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Trump Just Gutted A Major Line of Oceanic Defense open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

We made an open repository of close relationships measures. Our goal is to catalogue all of the published self-report measures in relationship science. You can help us expand the database by suggesting measures you tend to use in your research, or by uploading your own measures! relascale.com

COSEWIC is the only bit of Canada's flawed Species at Risk Act that functions effectively, issuing status assessments based on a consultative, knowledge-based process. Now the Carney gov't has cut its budget, so Canadians will not know which species are going extinct www.thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...

🚨BREAKING -- Palestine Action activists will be sentenced as terrorists by John McEvoy & Dania Akkad Historic first sees protesters sentenced under terrorism provisions for criminal damage against Israeli arms firm www.declassifieduk.org/palestine-ac...

Sixty years after the discovery of a colony of Juan Fernández fur seals, previously thought to be extinct, a landmark agreement will extend protection of 337,000 sq km of Chilean waters inhabited by the seals. Read more in The Guardian: https://ow.ly/2Iaa50Z9LRp

Maybe it has something to do with the rejection of genetic determinants!

Come work with us and do research in Germany’s only national park in the Alps, iconic Berchtesgaden Nationalpark! We are looking to fill a PostDoc position in vegetation ecology (tinyurl.com/PostDocBerch...) and a PhD position in mountain forest dynamics (tinyurl.com/PhDBerchtesg...).

The American Anthropological Association has put out a very clear statement in response to a new report claiming the humanities and social sciences are ruining themselves with left-wing bias. Would be good to see more such robust responses to these familiar yet deeply unhelpful accusations

#JobAlert The @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social of @uni-freiburg.de invites applications for a Professorship (W3) for Plant Biotechnology. ❗Application Deadline: 10 July 2026 🔗https://kurzlinks.de/1iyt #SignalsOfLife #PlantScience #CIBSS

Our latest episode of Transmissions is out! This one features Prof. Dr. Lucy Aplin, a leading cognitive ecologist from the University of Zurich and Australian National University. This marks our very first episode dedicated entirely to understanding animal culture! youtu.be/M7qCTKRNVuA?...

💼 Job opportunities 3 x Research Fellows to work on @ukri.org ESRC-funded Connecting Generations projects, based @phrg-standrews.bsky.social @standrewssgsd.bsky.social 📨 Apply by 29 June. More info: www.cpc.ac.uk/news/vacanci... @bspsuk.bsky.social @populationeu.bsky.social @eapsphd.bsky.social

A new @nature.com study shows Ethiopia’s protected areas slashed deforestation between 2000 and 2020, but often at a cost. Households near these sites reported lower food security, proving that boosting conservation budgets alone cannot guarantee local wellbeing. @solomonyimer.bsky.social reports.

The ‘Zenith’ poster at the new Cambridge AI launch is classic slop. The sun rises/sets behind a mountain but somehow also illuminates the opposite face

Setting the Record Straight on Anthropology @americananthro.bsky.social on the Vanderbilt Report...Yes. And still more to come... americananthro.org/advocacy-sta...

Sad to hear of the passing of Robert Ricklefs - a giant of Ecology who simultaneously pushed forward big ideas at multiple biological levels yet took time for detailed natural history .. McGill does a nice job summarizing his impressive contributions 🌐🧪 dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/r...

Brazil’s Supreme Court upheld a law removing 862 hectares (2,130 acres) from Jamanxim National Park, clearing a legal obstacle for the proposed Ferrogrão grain railway. @schroder.bsky.social on @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2026/06/braz...

The Ebola outbreak in the DRC has renewed scrutiny on bats, but Dr. Paul Webala caution that direct transmission links is unproven. Damaging bat colonies disrupts vital ecosystems & ignores the fact that culling fails to stop zoonotic disease pathways. Learn more in this interview by David Akana.

depressing indicators of major demand for illegal ivory. Over 250 dead (large) elephants. No DNA sourcing. Why has the market picked up so much of late? news.mongabay.com/2026/06/huge...

conservation and corridors - a long but vital report for Tanzania and Kenya (migratory cross boundary species) www.kenyawildlifetrust.org/wp-content/u...

another excellent use of LLMs www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Should have raised broad-based taxes in 2024 whatever the manifesto said. It’s irresponsible not to fund the core commitments of the state - both internationally and to the poorest in society.

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

Link to the paper: Residential green space in childhood is associated with lower risk of psychiatric disorders from adolescence into adulthood www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #mentalhealth #psychiatry #urbanplanning

Interested in #macroevolution, #macroecology, and mountain biodiversity? I'm recruiting a #postdoc for an NSF-funded project at Yale, in collaboration with Martha Muñoz (Yale) and Maya Stokes (Florida State University). I'll be at #Evol2026 and happy to chat! Link below

Complex stick and plant species know-how for savanna chimpanzees feeding on army ants. https://web.ub.edu/en/web/actualitat/w/chimpanzees-savanna-army-ants?p_l_back_url=%2Fca%2Fweb%2Factualitat%2Fnoticies&p_l_back_url_title=Not%C3%ADcies&referer=noticies

Scientists analysed the impact of Cyclone Senyar on Indonesia's critically endangered Tapanuli orangutans. They found that the storm’s extreme rainfall in November 2025 resulted in landslides that delivered a severe demographic shock to a species already on the brink of extinction.

Great piece by @bengoldfarb.bsky.social today at @mongabay.com about #wildlife crossings on roads --> a global effort to reconnect ecological corridors so animals can find food, water, a mate — and escape increasingly frequent wildfires & extreme weather events: news.mongabay.com/2026/06/the-...

Every day, a migrant saves someone's life in an operation, teaches a child, cleans a building, is a good neighbour or parent. That never leads the news. No gangs rush down streets thanking people who *might* be migrants. But as soon as an atrocity happens, all "migrants" are held responsible. 1/3

2026. Frozen squirrel poop rewrites rodent evolution, reveals new details about mammoths | "One of the oldest samples—about 700,000 years old" Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Recent reports of Ebola in the DRC have raised understandable concerns among our supporters. We’ve put together a full update on what's happening and how we're responding in our latest blog post. Read now for everything you need to know: www.bonobos.org/blog/ebola-i...

#NewPaperAlert! This one has a massive author list and has been a LONG time in coming, but is SO COOL! First, check out the first figure to get you interested! Manakins! Fruit! Sexual-selection in action (displays and Z:A chromosomal diversity)! Read on for the back story & link 1/n

Online marketplaces like Facebook are driving Indonesia's illegal hornbill trade. Because these birds are long-living and slow-reproducing, conservationists warn that the ongoing sale of over 500 live chicks and body parts threatens their long-term survival. @spoorthyraman.bsky.social reports.

Excellent overview of regulation and other issues surrounding deep-sea mining, which could cause large-scale and irreversible damage to marine environment. @mongabay.com @elizabethalberts.bsky.social news.mongabay.com/2026/06/expe...

More news from the party that supposedly protects woman and girls. Reform UK controlled councils in Essex have banned libraries from promoting International Women’s Day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dogs can do mental time travel (forward and back). See each other as individuals, show elements of empathy. Seems more than AI.

One of our significant problems is the use of "investment" related terms and strategies for conservation when we have so little concept of baselines or consequences, intended or otherwise. Especially for cross-border migratory large bodied species and their ecosystems.

A few nice comparisons of energy costs of thinking vs energy cost of AI. We should use the power we already have for most things?

Cattle to get TB vaccine from 2030 under ‘game-changing’ strategy as badger cull nears ends - Eradication attempts have seen many thousands of cattle and badgers killed but the new strategy is a step change, says the government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The trial of a man caught with 500 elephant tusks begins this week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Conservationists argue that without deep, international follow-up investigations into these massive busts, the transnational networks and routes driving poaching will remain intact.

People will look back at us and think we went mad

🤗 Delighted that a dwarf #mongoose has made the front cover of #ProcB 📑 Their #grooming & #sentinel exchanges inspired the modelling of biological #markets in our new paper: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 👥 @beckypadget.bsky.social #AndyHigginson 🎓 @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org

La concentration de substances chimiques (pesticides) dans les réseaux alimentaires affecte moins directement les oiseaux eux-mêmes que leurs proies invertébrées, entraînant un effondrement de la base alimentaire dont dépendent nombre d’espèces insectivores (fauvettes, alouettes...).

Banks poured $906bn into fossil fuels last year. Either way it's a bad bet. If we don't decarbonise, the physical damage wrecks the economy they're betting on. If we do, those assets strand and they eat the transition risk. Heads you lose, tails you lose. Don't trust them with your money.

Maybe this is indeed what AI should be used for? Aiding the planet and people rather than simply guzzling resources.

@arc-trust.bsky.social is hiring a #NatterjackToad Officer to lead recovery in #Cumbria. Coordinate monitoring, outreach & build relationships. Knowledge of natterjack toad ecology and UK amphibians is essential. https://loom.ly/p_AvTeU#NatterjackToad#Cumbria#Conservation