Cassy Vogel

Well done, @springernature.com !
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature Article Open access Published: 04 March 2026 Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments Katharina Seeger M & Philip S. J. Minderhoud M Nature (2026) | Cite this article

“Measured coastal sea level is higher than assumed in most hazard assessments…the measured values suggest that with 1 m of relative sea-level rise… 48–68% more people (increasing estimates to 77–132 million) would fall below sea level.”

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

Unveiling the urban colonization of the Asian water monitor (Varanus salvator) across its distribution range using citizen science

peerj.com/articles/173...

Good article, but the framing is wrong. There is not a dearth of interest in taxonomy. There is a scarcity of funding and positions, which is a deliberate choice by funding agencies and institutions. The youth love taxonomy! It's the olds that are failing to meet their passion!

Apollo with the dodgeball of prophecy

Years ago in another life I gave a guest lecture at The Hague warning “AI weapons” could be invoked to remove accountability for war crimes from the chain of command. I said “there are no autonomous weapons, only unsupervised ones,” and sadly it seems I was cooking with that one

Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps - Nature Communications Bees are crucial for the maintenance of healthy ecosystems, yet rigorous estimates of their species’ richness are lacking. This study estimates taxonomic gaps for bees around the world and provides a ...

New paper alert! "Estimating global bee species richness and taxonomic gaps" suggests that we have thousands of bee species left to describe and decades of taxonomic work ahead of us. We also provide the methods needed to apply more broadly :)
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Screen grab of a wiki article for a bat called the "tailed tailess bat".

guys, come on now

New paper out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! We investigated how forest structural heterogeneity and climate influence temperate dung beetles in production forests. 🪲

A Shapiro-Wilk test of the response variable concludes very significant deviation of Normality. But residuals of linear model consistent with Normal distribution.

Visual check of the linear model with DHARMa

Periodic reminder that we should avoid testing the Normality of the response variable.

For a linear model, what matters is the Normality of residuals (and not that much). Visual checks better than test. #statistics

Wat een belachelijk en #misleidend artikel! Wie de moeite neemt de wetenschappelijke publicatie waarnaar verwezen wordt, er op na te lezen, trekt een hele andere conclusie. Uit dat artikel blijkt dat er helemaal geen sprake is van een duidelijke linkse dominantie op de universiteiten!
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Black-and-white historical portrait of Dr. Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs (1854–1929), the pioneering Dutch physician and women's rights activist, shown in a circular frame with a textured border. She has curly dark hair piled up, a serious expression, and wears a high-necked dress with elaborate floral embroidery on the bodice. As the first woman to officially attend a Dutch university and earn a medical doctorate in the Netherlands (graduating in 1879), she became one of the country's first female doctors. In 1882, she opened the world's first birth control clinic in Amsterdam, advocated for women's suffrage, better working conditions for women, the regulation of prostitution, and international peace efforts.

Dr. Aletta Jacobs was born #OTD in 1854.

+ First woman officially to attend a Dutch university
+ First female physician in the #Netherlands, 1879
+ Founded the world's first birth control clinic, Amsterdam, 1882
+ Led women's rights & suffrage campaigns

#WomenInSTEM

Has @elsevierconnect.bsky.social hit a new low? I just recieved a demanding email imforming me that my review was a negative three days late ... three days before the deadline for my review. This is honestly not ok.

reading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like

margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum

define term “eplungulate”
- lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous

Stelle im wissenschaftlichen Dienst - Bereich: Waldökologie - in Teilzeit / researcher [...] Am Lehrstuhl für Naturschutzbiologie und Waldökologie der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg ist frühestens zum 01.04.2026 eine Stelle imWissenschaftlichen Dienstin Teilzeit (65%) befristet für 3...

🔍 We’re hiring! Our chair is looking for a motivated Researcher to join our team! 🌳

The aim of the project is to analyse insect communities and their responses to different forest structural conditions. 🪲🦋

We’re looking forward to your application. 🌲📩

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meanwhile: bsky.app/profile/extr...

Alongside “AI colonialism”, the other big worry with this is that modelling results are never confronted with reality, they exist in some kind of desk-based bubble. All models are wrong, only some are useful. It’s by going out & touching the grass that we can sort the useful from the nonsensical.

Friends don’t let friends publish in MDPI!

Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...

Direct evidence for poison use on microlithic arrowheads in Southern Africa at 60,000 years ago Earliest proof of plant poisons on arrows reveals complex Pleistocene hunting in southern Africa.

Hunter-gatherers in southern Africa laced their stone arrow tips with poison roughly 60,000 years ago, a new #ScienceAdvances study finds.

The discovery pushes back the timeline for poison weapon use from the mid-Holocene to the Late Pleistocene. https://scim.ag/4aQDXqI

Künstliche Intelligenz in der Begutachtung

DFG erlaubt Einsatz von KI in der Begutachtung.

Wenn wir jetzt noch die AI dazu kriegen, die komplette Forschung zu machen, haben wir den Menschen komplett von der Last des Forschungsprozzeses befreit und er kann sich komplett auf wichtige Dinge wie Reisekostenerstattungsanträge konzentrieren.

There is impossible wonder in the forests of city state Singapore. I find indescribable magic in the shiny eyes of this beautiful, peaceful Sunda Colugo.

At the start of the year I hit 2,000 species on @inaturalist.bsky.social and set myself the goal of adding 1,000 more this year. I finish the year with 1,600 new species recorded. Enormous thanks to the 635 identifiers who helped along the way! 🙌 #iNaturalist #Biodiversity

Illustration of a standing white girl with a drum surrounded by a border of Holly and with musical notes underneath

Suffragette Christmas card from the Women's Social and Political Union, 1909. UK.#Womensart

Come work with us! #PhD position on #ecosystem and #biodiversity effects of large #herbivores on the Eurasian steppes now announced: www.euraxess.de/jobs/395512

Nice combination of fieldwork and meta-analysis, co-supervised by @jonastrepel.bsky.social and ejlundgren.github.io

Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

The past and future of known biodiversity: Rates, patterns, and projections of new species over time The number of known species on Earth is increasing rapidly, suggesting unexpectedly large numbers of many groups.

Fascinated to learn that we are still discovering new species at the highest rate ever. Mapping Earth's biodiversity is far from over, and while we learn more and more about it, let's protect what we do know as well as we can!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A place-based assessment of biodiversity intactness in sub-Saharan Africa - Nature Regional, place-based biodiversity information is used to comprehensively map and quantify biodiversity intactness of sub-Saharan Africa to inform national and global sustainability policies and plann...

A place-based assessment of biodiversity intactness in sub-Saharan Africa
Clements+
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

based on "place-based knowledge of 200 African biodiversity experts"

approach can be used "to integrate contextual, place-based knowledge into multiscale" biodiversity assessments

Figure 1 of the linked paper, with multiple panels showing different pollinators interacting with the flowers of the two wildflower species

Nice demonstration of different pollinator species "pulling" floral morphology in different directions for optimal pollen deposition, in two South African wildflower species 🌿

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Nature’s greatest method actors: the insects that cosplay bumblebees When you’re an animal undercover, sometimes it’s not enough just to look like someone else

🚨New #behavioural #mimicry paper out in Proc B!🚨
In which we show that hoverflies have evolved to prefer the flower colour choices of their #bee models instead of their #fly relatives.
Conversation article here: theconversation.com/natures-grea...
Paper here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Does distance to natural habitats predict pollination services on smallholder farms? Sometimes the answer in ecology is - not really!
(or, it depends! haha)
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Cool to have contributed to this study! Thanks for including my data! 😊