NgTingHui

NgTingHui, 6 months ago to random

🔟 free, 3-year, Malacological Society of London memberships available to postgraduate students studying #malacology-related courses, in developing countries (incl. all Southeast Asian countries), under the Broadening Access Membership Scheme.
For further details: https://malacsoc.org.uk/developing-economies-membership-scheme/

NgTingHui, 6 months ago to random

Nakamura et al. (2023) 3 pathways to better recognize the expertise of Global South researchers. NPJ biodiversity
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44185-023-00021-7
"1. increase diversity in scientific groups, 2. reduce costs of OA publications, 3. cite us"

NgTingHui, 7 months ago to random

Ulisse Aldrovandi held a vast #NaturalHistoryCollection, which was bequeathed to the city of Bologna upon his death. The plant specimens from his #herbarium have now been used to track changes to the flora of the region over 500 years. #CollectionsMatter
News: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/08/ulisse-aldrovandi-500-year-old-pressed-flowers-royal-society-aoe
Original article: Buldrini et al. (2023) R. Soc. open sci.10: 230866–230866 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230866

NgTingHui, 7 months ago to random

Today, I learnt that there are #polychaetes that live in the 🐚 of #FreshwaterSnails 🤯and there's a species described from Ranau, Sabah 🇲🇾

1. Razmi Shah RSB, Ibrahim YS, Villalobos-Guerrero TF, Sato M (2023) Updated checklist of polychaete species (Annelida) recorded from Malaysia, with remarks on the research history. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e110021

2. Jones, Meredith L. 1974. On the Caobangiidae, a new family of the Polychaeta, with a redescription of Caobangia billeti Giard. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.175

NgTingHui, 8 months ago to nature

New #Nature publication by global #amphibian experts including Evan Quah #ITBC #UniversitiMalaysiaSabah
"Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats" Read https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06578-4

NgTingHui, 8 months ago to random

New issue of Jurnal Moluska Indonesia by #MasyarakatMoluskaIndonesia (#IndonesianMalacologicalSociety) with 5 articles on community structure of coastal #Mollusca, rediscovery of a tree snail, biology of Corbicula clams and abalone, across the archipelago, from Aceh to Sulawesi http://jurnalmoluskaindonesia.com/index.php/jmi/issue/view/10

NgTingHui, 8 months ago to snails

New paper 📢 C. Sutcharit et al. Notes on the hypselostomatid 🐌(#Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from limestone hills in Western #Cambodia with a new record and a #NewSpecies. via J. Natural History https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2023.2223386
50 free eprints: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/HZGJ5P2HVKHFBU6TEBPF/full?target=10.1080/00222933.2023.2223386

NgTingHui, 8 months ago to snails

New paper 📢 Reproductive behaviour of one of the largest #freshwater #snails in #SouthEastAsia, led by Supanya Annate (his 1st PhD pub 🎊)
🔓: Ethogram & classification of the mating & egg-laying behaviour of the Southeast Asian 🍎🐌Pila virescens #Ampullariidae https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1180.106498

NgTingHui, 8 months ago to random

"How to Find Ectoparasites on Study Skins and Explore Natural Heritage Shared between Colonial and Provincial Museums"—finding parasites on specimens formerly in the #NaturalHistoryCollections of the Selangor Museum, that were sent to the World Museum in Liverpool in the early 1900s. #ExtendedSpecimen https://natsca.blog/2023/09/21/how-to-find-ectoparasites-on-study-skins-and-explore-natural-heritage-shared-between-colonial-and-provincial-museums/

NgTingHui, 8 months ago to snails

Pholyotha et al. (2023) A new discovery of the #bioluminescent terrestrial #snail genus Phuphania (Gastropoda: Dyakiidae)
🔓https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-42364-y via #ScientificReports

"...Phuphania [relatives of the previously only known luminescent landsnail, Quantula striata] produce a continuous greenish light from the light-emitting cells located within the mantle and the foot".

NgTingHui, 8 months ago to random

Trisha Mukherjee (2023) #Conservation biology needs diversity among its practitioners to succeed
https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad057
#BioScience