blastocyst

Check out our new preprint. In this review we show the comparative decline of experimental approaches in community ecology and discuss some alternatives to push the field forward

I'm compiling a list of resources for grad students in the sciences!

What are some free/cheap online tools for learning a new skill or concept?

The ones I've advised my students to use are ConservationTraining .org, the UNFAO Academy, and DataCamp. What else is out there?

Any tips welcome! 🧪

Evaluating perceptions of STEM majors to explain diversity gaps in entomology and other sciences Abstract. Communities working in entomology, ecology, and other natural sciences are known for having shortfalls in racial and gender diversity. We aim to

Our new paper from #EntoPOC led by Dr. Evangelista! Evaluating perceptions of STEM majors to explain diversity gaps in entomology and other sciences url: academic.oup.com/aesa/article...

painted pattern, bright pink

Cherry Blossom Pattern

Evolution of gut microbiota across honeybee species revealed by comparative metagenomics Nature Communications - Here, the authors perform metagenomic analysis of honeybee gut microbes, uncovering many previously unidentified species and host specific differences in composition and...

Happy to announce that our comparative metagenomic analysis of the gut microbiota of five honeybee species - spearheaded by @aiswarya.bsky.social - is finally published in a peer-reviewed journal! rdcu.be/eKMCs @fbm-unil.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social 🧵👇

Mystic

An old funicular station stands on a steep green slope, overlooking a grand basin. Its faded walls, marked with graffiti, show signs of wear and abandonment. A single car rests still on the incline, its paint peeling and rusting. Above, a large cloud rises quietly against the deep vast blue sky.

Basin up

From short to long reads: enhanced protist diversity profiling via Nanopore metabarcoding In the last decades, environmental metabarcoding has revolutionised biodiversity research, particularly for microbial organisms such as protists, enabling large-scale assessments of diversity and ecol...

Researchers present the BaNaNA (Barcoding Nanopore Neat Annotator) pipeline and display the effectiveness of long-read Nanopore sequencing for protist biodiversity, ecology and evolution research.

🔗 doi.org/10.3897/mbmg...

@ankarn.bsky.social @fabnot.bsky.social

Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...

New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Today is the very last day of Ex.Mag Volume 6! LETS GO!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/peo...

balck-and-white drawing of a big sailboat sailing past a dark sea-cliff. the air is full of little birds.

(re: world heist prequel: I have like 3 Perfect Pages, a bunch of less good pages, a bunch of text, but I need to finish up the text before I do anything more so it comes out coherent)

meow....

Fish At Pretty Good Place In Its Life Right Now

Fish At Pretty Good Place In Its Life Right Now
theonion.com/fish-at...

a super simple portfolio template - kaylee rowena

i made a super simple portfolio site template for anyone who wants to make their own art website but isn't sure where to start!

code includes a responsive image gallery with a lightbox & easy customization options. it's free & hopefully helpful for people!

kayleerowena.com/blog/2025/co...

ironhorn

YouTube video by Secret Base The history of slipping on banana peels | Pretty Good, episode 14

my first new episode of pretty good in seven years, now free to watch for everybody:

THE HISTORY OF SLIPPING ON BANANA PEELS

MMC Arts Grant Submission Guidelines: The MMC Arts Grant assists comic book creators with small grants to assist in the costs in self-publishing their work. It is not the grants intention to fully support an arti…

Hey team - I am the founder of the Make More Comics Arts Grant and each year we give away a cash award to assist a creator or project in physical publishing. The due date for submissions is March 31st. Please consider applying today!

100comics996889703.wordpress.com/make-more-co...

The 5 Brides of Lady Asherton

A dog says, "I think that the human mind is devilish and quite frankly disgusting". A girl replies, "ok. I think that about the dog mind".

:-)

drawing of a floating island above the sea. ballpoint on pizza plate

pizza plate floating island

See How Butterfly Numbers Are Dropping Near You (Gift Article) Populations are falling in the United States, a new study has found. Look up what’s happening in your area.

🦋 In 20 years, the contiguous U.S. lost 22 percent of its butterflies, according to a groundbreaking new study published today.

We got the data, and I made a tool that lets you find out what's happening with butterfly species in your town.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Congress has just released a list of federal DOI offices to be closed under the ongoing massacre of our natural resource agencies -- it's extensive and includes many important NPS, BLM, USGS and USFWS facilities across the country. Truly horrific. democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/imo/media/do...

Prey instinct

I BOUGHT A NEW INK CARTRIDGE FOR MY PRINTER TODAY!

they need to invent a dating app specially for me where the only person on it is this guy i've had two conversations with and the only option is to match with me