First of the two @rhulbiology.bsky.social presentations at today's @ceevol.bsky.social Autumn Symposium is by @hannahmcgx.bsky.social who presents her PhD work on effects of oil pollution on guppy colouration

Don't be this editor. I can't believe we still have to put up with this exclusionary sh*t in academic publishing.

What the actual fuck

The "who has been married twice" really gets me lol

Kier Starmer what is up with your handwriting www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One of the things I find most frustrating about AI in education is that it means the only fair way to assess people are probably timed, in person exams. Yet, a few years ago, I would have advocated moving away from these kinds of assessments

Hymenoptera represent!

@blog.ecosia.org.web.brid.gy Please stop. I do not want a tab to be able to access a chatbot. You don't need a chatbot you're a search engine #ai #ecosia

Really great free course content on species distribution modelling from @uclcber.bsky.social. Really good for the underlying theory and easy to follow www.youtube.com/watch?v=8inE... #ecology #science

Do not. The water/electricity use is always going to be higher than for a normal search. Also the summaries are bad. The reason I switched back to Ecosia despite the fact that the search results are worse is specifically because it didn't use that stupid AI summary function

When so much of the media rolls out the comfy red carpet for Farage, Private Eye trips him up and milkshakes him. Be more Private Eye.

Really nice talk from @britishecologicalsociety.org on biodiversity change by Maria Dornelas! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ee6...

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

I AM ELDEN LORD

My God it's beautiful Shame it's not global !

The singularity is awesome

Excellent title, no notes

MPs gathered this #InsectWeek to #StandTallForTheSmall and pledge their support for insect life at the launch of a new All Party Parliamentary Group (#APPG) 🐝 🪲🪶 Sign the #Pledge & help insects thrive 🔽 www.royensoc.co.uk/news/mp-pled... ‪@barrygardiner.bsky.social‬‬ @libdemdaisy.bsky.social

THE WORKERS FIGHT BACK! www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Oh the irony of playing fortunate son "I ain't no millionaires son"

Gonna stop arguing with brainlets on bsky. I'm so grateful for Elon Musk & Donald Trump for snapping me out of it and reminding me of what truly matters: being a sicko peering through the window and laughing

Worth noting that a lot of fipronil based treatments advise prophylactic administration every few months

Does anyone know if this article about mass extinctions is about a new paper and if so, could someone link to it? I know there's been some work in this area but is this new research or just a pop Sci article..? It's behind a paywall #science #ecology www.newscientist.com/article/2481...

As someone who is working on landscape epidemiology in pollinators was great to see @billsutherland.bsky.social new video on landscape scale conservation :) #ecology #conservation www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr6u...

Congratulations to all the new fellows! I wonder can the RS confirm they were all sent information about the code of conduct, adherence to which is a condition of fellowship? Or is the Society not bothering with that any more, given their inaction over Musk's evident breaches?

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

One of the best emails I have ever received…

Brown hares can currently be shot all-year round , despite an estimated decline of 80% in the last 100 years . Please sign the petition now calling on the Govt to introduce a close season from Feb – Sept . Thank you !

Also the idea that just building more houses will solve the problem is flawed Any approach that actually drives down house prices would be electoral suicide since it is most home owners only serious asset

Here is the pre print (weird reading a paper without an author that's not standard practice) nabla-public.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/2025_nabla_d... Keep in mind only 10% ISH of drugs get through clinical trials

Here we go again

Let's go somewhere more private, my friend. Please step into the pentacle of writhing tentacles I have recently had built into my home.

Any ecology ISH pop sci book recommendations? #science #ecology

My god is that picture real

Wonder how they compare to ants... Remember looking up the brain weight as a proportion of body weight and it was like 15% so they are probably close to the minimum viable size

I've just found a clip of a wild bald eagle being weighed and can't stop laughing XD

Exciting to see our latest bumblebee 🐝 health experiment kicking off - nice work by @cminnaar.bsky.social in collaboration with @philstevenson.bsky.social @rhulbiology.bsky.social taking advantage of our beautiful biodiversity campus @royalholloway.bsky.social

This bumblebee worker is taking her first ever flight. Watch how she studies and memorises visual features around her hive entrance. These initial orientation flights help workers find their hives again on future foraging trips. What's with the odd, 90s-looking decor on the hive box? See thread 👇

This is what the inside of a bee abdomen looks like. Yellowish blobs are fat bodies, very white structures are parts of the respiratory system, pale white blobs along the centre line are ganglia (tiny brains) #bugsky #science #invert

Interesting but isn't there also a pretty big overlap?

Happy Saturday!

I'll say this as many times as it needs to be said. Save our Freaks. Don't mine the Deep. (also maybe unfollow NOAA. They're a disinformation account at this point. Fuck.)

"In the womb"?! Shocking that they are doing surgery on children this young!

🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

I like this idea but I feel like "There is a scientific consensus that climate change is happening" Is a lot more comprehensible than "There are multiple lines of converging evidence that climate change is happening"

This caterpillar wears the body parts of insect prey #Science #Biology #Zoology #CaterpillarBehavior #InsectPrey #NatureObservation

A beautiful day to take a Bill for a ban on biodiversity-destroying pesticide use in urban areas into Parliament! 🌱🐝#GoPesticideFree

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social has anybody written a good summary/interpretation of this for scientists/conservationists ?

Thanks for bringing attention to this. Had literally not heard a word about it

"biological sex" is exclusively defined by working back from "whatever the disgusting trannies aren't".