Who? Me?

Climbing route development affects cliff vascular plants more than subsequent climbing: A guide to evidence‐based conservation management to regulate climbing Our study shows that the climbing-related activity with the strongest impact on cliff plant communities is the opening of new climbing routes, while subsequent 30 climbing ascents generate a relative....

Gen z paper: making new climbing routes where rare plants be chillin is an L for biodiversity. Stay dyno-ing with the tried and true. Conservation planning for climbing areas is giving low gravity (🧢) and less impact on plants (🚫🧢)
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doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14785

Is it just me or do those little clear pimple stickers make it worse?

Not to be dramatic but I'm feeling eschatonic. Is it the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss or is my crush not texting enough?

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

They've been yelling about censorship for the last decade and now they're doing it

This is how I picture you existing most of the time when I think of what you might be doing in a given moment. In a beam of sunlight

The idea that balance is exponential industrial exploitation at the expense of entire species going extinct is absurd

It's hard to believe gender is biological if it needs to be policed

Saw a Rhinoceros Auklet while paddling. Good omen 😌

Trump and Canada spewing BS over conglomerating. Mid.
This is all Indigenous land and isn't theirs to fight over. Based.

Plastic particles and their additives promote plant invasion through physicochemical mechanisms on seed germination Plastic particles and additives promote plant invasion by negatively affecting seed germination of native species while having neutral effects on invasive species. The delayed germination of natives ....

Microplastics are straight-up sabotaging the OG native plants by slowing their germination in a major setback. But invasive species? They're simping on microplastics and might take over more land because of it. Tbh, invasives are shady for this.

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A really customizable ad blocker? Or just keep reporting and blocking temu and see what happens?

✔️ Gained the trust of at least one farm cat

Alberta gov really out here getting coal for Christmas

How can we hold industry and government accountable when we don't know who they are? We need transparency

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#entomemeology #entomology #entomologymemes #entomologist #entomologists #bugs #bugmemes

Pizza pockets and skateboarding for lunch

If you’re looking for the UCP MLA’s who voted to roll back human rights in the province of Alberta so egregiously that it’s expected the next move will be the notwithstanding clause.

Here they are.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Here's the most 'ecologist' answer: more or less!

Lots of smol beetles r just lil guys with good functional diversity game. They're vibin' near the marginal areas, slaying crop pests while big beetles said YOLO and yeeted themselves into the crop. Natural and semi-natural marginal areas on point providing potential ecosystem services

Honeybees (Apis mellifera) decrease the fitness of plants they pollinate | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Most flowering plants require animal pollination and are visited by multiple pollinator species. Historically, the effects of pollinators on plant fitness have been compared using the number of pollen grains they deposit, and the number of seeds or ...

Gen Z paper abstract: honey bees (red flag: non-native) caught in 4k gooning on the same plants instead of cross pollinating, forcing those plants to produce mid offspring. Native pollinators understood the assignment and go between different plants

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Fire isn't necessarily bad

At a minimum, this feels like Footloose

Why is it that a lot of people who love whales for being "smart" and "personable" also claim they don't like people? Whales are overrated. But also, Orcas having their salmon hat trend is phenomenal. I love them.

Not that I'm telling people what to do but biking in the middle of the road when there are no bike lanes seems like a good idea to me rn. Wear a helmet obvs

Plants in places they're supposed to be in are better at doing stuff compared to plants in places they aren't supposed to be in. Fish out of water and all that

Body size mediates ground beetle dispersal from non-crop vegetation: Implications for conservation biocontrol Intensifying agricultural landscapes by removing non-crop vegetation threatens ecosystem services like pest regulation. Non-crop areas may serve as ov…

Can I translate peer reviewed science into gen z language? Yes. Findings: Short king beetles, with the good good functional diversity riz, don't travel as far as big Chad beetles. Need marginal areas in cropland for pests to get ATE! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...