It's only worth going back to the Moon if it makes us look properly again at Earth, and appreciate how beautiful, precious and fragile what we have here is. The most famous images from Apollo aren't about the Moon - they're pictures of Earth. We need to stop taking our home for granted.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

This is all too real. These days, satire is just news but in teaser format.

📑A new paper on a biodiversity informatics ecosystem 🔗Check it out: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🔍 Behind the Paper: 'Even beyond being turgid during wet seasons, it has encompassed aluminium nails over decades.' The Paradoxical Illusion of a “Plumper Forest” on a Warming Planet? 🌍🔗Read more here: bit.ly/4pmebiy. @wivencs.bsky.social #evosky #researchpublishing

Our paper is on the cover of @currentbiology.bsky.social : a strawberry poison frog with the most common color morph, living up to its common name 🍓. In this issue, we uncover the genetic basis of color variation in frogs from Bocas del Toro, where blue, green, yellow, orange, and red morphs occur

Congratulations ‪@bjenquist.bsky.social‬ for leading the amazing BIEN. Biodiversity science is immensely richer, more reliable and more integrated thanks to BIEN. This new paper shows how and why.

This exciting new paper assesses how to balance land use for conservation, agriculture, and renewable energy. I learned a lot from this collaborative effort led by Cameryn Brock ... building on our past #sparc #BIEN & #BIOFI efforts. Check out the new publication! 🧪🌐🌾 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

I must complete the required security training. To do so, I must use the learning platform. The learning platform requires signing up for the new credential system. There is a training to sign up for the new credential system.

The future of Europe’s forest disturbance regimes– a thread. Tl, dr: Disturbances from wildfire, bark beetles & wind will continue to increase in the coming decades. Under unabated climate change disturbances could more than double by 2100. New paper out in @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Or…ride a bicycle.

The SUSTAIN scheme is still open for applications until 8 April. This programme supports women in research to develop leadership and career potential, and is open to award-holders from eligible Royal Society, @raeng.org.uk and @acmedsci.bsky.social schemes. https://royalsociety.org/grants/sustain/

Passiflora agudeloi, nueva especie de los bosques Andinos de Colombia que destaca por sus impresionantes flores de gran tamaño y singulares patrones foliares. 🌸 En peligro crítico de extinción. doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.271.175046

We’re terrible stewards of our planet.

Looking for a small grant for systematics work? Check us out! systass.org/linnesys/ Deadline is MARCH 27 at 23:59 GMT+1 All you need is to be a member of the @systassn.bsky.social or the @linneansociety.bsky.social Caveat, legally, we cannot fund anyone in these countries: tinyurl.com/wemwtfrz

Una nueva especie de Gesneriaceae. 𝘋𝘳𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢 es endémica del Parque Nacional Yanachaga Chemillén en la selva central del Perú. Felicidades a Rocio Rojas Gonzales y sus colegas por su descubrimento. doi.org/10.14522/dar...

Suzanne Stas leads this new analysis of long-term impacts of selective logging on tropical forests. In Vietnam, intense logging shifted forest communities towards lighter-wood trees and depleted focal species, reducing both carbon storage and timber potential. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The latest ECMWF forecast is for a significant El Niño event

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Seleção de bolsista de Pós-Doutorado Júnior junto ao Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia Síntese da Biodiversidade Amazônica. Excelente oportunidade para pesquisador(a) interessado(a) em contribuir com estudos inovadores na Amazônia. A vaga é para 1 Bolsa com duração inicial de 12 meses.

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

These are great courses, apply if you can; going to Kibale was my first step to a career in ecology and conservation

Very excited to announce that we are hiring for three faculty positions at @universityofleeds.bsky.social in @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social: A/Prof Plant Science, A/Prof Animal Biology and Lecturer in Ecology, Zoology, Biodiversity or Ecosystem Management. Please do get in touch to chat. Links below:

New study shows that #contrail avoidance in #aviation can recover 9% of the global #temperature budget by 2050. For every year of delay, the recoverable warming will diminish by 0.6%. This makes inaction the most significant #climate risk associated with avoidance. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fabaceae emerge as amongst the most embolism-resistant tree families in Amazonia. Forests in the Brazilian and Guiana Shield regions, where Fabaceae abundance is high, are expected to have greater drought resistance than Western Amazon forests.

Large-scale patterns of tropical forest embolism resistance mapped across space and angiosperm phylogeny. Combining measurements across the Amazon with 100s of floristic samples, Julia Tavares & colleagues report remarkable variation in vulnerability to drought. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wood density matters. Intraspecific environmental effects strongly track interspecific patterns (r = 0.83) but are 70–80% smaller.

An Aquatic Cycad! #newspecies discovered deep in the swamps of the Peruvian Amazon, and named Zamia urarinorum in honor of the indigenous people of the area, who, of course, already knew it. phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/v...

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution shows the long-term changes in tree species diversity across tropical forests in the Andes and Amazon. go.nature.com/45FPc1M 🌍 🧪

New study shows that historical #deforestation has substantially altered regional #precipitation over the southern #Amazon basin, with #climate models underestimating this effect. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Each square metre of Amazon forest produces 300 litres of rainfall a year.

The plants of the Brazilian Amazon create rainfall worth US$20 billion annually. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🌳💧The Brazilian Legal Amazon region delivers rainfall generation worth US$20 ± 7 billion annually, with each meter squared of forest contributing 300 L of water per year. @universityofleeds.bsky.social 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Es fundamental conservar los bosques remanentes donde la Amazonia contacta con los Andes. Solo si permanecen en pie podrán ofrecer refugio a las especies de las tierras bajas adyacentes. www.infobae.com/america/medi...

The 2026 LinneSys call is open! Looking for a small grant for systematics work? Check us out! systass.org/linnesys/ All you need is to be a member of the @systassn.bsky.social or the @linneansociety.bsky.social Caveat, legally, we cannot fund anyone in a country listed here: tinyurl.com/wemwtfrz

liana images from www.snexplores.org/article/lian...

We all love trees. But lianas are beautiful too! Cross-sections reveal the pattern of xylem tubes, reflecting the stem space dedicated to transporting water skywards and phylogenetic variation in a liana community.

Really important for so many things. "The value of patient observation compounds over time but remains invisible to short-term metrics" has profound implications.

Why long-term science is needed in a short term world. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

How much temperate rainforest could there be in the UK and Ireland, and where? Despite campaigns calling for restoration in both countries, these questions have been difficult to answer. In our new paper we assess the evidence base 🌏🧪🌐🌳🌲 1/9

The global island species–area relationship for plants | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Our latest effort to understand ISARs for plants globally!

Brazil’s Santo Antônio dam on the Madeira River has cut fish populations by up to 90% in parts of Amazonas and Rondônia, a new community-led study finds. Species like pirarucu and tambaqui have largely vanished. “The Madeira River stopped flowing,” one fisher said.

The Yanomami, an Indigenous group from the Amazon, is confronting surges in #malaria amid increasing illegal gold mining in their territory. Read 'Investigating the Yanomami malaria outbreak: gold mining and malaria': doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #BiologyLetters

There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.

Increasing tree mortality over time in Australian forests www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amsterdam will ban fossil fuel and meat advertisements in public spaces and on public transport starting May 1st. 🥳

Payment‐based open access is biasing ecology against participation from the Global South nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The path teaches if you let it. #SlowDown #NatureAsTeacher #FindYourRhythm