🚨 Are young women becoming more left-wing & young men more right-wing? We analyzed 32 European countries (1990–2023). 📊 Some show growing gaps—others don’t. 📊 Gaps tend to be bigger where gender equality is higher. w/ @hudde.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1093/esr/...

"In a major reversal, almost all the 381 books that the U.S. Naval Academy removed from the school's libraries have been returned to the bookshelves after a new review...according to a defense official." abcnews.go.com/Politics/nav...

A new study details the evolutionary change of Anna's Hummingbirds, finding their beaks have grown longer and more tapered to get the most from common feeders.

📢 New paper alert! 🐋❄️ How do different-sized #cetaceans stay warm in cold waters? Our latest study in @jexpbiol.bsky.social revealed that smaller species rely on thicker blubber, while larger ones offset heat loss simply by being big. Read more: doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... #UAVs

The 13th Meeting of the ASCOBANS North Sea Group (NSG) concluded today🐬 🎤 The NSG discussed #harbourporpoise conservation activities in the #NorthSea, bycatch, health, strandings +much more... 📑Recommendations & meeting report will be available in due course ➡️ www.ascobans.org/en/meeting/n...

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NOAA's External Affairs office is currently completely unstaffed because of the mass layoffs. www.noaa.gov/external-aff...

Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests An investigation has exposed the tech firm’s cooperation with autocratic regimes to remove unfavourable content www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Disappearing landscapes: The Arctic at +2.7°C global warming | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Gen Z has all the feelings

Si vous êtes francophone (ou pas!), découvrez la musique de Jourdan Thibodeaux qui nous vient tout droit du Bayou: deezer.page.link/kX2FJNqHqnAD...

Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

NEW: Tomorrow the tech gods will ascend to the presidential dais. The image of the bros + Trump is going to be seared into our brains. It's up to us now. My eve-of-inauguration post open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

The Baldwin-Buckley debate is 60 years old in one month. #CivilRights youtu.be/5Tek9h3a5wQ?...

Daniel Pauly, Rainer Froese and Nicolas Bailly celebrate the legacy of W.N. Eschmeyer (1939–2024), creator of the renowned Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes. A true pioneer in ichthyology. 🐟 bit.ly/blog199sau

What is the relationship between party politics and the spread of #Misinformation? Analysing a dataset of 32M tweets from parliamentarians in 26 countries, this study finds radical-right populism is the strongest determinant for the propensity to spread misinformation.

Industrial Revolution Provides Millions Of Out-Of-Work Children With Jobs theonion.com/industr...

BREAKING: SCOTUS takes up 3 new cases, including a challenge to PrEP and contraception coverage that led to an order from Judge Reed O’Connor, affirmed by the 5th Circuit, that would end a wide variety of preventative care coverage under the ACA. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/biden-admi...

hivemind: I am trying to find a reference collating/synthesising all of the failures of 'social engineering' attempts (the "big mistakes" of course, but also the more "subtle" ones in urban planning and education policies for example). any reference? #socialengineering

An incredible opportunity for the right person: The Santa Fe Institute is seeking applications for full-time resident faculty positions at all academic levels For me, this has been the best possible job ever. More info here: santafe.edu/about/jobs/r...

AOC is the best

With Trump’s military threats against European territory and NATO allies, Europe needs to come together more than ever. Iceland, Greenland, Norway and UK should be joining the EU - and we need to bolster defence against Putin. If you’re a Brit, join European Movement. 👇

Exciting (and nerve-wracking!) to be included in @newstatesman.com ‘25 books to read in 2025’ @panmacmillan.bsky.social

Happy Sunday! It's one of those wintery Sundays made for listening to the #VinylCafe The Greatest Hockey Game Ever Played by Stuart McLean Listen now on #Deezer deezer.page.link/GUp9aLvwbzZB...

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A really useful post on scalability of policies. Relevant for our work with @markfabian.bsky.social and @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social on how far wellbeing public policy can be participatory as we argue it should be here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/2

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The prime minister of Greenland called for independence from Denmark and removing the “shackles” of colonialism in a strident New Year’s address this week.

A huge congratulations to @pettorelli.bsky.social for being awarded an OBE for services to conservation and outreach in the #NewYearsHonours! Nathalie has been involved with the BES for many years and has made major contributions to numerous areas of our work 🌍 🧵1/3

President Joe Biden will honor former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney and 19 others on Thursday with the Presidential Citizens Medal, a tribute given to those who have performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or fellow Americans.

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Mouais, bon 2025 ne va pas être chouette, mais bon je vous souhaite tous de bons moments avec vos proches. Réjouissez-vous dans les petits instants de bonheur ! Happy 2025!

BREAKING: Former US president Jimmy Carter has died aged 100 He was the oldest living former US president and also won the Nobel Peace Prize

If you had asked me in 1993 what I expected the big accomplishments of the EU would be for Europeans in 30 years, I would not have ventured regulated standardised phone chargers. Don't get me wrong, that's nice and all that, but I really expected the Union to be in a different place by now.

I concur, a real problem as a trend. however, as usual, it is important not to generalise; plenty of students are still motivated by critical thinking.

This is so cool - this study used Chinese poetry to reconstruct 1400 years of range change for the Yangtze finless porpoise, and showed that most of the range loss happened in the last century papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The incident involving undersea cables in the Baltic Sea is the latest in a series of suspected attacks on critical infrastructure. We commend the Finnish authorities for their swift action in boarding the suspected vessel. My joint statement → europa.eu/!k6cCfB (1/3)

This week is a grand tour of melted cheese dinners. After #raclette on Saturday, we are having #poutine tonight. What is your favourite cheese-based meal?

consequences of running #HE as a business is that grades are seen as the payback in the transaction and the act of learning is devalued. #AI is only a problem is this systemic approach. Those "cheating" do not learn (cheaters have always cheated this is just a new tool) Wanna fix it ? 1/2

A Chinese businessman described as a “close confidant” of Prince Andrew has been kicked out of the UK on national security grounds.

Applying a nonparametric causal discovery approach to a 30-year time series containing annual abundances of benthic invertebrates across 66 locations in New Zealand rivers, we found a strong negative causal relationship between species gains and losses directly driven by predation.

Did you know that there's an #RCode package to build your own trait database that works across taxa? Elizabeth Wenk introduced `traits.build` at #ESAus2024 & it looks super powerful for making trait data FAIR. #OpenScience #FunctionalTraits 🧪🌾🌏 Check it out: traitecoevo.github.io/traits.build...

Le CNRS a appris avec une grande tristesse le décès d’Alain Fuchs, Président du CNRS de 2010 à 2017. Il a été une personnalité engagée au service de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche en France. Le CNRS présente ses condoléances à sa famille et ses proches. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/de...

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Chater & Loewenstein argue that the most important way in which behavioral scientists can contribute to public policy is by employing their skills to develop and implement value-creating system-level change. DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S014....

An excellent example demonstrating that invasive/nonnative/native/conservation status is context dependent and defines *populations* not species. phys.org/news/2024-12...