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seafloorscience.bsky.social
Happy New Year from invertebrates that look like fireworks.

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Jellyfish: OET/Nautilus Live
Anemone: Cathy Lewis
Feather duster worm: Pauline Walsh Jacobsen
Octopus: Schmidt Ocean Institute
A round jellyfish with glowing golden stripes on the bell and long tendril tentacles against a background of deep sea sediment. An anemone with many white thin tentacles A close up into the centre of a feather duster worm with radiating striped white and brown tentacles A semi-translucent octopus with a spotted mantle and blue tentacles.
December 31, 2024 at 9:04 AM
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alibat.bsky.social
Our paper out today:
“Spillover is an ecological process… While the human health issues arising from spillover events…are addressed by epidemiological and biomedical countermeasures…, the ecological aspects of spillover necessitate ecological solutions”

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Ecological countermeasures to prevent pathogen spillover and subsequent pandemics - Nature Communications
In this Perspective, the authors discuss the importance of preventing zoonotic spillover to prevent pandemics. They highlight mechanisms by which environmental changes can enable spillover, identify e...
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March 27, 2024 at 11:10 AM
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sheldonbirds.bsky.social
Birds have complex social lives; they pair-up, divorce and repair, but we know very little about when and how these relationships form. New work from Daisy Abraham & Josh Firth on Wytham Woods Great Tits shows that divorce happens early - probably soon after breeding
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Pairing events analysed in a wild population of Great Tits by Abraham et al. (2024). Figure shows the different ways that pairs of birds associate between years for faithful, divorcing, newly pairing adults and newly pairing juveniles. Figure showing seasonal change in association rates in wild population of Great Tits studied by Abraham et al. (2024). Figure shows the different seasonal patterns of association for faithful, divorcing, newly pairing adults and newly pairing juveniles.
December 21, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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markuseichhorn.bsky.social
Working with collaborators in the Global South it upsets me how many pay expensive software license fees, or use insecure pirated versions, when free open-source alternatives are available. Below is a list of easy swaps. Please add to it and share! 👇
December 20, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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avianbiology.bsky.social
NEW PAPER: a detailed overview of the current state of research on hard tick movement on migratory birds along the African–Western Palearctic flyways, investigating the role of bird species and migratory season.

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#ornithology #migration #disease #birds
Figure 1 from the article: Schematic overview of the geographic distributions of the four major tick genera (Amblyomma (yellow), Ixodes (orange), Haemaphysalis (green), Hyalomma (blue)) found on birds within the African–Western Palearctic region Figure 4 from the article: Point estimates for tick species/migratory season interactions for all tick species in the reported dataset.
December 21, 2024 at 8:21 AM
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rebeccalovesplants.bsky.social
ETHIOPIAN WOLVES AS (possible) KNIPHOFIA POLLINATORS!!!!
December 5, 2024 at 3:15 AM
thepedagogicape.bsky.social
The end came in spring 🌱☄️

New @naturejournal.bsky.social research reveals the Chicxulub impact that ended the Mesozoic occurred in boreal spring, affecting extinction and recovery patterns. 🦖

Read more: 🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04446-1
#Science🧪 #Ecology #Dinosaurs #Paleontology
December 2, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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tunedhuman.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 2:09 AM