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This is a terrific explainer on why Casey Means as Surgeon General is so problematic. On top of what's here, might I highlight another major duty of the Surg. Gen.: overseeing the operations of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, for which she is wholly unqualified to do. 🛟🧪😷 Medsky

Black-winged petrels chase everything else in their chaotic airspace over colonies. Like true gadflies (insects), this juvenile Kermadec petrel - itself casing its original fledging site to alight for the first time in 2-3 years - is tail-buzzed right across the my study area. #SuperSeabirdSunday

Theme for today's #BirdOfTheDayset set by Alan @alan678.bsky.social is #GreyDay any bird with grey in their plumage, any bird photographed in rain or with a grey background. So here are a Grey Cat Bird, a Grey Heron, a Mute Swan and a Greylag Goose. #Birds 🪶🦉 #ECK #Nature #Photography #Nikon

A little dated, but: e360.yale.edu/features/why...

Over the last year, Xerces has been part of a coalition of organizations supporting a bill in Oregon that would increase the state lodging tax by 1.25%, and dedicate that money to wildlife conservation. And it passed! This ensures long-term funding for the state's most vulnerable species!

Yes, there are “forever chemicals” in many pesticides. As you might guess, they're dangerous to pollinators and other wildlife. Read on for expert answers to your questions about PFAS pesticides, their impacts, and steps you can take to keep everyone safe ⤵️ xerces.org/blog/your-gu...

EDITOR'S NOTE: "Every dollar you give can help us hire more reporters to snoop through campaign-finance reports, pay for public-records requests to ensure buried information sees the light of day and sift through and piece together often fragmented data," News Editor Ashton Pittman writes.

"Cindy Hyde-Smith has had the seat, the platform, and the power to act for Mississippi families — but she’s been too busy serving herself and her big-money donors. That ends in November," says Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Scott Colom.

“I think it’s really critical to maintain what we have for the future because this building can last another hundred years once it’s restored. I mean, wouldn’t that be great?”said architect Allison Anderson.

OPINION: "Recently I had the privilege of standing onstage watching my son receive scouting’s highest rank of Eagle. It was assuredly a proud papa moment, and a long time coming for him," Andrew Bell writes. www.mississippifreepress.org/opinion-scou...

Also important in the U.S.: support.ebird.org/en/support/s...

🐡🌎 I was wondering where all the PFAS floss went in my state!!! A win for the environment… and a loss for this series 😂 Whoops! Guess I’m done when my PTFE floss stash is exhausted 🤓 Not a bad way to end it 💪

👀Behind the Paper!👀 Author Joanna Sudyka answers the question: “Why do birds cheat?”🐦️ Joanna discusses the mating and parental behaviour in blue and great tits, collecting DNA high up in century-old oaks, and her advice for navigating a career in ecology🌳 Read it here👇️ buff.ly/cfyuXQy 🧪🌍️

Frontiers | Extreme marine heatwaves drive divergent kelp forest trajectories and alternative stable states www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar... 🦑🌎🧪

>550 abstracts received for the #ECSA61 #conference, but the submission has been extended until 31st March. Don't miss our Special Session on better preventing & managing marine #BiologicalInvasions in estuarine and coastal waters #MarineEcology #Research #InvasiveSpecies #bioinvasions #GuardIAS🌍🌐

Who wants to waste money looking for life on other planets,when we're busting with our own out-of-this-world life on this fabulous planet....? 🌍

Mass pilot whale stranding in Indonesia raises questions about ocean health news.mongabay.com/short-articl... 🌎🦑🧪

Brittlebush (Encelia farinosa) is having a moment in the Anza Borrego #desert in southern #California. #wildflowers #flowerphotography #nature 🌿

👀Have you checked out the newly released #BizBiodiversity assessment by @ipbes.net? 📄The output is set to become a crucial resource for examining the impact linkages between the business domain and the biosphere.

🌍 Can businesses thrive without nature? The @ipbes.net #BizBiodiversity Report says NO! It outlines business dependency on biodiversity, offering >100 actions to measure & manage nature-related impacts. Read more w/ @natcapalliance.bsky.social: thenaturalcapitalalliance.substack.com/p/the-nature...

"This Report, drawing on thousands of sources and years of research, shows both the risks of nature loss to business, and the opportunities for business to help reverse this." 🌍 —Matt Jones, #BizBiodiversity Assessment Co-chair 🏡 🧪 Find out more: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media

📣 Are you a media organization in a low- or middle-income country? We’re supporting projects that strengthen biodiversity reporting, particularly in biodiversity-rich regions or countries facing unprecedented biodiversity loss. Grantees will receive €10,000–€12,000 each: https://loom.ly/gJ8BWDw

Did you know FAIR principles for data openness can align with CARE principles for Indigenous Data Governance? A new study citing @ipbes.net explores their synergies & challenges in biodiversity research. Read the findings by Renske M. Gudde et al.: datascience.codata.org/articles/10....

So, of course, the FAA nixed the rule, saying the agency needed time to research the proposal. Debris poses risks to life on the ground and in airplanes, spaceflight, and space stations; can damage satellites; and interferes with astronomers' research. More: www.propublica.org/article/faa-...? 🌎

🌎 #environment #jobs #wildlife

Rose-breasted Grosbeaks (Pheucticus ludovicianus). Illustration from my book A Field Guide to Long Island Sound, Yale University Press, a.co/d/ffZ6GFP 🧪🌿🌎🐡🪶 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds

Begging & feeding also increased with endogenous cort. Finally, as expected, effects of hormones on behavior were context-specific: corticosterone-behavior relationships were only found in control nests, with low natural food availability. They were eliminated in supplementally-fed nests.

🚨 Top-downloaded 2024/25: female wild turkeys produce fewer male offspring where hunting increases male mortality, suggesting adaptive adjustment of brood sex ratios to enhance reproductive success under harvest pressure. ➡️ vist.ly/4uwtm #ornithology #birds #adaptive #sexratio 🪶

The Speckled Tanager lives primarily in old-growth forests. Though not yet considered a species of conservation concern, the bird is declining and deforestation is one likely cause. What is being done by @abcbirds.bsky.social to protect the species? Learn more: abcbirds.org/birds/speckl...? #birds

This bird looking into your soul may look a bit awkward as the brown juvenile feathers replace the baby down, but he wants you to know that he's a PEREGRINE FALCON and is--or soon will be--the fastest animal on earth. You? #birds

Manitoba's Duck Mountain Provincial Park in featured image for this article on conservation in Canada. Ending logging in the Ducks has to be on Premier Kinew's agenda. 🌎

What’s the cost of ignoring nature? 🌍 The 🏡 IPBES #BizBiodiversity report shows the risks that biodiversity loss poses to supply chains, finance & growth. With $7.3T flowing to harmful activities, let's act #ForNature! 🧪 Via Rhett Ayers Butler, Mongabay: https://ow.ly/QZUi50YrJLa#BizBiodiversity

Reef fish assemblages and abundance during early reef rehabilitation on the East Coast of Tioman Island, Malaysia - Marine Biology link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪🦑🌎🐠

Grateful to work on Middleton I. with the Institute for Seabird Research and Conservation, and particularly proud of two student co-authors, Stephanie Walsh ('24) and Sierra Pete (MS '24). #seabirds #seabird #kittiwakes #BLKI #middletonisland

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! The evolution of bird song: gradual or punctuated? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/04/30/t... #ornithology

New #OpenAccess work by @aurorabozzini.bsky.social et al. in #RESAgForestEnt reports on the effect of #SanitationFelling on #SpruceBarkBeetle damage, the impact of intensity and forest type, and the need for an integrated approach to promote resilience. doi.org/10.1111/afe.70039 #Ips #Curculionidae

Is more always better? Not when it comes to planting trees to cool the climate 🌲🌍 Our new study in @commsearth.nature.com shows that strategic reforestation can achieve the same cooling with half the land www.nature.com/articles/s43... #Reforestation #ScienceforPolicy