biology

A conservation manager for the Dorset-based Butterfly Conservation, Steven Lofting, said the new method "has the potential to change our understanding of their biology, distribution, abundance and ecology. It's really exciting."

"I think our work highlights why and how biologists can bring their human biases to all aspects of biology, which should be of concern for biologists, regardless of their study taxa, moving forward."

In fact, sex-based differences with implications for our health exist even at the very "sciencey"-seeming level of cell and molecular biology.

“We are animals too, and as mammals with a certain biology, we are drawn to certain other species that have shared biological traits,” said Diogo Verissimo, a research fellow at the Environmental Change Institute.

One student wasn't even targeted for political reasons, but she does research in biology, a field that the Trump administration looks at with hostility.