Graziella Iossa
@g-iossa.bsky.social
Evolutionary ecologist, career break, career change, mentoring, fertility, insects, climate change, Women in STEM, @EvolEcolLincoln. Associate editor @Methodsinecolevol, BiologyLetters. Views my own
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Shark nets are an abomination and there are much better and more wildlife-friendly ways to keep people safe! It's time to get rid of shark nets once and for all www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Humpback whale found dead in shark net off NSW beach
The discovery of a dead whale entangled in a shark net off Coledale Beach ignites fresh debate on New South Wales's controversial shark net program.
www.abc.net.au
October 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Shark nets are an abomination and there are much better and more wildlife-friendly ways to keep people safe! It's time to get rid of shark nets once and for all www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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I'm the incoming SSE president and am behind this idea -- if you're interested in putting together an app and have questions, pls reach out!
Now accepting proposals for new Research Synthesis Working Groups! Each funded group will present a symposium at the Evolution meeting, collaborate on a publication, and establish a lasting research network. Submit your proposal by January 6: www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...
October 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I'm the incoming SSE president and am behind this idea -- if you're interested in putting together an app and have questions, pls reach out!
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‘“Faragism” is neoliberalism at its most inhumane, more destructive even than [Thatcher’s] monetarism, and vindictive far beyond austerity.’
Good analysis by Gordon Brown - and why progressives should attack Farage on economics above all:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Good analysis by Gordon Brown - and why progressives should attack Farage on economics above all:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Don’t fall for the authoritarian hype – Reform and the hard right can be stopped in their tracks | Gordon Brown
From the US to Europe and Asia, grievances are being exploited to gain power. But moderate voices are still in tune with the majority, says former prime minister Gordon Brown
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
‘“Faragism” is neoliberalism at its most inhumane, more destructive even than [Thatcher’s] monetarism, and vindictive far beyond austerity.’
Good analysis by Gordon Brown - and why progressives should attack Farage on economics above all:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Good analysis by Gordon Brown - and why progressives should attack Farage on economics above all:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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October kickoff meeting! Our FIS project *TL-REP Thermal limits to reproduction as predictors for population vulnerability to climate warming* is ready to start with a team of talented and enthusiastic researchers!
October 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
October kickoff meeting! Our FIS project *TL-REP Thermal limits to reproduction as predictors for population vulnerability to climate warming* is ready to start with a team of talented and enthusiastic researchers!
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#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com
@behavecol.bsky.social
@behavecol.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com
@behavecol.bsky.social
@behavecol.bsky.social
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TRAVEL AWARDS - Apply for a travel award to support your trip, accommodation and registration! Application guidelines on www.isbe2026.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
TRAVEL AWARDS - Apply for a travel award to support your trip, accommodation and registration! Application guidelines on www.isbe2026.com
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Farage’s Reform is part of a “global network of rightwing billionaires” who want to undermine net zero for their “vested interests”, says Ed Miliband - as he revives pledges for a Green New Deal & 400,000 new jobs in clean energy by 2030
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour must fight rightwing billionaires undermining net zero, says Ed Miliband
Exclusive: Energy secretary will hit out at the Tory and Reform ‘culture war’ and unveil target of 400,000 new jobs in clean energy
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Farage’s Reform is part of a “global network of rightwing billionaires” who want to undermine net zero for their “vested interests”, says Ed Miliband - as he revives pledges for a Green New Deal & 400,000 new jobs in clean energy by 2030
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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The Local Organizing Commitee welcomes behavioral ecologists from across the world and of all career stages to enjoy a five-day meeting rich in top-notch science and ample networking opportunities in Turin (Italy), 20-24 July 2026.
June 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The Local Organizing Commitee welcomes behavioral ecologists from across the world and of all career stages to enjoy a five-day meeting rich in top-notch science and ample networking opportunities in Turin (Italy), 20-24 July 2026.
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Another recent paper in #BirdStudy showed autumn densities of Pheasant & Red-Legged Partridge in southern England can be an astonishing 2,500 birds per km2 on land near releases. After winter, there were still up to 700 birds/km2. That's huge numbers.
Paper: doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
Paper: doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
Ticks are more likely to carry the bacteria that cause Lyme disease in areas where Common Pheasants Phasianus colchicus are released, according to new research.
Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...
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September 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Another recent paper in #BirdStudy showed autumn densities of Pheasant & Red-Legged Partridge in southern England can be an astonishing 2,500 birds per km2 on land near releases. After winter, there were still up to 700 birds/km2. That's huge numbers.
Paper: doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
Paper: doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
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If you like the new specimen of #Spicomellus, check out this film of us excavating the specimen, by Ben Webber at the @nhm-london.bsky.social youtu.be/TEeCFl0MJ0A?...
New dinosaur is unlike anything we've ever found | Unique armoured dinosaur discovered in Morocco
YouTube video by Natural History Museum
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August 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
If you like the new specimen of #Spicomellus, check out this film of us excavating the specimen, by Ben Webber at the @nhm-london.bsky.social youtu.be/TEeCFl0MJ0A?...
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How is this possible?
This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother
This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother
September 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
How is this possible?
This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother
This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother
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This is quite extraordinary!
September 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This is quite extraordinary!
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Millionaire owner of a £4m second home Richard Tice promises to ‘scrap all inheritance tax’ and asks farmers to ‘tell him bonkers regulations’ so he can ‘scrap them’ - via Helena Horton on Twitter:
September 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Millionaire owner of a £4m second home Richard Tice promises to ‘scrap all inheritance tax’ and asks farmers to ‘tell him bonkers regulations’ so he can ‘scrap them’ - via Helena Horton on Twitter:
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I always knew they were up to something.
woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!
This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother
Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
www.nature.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I always knew they were up to something.
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Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with @shaky-dingo.bsky.social and colleagues
August 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with @shaky-dingo.bsky.social and colleagues
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I heard today that the ‘small boats crisis’ was actually *caused* by Nigel Farage and Brexit. That before Brexit we had sufficient influence in the EU and could negotiate with France. The growth in numbers is linked to changes since Brexit. Farage is the *cause* not the solution.
August 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I heard today that the ‘small boats crisis’ was actually *caused* by Nigel Farage and Brexit. That before Brexit we had sufficient influence in the EU and could negotiate with France. The growth in numbers is linked to changes since Brexit. Farage is the *cause* not the solution.
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Those Reform nutjobs reminded me:
"Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, grabbing an Indian curry or Turkish kebab takeaway, then going home to sit on Swedish furniture & watch American shows on a Japanese TV, while being suspicious of anything foreign."
"Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, grabbing an Indian curry or Turkish kebab takeaway, then going home to sit on Swedish furniture & watch American shows on a Japanese TV, while being suspicious of anything foreign."
August 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Those Reform nutjobs reminded me:
"Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, grabbing an Indian curry or Turkish kebab takeaway, then going home to sit on Swedish furniture & watch American shows on a Japanese TV, while being suspicious of anything foreign."
"Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, grabbing an Indian curry or Turkish kebab takeaway, then going home to sit on Swedish furniture & watch American shows on a Japanese TV, while being suspicious of anything foreign."
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New meta-analysis underlines that Grey Squirrels are really a very minor nest predator in UK, despite once considered probably very important in woodland bird declines. Good example of evidence overturning dogma, allowing focus on real issues. #ornithology
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Meta‐analysis of predator identity in nest‐camera studies in the British Islands
Nest predation is the primary cause of nest failure across many bird species. Interventions to support declining or threatened species frequently involve measures to reduce nest predation, through le...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
New meta-analysis underlines that Grey Squirrels are really a very minor nest predator in UK, despite once considered probably very important in woodland bird declines. Good example of evidence overturning dogma, allowing focus on real issues. #ornithology
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Tampere University is seeking an Assistant professor, Associate professor or Professor in the field of English linguistics.
The closing date for applications is August 18th.
Tampere University is seeking an Assistant professor, Associate professor or Professor in the field of English linguistics.
The closing date for applications is August 18th.
Tenure track position in English linguistics (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor) / tenure track -tehtävä, englannin kielen tutkimus (Apulaisprofessori tai Professori)
tuni.rekrytointi.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Tampere University is seeking an Assistant professor, Associate professor or Professor in the field of English linguistics.
The closing date for applications is August 18th.
Tampere University is seeking an Assistant professor, Associate professor or Professor in the field of English linguistics.
The closing date for applications is August 18th.
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Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Offre de post-doctorat en écologie (H/F)
emploi.cnrs.fr
June 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Interested in insects? Join us at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social on Tuesday 24 June as part of @royentsoc.bsky.social’s National Insect Week! 🪰🪲🦋🐞🐝🪳
For #InsectWeek, come to @bristolbiosci.bsky.social Tuesday 24 June to discover the world of insects! See these creatures up close, learn about the research, do some crafting! All welcome, free admission, 12-6pm. @harrysiviter.bsky.social @drlucyalford.bsky.social bristentnet.weebly.com/insect-week
June 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Interested in insects? Join us at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social on Tuesday 24 June as part of @royentsoc.bsky.social’s National Insect Week! 🪰🪲🦋🐞🐝🪳
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Calling young UK-based artists!
To celebrate 50 years of CITES 🌍, the Royal Society of Biology @rsb.org.uk is hosting an art competition for 7–18-year-olds to draw or paint an endangered species. 🎨
🧪Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/get-involved...
To celebrate 50 years of CITES 🌍, the Royal Society of Biology @rsb.org.uk is hosting an art competition for 7–18-year-olds to draw or paint an endangered species. 🎨
🧪Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/get-involved...
BioArtAttack 2D
BioArtAttack 2D is a drawing and painting competition for children aged 7-18 years old to draw or paint their favourite animal, plant or fungi. The Nancy Rothwell Prize is now a sub-category for speci...
www.rsb.org.uk
June 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Calling young UK-based artists!
To celebrate 50 years of CITES 🌍, the Royal Society of Biology @rsb.org.uk is hosting an art competition for 7–18-year-olds to draw or paint an endangered species. 🎨
🧪Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/get-involved...
To celebrate 50 years of CITES 🌍, the Royal Society of Biology @rsb.org.uk is hosting an art competition for 7–18-year-olds to draw or paint an endangered species. 🎨
🧪Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/get-involved...
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We're rounding off #IAW25 with this drawing from Alfred Russel Wallace's Butterflies of Malay Archipelago notebook (MS/181).
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June 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
We're rounding off #IAW25 with this drawing from Alfred Russel Wallace's Butterflies of Malay Archipelago notebook (MS/181).
You can access this, and over 61,000 other records with over 218,000 images, at Linnean Online. linnean.access.preservica.com
#ArchivesAreAccessible
You can access this, and over 61,000 other records with over 218,000 images, at Linnean Online. linnean.access.preservica.com
#ArchivesAreAccessible