Another blow to climate science: budget cuts at Environment and Climate Change Canada threaten long-running Arctic monitoring programs, some with >50-year datasets.
The Arctic is warming ~4× faster than the global average. Cutting the science that tracks is…
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While oysters lack ears, they still can hear, using statocysts, their balance organ. Researchers have found playing the soundscape from a healthy oyster reef attracts larvae to settle! phys.org/news/2022-10...
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A new Vermeij article?! What a gift!!
Some Cambrian mollusks (1-8) and a mollusk-like problematic fossil (9) Source: https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app45/app45-119.pdf
It's not unknown that mollusks adapted to many environments, but the rate at which they evolved is uncanny. In the first 100 million years they were around, they developed a new traits about every 2 million years (which is relatively fast for multicelled organisms). 🧪
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The only oyster farmer I would not reflexively vote for. And that's saying something
I don't know how many I have between my author and reviewer accounts, but it is too many.
Collecting different Editorial Manager logins like the world's lamest Pokémon cards
Forbidden cavigar
Do NOT eat gar eggs!!! 🤢🤮
When they're so antiscience they'd rather send an inert piece of junk over rather than learn something about the universe
We live in hell
Some people do drugs. I live for the massive shot of dopamine I feel when I see some traffic from a teacher's website to my clam blog.
progressive taxes should be used to reverse the massive overconcentration of private money.
"Private money cannot replace public funding of science"
Thank you @naomioreskes.bsky.social
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🧪 🌊 ⚒️ #scipol
This freak sure looks like he has a liver only diet
It's all fun and games when it's just Somalis getting called Untermenschen
I mean, I don't know the author's motivation. What they posted is at least *misinformation*, in that it's false. The point of the piece is to *deny* that invasives are a major ecological problem. And their evidence is cherry picked in a way that is, frankly, *bullshitty*!
I am glad we are speaking a popular truth. Biodiversity is good. I know the author disagrees, I saw his other article criticizing biodiversity, but he is wrong. It's OK to be wrong and sometimes interesting, but people are going to call you out about it. Trust me, I love to debate a room.
I welcome studies trying to set out what differentiates destructive invasives from otherwise neutral naturalization. Right now we can't really predict which is going to be which. Would save a lot of money if we knew what introductions to prioritize guarding against
I cannot speak for the author's motivation, but the article reads as an attempt to portray themselves as a contrarian by constructing a bunch of straw men that they refute. They are then surprised that biologists who make this their life's work disagree with them.
It is also false to claim governments are on the side of prevention. Right now invasive mussels are overrunning California water infrastructure and yet the state and feds have no plans to institute changes to decontaminate ballast water! They don't care when it's time to put money on the table!
It is a straw man to claim ecologists don't acknowledge that some times invasions are neutral. There is a growing literature in the Eastern Mediterranean around Red Sea invasions being partly due to warming, with invasives filling in empty niches rather than the natives being crowded out
It was full of fallacies! Claims impacts of invasives are overblown and points to one disputed cat study, a review paper, and his speculation on pythons? I can point out 10-15 papers off the top of my head for SF Bay alone on how invasives completely re-engineered environments.
There are just so many (tens of 1000s?) of cases of invasives crowding out or destroying natives. And there is a large literature of studies talking about the introduced species that are relatively neutral and not invasive. The author claims neither of those exist. I am amazed by the chutzpah
The author claims the ecological research community only sees species as invasive or native. That is deeply incorrect to the point of misinfo. It is wise to prevent species transfer because we only rarely can predict the impact they'll have ahead of time
The heat of his rage was uncomfortable lmao
I use it begrudgingly.
I always appreciate on the train when I get the false positive about a tracker being nearby. Bluetooth is really underappreciated as a privacy issue
TIL of "snail fur," a hydroid adapted to live on snail shells occupied by hermit crabs. Life is just a turducken (hydrosnailcrab?) of symbiosis all the way down. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydract...
Which is why we need to chain them down for good this time
