🌊 New paper in Functional Ecology: #ClimateChange is projected to favour smaller, shorter-lived, earlier-maturing and faster-growing reef #fish in the NE #Mediterranean, with increasing functional homogenization. doi.org/10.1111/1365... #MarineEcology #traits 🧪🌐🌍

Yaaas! Good news on a Sunday! The senate moves to temporarily ban the OMB proposal that would allow political appointees in charge of approving federal grants, especially #NIH grants. Recall that the OMB rule yielded 500k comments, 95% of them against it. 🧪 www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul

Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.

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WATCH: ProPublica & @drilledmedia.bsky.social found that oil and gas companies have been funding climate research at prestigious US universities for 30+ years. This research fostered a misperception that climate change could be solved without dramatically curtailing fossil fuels: propub.li/3TTgAGp

📖 Heterogeneous preferences for use and non-use values provided by insects These results suggest that public support for conservation decisions may be enhanced by emphasising longer-term, intergenerational benefits, even for uncharismatic or unfamiliar taxa 🪲 🔎 buff.ly/hefnXjy

Okay this is pretty hilarious 😆

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2w ago

Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.

Job: Come work with me! Ready to turn your love for lakes into a career? Join the MSU Extension Center for Lakes and Streams as our new Inland Lakes Shoreline Educator! MS and experience with shoreline protection desired. Location: Upper Peninsula. careers.msu.edu. Search for posting # 1148258.

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Excellent piece by Megan Mayhew Bergman 🌿

We know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief?

In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these rituals

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👀Behind the paper!👀 Author Berber Meulepas discusses the painful side of fieldwork (a hazard of working with stinging nettles in the field!) and shares insights into the temperature sensitivity of insect🐛 Read it here👇️ buff.ly/c1r24Ni 🧪🌍️

Berber Meulepas | High nitrogen loading impacts the temperature-size rule and heat tolerance in a nettle-feeding butterfly

In this blog post, we’re getting stung with knowledge on the fascinating responses to temperature shifts in the Map butterfly (Araschnia levana). From their new paper: “High Nitrogen loading impact…

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🌍 Biodiversity and soil type modulate the effect of plastic contamination on soil functioning🌱 🔎 Read more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ecological Digital Twins + Forecasting Standards + e-Infrastructure = Effective Conservation. Representing @lifewatcheric.bsky.social and @ecoforecast.bsky.social at @eccb26leiden.bsky.social. 🧪🌎

Two weeks ago, Bridget Phillipson announced ‘I'm delivering the most radical and consequential agenda for education in living memory.‘. I guess, in one sense, she is: gutting arts, humanities & social sciences, bankrupting universities, & reducing access is extremely consequential.

Arts Professional@artsprofessional.co.uk · last mo.

Performing and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of “difficult decisions” about spending priorities, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said.

📣PhD opportunity! We are looking for a highly motivated doctoral researcher with expertise in pollinator ecology, agroecology, and landscape ecology. 🐝🚜🌼 Research will focus on resilience of pollinator communities in agricultural landscapes. 🔗 Read more: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/document/...

Biodiversity loss isn't just about losing species—it alters how they interact, threatening the ecosystems we depend on. A new study from a largescale subtropical forest experiment reveals that specialized and diverse species interactions are key to keeping ecosystems functioning. #BEF #Forest

Multitrophic interaction networks mediate biodiversity effects on ecosystem multifunctionality - Nature Communications

Biodiversity loss alters the functioning of ecosystems by modifying how species interact. This study shows that functionally similar and specialized interactions play a crucial role in enhancing ecosy...

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Delighted to share that our paper that showed how historic records kept by hobby entomologists can be used to investigate long-term change was Highly Commended by the Royal Entomology Society Journal Awards 🥰📚📜 you can find our paper here: doi.org/10.1111/icad... www.royensoc.co.uk/news/res-jou...

Assistant Professor for Sweetpotato Breeding and Genetics at NCSU: jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/231... #PlantScience

🗃️ A recent comment discusses the need for #humanities in scientific fields, highlighting that ethical and social challenges from advancements in #AI and biotechnology require more than just technical expertise to address. bit.ly/4vLWTyt #PhilSci 🧪

Our new SKR paper is out ⬇️ nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... We show that trait distributions can be used as a predictive benchmark of restauration sucess and the long-term biodiversity recovery! #PredictiveEcology #Grasslands 🧪🌎🌐 @urep.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social

Maximising trait evenness promotes the recovery of plant species richness in managed grasslands

Land-use intensification threatens biodiversity, and restoring degraded ecosystems remains challenging due to the difficulty of identifying the rules governing community assembly and dynamics. Invest...

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🌐Local bird species richness is regulated—not by diversity-dependent extinctions, but by diversity-dependent colonization as communities approach equilibrium.

Center for Theoretical Study@cts.cuni.cz · last mo.

🐦 Is local species richness regulated, and if so, how? In a new paper in 🌍 GEB, our colleagues David Storch and @elbohdalkova.bsky.social show that diversity-dependent colonization regulates local richness, while extinction rates shape differences among communities. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/geb....

"A single warm spell is not climate change. Weather is noisy. But in Svalbard, where mean annual air temperatures have risen at roughly seven times the global rate, anomalies no longer feel like distant warnings. They alter what scientists can observe, and when."

A key Arctic science outpost finds itself tangled in a geopolitical web

Svalbard is warming faster than almost anywhere on Earth, but security concerns are tightening access to its glaciers, fjords, and sea floor

science.org

Is the golden age of field-based ecology only just about to begin? An interesting argument that AI will displace demand for computational skills but increase the need for real data. 🧪🌏

AI, Comparative Advantage, and the Next Decade of Ecological Research

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

🐌 How much data do we have of our slimy snail & slug friends? How many species do we know virtually nothing about? Despite having over 1.5 million observations of gastropods in Australia, many species have fewer than 10 records, or no records at all 😯 Code & high-res 📷 👇 🧪🌏📊 #rstats #dataviz

I'm happy to be part of this Special Feature from @royalsocietypublishing. As a researcher from the Global South, I applaud this initiative and invite everyone interested to check out our paper on the geopolitical impacts on the description of new terrestrial mollusc species. Follow the thread! 🧵🌐

Royal Society Publishing@royalsocietypublishing.org · last mo.

This Special Feature from #ProcB showcases research from scientists, countries and regions underrepresented in the scientific literature, while addressing inequities in publishing and "helicopter science". Discover the collection: buff.ly/RjnbPC7 | #Ecology #GlobalSouth

#Postdoc #position (3 years) in spatial #genomics of aquatic #invertebrates opening up in my group. 🧬 🦐 🥼 🧑‍💻 ❗ More info: apply.refline.ch/673277/1363/... The project aims to establish & analyse #genomic #diversity of aquatic invertebrates (EPT & Amphipods) in a spatially explicit approach. 🌍 🌐 📈

Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.

🧪To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the FAIR principles, I spoke to data scientists about what data accessibility and reproducibility looks like in 2026. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How FAIR data are helping to build trust in science

The FAIR guidelines laid a solid foundation for ensuring data accessibility and reproducibility. A decade on, researchers are thinking beyond them.

nature.com

"It's important for us to be transparent and honest about the limitations of what science can provide and what medical innovations can provide." 🧪 In this episode of "We Ask a Scientist," Cynthia Tang, PhD discusses the important role of uncertainty in scientific research. #SciSky #MedSky

We Ask a Scientist: Cynthia Tang on Uncertainty and Science

"We are still continuing to learn about everything." Physician-scientist Cynthia Tang discusses the role of uncertainty in scientific research.

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anil oza@aniloza.bsky.social · last mo.

Then we have Sean Gallagher of @aaas.org, which has put out a number of resources on this OMB proposal: www.aaas.org/resources/wh...

Just when you think you have seen it all, you find even more bad stuff in this OMB rule. Like this: www.science.org/content/arti...

Provision buried in controversial U.S. rule change would help people legally challenge ‘woke’ federal research

White House asserts expanded authority to prosecute any wasteful spending “in the national interest”

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