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natural historian, PhD Texas, native Londoner. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/jim (Profile pic from Mauro Cutrona https://facebook.com/profile.php?id=100006219407348)
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Good to see this happening: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Great graphic! Measles vaccination works well!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🧪🧬🔬◼️ !!happy international day of [redacted] and [redacted] in science!! ◼️🔬🧬🧪

On International Day of Women in Science let's celebrate the life of Prof. Georgina Mace (1953–2020) who was instrumental in creating the Red List of endangered species which now underpins conservation around the world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgin...

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

“Beyond the incorrect claim that science backs up a simple binary definition of sex, the lived experience of people clearly demonstrates that the genetic composition at conception does not define one's identity. Rather, sex and gender result from the interplay of genetics and environment.”

This so beautifully expressed! Is the North American monarch endangered as a species? No. 1/3

My take on listing #monarchs under the #ESA cornellsun.com/2025/02/04/a...

Wow, I checked, and my favorite NOAA CO2 animation (going forward from 1979 to 2024, then projecting backwards in time, using different data sources, ice cores etc., back 800,000 years or so): GONE! Does someone have a downloaded copy of the video?

This is a solid, and at times hilarious, interview about the current state of the LLM-based AI business model. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

The latest trick to stop those annoying AI answers is also the most cathartic.

Yeah, well, we seem to be in a weird phase now. But sometimes, your sense of humor saves me:

@chrisjiggins.bsky.social How to study suture zones! Wait, D.R., & Peñalba, J.V. 2024. Suture zones, speciation, and evolution. Evolution:qpae184. doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Isn’t this from near Tarapoto in Peru?