Stefaniya Kamenova

These ‘ghost flowers’ thrive without photosynthesis. One scientist is learning how Japanese botanist Kenji Suetsugu studies plants that steal carbon and nutrients from soil fungi

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Experimental community ecology in decline: A call to embrace technology Community dynamics are complex and thus challenging to infer from observational data alone. Experiments, with their ability to control variables and isolate mechanisms, are a powerful tool for uncover...

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Close encounters of the Salamander Type #bulgaria #firesalamander

Happy to share a new peer-reviewed study on PubMed. Blessing eggs creates bigger and tastier chickens (p < 0.001). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41035978/

Smart dogs have a humanlike knack for naming new objects In games with toys, “gifted” dogs can extend names to new objects with the same purpose as known ones

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Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess

A very special encounter in the Bulgarian woods 🐍

Front cover of the European Butterfly Red List, showing Polyommatus humedasae. The report can be downloaded at https://www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?name=red-list-butterflies-2025

The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europe’s 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...

As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down

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Mass-Scale Genome Sequencing Will Change Our Understanding of Life The Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence 1.8 million species. It's one of the most ambitious science projects ever, and it will revolutionize biology

The quest to sequence the genomes of everything

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Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

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Remote‐Control Science in Ecology: A Hidden Face of Scientific Neocolonialism We introduce the concept of “remote-control science” as a modern form of scientific neocolonialism in ecology, where researchers, preferably from the Global North, control projects in the Global Sout....

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Chen et al. comprehensively evaluate the efficacy of invertebrate metabarcoding primers in (e)DNA-based biodiversity assessments in both freshwater and marine habitats 🪳 🧬 Find out more here 👇

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And many thanks to @andrewfoote.bsky.social for all the help and the feedback!

Ready for the #EuropeanResearchersNight at the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia! 🇧🇬

Spotlight on #biodiversitygenomics with our brand new exhibit, generously supported by @biogeneurope.bsky.social 🧬🧪🦣

#ResearchersNight2025 @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @iboleurope.bsky.social

And many thanks to @andrewfoote.bsky.social for all the help and feedback!

Illustration of a branch of Betula glandulosa (Resin birch). Illustration by Alberto S. Ballesteros (@asbillustration.bsky.social).

🌲 Boreal-tundra species drive Arctic plant borealization 🌲

Our new study in #EcologyLetters quantifies tundra plant borealization, assesses its main drivers and identifies the species & traits contributing to borealization.

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3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost

Israeli-backed aid in Gaza "deadly by design" according to report Forensic Architecture and the World Peace Foundation have published a report that found Israel to have used aid distribution to starve Palestinians in Gaza.

Israeli-backed aid in Gaza "deadly by design”
Research groups Forensic Architecture and the World Peace Foundation have published a report titled The Architecture of Genocidal Starvation in Gaza, which found Israel to have used aid distribution to displace and starve Palestinians in Gaza.

Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it:
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Do you work with data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (@gbif.org)? Please take our survey as we conduct a broad review of current experience and beliefs within the biodiversity data community on issues related to Indigenous data governance & sovereignty

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One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

This paper is wild. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Clonal males may thus be regarded as organelles at the superorganism level". Whatever mitochondrial challenges you may face, at least none of your organelles is an ENTIRE INSECT.

The Linnean Medal for Research An awarded to scientists for an outstanding contribution to the natural sciences.

Each year our Linnean Medal for Research recognises someone who has made a lifetime contribution to the study of natural history. This could be through science, or humanities research.

Submit a nomination by the deadline of 30 September.

📢The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has launched two new calls under the EU Fund for Youth Action on Pollinators, one for individuals and one for organisations.

📅Deadline: 9 September 2025
🔗Find full details here: speciesgrants.iucn.org

Assistant Professor position in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford University. Applications due Sept 30, 2025

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The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

Good morning. Illustrating this piece's points, a thread: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Exclusive: retraction-prone editors identified at megajournal PLoS ONE Study says small editor group handled many problematic manuscripts — and a Nature investigation finds out who they are.

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Our new paper, led by Andrew Burton-Jones, argues English-only science is unfair, costly and may no longer be necessary. With AI translation tools advancing rapidly, we ask what truly multilingual science could look like and how we might get there.
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EU proposes to suspend Israeli access to research fund over Gaza war The European Commission is tabling the suspension of Israel's access to the EU's Horizon Research fund as a consequence of the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. It comes after an accord between the two sides for Israel to substantially increase aid to Gaza has not materialised, say EU sources. #EuropeNews

EU-kommisjonen vil suspendere deler av Israels deltakelse i EUs forskningsprogram, Horizon Europe, på grunn av krigføringen i Gaza.

#tech #forskning #gaza

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