Trump Diverts All Science Funding Into Locating The Smurfs https://theonion.com/trump-diverts-all-science-funding-into-locating-the-smurfs/
Hong Kong’s introduced population of critically endangered yellow-crested cockatoos (~200 birds) shows very healthy genetics, avoiding inbreeding & low diversity. Maybe these city parrots serve as a genetic reservoir for the native range 🦜🧬
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Colors and patterns of California seaweeds #SciArt #PhycologyFriday
New publication with Peter Koene and Alexander Brinker (not on here), in which we show that non-native rainbow trout were introduce and have established multiple times from different sources in Southern Germany but show some repeated signals of naturalisation: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Jon's new study in @natecoevo.nature.com shows that genetic rescue can increase long-term fitness despite elevating putative genetic load.
Interested? Check out our paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A short thread below 🧵
Coauthored by @jacek-radwan.bsky.social and @mkonczal.bsky.social
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This International Day for Biological Diversity, we’re celebrating conservation happening right here in our own backyard 💚
A decades-long effort to remove dangerous plastic debris from marine and terrestrial habitats succeeded in lowering endangered Hawaiian monk seal entanglement rates, a 2024 study found, confirming that such efforts are well worth the cost and effort. #EndangeredSpeciesDay https://scim.ag/4d8jw7X
Jasmine Clark led a March for Science in 2017. She just won a Georgia primary for a safe Democratic House seat.
@jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social spoke with Science about her background, the roots of her political activism, and what she hopes to accomplish in Washington, D.C. https://scim.ag/4uzbXyE
An experiment with male-dimorphic mites shows long-lasting benefits of genetic rescue, regardless of type of male rescuer and despite introducing genetic load, in populations subjected to a thermal st...
We are excited to announce our 2026 winners of the Special Event Award!
Full details here: blog.theaga.org/spec...
#Bugsky 🐙🌿 Shared with me by a fof in SoCal - this is a gynandromorph (both male & female) valley carpenter bee (Xylocopa sonorina). Females are black, males orange, so the extreme color dimorphism really stands out. Per Doug Yanega at UC Riverside, bee gynandromorphs he’s seen are mosaic instead—
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Evolutionary Biology Group, Adam Mickiewicz University
Jasmine Clark led a March for Science in 2017. She just won a Georgia primary for a safe Democratic House seat
Introduced in the late 19th Century, Oncorhynchus mykiss (rainbow trout) has been stocked historically in streams throughout Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and some populations have become self-sustaini...
