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A photo at dusk overlooking the river Clyde in Glasgow from Bell Bridge. On the right of the river is the Crown Plaza hotel (the location of the conference) and on the left is the BBC Scotland building.

Great weekend at Herp Workers 2026 in Glasgow🦎🐸 Highlights for me were the workshops on conservation genetics and updating the HSI for crested newts. Some very interesting discussions also had surrounding rewilding in UK, more on that to follow!

A conference room with people sat in rows and a large screen that reads Hepetofauna workers meeting 2026 welcome.

A scientific poster showing my PhD research about great crested newts.

Finally back at my favourite conference #Herp Workers 2026! Run by @arc-trust.bsky.social and @argroupsuk.bsky.social if anyone is here come check out my poster 🐸🦎

Niece got put on blockers cos she hit puberty at 10, my son was in line to get them at 11 but Dr said kids are hitting puberty younger nowadays. Said early in her career my kid would have been on them no question but come back if we wanted them

Literally that simple for cis kids to delay puberty

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

Ignore the performative, disingenuous cries of "antisemitism" Trump & GOP have so cynically used as a political shield. Look instead at what they're actually doing: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A quote from someone on a social media app which says "just another day pushing my far left extremist agenda of wanting to make sure everyone is fed and able to go to the doctor", this is overlayed on top of a picture of a pink rose in the sunshine

✌️ I love being a scary lefty activist

Feels especially pertinent right now. The hatred my community has received this past couple of years has been deliberately manufactured by very rich and powerful people with agendas beyond that which they would have you think. These people are costing lives.

Presentation slide explaining some results of research looking at the magnitude of range shifts, the effects on adaptive capacity of butterflies and how species with greater wingspans have moved further upwards.

Presentation slide on understanding the biological mechanisms of range shifts, with some picture of people working in the field and the lab. There is also reference to a paper entitled "Clustered warming tolerance and the nonlinear risks of biodiversity loss on a warming planet" from Royal Society B publishing.

Wonderful catching up with Rob today, chatting about his and my group's work on range shifts and species dynamics. Very interesting to hear about his work on butterflies in Spain and how changing climate is affecting species diversity at different altitudes.

A seminar slide in a lecture theatre which reads: population and community effects of global change revealed by butterflies

Looking forward to this week's department seminar with Rob Wilson @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social from the #science museum in Madrid, invited by @camilarocabado.bsky.social

It's almost as if deliberately making every aspect of society worse has a negative effect on people.

Getting legacy media to give air time to actual scientists who can communicate - and there are plenty out there - is incredibly difficult; and they are then set up against cranks whose opinions are supposedly the same value as years of scholarship

I moved the cory squad over to the 29 gal. Now they have more room for activities such as snorfling.

Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.”

Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop

📢 Adoption of new IUCN resolution on #amphibian #conservation 📢 🐸
Big news, since a recent study showed that amphib conservation is serially underfunded. The TLDR of this are calls for:
-updated conservation guidelines
-govts to implement long term national plans
-funding research

One of my favorite quotes I’ve heard across some of these short Chinese dramas:

“To be merciful to those who hurt you is the greatest cruelty to yourself.”

They really do use your mercy to continue to hurt you.

Don't miss our @chillsubs.bsky.social page! Lifesaver for us writers looking for specific publication standards and guidelines! www.chillsubs.com/magazine/lun.... Just another publication hoping never to charge reading fees and encourage everybody to create art!

Submissions Submissions are presently accepted via email: lunarsealiterary@gmail.com, or via the online submission form below. We do not presently accept snail mail due to timing and geographical difficulties …

Just launched an online literary magazine that I've been working on this past year. Eager to read what everybody has to send us! We are accepting fiction, poetry, CNF, and artwork. #literarymag #openforsubmission #fiction #poetry #writersofbluesky #artmagazine
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Can someone please tell me how the fuck I'm supposed to verify my age if this stupid verification site keeps not accepting my face scan or my card details...Like, no direct messaging for me I guess??? @bsky.app #fuckkierstarmer

Text reads Happy Bat Month! Support Bats! DIY Fundraising! for more info visit www.albertabats.ca Collage of bat images (all by Jason Headley) including top left - Long-eared myotis, top right - hoary bat held in a black gloved hand, bottom left Little Brown Myotis on a cave wall, and bottom right close up of the face of a Little Brown Myotis.

#OctoberForBats 🦇 Together, we can make a difference for bats! This month, let's rally behind bat research and outreach programs by fundraising and spreading awareness. Every contribution, no matter how small, helps us, help bats. Learn how you can participate and donate at www.albertabats.ca 💡

Hiya, so unfortunately I can't because this speaker's talk was recorded and anonymous for their own safety as they've had to escape persecution in their home country.

Refugee charities install safe rooms and relocate amid rise in far-right threats Exclusive: One NGO placed on an online hitlist had to temporarily close its office owing to harassing phone calls

Again I ask: how did we go from half of parliament and all of the press up in arms denouncing racism as a weapon to hound out the left, to the PM giving Enoch Powell speeches and fascists running riot in the street without a word of criticism from the main parties, and active support in some cases.

Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political.

Two genders - male, and political.

Two religions - Christian, and political.

Two races - white, and political.

Photo of the final slide of J Mappes's plenary at ESEB Text on the slide: Take-home Natural history matters Ecological reality is complex Fresh ideas matter Be ready to reject your favourite hypothesis Science moves forward when we keep both our curiosity and our humility

Final words of the last #ESEB2025 plenary by @jmappes.bsky.social:
"Science moves forward when we keep both our curiosity and our humility"

A picture of a presentation slide which reads "The path to freedom, surviving as a trans academic". To the left is also a banner displaying the logo of the ESEB conference and in front are a few chairs facing the stage.

Another presentation slide which contains some Qr code links to resources and some steps which academics could take to make space for trans academics. These steps are as follows: - apply for DEI grants - support LGBTQ+ scholarship funds - learn about local medical/legal systems to offer newly-arrived colleagues guidance - Avoid harmful rhetoric and behaviours

Very moving presentation from one of the recipients of the EUEA award from @eseb.bsky.social . As a trans academic myself, seeing effort being put into inclusivity has been refreshing. Thank you for platforming this topic and supporting people like this speaker 🏳️‍⚧️

The following pictures in this post are all of scientific posters at an evolutionary biology conference which show the methods and/or results of research currently being conducted on a wide range of topics, often accompanied by figures, pictures and graphs that help with the explanation. The title is usually displayed at the top of the page along with the authors names and their contact information, some people also choose to put a picture of themselves on the poster so that people recognise them and can talk to them at the poster session.

A selection of the wonderful #herp posters I have seen this week at #ESEB the European society for evolutionary biology conference 🐸 the sheer breadth of topics being covered is awesome, from population trends and conservation genetics to transposable elements and sexual dimorphism in meiosis!

RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’ HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

@karendeepsidhu.bsky.social tells us about how monogamy/polygamy alters responses to heatwaves in burying beetles (well a 25oC Scottish heatwave anyway)

Empty home crisis: Why aren't they being used to solve shortages? There are almost 720,000 empty homes in England. And many more on social housing waiting lists. Is using one to help solve the other a case of a missed opportunity?

265,000 Long Term Empty Homes in England

720,000 empty homes in England currently

1,627,450 second homes in England (99610 in Wales)

It's not assylum hotels stopping us housing homeless people. It's political choice.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!

We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.

Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑

doi.org/10.1093/icb/...