Phyllis Lee

New paper on magpie vocal development led by @stephaniellaura.bsky.social ⬇️

Indigenous knowledge helps guide conservation of Australia’s endangered northern quoll Despite its widespread biodiversity, Australia holds an unenviable record when it comes to wildlife: the highest mammalian extinction rate in the world. Since the arrival of Europeans and colonial…

To save the endangered Australian northern quoll, researchers are turning to the Martu cultural and ecological knowledge.

By providing a historical baseline for this marsupial, Martu elders are helping scientists protect both the species and the landscapes they inhabit.

Story by Nick Rodway.

The Lost Words: An Illustrated Dictionary of Poetic Spells Reclaiming the Language of Nature From acorn to wren, a vibrant encyclopedia of enchantments reweaving our broken web of belonging with the rest of nature.

For all children. Let’s give them nature rather than digital crap. www.themarginalian.org/2019/06/17/t...

Bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure to have major environmental fallout, experts warn Monitors admit they are struggling to keep track of the environmental disasters arising from widening war

Environmental impacts from bombing Iran’s oil infrastructure likely to be severe and long-term www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Résumé soumis pour la 11e conférence de la Fédération européenne de primatologie (EFP) ! 🎉
Really looking forward to this conference, June 29 to July 3, in Montpellier 🐒🦍🦧

Cambridge University Library, University Museum of Zoology and the University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities

Here’s a great PhD opportunity in the crossover between humanities and natural history- please repost 🙏 www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Outsider Animals: How the Creatures at the Margins of Our Lives Have the Most to Teach Us by Marlene Zuk. From one of our foremost experts on behavioral evolution, an entertaining exploration of what raccoons, rats, and other animal intruders teach us about intelligence, adaptability, and ourselves.

Marlene Zuk's Outsider Animals is an entertaining exploration of what raccoons, rats, & other animal intruders teach us about intelligence, adaptability, & ourselves.

Arrives March 17 (12 May UK pub)!

Preorder yours today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#Biology #Wildlife #Animals

Nesting kittiwakes on coastal cliffs in Scotland

New SUPER DTP PhD research now OA in @ecol-evol.bsky.social. Kittiwakes and past colony connectivity #ornithology #seabirds. Many thanks to collaborators & supervisors, funders, reviewers. Follow the link 👇🏻
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

U.S.’ hunger for Halloween trinkets is killing Vietnam’s painted woolly bats With hues of orange and black on its wings and a furry, fluffy face, the painted woolly bat is a stunner. But its beauty has become a deadly liability. People want to hang the bats — dead and stuffed…

The demand for taxidermied "Halloween trinkets" in the U.S. and Europe is driving Vietnam’s painted woolly bats toward extinction.

A new study on wildlife trade reveals that these vibrant batsare the top-selling species in tourist markets and online.

By Spoorthy Raman. mongabay.cc/BcWf9T

REMINDER: The Society for the Study of Human Biology 2026 call for grants is open, deadline 27th March. Details of how to apply & past awardees: www.sshb.org/funding-gran.... DM me with any questions.

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...

At the Open University we used to receive Commonwealth Scholarships for up to 20 students in east Africa to study the MSc in Environmental Management; this year just 5; as climate change hits the most vulnerable..

"AI will let us turn PhDs from 4 year degrees into 6 month degrees!"

Literally shitting on the part that makes it intellectual development. It requires things like *reading* for yourself and *writing* for yourself. Those aren't chores, they're part of skills acquisition and critical development.

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This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!

Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚

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Scientists studying wild sooty mangabeys in Ivory Coast have discovered that these West African #monkeys use sophisticated rules when combining their calls into sequences. Read the full #RSOS paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... @aurianelf.bsky.social @tozbu.bsky.social

𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻: 𝗠𝗮𝘅 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗸 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗪𝟮)

An exciting opportunity for outstanding researchers ready to lead an independent research group and shape the future of multimodal language research.

Learn more and apply here: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

Last few tickets available!

The Broken Record I was amused to read Dan Meyer’s account of the recent AI+Education Summit at Stanford, particularly the remarks made by the university’s former president, John Hennessy, who asked the audience if any...

"There will be no “AI” tutor revolution just as there was no MOOC revolution just as there was no personalized learning revolution just as there was no computer-assisted instruction revolution just as there was no teaching machine revolution."

2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-broken-r...

POST-DOC!

3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history
Department of Politics & International Studies
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/

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Black Death Research Reveals People & Nature Thrive Together 🌍
theconversation.com/the-black-de...
paper > doi.org/10.1111/ele....

A screenshot of the article title: Reframing oxytocin as a behavioral flexibility hormone

Scientific claims in biobehavioral oxytocin research are dependent on a “derivation chain”. Theoretical models are the beginning of this chain, which are dependent on a theoretical core supported by auxiliary hypotheses. Efforts to improve biobehavioral oxytocin research have tended to focus on auxiliary hypotheses related to experimental models (e.g., improving oxytocin delivery to the brain, polygenic approaches for genetics studies), and statistical auxiliary hypothesis (e.g., appropriate sample sizes for research). However, even if these issues are addressed, a poorly specified theoretical core (and associated auxiliary hypothesis) can lead to unreliable scientific claims

Oxytocin is typically described as a "social" hormone. In our new article, we propose that it should instead be viewed a hormone that modulates behavioral flexibility

doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently

When the US govt terminated the National Nature Asst, @phillevin.bsky.social + the author team were determined not to let that stop them.

They re-organized, set up an advisory committee, found funding…and now the brand new Nature Record is open for public comment. 👏🌳👏🌲

Check it out (link below)!

A photo of wind turbines on a hill and details of a live event

Both "A" words; 1 conference. RSVP now to join us on April 3 for a symposium all about merging affordability and climate policy. We just announced the speakers and the panels. It's free to attend but you must register and we do expect the event to fill up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

And enabled diverse forms of teaching…

Who Gets to Define “Coexistence”? Wolves, Policy, and the Power of Words As wolves return across Europe, a quiet debate is unfolding over what “coexistence” really means—and who gets to define it.

substack.com/home/post/p-... worth a read!

Brazilian police seize more than 1.5 metric tons of shark fins Brazilian authorities seized more than 1.5 metric tons of shark fins in Rodelas, Bahia state, on Feb. 12, uncovering what they allege is a Chinese run syndicate. They arrested seven people, including…

Brazilian authorities seized 1.5 tons of shark fins in Bahia and arrested seven suspects, alleging a Chinese-run trafficking network.

Finning is illegal in Brazil, but experts warn a bycatch export loophole may still enable large-scale smuggling.

Birds are changing — and Indigenous memory is the longest record we have Conservation has long depended on measurement. Populations are counted, habitats mapped, trends plotted against baselines that often extend back only a few decades. Yet many ecosystems began changing…

[FOUNDER'S BRIEF - @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social]

A global study using Indigenous and local knowledge across three continents finds bird communities shifting toward smaller species over the past 80 years — suggesting widespread loss of larger birds.

China’s Pacific squid fishery rife with labor, fishing abuses: Report Labor abuses including violence, debt bondage and withheld wages and medical care, overfishing, shark finning, marine mammal killings: A new report exposes bad practices and a weak regulatory…

A new report by the Environmental Justice Foundation alleges forced labor, shark finning and illegal fishing on Chinese vessels targeting jumbo flying squid in the Southeast Pacific.

The findings draw on interviews with 81 fishers, mainly Indonesians who worked on 60 vessels between 2021 and 2025.