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Account is dedicated to the hidden beauty of biodiversity, from the most to the least appreciated species... to show that beauty is also a matter of knowledge ! https://www.biodiful.org/ Crafted with love 💚 by @nmouquet.bsky.social

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Meet the Sunburst candy bolas spider! 🕷️🌈 So new it has no Latin name yet, just Cyrtarachninae, Araneidae. Spotted in Thailand. No web: it swings a sticky silk drop that mimics moth pheromones, luring males straight in 🌙✨. So rare, it may disappear before we name it! #Biodiful photo (c) N. Bay 🌍

MPAs only partly offset decades of human impacts on tropical reefs Protecting more while continuing business as usual will just slow the decline 🐟📉 ! Check our latest paper in @natecoevo.nature.com with @uflandrin.bsky.social on 2800+ reefs & ~1700 🐠 species www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐🧪🌍🦤🦑

Global Ecology 🌐 starter pack Vol. 3 is full and curated !! ✨💚 Vol. 3 👉 go.bsky.app/MkLHiKU Let’s start a Vol. 4 🕺🏼 👉 go.bsky.app/Dsk4TQ3 simply reply or DM if you want to be in ! Please share so they will fly into the bluesky 🦋🌈 🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁🦑🪴🦉🐍🌾

Huge thanks to #BioScience for featuring our paper "Too Cute to Be Wild" on the cover of their March issue! 🐻🧸✨ doi.org/10.1093/bios... Never thought our work on teddy bears would take us this far! 💚 with @thierrybrassac.bsky.social, N. Blanc, N. Casajus, and A.S. Tribot 👏 🧪🌐🌍🦤

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Meet Grimpoteuthis discoveryi, a Dumbo octopus! 🐙💫 Found up to 4,870 m in the NE Atlantic, it glides on ear‑like fins. It feeds on worms & crustaceans & helps transfer energy through deep‑sea food webs. Its fragile world face future threats from deep-sea mining ⚠️🌊⛏️ #Biodiful 🌍 photo (c) MBARI

Very proud of this paper in BioScience : « Too cute to be wild: what teddy bears reveal about our disconnection from nature » 🧸 are more than toys, they shape among our first emotional connections to nature. But their design may also distort how we see wildlife ! 👉 doi.org/10.1093/bios... 🧪🦤

The Costa Concordia 🚢 2012 shipwreck devastated coralligenous reefs ... 👉 Our study showing that active restoration helped revive the biodiversity & aesthetic of these fragile ecosystems is now out in Restauration Ecology 🔗 dx.doi.org/10.1111/rec.... There’s hope 💙 beneath the surface ! 🧪🦑🌍🦤

Thrilled to see our work published in BioScience! 🐻 “Too cute to be wild: what teddy bears reveal about our disconnection from nature” Thanks to the thousands of volunteers who joined our campaign and made this possible! 💚 👉 doi.org/10.1093/bios... 🦤

🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests ? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Our Bioscience paper on teddy bears 🐻 (Too cute to be wild, doi.org/10.1093/bios...) was featured in Libération, a French national newspaper! 😊 Plushology is getting some attention, maybe it’s time for a @wikipedia.org page? 🧸💚 😉

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For many Westerners, the very first intimate, emotional bond with nature may not come from a walk in the woods but from early exposure to representations o

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Too cute to be wild: what teddy bears reveal about our disconnection from nature

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Nicolas Mouquet

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Nicolas Mouquet