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Interesting new study that shows huge knowledge gaps in spillover potential in endangered species which is bad news for us. It's also bad news for the endangered species themselves who are at risk of being wiped out completely if a new virus strikes, considering they are already facing serious extinction risks
Viral diversity and zoonotic risk in endangered species
India’s Palm Oil Push Leaves Northeast Indian Farmers, Forests and Animals at Risk
#Palmoil cultivation in #India’s northeast such as #Nagaland and #Assam is devastating natural ecology with increased human-animal conflicts and #ecocide leaving #animals, #forests and people…Palm Oil Detectives
Pollinator Week is a great time to share this print, which expresses the central theme of my work about the Future of Pollination for Manufactured Ecosystems. Our food sources & ecosystems around us are dependent on pollinators (mostly bees & other insects, some birds & mammals) but insects populations have lost huge numbers and many species altogether.🧵
#PollinatorWeek #nativeBees #entomology #ecology #sciart #insects #butterflies #beetles #moths #printmaking #linocut #ManufacturedEcosystems
Species Richness and Speciation Rates for all Terrestrial Animals Emerge from a Synthesis of Ecological Theories
This is a fish ladder in Switzerland. It allows fish to get around a dam.
A request to the #eDNA #environmentalDNA community. We are working on a project related to eDNA and ethics and looking for feedback from the user community. Please help us and complete this survey. forms.office.com/r/P6R57BAbZq Please pass it along to other users.
If you are a #conservation biologist, #ecology practitioner #molecularecology etc. or have been thinking of using the tool, we would like to hear from you.
Fully funded PhD project to work on current natural selection, evolution and demography in several populations of Albatrosses, with fieldwork in the subantarctic.
A French version of the project is here: univ-larochelle.fr/wp-content/…, but if you do not read French know that it is flexible anyway. I will post an English ad later.
Email me with any question if you may be interested.
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The Simons Foundation has amazing #postdoc #fellowships for anyone interested in #marine microbial #ecology or #evolution.
I'd love to sponsor anyone interested in viral diversity!
Please spread the word!
simonsfoundation.org/grant/sim…
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology | Simons Foundation
The Simons Foundation invites applications for postdoctoral fellowships to support candidates who intend to pursue a career in basic research on fundamental problems in marine microbial ecology, with an emphasis on understanding the role of microorga…Simons Foundation
How human and ecosystem health are intertwined: Evidence from vulture population collapse in India
The collapse of vulture populations in India due to accidental poisoning prevented the scavenging of carcasses, worsening sanitation, and thus increasing human mortalityVoxDev
#NewSpecies!
New freshwater crab from #indonesia just pinched us:
Lepidothelphusa menneri
Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03DE879…
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5397.…
#Zootaxa
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arthropods #crustacea #crabs
Lepidothelphusa menneri n. sp. (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae), first record of the genus from Kalimantan, Indonesia
The gecarcinucid freshwater crab genus, Lepidothelphusa Colosi, 1920, is known only from Sarawak in northern Borneo, with six recognised species i.e. Lepidothelphusa cognettii (Nobili, 1903); L. flavochela Grinang & Ng, 2015; L.doi.org
Tom Cavalier-Smith prize DEADLINE EXTENDED isep-protists.com/post/tcs-pri…
We are pleased to announce that we are extending the deadline for Tom Cavalier-Smith prize nominations to January 31st, and that in light of the complicating factor of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are extending eligibility to 4 years post-PhD.
The Tom Cavalier-Smith prize recognizes contributions to evolutionary #protistology, or related fields (e.g. #protists #biology, #biodiversity or #ecology), by #EarlyCareerResearchers.
Tom Cavalier-Smith prize DEADLINE EXTENDED
We are extending the deadline for Tom Cavalier-Smith prize nominations to January 31stISEP
Happy New Year!!!
This is my last shot of 2023: rainbow bee-eater in Myall Lakes NP in Eastern #Australia enjoying a cicada
#biodiversity #birdphotography #wildlife #birds #birdsofmastodon #bird #ecology #rainbow
A tiny fraction of all species forms most of nature: Rarity as a sticky state
doi.org/10.1093/aesa/saad022
Come work with me! My research unit at the University of Namur is hiring a #tenure track position in #ecology and #ecophysiology
I'm happy to answer any questions about working here!
🤗🌄👏 We welcome Johanna Beirer as a new member @Mol_Ecol @uniinnsbruck !
Johanna does her master thesis on the circadian rhythm of an #Alpine #Drosophila #fly in the context of #ClimateChange
molecular-ecology.at/johanna-b…
Identifying keystone species in microbial communities using deep learning
"Study proposes new framework to identify keystone microbial species"
Lay summary
phys.org/news/2023-11-framewor…
Source
nature.com/articles/s41559-023…
#KeystoneSpecies #DeepLearningModel #ecology #microbiome
Study proposes new framework to identify keystone microbial species
Microbial communities are thought to contain keystone species, which can disproportionately affect the stability of the communities, even if only present in low abundances.Science X (Phys.org)
Marine #microorganisms are crucial for #ocean health.
#Bacteria, #archaea, #fungi, #algae and #viruses make up most of the biomass in the seas and form the base of marine food webs.
They support nutrient cycling and drive crucial biogeochemical processes, including key steps in the carbon, nitrogen and silicon cycles.
Ocean modelling must evolve to take their biological complexity into account.
#biology #ecology #oceans
nature.com/articles/d41586-023…
‘Oceans are hugely complex’: modelling marine microbes is key to climate forecasts
Microorganisms are the engines that drive most marine processes. Ocean modelling must evolve to take their biological complexity into account.Tagliabue, Alessandro
Lessons from Chloroviruses: the Complex and Diverse Roles of Viruses in Food Webs
Research Associate in #Benthic #DeepSea #Ecology (focus on #biogeochemistry and #microbiology) and Data Management (m/f/d)
🌊 🦠 🧪🔬 🖥️
3y full-time #tenure track position in #Bremerhaven 🇩🇪 @awi
For a new week: I dug into the history of a definition I’ve used my entire career, and discovered… we may not need it?
Don’t ask “When is it coevolution?” — ask “How is it coevolution?”
molecularecologist.com/2023/10…
Don’t ask “When is it coevolution?” — ask “How is it coevolution?”
A rough-skinned newt, Taricha granulosa, somewhere on the Marin headlands of California. Rough-skinned newts’ geographically varying arms race with predatory garter snakes has made them a cla…The Molecular Ecologist
Gorgeous ecological comic-based journalism from Aotearoa: a clear-eyed telling of how monoculture forestry destabilizes lands and rivers even before major climate-driven events come raging through.
#ecology #climate #forest #restoration #aotearoa
thespinoff.co.nz/society/28-07…
The Side Eye: Deeper roots
After Cyclone Gabrielle, Tairāwhiti faces a universal question: when it comes to the environment, have we got the guts to choose long-term solutions over short-term fixes?Toby Morris (The Spinoff)
How did #eukaryotes evolve for extreme temps? futurity.org/high-temp-eukaryo… #protists
#ExtremeEnvironments offer an unprecedented opportunity to understand #microbial #eukaryotic #ecology, #evolution, and #genome #biology: Hannah Rappaport & Angela Oliverio nature.com/articles/s41467-023…
“several lineages of #amoebae were often recovered from extremely high temperature environments. Studying those lineages may yield great insight into how eukaryotic cells can adapt to life in extremely hot environments.”
How did eukaryotes evolve for extreme temps? - Futurity
Researchers are investigating microbial eukaryotic life in extreme environments, like Lassen National Park's geothermal lake.Dan Bernardi-Syracuse (Futurity)
PodcastData counts 4,205,339 #podcasts.😲 That's why I don't feel bad about pausing my #podcast without notice.
The cancer of my dog Bilbo has left me completely out of the lurch in my creative work. There's plenty of competition for you to listen to.
The good news: I'm now restored enough to work on a new episode for the end of the month. Stay tuned to #NatureMatchCuts, will you? ▶️ naturematchcuts.net #ReconnectingWithNature #kinship #nature #ecology #moreThanHuman #SciComm #NatureWriting
A significant new study, using massive biodiversity datasets, shows that invasions by non-native plants set the stage for later invasions by non-native insects.
"nonnative plant introductions are a major driver of insect invasions, and that insect invasions lag behind plant invasions. In the near future, new insect invasions are estimated to increase by 35% worldwide based on recent nonnative plant introductions."
Phylogenetic diversity and functional potential of large and cell-associated viruses in the Bay of Bengal
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20…
#viruses #ecology #marine #ocean #giantViruses
Phylogenetic diversity and functional potential of large and cell-associated viruses in the Bay of Bengal
The Bay of Bengal (BoB), the largest bay in the world, provides valuable ecosystem services such as fishing and recreation to millions of people living along its coast and has a significant economic value.bioRxiv
Evaluating the role of bacterial diversity in supporting soil ecosystem functions under anthropogenic stress
nature.com/articles/s43705-023…
Evaluating the role of bacterial diversity in supporting soil ecosystem functions under anthropogenic stress - ISME Communications
ISME Communications - Evaluating the role of bacterial diversity in supporting soil ecosystem functions under anthropogenic stressNature
ARE YOU GOOD AT IDENTIFYING PLANTS?! 🌱🌲🌴🌾🌿🌵🌳
I'm looking to recruit people for a PAID opportunity to identify plants from photos. Please DM for more deets or respond & I'll DM you.
Pls share with anyone who might be interested.
Happy to say I defended my dissertation "Methods and complexity in phage-bacteria ecology and evolution"!
Much thanks to all those who supported me throughout my PhD.
I'm glad to be sticking around the Turner Lab for another year as a post-doc to continue my work on multispecies phage-bacteria communities
#PhDone #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #Academia #PhD #Ecology #Evolution #Phage #Phages
My first "reviewed preprint" on @eLife !
A Timeline of Bacterial and Archaeal Diversification in the Ocean
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre…
Lots of hard work from former PhD student in my lab Carolina Martinez. Part of a collaboration with @pseudacris
We are enjoying the new process so far and working on revisions to address some of the concerns raised by reviewers.
KDE's #sustainability initiative KDE Eco featured on the "KDE For Activists" page alongside many other excellent #FOSS projects!
KDE. Made for activists, by activists.
Made for you, by you!
KDE is developed by a community of passionate people. We develop KDE for everyone, from kids to grandparents and from professionals to hobbyists. Join us:
community.kde.org/Get_Involved
#KDEEco #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FEEP #SustainableSoftware #Ecology #Activism
New study in Ecology Letters shows how moths are crucial yet underappreciated nocturnal pollinators; check out short summary at popsci.com:
popsci.com/environment/moth-po…
Moths need protections too, just like bees | Popular Science
Better understanding how crucial moths are to pollinating plants has implications for urban planning, policy, and wildlife.Laura Baisas (Popular Science)
It was wonderful to speak with Vincent Racaniello during the Aquatic Virus Workshop in Quebec last week! Fun conversation.
#viruses #ecology #evolution #virology
TWiV 1011: Aquatic viruses
Vincent travels to Québec City, Canada and the 11th Aquatic Virus Workshop, where he speaks with Frank Aylward and Jed Furman about the research of their lab...YouTube
Happy to see the first experimental project I led finally out in the world! With Jeremy Moore, Sydney Olsen, and Mike Travisano
We combined experimental evolution and mathematical modeling to ask: do bacteria evolve to swim away from phages?
1/n
doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.29.538…
#microbiology #evolution #ecology #phages #phage #bacteria #MicrobialEvolution #MicrobialEcology
Fight not flight: parasites drive the bacterial evolution of resistance, not avoidance
In the face of ubiquitous threats from parasites, hosts often evolve strategies to resist infection or to altogether avoid contact with parasites. At the microbial scale, bacteria frequently encounter viral parasites, bacteriophages.bioRxiv
Viral infections likely mediate microbial controls on ecosystem responses to global warming
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Viral infections likely mediate microbial controls on ecosystem responses to global warming
We provide a roadmap for understanding how viral infections within microbial food webs may mediate the effects of global warming on ecosystem carbon and nutrienWieczynski, Daniel J (Oxford University Press)
Quite specific, but a very interesting article about #ants and their early evolution. The authors propose a 3 step scenario based on fossils and their interpretation. Really fascinating !
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20…
#insects #nature #ecology #fossil #paleontology #entomology
Evolution and systematics of the Aculeata and kin (Hymenoptera), with emphasis on the ants (Formicoidea: †@@@idae fam. nov., Formicidae)
Fossils provide unique opportunity to understand the tempo and mode of evolution and are essential for modeling the history of lineage diversification.bioRxiv
Scientists discover why sea urchins are dying off from US to the Caribbean
Nice quotes from @virome_girl on the recent study!
theguardian.com/environment/20…
And the Sci Adv paper:
doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg3200
Scientists discover why sea urchins are dying off from US to the Caribbean
A research team has discovered a parasite that’s been killing off sea urchins, but there’s no method to eliminate it yetRichard Luscombe (The Guardian)