#Ecological

Now that - FINALLY- I'm done with the 'Too Many Damn #Dinosaurs' (TMDD!) series at #TetZoo (in which I talk about claims that there are just too many sauropods in
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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡Over the next 14 days, we want to get to the bottom of transdisciplinary research. What
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Hello #sciencetwitter! It’s #ProtistSession time!I’m presenting work on the ecology of protists found at hydrothermal vents. Super excited to interact with you all today via #ProtistSession 12WT7 I’m a
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Without stepping too much outside of my wheelhouse, As I am not a demographer or historian of biostatistics, I wanted to do a synthetic thread on ‘population’ & its role
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1/n Apologies for ranting again about wildflowers. The charity Buglife undertakes great campaigns to raise awareness on insects. I was therefore disappointed to see that their "B-Lines" project is advertised
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The thing about climate change is that its immediate effects over the next decades will be felt differently from one region to another—and the impacts on local populations will in
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A brief appreciation of @NegarestaniReza's _Intelligence and Spirit_ from @urbanomicdotcom, and in particular, the final chapter on the philosophy of intelligence.https://amzn.to/3elGWI7  I&S gets something really right, I think, which i
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A thread. Here are some things about me:I’m over 50, white and I own a house in a rural area of Wales. I don’t have kids, I’ve been variously vegan
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Last week I presented to the WHO Guidelines Development Group. It was targeted towards infectious disease epidemiologists, but many folks have asked me to share the presentation.So, here's a video
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We Must Exit This Recession With Precision. It is with a very heavy heart that I received the confirmation that for the second time in five years, #Nigeria has entered
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A #WorldLemurDay thread on new and exciting lemur research led by Malagasy scientists! Andao andeha #MalagasyinSTEM#WorldLemurFestival First up, Bertrand Andriatsitohaina's work on mouse lemur and rodent distribution across NW Madagasca
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If you’re reading this, you need to know you’ve already picked a side. There’s no fence. You’re either for our shared humanity, wanting to know & do better, end all
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Bit late to the party on this, but I think it's worth disentangling the *very broad* set of practices that get called "forest management." 1/https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1305575210872168448 IE, the timber lobby can
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Our COVID intervention was a syndicalistic tyranny of the minority.A union of academic epidemiologists who could work from home drove our entire country’s response without interfacing with other sectors and
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Take your @steak_umm and shove it: A proposed course of study for “socially-responsible” faux-woke frozen meat brand accounts about the social irresponsibility of the industry that pays them.https://twitter.com/steak_umm/status/12957487
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The "intolerance" has metastasized to inhumanity.I recently touched on this topic in two podcasts where I spoke about animalistic behavior that, if engaged in by humans, would be considered sociopathic.Basically,
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