Nina Baranduin

Really nice paper from @tiff-ki.bsky.social & co. shows no overall decline in butterfly species richness in Sulawesi over 166 yrs, but changing communities with endemics & forest specialists declining. Short-term trends unreliable measures of long term. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🌏

Flawed analysis invalidates claim of a strong Yellowstone trophic cascade after wolf reintroduction: A comment on Ripple et al. (2025) Ripple et al. (2025) recently argued that large carnivore recovery in Yellowstone National Park triggered one of the world’s strongest trophic cascade…

Large carnivore recovery in Yellowstone is often quoted to show ‘large trophic cascades’.

Yet the evidence is far more complex, and underscores the importance of analytical rigor and ecological context in evaluating the consequences of large carnivore recovery. 🌍🧪

That does look really similar and very promising good spot! But is it common for them to upturn and have that flower like appearance? Thats what is really throwing me off

Can anyone help me identify this tiny little mystery? Found in Cambridgeshire in the U.K. within a pine forest

🍄 #fungifriends

Seasonal activity patterns of a Kalahari mammal community: Trade‐offs between environmental heat load and predation pressure Ecology & Evolution is a broad open access journal welcoming research in ecology, evolution, and conservation science, and providing a forum for evidence-based views.

In the presence of lions, other species forage during hotter parts of the day.

“Such a trade-off may become increasingly costly under the hotter and drier conditions predicted to become more prevalent as a result of climate change” 🌍🧪

Close up petal of a wood anemone, seven long oval white petals spread out with yellow sepals covered in visible pollen

The wood anemone flower in the ground. Not quite in focus with the woodland in the background

Wood anemones (Anemonoides nemorosa) are some of the first spring flowers.

They’re an indicator of ancient woodland as it grows very slowly via rhizomes – horizontal underground stems.

The flowers close up at night which folklore says is because faeries hide from the dark or bad weather in them

Wolves recolonize novel ecosystems leading to novel interactions <em>Journal of Applied Ecology</em> publishes impactful research at the intersection of ecological science and the management of biological resources.

Animal movements and behaviour are different in human dominated landscapes 🐺🐻🌳

Behaviours studied in less human impacted systems are often applied to novel ecosystems, but species interactions can be very different when humans are around 🌍🧪

Fear of snakes may be driving them to extinction - Advanced Science News With Africa’s population expected to double by 2050, many species of snakes are facing a higher risk of extinction, and conservationists are concerned.

Fear of snakes leads many people to kill them on sight without knowing if they actually pose any danger 🐍

This could lead to a significant increase in the number of snake species becoming threatened as human populations increase 🧪🌍

Carbon catch and release: Study finds bottom trawlers stir up seabed CO2 Nearly a quarter of the world’s wild-caught seafood is scooped up by bottom trawlers, fishing vessels that drag heavy nets over the seafloor. These boats fish the world over and support numerous glo...

New research suggests that bottom trawling stirs up large amounts of carbon from the seabed and releases 55-60% of this carbon into the atmosphere 🌎

This is nearly 2x the annual diesel emissions of the entire global fishing fleet of about 4 million vessels, @elizabethalberts.bsky.social reports:

For all interested in the tipping point of the Atlantic overturning circulation : here's Henk Dijkstra's recent talk. The tipping point has been confirmed in a state-of-art climate model, and a novel early warning indicator suggests we're heading there.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDZp...

New research. 🧪🌎 We introduce the concept of the 'sentinel node' as a landscape connectivity indicator for Protected Area networks, and demonstrate with a case study in Ontario. Out today in PeerJ peerj.com/articles/163...

This is an interesting paper of interest and relevance for anyone using models to inform environmental decision-making 🌎: Poorly designed biodiversity loss-gain models facilitate biodiversity loss in New Zealand newzealandecology.org/nzje/3548

Strobe lights, AI, shotguns: can anything help Canada’s polar bears and humans coexist? As the climate crisis changes habitats across the Artic and drives the animals closer to people, the search is under way for new strategies

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New paper using Species distribution models to generate relative abundance information of six wild felids inhabiting territories in Mexico that are inaccessible or politically unstable 🐆🧪🌍

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Unknown unknowns:

"The primary component of uncertainty may reside not in what is reported (the 'known unknowns'...) but in what is not reported, either because it was unflattering or because it was never explored in the first place (Donald Rumsfeld’s 'unknown unknowns')."

#metasci #philsci 🧪

Rebecca Barter - An introduction to Python for R Users I have a confession to make: I am now a Python user. Don't judge me, join me! In this post, I introduce Python for data analysis from the perspective of an R (tidyverse) user.

Are you an R user who is interested in learning Python?

This blog from Rebecca Barter introduces Python from an R user's perspective 🧪

www.rebeccabarter.com/blog/2023-09...

Effects of amusing memes on concern for unappealing species Magdalena Lenda x, Pjoter Skórka, Błażej Mazur William Sutherland, Piotr Tryjanowski, Dawid Moroń, Erik Meijaard, Hugh P. Possingham, Kerrie A. Wilson First published: 29 April 2020

A proboscis monkey. This ginger monkey has a pink face with a fairly grotesque looking bulbous nose.

A study found that sharing memes of unappealing animals (in this case, the proboscis monkey) significantly increased public interest in the species and people's reported willingness to donate money towards their conservation. 🧪 🌍

Morocco earthquake: Why authorities accept only limited international help Only four countries so far have been allowed to send teams to the quake-hit region.

Following the devastating Morocco earthquake, this article highlights the geopolitic elements of Disaster Risk Reduction:

🧪⚒️#AcademicSky #Geography
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-a...

Why we didn't get a malaria vaccine sooner - Works in Progress Hundreds of thousands of people die from malaria each year, but it took 141 years to develop a vaccine for it. Advance market commitments could speed things up next time.

Here it is!

>9000 word essay I've been working on for months with Siddhartha Haria and Rachel Glennerster:

The century-spanning history of malaria vaccine development; what went wrong; major funding struggles; the need for AMCs.
worksinprogress.co/issue/why-we...

Model of a Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD) south-indicating ladle or sinan made of magnetized lodestone

A brief sketch of the history of the magnet, magnetism, and the magnetic compass from its beginnings to the late sixteenth century #histsci #histtech
thonyc.wordpress.com/2023/09/06/m...

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New paper considers how to formulate hypotheses, including how broad or narrow a hypothesis should be (i.e., its "scope").

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#MetaSci #PhilSci 🧪

Most complete frog family tree shows they evolved later than previously thought The group may have evolved tens of millions of years later than originally thought.

When did frogs first evolve?? 🐸

It's long been thought that they first appeared at the end of the Triassic, but researchers have now created the most detailed frog family tree ever and found that they probably appeared 30 million years later in the Jurassic! 🧪
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Home - Letters to a Pre-Scientist The Pen Pal Program Inspiring Students To Explore a Future in STEM Letters to a Pre-Scientist connects students to STEM professionals through snail mail to broaden students ’ awareness of what STEM ...

Are you a STEM professional (including grad students, obviously)? Would you be willing to write 4 personal letters to a grade school student about life in STEM, to encourage and inspire them?

This program needs more pen-pal volunteers this year! It’s so much fun!

prescientist.org

Can barnacles help find flight MH370?

Barnacles found on the recovered debris could be used to reconstruct drift patterns by combining the barnacles shell chemical composition and growth patterns, along side oceanographic modelling

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Excerpt from nasa article: In 2023, NASA is sending a technology demonstration known as the Integrated LCRD Low Earth Orbit User Modem and Amplifier Terminal ILLUMA-T to the space station. Together, ILLUMA-T and the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD), which launched in December 2021, will complete NASA's first two-way, end-to-end laser relay system.

“hey what should we call our new space laser project?”

scientist who has never been social media once:
“idk call it illuminati”

VLEGT https://github.com/rmcelreath/VLEGT

Lectures from my short course, "Very Little Evolutionary Game Theory". https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDcUM9US4XdPtHR9OZdjhYKVMv_RR42yk
Topics:
1. Evolution of conflict
2. Evol of cooperation
3. Evol of relationships
4. Evol of Families
5. Evol of societies
Watch at x2 for maximum effect!