New research analyzing more than 3,000 tropical forest sites reveals that areas with fewer seed-dispersing animals store up to four times less carbon than forests with healthy wildlife populations. The study found that 81% of tropical trees rely on animals to disperse their seeds.

Green-and-Black Fruiteater near Jardín, Antioquia #Colombia #birds #nature

🧪🚨Lots of news from the #shrew-crew!Now @ cecibaldoni.bsky.social answers 🔑question: how to 🧠shrink without neuron loss? Cells lose water💦but their counts remain stable 👉🏽 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

🧪🚨Lots of news from the #shrew-crew!Now @ cecibaldoni.bsky.social answers 🔑question: how to 🧠shrink without neuron loss? Cells lose water💦but their counts remain stable 👉🏽 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

🔖Last review from the lab👇 'Male meiosis at the helm: shaping genomes and sex chromosomes in emerging vertebrate models' academic.oup.com/biolreprod/a...

🧪🚨Only two weeks to apply, come join us @stonybrooku E&E Dept., apply for tenure-track position in Global Change & Disease Ecology, Ecology & Evolution 🌍🦠 👉 apply.interfolio.com/17140

Interested in joining our lab (dunnlab.org) as a postdoc to work on siphonophores, processes that structure diversity in the open ocean, or natural history? If so, please reach out to discuss a nomination for the Donnelley Postdoctoral Fellowship - yibs.yale.edu/donnelley-fe...

Closely-related to the Great Blue and Grey Heron, the Cocoi Heron is found in South America. I photographed this lovely specimen at Laguna de Sonso #Colombia #birds #herons #nature

I really love Snail Kites. They have incredible bills that are adapted to eating Apple Snails and they have those intense red eyes. At Laguna de Sonso, Valle de Cauca #Colombia #birds #nature

🚨 We are hiring! 🧬 PhD Position – Genomic Architecture & Evolution Join our team at UAB (Barcelona) in an international project 🔬 4-year FPI contract 🎓 Biology/Genetics background + Master’s + English 📅 Apply by Sept 30, 2025 📧 [email protected] 🔗 grupsderecerca.uab.cat/evolgenom

¿Su comunidad alberga un proyecto de carbono o les están proponiendo uno? ¿Investiga sobre temas ambientales? ¿Trabaja en una empresa que busca compensar sus emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero con créditos de carbono? Esta herramienta puede serle útil radiografia-mercado-carbono.elclip.org

Scientists discover the secret behind the shrew’s amazing ability to shrink their brains 🧠 The clever trick sheds unwanted weight without compromising too much on cognition. Find the 5-letter word 👇 Study by @cecibaldoni.bsky.social Dechmann Lab #shrewcrew et al www.ab.mpg.de/743885/news_...

Vaccines save lives, we knew it then, we know it now.

This young male Resplendent Quetzal had his eye on me. San Gerardo de Dota #CostaRica #birds #nature

The secret to shrew brain shrinkage? 🤔 Not cell loss, but water loss! Our new paper shows that brain cells shrink by losing water, a wild feat of brain plasticity 🤯 Check the paper! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @labdavalos.bsky.social @batichica.bsky.social

The Toucan Barbet is such a great bird. Found in the Western Andes of Colombia and Ecuador, I shot this at Doña Dora #Colombia #birds #nature

I keep thinking about how the COVID vaccine was rolled out for free for all Americans in 2021 by the federal & state governments with support from local health departments & universities. Since, we have seen the privatization of delivery thru commercial pharmacies & the need for insurance coverage.

I hope to take a PhD student in 2026 to study siphonophores. Please reach out if you are interested in applying this fall. For examples of recent lab projects see www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

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Everyone interested in public health should take the time to read this statement. This is the first part… #IDsky 🧪

🧪🚨Ever wondered why plant leaves 🍃look the way they do? Glad to contribute to work by Jamie Malone & team on developmental bias toward simple leaves! But there’s a backstory to it 1/4 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Precisely! And no, “let’s allocate all our resources to avert threats from the tech I’m in the process of creating,” is not a compelling argument.

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👀“Language is essential to the human mind but doesn't embody it entirely.”

Lemme graph what he's trying to say: P | \ AS2 = AS1 + tariff | \ /←/AS = marginal cost | \/ / ↑ | /\ / | / /\ | / / \AD: Y=MV/P ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾Output Notice that P rises. Inflation is rising P.

Big news! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on tomatillo evolution: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The clade containing tomatillos and its allies (ca 300 spp) has evolved lantern fruits at least 25 times - we want to know why! Join us @rociodeanna.bsky.social & @caschenck-bio.bsky.social

🚨Only 4 days left!!Want to make an impact in a 🌍 biodiversity hotspot? 🚨@SBU’s CVB seeks a 1-yr full-time COO 📍Ranomafana, Madagascar 💰Great pay, excellent benefits 🔗Apply by Aug 19, 2025: stonybrooku.taleo.net/careersectio...

🚨 Exciting news from our lab! We’ll be well represented at #ESEB2025, with a fantastic team of #WomenInScience presenting talks and posters. 💡 Proud to showcase their brilliant work and dedication! 📸 Swipe through to meet the faces behind the science. #evolution #genomics #UABResearch

🚨Only 4 days left!!Want to make an impact in a 🌍 biodiversity hotspot? 🚨@SBU’s CVB seeks a 1-yr full-time COO 📍Ranomafana, Madagascar 💰Great pay, excellent benefits 🔗Apply by Aug 19, 2025: stonybrooku.taleo.net/careersectio...

If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇

The September 2025 (Volume 100, Issue 3) is now available. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/qrb/curr...

1) Are you an Assistant Professor studying evolutionary biology? 2) Are you in the US? 3) Would you like to give a research seminar in Iowa? 4) Are you available to travel September 4-6? If you can answer YES x4, please DM me ASAP, or comment below.

Fun!

The team of Ph.D. level experts in ChatGPT apparently doesn't include any anatomists.

I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy

🚨🚨We’re hiring a postdoc!🚨🚨 Min two year contract; start in 2026 (flexible) & contribute to this project focused on understanding the link between bleaching recovery and disease in cnidarians!! Opportunities to work on side projects too! Deadline Nov 1! Info here: tinyurl.com/y2abjsem

Kept wondering how devoid of meaning and greater purpose one’s life had to be to require extra centuries without regard for micro and macro social consequences, or how lacking in perspective to collapse women’s health to one’s ovaries, then… @newyorker.com 🤷🏽‍♀️ ’a version’ doing a lot of work!

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just like having a team of phd-level scientists in your pocket!

There is no technology in the world that would allow the resurrection of long lost species. Extinction is forever. However, genome editing technology could be a positive game changer for conservation 2/3.

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🧪Two weeks left to apply to this position! Note that posted starting date is a target and can be worked out. Questions? Contact me!

A male White-collared Manakin here at Casa Bentbill. This species loves the young forest here as there are lots of thick vegetation for them to hide and nest in. I hear their snaps and chirps as the lek around the house. #birds #nature #costarica

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Is there anything untouched by human caused climate change? 🤦🏽‍♀️

Add to these low costs all the carbon emissions…/s

EPA Director Lee Zeldin is a climate denier: “You have many on the left who will say ‘carbon dioxide is a pollutant’ and they won’t talk about all of the many reasons why carbon dioxide is actually necessary for life here on our planet,” thehill.com/policy/energ...

I was, and it is.

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