Rudolf Meier paraphrases a post from @rdmpage.bsky.social : as ~ 2/3 of the records in GBIF are birds, @gbif.org is primarily a Global Bird Information Facility. To correct this bias, we need to focus on the “ugly” biodiversity. 🪰 🪱 🪳 🦟 @mfnberlin.bsky.social #LivingData2025 x.com/rdmpage/stat...

A gran day out: The salt mines and natural history museum of Nemocón, Cundinamarca, Colombia.

@harryshearer.bsky.social Apple podcasts seems to think Le Show is every 2 weeks 🙃

Pick an idiom: "more than meets the eye", "beauty more than skin [feather] deep" etc. In work led by Rosalyn Price-Waldman, we describe a hidden (and ignored!) black or white layer found below the visible surface of bird feathers which helps make bird colours so striking! 🧪 🪶 #colsci

“Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark For the straightforward pathway had been lost.” — Dante Alighieri (Longfellow translation) 704 years on, I suspect this opening connects with more people than ever.

(1/2) 🧬 The African BioGenome Project 🌍 is training the next generation of genomics experts through groundbreaking, hands-on workshops across 50 African countries—laying the foundation for innovation and discovery across the continent. 🚀📖 Read the 2025 publication: go.nature.com/40INiek

Damn the fascist and complicit GOP.

“We've gained notoriety And caused much anxiety In the Audubon Society With our games They call it impiety And lack of propriety And quite a variety Of unpleasant names But it's not against any religion To want to dispose of a pigeon.” Farewell to the master satirist and lyricist. 🕊️… ☠️

The call for sessions is open now! September 2025: Call for abstracts December 2025: Early bird registration opens.

The legendary Janzen & Hallwachs on the collapse of insects. “It’s the same sheet, same lights same place, looking over the same vegetation. Same time of year, same time of the moon cycle, everything about it is identical... There’s just no moths on that sheet.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Registration, abstracts, and symposium proposals now open for: XIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Herpetología 23-27 Feb. 2026, in spectacular Costa Rica 🇨🇷 🐍🦎🐸🐢🐊 www.herpcr2026.com/inscription ¡Pura vida, Mae! @sajherpetology.bsky.social @arc-trust.bsky.social #Amphibians #Reptiles

Check out this recent publication from EBP all stars @crawfordaj.bsky.social sky.social @solenne-correard.bsky.social sky.social and @cmazzoni.bsky.social

Dig the latest episode of the podcast “Entrespecies” from Gabriela Supelan and El Espectador newspaper about Digital Sequence Information 💾🧬ℹ️, Benefit Sharing, #COP16 and the #CaliFund, featuring Yours Truly, but in Spanish. _Espero que lo disfruten_. open.spotify.com/episode/5GgZ...

No surprise: Musk takes the side of autocracy in Turkey.

Inter|National Under|Grad student travel awards to work in the collections at the Natural History Museums of LA Co. (NHMLAC): nhm.org/student-coll... Deadlines yearly, 1st of April & October. Consult the collections: nhm.org/research-col... Give 'em a follow on IG: www.instagram.com/nhmla

Trump, a cult leader, is testing the loyalty of his followers right now. Will they drink the poison? Will they accept the idea that this is a temporary setback in service of greater glory to come? This is what we are dealing with, and it is pure evil, at global scale.

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Caecilians are legless amphibians that are reeeeaaally hard to find — thus my enthusiasm with this beauty from Río Claro, Antioquia, Colombia that MSc student Ronald Díaz found removing a wheelbarrow, then plastic sheeting, then removing leaflitter, then lifting old corrugated zinc roofing…

Researchers describe and illustrate Euonymus pushpagiriensis, a new species in the staff-vine family from the central Western Ghats of Karnataka, India. doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

Am I the last person to find out Musk has 2 left feet?

Don’t know what to make of this:

If we care about human health and disease, then we should care about keeping our frog populations healthy and happy 🐸 Increased Malaria cases correlated with declining amphibian populations Costa Rica & Panama. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... Great job, Roberto, Karen, et al. #OneHealth

🌿Are you an interdisciplinary expert on #biodiversity & nature's contributions to people? Here's your opportunity to be an author on the new @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment2!🌍 🎯Academics, Indigenous knowledge-holders, practitioners etc.🧪 Apply by 28 March: www.ipbes.net/second-globa...

What if you carefully archived your data following FAIR and CARE principles, but some person/agency is actively trying to scrub it? 🧼 Some thoughts from Nost &l (2025, Jan. 10th) and the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative, in Patterns @cp-patterns.bsky.social 👇🏽 www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

Seems every few months I seen another make of Chinese 🇨🇳 automobiles I’ve never seen before in Colombia 🇨🇴 . #Wuling (五菱汽车; Wǔlíng Qìchē) is actually a joint venture with GM making light 🚚 🛻 🚌

We CT scanned thousands of vertebrates from US natural history collections and made them freely available. Countless people have used the data for research (>200 pubs) and to learn anatomy/morphology. www.morphosource.org/projects/000...

McCracken Lab PhD Opportunity - Texas tortoise Seeking a highly motivated and talented PhD student to join our collaborative and dynamic research team starting Fall 2025. Research on the Texas tortoise (Gopherus berlandieri). tinyurl.com/PhDTXtortoise

Now accepting proposals for symposia and workshops at the XIII Latin American Congress of Herpetology set for 23-27 February 2026 in fabulous Costa Rica! Deadline for proposals = 28 feb. 2025. 🐸 🦎 🐢 🐍 🐊 www.herpcr2026.com/inscription These meeting are great fun, very educational & trilingual.

Here are some nice mushrooms for @lukelukeluke.bsky.social From Parque Natural Chicaque, Cundinamarca, Colombia 🇨🇴

With 282 members from 41 countries, the AGC is unlocking the diversity of amphibians and inviting you to learn more. bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Leap into amphibian genomics 🐸 with this new year read. The Amphibian Genomics Consortium (AGC) is advancing global efforts to sequence high-quality genomes and bridge the gap in amphibian research.

Merry Christmas Lichen to all, and to all a good night. (Arthoniaceae: _Herpothallon_ 🍄)

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

Hey All, plz repost, and share with grads, post-docs and disease folks! We are hiring a post-doc to work on mechanisms of immune responses of frog hosts to Bd infections. Deadline is February 1, 2025. Details for the position can be found at the link below. 🐸🐸🐸 zamudiolab.org/2024/12/17/p...

The episode also introduces Googles AI spoken conversation--it's surreal. Worth your time. From @davetroy.com

PDF Gratis, del 2023, “CONSERVACIÓN INTERNACIONAL COLOMBIA. Serie de Guías Tropicales de Campo 15 LA BIODIVERSIDAD DEL CORREDOR ANDINO AMAZÓNICO DEL HUILA UNA GUÍA COMUNITARIA”: www.conservation.org.co/media/Guia%2...

Rapid Sex Chromosome Turnover in African Clawed Frogs (Xenopus) and the Origins of New Sex Chromosomes doi.org/10.1093/molb...

DATA VAMPIRES is a four-part series digging into the costs of hyperscale data centers and why tech billionaires are so desperate to build more. In Part 1, we explore where “the cloud” came from and how it expands the power of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/241_...

Job opening: Herbarium Collections Manager. University of Cambridge - Department of Plant Sciences Closes 10 January, 2025. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKX702/h...

Teatro Amazonas in Manaus 🇧🇷 where rios Amazon & Negro meet. Featured on @npr.org this morning, so I thought I’d share some pix from 2011. Enjoy ☺️

My @inaturalist.bsky.social Year in Review stats. 247 species, that's not bad, all from Colombia. Here are a dozen of the most engaging observations as well. Details here: www.inaturalist.org/stats/2024/c... (iNat is the closest thing I have to a hobby these days, so I hope you like it.)

Please support your local Jungermanniopsidologist 🙏🏾

Newskies! Quiet Posters is such an incredible feed It shows you posts from people you follow and who post infrequently Can’t recommend it enough

Excited to share I will be joining @UniNeuchatel as an assistant professor early 2025. OFFER: 2 #PhDposition in the new lab. #1 is on zoo animals🐺🐒🦧 and saliva hormones, and #2 is on 🐠 cognition and brains 🧠 Deadline 20 Nov 2024 shorturl.at/NYvVd Spread the word 🙏🏽🧪

An #orchid mimicking some kinda bug, but which? _Telipogon berthae_ endemic to Colombia 🇨🇴 and common in #Chingaza National Park 90’ from Bogotá; likes to flower 🌺 in November, typically the wettest month of the year.

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With #COP16 starting today in Cali, a fitting way to mark Reptile Appreciation Day is to highlight the blue anole, endemic to Isla Gorgona, Colombia. Gorgona hosts this vibrant creature, but the significance of reptiles extends well beyond their individual beauty, affording key ecosystem services

A Pleistocene #mastodon stands above a #Cretaceous #plesiosaur at the Museo Geológico José Royo y Gómez, part of the Servicio Geológico de Colombia 🇨🇴 in Bogotá.