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Radioactive radium-226 and benzo(a)pyrene, but even so planning permission was put in for up to 2,000 homes and a school | LDRS Press Release

🚨 BREAKING: The High Seas Treaty enters into force today – without the UK 🌊 81 countries have ratified. The UK still hasn’t. This treaty could create the largest network of ocean sanctuaries in history. No more excuses. Ratify the #HighSeasTreaty now. 🌍✊⏳

Periodic reminder that without biodiversity, we’re all doomed. Let’s not brush it aside and focus solely on carbon (obviously critical). Focusing on carbon while sidelining biodiversity is a catastrophic mistake. Biodiversity isn’t optional. It’s fundamental to our very existence.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

“Involuntary parks” — lands emptied by war, pollution or conflict — can become accidental refuges for wildlife. From the radioactive Hanford Reach to the disputed Kuril Islands, nature often rebounds without people, raising hard questions about conservation, recovery and responsibility.

At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich | George Monbiot via @theguardian.com

Might be one non-slop use?

@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social @society4conbio.bsky.social @consletters.bsky.social

We are hiring at the Wytham Woods for the upcoming field season. 4 roles available. Please share with anyone who might be interested. #UKbirds #birdringing

The total NSF budget was 9 billion. I doubt they spend 89% of it on quail.

I would love to hear from you if you are interested in applying for one of the early career international fellowships to work at a UK university and you have ideas for a solid suitable project. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Greenland sharks can live 400+ years — and aren’t blind after all. New research shows their vision genes and eye tissue stay intact for 100+ years, adapted for the ocean’s dim twilight zone. How they preserve sight so long could even inform human vision research.

🚨 PhD offer (please share) Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 Starting: June 2026 Supervision: Martins Briedis & me Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

If you are organising a symposium related to animal cognition for #ECBB2026, and would like to develop/guest edit a special collection in the journal Animal Cognition to accompany it, please get in touch with us at [email protected] #academicconference #academicsky #animalbehaviour

We're pleased to announce that our 2026 Regional Events Grants are now open! We're offering grants of up to £1,000 to help our members create inspiring events or activities that celebrate the biosciences & engage diverse audiences. 📆 Applications close 15 March www.rsb.org.uk/regional-eve...

Our group at the University of Magdeburg 🇩🇪 is looking for a motivated PhD candidate to study cognitive fleixbility and uncertainty in mice within the DZPG/C-I-R-C (c-i-r-c.de). 🧠🐭 For more information, please see: www.med.ovgu.de/Karriere/Ste... #PhDPosition #BehavioralNeuroscience

Our collection on Decision-making in structured groups in npj Complexity is open and accepting manuscripts through May! It's a broad call, covering anything from animal societies to human social systems of all sorts. Learn more: www.nature.com/collections/...

📢 I would be happy to host a 2-year DDLS Postdoc at my group using museum genomics to look at recent adaptation in insect pollinators 📉🐝🦋🧬 If you are interested in this (or have other project ideas) get in touch ASAP! The application deadline is March 31. INFO 👉 www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...

"Why would anyone hand the keys back to these people [the Conservative Party] to take the country forward and hope that they would fix it" says Robert Jenrick, who was a Conservative Party Shadow Minister until just a few hours ago, and has been plotting to take it over for years

We are now accepting grant applications to fund ecological research and outreach worldwide. ⏰Apply before 10 March 2026! Find out what grants you can apply to 👇 https://f.mtr.cool/cucxadvxjq 🧪🌍

Renaud: green-up at Ram Mtn earlier by about 18 days over 22 yrs. Early green-up associated with longer spring. Weak or no effects of timing or duration of green-up on summer mass gain of bighorn ewes and lambs #LongTerm 🧪 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

The Trust's Early Career Fellowships offer a three-year salaried post for researchers at the beginning of their academic career to undertake a significant piece of research. Interested? Apply here: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career... Closing date: 19 February 2026, 4pm

Internships are now available with the Cornish Jackdaw Project! 🐦‍⬛ Duties will include assisting with nest monitoring, bird ringing, data entry, and the potential to help with ongoing research projects.

I mean, honestly, what are people even going to do that can compete with this title? “Genome Shows no Recent Inbreeding in Near-Extinction Woolly Rhinoceros Sample Found in Ancient Wolf's Stomach” academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

🚨Job alert! The ENDOW project is hiring a Research Officer in Research Database Management, to be based at @lsemethodology.bsky.social. Oversee & expand our database & contribute to research on social & economic inequality. Deadline 15 February. Share & reach out! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

I can't believe that this has been an option the entire time *sets up school for raccoons against racism*

Interesting perspective on the gradual takeover of Greenland. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Postdoc in statistical ecology & evolution! Develop models bridging evolutionary theory with empirical data on sex differences in immunity and life history. Apply now! #postdoc #statistics #evolution #academicjobs #ecology jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Nominations are due January 15 for the Gould Prize, which recognizes an individual who has advanced public understanding of evolutionary science and its importance. The awardee will present a public lecture at #Evol2026 in Cleveland in June. shorturl.at/jornc

The Birdsong Lab is recruiting graduate students! Links in the comments. Please repost!

EMPATHY: In a new article out in Behaviour "The Evolutionary & Developmental Origins of Empathy: Honouring Frans de Waal’s Legacy", I consider how processes like mimicry, contagion and early social experiences shape later social-emotional development. #OpenAccess here 👉: brill.com/view/journal...

A year after Tanzania canceled a World Bank–backed tourism project near Ruaha NP over rights abuses, villagers say violence hasn’t stopped. Park rangers still block land access and threaten evictions, despite a Bank action plan. Communities say promises exist on paper, not on the ground.

Ofcom just sat in Parliament and suggested the reason they haven't upheld single complaint on climate coverage since 2020 is that "broadcasters that we regulate have a good understanding of the code and they are complying with the rules". This is what they've been green-lighting...

Juries aren't a 'bottleneck' in a trial, they are the fair trial https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/11/slashing-jury-trials-could-clear-courts-backlog-within-a-decade-says-lammy

Most fabulous study!!!

“Claiming universality and humanistic purposes, Western thought produced definitions of rationality, intelligence, mental health, and of functional, productive and enhanced minds. These are scientifically sanctioned discourses, but they are neither neutral nor universal”

Truly wild that the Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express & Daily Telegraph all covered false claims that net-zero will "cost" £7.6bn – or even £9tn – which assumes we could have free gas, free petrol, free petrol cars & free gas power plants if we scrapped net-zero More here: bsky.app/profile/drsi...

🚨 New paper out in @ecography.bsky.social ! 📝 Led by Dr. Søren Faurby, we built upon the estimated unrecorded bird extinctions by @r-cooke.bsky.social et al. 2023 and try to estimate the corresponding unrecorded loss of phylogenetic diversity. 🦤🧬 Check the full paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

Utterly damning report from Office for Environmental Protection - the Govt’s not only missing its targets to protect wildlife in England, it’s also failing on *almost all* environmental measures - and in some cases actively destroying the natural world through its obsession with growth at all costs

Same-sex sexual behaviour is part of the normal social life of some primates and could play an important part in their long-term success go.nature.com/4qNGo1I

🧵A political/media guide to the "truth" about net-zero 1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system 2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free 3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us" 4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous 5) That's it! 1/10

World’s biggest buyers of Brazilian soy plan to exit the Amazon Soy Moratorium — a voluntary pact that kept deforestation-linked soy out of global supply chains for nearly 20 years. Critics warn the move could reverse hard-won gains, especially in Mato Grosso, where deforestation is rising.

A proposed international minerals treaty faced pushback at UNEA-7 and was diluted into a nonbinding resolution. Backed by Colombia and Oman, it aims to address mining’s social and environmental harms, but critics say it falls short as mineral demand surges with the energy transition.

"Some have been puzzled by the fact that MAGA, a movement of white nationalism, is so quick to demonize white women But there is no paradox here. White nationalism depends on a certain type of white woman: someone who is “loyal” to the white race and compliant with patriarchy."

Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.

“Of the 5786 depictions identified across 113 European Palaeolithic caves, only 0.07% featured plants. Animals and abstract symbols appeared more frequently, 53.7% and 43.3% respectively.” We look at the past not only through our own biases but through earlier peoples', too doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

How many cooperatively breeding bird & mammal species are there??? an ongoing research... follow @co-breed.bsky.social for updates!

📖Published! Effects of salmon lice on numbers and size distributions of Atlantic salmon returning to spawn in Norwegian rivers Findings suggest that louse infestation from farms may re-structure the size distribution of mature river populations of Atlantic salmon🐟 🌊 Read more: buff.ly/euvZtYT