Artificial light at night (ALAN) 💡 is a stronger inhibitor of overwintering dormancy than urban warming in mosquitoes 🦟 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🔓

Artificial light at night (<fc>ALAN</fc>) is a stronger inhibitor of overwintering dormancy than urban warming in mosquitoes

Low intensities of warm white ALAN were a stronger inhibitor of diapause initiation than urban warming, indicating that changes in brightness or light colour may not be sufficient to mitigate ecologi...

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The administration has fired thousands of NPS, USFS, and BLM staff, and will fire more: “The broad aim of this travesty is to disconnect everyday citizens and visitors from their relationship to these lands, from our history, and from our collective ownership.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Trump administration is trying to kill a rule that protects millions of acres of national forests | Charles F Sams III

The bipartisan Roadless Rule is under fire. It’s just one way Trump could make our public lands unrecognizable

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The idiocracy continues apace.

Center for Biological Diversity@biologicaldiversity.org · 5mo ago

The House of Representatives is set to pass H.R. 556, the so-called “Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act". This would prohibit the Departments of Interior and Agriculture from protecting human health, wildlife, and our environment from toxic #lead in ammunition and fishing tackle.

Nice summary of long distance insect migration in the Guardian today with fancy graphics www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Butterflies crossing oceans, moths navigating by the stars: unravelling the mysteries of insect migrations

Trillions of insects embark, largely unnoticed, on epic journeys every year across mountain ranges, deserts and seas, and it is only now, as their numbers suffer huge declines, that scientists are tra...

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Very interesting study shared by @jessica-meaney.bsky.social at her @uclaits.bsky.social talk today: bird species today vary by HOLC redlining zones a century, as @travislongcore.bsky.social @uclaioes.bsky.social and co-authors find: doi.org/10.1093/orni...

Artificial light at night, urban noise, psychoactive pollutants, agriculture, introduced species & a warming world are making it difficult to sleep. John Lesku & Anne Aulesebrook review how species are affected & suggest ways to minimise the impact #SensoryPerceptionInAChangingWorld bit.ly/469cNrT

Paper 15: Brett Seymoure et al take us to the Chihuahuan desert to test impacts of ALAN shielding types and their resulting impacts on insects. Obviously, all ALAN attracted insects, but shielding, particularly to prevent glare, showed reduced insect attraction. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Glare more than uplight attracts flying insects to artificial lights

Artificial lighting at night (ALAN) from residential, commercial, transportation, and other sources has substantially altered nocturnal light environm…

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Paper 13 is out: @travislongcore.bsky.social and colleagues present a detailed framework for ALAN risk assessment for species, using several real-world case studies as examples. Risks have not been taken into account enough in our bright world. Great work! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Assessing and mapping taxon-specific effects of ecological light pollution for environmental impact analysis

Predicting the adverse effects of light at night is necessary to ensure compliance with laws and regulations that protect species. Using two case stud…

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Environmental assessments need to account for spectrum and brightness of light affecting sensitive species. 🌙 We map impact zones using "moonlight equivalent" measures accounting for species visual sensitivity, then apply spectral tuning and shielding. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/

Assessing and mapping taxon-specific effects of ecological light pollution for environmental impact analysis

Predicting the adverse effects of light at night is necessary to ensure compliance with laws and regulations that protect species. Using two case stud…

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I helped Travis with some moonlight calcs for this paper - our code figures out "how bright compared to moonlight is this light for each species". There is a ton of photometrics and spatial modeling here too: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Assessing and mapping taxon-specific effects of ecological light pollution for environmental impact analysis

Predicting the adverse effects of light at night is necessary to ensure compliance with laws and regulations that protect species. Using two case stud…

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A sympathetic response to Ryan Briggs on trust in social science. My argument: the deepest problem isn’t error, but epistemic incommensurability-when fields lose shared standards for weighing evidence, experience, and interpretation. Trust depends on commensuration. open.substack.com/pub/kylesaun...

Trust, Incommensurability, and the Limits of Intersubjectivity

A response to “Can We Trust Social Science Yet?” by Ryan Briggs

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📢 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE OUT! Excited to share a special issue I co-edited on bird–window collisions, a major yet overlooked source of bird mortality Bringing together 8 papers, this issue advances methods, evidence, and solutions to inform bird-friendly(er) built environments OA: tinyurl.com/yss5mvf2

A new UCLA–NRDC report shows massive pricing disparities in who pays what for water from the #ColoradoRiverBasin. Some California urban water agencies shell out over $2,500 per acre-foot of surface water, while some irrigation districts pay $0—for the exact same water. ucla.in/4pC6ODH @nrdc.org

NEW PAPER on impact of #lightpollution, led by Yuhan He who recently defended her PhD thesis. Historical Exposure to Artificial Light at Night Shapes Daphnia Responses: An Experiment Across an Urban–Rural Gradient - He - 2025 - Ecology and Evolution onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Grateful for received #funding from @koneensaatio.fi for our project on impact of light pollution on the flux of insects between aquatic and terrestrial habitats. Will be looking for a #postdoc and a #PhD for 4 years – take contact if interested. koneensaatio.fi/apurahat-ja-...

Join us for Policymaking Under Uncertainty: Zone 0 and Vegetation Management on Friday December 12, 2025 at 12 p.m. PT 👉 Register today: ucla.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @edithdeguzman.bsky.social | @travislongcore.bsky.social | Max Moritz | Alessandro Ossola | Nurit Katz

Read our suggestions for how to kickstart the important transformation of our urban environment to help shield residents from the worst effects of rising temperatures @uclaioes.bsky.social @law.ucla.edu @uclasustainablela.bsky.social @luskininnovation.bsky.social law.ucla.edu/news/reducin...

You don't say. Quality of news outlets shared is lower on conservative social platforms. Bluesky --> more liberal and higher quality news outlets shared. PNAS paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Since you nerds asked, news outlet quality rankings from this paper: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Looks like a well-conceived and very necessary initiative; count me in!

Darren Evans@dmevans.bsky.social · 9mo ago

If you are interested in helping us to mitigate the impacts of light pollution #ALAN on biodiversity, and work on street lighting mitigation and road safety, consider joining our Knowledge Network: www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...

Media picked up our latest extreme heat work and writes better headlines than I do.. www.yahoo.com/news/article... #urbanecology #extremeheat #parks

Researchers make surprising discovery while studying people's behavior at public parks: 'One compelling exception'

They conducted the research using smartphone location data.

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In 2010-2013, conservation teams on #Chichijima - 1 of the main islands in the #Ogasawara chain - captured & removed 131 feral cats. The goal was to reduce predation pressure on an endangered pigeon. The results were immediate: adult pigeon numbers rose from 111 to 966 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

A look at the devastating power loss across Jamaica following the historic crossing of Hurricane Melissa, captured by NOAA-21.

The global biomass of mammals since 1850. On the bright side, a few more whales since the 1980s. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Healthy forests have native pollinators.

Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦@marcofesta.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Allowing domestic bees in a national park is akin to letting cattle graze in it. If beekeepers wanted healthy forests they would not introduce a competitor to wild pollinators.

🔥 New Paper Alert 🔥 -- from the incomparable @ioes.ucla.edu Senior Practicum in Environmental Science with the paper led by new alums Sammy Fruman and Bethany Woo --> anonymized smartphone data show park use in extreme heat 1/ #heat #hazards #mobility #cities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Smartphone location data show park use patterns in extreme heat (Los Angeles, California, USA)

Climate change, combined with the Urban Heat Island effect, will generate more frequent, intense extreme heat events. These events can induce heat str…

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Remembering a #lightpollution researcher gone too soon.

Clare Boyes@pickeletto.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Four years ago today since Douglas died. We miss him every moment of every day. Loved so much by his family and many friends; a respected scientist and moth-er; a wearer of great shirts; and a Bellowhead superfan.

Justice Sotomayor, not mincing words, also says that today's decision will lead to the "creation of [] a second-class citizenship status" for Latinos, who now will have the burden to "carry enough documentation to prove that they deserve to walk freely."

Have a look at what Marko and his team are putting together, taking submissions on: - Biological Effects of Light Pollution - Impacts on Human Health - Urbanization and Light Pollution - Effects on Astronomy and Night Sky Obs - Dark Sky Protection and Policy - Methods for Measuring and Monitoring

Marko Prokic@proksima.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I would like to invite you to attend the international ENLIGHT Conference, Novi Sad, Serbia, November 28-30, 2025. The conference is dedicated to the different aspects of #lightpollution and #alan. All details are available on the website: 👉 www.enlightproject.rs/enlight-conf...

So much interesting new ecological #lightpollution research being published, and I have to highlight this new paper in particular. Shielded lights and lower CCT (warmer colors) reduce flight call disruption of migratory birds in a pretty massive study in NM www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A story of moonlight, eyesight, and life history strategies in electric fish—from our journal "Ecology" (with accompanying photos in our "Bulletin")⬇️

Travis Longcore@travislongcore.bsky.social · last yr.

Reminder that fascinating studies about moonlight influences on species behavior are also de facto studies about #lightpollution and especially #skyglow See photos at esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... an article in Ecology at doi.org/10.1002/ecy....