Millie, the Pinniped Enjoyer

Wait, I wrote this! Yay elephant seals!

From ancient DNA to modern conservation: Assessing human impact on Atlantic bluefin tuna Genomes - Biodiversity Genomics Europe Case study Ancient Tuna Genomes An international team of scientists traces human-driven evolution of the Atlantic bluefin tuna from ancient to modern times, providing insights to support sustainable c...

From ancient DNA to modern conservation: Assessing human impact on Atlantic bluefin tuna Genomes biodiversitygenomics.eu/2024/09/09/f... @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social #biodiversity #genomics

In a stunning moment of carnal desire, my calculator said “BOOBIE5”

Is he died

Doodle page of @unclecucky’s cat, Muffy. :-)

Hello Muffy nation

An image of Sulawesi Island that consist of four connecting peninsula shaping the island into something that looks like a letter "K" with adjacent small islands, annotated with colored circles and triangles marking the location of anoa (circle) and babirusa (triangle) from three types of region across the islands. Each region is accompanied by an art piece of the head of anoa and babirusa to mark the presence of one or both taxa in the region. There are both in the northern and southeastern peninsula of Sulawesi, only anoa in Buton south of the southeastern peninsula, and only babirusa in the Togean south of northern peninsula. In the right side of the head art, there are DNA icon with breakage illustrating "deleterious mutations" and a forest icon illustrating "habitat quality". An arrow going down, up, and left accompanying each icon to mark whether the abundance of each icon are high or low relative to the focal populations, which is marked with arrow pointing right to illustrate stability in magnitude. For both Buton and Togean, the amount of deleterious mutations are low relative to the larger island's peninsula, while it has better habitat quality relative to the larger island. This graphical abstract is an oversimplification of the work, I hope you read the paper for more elaboration.

My first PhD paper on the importance of populations in small islands for the survival of megafaunas is out!

In sum, the ~100 whole genome sequences of anoa & babirusa, forest cover & climate model of their habitat, all agree that small-island pops are dope.

#consgen

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

“Shark Whisperer” Villainizes Native Hawaiians Like Me "'Shark Whisperer' claims to honor marine life, but it often confuses reverence with control," writes Kaniela Ing.

“Shark Whisperer” Villainizes Native Hawaiians Like Me |

Supreme Court clears the way for Trump's plans to downsize the federal workforce The Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court, via the shadow docket, has greenlighted the DOGE mass firings.

From us at NIH:

The Supreme Court is an arm of Trump and Republican Party.
It is not a court, but a political body. And it must be disempowered if we want functional science in the US. 🧪

Thrilled to announce the publication of the trophiCH database: a multi-trophic, species-level #metaweb for #Switzerland🇨🇭

Out now in #ScientificData 📃 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Want to explore the dataset? 🔍 webapps.wsl.ch/trophiCH/

#OpenData #Ecology #FoodWebs 🌐

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Wait this is so fucking true

A crow perched on a stump in a pine forest covered in dense foliage

A Forest raven perched on a broken branch

A dense forest environment with a river running through the middle

A fox crawling between some dense forest floor foliage.

Hey #PortfolioDay

I'm Aled, I'm a Welsh freelance illustrator and concept artist. I like to illustrate nature, wildlife and anything Welsh! ✨

I think this is the perfect opportunity to show off my new website!

🌐 aledthompson.com
📧 al98thompson@gmail.com

congrats to this years sanrio character ranking winner, pompompurin! 💫

You mean with the bootyhole out like that and everything

A faux retro Taiwanese movie poster of JAWS (1975) all text is in Traditional Chinese. The poster depicts a famous scene of Mrs. Kitner slapping Chief Brody, telling him that her boy is dead. Behind Brody are Mayor Vaughn and Dr. Hooper all look sad and ashamed, heads hanging low. Behind Mrs. Kitner is the funeral director reaching out for Mrs. Kitner, getting ready to take her away from the scene. Mrs. Kitner is dressing all in black. Skirt, blazer, heels, and a hat with a veil. The veil and skirt blowing in the wind. Chief Brody wears glasses, a blue Amity Police jacket, brown shoes, and khakis. His head is low and turned away from the viewer after being slapped. He is looking away from the viewer in shame. Vaughn is wearing a striped blazer with a pink shirt, brown shoes, and dark blue slacks. Hooper is wearing a beanie, glasses, denim jacket, denim pants, and converse shoes. The funeral director wears a fedora, glasses and all black suit. In the background is the tiger shark they mistook for the great white shark, strung up on a hook and rope, and were prematurely celebrating its capture. Further into the background all the townspeople look equally ashamed for the death of the Kitner boy and their now embarrassing celebration.

My poster for the official JAWS 50th Anniversary art show~The exhibit opens tonight at Art Alliance of Monmouth County in Red Bank, NJ 🦈

i hate to do this but i have two weeks left to fund my suddenly-larger-than-i-was-prepared-for top surgery bill. any bit helps
ko-fi.com/souttt/goal?...

Very pleased to see this officially out - Genome Architecture and Speciation in Plants and Animals. With @siluwang.bsky.social, @dortizba.bsky.social and Loren Rieseberg. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🐋 Two teams, two oceans, one result: to detect #whale #eDNA, sample as soon as possible after a sighting!

Unique co-publication experience!
@ewhale-dna.bsky.social @savecetaceans.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/edn3...
doi.org/10.1002/edn3...

#OceanWise #CitizenScience #WhaleWatching #WomenInSTEM

Painting of a young woman holding a puppy.

Trying to break my habit of only painting for family in times of loss, and make time to their commemorate joy too.

[ #art #digitalpainting #procreate ]

Matcha tea ceremony 🍵 🐉 Created with microns and water color.

Spatial conservation priorities for marine megafaunal predators: Multi‐taxon versus taxon‐specific approaches Conservation for marine megafaunal predators needs to improve as they are key for ecosystem functioning. We show that different marine predator taxonomic groups have heterogeneous distributions resul...

How should we best design marine protected areas for megafauna with large range sizes? New work from Betty Boyse et al suggests we should include taxon-specific coverage since multispecies MPAs can't address all taxon-specific ecological needs 🧪🌍🦑🦭🐳🐟
doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
@mariabeger.bsky.social

Characterizing Fraser's Dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei) in the Lesser Antilles: Distribution, Movements, and Co‐Occurrence With Other Cetacean Species to Inform Conservation Strategies in the Caribbean Fraser's dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei) is one of the least studied dolphin species due to its tropical, offshore distribution and low density. However, it is frequently observed in the Lesser Antille...

🌏 🧪 🌊🐬New paper led by Lucas Bernier: Fraser’s dolphins are among the least studied dolphins on Earth—offshore, deep-diving, and rarely seen. Lucas' work reveals they are surprisingly common along the Lesser Antilles, with a connected population across the arc.
📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/mms....

Watercolor paintings of a French bulldog and a schnauzer, being propped up by the most beautiful cat in the world

Puppys guppys wuppys

Screenshot from John Carpenter's The Thing. It's the scene where the head has grown legs and sneaks into the hallway behind McReady, joyfully wearing a party hat, blowing a party whistle and throwing confetti.

Happy 43rd birthday, John Carpenter's THE THING!

Hey #Evol2025 crew! If you enjoyed your time in Athens, here’s a great way to support the thriving immigrant community that makes it such a vibrant place to visit ❤️

New paper out from our crew on using #eDNA to detect the pathogenic chytrid fungus (Bsal) and characterise the surrounding amphibian community from pond samples in the Netherlands. Small number of samples but highlights the potential of eDNA for routine monitoring of both. bioone.org/journals/jou...

Manufacture and use of allogrooming tools by wild killer whales Michael Weiss and colleagues report on wild orcas using kelp as a tool for social grooming.

New orca tool use alert!!

@drwhale.bsky.social and colleagues introduce ‘allokelping’. Pairs of killer whales collect kelp strands and then together roll them along their bodies, keeping the kelp between them. The longest bout lasted over 12 minutes. It’s not play, and may be linked to molting 🧪🛠️🌊

We have a preprint reviewing how genomics has been used to inform evolutionary significant units globally, find inconsistencies, and give recommendations. Genomics is a powerful tool and hopefully can be used more effectively for conservation of ESUs! #consgen #popgen www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Art Fight An art gifting game

If anyone else is doing artfight this year :) (team fossil)

artfight.net/~lilsasquatch

Now in Advance Access: New study on the golden jackal in India reveals high genetic diversity, limited differentiation, and a long evolutionary history.
Photo: Ross Huggett

Again….we’re just supposed to clock into work and go about our days like nothing is going on? This is insane.