It’s easy to do the right thing when it doesn’t cost you anything. It’s harder to do the right thing in cases like this, where it will cost Sally Rooney quite a lot. A really uncommon display of principle. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support

Irish writer of Normal People says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales and she cancelled UK trip due to fear of arrest

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There are better ways to quantify biodiversity than coverage-based rarefaction – in particular, by fitting the geometric Weibull distribution and extrapolating. GW outperforms CBR according to four different empirical tests. New paper in Oikos. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Coverage‐based rarefaction fails to quantify relative species richness

Coverage-based rarefaction (CBR) is a high-profile tool for assessing biodiversity that provides relative species richness estimates by leveraging the Good-Turing index u to interpolate. In contrast ...

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The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.

One of mine for Monday's Metro

The Amazon isn't just a rainforest. It's also the world's largest and most diverse freshwater ecosystem. More than 2,700 fish species are central to the basin's health, supporting forests, food webs and millions of livelihoods. Meet the Amazon's forgotten fishes. 🐟

Report: Amazon Forgotten Fishes

Celebrating Amazonian fish biodiversity and its vital relationship with people and rivers.

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It’s been almost 3 years since I won a public competition for a research position at CONICET, at the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences “Bernardino Rivadavia,” and the government stopped the hiring process due to scientific funding cuts. With me, other ~600 scientist are under the same situation.

Yesterday’s president Milei announcement is less about the Malvinas islands and more about making a distraction from the terrible reality Argentina is in.

Nos anuncian una erupción volcánica masiva capaz de comprometer la vida de medio planeta y la preocupación es cuántos miles de millones vamos a perder. El capitalismo nos ha vuelto inhumanos y miserables.

When I did my project about ponerine diet with stable isotopes, some Lepidopteras had a carnivore signal… i wonder back then if this was a mistake or not. Nice that this predatory lepidopterans are been discovered!

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New research article! 📰 Amador Vargas et al. document for the first time a butterfly caterpillar that starts life eating treehoppers before sneaking into ant nests to feed on their brood 🦋 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s000... #SocialInsects #Myrmecophily #Lepidoptera #Carnivory #TrophicSwitch

Starting Tuesday! 🌟 Post in any media, on your own schedule, & use the prompt words any way that works for you. Natural science, formal science, social science, & divergent fields beyond - every interest is welcome! (I’ve even got a history post in my own queue…) #SciArtSeptember #SciArt #SciComm 🐡

📣 📣 📣 UPDATE: The 2026-2027 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resource! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ecoevojobs.net 2026-27

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If you are into queenless ants, come visit my poster today and maybe grab some wine or mate 🧉! S07 149998 #iussi2026

Two tales of mutual aid: Rachelle Adams (OSU) described how fungus garden ant interloper Megalomyrmex helps protect its host fungus and Melina Kienitz (Würzburg) studies Vachellia plants and their tenant Pseudomyrmex responses to plant wounds! #iussi26

Many folks interested in ants recently credit AntsCanada and YouTube as inspiration… but decades ago for me and so many others it was Alex Wild and his website cataloging gorgeous insect ecology & behavior through macrophotography. Roberto Keller thanked @alexwild.bsky.social and I do too! #iussi26

Some photos I took during the photo workshop with @alexwild.bsky.social I still have a lot to improve, but I’ve already made so much progress with my old camera. #iussi2026

Looking forward to travel to Freiburg tomorrow for the #iussi 2026 and spend a week talking about social insects! If you dont want to miss a single talk and poster from our group on social wound care, no worries! We made a list: www.antcare.eu/iussi 🐜🐝🚑🐜🐝 See you soon @uissi-social.bsky.social

We had two papers out in Science and Scientific Reports in the past week - I couldn't be happier! Science paper on architectural immunity: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Scientific Reports paper on the synergistic interaction between new-generation pesticide and disease: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Architectural immunity: Ants alter their nest networks to prevent epidemics

In animal groups, spatial structure shapes social interaction patterns, thereby influencing the transmission of infectious diseases. Active modifications to the spatial environment could therefore be ...

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Book Review "The Ant Collective: Inside the World of an Ant Colony" by Armin Schieb If you love insects, nature or ants you should get this book. It's dense with diagrams and illustrations that cover every aspect of the lives of wood ants, the famous ants of temperate forests who build pine […]

Have a good sunday. Here it is a Dinoponera australis (= grandis) head taken with a scanning electron microscope.

"El trabajo de un consorcio internacional de estudios meteorológicos, del que participaron investigadoras argentinas, concluye que se debió principalmente al cambio climático provocado por la actividad humana." @nex_ciencia nexciencia.exactas.uba.ar/temporal-inu...

Verdad, consecuencias

En un escenario atravesado por el negacionismo climático, la trágica inundación que castigó a Bahía Blanca reaviva los debates sobre los efectos devastadores del calentamiento global. El trabajo de un...

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Oferta chula de doctorado evo-molecular en la preciosa Uppsala (Suecia) www.bioblogia.net/20... Más ofertas👇 https://biotapas.bioblogia.net/ #empleo #biotapas

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Animal Behavior at CoLAB, University of Tennessee (USD 60,000/year) www.bioblogia.net/20... Más ofertas👇 https://biotapas.bioblogia.net/ #empleo #biotapas

The environmental cost of war is part of the human cost of war. 🇵🇸 🌍 e360.yale.edu/features/gaz...

📣 Movilización en defensa de Conicet en todo el país! 🟢 Desde las distintas regionales de ATE Conicet nos organismos para enfrentar el ajuste y un nuevo episodio de amenazas contra nuestro organismo y ante la primera reunión del año del Directorio de Conicet.

Using Bayesian neural networks and evolutionary modelling, we show that trophallaxis evolved twice in ants: 130 million years ago when flowering plants became more abundant and ants began harvesting sugary liquids from plants and their insect partners, and again in others ~90 million years ago.

2025: AÑO INTERNACIONAL DE LA CIENCIA Y LA TECNOLOGÍÁ CUANTICAS Se viene un 2025 muy especial, con cursos de introducción a la computación cuántica, charlas de divulgación, congresos científicos, y mucho más. Manténganse al tanto: Quantum Logic + Probability ( www.quantumlogic.com.ar )