#Dispersal
Famous A14 example.
Monbiot wrote that less trees need to be planted, referring to the MP’s pledge of planting millions of trees. He advocates “natural regeneration”. What is still “natural” in the UK? Then, are there still seed banks? Dispersal routes? 🤔
October 1, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Our first session today is all about migration. Fantastic talks on migratory behaviour of common terms and social dispersal in burying beetles, delivered by Sofia Ventura and @sciencepaulh.bsky.social!

#gradbehav26
October 1, 2026 at 9:40 AM
This article is associated with a silver birch tree, planted in The Forest of Biologists.
forest.biologists.com/landscape/
October 1, 2026 at 8:48 AM
✅ A. palmata was naturally outcrossing with wide dispersal shaped by currents and barriers to gene flow
✅ Interventions needed to maintain connectivity and not increase local kinship in this species which is failing to recruit naturally
👉 Read the full paper:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
October 1, 2026 at 7:34 AM
'Rewilding' is a perfect term for how to best promote development of functional ecosystems in a changing environment. Natural processes (dispersal, selection of genomes matched to environment, etc.), must take priority over arrogant and expensive prescriptions misdirecting funds and other capital.
October 1, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Restoration ecologists have long known that many ecosystems are so degraded

that simply leaving them to recover naturally will not work

Dispersal limitation, damaged substrate, excess nutrients, altered hydrology, etc

mean active intervention is needed to recreate rich ecosystems in a timely way
October 1, 2026 at 6:55 AM
This historical Australian newspaper article contains the keyword "aircraft": "PLANNING AIRCRAFT PROGRAMME TO AID BRITAIN IN CRISIS", Advocate, 17 Nov 1945
PLANNING AIRCRAFT PROGRAMME TO AID BRITAIN IN CRISIS
CANBERRA, Friday.—Playing safe against the possibilities of 'the atomic age," representatives of British manufacturers are inspecting countries far removed from the Continent for the dispersal of aircraft production plants. They visited Australia, it was learned to-day, and inspected plants where
nla.gov.au
October 1, 2026 at 6:00 AM
If you want to condemn the forced dispersal of half of Gaza so as to engage in ground warfare with less civilian casualties, okay. Forcing a population to leave their homes is addressed as a war crime, or even a crime against humanity depending on intent and scale.

Not a genocide.
October 1, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Dispersal means you just aren't dealing with the same crowd dynamics, including the physically contagious panic that decided unit on unit engagements pre-1900.
October 1, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Evolution of delayed dispersal with group size effect and population dynamics by Flatrès, Alan & Wild, Geoff (2024)
IDEAS/RePEc link
to RePEc:eee:thpobi:v:157:y:2024:i:c:p:1-13
ideas.repec.org
October 1, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Life-history traits explain variation in the larval dispersal potential of corals https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.29.755390v1
October 1, 2026 at 1:26 AM
In fact, I'd go as far as to say it's one of the best action-horror hybrids of its kind, and I'm surprised its approach to combat–keeping the tension of 90s survival horror with tactical limb-dispersal–has seen little influence over modern horror games.
October 1, 2026 at 1:19 AM
#OTD in 1944, Senator Sheridan Downey of CA promotes his postwar plan for Japanese Americans. While the "disloyal" would be deported to Japan, Downey proposes resettling American-born Japanese across the US, while only permitting a few to return to the West Coast.
🗃 #skystorians
October 1, 2026 at 12:44 AM
The Jewish nation’s dna that included relentless challenges, marked by dispersal, ostracism and hatred.
October 1, 2026 at 12:27 AM
 “Widespread insect declines globally are likely to have far-reaching effects on wildlife... losses of insects risk changing ecosystems, disrupting pollination & seed dispersal, weakening sanitation, & altering the many interactions that help ecosystems"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Insects play critical role in ecosystems beyond just providing food, new research shows
Insects provide protection, sanitation and even shelter to vertebrates, making them a priority for conservation efforts
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2026 at 8:38 PM
It's more (was, past tense) that you read the rules once and then that let you switch between slightly different but generally cross-compatible rules hacks on the fly.

Time & dispersal have rendered that no longer really a factor.
September 30, 2026 at 8:35 PM
"A Strategy of Dispersal and "Digital Twins"
Instead of burrowing underground, European defense giants are focusing on decentralization. Rather than relying on a single, massive factory that can be crippled by one strike, production is increasingly split across small, modular
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September 30, 2026 at 5:56 PM
California is going to vote to tax billionaires. Silicon valley weirdos are pouring millions to defeat it. Threatening to leave if it passes. SV works the way it does because they are all there together. Dispersal would be good for the country. History has shown they don’t leave. Tax them.
September 30, 2026 at 4:42 PM
regulation (but I haven't seen any vent structures or surface enhancement for transpiration...).
If it really was heterotrophic, dispersal seems to be the most likely benefit of height and combining that with long life and storage makes sense.
I'm not 100% convinced by the heterotrophy though. If >
September 30, 2026 at 4:35 PM
reproductive tissue at the outer surface (which therefore doesn't preserve well), just growing each year as there are few predators.
Investing in height makes sense when there is either competition (e.g. light), a need for long range dispersal or when the aerial space is needed e.g. for temperature>
September 30, 2026 at 4:35 PM
And to end today's topic, the usual drawing auto-feedback and (a lot of) refs!

Thank you for reading & I’ll see you on the next #Cheliceratime!

4/4
September 30, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Interesting but not about the common man!
The King's Pictures
The King's Pictures: The Formation and Dispersal of the Collections of Charles I and His Courtiers (ISBN:9780300190120), published by the Paul Mellon Centre
www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk
September 30, 2026 at 3:35 PM
All I’m asking for is some kind of overly complicated player dispersal draft/auction as a punishment. Rank teams based on PPG against in the relevant seasons, min 10 games, 8 protected players, top 10 teams get a pick. Man City still pay the contracts
September 30, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Possibly to spread spores further. If it was an opportunistic detritovore specialized to exploit nutrient rich sites it would make sense to invest in a storage/spore dispersal body, especially as not many animals that could eat you were around yet
September 30, 2026 at 3:31 PM
There are 20 days remaining before the Blazers open the 2026/27 season. This year, Draft Positions is the order of the countdown.

Three players were selected by the Blazers with the 20th pick, but only one would wear the Red and Black uniform.

#RipCity
September 30, 2026 at 3:13 PM