While other universities peacefully engage on conversations with students to end encampments and reach agreements, Harvard tries to force students out threatening them with disciplinary actions. Students have the right to protest!!!! Listening instead of threatening!!!

Very nice paper with evidence for hybrid speciation in Heliconius 🦋 by Neil Rosser, jim mallet Kanchon Dasmahapatra and co. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Herbaria are invaluable repositories of biodiversity that serve as crucial resources for scientific research, conservation efforts, and education. Show your support to save the Duke University Herbarium: bit.ly/4bRkrbI

A ceasefire is the most humanitarian way ahead, also for the hostages. Why is it so difficult for Western governments to support this?

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Duke's destroying a globally recognized generational legacy. I know 15 biology faculty and curators who trained at Duke's herbarium, just in my 10 years there. 2023's Climate Commitment 'for life'? A budget is a moral document and Duke has shown its cards. science.org/content/articl…

Western officials in protest over Israel Gaza policy. “[Western] administrations risk being complicit in 'one of the worst human catastrophes of this century'” bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…

What happened to our human rights?
What happened to the sanctity of life?

'Just how bad is it in #Gaza ?'

- 1% of population killed in 3 months
- 85% displacement
- 1 shower per 4,500 people
- 1 toilet per 220
- 2/3 hospitals closed

706,000 people are starving to death worldwide -- 577,000 of them (82%) are in #Gaza .

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UNRWA employs 30,000 people.
Israeli intelligence claims 12 were involved in the 7 October attack. That's 0.04%
Biden, Trudeau, Albanese and Meloni immediately move to accelerate genocide by collective punishment, cutting desperately needed relief aid.
It is beyond belief.

Very disappointed to learn that University of Groningen is blocking funding for MEME EvoBio , jeopardising a programme that attracted many young researchers to evolutionary biology — especially those from the Global South ukrant.nl/budget-cuts-th…

Guide to octopus 'taste by touch' chemotactile sensation.
Corey Allard Wendy Valencia Current Biology MCB_Harvard
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Check out our new preprint on invasive Helicoverpa armigera in North America — feedback welcome! biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…
Rapid evolution of pesticide resistance in native H. zea via two independent processes: (1) introgression from an invasive species, and (2) strong selection

Harvard professor Claudia Goldin is just incredible. If curious here a short video about her work: youtube.com/watch?v=c_frjr…

#NationalMothWeek day 6! Today's moth is a wasp mimic, a video I took in Ecuador earlier this year. Hard to believe it's a moth! Protects itself from predators by looking like a wasp. #MothWeek

Learning about how cephalopods have co-opted acetylcholine receptors as sensory receptors on their suckers - fascinating stuff at #SMBE2023 with Wendy Valencia 🐙🐙

How do jellyfish and anemones decide when to sting? Here, we ask 'to sting or not to sting' Lily He Corey Allard Wendy Valencia @stephalopod agnese seminara eLife - the journal MCB_Harvard
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Tropical mountains are hotspots of bird diversity due to exceptional coexistence and elevational turnover. But how do species get to live together in the first place? Here we elucidate the historical pathways to community assembly doi.org/10.1111/geb.13…

New Preprint! Amazing collaborative work Lund University Broad Institute Museum of Comparative Zoology . How does the triatomine bug Rhodnius prolixus, the primary vector of Chagas disease, detect noxious environmental temperatures? #ChagasVectors #ChagasDisease 1/5