South Texas game cam catches a raccoon riding a javelina (Dicotyles tajacu). The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us? (📷: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)

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...

You've heard of the many analysts projects, right? Scholars give the same dataset/question to a bunch of researchers & they still get different answers. Why is that? Data cleaning! This is consistent with Gelman's "garden of forking paths." Small coding decisions often drive results.

Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Moganaki: if you don't kill them, they will come. Wolverine in Scandinavia return to historical range, including what was thought to be suboptimal habitat. Meanwhile in Alberta you can now trap them with no quota... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Wolverines are bouncing back in Scandinavia, 50 years after they were reduced to a relict population in the snowy alpine. The brawny carnivore is moving into boreal forest, which was previously considered suboptimal habitat for wolverines. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨 New paper @pnas.org looking at dynamics of wolverine density determinants across Norway and Sweden: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Where are all the field studies? This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer. A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork) www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

New Perspective: Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth rdcu.be/d5ril Davidson et al discuss the importance of standardization, long-term archiving and sharing of bio-logging data, and outline a roadmap to achieve these goals.

It's been 10 yrs since Marius the giraffe was controversially culled by Copenhagen Zoo. So, what's happened since? Many zoos limit reproduction to avoid surplus animals and public backlash. We argue this approach fails the conservation & education mandate of zoos 🧵: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

😳 WithdrarXiv 🙏 - Dataset of 14K+ withdrawn arXiv papers - associated retraction comments - entire history through 09/24 - taxonomy of retraction reasons, from critical errors to policy violations - WithdrarXiv-SciFy, enriched version w/ scripts for parsed full-text PDFs arxiv.org/abs/2412.03775

We apologise for the AI-generated image on the cover of our November issue & are happy to confirm that we have taken steps to ensure this doesn't happen again!

As if the crisis in scientific publishing couldn't get any worse... 🧪 Publishers are now selling papers to train AIs, making millions of dollars off of scientists' hard work.

As expected, the downlisting of the #wolf Canis lupus at the Bern Convention Standing Committee was approved. A thread on some ins and outs. 1/ ec.europa.eu/commission/p...