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Fantastic first day at #SMP2026! Met new friends and old and, while I won’t attend the beekeeping tour, I met one of @jagungal.bsky.social’s mates on the way in ;)

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

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Exciting new study in @natcomms.nature.com led by James Dorey @jamesbeedorey.bsky.social with other EF members Nikolas Johnston and Damien Esquerré, showing that there could be thousands of unknown bee species out there yet to be described!

🚩 EF researcher James Dorey @jamesbeedorey.bsky.social is part of the team that published a global dataset for bee-plant biotic interactions. Out in Scientific Data! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For non-scientists, LTER programs run for decades, so scientists can learn how ecosystems change over time. These programs cover ecology, evolution, systems biology, and it includes animals, plants, even microbes, and more. We learned so much about how our world works with LTERs. This sucks :(

Greens senator sounds warning as Labor expected to announce possible defence measures to protect Gulf countries within days * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Greens say sending military support to Gulf countries would only serve Donald Trump’s interests in the growing Iran war, as international law experts warn assistance would mean Australia was legally part of the conflict. Cabinet’s national security committee met on Monday to consider requests for Australia to provide help to countries feeling the brunt of Tehran’s missile attack, sparked by bombings ordered by the US president and Israel. Continue reading...

📣Check out EF member James Dorey @jamesbeedorey.bsky.social in local WIN News describing his new exciting research on estimating the richness of bee species around the world.

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...

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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 ...

NSF LTER program “archived”. LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”. This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings. My heart is breaking.

There could be five-thousand unknown bee species buzzing around the world as we go to air tonight. A landmark study suggests there are thousands of insects in hiding, so what does this mean for...