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🚨 Your help is needed! 🚨 Our tagging team is currently in Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) tagging honey buzzards. This crucial work helps us better understand their migration, distribution, and mortality. If you know of any honey buzzard territories or nests, please reach out. Your information can make a big difference! Write us DM 📩 or send e-mail to hannah.boeing@tbraab.at #HoneyBuzzard #Conservation #WildlifeResearch #Hesse #RhinelandPalatinate #BirdWatching #CitizenScience #Nature #Biodiversity

The questions around prions and plants are not only numerous, they're also some of the most important for the ecology of chronic wasting disease.  And that's not to say anything of biosecurity and the human food chain.  Here, myself and a number of the most respected voices in the field speak about these questions. https://lnkd.in/dxasNKwp

Maternal Care Leads to the Evolution of Long, Slow Lives When #maternal survival has a strong impact on the survival of offspring and grandoffspring, populations evolve longer lives with less frequent reproduction.  The research suggests that the slow life histories of humans and other primates as well as other long-lived, highly social animals such as hyenas, whales, and elephants are partially the result of the strong maternal care that these animals display.  (Credit to: PNAS ) https://lnkd.in/gdajcxJ3 #WLAForum

Join us as we review impactful scientific #discoveries of 2023, ranging from the origins of #Huntingtons and #infertility to animal #evolution and adaptation. #YearInReview Read more: https://lnkd.in/gTXcdyD6

Saving Brookline’s Historic Beech Trees: Bartlett’s Scientific Approach 🌳   Brookline’s iconic European beech trees, some of the oldest in the U.S., are under threat from Beech Leaf Disease (BLD), caused by a microscopic nematode, Litylenchus crenatae mccannii. This disease, first detected in 2020, is damaging the trees at Longwood Mall.   Bartlett Tree Experts is leading the fight against BLD. Our plant pathologist, Dr. Beth Brantley, is using Broadform, an innovative treatment that targets nematodes directly. We’ve seen promising results in slowing disease progression and preserving these beloved trees.   While BLD continues to challenge Brookline’s beeches, Bartlett is committed to applying the latest science to manage the disease and ensure the long-term care of these historic trees.   🌱 Learn more about how Bartlett is preserving Brookline's trees here: https://lnkd.in/eN5G2wF9 #BartlettTreeExperts #TreeCare #SavingBrooklineBeechTrees #BeechLeafDisease #UrbanForestry #TreePreservation

Curious about the biological reason that cats love catnip? As it turns out, catnip (and other iridoid-containing plants) act as feline insect repellents! Check out my recent article for Harvard's Science in the News blog to learn more about this cool science. https://lnkd.in/ePcP8Npx

💔 "On March 21, NPS biologists hiked in to the central portion of the mountain range after P-47's GPS collar sent out a mortality signal. They found the three-year-old mountain lion’s remains and noticed he did not have any visible wounds. A necropsy revealed that he may have succumbed to poisoning from anticoagulant rodenticide, commonly known as rat poison. Testing on a sample of his liver showed that he had been exposed to not just one, but SIX different anticoagulant compounds! Internal hemorrhaging was also found in his head and lungs. Although it’s not known exactly how P-47 ingested the poisons, researchers believe mountain lions are exposed through secondary or tertiary poisoning, meaning that they eat an animal that ate the poisonous bait, such as a ground squirrel, or an animal that ate an animal that consumed the poisonous bait, such as a coyote. Researchers first marked P-47 when he was around four weeks of age at the den with a tracking device. He was later fitted with a GPS collar in January 2017 when he was 14 months old and weighed 108 pounds. At his last capture in January 2018, he weighed in at exactly 150 pounds, which tied him for the largest among all the mountain lions in the history of the NPS study. Biologists have documented the presence of anticoagulant rodenticide compounds in 21 out of 22 local mountain lions that they have been tested, including in a three-month-old kitten. Lab results for P-64, who died a few weeks after the Woolsey Fire, also found six different anticoagulant compounds in his liver." -Ranger Ana Beatriz, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, California For more information on alternatives to using anticoagulant rodenticide poisons, please visit https://lnkd.in/eZVFHidM CRY OF THE INNOCENT: The Voices That Can't Speak https://lnkd.in/dJuCJKKJ Please support our work to expose the truth to awaken humanity and ignite global systemic change. US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) #breakthepoisonchain #rodenticide #ratpoison

🔎 How can we stay healthy? See what nutrigenomics and epigenetics have to say 💡 📘 A new book by Professor Carsten Carlberg, WELCOME2 ERA Chair and head of the Nutrigenomics Group at the Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research PAS, has just come out of the press of the German section of Springer Nature Group publisher. The book combines two major research interests of the author, #epigenetics and #nutrigenomics. Visit our website to learn more 👉 https://bit.ly/3tGJOLW #welcome2nutrigenomics

2024 Life Science Summit in Wellington. Looking forward to discussing Scion impact, science, technology and solutions around biotechnology, climate technology and biomanufacturing. #biotechnology #biomaterials #cleantechnology #climatetech #circulareconomy #bioeconomy #circularbioeconomy

Fascinating aspects to consider in BioEconomics. It’s a prime time to examine the unknown impact to indigenous ethos and the unknown longterm consequences. As indigenous peoples, we are taught to think seven generations ahead. Our team of researchers and scientists are working in these spaces. #wolakota #yauncikala 🦬#wocekiya #ospaye