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julienfoucaud.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist plasticity♻️, cognition🧠 and adaptation🧬 in ants🐜 beetles🐞 and flies🪰 @ CBGP, INRAE, Montpellier
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Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

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🐞 Spread the word! Registration and abstract submission are now open for our annual conference, #Ento25! Join the entomological community in-person or online this September, with opportunities to present your work, meet new contacts and build collaborations 🔽 buff.ly/tKyJIbN

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

🗓️02/04 au 30/11/2025, L'exposition"Déserts"ouvrira ses portes au @mnhn.fr Voyagez à travers les milieux les + extrêmes de notre planète et découvrez les incroyables stratégies d’adaptation du vivant @audelalis.bsky.social @isyeb.mnhn.fr spécialiste de la biodiversité polaire, commissaire de l'expo

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Great time on SAT teaching a Macro Workshop with @tjalamont.bsky.social, hosted by the Anza Borrego Foundation. despite dry conditions we found some things, including this crab spider with leaf-cutter bee prey found by one of the participants looking forward to doing this again in the future

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Obligatory Condylostylus mundus picture, when they first appear in the spring 💙

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests. So, best we share all the footage we can here! This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu. 🇹🇷 #Turkey

submitted 8 days ago • 167 comments

Dolerus madidus...a common early-spring sawfly associated with Juncus meadows and always one of the first sawflies to appear each year. East Yorkshire today. #sawflies #ento #yorkshiresawflies #ukwildlife #symphyta

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We have just updated our public fishing activity data. You can now download data for 2012-2024! Learn more: globalfishingwatch.org/insights/ask... Here is fishing effort by latitude and day, across 12 years.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects

submitted 19 days ago • 139 comments

Zebra jumping spider (Salticus scenicus) on lichen. #NaturePhotography #Inverts

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

Great news for money launderers!

submitted 28 days ago • 915 comments

Why are people like Elon Musk and Michael Shellenberger trying so hard to discredit anti-corruption investigative reporting? Meet Mike Benz an ex alt-right content creator who has praised Hitler and helped instigate the recent conspiracy theory attack against @occrp.org. 🧵

submitted 45 days ago • 5 comments

New in the portfolio: three monochrome #maps I made for am upcoming book. somethingaboutmaps.com/Into-the-Ice I also did a livestream about these recently: www.youtube.com/live/KK5rayw... Usually presses require my #monochrome work to be more restrained and simple, but this one let me stretch.

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

Et à Montpellier on vous prépare un super programme ! 🔬👩‍🔬🍻

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In this ancient Assyrian letter, astronomers complain that they can’t do their jobs or teach astronomy “because of the ilku-duty”, a type of taxation in the form of labour. “we cannot keep the watch of the king, and the pupils do not learn the scribal craft” cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/33...

submitted 49 days ago • 15 comments

If you don’t want Google/Apple monitoring you (Seen in Mastodon) ———————- If you use Signal, Discord, or any other messaging app and you DON'T want Google or Apple monitoring/reading/learning from your messages, follow these steps.
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submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

One of the things federal employees do for us is monitor for potential invasive species, or plant and animal smuggling. These animals are usually turned over to USFW, since they often can't be returned to the wild, or might be harmful to agriculture. www.popsci.com/environment/...

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

Thank you so much for the shoutout! Your REM maps look stunning! It’s inspiring to see my tutorials in action and used to create such impactful visualizations. For anyone curious about creating maps like these, check out my latest video tutorial here: youtu.be/x8is770F7Og #dataviz #GIS #RStats

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

#1 Here are some photos of one of my favorite army ant action scenes, an intersection of two army ant emigrations. Army ants frequently relocate their colonies, and when they do so, they sometimes run into other army ant colonies that are doing the same.

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

La Société de #Géographie présidée par JR Pitte mise en accusation pour climatoscepticisme ou climatorassurisme... Le Monde du 30/11/2024 @magalireghezza.bsky.social @reka.visionscarto.net

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