repeating unfounded claims about animals’ “uselessness” is not productive. all living things have intrinsic worth as species, but it’s still stupid from a selfish standpoint—we do not know enough about how biodiversity allows us to exist to let any part of it disappear

It would be a shame if there was an extension that basically fixed every twitter problem spacemanchild caused as well as getting rid of the clutter and it's free to download like it'd be so unfortunate chrome: chrome.google.com/webstore/detai… firefox: addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/…

Why are alcohol and opioids addictive, but not psilocybin or menthol? Why do fungi and plants make such chemicals in the first place? Why are many plants toxic to cats? Why did a Mexican yam lead to "The Pill"? Why did the Spice Trade hasten the Opioid Crisis? For answers...👇

If you are working with insects and need histological techniques have a look at this great new book. Benjamin Weiss, technician and histology expert in the Insect Symbiosis Lab published the book based on his many years of experience in the field! shaker.de/de/content/cat…

I don’t even like having to justify the existence of animals to people because, oh, these pollinate chocolate or those ones are important predators. there are little shrimps in a cave that have 0 impact on the outside world but they deserve to exist too

big rain? one must go turtling

Today I’ve caught my first snakefly larvae and this folk can bounce backwards! #TIL

Wrap, wrap, wrap your film Gently 'round the tube

A fun read those interested in how human activity shapes ecosystems and how organisms respond to those changes (and for fans of conservation and birds!)

Germany has long regulated the ways the Holocaust is remembered and discussed. This has involved not only memorializing the Holocaust as a unique historical atrocity but also a special responsibility to support the security of Israel, Masha Gessen writes. nyer.cm/rsAku7b

A must share video! Perhaps the most important part of the South Africa case against Israel at the ICJ today presented.

Thanks to nature for putting together this wonderful video on our recent findings.

Can we stop ignoring Archaea? Please! 🙏🏽

In a new study in Functional Ecology Pamela Medina van Berkum, Sybille Unsicker et al. show that populations of ribwort plantain outside their native range are just as well or even better defended in comparison to native populations. Universität Kiel CAU 🎓 UFZ iDiv Biodiversity Research ice.mpg.de/465998/PR_Medi…

How to grow (almost) any microbe. A New Hope. Using just 10% of a genome sequence, we can estimate the required environmental (salt, pH, oxygen, and temp) conditions for growing a microbe in the lab.

You can still sign up for this online conversation on the science of psychedelics tomorrow (March 27 at 1pm PDT) featuring colleagues from Cal and led by Imran Khan from the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics. I will be focusing on a BIG unanswered question: Why did natural psychedelics evolve?

very shifted vibes

Northern lights in Jena! The first image is true to what I saw. The colors of the other two were enhanced by my phone's night vision setting, but I could still see bands of light and faint colors with the naked eye.

For the first time in 114 years, biologists from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife have observed a fall-run Chinook salmon returning to spawn in the Klamath Basin in Oregon, after dam removal.