Eduardo Navarro Valencia

This is from 1975.

Cambridge University Library, University Museum of Zoology and the University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities

Here’s a great PhD opportunity in the crossover between humanities and natural history- please repost 🙏 www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Interactive XKCD 🔗

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Critically endangered kākāpō parrot has standout breeding season A total of 59 healthy kākāpō chicks have hatched over the last few weeks, according to the latest tally by Aotearoa New Zealand’s Department of Conservation. This marks one of the most successful…

New Zealand’s critically endangered kākāpō is seeing one of its most successful breeding seasons in years, with 59 healthy chicks hatched to date.

While the total adult population has grown from a low of 51 in the 1990s to 236 today, low reproduction rates remain a hurdle.

CONSIDERING

I have the seating board of a broken chair i could paint on and make this sign of 🪑 (the back bit is not a trellis for cucumbers)

There is No Consensus on Biological Sex At this critical moment when misinformation about sex is being applied to policy globally, scientific clarification on the definition of biological sex is valuable. Here, we evaluate the primary appr...

New paper out in ecology letters! with @andylee.bsky.social @allydefduf.bsky.social

We synthesized the active debate on how scientists define sex, including limitations and assumptions. We believe this discussion will lead to more accurate science.

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Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature - Nature A survey of tropical insect populations and thermal tolerance limits indicates that species from lowland areas have low capacity to survive increased temperatures, and that thermal tolerance is limited by fundamental properties of protein architecture.

Nature research paper: Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature

go.nature.com/4ua5R82

Methods for knowledge-based biodiversity monitoring and management under uncertainty (BioM) - UiO:Life Science BioM develops new interdisciplinary methods to model and govern biodiversity under uncertainty, combining ecology, statistics, and philosophy. The project delivers predictive tools, normative framewor...

2 PhD & 1 postdoc available at BioM in Oslo
www.uio.no/english/rese... Interdisciplinary methods to model and govern biodiversity under uncertainty. Re-post widely! Work with statistical ecologists Olav Skarpaas (Natural History Museum Oslo @uio.no) @t-ergon.bsky.social

Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research - Nature Communications Different scientific traditions offer seemingly disparate approaches to inferring causal relationships in ecological systems. This Perspective unifies the causal assumptions and methods from...

Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Business & biodiversity are intertwined. 🧪 From material dependencies to transition risks, the IPBES #BizBiodiversity Report shows how companies can transform their relationships w/ nature. Addressing impacts & dependencies is a responsibility & path to innovation, efficiency & long-term resilience.

Applications for our Diploma in Wildlife Conservation are closing soon.

The course will run from October 2026 to May 2027. We have received applications from around the world, but would especially like to encourage those from the Middle East and China to express interest.

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If you can read The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters, lovely and insightful read, with many themes about forgiveness and the challenges in life.

Biodiversity conservation has an evidence problem — it’s time to fix it Globally, more than one million species are threatened with extinction, but often interventions intended to protect biodiversity are not rooted in robust research. The field has an opportunity to chan...

#DidYouKnow many conservation policies lack strong scientific evidence? The @ipbes.net #BizBiodiversity report highlights the urgent need for better data on what works and what doesn’t. Let's build a future where decisions are evidence-based!

More with @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🌘 "Starchild" 🌟
Commission for @franzanth.bsky.social & at last another of my Golden Orbits.

Bees 🐝

Sesiidae, the "Clearwing Moth" family, might be one of my favorite lep families

I've only seen 5 species so far, but they've all been BEAUTIFUL👏

1 Euryphrissa sp, Colombia
2 Synanthedon scitula, Oklahoma
3 Synanthedon chrysidipennis, Montana
4 Vitacea scepsiformis, Oklahoma

Blue morpho butterflies 🦋💙

Our DNA library is made possible thanks to the support of our funding partners.

Today’s featured bizarre specimen is a treehopper (Family: Membracidae) from Costa Rica. Some treehopper species, like this one, possess elaborate, ornate “helmets” that aid in mimicry and camouflage.

Restricted range species YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts

Why do we need to map restricted range species, such as these Wilson’s Bird of Paradise? youtu.be/2nkYZtnUJpA?...

beetle is writing you a love letter 💌

These little scale boys really don't need my help in finding a mate, but the way the little guy would climb onto my finger instantly and hop off when I put him next to a female*... 🥹
I love the yearly emergence of these silly Neosteingelia texana scale insects on my maple trees. ♥️🧪

Precision ecology for targeted conservation action - Nature Ecology & Evolution The fields of medicine and marketing use large data volumes and computational power to target individuals. This Perspective argues that applied ecologists should draw on such approaches to provide dec...

Meta-analysis is ubiquitous in ecology, but it is poor at determining which conservation interventions work in which contexts

That’s why we’ve developed Precision Ecology, using methods developed in, eg, medicine to inform precise, data-informed conservation

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The natural history of nightshades- Dr Sandra Knapp YouTube video by Oxford Biodiversity Network

Did you miss our first #Nature Series lecture of 2026? Not to worry, you can catch up with the Natural History of #Nightshades here now. @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk

Indonesia takes action against mining firms after floods devastate population of world’s rarest ape Conservationists hail the ‘desperately needed’ measures and urge greater protection after up to 11% of endangered Tapanuli orangutans wiped out

Indonesia takes action against mining firms after floods devastate population of world’s rarest ape

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

🌍 Did you know? The African continent is home to about 20% of the world’s bird species! 🦅

This incredible biodiversity is highlighted in the IPBES #RegionalAssessment for Africa, showcasing the continent's vital role in global ecosystems.

ℹ️ https://www.ipbes.net/assessment-reports/africa

museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go

70's TV Ad for Godzilla vs Megalon (1973)
#godzilla

Here are a few of last year #BlueBugs to try to cheer on this #BlueMonday !