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Flower bud galls on fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) were found in Alaska, begging the question whether they ware due an unknown North American gall maker or the circumboreal distribution of the gall midge Dasineura epilobii, widespread in the Palaearctic 🦟 The answer ⬇️ bioone.org/journals/pro...

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Stephen Fry: "I'm deeply worried by the darkening shadow that's going over the world, the shadow we have to call fascism... it's a cult of power..."

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Bullshit sensu Harry Frankfurt

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Ulven kommer: Men er der grund til at frygte den? #dkvid #dkforsk

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We have a moth project to build #moth database on #iNaturalist for 🇸🇬 & 🇲🇾! Moths are understudied, so we need your help! 📸 If you’ve taken moth pics, upload them to iNaturalist (use Singapore/Malaysia if unsure of location) or email us (see poster) with your name for credits 😇

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Evidence of Holarctic distribution: common frog Rana temporaria eggs in Fennoscandia host photosymbiotic green algae (Oophila sp.) https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10752 #Amphibia #Frog #Algae #Ranatemporaria #Oophilaamblystomatis #Photosymbiosis

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‘Cybertruck Man’ a cartoon in defiance of Musk #political #cartoonist #cybertruck #elon #musk #democracy #tiananmen

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According to @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social, “Science is self-correcting... after you beat it with a stick, electrocute it, draw and quarter it, and then burn it at the stake.” I think this is an overly optimistic assessment of the current state of science. (1/n)

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#ShiftingBaselines and the forgotten giants: integrating megafauna into plant community ecology🦣🌿 With #megafauna lost, have we built #ecology on already-degraded ecosystems? Led @skjoldsoendergaard.bsky.social as part of his thesis - well done! doi.org/10.1111/oik.... #theory #rewilding #vegetation

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Thanks to the more than 1100 members of the scientific community who have signed the letter to insist that the Royal Society remains true to values that we all hold dear but that Musk FRS has ridden roughshod over. Please keep signing & sharing. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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The gall midges and their parasitoids are hyperdiverse, yet insanely understudied, thus "double dark taxa". Nice to see @parasitoidrex.bsky.social's work on Platygatrinae shedding a ray out light into pitch darkness. Chapeau!

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This Bombus terrestris is hanging from the flower of the stinking hellebore by the hooked ends of her legs. When I look at the shape of claws at the end of bees' legs and how they use them, always comes to my mind how similar they are to ice axes - which mountaineers use for the same purpose

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"God" must have had a inordinate fondness of gall midges, or Diptera at large. Less than 1% of the 98,472 BOLD (www.boldsystems.org) barcode BINs for Cecidomyiidae can be associated with a valid taxon name. >99% probably represent undescribed species. Mindblowing diversity 🤯 doi.org/10.1146/annu...

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Scherer et al. påviser en klar præference hos sjældne pletvinger i Hainich Nationalpark for områder gennemrodet af vildsvin! Samme mønster i min vilde have: Blåfuglene foretrækker åbenlyst lav og åben vegetation. I DK udryddes vildsvin per dekret 😒. #dkpol www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Ecosystem engineers at work, providing ecosystem services ... "Gnawing through tree trunks and bureaucratic red tape alike, a colony of Czech beavers recently built a dam exactly where local administrators needed it." www.goodnewsnetwork.org/while-a-czec...

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Very cool way to use pollen analysis 🙂 - as a supplement to tracking devices

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Europæiske regeringer må spørge sig selv fremover: hvad gjorde vi reelt for at forhindre etnisk udrensning i Palæstina ?

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Der cirkulerer så mange falske historier om Røde Kors indsats i Gaza/Israel. Er du interesseret i sandheden, så læs her: t.co/L9lfN3LNfI

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Clear on disease risks of feeding but no mention of key issue - feeding widespread common birds for our pleasure, likely key driver of decline of rare specialist Marsh Tit & Willow Tit. #ornithology www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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📅Check out the NJB January issue! While we are getting back to work, there are 10 fantastic papers you can read meanwhile. On the cover, the orchid Liparis loeselii from the paper by Andersen et al. Photo credit: Erik Vinther https://vist.ly/3mshe2q @nordicoikos.bsky.social

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Gaza er reelt jævnet med jorden. Ubeboelig. Når man ser disse billeder er det svært at frigøre sig fra tanken om at tæppebombardementerne, der også har kostet titusindvis af dødsofre, er et led i en gennemtænkt plan om etnisk udrensning 🕊️

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4-year timelapse of a sneezing sponge? Great way to start #porifera in #ZOO2700! Belinda the sea #sponge & fantastic work by #UVIC grad student Dominica Harrison. Listen to the #CBC As It Happens #AIH interview too! www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha... doi.org/10.3354/meps... youtu.be/78-PI6pSsvs?...

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An extinction event in plants in the aftermath of the Quaternary megafaunal extinction? "Major potential plant extinction events were detected around 17,000 and 9000 years ago which lag maximum vegetation turnover." www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio #Macroecology #Extinction

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I finally got to sort through the parasitoids (Torymidae, Eulophidae, Pteromalidae s.l. etc) that I reared from galls/larvae of Cecidomyiidae during 2024. Now, 38 samples have been sent to my friend Dick Askew for thorough identification. The docu shots are entirely handheld 🤡

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Come work with us! Fully funded #PhD position in applied ecology to devellop #climate and #nature budgeting approaches to support knowledge-based decision-making a the municipailty level. 🧪🗺️🌿🍄🐜 @uibcet.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social @bjerknes.bsky.social www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...

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