Almost half of European freshwater fishes 🐟 at risk of extinction, new IUCN Red List 🔴 reveals
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Gregor Kalinkat
@gkalinkat@det.social
mastodon 4.5.19science educator & communicator | biodiversity scientist | animal ecologist | guest scientist at @LeibnizIGB@wisskomm.social
interested in #scicomm #wisskomm #openscience #biodiversity #ecology #lightpollution #insects and more
toots in EN and DE, occassionally in ES
check https://sites.google.com/site/gkalinkat/home for more info about my research
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'As academic Bluesky grows, researchers find strengths—and shortcomings' by @kakape@mas.to 🧪🎓
“Just because Bluesky is at the earliest phase, before enshittification has started, doesn’t mean it won’t be enshittified.”
Today we celebrate World Biodiversity Day. A day to remind everyone that we depend on all the fascinating species around us 🌍
Below a photo of a male white-legged damselfly (Platycnemis pennipes; DE Blaue Federlibelle) shot in Brandenburg in 2020
„The #MAGA movement was never a populist uprising. It was a mafia operation wrapped in a flag“
J. Craig Venter, Scientist Who Decoded the Human Genome, Dies at 79
ICYMI
Explanation for why we don’t see two-foot-long dragonflies anymore fails @nature@sciencemastodon.com
#science 🧪
#insects 🐝
#evolution 🧬
#biodiversity 🦋
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@brembs@mastodon.social
„Since the directive came into effect, there has been little improvement in the status of EU water bodies. This is not due to the goals themselves, but rather their poor practical implementation by the relevant responsible parties.“
https://www.igb-berlin.de/en/news/igb-feedback-eu-call-evidence-water-framework-directive @LeibnizIGB@wisskomm.social
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@wahlrecht_de
schauen diese Leute wirklich in die USA und denken: super, das brauchen wir auch?!? 🤦 🤦 🤦
Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/09/human-connection-to-nature-has-declined-60-in-200-years-study-finds (from Aug 2025)
“'I have to say that I’ve noticed good news is not as popular as bad news' [Sara Konrath] says. Recent science supports her assertion: a 2025 study found that negative and alarming articles about children are more likely to go viral than nuanced...stories"
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-kids-are-all-right/
Nice to see that Oikos remains a truly visionary ecological journal publishing pieces at frontiers of the field I was not even aware of:
Everts et al (2026) Interplanetary frontiers: terraforming from an invasion science perspective
https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/oik.11683
#ecology 🌍
#science 🧪
#openaccess 🔓
Fascinating article about the nature photographer who inspired Sir David Attenborough
#naturephotography
#davidattenborough
H/T Dynamic Ecology/Jeremy Fox
After USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school
Shall we promote harvesting and consuming invasive species as a management strategy? Oficialdegui et al are skeptical:
Demystifying invasivorism as a management strategy @PNASNews@fediscience.org
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
There's an episode of Fireman Sam where Norman Price gets stuck on a mountain cliff with Woolly the lamb and they have to be rescued. Given that this TV series was produced in Wales, sheep on mountain cliffs seem like a recurring theme in Welsh culture and mythology
(I used to watch a lot of Fireman Sam when my boys were toddlers)
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@joe@beige.party @kakape@mas.to
everybody, even academics, have to use the term #enshittification because it simply IS everywhere
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
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See our related 2020 review paper
„The role of species charisma in biological invasions“
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fee.2195
(Available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dFGKgy4ZDxapoOoBZGEZ7qTxEj8N_j_d/view?usp=sharing)
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@ulrichkelber
Ein Besuch bei der staatlichen Brauerei Rothaus hilft eventuell auch https://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/handel/staatliche-bierbrauereien-ist-der-staat-der-bessere-brauer/26220516.html
The air is full of DNA — here’s what scientists are using it for @nature@sciencemastodon.com
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01099-2
#science 🧪
#dna 🧬
#biodiversity 🐞
Looking back I think Craig Venter was one of the reasons why being an undergraduate student in Biology suddenly felt kind of cool and relevant in the year 2000
Great interview by Tilo Jung w/ Evan Osnos on billionaires, yachts and the world of the ultra-rich
https://www.youtube.com/live/7MRbQ_DwIwo?si=iBCgX_BC8h_g0RZa
Journalist Evan Osnos über die Ultrareichen, Mark Zuckerberg & Megayachten - Jung & Naiv: Folge 821
US-Behörden blockieren medizinische Studien
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@rahmstorf@fediscience.org
Gemeint ist wohl die Effizienz der Verbrenner in der Kategorie „Taschen der Autoindustrie füllen damit noch ein paar lukrative Lobbypöstchen für Politiker im Ruhestand dabei rausspringen“ 💸💸💸
Es sollte denen nur mal jemand sagen dass das in Zukunft nicht mehr so funktionieren wird
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@CCC@social.bau-ha.us
„Die 138 Abgeordneten, die [1997] gegen das neue Gesetz gestimmt hatten, waren fast(*) ausschließlich Männer der schwarz-gelben Regierungskoalition, unter ihnen Horst Seehofer und Friedrich Merz.“
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/gesetz-strafbarkeit-vergewaltigung-ehe-100.html