📢New paper📢 Socioeconomic exclusion shapes urban settlement patterns in mangrove ecosystems from the Caribbean. 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fundamentally flawed economic models mean #climatecrisis could crash global economy, experts warn - Shocks from extreme weather disasters and tipping points are entirely missed by the current models used by governments and financial institutions Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The "enshittification" driven by the toxic academic culture of "publish or perish". With publishers getting ↗️ profits -alike the music & movie industry- at the expense of degradation in scholars integrity ↘️: clear trend! Why are we doing this damage to #science? How to revert it? 🧪⚛️🎢 #AcademicSky

In #UrbanEcology, the #LuxuryEffect predicts that wealthy areas display higher biodiversity. We show-in an extreme case of spacial social segregation-that poverty and high biodiversity can go together. #UrbanMangroves. 🧪 #academicSky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🥁Paper alert! 📢 Informal settlement of #mangrove forests in low-income countries linked to the rise of ecological novelty. 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Beyond Abiotic Decay: Fiddler Crabs Accelerate Plastic Fragmentation in Pollution Hotspots 🔗 buff.ly/T5XtnWd @zambo-riascos.bsky.social

This video reflects some thoughts I had earlier: youtu.be/FuE2CDRcfTQ?... #EduSky #AcademicSky

I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

Scandinavia ❤️ www.science.org/content/arti...

Tang Xixi - Sidewalk artist

Our 🔊NEW PAPER📢 in @globalchangebio.bsky.social defies what we know about the degradation of plastics in nature. Biological degradation in #urban #mangroves can be much faster than environmental ageing in producing #microplastics.🧪🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

NEW PAPER! in @globalchangebio.bsky.social shows that the amount of plastics that fiddler crabs ingest in pollution hotspots is among the highest ever recorded in nature. About 15% of this material is broken down into nanoplastics during digestion 🧪🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I see this so often that I think it might qualify as a law: The time people take to notice demographic trends is equal to the time required for the results to materialise. In other words, however obvious the maths might be, we cannot or will not see it coming.

Delighted to publish Forum Article by @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social et al: "Journals run by learned societies or universities have more ethical policies while being cheaper and similarly cited" doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Thank you for choosing JEB - we encourage the support of #societyjournals

GREAT blog about scientific publishing including this provocative figure: danielroelfs.com/posts/the-mo...

Harmony in the hive? Think again! 🐝⚔️ Insect societies are famous for cooperation, but beneath the surface lies a brutal conflict over who gets to wear the crown! Our new review in Biological Reviews explores the evolutionary battleground caused by such caste fate conflict. 🧵

I have also just turned down a reference request from the @royalsociety.org 🧪🔭

Wir könnten unseren Kindern einen lebenswerten Planeten hinterlassen, aber dann müssten wir Verbrennungsmotoren abschaffen, mit Wärmepumpen heizen und weniger Fleisch essen. 🤷🏼‍♂️ #Klimaschutz #COP30 Cartoon: Chan Lowe

Beautiful piece by Zadie Smith questioning how much does #Britain actually value their culture www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

People condemn these journals publicly, but privately many use them as a shortcut when the pressure to publish outweighs the desire to contribute meaningfully. The challenge isn’t (only) that predatory publishers exist - it’s that academia keeps creating the demand that sustains them.

The eagle owl (Bubo bubo) is one of the most fascinating birds we can see in the city of Madrid.

Academic Publishing Keeps Getting More Expensive. Some Harvard Scholars Want to Make It Free. | @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social | www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Years after I started observing birds on this green roof, I can still add new species. For example, Motacilla cinerea is a new observation not previously reported. However, year after year, I generally observe the same species behaving as they did in the results reported in the published paper.

BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes. Please Use it and SHARE! ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

Congrats to @natureportfolio.nature.com for increasing the transparency of the review process supporting the research they publish behind a thick, black pay wall 🧪 ://rdcu.be/eKm66

🖥🧬🤖👾🧪🔬🔭🧫🦠🌍 Ah, the irony of having an opinion article on the importance of sharing in science BEHIND A PAYWALL. Only in @nature.com #OpenScience #FAIR www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Which approaches would we need to identify killers during the current holocaust? Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

🙄 the congressional resolution is just embarrassing. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Let me get back to you in seven years, when I should be qualified to review this paper. Hope that helps.

"We fight for the day on which the pen beats the wallet" G. Monbiot I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The wall may be clear, but the image will never disappear.

Stephen Jay Gould was born OTD in 1941. “Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table.... Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.” 🦫🦋🐋🌱🧠🗃️🧪#HistSTM #PhilSci #EvoBio

This study challenges key assumptions supporting #bluecarbon strategies... 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

$3,000 to publish $50 to read $0 to understand #AcademicPublishing is broken 🧪 #SciPub

📢 North Carolina is showing up BIG on Labor Day to remind those in power who they actually answer to 🇺🇸 Stop the Billionaire Takeover. Find a protest or march near you! ✊ open.substack.com/pub/50501nc/... #MayDayStrong #50501NC #Protest #FiftyFiftyOne #NC

@elsevierlsj.bsky.social: There is something wrong here, doesn't it?

📰Published📰What is transgenerational plasticity, and how can we measure it?💡 buff.ly/IL0eQZF 🧪🌍

Mass starvation spreading across Gaza, aid agencies warn, as pressure on Israel grows – Middle East crisis live www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

In one word: cowardice! Royal Society suggested to Elon Musk he consider resigning science fellowship www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

#AcademicPublishing: The only industry where you do the work and foot a $3000 bill. 🧪

We are heading to this scenario: scientific papers will be written by an AI agent owned by publishers, another AI agent will replace peer review and produce a summary for humans. We scientist seem to be unaware or confortable #academicSky www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Columba livia, the global king of urban-exploiter birds, according to an exiting meta-analysis I am currently working on!

Happy to share our newly published study on community-led conservation efforts of mangroves in the Colombian Caribbean 🧪 Congratulations to Angela Barrera, #Tropimundo alumni for leading this study link.springer.com/article/10.1...

On the proliferation of bullshit jobs in the academia academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

#UVA #academicsky We are organizing all over the US to stand up against these efforts to control universities. Faculty and staff, what are you doing to stand up and speak out? Are you going to wait until higher ed is fully captured? Please sign up on the homepage: www.standtogetherhighered.org

#academysky I agree -if we cede our scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important. But believing proponents of AI-assisted science want to free us from "routine tasks" is naive -they want to increase the revenues of the academic publishing industry www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nice study showing evidence of human-induced #evolution of #fishes. Congratulats to the authors. We could not disentangle effects of fishing&climatic shifts though 🧪 Genomic evidence for fisheries-induced evolution in Eastern Baltic cod | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...