Ecologist (invasive species, freshwater biodiversity, bioinvasions, aquatic ecosystems) | Professor of Biology, McGill University | Director of the Bieler School of Environment | My lab account: @ricciardilab.bsky.social
Anthony Ricciardi
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Reminder: the only Frontiers journal good for ecologists is IMO the ESA’s Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment - a different and older journal. The other Frontiers-branded journals have *always* been borderline predatory and prone to over-ride editors.
“It is like conducting a dangerous genetic experiment,” Vora said of the trade. “It’s just a ticking time bomb that has huge risk—it’s like pandemic roulette.” Really nice reporting on the wildlife trade from Katie Surma and Kiley Price
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www.independent.com/2026/06/06/v...
2/ ...Furthermore, given that microbes evolve quickly in stressful environments, those previously introduced to Mars could have mutated such that they are now distinct from their ancestral forms. If these are introduced back to Earth (rebound contamination) they would pose a novel bioinvasion risk.
1/ Diverse organisms have been shown to survive sterilization protocols & conditions of space travel. This implies that we may already have contaminated Mars. If so, it may be challenging to distinguish any discovered life as Martian vs introduced from Earth... www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...
👉"The pipeline really begins with basic research" 👈
Invasive plants did not behave the same way everywhere. Across the continental U.S., harsh climates favored species more like natives, while mild climates favored more distinct plants, often flowering earlier. doi.org/hb5324
"The students who cannot read a 20-pg article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow."
The most important argument against AI in education is that it's incompatible with a free society.
www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...
My latest on Substack:
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A spacecraft that had not been sterilized as a lander (and even if it had been, NASA 'clean' rooms are known to harbor extremophile microbes) was deliberately crashed into Jupiter to prevent possible biological contamination of a moon that could contain life. #bioinvasions
