Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩‍🔬

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

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Title page of the review article 'The Physics of Sensing and Decision-Making by Animal Groups' by Danielle L. Chase and Orit Peleg in Annual Review of Biophysics. Includes illustrations of collective behavior in honeybees: a diagram showing uncommitted scout bees transitioning through decision-making to choose between two nest sites; a honeybee on a honeycomb cell; a cluster of bees hanging from a branch; and a schematic of bees forming a layered cluster.

More on collective behavior: Our new Annual Review of Biophysics piece - with the stellar Danielle Chase - explores how animals sense, share information, and make group decisions. In honeybees and beyond 🐝

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Co-production and conservation physiology: outcomes, challenges and opportunities arising from reflections on diverse co-produced projects Abstract. As a relatively nascent discipline, conservation physiology has struggled to deliver science that is relevant to decision-makers or directly usef

New paper out, led by @sjcfishy.bsky.social. We discuss the benefits of co-production - a collaborative and inclusive approach to all stages of research - for conservation physiology.

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In case you're wondering: no, it is not "the entire phylum of viruses".
Here's the taxonomy of viruses in general and measles in particular, from the folks who name viruses.
ictv.global/about/taxonomy

Veterinary midlevel position (MLP) Creating a veterinary midlevel position (MLP) is neither a sufficiently targeted nor practical approach to address existing workforce issues. More expedient and sustainable solutions are available.

We remain committed to opposing scope-of-practice expansion of nonveterinarians. Our work continues as we call for the right long-term solutions that will not compromise or undermine safe, quality medical care for animals or public health. bit.ly/3I3tKL5

Chris Turbill shows the first evidence of torpor use in free-ranging flying foxes, making it the largest bat known to use torpor #IBRC2025

Liam McGuire showed multiple observations of wind impact on migratory silver-haired bats diurnal roosts, where they are forced to roost in weird places #IBRC2025

Folks, who are your favorite science communicators on Instagram?

I have a great list of the marine biology and conservation folks, but am trying to build out a broader list of people who communicate other types of science using Instagram.

The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly | PNAS Science is characterized by collaboration and cooperation, but also by uncertainty, competition, and inequality. While there has always been some c...

"The 45 PLOS ONE editors whom we were able to flag due to
the anomalous rate at which they accepted retracted or PubPeer commented publications...edited 1.3% of all articles published in PLOS ONE by 2024 but 30.2% of retracted articles."

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

Exclusive: retraction-prone editors identified at megajournal PLoS ONE Study says small editor group handled many problematic manuscripts — and a Nature investigation finds out who they are.

Nearly one-third of all retracted papers at PLoS ONE can be traced back to just 45 researchers who served as editors at the journal

go.nature.com/3UITVts

Trainees: If you haven't already, learn the value of implementing the Bat Signal with your peers. When you're stuck and need a body double, a review, a brainstorm, an escape... this can be game-changing. Don't worry about being a bother, instead: pay it forward. We all need it a some point. 1/3

Funded #PhD scholarship on the ecology of the eastern horseshoe bat and its sensitivity to the impacts of fire at Western Sydney Univeristy.

Link: www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/... #IBRC2025

Thank you Alice! I appreciate the share and the comment!! ♥️

Someone who I've never met before in my life donated £151 and I'm completely blown away at the kindness of a random stranger. This means so much to me!

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YouTube video by ABC News (Australia) What is Australia's most underrated animal? | ABC NEWS

Australia has a lot of weird critters, and it's time to bring the underrated ones to light! Cast your vote here: www.abc.net.au/news/science... |

Hard to pick between the ghost bat 🦇, great desert skink 🦎, and turtle frog 🐸.

Video: youtu.be/u1-XUmqVC-M?...

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Just finished up and submitted my 18th peer-review

While it's unfortunate this isn't paid work, I still really enjoying reviewing manuscripts for different journals

I appreciate that I'm able to contribute to academia in many different ways

Academia folks,

I can serve on thesis/dissertation committees.

I am working on a formal "here's how I can help you/what you can expect from me, here's what I expect from you in return" document for students whose committees I serve on

Does anyone have anything like this I can look at? Any tips? 🧪

Photo of a group of zebra finches drinking from a trough (in the wild), with their distinctive head-down sucking pose. Photo: Simon Griffith

Fig. 2 from the article: Effect plots of the relationship between the daily number of visits to water by 219 tagged zebra finches across two water points in western New South Wales during a summer drought and (a) mean daily rainfall, (b) maximum daily temperature, (c) mean daily % relative humidity, and (d) mean daily wind speed.

NEW PAPER: Zebra finches increase water visits with higher temperatures and day length, and decrease visits with more humidity, wind, and rain—highlighting the importance of water availability for arid-zone birds in a warming climate.

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Public Science Engagement Using Social Media — Center for Wildlife Studies

I’ve partnered with the Center for Wildlife Studies to make an online take-at-your-own-pace version of my “public science engagement using social media” professional development workshop.

You can take it for graduate course credit, CPE credit, or just to learn a useful new skill.

Flattened and pressed, yellow and purple flowers lying on top of paper towel and parchment paper, ontop of pages of a book.

My friend took me birding a few nights ago, but I was distracted by all the wildflowers

So I picked a couple to bring back & press between a book & they turned out so good

I’m obsessed.

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