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Literland @literland.bsky.social · 15h

Y ahí empieza todo...
"Leyendas de Guatemala", Miguel Ángel Asturias

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 21h

Flat, graphic illustrated poster entitled "Red-Eyed Birds of North America" featuring shadowy gray-blue silhouetted birds punctuated by bright red eyes. 23 birds are depicted in total, some highlights being the Snail Kite, Roseate Spoonbill, Common Loon, and Wood Duck.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 1d

Crowdsourced data from the eastern United States reveals a widening gap between when violets bloom in the United States and when bees are available to pollinate them, putting the flowers at risk of local extinction. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/XVpS50XaCJI

Viola lanceolata, one of the species studied.
CREDIT: Bob Peterson

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@macro_action @birdzandbees.bsky.social · 2d

Look at this face!
Last Beewolf in a bit
OM system OM1 mkii and 90mm + MC-14 tele
SS1/3200 F7.1 ISO3200

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Olivier Borkowski @oborkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Global constraint principle for microbial growth laws
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Levon Dymond @levondymond.bsky.social · 3d

Migrant Hawker. October 2025

#migranthawker #dragonfly #Stunday #insects #nature #macro #omsystem #OMsystem #photography

a blue, green and black Migrant Hawker dragonfly, resting in the sunshine on some slightly autumnal looking bracken.

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Dr Khawla Badwan @khawlabadwan.bsky.social · 3d

in a syntactic death
announced in
a lexicon of what was
#GazaGenocide

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 3d

✨ Paper spotlight ✨

(🧵 1/6) The discovery of twilight length sensing in plants and its implications for models of plant photoperiodism
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fig. 2 Temporal partitioning of molecular processes during twilight remains unknown.

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Diversity and Distributions @consbiog.bsky.social · 5d

Spanish forests are shifting under #ClimateChange 🌍 🔥
This study proposes a “climate-wise” #ConservationNetwork to maintain forest #connectivity over time, using distribution models and dynamic habitat analyses.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

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martinswarren.bsky.social @martinswarren.bsky.social · 5d

The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europe’s 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...

Front cover of the European Butterfly Red List, showing Polyommatus humedasae. The report can be downloaded at https://www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?name=red-list-butterflies-2025

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 7d

Free Free Palestine 🇵🇸

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Alex Mascarell Llosa @mascarell.bsky.social · 6d

🧪🪶🌍🕊 25 Critically Endangered Birds
All of these species are on the brink of extinction.
A poster to raise awareness and inspire action. Every effort counts. ✨

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 8d

The EU frogmarched into ridicule by the intensive farm lobby. The European Parliament has voted through the Veggie burgers ban.

As the world burns, we make symbolic gestures to show we want to burn it faster.

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European Food Safety Authority @efsa.europa.eu · 7d

📣 Just published | 4th joint monthly report on #WestNileVirus with @ecdc.europa.eu

➡️ Belgium reports its first WNV outbreaks in wild birds – a new EU country affected
➡️ 989 human cases & 63 deaths across 13 countries
➡️ 127 equid & 217 bird outbreaks across 9 countries

More 👉 link.europa.eu/fNP38x

High Magnification Microscopy of Malaria Infected Mosquito.

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Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social · 9d

In numbers: Renewables have turned Spain into one of Europe’s cheapest electricity markets
theprogressplaybook.com/2025/10/02/i...

In numbers: Renewables have turned Spain into one of Europe's cheapest electricity markets

Wind and solar met almost half of Spain’s electricity demand in the first half of 2025 (46%), up from 27% in the same period in 2019.

theprogressplaybook.com

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Oliver Poole @ollypoole.bsky.social · 10d

Hoverflies on oil rigs… read this blog I wrote on our most recent lab paper exploring this phenomenon.

Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 13d

"This study utilises samples from an oil rig operator to determine migratory movements of #hoverflies and the pollen they transport across the North Sea and discuss long-distance #pollination."🛢️
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@ollypoole.bsky.social
@koralwotton.bsky.social
@ejigu.bsky.social

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 10d

A Pileated Woodpecker passing by overhead.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations @fao.org · 11d

When you think of cotton, the first thing that probably comes to mind is clothing. And while this is cotton's main use, its importance extends far beyond apparel.

Keep reading to learn some interesting facts about cotton ahead of this #WorldCottonDay on 7 October🧵👇🏼

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 12d

Invasive ectomycorrhizal fungi in South America

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#TansleyInsight by @nahpo.bsky.social and @martin-nunez.bsky.social

@uh.edu @WileyPlantSci #PlantSci

Image source: Colección y Archivo Visual Patagónico; Photographer: Antonio Lynch; courtesy of Federico Silin.

Ectomycorrhizal fungi being introduced together with their plant hosts on Isla Victoria, Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina, in 1936.

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闵娅(Min Ya; Minya) PhD @minyaaa.bsky.social · 11d

And look at this graphic abstract….. 😱🤯

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Delphine Pott @delphinem-p.bsky.social · 12d

Splicing was discovered in adenoviruses, but was thought to be only anecdotal in plant viruses... We may need to revisit plant viral transcriptomes and proteomes!

GeminiTeamLab @geminiteamlab.bsky.social · 12d

How do geminiviruses maximize their limited coding capacity? Our recent preprint uncovers splicing of viral transcripts as one more strategy used by this viral family. We show that RNA splicing is prevalent in the geminivirus TYLCV — and required for infectivity! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pervasive splicing in a plant DNA virus

Viruses maximize their limited coding space through strategies that increase transcript and protein diversity. In mammalian viruses, splicing is a well-established mechanism for proteome expansion, ye...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 12d

The Sierra Nevada’s glaciers—now projected to disappear by 2100 CE—have never before vanished throughout human history in the Americas.

Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/3KouoUR

Glaciers in California’s Sierra Nevada are likely disappearing for the first time in the Holocene

The projected loss of glaciers in California’s Sierra Nevada is likely unprecedented in at least the past 30,000 years.

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EFSA Plants @efsa-plants.bsky.social · 13d

🔎Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, commonly known as grapevine #phylloxera, is an invasive #pest of #grapevines and a protected zone quarantine pest in Cyprus.

📖Explore the newly published EFSA interactive Story Map: link.europa.eu/F4Y8Pd

🌱 #PlantHealth #PestSurveyCard #SurveillanceNetwork

Vineyards (Vitis spp.) (Source: Gerald Holmes, Strawberry Center, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Bugwood.org)

Different life stages of Daktulosphaira vitifoliae: (A) eggs, (B) larva on root of grapevine, (C) female with eggs and (D) adult (Sources: EPPO Global Database, courtesy of Biologische Bundesanstalt, Institute für Pflanzenschutz im Weinbau (DE) (A); EPPO Global Database, courtesy of Denis Kasatkin (B, C); EPPO Global Database, courtesy of Jean-François Germain, Plant Health Laboratory, Montpellier (FR) (D)).

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 13d

What a wild plant-pathosystem reveals about local #adaptation between hosts and #pathogens and the implications for cultivars under climate change

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

👆 A #Commentary on this article by VanWallendael et al. 👇

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Comparing two methods for testing parasite local adaptation, a parasite reciprocal transplant (AC) and a host reciprocal transplant (BD; this study).

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