6,358 views & 819 likes already 🤯 My Dual-SID C64 chiptune of Bohemian Rhapsody is getting an amazing response – thank you all so much for the hype and support 💙 ▶️ youtu.be/wG1jusRAZx8?... #C64 #Chiptune #BohemianRhapsody #SID

Read the key findings of the annual report on foodborne diseases in simple words. EFSA & @ecdc.europa.eu have published the plain-language summary of the One Health Zoonoses Report: ✔ Top findings ✔ Most reported zoonoses in 2024 ✔ Number of foodborne outbreaks 🔗 link.europa.eu/jrMdp8 #OneHealth

#Chikungunya #virus #disease worldwide overview ... | #CHIKVD | #pathogen | #Publichealth | Via @europeantimes.news

“The longer I live, the more convinced I am that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.” - George Bernard Shaw

📢 Save the date! We will host the 5th European Conference on Xylella fastidiosa: 📍 Bari, Italy 📅 22–26 June 2026 Join researchers & risk managers to discuss latest science and sustainable solutions for plant health. More at link.europa.eu/WwpXyr #Xylella #PlantHealth @efsa-plants.bsky.social

This gallery of almost all EU bee species high quality photos is quite impressive: pollinatoracademy.eu/images

Could the way we arrange crops boost future food security? New work from @camplantepidem.bsky.social looks at how crop layout in landscapes can dramatically slow plant disease spread without relying on chemicals or costly interventions. tinyurl.com/353tb8jw @suprunenkoyf.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk

🎁 Travelling for the holidays? Some souvenirs carry more than memories. They can carry pests. Think before you pack: 🌱 Avoid uncertified plants 🍫 Choose packaged, safe gifts 🗣️ Inspire others to share #PlantHealth4Life message Bring home stories, not pests. More: www.efsa.europa.eu/en/plh4l

In a world where animal, human & environmental health are deeply interconnected, and change is accelerating, #Preparedness is an essential part of #OneHealth. Today, @efsa.europa.eu published a new opinion on the risks linked to HPAI. The time to work together is NOW. Together, we are stronger. 💪

Current plans to tackle global warming will only save 3 percent of Europe's Alpine glaciers from disappearing this century, with most melting away within the next two decades, a new study has found. 

🌱 Delve deeper into the ecology of soil with "The Ecology of Soil: From communities to ecosystems", a fascinating new book release from our Executive Editor Richard Bardgett! 🪱 Read more: buff.ly/6A4abeW

Chemical data from a stalagmite from the Zagros Mountains in Iraq shows dramatic climate shifts in the Fertile Crescent 18,000–7,500 years ago, which align with cultural events such as the founding and abandonment of settlements. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/syng50XGvkN

Desde que tú no me quieres yo todos los días me muero. Y alimento, con mi carne, en Monfragüe buitres negros, en Monfragüe buitres negros.   Robe Iniesta🪽

📢 Don't forget we're #hiring for a new Administrative Officer to oversee accounting, financial support, and human resources. 🔗 Read more and apply: jobs.eppo.int/gs7adm2025 ⏱️ The DEADLINE is at the end of this week - 13th December!

🌱Just published in @annbot.bsky.social : “An insect trap adjusting to weather conditions: Nepenthes rafflesiana plants control the fluid level in their pitchers to maximize prey capture” by Charlotte Andrew and co-authors🧵(1/8) 👉 doi.org/qhfz #CarnivorousPlants #Nepenthes #PlantScience #AoBpapers

Important new paper on the effects on floral gloss on detectability and flower identification by pollinators: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

🐦 Bruel 💚 01/12/25

#Evolution of #conifer seed cones 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #TansleyReview by @kmatsunaga @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience

How an influenza virus infects a human cell [via ETH Zurich] 🧪🥼🦠😷⚕️ "Researchers were surprised by one thing: the cells are not passive, simply allowing themselves to be invaded by the influenza virus. Rather, they actively attempt to capture it." ethz.ch/en/news-and-... #flu #virus #human #cell

How cool is this cover?

Marinelli Glacier (Cordillera Darwin) 1913 | 2024 Another mind-boggling comparison! 🧊🔥 Marinelli Glacier has lost >15 km during this period! 😲 Monte Shipton (2,568 m) at the background is the highest peak in CD 🏔️ 📷 1913: pano made of 5 images by Alberto de Agostini 📽️ 2024: Cristian Donoso

I received a reminder today that our manipulative Tansy plot-level chemodiversity field study has been published in the latest @funecology.bsky.social issue. I already shared Lina's work here before, but a bit of extra attention for her efforts does not hurt: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

#ArtDD2025 Sanderling Today's painting for #ArtAdventCalendar @saocousins.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca (from 📷 posted by @tawandafree.bsky.social, with thanks)

Pastoralists are stewards of Indigenous and local knowledge, and care for rangelands that span half the planet. During 2026 International #YearofRangelandsPastoralists, we honour both the lands and the communities that depend on them. buff.ly/jgxy8Iw

The perfect paper title doesn't exi... - wonderful work just out in Science from Hugo Merchant and team: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Suzie MacKenzie, printmaker working primarily in collagraph, her work describes the landscape of the north-eastern Highlands of Scotland #ReframingWomenPrintmakers #Winter

The orchid mantis’ petal-shaped legs allow it to glide 50% to 200% farther than other invertebrates. #ScienceMagArchives https://scim.ag/44wjOC4

🚨New publication🚨 Beetles are not only neglected pollinators! The Evolution of Flower Beetles as Visitors and Pollinators - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #LabPaleoecology @ibb-botanic.bsky.social

🍐🦊Frugivory-mediated trophic cascades: how apex predators can shape the recruitment of a fleshy-fruited tree 📷 © Tamara Burgos vist.ly/4ge6u #Defaunation #Mesopredators #MultiTrophicInteractions #PostDispersalSeedPredation #PredationRisk #SeedDispersalEffectiveness

🦋 🧬 Feature review @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social: "Project Psyche @projectpsyche.bsky.social : reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe", with @erebiologa.bsky.social and @entomoprofessor.bsky.social from @universidadoviedo.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Happy to see our new paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social, led by @canobarbacil.bsky.social, on long-term trends in coastal bird communities across 3 European seas. Bird abundance and diversity have increased over time, thanks to the role of protected areas. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#plants #history #botany #art 🌱 Coffea arabica - Coffee Plant Source of the stimulant Caffeine (and you'd be surprised how many medications contain it). Isolated by Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, c1819. The long, colourful history of coffee - goats, kings, popes... www.aboutcoffee.org/origins/hist...

Cultivars and variety mixtures in small grain cereals: to mix or not to mix? #opinion #MolecularPlant cell.com/molecular-pl...

RSPB has announced the bird of the year - Swifts! www.countryliving.com/uk/wildlife/...

🌿Excited to share our new study in New Phytologist! 🌿 Polyploidy is a major force in plant evolution, but is understudied in the tropics. We find that polyploidy evolved multiple times in Inga, a characteristic Neotropical tree radiation (1/n) 🧵. Full paper🔗: tinyurl.com/msnffhs8

47th New Phytologist Symposium: Extreme Heat – extending the thermal limits of life 2–5 June 2026 University of Córdoba, Spain Travel grant and selected speaker application deadline: 2 February 2026 Poster abstract deadline: 2 March 2026 www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps #PlantScience

The disappearance of the winter kingdom! 🧊❄️ Number of days without thaw in Zurich since 1882 🥶 20th century average: ~30 1963: 56 ! 📉 2025: 4 ! 📈 Via Simon Scherrer Data @meteoschweiz.ch

Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...

Los ultraprocesados ya superan al tabaco en términos de daños a la salud. Son también una de las principales causas de contaminación plástica, pérdida de biodiversidad, deforestación y emisiones. Detrás hay un puñado de poderosas corporaciones globales. Fuente: @thelancet.com.

🪲 REVIEW 🪲 This review uncovers the critical role of the plant cell wall in pest defence, integrating structural, molecular, and genetic insights to highlight its emerging significance in plant–pest interactions during herbivory - Perez-Alonso et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Le nématode du pin Bursaphelenchus xylophilus est un ver microscopique capable de tuer certains conifères en bloquant la circulation de leur sève. Il a récemment été détecté en France pour la 1e fois, dans les Landes. Des mesures de restriction sont mises en place pour empêcher sa propagation.

@EFEAgro sobre cultivos, clima y futuro alimentario efeagro.com/cultivos-cam...

🎉🆕📰🎉: A gap and synergy analysis of the European research infrastructure (RI) ecosystem: advancing the novel GRACE-RI dedicated to plant genetic resources doi.org/10.1093/aob/...

Join EFSA webinars on designs of priority pest surveys: ✅ 11 Dec – Agrilus anxius ✅ 20 Jan – Anthonomus eugenii ✅ 24 Feb – Thaumatotibia leucotreta Catch up on past sessions via EFSA’s YouTube & EU Academy 👉 academy.europa.eu/courses/efsa... #PlantHealth #EFSA #Webinar

Every Winning #Photo From #Nature #Photographer of the Year 2025 #photography Link for all the amazing photos (there are a lot): petapixel.com/2025/11/15/e...

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”

This study is WILD - some dinosaurs (reptiles) had hooves, and this is now the earliest known fossil of a hooved animal. Even crazier, mammals may have secondarily LOST their hooves through evolutionary adaptations (the origin of hooves is still kinda murky) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🦣 🤯 🦣 🤯 🦣 Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost! Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...