
2025-06-08 02:34:40
Habitat protections at risk in proposed Endangered Species Act changes
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5337058-endangered-species-act-habitat-protections/
Habitat protections at risk in proposed Endangered Species Act changes
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5337058-endangered-species-act-habitat-protections/
"New law to tackle 'nature emergency' in Wales - where 'one in six species at risk of extinction'"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales
🦠 Microbiologists discover new species of methane-producing archaea in the human gut
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-microbiologists-species-methane-archaea-human.html
Please, tell me again how anarchism is chaos.
If this whole sorry episode of human history shows us one thing, it’s not that “we don’t need leaders” but that the very concept of “leaders” is incompatible with the future of our species. Advanced civilisation cannot survive under these primitive hierarchies that concentrate inordinate amounts of power in the hands of a relative handful of individuals. Look at the sorry state of these danger clowns.
Either we find ways to devolve po…
I wonder how many people understand that good organic farming practices do not contribute to this problem?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-…
I wonder how many people understand that good organic farming practices do not contribute to this problem?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-…
First Introduced To Australia In 1788, This Invasive Species Now Kills Over A Million Birds A Day
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scotttravers/2025/04/26/first-introduced-to-austral…
Exoplaneteers Keep Overestimating Sigma Significances
David Kipping, Bj\"orn Benneke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05392 https://ar…
Rheology of bidisperse suspensions at the colloidal-to-granular transition
Xuan Li, John R. Royer, Christopher Ness
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05571 https:…
Puzzling radial gradients of K-band absorption features in the giant elliptical galaxy M87
F. La Barbera, A. Vazdekis, A. Pasquali, J. Heidt, E. Eftekhari, M. A. Beasley, A. Gargiulo, S. Bisogni, C. Spiniello, L. P. Cassar\`a, M. Sarzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05986
'Half the tree of life': ecologists' horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects (Tess McClure/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p106#a250603p106
"Les alouettes et d'autres espèces d'oiseaux prospèrent dans les parcs solaires allemands, où le succès de la reproduction dépasse celui de nombreux autres habitats. Ces sites de projets photovoltaïques sont en train de devenir de précieux refuges, profitant Š la fois Š la faune sauvage et Š l'environnement environnant."
#solaire
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tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 562 nodes and 994 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions
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"A new report lists the world’s 25 most endangered primates. Most people have never heard of them."
#Animals #Conservation
Not racist or xenophobic. Samples of a #Fusarium species not native to the hemisphere. It *could* absolutely be a non-malicious stupid grad student trick, but it was a dangerous one with incalculable risk.
Crop pathogens make history.
The iNaturalist Sounds Dataset
Mustafa Chasmai, Alexander Shepard, Subhransu Maji, Grant Van Horn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00343 https://
Palaeontologists find #collagen #biomarker to identify ancient #Australian #megafauna, notable because it’s more durable…
A new report lists the world’s 25 most endangered primates. Most people have never heard of them. https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/a-new-report-lists-the-worlds-25-most-endangered-primate…
All the different species in the #StarTrek universe have different requirements for (bodily) comfort. An aspect only sometimes mentioned in the different series and movies. But we will look at this aspect for today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling t…
🪁 Non-native trees gain ground in eastern US, reducing native species diversity
(... blame Ben Franklin!)
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-native-trees-gain-ground-eastern.html
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#NewPaper out: Anne Reichmuth , Kühn I, Schmidt A, Doktor D (2025) Forested Natura 2000 sites under climate change: effects of tree species distribution shifts. Web Ecology 25: 59–89.
We have modelled and analysed the effect of possible tree species distribution shift in Norway spruce (Picea abies), European beech (Fagus sylvatica), and two oak species (Quercus petraea and Quercus robur), considered jointly on forested Natura 2000 sites, an EU-wide conservation area network. The modelling procedure was performed using 3 to 4 bio-climatic variables derived from 26 variables of the EURO-CORDEX Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) climate simulations for the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) 2.6, 4.5, and 8.5 until 2098. Our results reveal a severe decline in Picea within Natura 2000 sites in central Europe and lower elevations and confirm a strong shift towards higher elevations and latitudes. This amounts to an 18 % absolute mean change (−18 % mean loss, 15 % mean gain). Quercus sp. reveal similar results, with 23 % absolute mean change (−23 % loss, 24 % gain) at Natura 2000 sites, whereas Fagus remains stable throughout the model results with 8 % absolute mean change (−7 % loss, 9 % gain). As ecosystems of any type are highly dynamic, climate change can lead to additional severe pressure on statically defined conservation goals and associated management activities.
#biodiversity #ecology #ClimateChange #conservation
tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 562 nodes and 994 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions
Researchers say the impact of feral cats on native species is greater than previously thought.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-22/feral-cats-killing-more-native-species-than-estimated/105197140
Unsupervised Evolutionary Cell Type Matching via Entropy-Minimized Optimal Transport
Mu Qiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24759 https://
Searching for helium escape and a low density atmosphere around the 120 Myr old sub-Neptune HIP94235b using CRIRES
Ava Morrissey, George Zhou, Chelsea X. Huang, Duncan Wright, Neale Gibson, Keighley E. Rockcliffe, Elisabeth R. Newton, James Kirk, Daniel Bayliss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04605
A Simple Iterative Approach for Constant Chemical Potential Simulations at Interfaces
Ademola Soyemi, Khagendra Baral, Tibor Szilvasi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01050
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Adult human being with a Winnie the Pooh T-shirt. We are not the same species.
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Design of an Active Thomson Parabola for the detection of ions accelerated by laser: Numerical simulations and characterization of different solutions
A. Huber, D. Raffestin, F. Hannachi, M. Huault, J. Jouve, A. Maitrallain, P. Nicola\"i, B. Zielbauer, M. Tarisien
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05220
AI isn’t an existential threat to humanity, capitalism and corporations are.
You see, we created capitalism, a religion modeled on cancer, and the corporation, a new, artificial species; a parasite that co-opts human beings to do its bidding; an organism that’s psychopathic by design and grows by extracting from and exploiting us and our habitat.
And we now find ourselves ruled by this religion and driven to ruin by these parasites as they drain our humanity, destroy our habitat,…
Half-life determination of heavy ions in a storage ring considering feeding and depleting background processes
R. J. Chen, G. Leckenby, R. S. Sidhu, J. Glorius, M. S. Sanjari, Yu. A. Litvinov, F. C. Akinci, M. Bai, K. Blaum, F. Bosch, C. Brandau, T. Dickel, I. Dillmann, D. Dmytriiev, T. Faestermann, O. Forstner, B. Franczak, B. S. Gao, H. Geissel, R. Gernh\"auser, C. Griffin, A. Gumberidze, E. Haettner, R. He{\ss}, P. -M. Hillenbrand, P. Kienle, W. Korten, Ch. Kozhuharov, N. Kuzmi…
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"Critically endangered chameleon discovered outside its known habitat in Madagascar"
#Madagascar #Animals
Ontario NDP, Liberals successfully stall Bill 5 after filibustering until midnight Thursday | CBC News
Bill 5 would create so-called "special economic zones" where the government can exempt companies or projects from complying with provincial laws or regulations. It would also replace the province's endangered species act, replacing it with an new law that critics say waters down protections.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-ndp-liberals-stall-bill-5-after-filibuster-1.7546691
The Boundary Reproduction Number for Determining Boundary Steady State Stability in Chemical Reaction Systems
Matthew D. Johnston, Florin Avram
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01606
Mechanistic models for panel data: Analysis of ecological experiments with four interacting species
Bo Yang, Jesse Wheeler, Meghan A. Duffy, Aaron A. King, Edward L. Ionides
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04508
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Concentration profiles of OH and H$_2$O$_2$ in plasma-treated water: influence of power, gas mixture and treatment distance
Anna Lena Sch\"one, Steffen Sch\"uttler, Talisha Mro{\ss}, Niklas Eichstaedt, Judith Golda, Lars Sch\"ucke, Andrew R. Gibson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03886
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3D Holographic Flow Cytometry Measurements of Microalgae: Strategies for Angle Recovery in Complex Rotation Patterns
Francesca Borrelli, Giusy Giugliano, Emilie Houliez, Jaromir Behal, Daniele Pirone, Leonilde Roselli, Angela Sardo, Valerio Zupo, Maria Costantini, Lisa Miccio, Pasquale Memmolo, Vittorio Bianco, Pietro Ferraro
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Cephalopods, vision's next frontier https://www.thetransmitter.org/vision/cephalopods-visions-next-frontier/ "visual systems work best when information is organized spatially"; now looking for a species that does vision that is organized…
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Stop Elephant Abuse at Two Tails Ranch in Florida #AnimalRights
A wish granting god baby, granting Conrad's wishes in service of the Rani, turns London into a misogynist utopia and The Doctor into a good husband and insurance worker.
Hard to say why misogynists are so keen on the American 50s. Perhaps because it was before blacks had the vote and women could do banking.
And if anyone doubts this ridiculous tale, their table stops working and their family might call the doubt police, so they soon learn not to. All very oppressive and subversive.
Ruby manages to doubt anyway. And all the disabled people who simply never enter into Conrad's mind. Nice touch that. Great scene in the tent city filled with the dispossessed. They don't seem to have actually done anything so far but maybe they'll get more useful in part two.
Conrad is on TV telling a story about a man named Doctor Who.
Giant dinosaur skeletons walk the city, stepping over sky scrapers, and a bone palace towers above the city. Because I guess Conrad wishes for it to be so in order to give the Rani somewhere to live.
The palace is beautiful and Gothic.
But doubt is seeping in. Rogue is back, on the TV in hell, telling the Doctor that tables don't work like that. So he investigates. Gets himself reported to the doubt police who take him and Belinda to the bone palace.
The Rani's split from Miss Flood gives the pair of them a good chemistry. Queen and her maid of honour. Seems like Mrs Flood is likely to be the Rani's downfall. She doesn't like being told to make a sandwich.
A lot of exposition going on, but they at least put a hat on it: "Isn't just exposition, I need you to doubt"
So that's the reason for the strange wishes: To make the doctor have doubts so severe that the reality collapses, and Rani can rescue Omega. Omega is the dude in a Mask from the first 3 doctors episode, who gave the timelords time travel and got trapped in the underworld in the process. Timelords forgot him and never mounted a rescue, but presumably Rani is now hoping he'll bring back Galifrey.
And with London collapsing into the underworld and the doctor falling from the sky, we get the episode break and have to wait until next week.
That's not a cliff hanger, that an already-falling-from-the-cliff hanger.
Poppy really is his daughter he's shouting as he falls. And you know what that means?
🤨🤔
Back in Space Babies, the worst episode of the Nchuti seasons, that space baby asked if he was her parents and he said he wished that he was their parents.
That wish has been granted somehow?
Is this space baby Susan's mother? They have very different skin tones, but that doesn't matter much in a regenerating species.
Never have found out much about The Doctor's child. When he traveled with his granddaughter everyone assumed he'd met his own kid, the grandchild's parent.
But that doesn't have to be true for a time traveler. Maybe he met the granddaughter before he met his own kid, and maybe his own kid was just wished into his family line 60 years later (or billions of years in his timeline I guess).
Pretty fun episode but not sure it makes much sense. Why doesn't the Rani just wish for Omega to be back instead of all this doubt and underworld bollocks?
Last one next week. Super long episode. Hope it's all cleared up. Good chance we'll meet Susan again I think. And maybe see Omega's mask once more.
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Now for some theology. Since Eve was created by God from Adam's rib, she/he/they had a Y chromosome, therefore she/he/they was biologically male -- not just the first woman but also the fist trans. Her/his/their three children with Adam must have been created by cloning and thus were all male. Were it not for daughters born from Adam's affair with Lilith, the human species would have ended there, since when the couple left Eden they lost access to free health care including furthe…
The 'Brazil-nut effect' in bidisperse particle laden flow on an incline
Jack Luong, Sarah Cassie Burnett, Andrea L. Bertozzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24114
PDRs4All XIV: CH radical and $H_3^ $ molecular ion in the irradiated protoplanetary disk d203-506
I. Schroetter, O. Bern\'e, J. R. Goicoechea, J. H. Black, O. Roncero, F. Alarcon, P. Amiot, O. Asvany, C. Boersma, S. Br\"unken, J. Cami, L. Coudert, E. Dartois, A. Fuente, B. Gans, A. Gusdorf, U. Jacovella, M. A. Martin Drumel, T. Onaka, E. Peeters, E. Roueff, A. G. G. M. Tielens, M. Zannese
Motility-dependent selective transport of active matter in trap arrays: Separation methods based on trapping-detrapping and deterministic lateral displacement
Vyacheslav R. Misko, Franco Nori, Wim De Malsche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23882
@… Modern ants are one of the most dominant animal groups on Earth, with over 17,000 ant species found throughout every continent except Antarctica. Scientists think ants diverged from the evolutionary lineage that wasps originated from, then took on a more ant-like form during the Cretaceous period with a smaller thorax and a specialized secreting gland unique to ants.
(from Paywalled Nat Geo Article)
🎣 New study maps the fishmeal factories that supply the world’s fish farms
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/new-study-maps-the-fishmeal-factories-that-supply-the-worlds-fish-farms/
mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 7946 nodes and 250780 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted
Spinless and spinful charge excitations in moir\'e Fractional Chern Insulators
Miguel Gon\c{c}alves, Juan Felipe Mendez-Valderrama, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Jiabin Yu, Xiaodong Xu, Di Xiao, B. Andrei Bernevig, Nicolas Regnault
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05330
Flexure-FET-Based Receiver with Competitive Binding for Interference Mitigation in Molecular Communication
Dilara Aktas, Ozgur B. Akan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22849
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Boycott Cruel Dolphin Encounters #AnimalRights
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mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 7946 nodes and 250780 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted
Beam-Gas Interactions in the CERN Proton Synchrotron: Cross Section Measurements and Lifetime Modelling
E. Waagaard, F. Ukena, J. Olsen, R. Alemany Fern\'andez, J. Somoza, G. Weber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02928
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Boycott Cruel Dolphin Encounters #AnimalRights
Creation of a degenerate Bose-Bose mixture of erbium and lithium atoms
Jasmine Kalia, Jared Rivera, Rubaiya R Emran, William J Solorio Hernandez, Kiryang Kwon, Richard J Fletcher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00177
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DeepPlantCRE: A Transformer-CNN Hybrid Framework for Plant Gene Expression Modeling and Cross-Species Generalization
Yingjun Wu, Jingyun Huang, Liang Ming, Pengcheng Deng, Maojun Wang, Zeyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09883
Observations of non complex organic molecules in the gas phase of the interstellar medium
Charlotte Vastel, Francesco Fontani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02641
#NewPaper published:
Ingmar Staude et al: Many non-native plant species are threatened in parts of their native range. New Phytologist #newPublication #NatureConservation #AlienSpecies @…
A Precise Metallicity and Carbon-to-Oxygen Ratio for a Warm Giant Exoplanet from its Panchromatic JWST Emission Spectrum
Lindsey S. Wiser, Taylor J. Bell, Michael R. Line, Everett Schlawin, Thomas G. Beatty, Luis Welbanks, Thomas P. Greene, Vivien Parmentier, Matthew M. Murphy, Jonathan J. Fortney, Kenny Arnold, Nishil Mehta, Kazumasa Ohno, Sagnick Mukherjee
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Hyperspherical Analysis of Dimer-Dimer Scattering in One-Dimensional Systems
Jia Wang, Hui Hu, Xia-Ji Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01233 https://
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Constructive community race: full-density spiking neural network model drives neuromorphic computing
Johanna Senk, Anno Kurth, Steve Furber, Tobias Gemmeke, Bruno Golosio, Arne Heittmann, James C. Knight, Eric M\"uller, Tobias Noll, Thomas Nowotny, Gorka Peraza Coppola, Luca Peres, Oliver Rhodes, Andrew Rowley, Johannes Schemmel, Tim Stadtmann, Tom Tetzlaff, Gianmarco Tiddia, Sacha J. van Albada, Jos\'e Villamar, Markus Diesmann
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#NewPaper out
Maria Milanović et al. (2025) Successful alien plant species exhibit functional dissimilarity from natives under varied climatic conditions but not under increased nutrient availability. Journal of Vegetation Science 36: e70032. #NewPublication #biodiversity #ecology #alienSpecies #functionalTraits #NutNet
#xp
An Assessment of Organics Detection and Characterization on the Surface of Europa with Infrared Spectroscopy
Ishan Mishra, Nikole Lewis, Jonathan Lunine, Kevin P. Hand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01842
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Bubble-Burst Synthesis of Ammonia, Amino Acids, and Urea Under Ambient, Catalyst-Free Conditions
Jerome J. Cuomo (Jerry), Ian Goodall (Jerry), C. Richard Guarnieri (Jerry), Gennaro (Jerry), Cuomo, Stephen Hudak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23850
Modeling the Monty Hall Decision Problem with Reaction Kinetics
Oliver Steinbock, Wen Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15824 https://ar…
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Response to comment on Mutualism weaken the latitudinal diversity gradient among oceanic islands
Camille Delavaux, Thomas Crowther, James Bever, Evan Gora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21006
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Pan-tropical plant functional trait variation from space
David Schimel, Andres Baresch, Adam Chlus, Phil Townsend, Fabian Schneider, Gaia Vaglio Laurin, Ben Poulter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19199