Sam Dean

Excited this new paper is out in Science Advances 📄✨ I think the results are important:

To tackle vertebrate declines which are often driven by interacting threats—🦠 disease, 🐍 invasives, 🧪 pollution, 🌡️ climate, multi-threat, systems-level conservation is key 🌍

#Ecology #conservation

Important paper. Schools are high-risk environments for respiratory disease transmission MAINLY because classrooms are underventilated. This problem has a workable solution - it just needs political will. Air quality is as important as water quality for public health. MT @martinmckee.bsky.social

Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

Understatement of the year: That’s a big mismatch

“Some are saying we’ll have a 10% GDP loss at between 3C and 4C degrees [of global heating], but the physical climate scientists are saying the economy and society will cease to function as we know it. That’s a big mismatch,”

Excited to have this one out after over a decade of work. Strong evidence for why migration matters for ungulates.

Interested in the marbled crayfish (Procambarus virginalis) and its invasion potential?
Have a look at our recently published biological synopsis, led by @vanmierlo.bsky.social
Link: waves-vagues.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/library-bibl...
#marmorkrebs #bioinvasions

Health Promotion International | Oxford Academic Publishes papers on major themes and innovations in the health promotion field. The journal publishes contributions from sectors beyond health, and seeks to promote theoretical, methodological, and ac...

Oxford University Press has lifted the paywall on the entire 40 year archive of @healthpromint.bsky.social as part of our flip to fully open access!

Check out the amazing work of our authors - free to read - here:

academic.oup.com/heapro

The High Seas Treaty is officially in effect! 🌊🎉🌎

TODAY, the UN’s #BBNJ Treaty becomes international law, protecting areas of the global ocean beyond any nation’s control.

👉Learn more about the road to protecting 30% of the ocean by 2030 and #60toGlobal from the @highseasalliance.bsky.social!

The deepest confirmed fish observation occurred at ~8,300 m. I know the shape behind it is another fish’s tail, but my brain insists it looks like the foreground fish is wearing a party hat. #deepsea #marinelife
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA Although health care expenditure per capita is higher in the USA than in any other country, more than 37 million Americans do not have health insurance, and 41 million more have inadequate access to c...

Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

New preprint up assessing the air quality and health benefits that could have been possible under the Inflation Reduction Act.

Huge effort here with Erin Mayfield, Jamil Farbes, @jessedjenkins.com, Ryan Jones, Tracey Holloway, and @jonathanpatz.bsky.social.

Environmental journalism is under pressure — exactly where it’s needed most.

The Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship by Mongabay will support at least 16 early-career journalists from tropical countries. Paid, remote, editor-led.

Apply Dec 15–Feb 1. Learn more: buff.ly/UI8X5ur.

Mortgage Campaign Landing Page — Paleontological Research Institution

90+ year old Paleontological Research Institution’s Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, NY faces closure if they can’t raise funds to cover their mortgage.
If you could spare the cost of a coffee, you, too, can help.
www.priweb.org/mortgage-cam...

🌳 Woodland proximity limits benefits of conservation land management for farmland breeding waders - Where grassland breeding wader assemblages may be put at risk by tree planting, buffer zones >500 m should be implemented to mitigate the negative effect on wader species👇

buff.ly/ETYsi3y

🚨URGENT! Today is the final day to submit public comments opposing the Trump Administration’s proposed ESA rollbacks. If finalized, these rules could have irreversible consequences for endangered species and their habitats.

📣Take action: https://bit.ly/4s5V1PL

Arctic endured year of record heat as climate scientists warn of ‘winter being redefined’ Region known as ‘world’s refrigerator’ is heating up as much as four times as quickly as global average, Noaa experts say

"The Arctic endured a year of record heat and shrunken sea ice as the world’s northern latitudes continue a rapid shift to becoming rainier and less ice-bound due to the climate crisis, scientists have reported." via @theguardian.com

A crazy event in the report: “Following the retreat of South Sawyer Glacier, a landslide in southeast Alaska’s Tracy Arm in August 2025 generated a tsunami that swept across the narrow fjord and ran nearly 1,600 feet up the other side. Fortunately, the fjord was empty of cruise ships.”

Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

NCAR is foundational scientific infrastructure. This is escalating the assault on climate science, and there is a direct line between this step and the loss of many human lives.

Today's Paper of the Day is:

Examining the threat of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza to human health

https://criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidence/paper-of-the-day

Join us to read 1 paper per day and stay up-to-date as we cover the spectrum of critical care across 2025

Not only does Musk demonstrate unfamiliarity with hysterectomies -- and 600,000 of these procedures are performed each year in the US alone -- but it really illustrates how he sees women: not as fully equal human beings, as tools for (his) reproduction

Wisdom update! Her mate is back, too! Wisdom is *at least* 75 years old, the oldest living wild bird that we know of. Birds are amazing!
#birds #albatross #conservation

A picture of a frog on a leaf with the SICB and Skype a Scientist logos on the bottom right with the following words on top: "Call for Artists!" Learn about the latest animal research adn create art inspired by the science at the SICB meeting in Portland, OR. Deadline to apply: dec 12, Project dates Jan 3-7, Stipend $1000"

ARTISTS!
I need your help!

In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.

Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...

Camera set up with Schmitt box for sense of scale. Photo credit: Andrew Johnston.

Super useful tips & tricks for insect specimen imaging from @andrewjohnston.bsky.social! He shares how to build an affordable focus stacking system on your own.

Handy guide available here:
www.insectid.org/post/focus-s...

#ECN2025 📸 🪲

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Voters to choose Philly DA, New Jersey governor as polls open for election 2025 Voters will also decide the makeup of Pennsylvania's Supreme Court Tuesday.

🗳️ Philly has a DA race, New Jersey is electing a governor, and the balance of Pennsylvania's Supreme Court is on the ballot today.

Follow live Election Day updates here 👇

The Top 10 most useful geospatial data portals: Update Visit the post for more.

spatialreserves.wordpress.com/2025/10/26/t... my top 10 most useful geospatial data portals list.

I saw Dr. Goodall speak in 2019 in DC. She greeted the audience in chimpanzee, showed us her childhood stuffed monkey Jubilee, and was incredibly human in sharing how she became a scientist. May we all be as good to this world as Dr. Goodall, and may she rest in power.

Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91 Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.