Highly relevant paper 🧪🔓 for the #lightpollution community with very interesting insights: Nocturnal migrating moths 🦋need both, visual and magnetic cues to navigate. Magnetic cues alone are not enough which means they are particularly vulnerable if visual orientation is impaired by excess light 💡
See 🧵
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If your opponent is extremely bad at diplomacy it won’t hurt to challenge them in this realm, I guess
Happy 55th anniversary to one of the most iconic characters of German TV and legend of science education. We owe you so much, dear Maus
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Happy 55th anniversary to one of the most iconic characters of German TV and legend of science education. We owe you so much, dear Maus
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thanks for reading! the doi link isn’t live yet -- should work in ~48 hours.
here’s the journal link for now: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Eppley et al (2026) "We believe that acknowledging limitations and assumptions of current definitions of sex will lead to more accurate science." 🧪
Eppley et al (2026) "We believe that acknowledging limitations and assumptions of current definitions of sex will lead to more accurate science." 🧪
"Here, we evaluate the primary approaches to defining sex and...conclude that there is no current consensus on a definition of sex that is free of assumptions and limitations... Most importantly,...no biological definition of sex should be used to dictate human rights" 🧪🔓
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
WTF
After a 40-plus-year journey, 'megaberg' meltwater is fuelling blooms of microscopic phytoplankton, seen from space by @thenasaearth.bsky.social
🛰️ science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...
Weimerer Republik als Vorstufe zum Faschismus?
Timeline cleanse:
Baby tapir getting scritches for their itches.
If you want to scritch your very own tapir & you live outside of Central or South America or SE Asia, you'll need to visit a zoo.
But these little guys are (evolutionarily) from around here, in North America. Let's talk about it.
Save our dark skies. #astronomy #astrophotography #science #darksky #fcc #spacex #satellites ⭐🔭🦛
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Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
Unfortunately a lot of them will get one (or more) anyway
It’s hard to see anything but a 21st century Goebbels when there’s some footage of this guy
“Over 1000s of years, only violent events have significantly lessened inequality. The “4 Horsemen” of levelling—mass-mobilisation warfare, transformative revolutions, state collapse, & catastrophic plagues— have repeatedly destroyed the fortunes of the rich”
researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/80...
Die Reichen täten gut daran sich mit Geschichte zu beschäftigen und ihre Vorgehensweisen entsprechend anzupassen. Das was aktuell läuft geht normalerweise nicht lange gut 💀
„When we think of Galileo today … we tend to think of the late-stage version—a scientific celebrity defying both the church and thousands of years of received wisdom. How one of history’s most famous iconoclasts grew into that revolutionary stance, though, is still less clear“ 🧪
They misunderstood 1984 as a manual, and they’re really bad at implementing it
New from our lab: Using the invasive round goby as a model predator, we show how model selection in functional response experiments is affected by context (habitat complexity; mobile vs immobile prey).
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
congratulations 🎉
This week marks 17 years I've been writing the Better Posters blog!
🎂 1️⃣7️⃣ 🎂
The blog is also approaching 5 MILLION ❗ views. That is not a number I would have DREAMED possible when I started the project.
Thanks to all you readers and contributors!
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