadian government employees who poured this much love into soil survey art. Thanks @geodermatologist.bsky.social for pointing me towards this goldmine!

The <2500 mountain tapirs left in the wild face a new threat, the screwworm (a huge problem in the US livestock sector that was eradicated thanks to international coordination)

Pulque californiano 🙏

Soft power contains phytoestrogens.

Republicans are trying to sell off your public lands in their budget bill to pay for their tax cuts for billionaires and corporations.

We feed you. They hunt us.

2025 is not the time to aestivate! #earthday #diadelatierra

NOAA has quietly reported that they will soon decommission 14 datasets, data products, and catalogs related to marine, coastal, and estuary science and earthquakes. Story by @astrokimcartier.bsky.social. eos.org/research-and...

NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]

West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory

The Smithsonian is a pillar of American heritage and home to one of the world’s top entomology collections, revered, carefully maintained, and vital to researchers worldwide. This isn’t just a museum; it’s a scientific institution that represents the nation. Any harm to it is a global concern. 🧪

Here below you can find the poster from Tullia

Last week Frans fertilized our plots in the earthworm hotel: manure, compost, mineral fertilizer are going to feed our guests, we need to satisfy their needs🌿The hotel is used for research and outreach purposes. Find more informaton in the poster designed by PhD Tulllia Calogiuri @tulca.bsky.social

A trans sex worker called 911 to report being kidnapped. LAPD officers shot and killed her www.latimes.com/california/s...

This film took MASSIVE courage to make "The two-hour film, made over the course of six years" The people who made it knew that they would likely be charged with new crimes for having contraband cell phones Praying for them 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

For the record: HBCUs are not DEI. But none of that seems to matter. Obeying in advance.

20-year-old Ashanti Downey was walking to a Dollar Tree in Sanford, North Carolina, when someone came behind her, poured a flammable liquid on her, and set her on fire Her family is asking for help with medical expenses www.wral.com/news/local/h...

I am happy to announce that our paper "How earthworms thrive and drive silicate rock weathering in an artificial organo-mineral system" has been published in Applied Geochemistry! 🪱🪨 Here the link to know more about living (and dead!) earthworms and weathering: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just learned that my 9-yo has been clicking no on all GDPR cookie banners because she thought it was some aggressive baker advertising everywhere, and “while cookies do enhance experiences, that seems like a lot of dessert and mom probably doesn’t want to buy them and we can just make them at home”

At #AGU24 and need to print your poster? Check out Baldwin Graphics. Way better price and turnaround than the official conference option, and apparently I was their first customer from AGU…

Happy World Soil Day! This year’s theme is “caring for soils”. We are all soil stewards. Here’s a soil I’m trying to build structure in through OM additions and de-lawnification

Maybe it’s the Iowan in me, but am I ever thankful for corn. Nixtamalizando maíz cariaco (variedad criolla colombiana) para hacer cornbread

Extremely disturbing first-hand testimony to Parliament from a retired NHS surgeon who spent Aug-Sep in Gaza. "The drones would come down and pick off civilians—children. We had description after description. This is not an occasional thing." committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...

Sure, but how well soils perform their other functions after land-use change matters (e.g., to folks downstream or downwind)

Created a little starter pack for earthworm research, conservation and applications. Let me know in the comments if you’d like to be added and your study area if not obvious from your profile! 🪱 #earthworm #earthworms #crassiclitellata #soilbiodiversity #soilecology go.bsky.app/BCmLoAa

Interested in quantifying animal diel activity with hierarchical models? Check out this amazing how-to guide from @fa-bio-la.bsky.social , @science-action.bsky.social , and John Fieberg! 🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Un tramito de la red de “caminos de bestia” que aprovechan de los parteaguas prolongados de la cuenca del Río Pixquiac en las faldas orientales del Cofre de Perote en Veracruz, México #TropicalMontaneTuesday #TephraTuesday

The Early Career Ecologists starter pack is officially completed! Please have a look and give a follow to each and every one of these amazing individuals And, to anyone who is still interested in joining, perhaps we can do part 2 in a bit? go.bsky.app/Di74bDy

can we make #MaizeMonday a thing?

Why the big smile? Because I am holding something we take for granted but is pretty miraculous. Peat is organic matter that boldly defies decomposition, suspended in between life and death. As a result, it stockpiles carbon from the atmosphere. Peat belongs in bogs not bags. Pass it on.

Welcome new followers!! We're a podcast about minds—human, animal, artificial. We explore the diversity of thinking/sensing/learning from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Recent topics: the "wood wide web," machine culture, genetics of IQ, electroreception, and more! disi.org/manyminds/

Ok I just managed to find enough people to make a starter pack! Thanks for your help and suggestions! go.bsky.app/7Gn2NCb

Lots of new people joining Bluesky, and lots of great starter packs floating around, so here’s another idea: if you work at the intersection of food/agriculture, nature, and climate, introduce yourself and what you do below so folks can keep connecting. Who’s here now?

Hey Bluesky! I’m an Assistant Professor at North Carolina A&T State University in the Department of Biology. My lab focuses on how social determinants of food accessibility influences diet and the impact diet, in turn, has on health outcomes via the gut microbiome. Great to connect with you all!

I couldn’t find a starter pack for POCs working in STEM, so I started one myself - my network here is still small and I didn’t want to assume how people identify, so please reply or DM me if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/BJkKQVR

Introductory post! I’m an ecologist who applies quantitative methods to study wildlife in disturbed areas. Challenging myself to go beyond quantifying species’ response to the environment, to developing ecosystem-scale experiments to identify effective conservation actions.

ICYMI... took me a few days to stumble upon this one go.bsky.app/HADDT8P

Thanks for all the fox content, Bluesky. Here is Alpaca, the tenacious street dog who snuck into our wedding reception/hearts.

The second day of the #pedology tour at #SSSA led us to a Vertisol formed in alluvial sediments. The carbonate masses at the base of the pit were composed of gorgeous well-formed crystals. Check the carbonate precipitated on top of laminae in picture 2 💕

Megadiversidad de #suelos en el parque infantíl del Parque Nacional, #Bogotá #urbansoils #geodiversity