Andrea Pilar Drager

Community ecology, biocultural conservation, pollinators, tropical forests. AAUW postdoc fellow (2023-24) in Cameroon.

[Andrea Pilar Drager @andreapdrager]

Stingless bees (leva, #Meliponula) collecting resin from #NTFP Garcinia lucida (essok) in the rainforest of southern Cameroon.

The medicinal properties found in the bark--and in the rest of the tree--are important to humans and creatures alike.

@EssiYann @marcel_arnol

[Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rlmcelreath]

Do you find the way statistics relates to scientific questions confusing and arbitrary? Do you like drawing owls? Then my free lectures are here for you

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is beyond shameful, and a terrifying sign.

Albanese is as close to a political saint as we're likely to see, and watching her be persecuted for her very virtues reveals just how morally collapsed the West has become.

She literally personifies the highest ideals of public service: profound integrity, intelligence, graceful eloquence, and an almost sacred commitment to the voiceless and defenseless.

The fact that we're in an era where we persecute figures like her who advocate for murdered children and civilians in order to protect (and keep arming) their killers proves we've abandoned any pretense of civilization. We are not much more than a nihilistic death cult now.

[Edouard Husson @edouardhusson]

C'est très facile de fêter les héros et résistants d'hier ou d'avant-hier, surtout quand il leur est rendu un hommage officiel.

En revanche, reconnaître et défendre une résistante aujourd'hui ! Cela veut dire aller contre l'opinion dominante. Moins de monde se bouscule au portillon.

Dans 20 ou 30 ans Francesca Albanese sera au Panthéon d'un Occident désireux de se racheter moralement après avoir soutenu le génocide de Gaza. Et beaucoup verseront des larmes bien conformistes sur son courage - surtout si, par malheur, elle finissait assassinée ou "suicidée" dans les mois à venir.

Mais c'est aujourd'hui qu'il faut soutenir Madame Albanese; qu'il faut la protéger contre la violence aveugle du Système occidental.
La proposition qui se répand de la soutenir pour le prix Nobel de la paix me paraît bienvenue. Plus nous enflammerons les réseaux sociaux avec, mieux Madame Albanese sera protégée et pourra continuer son travail irremplaçable pour la justice et la vérité.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Who is driving climate breakdown? Buckle up for some striking data... 🧵

1. First, global North countries are responsible for 86% of cumulative emissions in excess of the safe planetary boundary.

China is responsible for 1%. The rest of the South and peripheral Europe is responsible for 13%.

These results arise from taking the safe carbon budget and dividing into national "fair shares" on a per-capita basis, and then assessing national emissions against national fair-shares.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Doctors in Gaza this week have warned of a ‘silent catastrophe’ as formula milk runs out and starving mothers can’t breastfeed due to Israel’s blockade, threatening the lives of thousands of Palestinian babies.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Whilst entire media & political class meltdown over rapper at Glastonbury.

Worth reminding ourselves of what the IDF has been up to last 2 years:

[UN Special Procedures @UN_SPExperts]

UN expert @FranceskAlbs appeals to States to ‘stop the clock on madness’ after #Gaza aid distribution shootings, reiterating her call for sanctions and arms embargo to hold #Israel accountable.

“The time to save life is shrinking”.

https://t.co/fqGQ4l97Mr

[Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn]

The Earth Journalism Network is offering biodiversity story grants to journalists from low or middle income countries.

Apply by April 29: https://t.co/sZQY4S7ETj

[Katie Halper @kthalps]

"Let Gaza's shards of glass be your mirror" - @MomodouTaal reads from his historic statement on his decision to self-deport

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

In honor of international women's day, let's take a moment to remember the most famous statistician in history.

You've definitely heard of her, but you probably have no idea she was a statistician.

It's Florence Nightingale.

[Andrea Pilar Drager @andreapdrager]

@DAISEA_AfricaBP Also, do you have any funds to support student participants from nearby countries (Cameroon)?

[Andrea Pilar Drager @andreapdrager]

@DAISEA_AfricaBP Will this workshop be bilingual English/French, given your focus is on West Africa? Thanks.

[Scott Miller @PNGmoths]

"the number of novel operational taxonomic units delimited by #DNA barcode sequencing is likely to eclipse the number of species described by Linnean #taxonomy by as early as 2029"
https://t.co/0yhBGPArjw

[Alexa 🇨🇲 @call_Me_Alexaaa]

Le silence et l’inaction de ceux qui nous gouvernent sont une trahison. Un peuple meurt dans la rue pour sa dignité, pendant que ses dirigeants détournent le regard. Mais sachez une chose : la dignité ne se réclame pas éternellement en vain.

#Sosucam
#Cameroun

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[Dr Kit Prendergast @BeeBabette]

Cockroach pollination ensures sexual reproduction in the non‐photosynthetic plant Balanophora tobiracola - Suetsugu - Plant Biology - Wiley Online Library https://t.co/ohEJTzLDkx

[GBIF @biodiversity.social/@gbif @GBIF]

📣 2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge is open!

This grant programme calls for innovative tools that leverage biodiversity data from the GBIF network to advance open science, supporting research and policy. 👩‍🔬

⭐ Submissions due 7 September 2025

🔗 https://t.co/rfiPcaFQMX

[Simon Lewis @SimonLLewis]

The scholarships are only available for nationals and residents of Cameroon, DRC, Gabon and Rep. Congo, and cover climate, water, forest, biodiversity, land-use and social sciences. Closing date 28 Feb, courses start October 2025, in both French and English speaking universities.

[Partenariat Forêts Bassin du Congo @cbfp_pfbc]

Congo basin science Initiative @CBSI vient de publier un appel à candidatures pour 12 bourses pour des formations de niveau master et 21 bourses pour des projets de doctorat axés sur la recherche.
Date limite de candidatures : 28 février 2025
https://t.co/y8hZHxPJSq

[Andrea Pilar Drager @andreapdrager]

@bonebraking @micheldongmo @GlobalChangeBio Just tried to access this article from Cameroon without a VPN and was blocked. Turn on the VPN with US address selected, problem solved. @WileyGlobal : despite no paywall, this article is still not accessible to all! #openscience #Africa

[HistoireDuCameroun🇨🇲 @mbeatowe]

L'exposition «𝑰𝒏𝒅𝒆́𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒅𝒖 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏, 𝒍𝒊𝒃𝒆́𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒍𝒂 𝒎𝒆́𝒎𝒐𝒊𝒓𝒆» est ouverte jusqu'au 𝟑𝟏Déc𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐚̀ 𝐥’𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐢𝐞̀𝐠𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝐥𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐞́ 𝐔𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐝’𝐄𝐝𝐞́𝐚. Elle est organisée par La Route des chefferies