Another big nature pattern unveiled: pollen production per flower increases with floral display size across animal-pollinated flowering plants. Thanks nicolaycunha for sharing this adventure. See more at doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1…

📢 Exciting new paper with Marcelo Aizen for the special issue "Pollen as the Link Between Phenotype and Fitness” of #AJB Botanical Society of America. Another relevant reproductive pattern across animal-pollinated angiosperm has been deciphered🌱🐝🌼 bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

🌱From the upcoming #Pollen Special Issue🌱 Pollen production per flower increases with floral display size across animal-pollinated flowering plants (new #AJB research by nicolaycunha & Marcelo Aizen) bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj… #botany #evolution Wiley Plant Science Wiley Ecology & Evolution

1/6 For 30 years ecologists have been told that correlations between traits across species need to be corrected for phylogeny (usually via PGLS), because related species are not independent. Several half-truths in that ... besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13… @Jecol Mark Westoby Barbara Holland

Leafcutter bees carrying leaves look like little witches on their broomsticks 🐝🍃

Pseudanthia has evolved independently in over 40 angiosperm families, hinting at repeated interactions between developmental constraints and selective pressures. (4/8)

Understanding Type 1 & Type 2 Errors in Plain English 🧵 Let's delve into the world of statistical errors using some everyday examples! Type 1 and Type 2 errors can seem complex, but they're basically about making the wrong call based on your data. Let's break it down. • Type

Brazil’s soy boom comes with a grim cost: Significant increases in pediatric deaths from acute lymphoblastic leukemia, likely driven by contamination of the water supply by pesticides. In PNAS: ow.ly/f4a250Q5CXp

"We thank the reviewers for the helpful suggestions" x.com/Culture_Crit/s…

Our new paper is out today in nature , showing that bumblebees possess the cognitive capacity for some of the key ingredients of cumulative culture, previously though to be unique to humans nature.com/articles/s4158…

I was reading 2023 Nobel laureate Katalin Kariko's book, Breaking Through. She was brutally honest about the academic system in US. And, here is an example section from her book.

Bat Detector is now live on the App Store! Free forever, no ads. Connect an inexpensive USB microphone and your iPhone / iPad device becomes a full-featured bat detector and ultrasonic recorder with real-time time-expansion. Bat Conservation Trust

Scientists should get paid for thinking time nature #PhD #PhDlife #academics #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #Postdocs #Research #Science

Ethiopian wolves have been seen feeding on nectar! 🐺 They are the first large carnivore documented doing this - and may be acting as pollinators too. New from Sandra Lai @sandralai.bsky.social Claudio Sillero WildCRU, Oxford University of Oxford 👇 bit.ly/3AQPsyJ 📷 Danielle Rubens

The first many-analysts study in ecology is finally published! 🥳🙌 300+ coauthors and 5+ years, this was a massive effort by Elliot Gould Dr Hannah Fraser Tim Parker and co. Open access 👉 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

When the same data tells a different story… You’d think analyzing the same dataset would lead to the same conclusions, but our NEW study shows otherwise. Different methods - different answers! Why? It's complicated... My experience in the study → 🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/02/06/whe…

A study reveals that major shifts in embryo size evolution of angiosperms coincided with their diversification Vandelook and Carta PLANTSEED Lab 📖

Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...

Over the moon to finally share our new study in Science Magazine led by the amazing Jack Brand! Pharmaceutical pollution at environmentally realistic levels alters behaviour and migration in Atlantic salmon, directly affecting survival 👉 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…