Brazil I’m very sorry we keep sending you our worst ideas

Sad to say some of the images out of Brazil look even worse than Jan 6. Pro-Bolsonaro protesters absolutely trashing Congress, Supreme Court & presidential palace

Q. But wait, Lula is already president, what do the protesters want? A. Many hope that by creating chaos, Brazil’s military will have “no choice” but to intervene — and then they will take protesters’ side and ultimately install Bolsonaro again as president. Yep, it’s crazy.

After a long incubation, Clément Larue and myself are proud to present our new research piece published in Molecular Ecology on chestnut pollination. Here is a 🧵 on our findings with some reference to Darwin’s work to put it into perspective. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

EEB Thursday Seminar, Wagner Lecture: Harnessing the power of big data and artificial intelligence to understand and protect biodiversity with Alexandre Antonelli! #eeb #biodiversity #goblue Thurs., Jan. 26, from 3:00-4:00 PM lsa.umich.edu/eeb/news-event…

Not a bad deal for these two #GreatLakes books -- $22 less than what you'd pay on Amazon

This is out if the Gestapo playbook

Great piece by @hertonescobar on our paper led by James Albert 🐟 🇺🇦 published today Science Magazine. The message is clear: The destruction of the Amazon will have catastrophic effects on the whole Planet. We need to stop deforestation now. #theamazonwewant

I'm very happy to announce that our new article on the systematics of Primulaceae s.l. is now available open access! It's last of my PhD work at UMich Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a very collaborative project including with scientists at @KewScience and Florida Museum. doi.org/10.1016/j.ympe…

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Check out our paper 1st authored by my postdoc Michael Kalyuzhny that just came out in Science Magazine. Thanks to our collaborator Joseph Wright at Smithsonian Panama and to our other homebases Integrative Biology Oden Institute UMich Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Amazing piece of work to understand the evolution of chemical defenses as drivers of coexistence, host chase and community assembly lead by María-José Endara just came out in Annual Reviews. Congrats!!! annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

Our new paper in nature on how close tropical forests are to critical temperature thresholds, based on field studies and ECOSTRESS remote sensing data. Led by Chris Doughty and with Josh Fisher @CanopyinClouds Imma Oliveras Menor Martijn Slot and others. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our new paper in nature shows how gold and mineral mining in rivers degrades ecosystems and threatens human health across the global tropics. Led by Evan Dethier with David Lutz, Luis E. Fernandez and others on a fantastic Dartmouth 🌲 Wake Forest University team nature.com/articles/s4158…

I posted my review article here a few days ago and I am very happy with that. But I need to share something bad that happened. I am the first author of this work, but Revista USP, an excellence Brazilian periodic simply changed the authorship placing my advisor as the 1st author

Wow! Painted lady butterflies migrate from Western Europe via West Africa to Amazonia, carried in Saharan winds. A wonderful example of intercontinental ecological connection …