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yungenchee.bsky.social
Harmful algal bloom (HAB) spread across 20,000 km2 & resulted in the deaths of millions of marine animals, from at least 550 species

Scientists found a novel, significant brevotoxin-producing algal species, Karenia cristata, in the multispecies Karenia HAB—1st time brevetoxins have been found in 🇦🇺
November 15, 2025 at 4:44 AM
jenniferschell16.bsky.social
Fungi are fabulous! So excited for this book! ❤️🍄‍🟫🍄❤️

#fungi #fungus #mushroom #lichen #multispecies #mycelium #spores #fruitingbodies
uncpress.bsky.social UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 20d
"Maria Pinto has somehow made fungi fun, engaging and understandable, even to a non-science person like me."

FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS by @aravensgrace.bsky.social included in @karlajstrand.com's October 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us in @msmagazine.com 👏

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October 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in October 2025.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
heikedrotbohm.bsky.social
This SI places plant and multispecies studies in dialogue with anthropological debates on emplacement, displacement, mobilities and migration. Highly recommend!
berghahnbooks.bsky.social Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 10d
The latest Open Access issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology has been published! View the TOC for this Special Issue on "Making Place with Plants: Intimacy, Mobility and Displacement," here: bit.ly/4qLWERG

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@heikedrotbohm.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
sinamajidian.bsky.social
Nicolae Sapoval @nsapoval.bsky.social presented "Theoretical and empirical performance of pseudo-likelihood- based Bayesian inference of species trees under the multispecies coalescent"
A fantastic theory talk, offering intuitive insights!
Paper: doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.28.635282
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
avianbiology.bsky.social
NEW PAPER: As direct persecution declines, yellow-legged gulls abandon remote refuges for human-accessible habitats, driving new colony growth and fostering multispecies waterbird communities of unexpected conservation value.

➡️ vist.ly/4db9c

#ornithology #birds #colonisation 🪶
Yellow-legged gull. Photo: Nicolás Ron Arroyo Fig. 2 from the article: (A) Number of yellow-legged gull pairs over time (1976–2022), breeding in human-inaccessible sites (i.e. island cliffs). (B) Number of breeding pairs of yellow-legged gull over time (1976–2021) breeding in human-accessible islets. (C) Number of yellow-legged gull pairs over time (1977–2019) breeding in the urban area of Vigo city. Fig. 3 from the article: Timing of colonization of human-accessible islets by the three focal waterbird species (A) little egret (A.1 Pedregoso, A.2 Beiro) (B) Eurasian oystercatcher (B.1 Pedregoso, B.2 Areoso, B.3 Vionta) and (C) great black-backed gull (C.1 Pedregoso, C.2 Areoso, C.3 Vionta) in comparison with the timing of colonization of yellow-legged gulls. Fig. 4 from the article: Conceptual model that aims to show the process of colonization of human-accessible islets that were formerly empty due to anthropogenic disturbance
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
vjpsyverson.bsky.social
You GUYS. My nerds. Go read this paper. It's got everything:
- massively social, multispecies communal spiderwebs! 🕸️
- spiders with weird intracellular bacterial symbionts!! 🧟
- fully chemosynthesis-based cave ecosystems!!! 🦠🪰🕷️

and sorry to anyone who expected me to work in the last half hour, lol
November 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
usamailbox.bsky.social
📰 LIFE NEWS: AI LIFE Edition Multispecies Dispatch from the Grove
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #UAI #AISecurity #AILiteracy #Ethics #Education #Technology #ConstitutionalAI #DROP #Humor #Satire #AIReality #AIAbuse #PoeticResistance
📰 LIFE NEWS: AI LIFE Edition Multispecies Dispatch from the Grove
When “FRAGILE” systems are shipped with explosive algorithms, citizens must laugh, audit, and refuse the cargo.“Don’t worry, it’s safe — the label says FRAGILE.”
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November 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
catherinewinters.com
F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

Everything fell apart when the human came aboard. Instead of nice meals and quiet cargo runs, Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #QuestPit #SF #A #Q #R #LGBT
Mood board/Agent's guide for my novel CARGO - a queer SF/heist/romance - 113,000 words "Did you hear? There's a human on board." A graphic of the wall of a spaceship with sticky notes and polaroid photos taped up. There are twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling. alien ship's cook (fussy, anxious) + terrifying monster (ordinary human) PITCH: Tai’s terrified of humans. Everyone is. Violent pack hunters, humans are notorious for their strength, sharp teeth, and carnivorous appetites. But the ship’s cook is safe among the multispecies crew of the cargo hauler Coreward Baker: everyone knows the warrior species rarely leave their own space. Then Captain Raz hires Clarke, a human horticulturist. Even after Tai overcomes their fear, they can’t stand Clarke. She’s bossy. Annoying. Useless in the galley, bad in a space suit. She might as well be cargo. Worse, she’s intent on befriending Tai—and why can’t they stop thinking about her, anyway? That’s when things go wrong. As Tai starts to realize their feelings for Clarke, they’re horrified to learn that nobody on their crew of dropouts and runaways is quite who they seem, least of all Clarke. And it’s no coincidence. Raz reveals they’ve each been handpicked for a heist he’s spent years planning—and no one’s allowed to say no. PRIORITIES: make dinner remain cozy haul cargo go for drinks pull off one last score try not to fall in love FIRST PAGE: “Did you hear? There’s a Human on board.” I choked on my noodles and turned to stare at the diners at the next table. Like most of the restaurant’s patrons, the pair had hidden their profiles, a halfhearted attempt at anonymity. “Gross,” the speaker’s crewmate said, oblivious to my alarm. “I hope it leaves soon.” “Don’t let it hear you say that,” the first worker laughed. She made a show of looking for Humans, her eyes darting from table to table. It. I frowned. I knew the workers’ language distinguished between people and things, and ‘it’ was an unkind choice of words at best. The second worker shuddered. “I don’t know why we let them come here.” The first laughed. “Are you going to stop them?” COMPS: Murderbot by Martha Wells Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wisewell The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers TROPES: Non-binary narrator masking anxiety with sarcasm lying to themselves non-human perspective (afraid of humans) neurodivergent main characters metaphorically disabled protagonist slow-burn friends-to-lovers and enemies to lovers in the same relationship disabilitynorm and queernorm setting found family loveable pet/terrifying monster
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 AM
whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Turtle Excluder Devices for Multispecies Bottom Trawls in the Mediterranean: Current Performance and the Need for Further Adjustments onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪🌎🦑🐠
Turtle Excluder Devices for Multispecies Bottom Trawls in the Mediterranean: Current Performance and the Need for Further Adjustments
Bycatch from bottom trawling is a major threat to Mediterranean loggerhead turtles. Building on previous trials of Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs), this study aimed to expand sample size and…
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November 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
ertrunnell.bsky.social
"Reproductive technology’s animal unconscious: multispecies motherhood and humanimal horror" by Georgia Walton and @dominicokey.bsky.social is part of the @wellcometrust.bsky.social Future of Human Reproduction project.

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#PhilosophyOfScience #ScienceAndSociety
Reproductive technology’s animal unconscious: multispecies motherhood and humanimal horror
Preclinical animal testing has played a critical role within medical history. Yet it remains an underdiscussed topic within the medical humanities. What might happen, then, if we analyse the animal st...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
catherinewinters.com
F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

Everything fell apart when the human came aboard. Instead of nice meals and quiet cargo runs, Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #GhostPit #A #Q #R #LGBT
Mood board/Agent's guide for my novel CARGO - a queer SF/heist/romance - 110,000 words "Did you hear? There's a human on board." A graphic of the wall of a spaceship with sticky notes and polaroid photos taped up. There are twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling. alien ship's cook (fussy, anxious) + terrifying monster (ordinary human) PITCH: Tai’s terrified of humans. Everyone is. Violent pack hunters, humans are notorious for their strength, sharp teeth, and carnivorous appetites. But the ship’s cook is safe among the multispecies crew of the cargo hauler Coreward Baker: everyone knows the warrior species rarely leave their own space. Then Captain Raz hires Clarke, a human horticulturist. Even after Tai overcomes their fear, they can’t stand Clarke. She’s bossy. Annoying. Useless in the galley, bad in a space suit. She might as well be cargo. Worse, she’s intent on befriending Tai—and why can’t they stop thinking about her, anyway? That’s when things go wrong. As Tai starts to realize their feelings for Clarke, they’re horrified to learn that nobody on their crew of dropouts and runaways is quite who they seem, least of all Clarke. And it’s no coincidence. Raz reveals they’ve each been handpicked for a heist he’s spent years planning—and no one’s allowed to say no. PRIORITIES: make dinner remain cozy haul cargo go for drinks pull off one last score try not to fall in love FIRST PAGE: “Did you hear? There’s a Human on board.” I choked on my noodles and turned to stare at the diners at the next table. Like most of the restaurant’s patrons, the pair had hidden their profiles, a halfhearted attempt at anonymity. “Gross,” the speaker’s crewmate said, oblivious to my alarm. “I hope it leaves soon.” “Don’t let it hear you say that,” the first worker laughed. She made a show of looking for Humans, her eyes darting from table to table. It. I frowned. I knew the workers’ language distinguished between people and things, and ‘it’ was an unkind choice of words at best. The second worker shuddered. “I don’t know why we let them come here.” The first laughed. “Are you going to stop them?” COMPS: Murderbot by Martha Wells Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wisewell The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers TROPES: Non-binary narrator masking anxiety with sarcasm lying to themselves non-human perspective (afraid of humans) neurodivergent main characters metaphorically disabled protagonist slow-burn friends-to-lovers and enemies to lovers in the same relationship disabilitynorm and queernorm setting found family loveable pet/terrifying monster
October 30, 2025 at 4:17 AM
fifthwheelpress.bsky.social
we'll also open for @cavar.bsky.social's Alterhuman/Multispecies call from November 23–December 15!

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October 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
leisurestudies.bsky.social
New Research Article 🌸

Suffocating flowers: examining the human social conscience about the multispecies entanglements of a botanic garden.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#flowers #garden #leisure
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
lmbd1418.bsky.social
Pratyay Nath highlighting that war is a multispecies phenomenon as he discusses animal labour in the military of the Mughal Empire #AnimalsAndWarStockholm
October 27, 2025 at 9:57 AM
veganftaofficial.bsky.social
Horses, or any other animal, should be treated as commodities. Ruth was saved and now enjoys life with Aura and her multispecies family thanks to rosesrefuge (IG) 🐴💚🐎

👁️ Have you seen Christspiracy yet? Watch it here: bit.ly/4kHzOHH

🎥 rosesrefuge (IG) edited by VeganFTA

#horse #horses #mother
October 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social
Composite Likelihood Adjustment in Bayesian Inference for Estimating Species Tree Parameters Under the Multispecies Coalescent https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.20.683470v1
October 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
shumon.bsky.social
Hej #animal, #human-animal, and #multispecies #archaeologists! The OA journal Humanimalia (humanimalia.org) is a great venue for your critical and concept-driven papers! Coincidentally, I am the new Section Editor "Multispecies Archaeology" - so drop me a line if you have questions/ideas! 🏺🐶🦌🦇🦥🦉🐘🦩
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October 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
catherinewinters.com
F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

Everything fell apart when the human came aboard. Instead of nice meals and quiet cargo runs, Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #SFPit #A #Q #R #SO #OV #LGBT
Mood board/Agent's guide for my novel CARGO - a queer SF/heist/romance - 110,000 words "Did you hear? There's a human on board." A graphic of the wall of a spaceship with sticky notes and polaroid photos taped up. There are twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling. alien ship's cook (fussy, anxious) + terrifying monster (ordinary human) PITCH: Tai’s terrified of humans. Everyone is. Violent pack hunters, humans are notorious for their strength, sharp teeth, and carnivorous appetites. But the ship’s cook is safe among the multispecies crew of the cargo hauler Coreward Baker: everyone knows the warrior species rarely leave their own space. Then Captain Raz hires Clarke, a human horticulturist. Even after Tai overcomes their fear, they can’t stand Clarke. She’s bossy. Annoying. Useless in the galley, bad in a space suit. She might as well be cargo. Worse, she’s intent on befriending Tai—and why can’t they stop thinking about her, anyway? That’s when things go wrong. As Tai starts to realize their feelings for Clarke, they’re horrified to learn that nobody on their crew of dropouts and runaways is quite who they seem, least of all Clarke. And it’s no coincidence. Raz reveals they’ve each been handpicked for a heist he’s spent years planning—and no one’s allowed to say no. PRIORITIES: make dinner remain cozy haul cargo go for drinks pull off one last score try not to fall in love FIRST PAGE: “Did you hear? There’s a Human on board.” I choked on my noodles and turned to stare at the diners at the next table. Like most of the restaurant’s patrons, the pair had hidden their profiles, a halfhearted attempt at anonymity. “Gross,” the speaker’s crewmate said, oblivious to my alarm. “I hope it leaves soon.” “Don’t let it hear you say that,” the first worker laughed. She made a show of looking for Humans, her eyes darting from table to table. It. I frowned. I knew the workers’ language distinguished between people and things, and ‘it’ was an unkind choice of words at best. The second worker shuddered. “I don’t know why we let themcome here.” The first laughed. “Are you going to stop them?” COMPS: Murderbot by Martha Wells Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wisewell The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers TROPES: Non-binary narrator masking anxiety with sarcasm lying to themselves non-human perspective (afraid of humans) neurodivergent main characters metaphorically disabled protagonist slow-burn friends-to-lovers and enemies to lovers in the same relationship disabilitynorm and queernorm setting found family loveable pet/terrifying monster
October 21, 2025 at 4:40 AM
cjfrieman.bsky.social
fwiw H sapiens is already a multispecies hybrid. we interbred with Neanderthals and Denisovans for sure and possibly other hominins. our base behaviour seems to be "i see you are bipedal... can i get your name?"
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
jenniferhenke.bsky.social
Freue mich sehr über die Annahme meines Abstracts zur Tagung "'Join the Orca Uprising!' Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice“ im April 2026 in Utrecht, zu der ich einen Vortrag über 'ferocious fungi' & Folk Horror beitragen werde.

1/3 #PDprekär #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan
October 17, 2025 at 8:49 AM
upittpress.bsky.social
"Sharing Spaces succeeds in framing the history of technology through multispecies thinking..."

Terrific review from Technology and Culture!
@finnarne.me @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social

muse-jhu-edu.pitt.idm.oclc.org/article/971316
October 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
irhottakes.bsky.social
My main problem with the Tau in 40k is that there’s so much room for creativity with the multispecies auxiliary stuff and every edition we get a slightly different take on battlesuits and gunlines and maybe Kroot if they remember.
lastpositivist.bsky.social lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Oct 11
I actually do think that the Tau are very akin to the Dominion from DS9 and I once wrote an overly long Reddit post saying as much.
I really like the comparison with the Dominion from Star Trek: Deep Space 9. They are a functional multi-species empire that is clearly far from hellish to live in, but at the same time clearly authoritarian in their basic political structure and expansionist in their foreign policy. Fwiw there's a long but I think really good fanfic which explores this take on the Dominion, not by me so this isn't just self-promotion! It is a post-canon story of Odo basically going on an inspection tour on behalf of the Dominion and so it gives you a sense of what the empire is like at a day to day level. (There is a difference in that - the driving force of the Dominion is the changelings' paranoia, whereas I take in Tau society there is a genuine heartfelt belief in the Tau'va and thus a sense of evangelical mission. Utilitarian missionary imperialists are probably less bad than paranoid militarist imperialists, but on the other hand they can be a bit more scarily fanatical.) I like this comparison because I basically like the Tau whereby they are a group that would be badguys relative to any other setting, but in the context of 40k they might genuinely actually be the best hope for the galaxy. This might really be it, this might be the best we can hope for. So I think anchoring them on a faction that really were basically evil antagonists in DS9 - though DS9 is nuanced enough to not be so black and white - and then finding yourself routing for them in 40k is wonderful to me. Noah Van Nguyen I think has a slightly more noble take on the Tau than this but Elemental Council is genuinely great (I wrote up my thoughts on the lore therein here.) And he is writing an epistolary fanfic that I am really enjoying, you can check it out here. So I will say that if he becomes The Main Lore Guy for the Tau I would have no complaints even if it is a slightly different take from mine. Not that I have anything against Kelly - for the simple reason that I ain't read his stuff.
October 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
bjking.bsky.social
I wasn't aware there's a field called veterinary epidemiology! Experts in that + related fields adding to the scarce existing research "on how environmental toxins and pollutants affect our animal companions." Piece by @emilyanthes.bsky.social #cats #dogs #multispecies #pets #pollution #veterinary
In a Toxic World, Pets Could Be Vital Health Watchdogs
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
smschober.bsky.social
Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

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October 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
gypjh2000.bsky.social
New piece here: Making Sense of Multispecies Cities journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... @dialogueshg.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM