Laura Jennings

I'm sorry "live beaver cam"?!

We do senior author last

Yes I hate this as well for the reasons you say, but also they are often great lichen habitats (some species are rare and they're hard to identify)

Maybrat is in the central Bird's Head and the whole area is gazetted for logging. If they're finding undescribed mammals imagine how many plants / beetles / fish there are.

Marsupials previously thought extinct for millennia discovered in New Guinea The chances of finding one mammal species thought to be lost was ‘almost zero’ and finding two is ‘unprecedented’, biologist Tim Flannery says

"Two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papua."

Oh yeah this is super cool as both the pygmy long-fingered possum and ring-tailed glider were previously only known from fossils 🤯🧪🐀
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Way more educational than any earworm has a right to be (I love it)

"I asked Chat GPT and -" ok, I asked the exhumed corpse of Pope Formosus during the Cadaver Synod and he went "... ... ..." and then his jaw fell off and it was still a better answer

Thank you, I have been wondering about this since seeing the rock

oh yeah this is actually a really interesting case about not only who owns the data in these museums, but what happens when one government goes into a public-private partnership

the Belgian museum wants to digitise and openly publish this data themselves, but the private company maybe less so...

I know it’s intentional but we should stop calling everything AI, lumping useful machine learning techniques for science with large language models that tech companies are trying to cram into everything.

I think getting the right lane is a harder problem than they assume. It's not even a 'magic' type roundabout but Google maps absolutely cannot handle the two bridges roundabout in Bracknell.

TLDR; it is too early to stop doing taxonomic & natural history work and exclusively do meta-analysis; our existing datasets are highly structured & biology is weird. we shouldn't assume we already know enough to extrapolate a species' needs for conservation- we still need taxonomy & autecology

Congratulations!

7 animated spidermen all pointing at each other in a circle, their heads are replaced with yellow Asteraceae flowers of different genera that all look extremely similar

I wish I knew who modified the spidey pointing meme into this piece of botanical nerdery but it brings me a lot of joy

It's a 'science publishing is broken' story but I am really in support of a quality acronym

Exposure and sensitivity of threatened plant species to changing drought regimes: A global analysis Climate change is driving substantial impacts on plants, including widespread increases in drought frequency, duration, and intensity. Changes to thes…

Drought is often omitted from IUCN Red Listing assessments as it is difficult to quantify. But our study has found that >95% of threatened species will be exposed to longer and more frequent droughts! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm afraid of typing the name but my favourite is this road in Torquay, found here:
50.4576370, -3.5178284

If I can source appropriate artwork (sadly no skills to draw it myself) then it's a great idea!

This sounds great, I'd love to play! Plant version would be fun, maybe helpful for learning plant families

I agree, looks like a hedge that was laid a long time ago and left to grow into trees

Were steam trains ever that fast? I think 2 hours from Paddington now gets you to around Bath

This “Biotech” has raised more than half a billion USD. Imagine what real conservation work that could fund.

They really should, these are the weirdest and most distinctive windows anywhere. Thanks for your detective work, I enjoyed it

Collage of akaleha’ luta (Rota tree snails, Partula lutaensis) from Rota Island.

2025 was a year of progress & discoveries for akaleha' tree snail conservation here in the CNMI 🐌 Akaleha' are tree snails in Family Partulidae native to the Mariana Islands🇲🇵🇬🇺

To count down the new year,
Here's our Top 10 Akaleha' Conservation Moments of 2025
#InverteFest #JoyOfMolluscs

Okay, I need your help. If everyone buys my book on Kindle today (for 99p), it could push it back to number one on the Music chart and I'd HAVE A CHRISTMAS NUMBER ONE. I would really, really, really like that for Christmas. 99p! www.amazon.co.uk/Story-Christ...

I love that book as well. We were going to try "[3 initials of friend's name] G&C, CB1" as a Cambridge college address and I'm sure it would have worked but we didn't want to bother anyone.

This is so great! Especially the stylised lettering, even though I don't know what it says

They are all my favourites, but this one is my most favourite: the frosty sky, the delicate feathers of the swans and the tiny touches of colour, all perfect.

4th spread of The Nutcracker, illustrated by me, published by Walker Books, 2015. Ink, watercolour, and gouache on Arches hot pressed paper. Silhouette illustration with elements in colour. Seven swans fly amid the falling snow through the night sky over a river with a beautiful cityscape. The leading Swan, with a crown on its head, bears Clara and the Nutcracker Prince.

"You saved me," he said. "Not just from the Mouse King - from a terrible curse, too. Will you do me the honour of accompanying me to my home, the Land of Sweets?"

They travelled by swan over gold-flecked oceans & silver-edged cities. 4/

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#NHPNutcracker

Check out our cover article by @timjanicke.bsky.social and colleagues about the role of sexual selection in animal speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic.... The beautiful illustration is by Katharina Bóth.