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Our special feature/passion project at AmNat, "Demystifying fundamental theories in ecology", co-organized with @sebastianschreiber.bsky.social is out now 🤩 www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/an/2025/...

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As a regular listener of Big Biology, I was very happily surprised tonight to hear our AmNat paper get a shout-out in the intro of this great interview with Trevor Price (whose work has profoundly affected my thinking). Have a listen!

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Institutional checks on authoritarianism

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The speed at which institutions of all kinds are rolling over, without even the hint of a legal requirement to do so, is stunning

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HHMI is a private organization and.. 🙃

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Pre-Columbian ‘green revolution’ in Amazonia @umbamoxos.bsky.social @nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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I honestly really don’t care about all the false positives from the reported bad word NSF list (yeah, my grants will be hit too). It’s the true positives I worry about. Grants that serve a congressionally mandated bipartisan broader impacts or other need where the work won’t get done.

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Atlanta Botanical Gardens looking mighty fine today

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Excited to see our work on the cover of Current Biology this month! Read about it in the thread below. 🧪🦑🌊

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What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

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Having watched with growing alarm the developments of the last 24 and 36 hours in Washington, I thought I’d take a stab at how the US media would cover this story if it was happening in a foreign country. Here’s that story that should be written this weekend: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

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The feet of the American coot are amazing: - the lobes or 'wings' act like a duck's 'palmate foot' for paddling, but also fold backwards as the foot moves forward to allow for rapid wading. - The increased cross-sectional area lets them run across the surface of water to reach take-off speeds.

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Scenes in snowy Atlanta

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“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”

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The best part of waking up is realizing your daily salt intake has reset so you’re allowed to have more peanut butter pretzels.

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Hotlanta

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Mom doesn’t play when it comes to keurig.

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It still boggles my mind that only 66 years separate these photos.

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Sunny Saturday morning of the solstice

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Do you need a salamander phylogeny? You're in luck! We put together the largest salamander phylogeny to date based on molecular markers and used more fossil calibrations than any other currently available trees. 765 salamander species! Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Congo outbreak identified: "The mystery has finally been solved. It's a case of severe malaria in the form of a respiratory illness... and weakened by malnutrition." www.reuters.com/world/africa...

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Just accepted #EcologyLetters! Exciting work by recent grad Rebecca Schalkowski with @katjakasimatis.bsky.social and Megan Greischar linking 2 species community coexistence to sperm cell mediated reproductive interference! Preprint here www.authorea.com/users/804447...

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Counterpoint: Do

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Latitudinal gradients in air density create ‘invisible topography’, influencing bird flight costs at the global scale by @elcshepard.bsky.social et al. in @currentbiology.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... 🔑 Important implications for species (re)distribution under climate change 🧪🌐🌍🦤

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A 65,000-Year-Old Hearth Reveals Evidence That Neanderthals Produced Tar for Stone Tools in Iberia www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

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I think a big reason is that it's simply out of sight.

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I liked this thread, an example of taking good-faith criticism in good faith and publicly changing tack, which isn't easy

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This seems cool. I love studying ecomorphology, but it's always good to remember that a lot of important traits can't be measured with calipers.

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the question about science being political is now moot: Project 2025 and the Trump administration CLEARLY see it as a threat that needs to be dismantled. Scientists need to organize and mobilize if we want to maintain the NIH, the NSF and federal support of scientific research.

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For years advocates have tried to reform cash bail to ensure people aren't stuck in jail just because they don't have money. Now Illinois has abolished bail entirely, and so far it's working really well. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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A key innovation of fish adaptive radiation (pharyngeal jaws) apparently isn't a key innovation; genomics to understand evolution and potential hemiplasy. Work led by Sam Borstein (coauthors Matthew McGee, Michael Hammer, and me). #OpenAccess #Jaws2Or2Jaws www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Hunter Biden pardoned. Okay, President Biden: There are currently appx 89,000 people in federal custody for drug offenses alone. When are their pardons coming?

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Yet another example of restoration of island biodiversity following invasive species removal. "What is unfolding is an ecological renaissance, since the rodents have gone." www.goodnewsnetwork.org/cloud-forest...

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Thanks to Vanessa Luzuriaga-Aveiga for writing this nice digest giving additional context and interpretaion for my recent paper in Evoliution about bird social mating systems! academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

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