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Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief

A biology journal that paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.

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Want to join our team? Check out this opportunity. Closes 30 June NZT.

Neil Gemmell@profgemmell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🔬 Postdoctoral Opportunity – Mitochondrial Genome Editing We are recruiting a PDF to study how mitochondrial DNA mutations influence phenotype, metabolism, fertility, and ageing using mitochondrial base editing and Drosophila. Apply: otago.taleo.net/careersectio... 📩 neil.gemmell@otago.ac.nz

Durante las olas de calor las aves soportan mucho estrés. Esta hembra de Chorlitejo patinegro se moja el pecho para disipar su temperatura corporal y refrescar sus huevos, evitando así que alcancen una Tª letal para el embrión. Los moja y se levanta para dejar correr el aire.

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

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Frente a las palmeras washingtonias del Padre Anchieta, otro modelo de jardinería canaria es posible. Es hora de cambiar el jardín ornamental por verdaderos ecosistemas urbanos que protejan nuestra biodiversidad polinizadoresdecanarias.org/hacia-un-nue...

It’s like finding out that one of your favourite singers has been lip syncing .

Reese Richardson@reeserichardson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...

drhoz.tumblr.com/post/8174720... #3735 - Feijoa sellowiana - Feijoa An iconic tree in New Zealand gardens, beloved for its fruit. Which is ironic, since it’s native to the highlands of Columbia, Brazil & Uraguay, & reached New Zealand via France then California. The flowers are pretty amazing too.

#3735 - Feijoa sellowiana - Feijoa

An iconic tree in New Zealand gardens, beloved for its fruit. Which is a bit ironic, since it's native to the highlands of Columbia, Brazil and Uraguay, and reached New Zealand via France then...

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Join the Name It To Save It campaign to bring taxonomy into the spotlight on Taxonomy Recognition Day on the 23rd of May! 1) Take a photo of any organism 2) Find its scientific name 3) Post the photo & name together with the hashtag #NameItToSaveIt

Change my mind? (:

BREAKING: Huge win for the Endangered Species Act! Today’s ruling restores the Endangered Species Act to the status it held for decades before the *first* Trump administration attacked the ESA.

Federal Court Strikes Down President Trump’s Attacks Against Endangered Species Act, Restores Bedrock Environmental Law to Pre-Trump Status

Ruling derails future attempts to weaken law

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The new James Cameron-produced NatGeo documentary "Secrets of the Bees" is out tomorrow. I hope it's good - our bees and team members are in it, but I haven't seen the final product yet. Here's a trailer.

Very proud of this one: hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/...

When I hear lovely birdsong in the morning, I remember this comic and laugh

Some good advice for everyone, not just guys. No need to read the article, just listen to what William has to offer in the clip: bbc.com/news/article...

Prince William shares personal message on mental health and male suicide

Prince William has offered his advice to those struggling with their mental health, in a special Radio 1 panel discussion.

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Las diminutas semillas de un dragoncillo Antirrhinum miden apenas medio mm, pero a 20x muestran valles y cordilleras. Los detalles son unas 20 milésimas de milímetro. No deja de sorprenderme que algo tan diminuto lleve un embrión latente. Para enfocarlo todo tuve que apilar unas 300 imágenes.

Woah @davetoews.bsky.social this has got to be the coolest and (IMHO) most important ornithology paper I've read in a good while. Already added it to my class this semester! doi.org/10.1093/orni...

Syntopic diet divergence inferred from metabarcoding in a pair of parulid warblers: Setophaga virens (Black-throated Green Warbler) and Seiurus aurocapilla (Ovenbird)

Abstract. The role of diet in driving ecological differences across the radiation of parulid wood warblers has been a topic of substantial debate. The infe

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Without the last three words this would be a more interesting, albeit troubling, news item www.bbc.com/news/article...

Julie Inman Grant: The woman tasked with kicking Australian kids off social media

After decades working in the private tech industry, Julia Inman Grant now finds herself on the other side.

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A guide for Aucklanders keeping watch for yellow-legged hornets: 1. “Hmm, is this stripy waspy thing a hornet?” = not a hornet 2. “JESUS EFFING C what the F is that MONSTER, that’s he biggest wasp I’ve ever SEEN, NO Jaden KEEP AWAY, shit I think it has yellow legs” = hornet

I've been working on this for >20 years. It was about time to write it and stop playing dice against time (far too old for that) "On commonness and rarity of insect pollinators: patterns of species abundance and diversity in a hyperdiverse Mediterranean assemblage" www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

One could think the comment might mean that DNA was the key to the revision, but no, this is about being good and thorough with morphology-based taxonomy

@bjartejordal.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Cleaning up the mess after sloppy old school taxonomists: mapress.com/zt/article/v...

Plasmid mutation rates scale with copy number | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Some science for some sanity: A Beginner's Guide to Structural Variants in Eco-Evolutionary Population Genomics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A Beginner's Guide to Structural Variants in Eco‐Evolutionary Population Genomics

Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) has greatly expanded researchers' ability to study structural variants (SVs), that is, the variation in the presence, number, orientation or position of a DNA sequence. ...

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Born on this day - Alfred Russel Wallace en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_... 🧪🌐

Alfred Russel Wallace - Wikipedia

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Permanent Research Group Leader Position, Crete, Greece: Interested to assume long-term responsibilities for the Biodiversity Computing Group www.biocomp.gr I have set up in Crete? Apply now via apella.minedu.gov.gr/en/node/5998 (PDF also in English) - for questions email to stamatak@ics.forth.gr

One of my favourite beetle groups, even if I have never had the opportunity to work with them . . .

Scott P. Egan@scottpegan.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A troupe of tiger beetles.🪲

Breaking News - United States of America to be renamed Trumpertonia. Or Trumpeldom. Or Trumpelonia. Exact details being discussed as you read this. Unnamed sources hint that renaming of Earth may be next. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Kennedy Center to be renamed Trump-Kennedy Center, White House says

The board of the performing arts centre voted to name it after President Donald Trump, rebranding it the 'Trump-Kennedy Center', press secretary Karoline Leavitt says.

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Neat discovery. I've seen a few footprints along the Asturian coast, and that alone was mind blowing . . . bbc.com/news/article...

Stelvio national park: Thousands of dinosaur footprints found on Italian mountain

The footprints date back some 210 million years and show traces of toes and claws.

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I also wrote about this work in a piece for The Conversation: theconversation.com/songbirds-sw... 🦉🧪

Songbirds swap colorful plumage genes across species lines among their evolutionary neighbors

Interbreeding across species lines is one way helpful genes can spread into a bird population.

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BIG day for warbler genomes, with work led by @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social! Whole genomes nearly *every species* of warbler. Warblers the most "Pokémon" of the bird world? Well, they're also trading their coloration genes like valuable collectors cards ... www.psu.edu/news/eberly-... 🦉🧪

Warblers borrow color-related genes from evolutionary neighbors, study finds | Penn State University

A new study has uncovered several instances of wood warblers — some of the most colorful birds in North America — passing color-related genes to other wood warbler species, including those that are no...

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