Stop This Enemy of Wildlife From Wreaking Havoc
President Donald Trump just nominated Project 2025 proponent Brian Nesvik to lead the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This is a worst-case scenario for our main wildlife agency. Urge your senators to ...
President Donald Trump has nominated Brian Nesvik to lead the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
This is a worst-case scenario for our main wildlife agency.
Make your voice heard: Urge your senators to oppose Brian #Nesvik for director of the Fish and Wildlife Service. β‘οΈ biodiv.us/41OVTfe
21.03.2025 15:57 β π 86 π 51 π¬ 4 π 6
Woohoo congratulations!! π
21.03.2025 11:34 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A chromosome-level genome assembly of the European green toad (Bufotes viridis)
Published yesterday in G3
@GeneticsGSA
19.03.2025 07:22 β π 11 π 4 π¬ 1 π 1
salamanders
SAVE THE SALAMANDERS!
SAVE THE FROGS! Founder Dr. Kerry Kriger @kerrykriger.com has submitted an official comment to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in strong support of expanded protections for U.S. salamanders under the Lacey Act! ποΈπΈ
savethefrogs.com/usfws-2025-s...
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10.03.2025 15:43 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 3 π 0
Huge congrats, Dr Jensen! Wonderful presentation and superb discussion! π₯³π Many thanks to @joanameier.bsky.social and the committee for so many nice questions and perspectives. Quoting the committee members: "We all agree that this is one of the best theses we've had the pleasure to read." πͺ
21.02.2025 13:45 β π 24 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
"...a compelling reminder of how deeply our fate is tied to the natural world. πΈ may seem like a minor player in the grand scheme of things, but their role in controlling disease vectors highlights the complex and often unexpected ways that ecosystems and public health are intertwined." #OneHealth
21.02.2025 09:27 β π 13 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
Check out our new study π
With @denovorego.bsky.social and @alexfhart.bsky.social
01.02.2025 09:59 β π 22 π 14 π¬ 0 π 0
Unreal: a study I contributed to was just published in @nature.com
A policy brief with the findings + recommendations is also available in several languages.
@ninanatureresearch.bsky.social
29.01.2025 17:09 β π 11 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
Conservation strategies aided by assessment of global genetic diversity
Assessment of how genetic diversity has been changing.
An analysis of published data reveals how genetic diversity has been changing in populations of 622 terrestrial and marine species and the effectiveness of different types of intervention to boost genetic diversity
https://go.nature.com/3CwUUaN
29.01.2025 19:57 β π 99 π 25 π¬ 1 π 3
πGlobal study on 600+ species reveals an alarming decline in genetic diversityπ§¬
But there's hope: we have the tools and conservation strategies to prevent further decline - if we act now.
Read the paper by following the links belowβ¬οΈ
#Biodiversity #GeneticDiversity #Conservation
30.01.2025 04:19 β π 20 π 12 π¬ 0 π 1
Arctic fox Captive Breeding Programme
Saving a species, one captive-born fox at a time.
The Norwegian captive breeding programme represents a central pillar in the conservation the Arctic fox #arcticfox #EcosystemRestoration #RestorationDecade storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b784...
17.01.2025 08:53 β π 14 π 7 π¬ 0 π 1
Posts about jobs, conferences, etc. from the Evolution Directory (EvolDir) mailing list https://evol.mcmaster.ca/evoldir.html, run by Brian Golding. This bot is run by @rdmpage.bsky.social. Problems: https://github.com/rdmpage/evoldir-bluesky/issues
Research Scientist. Microbial Ecologist. A lover of wildlife (particularly salamanders!), local food, live music, critical thinking and outdoor adventures.
The goal of the Canadian BioGenome Project is to produce high-quality reference genomes 𧬠for all Canadian species π
Sequencing Canada's Biodiversity πΏπ¦ππ§¬π’π¦πΈπ³πΏππ¦π¦¦
Learn more: https://linktr.ee/canadianbiogenome
Join the Million Frog March in Washington DC and cities worldwide on November 15th! Defend democracy AND the environment. https://savethefrogs.com/million
More than a million species could be lost to the Extinction Crisis in the coming decades. Learn about our work to save Earth's wildlife & wild places. www.biologicaldiversity.org
Senior Research Scientist, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research | Population ecology, demography, wildlife management | Delvis integrert i det norske samfunnet | bksandercock.wordpress.com
Ornithologist
Uppsala University webpage: https://www.uu.se/en/contact-and-organisation/staff?query=N99-636
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Per-Alstroem-2
ornithology, birds, mammals, evolution, speciation, conservation, ecology
Official international account for Lund University. Currently inactive.
Interdisciplinary scientist specialising in modelling the complexities of conservation & sustainability, as well as evidence synthesis; with a sideline in pheasants. Researcher at NINA(Norwegian Institute for Nature Research), Trondheim.
PhD in Ecology from Penn State πΈππ§¬π¬π¦
I hang out with pumpkin toadlets and study the effects of climate change on amphibian skin microbiomes and disease.
Senior Lecturer at EdinburghUni, PI at UppsalaUni. Genomics of mammals, particularly primates, and their microbes from bad samples #aDNA #museums. AE with GBE SMBE
Population geneticist.
Project Scientist with Amy Goldberg π»π§¬ <- Scientist at Embark Veterinary π𧬠<- postdoc with Dan Schrider π»π§¬ <- PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona π»π§¬
Associate Prof at Uppsala University.
Evolutionary Ecology and Genetics in Insects
Evolutionary ecologist, career break, career change, mentoring, fertility, insects, climate change, Women in STEM, @EvolEcolLincoln. Associate editor @Methodsinecolevol, BiologyLetters. Views my own
Crazy for biodiversity across America -- especially South America π. Iβm here for the amphibians, the jokes, and a dab of evolutionary biology βnβ genomics. πΈπ§¬
Captive breeding and reintroduction of endangered frogs. Research to mitigate the amphibian chytrid fungus. Partnership with the Smithsonian National Zoo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Zoo New England and Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Herpetology.
UC Chancellor's Fellow and NSF PRFB at UC-Santa Cruz πΈ Evolutionary ecology πΈ conservation genomics πΈ global change biology. She/her. emmacsteigerwald.wixsite.com/mysite.
Evolutionary Biologist at Stanford. Rapid Evolution, Adaptation, and Genomics. Open Science advocate.
IUCN SSC Specialist Group, sharing news on conservation genetic activities, papers, outreach etc
