Fill a birdbath during a heatwave. Plant flowers for bees and butterflies. Leave a small corner undisturbed for wildlife. Notice the small lives moving through your garden. These things don’t make headlines, but they matter.💚

I am at peace. Cabo Verde lifted the entire diaspora and made us proud.

Climate change is literally canceling US independence Day celebrations. The July 4 parade in Philadelphia, the birthplace of American independence, has been canceled due to extreme heat. Heat waves aren’t new - what’s new is that climate change is making them hotter and more dangerous.

Philadelphia cancels 4th of July parade due to extreme heat, organizers say

Philadelphia's Salute to Independence parade has been canceled due to extreme heat in the weather forecast.

cbsnews.com

The first-ever #BizBiodiversity Assessment will give decision-makers clear evidence of how businesses depend on nature, how they impact it, and what this means for risk, resilience, and long-term value. — IngerAndersen.bsky.social, UN Environment Programme ED ℹ️ ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG #IPBES12

It is very hard to explain. The closing plenary of #IPBES12 produced in my feelings that I can only describe as a strong sense of future possibilities. Gracias.

The IPBES #BizBiodiversity report is a crucial contribution to the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, particularly its Target 15. — Astrid Schomaker , UN Biodiversity Executive Secretary The assessment is up for approval at #IPBES12: ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG

Interesting Self paced course bridging science, policy and practice #IPBES12

Pequeño recordatorio de que solo somos una parte chiquita de la historia de la vida en la Tierra. www.science.org/content/arti...

Bizarre 400-million-year-old fossil was an unknown life form

Enigmatic organism known as Prototaxites cannot be fungus, new analysis finds

science.org

Good night everyone. We live in a place full of wonders, present and past

Colton the fish sp💀💀ker 🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝@fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Interesting...a new clue in the mystery of Prototaxites, the largest land organism in the Devonian period. It wasn't a fungus 🍄 OR a plant 🌱. It's a completely extinct KINGDOM! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... reported by @sluntz.bsky.social for @iflscience.com www.iflscience.com/the-first-gr...

Brazil’s got a bold plan to save nature! 🌿 They aim to conserve 80% of the Amazon and ditch deforestation by 2030. With input from Indigenous folks and scientists, it’s a big step for https://www.carbonbrief.org/brazils-biodiversity-pledge-six-key-takeaways-for-nature-and-climate-change/

ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval.

Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 9mo ago

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” 🧪 IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. 🌍

Could work for biology teaching too!

manu schwendener@manuschwendener.ch · 10mo ago

"Most of us are incorporating a lot of handwriting into our teaching [...] And the students almost to a person think it’s cool!" Alan Jacobs @alanjacobs.bsky.social 🧪 blog.ayjay.org/excerpt-from..., via www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/...

Every picture tells a story. And together, these seven photos tell a story about 2025. cen.acs.org/education/sc... #chemsky 🧪

Photos capture some of 2025’s most notable events in chemistry

Los Angeles wildfires, a CRISPR milestone, and a de-extinction controversy are among 2025’s notable events captured in photos

cen.acs.org

A golden opportunity for a motivated LMIC undergraduate. Please forward if you know someone relevant

mara lawniczak@marakat.bsky.social · 11mo ago

a life changing opportunity made possible by the Nobel Prize funds awarded to John Sulston -- the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social runs the Sanger Prize scheme, open to an undergrad from any LMIC to spend 3 months here learning all about genomics. more details here www.sanger.ac.uk/about/study/...

NEW: More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists on the ground in Brazil for U.N. climate talks. The Philippines is facing devastating typhoons. Jamaica is still reeling from Hurricane Melissa. But it’s #BigPolluters that have direct access to #COP30.

On how to promote more silos, egocentrism and less cooperation with a new index:

Alison Hoens@physioktbroker.bsky.social · 12mo ago

New metric “Scholar h-index (Sh-index)” accounts for a researcher’s position in author lists to give higher score for first or last authorship 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Brave new crazy world. Remember hybridisation can result in speciation

British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU)@bou.org.uk · last yr.

An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range Expansion | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

"Her pioneering contributions launched two influential areas of biological sciences: bacterial cell biology and systems biology." @leslievosshall.bsky.social writes about Lucy Shapiro in @pnas.org #LaskerAward #Lasker2025 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A must read, dados estos tiempos www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump and Musk are obsessed with genetics – but there’s no science behind their simplistic views | Jonathan Roberts

The US right is misrepresenting science to support its racist agenda. There’s far more to it than ‘good’ or ‘bad’ genes, says genetic counsellor Jonathan Roberts

theguardian.com

Sí hay futuro, no se les olvide. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Seven quiet breakthroughs for climate and nature in 2024 you might have missed

Global temperatures rose and extreme weather ramped up, but there were also some significant breakthroughs for the climate this year.

bbc.com

Xmas break objective: to update this account and properly exist here.

Growing wine grapes under solar panels can increase yields by 60%. That seems like the definition of unalloyed good news www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/29/a...

Agrivoltaics can increase grape yield by up to 60%

French agrivoltaics company Sun'Agri says that two of its facilities increased grape yields by 20% to 60% in 2024, compared to areas without solar panels. The PV modules helped regulate temperature fl...

pv-magazine.com

Any suggestions @kjcharleswriter.com ?

Alicia Mastretta-Yanes@aliciamstt.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just moved to London. What modern (last 10 yrs ish) fiction or non fiction novel where things occur in London should I read first? +Points if things happen in the West or close to Kew

Just moved to London. What modern (last 10 yrs ish) fiction or non fiction novel where things occur in London should I read first? +Points if things happen in the West or close to Kew

This is for all the UK science folks 🧪 If you're just starting your lab and need kit but can't afford brand new consider checking these guys out.... www.unigreenscheme.co.uk

Just moved to London. What modern (last 10 yrs ish) fiction or non fiction novel where things occur in London should I read first? +Points if things happen in the West or close to Kew

Meet one of our newest community members: the incredible @ellenstofan.bsky.social! She's a former NASA Chief Scientist who helped develop a long range plan to get humans to Mars; now Undersecretary for the Smithsonian, where she leads the charge for "Life on a Sustainable Planet." Here's her vision:

Our Shared Future: Life on a Sustainable Planet

YouTube video by Earth Optimism

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Responses to natural selection can happen very fast, especially when there is already some variation for a trait. Even when the trait value is very rare, marked changes can happend across a few generations in species with large fecundity, like tree frogs (1000 eggs per clutch). 👇 #consgen

Germán Orizaola@gorizaola.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here, a summary of our previous work revealing evolution in action in #Chornobyl frogs. 🧪 #EvoBio theconversation.com/chernobyl-bl... (and the paper here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)