🐚 New paper on the #speciation continuum in marine #snails! 🐚 Read it if you're interested in speciation, local #adaptation, #genomics, #inversions, parallel #evolution... 🐚 Congratulations to Francesca & Aurélien and everyone else involved! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

Phasing out harmful subsidies is still on the priority list, at least on paper 📜 BUT implementation will make or break this!🤔 🌿The environment & the economy need a smart industrial policy, and phasing out harmful subsidies is key 🔑

🚨No more LIFE! Chopping up the LIFE programme prioritises industry over climate and nature. 🌳EU’s nature conservation and restoration projects could lose vital support in the future.

🎯Instead of increasing spending targets for climate & biodiversity, critical in driving investments in Europe, the Commission proposes a new environmental target with a reduced ambition of 35% 🐝This means spreading out reduced public support over even more priorities, risking leaving nature behind.

👀We have eyes on the next EU budget, but the EU budget no longer has eyes for nature. ❌35% environment target risks leaving nature behind ❌LIFE programme chopped up ❓Yes to phasing out environmentally harmful subsidies, but with a caveat 👀 tinyurl.com/WWFMFF2 🧵👇

3-year #postdoc position at Centre de synthèse et d'analyse de la biodiversité (CESAB) in Montpellier to work on how taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs. Please share widely #PopGen #NbS

1/7 📍Vienna, July 8, 2025 Today, Scientists For Future Austria handed over a scientific statement to the Ministry for Climate Action. Their message: 👉 The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) must not be weakened! #EUDR #Deforestation #ClimateCrisis @s4fat.bsky.social @s4fwien.bsky.social

We've cracked 1.000 signatories❗ Every scientist caring about #Biodiversity and fighting #climatecrisis, please 🖋️sign and 🔁 share our 🌱 Call to Action 🌱!

⏰Noch bis zum 27. Juni könnt ihr Euch anmelden für die wichtigste Veranstaltung im Herbst: 🌍 Das erste österreichische Symposion4Future 🌎 am 10. Oktober in Sankt Pölten 🌏 Alle Infos www.scientists4future.at/mc-events/er...

Please sign & share if you're a #scientist who cares about #biodiversity! 🪲

Der Zweite Österreichische Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel liegt vor!

‼️ Open letter calling for increased #EU #biodiversity funding: If you're a scientist and care about #nature, please consider signing, and please share! 🪲🌳🍄🦢🦑🦎🌱🐝🌼🦇🌲🐚

Time is running out! ⏳ Only few days left to apply to our PhD program—don’t miss your chance! 🚀 🔬Explore evolution in action in a cool 🐚 ℹ️ Details: tinyurl.com/fhzxr7ed 📆 Deadline: June 14th, 2025 #ScienceThatMatters #PhDlife #EvolutionaryBiology #MarineEcology #BiodiversityConservation

🐚Why do Littorina snails come in so many colours?🐚 For example, 🔴🟡🟠🟢🟤⚫🟣? Well, we don't know - but hopefully we'll find out in our #CommunityScience project #WinkleWatch ⬇️ Consider joining if you visit rocky shores - or just follow us here :) #colours #adaptation #snails #shells #citizenscience

📣 📣 Aufgepasst, es ist soweit! Wir möchten Euch gerne zum Ersten österreichischen Symposion4Future am 10. Oktober einladen! Wir haben ein hochkarätiges Podium gewinnen können, darunter @sigridstagl.bsky.social und @tbrudermann.bsky.social Alle Infos 👇 www.scientists4future.at/mc-events/er...

🐌✨ Become a snail detective! 🕵️🐚🔍 Join our WinkleWatcher Luisa Kumpitsch on shore 🌊 and help scientists crack the case of snail shell colors 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣 with WinkleWatchers. Who knew science could be this fun? ℹ️ www.gu.se/en/news/beco... #CitizenScience #MarineBiology

#Klimawandel ist ein #Sicherheitsrisiko, sagt die „Interdisziplinäre #Klimarisiko Einschätzung“, die die Universität der #Bundeswehr gemeinsam mit dem Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung @pik-potsdam.bsky.social veröffentlicht hat. at.scientists4future.org/2025/04/02/b... #sicherheitspolitik

Du denkst, nur du und ein paar andere sind bereit, sich für die Bekämpfung der #Klimakatastrophe einzusetzen? Stimmt nicht, du gehört zur Mehrheit! °CELSIUS-Redakteur Martin Auer zu einer aktuellen Studie in "Nature". at.scientists4future.org/2025/04/23/d... #Aktivismus #klimawandelleugner

I'm looking forward to this seminar! Tune in to hear a bit about our work uncovering the evolutionary dynamics of genomic erosion www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic... #popgen #consgen @hologenomics.bsky.social

Wird #Klimakommunikation mit der Grazer Charta jetzt besser? Das wollen wir mit Euch am 13.5. online diskutieren. Als Impulsgeberinnen dabei sind @pinzler.bsky.social @tiefenbacherin.bsky.social und die Sozialpsychologin Isabella Uhl-Hädicke. www.klimafakten.de/kommunikatio... @ccca.ac.at

Ruth Turunen: Mate choice and reproductive barriers in two intertidal gastropod species Littorina arcana and Littorina saxatilis. #OikosNorway2025

How do #marine #snails 🐚 cope with extreme #temperature gradients at the scale of just a few meters? Bingqian is making very interesting contributions to finding out! Here she's talking at #OikosNorway2025. #Littorina #genomics #RNA #adaptation #evolution

Waiting for rescue 🌍🦤- toads massively migrating now with over 3000 individuals during the last three nights. Watch out and drive carefully.

[Please share widely] Come work at the U. of Oslo. We are advertising a 3-year postdoc in Evolutionary and Comparative Genomics. If working with plant evolution in the Galápagos, pangenome and structural variants sounds exciting for you - this may be your chance! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Genau!

13/ Hier kommt die Verantwortung des seriösen Journalismus ins Spiel - insb. der ÖRR: Journalist*innen entscheiden mit ihrer Einladungspolitik, welche Stimmen sie verstärken. Sie tragen die Verantwortung dafür, ob Desinformation eine Plattform bekommt oder ob fundierte Information verbreitet wird.

8/ Eine Diskussion mit Verschwörungsideolog*innen ist keine ehrliche Diskussion & schon gar keine wissenschaftliche Debatte, sondern eine Inszenierung. Sie folgt nicht den Regeln der Wissenschaft, sondern denen der Rhetorik, Emotionen und bewusster Täuschung. Das sollte auch dem ORF NÖ bewusst sein.

Important documentary about #misconduct at Max Planck Institutes ⬇️. Senior scientists are not held accountable for obvious, long-term misconduct - this is not only an issue at Max Planck, but also at universities. Much respect to the victims for speaking out. #science #academia

If you have a dream of combining genetics, ecology and marine organism, this is for you. If not, this may still be for you! We are looking for candidates to apply for a FCT PhD fellowship within SEAGEN-CIBIO on evolutionary genomics of marine organisms! Please spread the word.

First and foremost, an incredible THANK YOU to everyone who has supported Stand Up for Science—whether you attended our events, donated, shared, or volunteered. We are so humbled by how many people showed up to support us & all of the passion that people brought with them.

Great reporting & interview from today's #March for #Science in #Vienna - please watch & share! #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

THANK YOU to everyone who joined the #March for #Science in #Vienna today! 💐💐💐 >500 people in front of @univie.ac.at, ~1000 people at Votivpark! 💚💚💚 Science is for everyone! #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Want to stream our DC event & hear from amazing speakers like Bill Nye, Francis Collins, Atul Gawande, and SO MANY MORE? Join our livestream at www.twitch.tv/standupforsc..., starting at 12 pm! #standupforscience2025

We are delighted to announce that this month's #editorshoice is: Short INDELs and SNPs as markers of evolutionary processes in hybrid zones from Perini et al. @anjamwestram.bsky.social Read it here 👉 academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

We’re standing up for science ! 🤝 On March 7 at 1 pm, the #MarchforScience will start in front of the University of Vienna - an initiative of scientists raising their voices worldwide for free science. The University of Vienna shares this important cause.‼️🏛️ #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall

📢 If you're in/near #Vienna, please go if you can: ➡️ March for Science next week Fri, 1pm, Uni Wien ⬅️ In solidarity with US researchers, and for the freedom of science in Europe & across the world! #StandUpforScience #StandUpForScience2025 #science

📢 🗣️ WissenSchafft Vertrauen - Wir rufen auf zum March for Science am 7. März 13 Kundgebung vor der Uni Wien, danach Demozug zum Ballhausplatz 👇👇👇 at.scientists4future.org/2025/02/24/7...

Believe it or not, Littorina 🐚 not only have the SNPs and inversions we talk about all the time, but also indels! 🧬 For his PhD, Samuel Perini analysed them and asked whether they could be used as markers just like SNPs. The answer is... in the paper. #Evolution #Genomics #Snails

⏰ 📢 March for Science am 7. 3. in Wien 📢 In Solidarität mit unseren amerikanischen Kolleg:innen rufen wir zum Marsch der Wissenschaft am 7. März in Wien auf, denn wir alle haben den freien Wissenschaften sehr viel zu verdanken! Aktuelle Infos 👉 at.scientists4future.org/mc-events/ma...

TWO WEEKS UNTIL #STANDUPFORSCIENCE2025! 📣☀️🌎

We might yearn for paradise, temporal or spiritual. But to our descendents our habitable planet will look like an almost unimaginable paradise. No tech fantasy, no space station or controlled environment will ever compare. Fight for what we have. This is our heaven, and there can be no other.

Our collection 🔍 phase was not a fiasco🎉! Thanks to many passionate collaborators🤝, we sampled more than a thousand snails from 23 sites and visited lovely places, labs, and colleagues♥️. We’re looking forward to the next steps and unveiling these 🌊🐚🐌 secrets! Updates here: rb.gy/givc52

Plenty of opportunities to incorporate genetic diversity in National Restoration Plans to better implement the NRL. "Genetic diversity assessments are well aligned with the NRL's aspiration to enhance connectivity, and genetic indicators can assess the effectiveness of its implementation"

Und auch aus der #Wissenschaft melden sich mehr als 1.000 Menschen zu Wort: science.orf.at/stories/3228... Sie appellieren, demokratische Werte, Menschenrechte sowie Freiheit von Forschung und Lehre in Österreich zu wahren.

If anyone in/near #Vienna is reading this: Stand up for science, respect, and a good future for everyone *today*. We don't want an Austrian government led by the far right! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ #Protest

@nature.com article shows global decline of genetic diversity +also that we have tools 2 protect+support genetic biodiversity 👉 the associated policy briefs: www.coalitionforconservationgenetics.org/resources-da... @coalitioncongen.bsky.social @cgsg.bsky.social @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social

Our long term project has finally been published - genetic diversity is lost worldwide, but we can also make a difference and conservation actions matters. Find out more in the Science news here www.science.org/content/arti... #Consgen

🚨 New paper published in... Nature 😱 I never thought that I would write these words, but here is a Nature-paper that I contributed to. We found global loss in genetic diversity. But conservation strategies may maintain or increase genetic diversity. Full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The underlying causes of biodiversity loss are: 1) the disconnection of people from nature & domination over nature & other people 2) the inequitable concentration of power & wealth 3) the prioritization of short-term individual & material gains #TransformationTuesday @ipbes.bsky.social