Very proud of this paper in BioScience :
« Too cute to be wild: what teddy bears reveal about our disconnection from nature »
π§Έ are more than toys, they shape among our first emotional connections to nature. But their design may also distort how we see wildlife !
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The Costa Concordia π’ 2012 shipwreck devastated coralligenous reefs ...
π Our study showing that active restoration helped revive the biodiversity & aesthetic of these fragile ecosystems is now out in Restauration Ecology
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Thereβs hope π beneath the surface !
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MPAs only partly offset decades of human impacts on tropical reefs
Protecting more while continuing business as usual will just slow the decline ππ !
Check our latest paper in @natecoevo.nature.com with @uflandrin.bsky.social on 2800+ reefs & ~1700 π species
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Huge thanks to #BioScience for featuring our paper "Too Cute to Be Wild" on the cover of their March issue! π»π§Έβ¨
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Never thought our work on teddy bears would take us this far! π
with @thierrybrassac.bsky.social, N. Blanc, N. Casajus, and A.S. Tribot π
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Meet Grimpoteuthis discoveryi, a Dumbo octopus! ππ«
Found up to 4,870β―m in the NE Atlantic, it glides on earβlike fins.
It feeds on worms & crustaceans & helps transfer energy through deepβsea food webs.
Its fragile world face future threats from deep-sea mining β οΈπβοΈ
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photo (c) MBARI
Meet the Sunburst candy bolas spider! π·οΈπ
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 πβ¨. So rare, it may disappear before we name it!
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photo (c) N. Bay
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Thrilled to see our work published in BioScience! π»
βToo cute to be wild: what teddy bears reveal about our disconnection from natureβ
Thanks to the thousands of volunteers who joined our campaign and made this possible! π
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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