Luíseach Nic Eoin

Jane Goodall obituary: pioneer primatologist who inspired generations of scientists She was a tireless advocate for conservation, the welfare of captive chimpanzees and the protection of habitats.

Richard Wrangham pays tribute to Jane Goodall in an obituary for Nature, outlining how she was a tireless advocate for conservation, the welfare of captive chimpanzees and the protection of habitats. 🧪

Protect the Tibetan Plateau’s rich felid diversity - Nature Ecology & Evolution Nature Ecology & Evolution - Protect the Tibetan Plateau’s rich felid diversity

Sheng et al. call for greater survey efforts and broader conservation initiative to protect the 11 (ELEVEN!) felid species of the Tibetan Plateau.

(Strong contender for the Correspondence, or indeed article of any kind, with the best figure we ever published)

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really want a marbled cat now

Scientists targeted by dark PR tactics: Several academic scientists critical of de-extinction projects have become the targets of anonymous smear articles and weaponized copyright infringement claims:... EMBO Press is an editorially independent publishing platform for the development of EMBO scientific publications.

www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

The archaeological record of plastics

FYI this excellent piece is now free access for a month--check it out! #palaeontology #plasticpollution

Understanding environmental impacts of plastic requires a palaeontological lens - Nature Ecology & Evolution Growing evidence suggests that timescales for plastic degradation have been vastly underestimated. The fossil record of plastic-like biopolymers might provide a perspective on plastic fossilization in...

Sarah Gabbott's @thepalass.bsky.social plenary talk has been living rent free inside my head ever since December so I'm delighted that she's written it up as a Comment for @natecoevo.nature.com: we need taphonomy to understand plastic pollution

rdcu.be/eAmRU

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Cover of the August issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution. The image shows a pangolin curled up in a ball in the palm of a hand. The headline reads "Threat scales"

Our August issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/...

🧪 Featuring research on:

🧬 The antibiotic resistome
🌍 Palaeobiogeography of lagerpetids and early pterosaurs
🫄 Evolution of mammalian pregnancy

Cover shows a pangolin from Emogor et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This company claimed to ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves. Then the fighting started. Colossal’s bold announcements have drawn criticism from many scientists, but the billion-dollar firm is not backing down.

This company claimed to ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves. Then the fighting started. Colossal’s bold announcements have drawn criticism from many scientists, but the billion-dollar firm is not backing down. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New scientist headline critics of de extinction hit by mystery smear campaign

Like science? Then you better be interested when *someone* starts putting out hit pieces on scientists. This is beyond the pale ethically and honestly anyone who doesn’t want to slide to hell on a slick of ai generated content that benefits billionaire business, maybe now is the time to get angry.

I was really looking forward to @cpeg-cpb25.bsky.social but unfortunately can’t make it anymore. Hope to catch up later, but if you’ve got any #conservation #palaeobiology papers please do submit them to @natecoevo.nature.com! Or drop me a message to discuss

Geochemical chronologies in Paranthropus robustus teeth inform habitat and life histories Nature Ecology & Evolution - Strontium analysis of Paranthropus robustus teeth from two South African sites reveals that the Pleistocene hominin probably exploited both savanna and riparian...

Paranthropus robustus ecology and life history via Sr isotopes from teeth

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cover of the July issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution showing an image of an orchid mantis. The headline reads "Mechanisms of mimicry and camouflage"

Our July issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/...

🧪Featuring research on:

🌴Regenerating tropical forests
🐊Early archosauromorph reptiles
🦑Bobtail squid visual and nervous systems

Cover shows an orchid mantis, from Pei et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Moa de-extinction, moa problems.

Moa "de-extinction" plans announced - Expert Reaction An overseas company has announced plans to "bring back" the South Island giant moa. Colossal Biosciences, working with Ngāi Tahu Research Centre and Canterbury Museum, says it expects to "resurrect" t...

And here is a whole host of expert comment on the Moa/Colossal announcement -- well worth a read, with lots to think about.

www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2025/07/09/m...

I can't remember the location I'm afraid but I can tell you that perusing the Argos catalogue and then going to the shop was a highlight of visiting my Ballymena granny during this time period (no Argos down south then) up there with going to Camerons, glad to hear it'll be memorialised in print.

Nazi Germany did literally ban Nature:

"Articles are often published in the London weekly scientific journal Nature containing outrageous and vile attacks on German science and the national socialist state.

The journal must therefore be excluded from general use in the scientific libraries."

Free to read link: rdcu.be/etlmE

Finding out #Jomon people (hunter-fisher-gatherer-potter-beangrowers) may have #domesticated adzuki beans blew my tiny mind, so I wrote a Research Highlight about it for @natecoevo.nature.com

🫘🫘

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

(original paper is in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...)

Strontium isoscapes for provenance, mobility and migration: the way forward | Royal Society Open Science Strontium isotopes (87Sr/86Sr) are increasingly used as a provenance tool in multiple disciplines. Application to biological materials requires knowledge of the variation in bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr acr...

This article is the culmination of a @wennergrenorg.bsky.social project led by the iso-GOAT 🧪Judith Sealy. I'm so honored to have attended the conference, talked about open science in isotopes research, and then been part of this paper led by Max Spies 🏺https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250283

Spatio-temporal variability in forest biodiversity associated with human well-being across socio-economic deprivation gradients - Nature Ecology & Evolution Applying a combined social science and trait-based ecology approach, the authors identify ecological traits in forests eliciting positive or negative well-being among human participants in England and...

Forests in England and Wales associated with higher human #wellbeing are in areas with the least socioeconomic deprivation according to new research from @jessjessfisher.bsky.social and colleagues from @dice-kent.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... (OA) #AccessToNature 🧪🌎

Our alternative interpretations of the ‘king’ of Newgrange (a skull fragment from an individual who was born of incest) and his distant relations have been published! We argue for the importance of careful integration of aDNA results with detailed archaeological evidence. Such a great team effort!

"museums must shift from being passive repositories of colonial-era collecting to active, ethical and inclusive participants in shaping a sustainable and just future."
Claire Browning reviews
@jackdashby.bsky.social's new book in
@natecoevo.nature.com
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The lagerpetid Scleromochlus, one of the closest relatives of pterosaurs. Artowrk by Gabriel Ugueto

‪[1/n] New paper co-lead by @emmadnn.bsky.social‬ @macroecoevoale.bsky.social‬ and I: we combined fossil occurrences, biogeography and climate modelling to investigate the origins and early evolution of pterosaurs 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

she's so good.

Pangolin hunting in southeast Nigeria is motivated more by local meat consumption than international demand for scales - Nature Ecology & Evolution Data from questionnaires distributed to hunters and wild meat vendors in Nigeria suggest that most captured pangolins are not specifically targeted and that the animals are primarily captured for thei...

Data from questionnaires distributed to hunters and wild meat vendors in Nigeria suggest that most pangolins are not specifically targeted but are captured opportunistically for their meat, rather than for their scales www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Three-and-a-half million years of Tibetan Plateau vegetation dynamics in response to climate change - Nature Ecology & Evolution The authors present a 3.5-million-year-long pollen record from the Zoige Basin of the eastern Tibetan Plateau, 3,442 m above sea level. The ~5,000 pollen assemblages retrieved from the core reveal man...

An insanely long pollen core shows vegetational change over the last 3.5 my in Tibet (OA) www.nature.com/articles/s41... #palaeoecology

Cover image of the June issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution showing an illustration of a woodpecker flying into woodland at the edge of a typical UK farmland landscape. The cover line reads "Land-use legacies"

Our June issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/...

Featuring research on:

🧬Airborne eDNA
💰Costs of biological invasions
🌡️Genomic predictions of temperature adaptation

Cover illustration by Marco Lawrence, based on Bradfer-Lawrence et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Southern tiger cat (Leopardus guttulus) - Nature Ecology & Evolution Eduardo Eizirik works to understand a cat complex.

Strong contender for the most adorablest Species Spotlight we've published yet. Yes yes it's an interesting cryptic species complex but also LOOK AT ITS LITTLE SPOTS www.nature.com/articles/s41...

(free to read at rdcu.be/eqtw4)

We're excited to announce the next @icarehb.bsky.social Alt-Ac Paths conversation, with Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social and Tansy Branscombe @tansybranscombe.bsky.social, who now work at @natecoevo.nature.com and @barpublishing.bsky.social.
Thurs 19th June, 11am (GMT), Zoom link below.