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Marta Shocket

@martashocket.bsky.social

Lecturer @ Lancaster University LEC | ecology & evolution of infectious disease, vector-borne disease, climate (change), stats/models, insects, Daphnia | they/them

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Jeremy Cohen@drjerbs.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm joining Rutgers DEENR in a tenure-track faculty position this fall! I'll be recruiting a quantitative postdoc in climate change wildlife ecology (start fall 26 or jan 27) and PhD student doing bioacoustics to study avian responses to extreme weather (start fall 27). More- www.gcmelab.com/join-us

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Ed Hawkins@edhawkins.org · 3mo ago

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 3mo ago

Wind and solar have now beaten fossil fuels in Great Britain for a record 15 months in a row Just a decade ago, fossil fuels were generating four times more than wind + solar Now that's flipped: Since the Iran war, wind and solar generated twice as much as fossil fuels

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Lara Durgavich@ldurgavich.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Since I've lectured about it in 2 classes over the past couple weeks & have all the slides readily available, allow me to take this opportunity to do a brief educational 🧵 about (some of) the history of scientific racism & eugenics in the US.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4mo ago

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

telescyote 🔭@cosmicyote.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Less than 800 NSF grants awarded over the first half of the fiscal year for the entire country. Previous years were already over 2-3k awards by now. It is not particularly overdramatic to say we are seeing the death of federally funded science research in the United States.

Brandon Bishop@brandontbishop.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Welcome to the last half of the US federal fiscal year. Here is where we're at with National Science Foundation--the agency that funds basically everything other than biomedical research at American universities--grant numbers. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

NSF grant curve from link for 2021 through 2026, with each year shown as a different color. By this point in the year, NSF made 3,300 or more grants in 2021-2024 and 2,087 in 2025. This year 737 have been awarded. Both this year and 2025 seem to have an odd slow down about now in the rate of new grants not present in earlier years, in addition to the general lower rates.
Daniel Bolnick@danielbolnick.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ecological speciation models suggest that genetic ecol differences between populations generate reproductive isolation on secondary contact. This is rarely tested experimentally in fully natural settings. @lucaseckert.bsky.social does this in a new preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/N

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ALT: a man wearing glasses and a bow tie has the words you might be surprised on his face

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Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 3mo ago

"Your hated rival school offering to print your censored edition with their own presses and John Revere-ing the copies across the state through the middle of the night to ensure a big investigation could be seen by homecoming alums" is not a sign of a healthy democracy

Purdue Student Journalists Distribute Solidarity Paper at IU

Student journalists from Purdue University’s The Exponent went to rival Indiana University on Friday to deliver a special print edition in solidarity with the now out-of-print Indiana Daily Student, a...

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Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley@globalecoguy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Did you know that cement is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions? Most of this is tied to cement chemistry, not to fossil fuels. It emits ~5% of global GHGs...roughly 2-3x what aviation does. Fortunately, there are solutions to this! Check them out here: drawdown.org/explorer/imp...

Improve Cement Production

Improve Cement Production is a Highly Recommended climate solution. It involves using low GHG-emitting materials & reducing emissions from fossil-fuel burning.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

John Bistline@bistline.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

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Marta Shocket@martashocket.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Lots of great talks so far at the UK VBD conference in Liverpool, but most interesting new fact for me so far came from UK APHA's Ben Jones: There are parasitic wasps for Ixodes ticks that were trialled for biocontrol in the late 1990s! Wikimedia commons pic of Ixodiphagus hookeri.

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Rage Against the Miocene@organiccarbon.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Honeygar Farm peatland has been devastated by drainage, farming, and excess nutrients. Proud to work with them - via Casey Bryce and her team - on using its restoration as an opportunity to learn and teach. @cabot-institute.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Former dairy farm in Somerset could become research centre

Honeygar Farm is one of the few areas in the UK that still holds deep lowland peatland.

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Ryan Harp@ryanharp.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New paper out! We developed a new approach to West Nile virus forecasting that is the first nationwide attempt to beat a benchmark standard (by 22%!). The key advancement was aggregating county data to regions which boosted signals that were obscured by small case counts. doi.org/10.1029/2025...

A Regionally Determined Climate‐Informed West Nile Virus Forecast Technique

Aggregating county-level case data to the regional-level enhanced the signal of the spatially varying effects of climate on case counts Drought and temperature were the most common climate factor...

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Dr. Catherine Scott@cataranea.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is a devastating blow to Canadian dipterology, entomology, ecology, and beyond. Please share. #diptera @dipterists.bsky.social @teamdiptera.bsky.social @canentomologist.bsky.social @entsocamerica.bsky.social @entsocontario.bsky.social @entsocbc.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social

Donna Giberson (Elbows UP!) 🇨🇦🇺🇦@donnag.bsky.social · 6mo ago

From Chris Borkent: Fellow Dipterists/systematists/ecologists: Agri./Agri-Food Canada plans to eliminate the Diptera Unit at the Canadian National Collection of Insects. Dr. Art Borkent has prepared an open letter to support keeping the unit open. To sign, please read & follow the instructions here.

Fellow Dipterists / systematists / ecologists, if you have not yet heard, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada is planning to eliminate the Diptera Unit at the Canadian National Collection of Insects, supposedly for financial reasons. The open letter below has been prepared by Dr. Art Borkent. If you agree with the letter, and would like to add your name in support, please follow the directions below. Message is as follows: ********************* The following is an “Open Letter” that will be presented to the Canadian press by a Member of Parliament, Ms. Elizabeth May. If you can support this petition, please send your name, full affiliation and address (including country) to Art Borkent’s email: artborkent@telus.net Your name will be added to a supporting list that will likely never be seen publicly but needs to be noted by our member of parliament. Please consider helping to stop the removal of the Diptera Unit in Ottawa, Canada. Please remember that we are writing this for the press – someone gave advice that it should be written at about the level of an intelligent 14 year old. If any of you are members of another society of specialized Dipterists or otherwise, please feel free to send this on to your other colleagues. I am hoping to have this submitted to Elizabeth May with all the signatures by Friday, Feb. 13. Time is of the essence. best wishes, Art Borkent and David Grimaldi