Global trends and biases in biodiversity conservation research
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I’ve been posting a lot lately about the zombie cicada fungus, Massospora cicadina. But Massospora cincadina is far from the only fascinating behavior-modifying fungus in the family (Entomophthoraceae).

Millipedes in the family Xystodesmidae are susceptible to a specialized…

BREAKING: This week the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that will take away federal protection for gray wolves across most of the lower 48.

We'll do all we can to protect them and to stop this anti-wolf attack. Help support our work ➡️ biodiv.us/4dnyG8L

This is really, really disturbing. Mass fish die-off in Vietnam as a result of the heat wave. phys.org/news/2024-05-m…

I have NEVER EVER EVER seen police do this at those Proud Boys protests.

I wrote about an orangutan who smeared a medicinal plant onto his face in order to treat a nasty gash he likely got from a fight with another male 🦧 within a few days his wound had closed! sciencenews.org/article/orangu…

What works and what doesn’t in making it in academia as #DisabledFaculty ? I recently shared my twisty academic disability journey in this post in The Mind Hears. Peer support matters! #DisabledInSTEM themindhears.org/2024/05/01/my-…

🌱 From the upcoming #AJB #Polyploidy special issue 🌱

Rethinking pathways to the dioecy–polyploidy association: Genera with many dioecious species have fewer polyploids

By Wilhelm Osterman, Adrian Hill, James Hagan et al.

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A thread on what actually happens in 'woke' college classrooms. I mentioned earlier in my racially diverse Debate & Deliberation course, the primary text was Randall Kennedy's 'Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word.' How did students respond? 1/
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Yesterday, a faculty member at USD made public that they were threatened with termination if they didn’t remove their preferred pronouns and tribal affiliation from their email signature

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Drag a net, destroy a world. Bottom trawling is deforestation of the sea.

I don't think y'all have a healthy enough fear of prions so let me help you w that

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The ultra conservative Springer press bought Nature in 2015 because they knew there is a lot of money to be made in publishing. Since then they went from 5 to 34+ Nature journals to capture the market of academics that believe brand names like shiny objects in a store.

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Join us for a look at the logistics, challenges, and surprises of being a new PI at this upcoming #Botany360 that will take place on May 28, 11 am EST.

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'Why do natural scientists continue to conduct and review environmental social science research without training and experience in the social sciences?'

African Tigerfish calculating the trajectory of the swallows to eat them mid air is one of the coolest things I want to see with my own eyes

Interesting blog, worth reading.

Nature sucks, stop publishing in their exponentially expanding journals! What an obvious (and sadly successful) money grab.

Support society journals and non-profit publishers instead.