It's now been 3 hours since our supposed "ally" Donald Trump threatened genocide on a country of 93 million people. We've had absolutely nothing from the UK government. This doesn't come in a vacuum either - every day the US & Israel have been murdering innocent people.

I am waiting to hear European condemnations of this genocidal statement. I expect to be disappointed... Perhaps the German Chancellor will once again say that the time for discussing international law is not now...

FINE April 7th 2026, Vidya T.N.C., Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India Title: Group size and social relationships in female Asian elephants Zoom urosario.zoom.us/j/85656186465

Holy shit. This is like if a foreign country bombed MIT. Sharif University is the top science and engineering institution in Iran, and one of the top in the world. Absolutely unconscionable www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

🌳 Excited to share our data paper: Urban Trees of India (UTI). A first-of-its-kind national database documenting 742 tree spp across 380 urban areas. 🌱 Key insights: ~58% spp are evergreen; ~41% non-native spp reflect urban biogeographic mixing; ~10% spp are threatened doi.org/10.1111/1440...

Oh nothing, just a peer reviewed paper my colleagues found... doi.org/10.1016/j.ma... "1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample and unprotected to light for 7 min." Even AI knows what's wrong here, but @elsevierconnect.bsky.social doesn't.

Teaching and research postdoc in GISc on the development of movement models www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/t... initially one-year that can be extended to a maximum of three years

Post-doc opportunity on comparative cognition and movement dynamics in corvids with the brilliant Prof Debbie Kelly at the University of Manitoba

Trump: "He [Saudi Arabia's MBS] didn't think he'd be kissing my ass... But now he has to be nice to me." This is the choice the GCC will face post-war. If it moves toward deeper dependence on the US to balance Iran, they'll become spineless vassals similar to Europe, who have to "kiss Trump's ass."

Congrats to all those journal editors & peer reviewers who legitimised Lynn’s “national IQ” database by letting it into their journals. Truly, it’s a victory for academic freedom to publish papers which claim that children living in a refugee camp constitute a nationally representative sample 👏👏

Only Israelis could bomb neighboring populations every single day for years and then go “NOBODY IN THE WORLD CAN IMAGINE WHAT IT’S LIKE TO LIVE IN FEAR OF AIRSTRIKES”

Fully-funded PhD with me in beautiful North Wales (field work in Sumatra). From conflict to coexistence: how can new biodiversity finance approaches promote elephants and humans living in harmony? With @wwf.org.uk, @bangoruniversity.bsky.social www.bangor.ac.uk/conservation...

If You'd Only Oppose The Iran War When There's Boots On The Ground, You're A Scumbag "Sure you can rain hellfire on hospitals, homes and schools for weeks, just make sure you do all your massacring from the sky where nobody can return fire." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-youd-on...

#EleFunFriday, gene edited Asian elephants are just GMOs — Asian elephants designed to look like Wooly mammoths. They’re just GMOs, designed art forms…

🚨🚨 #Spain takes victory lap as EU coalesces around #Sánchez’s anti-war position. Spanish FM José Manuel #Albares says the bloc is finally standing up in defense of the rules-based order and against “a unilateral war that is not our own.” 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/spai...

Swedish old-growth forests store 78-89% more carbon than managed forests do, a difference in carbon storage larger than Sweden’s cumulative emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels since 1834. The same probably also applies to Finland. theconversation.com/swedens-old-...

🔥🔥 🔥 NATO out of Iraq! 600 soldiers were evacuated in emergency procedures, and the "Mission" in Iraq has officially been withdrawn after 2 weeks of resistance strikes on the US HQ in the American Embassy of Baghdad.

Never forget that when the US and NATO invaded, bombed and regime-changed Libya they did it in the name of “human rights”… and in the process transformed one of the most developed countries in Africa into a place riddled with civil war and infamous for open-air slave markets.

This needs attention. Suzanne Simard threatened legal action against a journalist asking critical questions. This is not how science works. Brave of @aislingirwin.bsky.social to report.

Dear news media, When you write a “Trump says …” headline and don’t express any skepticism, you’re quite likely to be amplifying a lie.

Please circulate widely! Open positions at the Vision Lab, Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) sites.google.com/site/visionl... How to Apply: forms.gle/vWa1PwUrcpWf... Deadline : March 31 2026

Since we're talking about trade sanctions, this is what Indian environmentalist Anil Agarwal, founder of the Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi wrote in 1998. Applies for all kinds of sanctions and not just those related to environmental issues. www.downtoearth.org.in/environment/...

Workshop on Animal Social Evolution! July 13th-15th, Heraklion (Greece) We are inviting early-career researchers from Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean to a hands-on, three-day workshop dedicated to methods and tools in social behaviour and evolution marinapapa.github.io/TRASEworksho...

West Asia absolutely needs, and can create, a regional security framework that removes and prohibits any US military bases going forward. This is a *minimal* condition for regional peace and stability.

The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.

Decluttering Seed Dispersal Modes: Bringing Clarity to Seed Dispersal Ecology - Yadav - 2026 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Yet, that doesn't mean these sister species distribute aggression equally... 👀 Read to find out more as we discuss the significance of these results in light of evolutionary explanations of aggression in the Pan species and our own! ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Photo credit: Jake S. Brooker

New publication, and first one as a first author for me! 🥳 Have you heard of the brutal chimpanzee and "hippie" bonobo dichotomy? ☠️🕊️ Today, we report similar aggression magnitudes in 22 captive chimpanzees and bonobos groups - be it all aggression or restricted to contact.

When a US missile killed 160 children, president shits-a-lot claimed Iran stole the missile and fired at the school. When asked why he was the only one making this claim, he said "because I just don't know enough about it". Go ahead. See if you can make this make sense. (Source: RB Hubbell)

Super excited to share that the first article from my PhD has been published! Taking 60 years of research, we looked at how long distance vocal communication in aquatic and land mammals has evolved and why. Read here: tinyurl.com/3eydkwwc The Conversation article: tinyurl.com/mryr7sme

3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama! Three positions, each including salary & a research budget. Applications due April, 15th. DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us! stri.si.edu/academic-pro...

My view of the #deextinction hype, encapsulated below.

With @saramitri.bsky.social, @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social and L. Lehmann we’ve launched the UNIL Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution @unil.bsky.social🇨🇭 To kick things off, we’re offering short visiting fellowships for theorists in ecology & evolution. Apply & pls RP 😀 tinyurl.com/2wem36zz

🦖 Free Webinar: 200 Years of Vertebrate Paleontology in South Asia Join Dr. Advait Jukar for a fascinating look at the history and future of vertebrate paleontology in South Asia. 📅 March 11 | 12-1 PM ET 🔗 Register: anatomy.org/ANATOMY/Meet...

The US War Machine Is Run By Deranged Armageddon Cultists They are everything they accuse Iran of being. They are dangerous religious fanatics. They cannot be trusted with nuclear weapons. They are the tyrants. They are the monsters. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-us-war...

Initial reaction of some climate folk too was that this was for oil even though there was no evidence to substantiate the claim. This was about oil 75 yrs ago (crucially, when the US did not have much domestic supply). Today, it is about control i.e. taming Israel's only real adversary in the region

1/ Calling all ECRs - we have 4x3 year post docs on Multispecies Mutualisms working with us at Sheffield. Don't want to read through all the stuff to work out if its right for you? Here is a short video explainer 🎥 digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

An assessment of sensitivity to increasing temperature for thousands of insect species reveals a risk of insect biodiversity loss go.nature.com/4leGXQO

In Gaza, Israel and Biden normalized war crimes beyond anything we have seen before. And now, Israel and Trump are using that model against Iranian civilians. At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

First Lady of Iraq: "Leave The Kurds Alone. We Are Not Guns For Hire."

I’ll start to regularly post photos of Lebanese fossils alongside links to charities supporting the thousands displaced in this war. Even the smallest donations can save lives Fossils on display at Memory of Time, Jbeil, and you can donate here: gofund.me/24a3cee49

Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @nature.com! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗 @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks. They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors. Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption. Watch how they vote this week.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Pedro Sanchez continues his run as the only world leader convincingly acting like he cares to defend a rules based world order

So the admin's argument is that they knew that Iran would attack the US IF Iran itself was attacked. So it was self-defense against an imminent attack (!!??) Even the Bush admin did not sink this low. This opens up for George W. Bush to run in 2028 as the "peace candidate"...

Trump's trying to find the guy who did this.

Apply for the #ABS2026 Turner program! This award is aimed at supporting undergraduates from groups historically underrepresented in science in attending the conference. See here for more info: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards.php

Only the United States could bomb a country, kill its leader, massacre its children, declare the intention to destroy its military and topple its government, and then call that country’s retaliation against US military bases “unprovoked”. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/us-calls-i...