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This was a huge effort from a lot of people over many years. Most are not on BlueSky (Stephen Richards, Glenn Shea, Michael Mahony, et al.) but thanks to @stevedonnellan.bsky.social @keoghlabanu.bsky.social and @damienesquerre.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Butterfly populations falling on average 1.3% per year in the continental US, with some populations falling by as much as 40%. With 650 recorded species, only 342 were present in enough numbers to calculate trends.

🧪🌎🐛🦋 #EcoSky #EvoSky #Lepidoptera #Biology #Entomology

phys.org/news/2025-03...
First national analysis finds America's butterflies are disappearing at 'catastrophic' rate
America's butterflies are disappearing because of insecticides, climate change and habitat loss, with the number of the winged beauties down 22% since 2000, a new study finds.
phys.org
March 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social
The Greenland shark genome: insights into deep-sea ecology and lifespan extremes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.19.638963v1
February 23, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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ecophys.bsky.social
I’m in the Western Australian mining town of Kalgoorlie where I’ve set up a makeshift grasshopper brothel in a cabin at a caravan park. In this historically male-dominate town of humans one of the grasshoppers - Warramaba virgo - is all female …
February 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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biorxiv-genetic.bsky.social
Coancestry superposed on admixed populations yields measures of relatedness at individual-level resolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.29.630632v1
December 30, 2024 at 6:34 AM
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invasionecology.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Police seize 6,000 illegal wild birds’ eggs as raids net largest haul in UK history
Part of an international initiative to combat organised wildlife crime, similar seizures in Australia and Norway have recovered more than 50,000 eggs
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2024 at 7:23 AM
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jackdashby.bsky.social
Wow wow wow! My upcoming book #NaturesMemory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History #Museums is in the Guardian's list of the biggest #books of the year! 🤩🤩 It comes out in April. They're offering 10% discount on pre-orders.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...
A screen grab of the article, reading: Nature’s Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums by Jack Ashby (Allen Lane) Zoologist Ashby investigates the wonders displayed – and those locked away – in cabinets around the country, tracing the biases and ideologies inherent in museum collections and considering how they can be unpicked.
December 30, 2024 at 9:08 AM