Birds as sacred 'children of god', beholders of spirit and symbols of twinhood: Human–bird interaction among the Nuer in western Ethiopia | besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… | People and Nature | #ornithology

2/11🧵 🌱The #Crop Wild Relatives #prototype #DigitialTwin streamlines the identification & utilisation of novel #genetic resources through automating #data flow, automated #modelling runs, uncertainty analysis & timely alerts. 🔗See: doi.org/10.3897/rio.10….

Nuer people have a sacred connection to birds – it can guide conservation in Ethiopia and South Sudan theconversation.com/nuer-people-ha… via The Conversation Africa

Opinion piece: Stop using #racist, #unethical, and inappropriate names in #taxonomy. ow.ly/NRc650TXrim #BiologicalNomenclature #BinomialNomenclature #AnophthalmusHitleri #CarlLinnaeus

The blind cave beetle, Anophthalmus hitleri, is namaed after Hitler. 61 species of scorpion belong to the genus Hottentotta. The term "Hottentot" was used by European colonizers to denigrate the Khoikhoi people of South Africa, mocking their language pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Wolves as pollinators? How fascinating! 🐺🌸 The Ethiopian endemic wolf plays a role in pollinating the equally unique endemic plant, Kniphofia foliosa! ox.ac.uk/news/2024-11-2…

A blind beetle named Hitler? The case for changing offensive names of animals and plants, and how it can be done theconversation.com/a-blind-beetle… via The Conversation Africa

🌾 How Digital Twins are transforming our approach to agricultural resilience and biodiversity? 🗣️ In the latest BioDT podcast, Dag Endresen highlights the critical connection to UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly #ZeroHunger, while demonstrating how these

Ecological speciation with gene flow followed initial large‐scale geographic speciation in the enigmatic afroalpine giant senecios (Dendrosenecio) - Gorospe - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

As #Ethiopia welcomes you to the 38th African Union Summit, I encourage all participants to extend their stay and experience the rich history, diverse cultures, and breathtaking landscapes that make Ethiopia truly the Land of Origins. From ancient heritage sites to vibrant

Big thanks to Siri Birkeland for organizing it! I was great to attend a very engaging workshop on The Hidden Potential of Herbarium Specimens for Biogeography and Ecology by Barnabas Daru at the University of Oslo. So much to learn and explore! 🌿🔍 #Ecology #Herbarium

Join Me for a Lunch Seminar on Biodiversity Digital Twins this Thursday -the event will be live-streamed, so you can follow along online from anywhere: Digital Twins for Ecology, Conservation and Food Security ub.uio.no/english/course…

🔹 It’s time to meet our students and trainers! 🔹 At the #BioDT School & Hackathon, participants come from diverse backgrounds, each bringing unique perspectives on #biodiversity and #technology. Today, they introduce themselves and share what motivated them to apply - whether

This morning’s session provided students, early-career researchers & professionals with valuable insights into how the BioDT prototype digital twins are built. As Gabriela Zuquim, from CSC & #BioDT scientific coordinator shared "𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭 &

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗗𝗧 𝗛𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘄𝗮𝘆! Our students are taking on the challenge, applying what they've learned throughout the week to tackle three assignments of their choice: 1️⃣ 𝘉𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘋𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘸𝘪𝘯: 🔹 Using

Mapping suitable habitat and Anthropocene refugia for Ethiopian Guerez... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our latest paper which provides an extensive data on Global Roadkill reveals how roads are silently killing wildlife worldwide with critical data gaps across the biodiversity rich Global South where road construction is surging with economic growth - raising risks.

New paper: Alien plants interact with land-use change, climate change, and defaunation to reshape ecosystems, often catalyzing the emergence of novel ecosystems Globally, tropics are at the forefront of such transformations Nature Reviews Biodiversity Jens Svenning nature.com/articles/s4435…

Our newly published article shows how Afrocarduus diversified in Africa’s high mountains. 🌄 Sympatric speciation between Afromontane & Afroalpine zones, ecological barriers like the Turkana Depression, and climate oscillations all shaped their evolution: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jb…

Some media coverage on our recent study on the tropics Climate change + wildfires + landuse change + rising trade + biodiversity loss = novel ecosystems shaped by alien species ECONOVO - DNRF Center of Excellence Jens Svenning Full paper: rdcu.be/ev5w1 eurekalert.org/news-releases/…