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Out in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social Can people tell true from false news? Yes! Our meta-analysis shows that people rate true news as more accurate than false news (d = 1.12) and were better at spotting false news than at recognizing true news (d = 0.32). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A military base in the Galapagos? In addition to impacts of habitat alteration and disturbance, the risk of species invasion will certainly increase due to cargo traffic (example: brown tree snake in Guam). #bioinvasions #biodiversity www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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We have an exciting new position in our lab for a PhD on parrot tool use! See below

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January GISTEMP data is in and we set another monthly record - and tied for the third highest temperature anomaly of any month (since 1880). svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5190

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¡Ya son libres! 😍 Los linces ibéricos Virgo y Vuelvepiedras han sido hoy liberados para su reintroducción en Astudillo, Palencia Criados hasta ahora en el centro El Acebuche ► Gestionado por @oapngob.bsky.social Continúa la recuperación del lince 🐾 +info t.ly/Z1Odb

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Pesticides Harm More Than Pests A large-scale analysis of 1,705 studies shows that pesticides negatively impact non-target plants, animals, and microbes - raising concerns about biodiversity loss. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #Biodiversity #Pesticides 🧪

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There's been lots of stories about H5N1, but I've yet to see a deep dive into where it came from—which is also the story of how industrial poultry production methods are responsible for turning harmless influenzas into monsters. My latest, for @nautil.us: nautil.us/the-unnatura...

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

Pigs solve a cooperative task without showing a clear understanding of the need for a partner www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Desde la Paradoja de Jevons nos hemos mojado y hemos publicado un artículo crítico para el después del Día de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia. Mucho por hacer. Muchas gracias a todas las investigadoras que han contribuido con sus palabras www.elsaltodiario.com/paradoja-jev...

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#11F A recognition of the milestones we achieve, a revindication that the battle continues; because the glass ceiling, the scissor-shaped curve & the gender-based stereotypes are still too present. Women scientists today were once little girls with big dreams. Por mí y por todas mis compañeras ✊🏼💜

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Do you like to dip your fries in ketchup before eating it? Our cockatoos do too! In a new study in Current Biology, we showed our cockatoos innovated a new way to flavour their food: they dunk noodles in blueberry soy yoghurt. Read about it and watch our video abstract: www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Hi all! 👋 This is me, the nest guy, explaining my latest discovery in one minute! 🪶 Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes 🤯 Follow for more weird and wonderfull nest stories! 🪺 #birds #nowthis

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Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰

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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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Do whales optimize their vocalizations for efficiency, just like human language? 🐋🎶 My latest study in Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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📣 Great news! Congratulations to Spain, the first country in Europe to ratify the Global Oceans Treaty. It involves a commitment to protect 30% of marine areas by 2030. A great step forward to protect biodiversity and a great pride for all of us.

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"Nearly 20,000 live animals seized, 365 suspects arrested in largest-ever #wildlife and #forestry operation" https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2025/Nearly-20-000-live-animals-seized-365-suspects-arrested-in-largest-ever-wildlife-and-forestry-operation

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Stromatolites xkcd.com/3046

submitted 20 days ago • 77 comments

En l'an 2040, on lave son linge à la sueur de son front 💧

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

📣📣📣 Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!! Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! More info: disi.org

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Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

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Macaques on Japan's Shodoshima Island enjoy leaving chalk marks on stones. They have no symbolic purpose, but recognisable geometric features (parallelism, intersections, repetitions). (paper) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-024-01176-y

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

ESPECIAL | La industria química lleva 70 años ocultando los efectos de los PFAS, unos compuestos superresistentes que se usan para fabricar desde ropa a envases de alimentos 14.000 documentos publicados esta madrugada muestran lo que los gigantes químicos no han querido contar sobre ellos👇

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🚨Breaking news! 💶100 billion a year would be the cost to eliminate #PFAS from the environment in Europe This is the cost of inaction! Instead of leaving the #foreverchemicals industry tap open, the solution is to #BanPFAS www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decod...

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In 2023 at least 960 #birds died in one day due to window collisions at McCormick Place in #Chicago. After applying bird-friendly window treatments, there were just 18 deaths all last fall. Further proof these simple changes work, and work well! It's time communities start making this a requirement.

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

You might not think you're in the 1%, but "the richest 1% – about 77 million people, including all those earning more than $140,000 (£114,000) a year – are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution each year as the poorest half of humanity."

submitted 44 days ago • 70 comments

Hi pals. Today I wrote about the unsettling mismatches between what climate models say should be happening and what is actually happening. We're pushing the Earth past the limits of our physical understanding. This is a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

submitted 48 days ago • 42 comments

New Year, new cover reveal! Here's what our @oxunipress.bsky.social Handbook of American and British Women #Philosophers in the #19thCentury will look like, and we're thrilled! Women philosophizing about metaphysics, #ethics, #gender, #aesthetics, politics, #logic, race, religion, education...

submitted 49 days ago • 5 comments

Shrinking trees and tuskless elephants: the strange ways species are adapting to humans

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In a massive win, President Biden just banned new offshore oil & gas drilling in most US coastal waters! Most importantly, Biden's executive action is Trump-proof thanks to the courts who ruled that future presidents do not have the authority to revoke Biden's action www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-o...

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⚠️ 10 minutes of "fun", 100 years in the ocean. This is the aftermath of someone's NYE celebration: 4 bags of 🍾🎊🎣🚬 trash picked in 1h. I'll never understand how people can simply walk away leaving this mess behind... 🙏🏻 May 2025 make us all more mindful & protective of nature ♻️

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Another NYE, another night of terror for millions of birds across the Netherlands (and around the world). Last year we published in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Frontiers 🧪 about the massive impact of fireworks on birds 🦅. Paper: doi.org/10.1002/fee.... Thread below 🧵👇

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

Researchers challenged longhorn crazy ants and humans with the same task: maneuvering a T-shaped object through two consecutive open doorways. Single humans always outperformed single ants, but ant groups could beat human groups. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 58 days ago • 5 comments

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

submitted 66 days ago • 21 comments

Portugal's population of Iberian Lynx has risen to an estimated 300 individuals, having been almost non-existent 15 years ago:

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

#OnThisDay in 1831, the HMS Beagle departs on its second voyage with an unknown young naturalist aboard. The ship will eventually visit the Galapagos Islands where the scientist, Charles Darwin, will begin to formulate his theories on evolution. #HistoryOfScience

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Merry Christmas. If the presents you got were not that great, be glad you're not a female scorpionfly. #wildlife 🧪🌍 www.bbc.com/future/artic...

submitted 61 days ago • 4 comments

Happy Winter Solstice! These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure. Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice. The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds

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Advent Sci-Fact 19: Old Hummingbirds can learn new tricks! Adult Costa’s Hummingbirds sing new songs after being introduced to other hummingbirds. These songs could be a combination of their existing songs, or copy the song of the loudest bird! Paper: tinyurl.com/2cef4cf4 #SciComm 🧪🌍 #SciArt

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

Paul Watson non-extradé, Paul Watson libéré. Retour sur le parcours d’un inlassable militant de la cause écologique ⤵️ www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...

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Final plenary by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social concerning the language barriers in science. The hurdles for non-native English speakers are significant! #ASABWinter2024 Also, our congratulations to Tatsuya for winning the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social Equality and Diversity Champion award this week!

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

🌍 Substantial behavior changes are needed to address the #climate and #biodiversity crises. But which interventions can help realize such changes? Hint: It's not just about nudging🧵

submitted 76 days ago • 4 comments

We humbly interrupt your scroll to bring you the news that Wisdom—the world's oldest known wild bird—is breeding again, age 74. Go on girl. 😍

submitted 82 days ago • 27 comments

Global talks to forge a landmark treaty aimed at reducing plastic pollution broke down after negotiators from more than 170 countries remained deadlocked over how to curb the world’s growing mountain of plastic waste.

submitted 84 days ago • 36 comments

The Manybabies4 paper is out! Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1000 babies tested in 37 labs; "Overall, 49.34% of infants preferred Helpers over Hinderers in the social condition"

submitted 89 days ago • 8 comments

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/

submitted 91 days ago • 33 comments

New episode!! 🪺🎙️ A conversation w/ Dr. Susan Healy about avian architecture. Popular wisdom says that birds' nests are the products of instinct, built according to rigid templates. But the latest research says otherwise. Nestcraft is the work of flexible minds. Listen: disi.org/nestcraft/

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

Can we trust a group of people to be right, and to be competent, simply because they agree on something? In a new paper in Cognition, @bdecourson.bsky.social, @hugoreasoning.bsky.social and I argue that yes, in many cases we can. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kA8Q2Hx2x... 1/

submitted 89 days ago • 3 comments