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The LEEG@UWA is the research group of @jmillwood.bsky.social at The University of West Alabama | Research interests include ecology, evolution, & genomics; conservation & biodiversity | inclusive | 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿 ally
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Happy to share that @taorminalepore.bsky.social and I are featured in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social's continuing series sharing disabled scientists in ecology and evolution spaces! www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Disability in ecology and evolution
In this TrendsTalk series, ‘Disability in ecology and evolution,’ in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, we will be hearing from people about their experiences being disabled in ecology and evolution. We...
www.cell.com
September 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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A southern devil scorpion, Vaejovis carolinianus and the millipede, Euryurus maculatus fluorescing under a UV light. 🌿🦂
September 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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The Trump administration’s plans would remake the agency and public lands. The deadline to comment is Sept. 30.
The dismantling of the Forest Service - High Country News
The Trump administration’s plans would remake the agency and public lands. The deadline to comment is Sept. 30.
www.hcn.org
September 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Changing water temperatures and human-driven introductions of fish have altered the composition of fish populations in streams and rivers across the USA over the past three decades, a study in Nature suggests. go.nature.com/47ZCcWH 🧪
September 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Toxicology principle that needs to be mainstream:

The dose makes the poison.

That’s true of everything. Water. Oxygen. Vitamin A. Vitamin D. Aspartame. Formaldehyde.

A single pear contains 120 times MORE formaldehyde than what might be in a vaccine.

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September 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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These hydra were hungry!! 🧪🪼
September 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Ecological diversification in rapidly evolving populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.15.676408v1
September 17, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Genome-wide selection on transposable elements in maize https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.676665v1
September 17, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Gene copy number variation (gCNV) contributes to adaptation along environmental gradient https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.675866v1
September 17, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Why are some species widespread while others are found only in small, isolated areas? A study in Nature Communications shows that species with narrow ranges, and thus higher extinction risk, are often island-restricted, poor dispersers, and have evolved relatively recently. #evosky 🧪
Evolutionary age correlates with range size across plants and animals - Nature Communications
Why are some species widespread while others are found only in small, isolated areas? This study shows that species with narrow ranges, and thus higher extinction risk, are often island-restricted, poor dispersers, and have evolved relatively recently.
go.nature.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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📰Published📰ShareTrait: Towards interoperable and reusable individual trait‐based data in ectotherms💻

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ShareTrait: Towards interoperable and reusable individual trait‐based data in ectotherms
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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September 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
All the plants and critters for the zoology lab tanks came in. The first tank has leeches, the second has fish and snails, the third has fish, snails, a few shrimp (most of them were DOA), and 3 dwarf frogs. The spongilla will be used for labs tomorrow. Not pictured: hydra. 🌿🌱💧
September 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Scientists increasingly assess interventions against misinformation mainly via truth discernment. Tobia Spampatti argues in Nature Climate Change that pursuing truth discernment may not be sufficiently beneficial to society if interventions do not improve behaviour and other outcomes. 🧪
Truth discernment may not help to overcome misinformation - Nature Climate Change
Scientists increasingly assess interventions against misinformation mainly via truth discernment. However, pursuing truth discernment may not be sufficiently beneficial to society if interventions do not improve behaviour and other outcomes.
go.nature.com
September 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Some better pictures of my moth setup. The small ropes running through the tighteners are 8ft each and the ropes around the trees have numerous loops for easy adjustment. The bottom has a rope just like the top and can be bungeed to tent stakes if hung higher. A light hangs on top. 🌿
September 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Two years ago today, Dr Ackerfield and associates collecting a specimen of Gentiana andrewsii, our rare Closed Bottle Gentian, blooming in a wet meadow east of Boulder. 🌿 #nativeplants
September 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Some pics from today.
September 13, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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With an outstanding MSc defence today, Jack has now completed his degree. Super job!
September 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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The Excitement Of Touching The Eccentric Woodcock On The Back
September 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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September 13, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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I'm so excited to see what moths show up! I have a less exciting night of sleeping as early as I can so I can goto the desert before it's 100 degrees to take pictures of hummingbirds
Finally finished my moth sheets. I made 2 but just put out one tonight. It’s fairly small and not too pretty, but is super mobile and adjustable. I have stakes and bungee straps for the bottom when it’s hanging higher. I’ll post better pics tomorrow.
September 13, 2025 at 1:56 AM
A few of my favorite pics from our nature walk on our campus nature trails today. We were getting observations for the #marblebowl @inaturalist.bsky.social project/competition. 🌿🌱🦋🐝🦗🌻
September 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM