A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity discusses population trends of migratory birds, dominant threats in different regions and existing conservation initiatives. It also recommends integrative conservation approaches for the future. go.nature.com/4z0KWae 🌎🧪

Research in Nature Communications confirms a flowering plant as a new carnivorous lineage. The findings show that Saxifraga candelabrum can attract, trap, and digest insects, and absorb nitrogen from them, supporting a prediction made by Charles Darwin. go.nature.com/4xpJCMt 🌎🧪

Very happy to share that our story is now published in @natplants! 🥂 Check it out here: nature.com/articles/s41... A study by @UGrenobleAlpes @LPCV_Grenoble @IBS_Grenoble made possible thru significant collaboration with @institut_curie @iGred @uni_regensburg. 1000 thanks to all!

The dual trxG/PcG protein ULTRAPETALA1 modulates H3K27me3 and directly enhances POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 2 activity for fine-tuned reproductive transitions - Nature Plants

This study reports a bivalent factor, ULTRAPETALA1, that can counteract as well as promote PRC2 activity at hundreds of developmental genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. The pro-PRC2 activity of ULTRAPETAL...

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More than 40,000 insect species may live in a tiny patch of the Amazon, from the ground to the canopy. That's nearly half of all the insect species described in Brazil. I wrote about the ambitious project behind this estimate for @nature.com. It could uncover tens of thousands of species:

Tiny patch of Amazon likely holds 40,000 insect species — many new to science

Megaproject involving hundreds of sites is cataloguing rainforest insects from the ground to the canopy.

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A study in Communications Medicine explores whether psilocybin-assisted therapy could help U.S. military Veterans with severe, treatment-resistant PTSD and found participants showed major symptom improvements after two psilocybin sessions and therapy. go.nature.com/458K2dZ #medsky 🧪

Join us in Memphis in November for a free Nature Conference on pediatric cancer care, which will bring together global experts to tackle urgent challenges and opportunities in the field. Submit an abstract by Thursday's deadline. go.nature.com/4f7uhKk #STEMConference #medsky #Academicsky #cansky

I love a story about a researcher who is a force for good: @nature.com's Working Scientist profile of Mary Gray, statistician, mathematician and lawyer. As told to Rachel Crowell. How I use statistics and my law degree to fight human-rights abuses www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How I use statistics and my law degree to fight human-rights abuses

Some 50 years after exposing gender discrimination in US academics’ retirement benefits, Mary Gray works as a statistician and social-justice campaigner.

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Salty water flowing through Antarctica’s Blood Falls contains a distinct community of marine-specific microorganisms, providing evidence that the brine system beneath the glacier has a marine origin, according to a paper in Nature Geoscience. go.nature.com/3S6Csxw ⚒️🌎🧪

A paper in Nature reports that aerial imaging has detected 432 patterns called earthworks, on the ground in southwestern Amazonia. The findings were made in an area previously inhabited by the ancient Aquiry civilization of southwestern Amazonia. go.nature.com/4be3R7e 🏺🧪

Students who open a personal social media account earlier in adolescence appear to perform worse in later standardised tests, according to a study in Nature Human Behaviour based on 5,227 Italian students. go.nature.com/4pUN8fe #edusky 🧪

New data on homebuying loan records around World War II in the US, linked to race and immigration status, show that Black borrowers were disproportionally excluded from mortgage programmes, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4fQ2BIZ 🏺🧪

The authors of a Comment article in Nature Mental Health suggest ways to incorporate pain measurement and management into the care of people with treatment-resistant depression. go.nature.com/4wzgnXi 🧪

Scientists who use large language models (LLMs) to help them with their research will spend less time refining their work and instead jump quickly to fresh projects, according to a modelling study. go.nature.com/451DgXl

Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predicts

Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.

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Fern savannahs spread rapidly following the collapse of the forest ecosystem during the end-Triassic mass extinction, setting the conditions for widespread wildfires, according to an analysis reported in Nature Geoscience. go.nature.com/4wmgIg5 🌎🧪

Longitudinal proteomic analysis of plasma from unaffected carriers of ALS-associated pathogenic variants shows early protein changes before ALS symptoms and enabled mapping of their trajectories as well as prediction of the timing of phenoconversion, according to a paper in Nature Communications. 🧪

Longitudinal plasma proteomics predict phenoconversion to clinically manifest ALS - Nature Medicine

Longitudinal proteomic analysis of plasma from unaffected carriers of ALS-associated pathogenic variants revealed early protein changes before ALS symptoms and enabled mapping of their trajectories as well as prediction of the timing of phenoconversion

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A study in Nature Communications reveals molecular responses of untrained, adapted and deadapted human skeletal muscle to resistance exercise, which identifies a network of mechanosensory proteins and molecular chaperones that ensures skeletal muscle homeostasis. go.nature.com/4x5t6RA 🧪

Did you know all living things emit a faint glow? They're called 'biophotons,' and ultra-weak ‘biophotons’ might be used to diagnose disease or could even represent a new signalling mechanism in cells, according to a feature in Nature. ⚛️ 🧪

All living things emit a faint glow. Could this light be useful?

Ultra-weak ‘biophotons’ might be used to diagnose disease, or could even represent a new signalling mechanism in cells.

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"Tipping analyses focus on huge climate changes, often globally, over decades. Weather events are fast and local," writes Anders Levermann. "But look at the interplay between the two and it’s clear that the transition between one climate state and another is not smooth but extremely volatile." 🌎🧪

‘Climate free fall’: why the biggest risk to our economies is yet to be recognized

Increasing instability of the ocean, ice and atmosphere threatens farming, finance and society. We all need to wake up to that fact.

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A multi-ancestry genome-wide association study meta-analysis across 2,563,755 individuals presented in Nature Medicine identifies 26 risk loci for fibromyalgia, including HTT, and finds genetic correlations with chronic pain and psychiatric and somatic disorders. go.nature.com/4q860Yp 🧬🧪

Antibiotic resistance gene acquisition by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Achromobacter from transiently infecting bacteria drives rapid and extreme resistance to the antibiotic tobramycin during chronic lung infection within patients. #microsky #medsky 🧪

Within-patient gene transfer between transiently and chronically infecting bacteria causes extreme antibiotic resistance during lung infections - Nature Microbiology

Antibiotic resistance gene acquisition by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Achromobacter from transiently infecting bacteria drives rapid and extreme resistance to tobramycin during chronic lung infection within patients.

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A feature in Nature reports how newly discovered figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe. “There’s something magical about these pieces,” says archaeologist Nicholas Conard. go.nature.com/4bjXJdz 🏺🧪

Although CRISPR–Cas first made a splash in gene editing, scientists now use it to precisely target epigenetic editors to any DNA sequence. Nature reports on companies exploring epigenetic-editing technology and a handful of early-stage clinical trials. 🧬🧪

Epigenetic editing makes its mark

Researchers are rewriting the chemical tags on DNA and chromatin to tune gene expression.

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In a Behind the Paper post, Loekie Schreefel writes how farmers' questions led his research team to map how knowledge on regenerative practices spreads among regenerative farmers. The findings were published in Communications Earth & Environment. #Academicsky #plantscience 🌎🧪

Farmers’ questions changed my research agenda: the case of knowledge sources in regenerative agriculture

Farmers’ questions led us to map how knowledge on regenerative practices spreads among regenerative farmers. We found that international sources mainly shape guiding principles, while local actors adapt these ideas into practices suited to specific farm contexts and conditions.

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A Review in Nature Sensors discusses AI-powered closed-loop wearable bioelectronics, which is emerging as a route to personalized and autonomous healthcare by linking real-time biosensing with therapeutic intervention. go.nature.com/4vUcURW #AI 🧪

A study in npj Climate Action of Australians found that people who take personal climate actions are more, not less, likely to engage in collective climate efforts and support climate policies. No evidence that individual action “crowds out” broader climate engagement. go.nature.com/3RoIARA 🌎🧪

A newly identified snake species found in Brazil may be the earliest-known snake to have diverged from the stem line, according to research in Nature. go.nature.com/44JIwyI #Paleosly 🧪

Summer days featuring conditions that promote wildfire ignition, intensity, and spread have more than doubled across large parts of the Iberian Peninsula, France, Italy, and Greece since 1981, according to a study in Scientific Reports. go.nature.com/44U6vLR 🌎🧪

Excited to share that our paper “Climate Benefit and Ecological Cost Trade-offs for Ocean Iron Fertilization” has been published in Nature🌊🌍 Many thanks to my for contributing authors for their insightful discussion, help and support!

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Deploying ocean iron fertilization — a strategy for carbon dioxide capture — in higher latitudes rather than near the equator could reduce environmental impacts while still achieving removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, according to a study in Nature. go.nature.com/4hJtalk 🌎🌊🧪

Two papers in Nature report on silicon-based quantum computing chips capable of carrying out basic operations that are critical to enable quantum-based computation. go.nature.com/4yOxgin go.nature.com/4fMurWx ⚛️🧪

Interested in hydrogen in the energy transition? Articles in our July Focus issue and beyond explore different aspects of hydrogen production and use. Read on here: go.nature.com/4pItvqE