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Instead of spending a lot of public money and wasting council workers' time spraying vast quantities of carcinogenic chemicals on tiny bits of green space, collect plastics strewn all over Brum.

#Glyphosate
#ToxicChemicals
#Carcinogens
#Animals
#Environment
#Pollution Image
Stop spraying highly toxic chemicals on the bits of greenery left in Birmingham and the W Midlands.
Save workers' health/lives and have your them collect the masses of litter/plastics everywhere
#StopTheSpraying
#Glyphosate
#Carcinogens
@BhamCityCouncil
cancercenter.com/community/blog…
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Today, on #TheMisplacedMenagerie -

We report the exotic (for #India) apple #snail, #Pomacea diffusa, also known as the spike topped apple snail, from the #Mumbai region, as part of our ongoing studies on #urbanwildlife, and the #ecology of introduced species, in #India, Mumbai.
The study was officially published in the 'ELA Journal of Forestry and Wildlife' - a peer reviewed #science journal, which is also the official journal of the #Maharashtra State #Forest Department.

Link to paper: researchgate.net/publication/35…

#sciencetwitter #TwitterNatureCommunity
Spiked Topped Apple Snails in #Mumbai (and other parts of #India) are the direct result of the #aquarium trade - either as accidental, or deliberate releases from home aquaria.

#InvasiveSpecies #sciencetwitter #ecology #naturalhistory #urbanwildlife
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Short article: "Lipid #nanoparticles are the fatty molecular envelopes that help strands of #mRNA — the genetic messenger for making #DNA code into proteins — evade the body's biological gatekeepers & reach their target cell..."

#nanotechnology

statnews.com/2020/12/01/how…
"#nanomaterials may have a wide range of effects... Experiments so far have also shown possible harmful effects on #invertebrates & #fish, including effects on behaviour, #reproduction & development."

ec.europa.eu/health/scienti…

#biodiversity #ecology
"There is less research to date on #soil systems and #terrestrial species, and it is not clear whether laboratory results relate to what may happen out in the real world." [source document, 2009]

ec.europa.eu/health/scienti…
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Took a wet walk through some first class WOOD PASTURE on the shore of #ullswater this morning. Here's a thread to explain why it's such a fantastic habitat, and why we need more of it. Image
On the face of it, wood pasture is just a field with trees in it, but it's so much more than this. When well managed, with the right level of grazing, wood pasture is one of the richest habitats we have. In fact, it's more than just one, it's a habitat mosaic. Image
One of the most prominent features of a wood pasture, is big, old #trees. This one has lots of oak, ash, birch, holly, sycamore, hawthorn and alder, many with abundant rot holes, perfect for pied flycatchers, restarts and other hole nesting #bird species. Image
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Today on our #citizenscience board we're discussing which inverts are easiest to ID from photos. Our recent #InvasionsLabPub showed that conspicuous taxa (large or arborescent) are best. Do you agree? Try yourself & let us know which animals you recognize fastest! #FunFactFriday Image
You can check out our #InvaderID chat board and try identifying #marine #invertebrates here:
zooniverse.org/projects/serc/…
Or you can read the paper, published this week, here:
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
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Covering part of #invertebrates today in gen #biology & was floored when >50% of students didn’t know what a #cicada was! 1/2
@jenylamb so now outside after class looking for exuviate & of course can’t find one 🙄 2/2
@jenylamb complain and you will receive! 😆 Image
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