I see the warning more as a plea to actually use these excellent collective nouns. Especially “a wunch of bankers”.
There’s always an xkcd
Ffs
Tomos Potter
Tomos Potter
Tomos Potter
Check out Shikhara’s new pre-print on ageing - excellently summarised in this thread:
DEET is a key insect repellent that stops mosquitoes from biting but now research by @crlazzari.bsky.social & co reveals that the insects can learn to associate DEET with dinner if they smell it when dining on blood, leading them to bite people using DEET
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
obsessed with this extensive and bizarre list of collective nouns on wiktionary. love that it starts with a warning not to use them
A proposal for the standardization of units and symbols in ecology 🧪🌐 " I suggest that the Ecological Society establish a study group ... to formulate a system of standards .. to facilitate communications ... in an era when parochial isolation impedes understanding."
www.jstor.org/stable/20166...
Both @nilomr.bsky.social & @andreaestandia.bsky.social have a superb eye for design of data visualisation coupled with cutting-edge bioinformatic, ML & Bayesian statistical analysis - have a look at their new company website
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George Price
Brilliant, mad, and tragic.
Can recommend the book “The Price of Altruism”, but his Wikipedia entry gives a taste of it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...
William A. Calder III, A Proposal for the Standardization of Units and Symbols in Ecology, Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, Vol. 63, No. 1 (Mar., 1982), pp. 7-10
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Journal of Experimental Biology
depths of wikipedia
This study provides mechanistic insight into how parasites alter community structure under natural conditions, via their direct and indirect impacts on host demographic rates 🐠 🌍
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Journal of Animal Ecology
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this is what actually makes science hard
Name a person who should have a biopic
Hiring 3 postdocs in ecological resilience @biology.ox.ac.uk for my @erc.europa.eu CoG ResIntegrate project. Deadline May 29th. Details below. Pls share @salgoteam.bsky.social @evoldir.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @ecolsocaus.bsky.social
