Thomas Pollet

Today's frog is the long-nosed horned frog.

Rocky ❤️

Reaching net zero by 2050 is often framed as a cost burden.

The UK Climate Change Committee’s latest analysis suggests the opposite.

The real risk is fossil fuel dependency.

Fuel quotas.

Work-from-home orders.

Four-day workweeks.

Asia is beginning to scramble.

@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/a46b...

randomly seeded bird

Sussex VC warns of ‘profound consequences’ from study visa ban - Research Professional News Sasha Roseneil appeals to parliamentarians over suspension of visas for Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan

“Restricting access to UK universities for outstanding students from these countries risks undermining this legacy and diminishing the UK’s standing as a trusted partner in international development.” (Sasha Roseneil)

Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns Marc Abraham: “During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country."

The brain drain continues – the U.S. has lost arguably its most important scientific awards ceremony:
arstechnica.com/science/2026...

1 [Title panel] BEE TALK [News-type magazine show, with bees] 2 ANCHOR BEE: Tonight: America Divided 3 Will bees and murder hornets ever find a path to reconciliation? 4 Cheryl? CHERYL BEE: Well, on the one hand this is partly caused by social media... 5 Algorithms are making us *hyper-aware* of insects who have different values to us, and this is having a polarising effect. ANCHOR BEE: Mmm. 6 Also the murder hornets want to chew off my head and eat my kids. 7 ANCHOR BEE: Jason? 8 JASON MURDER HORNET: You see, this is what debate has *become* in this country. 9 Bees pretend to be all fuzzy and nice, but they simply *won’t accept* different worldviews! 10 I mean, ultimately we're all the same, right? You want to buzz around, gather pollen and make honey... 11 I want to chop off your head and legs, gather your thorax and nibble your kids. 12 CHERYL BEE: [GETTING UP]: I’m leaving JASON MURDER HORNET: Oh she’s *triggered* [Ends]

From November 2020, when murder hornets were killing the bees in the US

The three Spidermen meme. The labels are Council of Europe, European Council, and Council of the European Union

That was always the best bit of teaching European Politics. Happy days.

Um pequeno pássaro exótico pousa em um galho fino. Exibe uma crista proeminente de penas vermelhas vibrantes, contrastando com uma cabeça preta e um corpo predominantemente verde-acinzentado. Seu peito apresenta detalhes em preto e branco, enquanto uma espécie de adorno com manchas pretas e brancas se estende em torno do pescoço. O bico é fino e avermelhado. As asas e a cauda são escuras, quase pretas. O fundo é um gradiente suave de verde, sugerindo folhagem desfocada. Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.

🇧🇷Topetinho-do-brasil-central
🌎Lophornis gouldii
Conservação: Vulnerável

O topetinho-do-brasil-central é uma ave apodiforme da família Trochilidae.

Também é conhecido como topetinho-do-leque-pontilhado.

📷 Rudimar Cipriani

Mirrored bar plot showing the distribution of estimated probabilities for different terms, for US and UK respondents. Will happen is ranked most likely, and almost no chance is least likely. Points highlight the median which are identical for both groups except for may/might happen and highly likely where US medians are higher.

A really fun dataset for this week's #TidyTuesday, looking at how people interpret different probabilistic statements 📊

There's so many aspects of this to visualise, but I decided make some barcode plots comparing how people from the UK and US responded!

#DataViz #RStats #ggplot2

Um beija-flor vibrante, com plumagem verde esmeralda brilhante no pescoço e cabeça, está empoleirado em um galho fino e seco. Seu peito exibe um padrão complexo de tons dourados e acobreados. As longas penas da cauda, em tons de marrom escuro e terminando em duas "raquetes" ovais roxas, conferem-lhe uma aparência elegante. O fundo é um desfoque suave de tons verdes e bege, criando um ambiente natural e tranquilo. O pássaro está com a cabeça levemente inclinada para cima, como se estivesse observando algo. Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.

🇧🇷Bandeirinha
🌎Discosura longicaudus
Conservação: Pouco Preocupante

O bandeirinha é uma ave Apodiforme da família Trochilidae.

Também conhecido como beija-flor-bandeirinha e pavãozinho.

📷 Marlos Menêzes

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Um pássaro de porte médio, com cabeça preta brilhante e corpo predominantemente laranja-dourado, repousa sobre um galho fino e escuro. Suas asas e parte superior das costas são pretas com nuances acinzentadas. A cauda longa e escura aponta para baixo. O fundo apresenta folhagem verde suave e desfocada, com um tom claro e difuso. A luz natural ilumina o pássaro, destacando o contraste entre as cores vibrantes e o preto. Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.

🇧🇷Pipira-parda
🌎Lanio fulvus
Conservação: Pouco Preocupante

A pipira-parda é uma ave Passeriforme da família Thraupidae. É conhecido pelo nome de sanhaçu-de-cabeça-negra, peito-ferrugíneo e pipira-gritadora.

📷 Ester Ramirez

Dois papagaios vibrantes pousados em um galho fino contra um fundo escuro e desfocado. O primeiro papagaio, à esquerda, possui penas verdes brilhantes em seu corpo, com um tom avermelhado no peito e na face. Sua cabeça é adornada com penas azul-turquesa. O segundo papagaio, ao lado, espelha as cores do primeiro, com uma postura atenta e olhos escuros. Ambos exibem garras escuras agarradas ao galho. Uma única folha verde escura aparece no canto inferior direito, em contraste com o galho seco. Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.

🇧🇷Tiriba-do-paranã
🌎Pyrrhura pfrimeri
Conservação: Em Perigo

A tiriba-do-paranã é uma ave psittaciforme da família Psittacidae.

📷 Ester Ramirez

Explainer: UK government has announced a suspension on student visa applications from nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan. Details here www.gov.uk/guidance/vis...

Trump could inadvertently be boosting prospects of European tech sector
• There are now more tech folks moving from the US to Europe than the other way around
• US Visa restrictions and hostility towards elite universities could compound trend
www.economist.com/business/202...

Please repost!

I have a wonderful colleague seeking a postdoc with expertise in *Bayesian Network Analysis*

Position for 1 year in Liverpool, starting as early as next month (April)!

Informal EOIs to Angelika Stefan: astefan1.github.io

Last year, J. Endler published an inspiring essay in @behavecol.bsky.social on what we should be doing as behavioral ecologists 👉 doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araf029. According to him, "we need to put Ecology back into Behavioural Ecology: we need to make a lot more use of Natural History" (1/5)

📢 New preprint out!

tl;dr: Publish your code, add clear README's!

138 participants assessed data & code archiving practices across 1861 papers published at 7 @britishecologicalsociety.org journals, identified gaps & offered recommendations for improvement

🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X26...

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Exeter Immersive Network Conference: Immersive Technologies in Sport and Exercise Conference

We are hosting a free conference at the @exeter.ac.uk on the 20th July, with a focus on immersive technologies in sport and exercise. Sign up, and spread the word!

www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai...

Low fertility may persist and could be good for the economy - Nature Human Behaviour Nature Human Behaviour - Low fertility may persist and could be good for the economy

"we argue that persistently low fertility is not only likely but, under plausible economic and demographic conditions, may also be socially and economically advantageous"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Elon tweet saying Grok speaks the truth and Grok tweet saying Elon is a pedophile.

Today's frog is the giant rain frog.
>:(

A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year

I love the internet

Don't be so careful in time of death ✊😔

What if you could automatically transcribe children's speech sounds from their first babbles to full sentences?

Screening for speech delays. Comparing how kids learn to talk across languages. Following how sounds evolve month by month.

We're building toward this with BabAR🧵 (sound on 🔊)

Job ad🌱: PhD position on climate change and cooperation in rural Asia, with Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Vigyan Ratnoo (Utrecht University) & Nina Hansen (University of Groningen) in an interdisciplinary project. Deadline: April 1, 2026. socion-program.org/vacancy/phd-...