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Just published: a cross-taxon synthesis of how #non-native species spread: from dispersal and #invasion fronts to Allee effects, human pathways, and predictive models. Understanding spread is key to management & policy.
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#bioinvasions #InvasiveSpecies 🧪🌍🌐
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#bioinvasions #InvasiveSpecies 🧪🌍🌐
December 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Just published: a cross-taxon synthesis of how #non-native species spread: from dispersal and #invasion fronts to Allee effects, human pathways, and predictive models. Understanding spread is key to management & policy.
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#bioinvasions #InvasiveSpecies 🧪🌍🌐
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#bioinvasions #InvasiveSpecies 🧪🌍🌐
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Unbelievable that lead #fishing weights are still driving wildlife declines decades after we understood the threat #Ornithology
Loons are beloved across the north. Yet they’re populations are still struggling to rebound in some areas. We know what’s killing them—lead poisoning caused by sinkers left behind by fishermen. The good news is that there’s an easy fix. 🌎
Loons Losing Out
A common piece of fishing gear is threatening one of America’s most beloved bird species
www.sierraclub.org
December 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Unbelievable that lead #fishing weights are still driving wildlife declines decades after we understood the threat #Ornithology
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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Thanks to Accent Design for the work and BWWC Foundation for the funding, we have a new website. If you care about the birds of the Neotropics, have a look at neotropicalbirdingandconservation.org Join to get our journals and support conservation across the region. #birdsmatter #neotropicalbirding
Homepage - Neotropical Birding and Conservation
neotropicalbirdingandconservation.org
December 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Thanks to Accent Design for the work and BWWC Foundation for the funding, we have a new website. If you care about the birds of the Neotropics, have a look at neotropicalbirdingandconservation.org Join to get our journals and support conservation across the region. #birdsmatter #neotropicalbirding
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The Blue-eyed Ground Dove has been confirmed as the only living member of the ancient genus Oxypelia. New genetic evidence reveals its deep evolutionary roots and the urgency of conserving its Cerrado refuge.
theornithologist.org/a-lost-dove-...
#TheOrnithologist #Ornithology
theornithologist.org/a-lost-dove-...
#TheOrnithologist #Ornithology
A lost dove, a revived genus: new genetic evidence redefines one of Brazil’s rarest birds
Blue-eyed Ground Dove has been confirmed as the only living member of the ancient genus Oxypelia. New genetic evidence reveals its deep evolutionary roots and the urgency of conserving its Cerrado ref...
theornithologist.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The Blue-eyed Ground Dove has been confirmed as the only living member of the ancient genus Oxypelia. New genetic evidence reveals its deep evolutionary roots and the urgency of conserving its Cerrado refuge.
theornithologist.org/a-lost-dove-...
#TheOrnithologist #Ornithology
theornithologist.org/a-lost-dove-...
#TheOrnithologist #Ornithology
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A grim read - Lesser Kestrels at the 1000-pair colony in Matera, Italy suffering large losses (65%) as a result of climate-induced heatwaves. For every 10 chicks, the heat killed 7.
Not sure how they will adapt to that…
www.lifefalkon.eu/en/news/the-...
Not sure how they will adapt to that…
www.lifefalkon.eu/en/news/the-...
LIFE FALKON
Fostering the breeding rAnge expansion of central-eastern Mediterranean Lesser Kestrel pOpulatioNs
www.lifefalkon.eu
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A grim read - Lesser Kestrels at the 1000-pair colony in Matera, Italy suffering large losses (65%) as a result of climate-induced heatwaves. For every 10 chicks, the heat killed 7.
Not sure how they will adapt to that…
www.lifefalkon.eu/en/news/the-...
Not sure how they will adapt to that…
www.lifefalkon.eu/en/news/the-...
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Bachman's Warbler was discovered by the Reverend John Bachman in 1832 on the Edisto River a few miles north of Jacksonborough, South Carolina. In 1833 John J. Audubon painted and named the species after his friend Bachman. The photograph from 1958 is one of the last observations before extinction.
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Bachman's Warbler was discovered by the Reverend John Bachman in 1832 on the Edisto River a few miles north of Jacksonborough, South Carolina. In 1833 John J. Audubon painted and named the species after his friend Bachman. The photograph from 1958 is one of the last observations before extinction.
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Where we were in October '22 with a pond suffocated by Crassula & Parrot's Feather & where we are today after 3 years' work! @themarshtit.bsky.social @ajaytegala.bsky.social @bramblebotanist.bsky.social @avalanchechris.bsky.social @steffanaquarone.bsky.social @robertbohan.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Where we were in October '22 with a pond suffocated by Crassula & Parrot's Feather & where we are today after 3 years' work! @themarshtit.bsky.social @ajaytegala.bsky.social @bramblebotanist.bsky.social @avalanchechris.bsky.social @steffanaquarone.bsky.social @robertbohan.bsky.social
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Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Suspect these won't be the last judging by the volume of passage in Europe...
Right, before you judge my photos, it was a last ditch attempt in near dark! Taken at 16000 iso, to be fair they are better than I was expecting! Found by a local resident outside his house on the road verge!
Northern Long tailed Tits are still a rare bird in UK. #shetlandbirding
Northern Long tailed Tits are still a rare bird in UK. #shetlandbirding
October 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Suspect these won't be the last judging by the volume of passage in Europe...
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"Look, we all respect the right to protest, but you need to do it in a much more easily ignored and minimally effective way."
October 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
"Look, we all respect the right to protest, but you need to do it in a much more easily ignored and minimally effective way."
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An astonishing 20 Clancy’s Rustic in last night’s Norwich garden moth trap, double the previous record set earlier this month (which was remarkable enough to merit a tweet). Here are some of them. #NorfolkMoths
September 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
An astonishing 20 Clancy’s Rustic in last night’s Norwich garden moth trap, double the previous record set earlier this month (which was remarkable enough to merit a tweet). Here are some of them. #NorfolkMoths
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A mild legal proposal to harmonised #forest data collection in the EU could die today if @eppgroup.bsky.social decides to band together with the extreme right.
As forests get hammered by climate change & out of control logging, we should at the very least have comparable data on what is going on.
As forests get hammered by climate change & out of control logging, we should at the very least have comparable data on what is going on.
September 23, 2025 at 6:49 AM
A mild legal proposal to harmonised #forest data collection in the EU could die today if @eppgroup.bsky.social decides to band together with the extreme right.
As forests get hammered by climate change & out of control logging, we should at the very least have comparable data on what is going on.
As forests get hammered by climate change & out of control logging, we should at the very least have comparable data on what is going on.
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People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".
Fundamentally, the headbanging Right doesn't believe Autism (or ADHD) exists. Or in so far as it does exist, a human conspiracy has created it.
We're back to their core outlook that 'It didn't exist back in the good old days so can't exist now.'
'It must just be some modern woke Marxist nonsense'.
We're back to their core outlook that 'It didn't exist back in the good old days so can't exist now.'
'It must just be some modern woke Marxist nonsense'.
September 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM
People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".
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A delicious win-win: Oyster farming helps sequester carbon, not just because the bivalves lock CO2 in their shells but even more so because the oysters promote primary production and organic carbon sedimentation in the sea around them. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
September 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A delicious win-win: Oyster farming helps sequester carbon, not just because the bivalves lock CO2 in their shells but even more so because the oysters promote primary production and organic carbon sedimentation in the sea around them. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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thanks to @josbarlow.bsky.social for sharing this
September 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
thanks to @josbarlow.bsky.social for sharing this
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In the late 80s the Conservative (!) government brought in stronger clean water rules in the UK. Through the 90s + 00s river health rose. Salmon returned to rivers like the Thames. Then, in 2010, the Cameron government, told regulators to ease up on enforcing environmental rules...
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On Sunday, Chicago hosted an organised swim in the Chicago River - once so polluted it was 'untouchable', decades of environmental protections brought the river back to life - now those protections are in peril.
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Hundreds plunge in Chicago River for first official swim in nearly 100 years
Group participates in previously unthinkable mile-long swim after US made key progress to clean polluted rivers
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September 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
In the late 80s the Conservative (!) government brought in stronger clean water rules in the UK. Through the 90s + 00s river health rose. Salmon returned to rivers like the Thames. Then, in 2010, the Cameron government, told regulators to ease up on enforcing environmental rules...
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What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How the simmering UK freedom of speech row reached boiling point
How did we reach a point where the UK is being compared to a 'tin pot Third World dictatorship'?
www.bbc.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
September 23, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.
So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?
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1/ The Wild Bird Indicators, using BTO data, have been updated today by Defra! ⬇️
Sadly, the ‘all bird species’ index, comprising the population trends of 130 species, has been in a slow continuous decline in the UK since the 1970s, down by 18% and by 4% in the last five years. 📉 #Ornithology
Sadly, the ‘all bird species’ index, comprising the population trends of 130 species, has been in a slow continuous decline in the UK since the 1970s, down by 18% and by 4% in the last five years. 📉 #Ornithology
September 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
1/ The Wild Bird Indicators, using BTO data, have been updated today by Defra! ⬇️
Sadly, the ‘all bird species’ index, comprising the population trends of 130 species, has been in a slow continuous decline in the UK since the 1970s, down by 18% and by 4% in the last five years. 📉 #Ornithology
Sadly, the ‘all bird species’ index, comprising the population trends of 130 species, has been in a slow continuous decline in the UK since the 1970s, down by 18% and by 4% in the last five years. 📉 #Ornithology
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Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis
The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."
grist.org/climate/trou...
#Arctic #Climate #Heat #Ice #Svalbard #Environment #Geography
The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."
grist.org/climate/trou...
#Arctic #Climate #Heat #Ice #Svalbard #Environment #Geography
Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis
The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."
grist.org
September 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis
The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."
grist.org/climate/trou...
#Arctic #Climate #Heat #Ice #Svalbard #Environment #Geography
The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."
grist.org/climate/trou...
#Arctic #Climate #Heat #Ice #Svalbard #Environment #Geography
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Our stand at Avian Odyssey 2025 at @nhm-london.bsky.social Talk this afternoon by @liakajiki.bsky.social on Manakins - the birds, not the shop dummies.
September 20, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Our stand at Avian Odyssey 2025 at @nhm-london.bsky.social Talk this afternoon by @liakajiki.bsky.social on Manakins - the birds, not the shop dummies.
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⚠️ First Pinks of the winter alert ⚠️
Nice little flock of 19 in some soggy Humberside stubble. Welcome to the best time of the year 🥳 #humberbirds #ukbirding
Nice little flock of 19 in some soggy Humberside stubble. Welcome to the best time of the year 🥳 #humberbirds #ukbirding
September 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
⚠️ First Pinks of the winter alert ⚠️
Nice little flock of 19 in some soggy Humberside stubble. Welcome to the best time of the year 🥳 #humberbirds #ukbirding
Nice little flock of 19 in some soggy Humberside stubble. Welcome to the best time of the year 🥳 #humberbirds #ukbirding
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If you can make it to London on September 20th, come and hear
@liacanjica.bsky.social
talk about manakins as part of #avianodyssey2025 at the
@nhm-london.bsky.social
Tickets still available via www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/... Attend in person or via livestream.
@liacanjica.bsky.social
talk about manakins as part of #avianodyssey2025 at the
@nhm-london.bsky.social
Tickets still available via www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/... Attend in person or via livestream.
Home | Natural History Museum
Book tickets. Explore our galleries, science, news, videos and amazing images. South Kensington Tube. London, UK.
www.nhm.ac.uk
September 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
If you can make it to London on September 20th, come and hear
@liacanjica.bsky.social
talk about manakins as part of #avianodyssey2025 at the
@nhm-london.bsky.social
Tickets still available via www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/... Attend in person or via livestream.
@liacanjica.bsky.social
talk about manakins as part of #avianodyssey2025 at the
@nhm-london.bsky.social
Tickets still available via www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/... Attend in person or via livestream.