Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

Spiders 🕷️ learn to trap glowing fireflies 🪲💡 then use them as bait to catch dinner 🍽️ www.earth.com/news/spiders... @earthdotcom.bsky.social @animalecology.bsky.social 🧪

Research published this month found that even in pristine, untouched areas, insect populations are still on the decline. Climate change is a likely culprit.

Spiders 🕷️ learn to trap glowing fireflies 🪲💡 then use them as bait to catch dinner 🍽️ www.earth.com/news/spiders... @earthdotcom.bsky.social @animalecology.bsky.social 🧪

Really love it when there's a new paper that makes you go 🤯🤯🤯 'One queen ant, two species: the discovery that reshapes what ‘family’ means in nature' 🐜🧪 theconversation.com/one-queen-an... @nature.com

Really love it when there's a new paper that makes you go 🤯🤯🤯 'One queen ant, two species: the discovery that reshapes what ‘family’ means in nature' 🐜🧪 theconversation.com/one-queen-an... @nature.com

Hier mein light pollution/Lichtverschmutzung starter pack go.bsky.app/QaJeatt

#ICYMI Stargazing flight: how Bogong moths use the night sky to navigate hundreds of kilometers 🌃 🦋 🧪 www.eurekalert.org/news-release... @nature.com

The future is here: pretty fascinating proof-of-concept study 🚀 "Real-time malaria detection in the Amazon rainforest via drone-collected eDNA and portable qPCR" 🧪🦟🧬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🔓

People in the USA should urgently start making sure viruses don't vote in their elections 🧪

Light pollution 💡 makes birds 🐦 around the world sing longer each day 🕰️ www.earth.com/news/light-p... 🧪🌎 @earthdotcom.bsky.social

Scientists, this was written for journalists but it's relevant for you, too. Scroll down to the section about using LLM chatbots as research assistants. There are some cases in which LLMs are great and useful helpers. But at least right now, it looks like literature review is *not* one of them. 🧪

In our ongoing podcast series on the 3rd plague pandemic, Laura and I are relying a lot on the work of Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social, especially in the new episode on India, rats and fleas and Simond's famous experiment. He has written a helpful thread with some sources here: 🧪 #IDsky

“We find that while MPG is very competent at attracting global talent, MPG and perhaps Germany are less successful at holding onto it” @nickrussell31.bsky.social

'Postdoc depression and anxiety rates are rising, finds survey of 872 researchers' @nature.com Career News 🧪🎓 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

2025. Less diversity, higher risk of infection: Disturbed habitats can promote the spread of tropical disease. New study - the more humans intervene in nature, the more host animals are infected with Trypanosoma cruzi (causes Chagas disease) phys.org/news/2025-08...

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

Systematic reviewers have a 10.7% error rate when screening papers for potential inclusion. In other words, about 1 in 9 abstracts are categorised incorrectly (i.e., false inclusion or false exclusion). This really drives home the benefit of having at least two screeners

They’re going to try and manipulate solid, peer-reviewed published papers. We are in extremely dangerous territory with these autocrats 🧪

There are A LOT of things most (US-) Americans don’t understand and this is certainly one of them

Ladies and gentlemen and everyone in between, Stephen Jay Gould:

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

Your daily reminder that #lightpollution 💡 is also #onehealth ⚕️ issue Johnson et al. (2025) "Hot days and light-polluted nights increase nighttime activity of the diurnal tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus)" 🧪🦟🌡️ bmcenvsci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 🔓

Your daily reminder that #lightpollution 💡 is also #onehealth ⚕️ issue Johnson et al. (2025) "Hot days and light-polluted nights increase nighttime activity of the diurnal tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus)" 🧪🦟🌡️ bmcenvsci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 🔓

ICYMI "... we are in a warmer world primarily from the burning of fossil fuels. The warmer that world becomes, the more extreme both flash floods and droughts become" 🧪🌡️📈

ICYMI "... we are in a warmer world primarily from the burning of fossil fuels. The warmer that world becomes, the more extreme both flash floods and droughts become" 🧪🌡️📈

Motherfucking wind farms…

Considering 'physics envy' is a thing 'ornithology envy' certainly also should be; certainly from an entomology point of view 🧪🧬🐦

Neues #CitSci Projekt von @rki.de 🧪 Jede/r kann Zecken 🕷️ & Mücken 🦟 fotografieren 📸 & die Bilder bei @observation.org hochladen. Mit umfangreicheren Daten zur Verbreitung 📈 & KI-Unterstützung 🤖 können Forschende 👩‍🔬 besser verstehen wie sich gefährliche Krankheiten wie das West-Nil-Virus🦠 ausbreiten

Trump 🍊 proposes repeal of landmark finding that greenhouse gases harm the public 🌎🧪🤦‍♂️ thehill.com/policy/energ... @thehill.com

Hulme et al (2025) One Biosecurity is essential to implement One Health 🧪🔓 "biosecurity" ➡️ management of non-native pests and pathogens 🦠 "one health" ➡️ protecting the health of humans, animals and the environment through an integrative approach ⚕️ academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

📣 I'm recruiting a postdoc researcher to join my team for a project on mosquito-specific viruses and host interactions. Peep the job description & how to apply below. Perfect for soon-to-be or recent PhD graduates in mosquito vector biology 🦟 or arbovirology 🦠 🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025

Hulme et al (2025) One Biosecurity is essential to implement One Health 🧪🔓 "biosecurity" ➡️ management of non-native pests and pathogens 🦠 "one health" ➡️ protecting the health of humans, animals and the environment through an integrative approach ⚕️ academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Buffy is so old there were only 103 named elements, we’re at 118 now. (Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Happy birthday Rosalind Franklin (25 July 1920) Chemist and X-ray crystallographer, Franklin’s work illuminated structures of RNA, DNA, coal, graphite, and viruses. #WomenInStem

ICYMI With a group of ~30 scientists we recently explored the multiple dimensions of 'invisible' or 'hidden biodiversity'. Our joint manuscript led by Sami Domisch and @sibylleschroer.bsky.social @igb-berlin.de is now preprinted at @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social 🧪📝🔓 doi.org/10.32942/X25...

ICYMI With a group of ~30 scientists we recently explored the multiple dimensions of 'invisible' or 'hidden biodiversity'. Our joint manuscript led by Sami Domisch and @sibylleschroer.bsky.social @igb-berlin.de is now preprinted at @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social 🧪📝🔓 doi.org/10.32942/X25...

Burning fossil fuels is heating the planet, fueling more extreme floods and droughts. In his latest blog, @marc-alessi.bsky.social unpacks the atmospheric shifts driving these changes and breaks down a phenomenon known as “hydroclimate whiplash.”

Please stop calling the power-to-be-generated from new mega-dams "green", "clean" or "climate-friendly" because it's not @bloomberg.com 🧪🌏

'How young people have taken climate justice to the world’s international courts' - @susanannsamuel.bsky.social Great timeline on the “quartet” of advisory opinions from 4 judicial bodies 👉 theconversation.com/how-young-pe...

The old classic story: “It doesn’t matter if you believe in climate change, it only matters if the insurance company believes in climate change.”

U.S. Cancels Contract With Moderna to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine 🐦🦠💉🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/h... @nytimes.com #giftlink 🎁

Forschende entwickeln insektenfreundliche Straßenbeleuchtung 🦋 💡 🧪 www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft... @spiegel.de @igb-berlin.de

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

Paris urban biking DOUBLED in just one year. “Cycling in Paris has transcended mere trendiness; it’s become a fundamental aspect of the city’s identity. Despite challenges like inclement weather, cyclists continue to flock to the streets, setting new records and reshaping the urban landscape.”

#TIL Rufus the Harris's hawk 🦅 patrols the skies above Wimbledon 🎾 to scare away pigeons 🕊️ from the most famous lawn in professional sports. Harris's hawks are native to arid regions across the Americas; as the most famous species in falconry you can find them in captivity across the globe 🌐

BREAKING: A source tells me that the Trump administration has shut down public access to every single National Climate Assessment, the Congressionally-mandated quadrennial report assessing how climate change is affecting the U.S. This is what you get when you try to access them online

#TIL Rufus the Harris's hawk 🦅 patrols the skies above Wimbledon 🎾 to scare away pigeons 🕊️ from the most famous lawn in professional sports. Harris's hawks are native to arid regions across the Americas; as the most famous species in falconry you can find them in captivity across the globe 🌐