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Mammal mothers are tightly tethered to their young by the need to feed, but Shizuki Nara &co show that the Japanese house bat's mothering instinct declines over time and she is less inclined to retrieve a misplaced pup when cradling its siblings doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Okay, I'm watching Pluribus. THESE FUCKING NERDS. YOU DON'T JUST WHIP UP A BATCH OF SOME UNKNOWN BIOLOGICAL FROM A SIGNAL YOU INTERCEPTED FROM SPACE. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING.

The Manul/Pallas' Cat is a wild felid of arid Asian highlands and has the densest and longest fur of all #cats A new study by Jiaqing Yuan &co finds that it belongs to a distinct lineage despite many traits shared with cats in genus Felis www.cell.com/current-biol... Image: tinyurl.com/yc6banxa

Wolves have made a spectacular comeback in Europe. But attacks on livestock and humans have caused a heated debate about the limits of coexistence. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4a9BfLS

Fun fact. I was suspended from Sunday school 🤷

(I was raised United Church of Christ, which ranks 3rd, just under the Unitarians. The long-running joke is that UCC stands for Unitarians Considering Christ. They're about as Liberal Generic Protestant as it's possible to be. Like, I was asked to teach Sunday school while out as an atheist)

I know this isn't going to come across, like, at all, because it's writers I'm talking to, but for Mithras' sake, don't catastrophize! Don't spend all your time worrying about whether or not someone is going to like your work, whether editors are likely to buy it, whether it "sounds like AI"

At a Gordon conference I’m attending, a young student told me at their poster that they had read my papers & were excited to meet me (head getting bigger) but were surprised that I was not ‘as serious’ in real life as they expected based on my papers (not sure how I should feel about that).

Did Thoreau encounter contagious cancer? A new study finds transmissible tumors in catfish--and raises questions about whether they could arise in humans someday. Gift link: nyti.ms/4whfi6v

Thanks! I have been emphasizing this to colleagues. We all signed a contract when hired and the University needs to respect that contract. Arbitrary changes are not allowed. They can "make them" but they are violating the contract

President Donald Trump on Monday imposed 50% tariffs on most Canadian goods, declaring that Canada has unfairly discriminated against American autos, alcohol and dairy products. n.pr/45b2q5U

He is PERFECT ... #Jimothy

Happy to share this 'capstone' project from my time as a postdoc @umich.edu, where we show that hierarchically nested bursts of body-shape evolution may underlie much of perching-bird diversification over ~50 million years. Free access link here: rdcu.be/fuxB1

www.australiangeographic.com.au/flora-fauna/...

I’m just a poor zoologist, fighting to not give my toddler a massive rant about how her ’first 100 nature words’ book is a motherfucking fraud

“Perfectionism is about the avoidance of unhappiness. There are therefore as many kinds of perfectionist as there are kinds of unhappiness” “Phylogenetics without genomic data would be inaccurate, but phylogenetics without morphology and other phenotypic information would be pointless” Great post!

Scientific fashions, perfectionisms, and the value of traditional morphological taxonomy. #evolbio #philsci 🧪 waynemaddison.wordpress.com/2026/07/16/s...

Following a discussion on preprints, I went looking for my oldest submission to @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: April 2014, 5 months after bioRxiv started. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...