"The ethical risks of open-access agreements being used for authorship leverage" <- yeah, no kidding 🫠
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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"The ethical risks of open-access agreements being used for authorship leverage" <- yeah, no kidding 🫠
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This is so heartbreaking, and also I am going to make my PSA again.
Babies can be vaccinated against measles as young as six months, it’s just not standard. It’s usually only recommended for international travel in the US. But guess what? We’re the plague pit now.
As millions of Americans were losing their SNAP benefits the Pentagon spent:
🔹️$6.9 million worth of lobster tails🦞
🔹️$15.1 million for ribeye steak 🥩
🔹️$2 million for Alaskan king crab 🦀
🔹️ and even $98,329 on a Steinway & Sons grand piano
✏️ by @newrepublic.com
This could be your dream job!
PhD in ecology, and English and Japanese language skills required... working for POKEMON!!!
www.ign.com/articles/the...
3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama!
Three positions, each including salary & a research budget.
Applications due April, 15th.
DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us!
stri.si.edu/academic-pro...
I give that paper to my students -- it's great!!!
The internet, on scientists: They're secretive gatekeepers, they hoard esoterica/the truth, they don't want anyone in their ivory tower little clubs
Actual scientists: LOOK, WE FOUND A 300 MILLION YEAR OLD FOSSILIZED CLOACCAL IMPRESSION AND THE VENT IS HORIZONTAL! PLZ READ MY 67-PAGE PAPER ABOUT IT
if you're wondering what this means for the water situation this year, the answer involves a lot of hyperventilating
Our PhD opportunity is still open. A match-funded project with @chesterzoo.bsky.social, where the student will also be a Conservation Scholar. An exciting interdisciplinary project that can be tailored to the student. Even the pigeons are interested in our LiDAR scanner!
I'm just an academic editor, BEGGING the new Wiley software to flag when potential reviewers are in fact manuscript authors.
(With apologies to author 34ish of this 70ish person manuscript, who just got invited to review her own paper.)
It's 2026.
Puberty blockers have been banned on the basis of a fake study conducted by a generalist paeditrician.
Hormones for under 18s have been banned on the basis of a fake review conducted by a head injury specialist.
Both remain available for cis kids because that's 'different' somehow
Yes, that, exactly!
Screenshot of the EGI seminars You-tube Channel
We've uploaded recordings of many of our seminars over the last few months to our You-tube channel, including from @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social, Kristen Ruegg, Daniel Field, @jon-slate.bsky.social, Paul Acker, @thelabandfield.bsky.social & @kokkonut.bsky.social - Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/@EGIOxford
Shared from my PhD lab’s WhasApp chat, how a journal published a paper about the Arctic fox which is 100% an AI hallucination, and journal isn’t retracting it.
www.canids.org/resources/Le...
Damn depressing how fake science and AI is increasingly flooding real science and real work.
New paper out in ecology letters! with @andylee.bsky.social @allydefduf.bsky.social
We synthesized the active debate on how scientists define sex, including limitations and assumptions. We believe this discussion will lead to more accurate science.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
📢 Including fossil tips in your phylogeny can double your continuous trait model fitting accuracy!
Updated preprint out now on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social.
🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X27...
with @pedrolgodoy.bsky.social @macroecoevoale.bsky.social and @bethanyjallen.bsky.social
Amazing 🪿📖
10/10, no notes, incredible 😂
I love attempting to decipher my Notes app.
"Koblenz"
"Rates of evolution"
"Birds in Scotland"
Past!Catherine, wtf 😂
We know that marine fishes 🐠 have an inverse gradient of speciation compared to that of spp richness, with higher speciation at higher latitudes. But, what about freshwater 🐟?
Find out in the new PhD paper by Juliana Herrera-Pérez and friends (not just colleagues) 🤿 👇
shorturl.at/zgKfA
No Evidence for Pace of Life Evolution Along Elevational Gradients in Squamate Reptiles | Sahlean & Martin, 2026 | Ecology Letters
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Well damn, this is cool.
Birds That Don't Exist: Niche Pre-Emption as a Constraint on Morphological Evolution in the Passeroidea | Chia et al., 2026 | Ecology Letters
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Uniqueness and predictability in evolution and the history of mollusks | Vermeij & Thomson, 2026 | PNAS
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
That's very kind of you, thank you!
Black Death Land Abandonment Drove European Diversity Losses | Gordon et al. 2026 | Ecology Letters
Woah.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
📑📊We have just uploaded a new pre-print where we decompose spatial, temporal and spatial-temporal variation in natural selection on reproductive traits for great tits and blue tits.
With Yimen Araya-Ajoy, @ellafcole.bsky.social and @sheldonbirds.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
fantastic paper by @kimholzmann.bsky.social & colleagues presenting data on ~2300 insect species along two tropical mountain slopes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What if the use of psychoactive substances, particularly alcohol consumption, had been a factor in the rise of socio-political complexity throughout human history?
Addressing this question is not easy, but it is worth trying 👇🏼
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#NewPaperAlert! So incredibly proud of Katy Silber, former PhD student & post-doc for publishing ALL of the work she did in the lab. This last paper @pnas.org answers the question, how and why does rain matter to bird reproduction, *generally*? Here is the graphic summary... details below.
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