Kenneth De Baets

A figure depicting the relative abundance of different prey items among two species of felid (e.g., monkey, small bird, agouti), derived from scat. The x axis is labeled "PoO (%)."

I would like to interrupt your doomscrolling for an important announcement: This figure from Ellen Dymit et al., 2025, depicts the proportion of vertebrate prey in felid scat, recorded as a Proportion of Occurrence (PoO). 💩

a–d, Integrated non-dimensional pyrite content (a,c) and isotopic composition (b,d) exported from the sulfidic anoxic zone as functions of Γ0 and Da*. Panels a and b were calculated using the global averaged FeHR content, Ψ0 = 10, whereas panels c and d were calculating using Ψ0 = 1 as a low-iron endmember scenario. e, Example profiles showing predicted non-dimensional species contents/concentrations (OC, Γ; sulfate, Σ; sulfide, η; FeHR, Ψ; and pyrite, Π) and isotopic compositions (d34S_SO4, d34S_S^2- and Δpyrite) as functions of non-dimensional depth, ζ, for three contrasting parameter-space conditions (marked as coloured circles in a–d). Stippled lines and lighter colours represent low Ψ0 whereas solid lines and darker colours represent high Ψ0 conditions. Vectors in panel a represent the expected change in global-average Γ0 and Da* for each bathymetric region when using the oxygen-penetration depth (vector base) vs the mixed-layer depth (vector tip) as model input. Boxes in panel b represent the 5th to 95th percentile range of Γ0 vs Da* extent observed for each bathymetric region in the modern ocean. Vectors in panel d represent global changes to various Earth-system evolution processes discussed in the main text. Sed. rate, sedimentation rate.

A big reason we have an oxygenated atmosphere is because there is a lot more pyrite burial than pyrite oxidation (which wasn't always the case). 🧪⚒️

Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BABYS IN A THUNDERCLOUD, by Godspeed You! Black Emperor from the album "NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD"

Went to my 1st concert in a long-time last week - finally got to see Godspeed You! Black Emperor godspeedyoublackemperor.bandcamp.com/track/babys-...

Antscan’s 3D Atlas Reveals Ant Anatomy Like Never Before How does a particle accelerator help us understand ants like never before?

Ants! Ants! Ants!
792 species of ants (!!!!!!) 3D scanned (high-throughput synchrotron X-ray microtomography) in luxurious detail:
spectrum.ieee.org/3d-scanning-...
paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
website: www.antscan.info
Phenomenal.

Many heat-stressed tropical insects are reaching their limits Vast study in Peru and Kenya confirms limited defenses against rising temperatures, redoubling climate concerns

🧪🌎🔬🌡️Many heat-stressed tropical insects are reaching their limits www.science.org/content/arti...

It was a pleasure to be able to part of the IRAL workshop funded through @paleosynth.bsky.social. Thanks to @thefairestfowl.bsky.social, @emmadnn.bsky.social and Ádám Kocsis for leading IRAL group and bringing together everyone and all other colleagues participating in this project. rdcu.be/e6W1s

Frau Reiche, es reicht! Jetzt Appell unterzeichnen!

Hallo! Katherina Reiche bremst die Energiewende aus und gefährdet unsere Unabhängigkeit von fossilen Importen. Mach jetzt mit und fordere Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz zum Handeln auf!
umweltinstitut.org/energie-und-...

Likely

European generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots | European Alternatives A generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot can respond to mostly written requests from users

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🔎Dr Kenneth De Baets @djbirddanerd.bsky.social @ibe-warszawa.bsky.social jest współautorem publikacji naukowej pt. „The billion-dollar case for sustaining palaeontology’s digital databases”, na łamach czasopisma Nature Ecology & Evolution. ℹ️Więcej: www.biol.uw.edu.pl/nasz-badacz-...

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Dark, shallow underwater scene showing three Astraspis, yellow, finless, jawless fish with armored head swimming to the right, surrounded by some algae and rocks. 3D artwork.

Murky underwater scene with two Eriptychius, dark brownish, finless, jawless fish facing each other, half buried in the soft sediment, with rocks in the background. 3D artwork.

Top view of a shallow marine environment with Eriptychius and Astraspis, two different species of jawless fishes, loitering around the soft sediment and rocks. 3D artwork.

Look at my fesh
#Art #SciArt

Quickly sketched marker cartoons of some very cute yellow and orange finless fish. The fish look like they're having a great day

drawing warmups / @franzanth.bsky.social fesh fanart

Differences in #extinction selectivity and their relationship to functional traits in late #Cenozoic #mollusks

peerj.com/articles/207...

@peerj.bsky.social

#Paleontology #Evolution #Conservation

Good article, but the framing is wrong. There is not a dearth of interest in taxonomy. There is a scarcity of funding and positions, which is a deliberate choice by funding agencies and institutions. The youth love taxonomy! It's the olds that are failing to meet their passion!

This did not age very well, unfortunately.

Stellenausschreibung für eine Postdoc-Position (m/w/d) in Temnospondyl-Geochemie am Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart.

The Stuttgart Natural History Museum is offering a postdoc position (m/f/d) in Temnospondyl Geochemistry

E 13 TV-L, 100 %, 2 years

Application deadline: March 8th, 2026

➡ Further information: https://t1p.de/nwrfi

Limitations of molecular dating using constant birth–death rate priors in deep time reflected in Brachiopoda evolution Molecular dating often struggles to align with fossil records when divergence times are estimated in deep evolutionary history, particularly during th…

Limitations of molecular dating using constant birth-death rate priors in deep time reflected in Brachiopoda evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

‘Divide and conquer’: U.S. businesses bully Brussels into weakening supply chain rules The EU’s flagship corporate sustainability law has been massively scaled back following industry pushback. Leaked documents shared with Follow the Money reveal how a secretive U.S. lobby piled pressur...

🤯 Leaked documents reveal an insane US lobby, sidelining Brussels' officials.

Objections from major EU companies such as Nestlé, IKEA, and Unilever were largely ignored in Brussels, while representatives of polluting industries had their say on the law. #CSDDD

www.ftm.eu/articles/was...

An historic black and white illustration of a paper nautilus floating on the ocean. There are boats, a city and hills in the background.

🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more:
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran...
#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

My invitation does not even list a publication - just empty ()

Somehow feels like a landed in some MetaVerse.

For some reasons, there are/were a abnormal number of updates of late.

The Nearing Grave (feat. Jonas Renske), by Long Distance Calling from the album Avoid The Light

Song of the day

A covarion model for phylogenetic estimation using discrete morphological datasets Abstract. The rate of evolution of a single morphological character is not homogeneous across the phylogeny and this rate heterogeneity varies between morp

Our new paper 'A covarion model for phylogenetic estimation using discrete morphological datasets,' is out in SysBio!
We introduce the "covariomorph" model in RevBayes to capture character and lineage specific rates of morphological traits.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

An ichnologically themed Far Side, documenting a terrifying morphological change of human to aquatic avian theropod based on trackway evidence! 🐾🦆

Narrative Style Influences Citation Frequency in Climate Change Science Peer-reviewed publications focusing on climate change are growing exponentially with the consequence that the uptake and influence of individual papers varies greatly. Here, we derive metrics of narra...

I'll just leave this here.

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Four photos of the deep sea acorn worm Tergivelum cinnabarinum leaving a distinct, spiral-shaped feeding trail on the sediment. Photo from: Jones, D. O., Alt, C. H., Priede, I. G., Reid, W. D., Wigham, B. D., Billett, D. S., Gebruk, A. V., Rogacheva, A. & Gooday, A. J. (2013). Deep-sea surface-dwelling enteropneusts from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: their ecology, distribution and mode of life. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 98, 374-387.

Tergivelum cinnabarium is species of deep sea acorn worm which is noted for being a big fan of Junjo Ito's Uzumaki
#Invertebrate 🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How tech turned against women As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly

“we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality, propelled at breathtaking speed by the implementation of untested AI tools.”

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... How tech turned against women

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

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