Laura Jennings
Botanist at Kew working on the conservation of New Guinea plants
- Reposted by Laura JenningsI know it’s intentional but we should stop calling everything AI, lumping useful machine learning techniques for science with large language models that tech companies are trying to cram into everything.
- AI to track icebergs adrift at sea. British scientists say a world-first AI tool to catalogue and track icebergs as they break apart into smaller chunks could fill a "major blind spot" in predicting climate change u.afp.com/S2sA
- Reposted by Laura JenningsTLDR; it is too early to stop doing taxonomic & natural history work and exclusively do meta-analysis; our existing datasets are highly structured & biology is weird. we shouldn't assume we already know enough to extrapolate a species' needs for conservation- we still need taxonomy & autecology
- It's a 'science publishing is broken' story but I am really in support of a quality acronym
- We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n
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- Reposted by Laura JenningsOkay, I need your help. If everyone buys my book on Kindle today (for 99p), it could push it back to number one on the Music chart and I'd HAVE A CHRISTMAS NUMBER ONE. I would really, really, really like that for Christmas. 99p! www.amazon.co.uk/Story-Christ...
- This is so great! Especially the stylised lettering, even though I don't know what it says
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- Reposted by Laura JenningsCheck out our cover article by @timjanicke.bsky.social and colleagues about the role of sexual selection in animal speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic.... The beautiful illustration is by Katharina Bóth.
- Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild: Green turtle Magnificent Bird of Paradise Purple Spotted Swallowtail Rothschild's giraffe Tawny Hermit Crab
- The number of natural history specimens collected has fallen off a cliff in the 21st century. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- This is beautiful but my first thought was pandan cake
- I enjoyed this, it's always great to hear people enthuse about plants (this one's Dactylanthus, Balanophoraceae), the NZ accents are also lovely
- As well as chickening out of necessary tax rises I also think this is another sensible thing the UK govt won't do
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- I think it's incredible infographic day on the internet because this is excellent
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- I'm looking forward to looking at my study areas in New Guinea and the Lesser Sunda islands when this comes out
- Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
- It's been a great week for weird biology: ants defying the species concept, fluorescing birds of paradise and now forehead teeth in ratfish
- Beautiful glowing birds of paradise
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- Blackberries and maybe Hieracium as well 😂
- Very good piece on the ableism of 'nature cure' memoirs
- I keep getting asked for my salty thoughts about the Salt Path as my position on nature cure narratives is v clear! A mere fraction of those thoughts published here @literaryhub.bsky.social, with thanks to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and @nicwilson.bsky.social for their earlier pieces linked below.
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[Not loaded yet] - The de-extinction company is back at their nonsense
- I had heard of the Mauritius Pink Pigeon which survives to this day, but there's a lost Blue one too!
