The daily news continues on its exponentially bad trajectory. So here is another 24 minute listening diversion for walking, driving, cycling, crawling to work... or to a protest.... Some thoughts about insect midguts with the awesome Lora Richards. Definitely not polished. youtu.be/lAAn6d6x55k?...
If you need a break from bad news, our little unpolished hexapodcast about insects is an ok 25 minute listen. youtu.be/0KKGcgw75gQ?...
P. clavata did naturally prey on Greta larvae back in the 90s at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica.
On this day in 1809, Charles Darwin, author of 'On the Origin of Species', was born
The humble Peppered Moth is one of the best-known examples of evolution by natural selection, Darwin's great discovery, and is often referred to as 'Darwin's moth'. 💡
#DarwinDay #MothsMatter #TeamMoth
One of the mostly hidden and insidious goals of project 2025: speed up climate change to make more money for the oligarchs. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
A picture of bad bunny with the word love
Bad Bunny understood the assignment…
Males of Neotropical "daddy-longlegs" (Opiliones) have these elongated legs that they use to threaten territorial enemies, and these evolve faster than other body parts. Cool. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...
Great job Gunnar and colleagues. This is the frustration and beauty of working with tropical diversity, and it is also the tragedy that we are losing so much diversity before observing and describing it. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...
In the Irish language, the goldfinch is known as 'lasair choille' (pronounced 'lasser-quilla'), which means...
The Flame of the Forest! 🔥
A great way to remember a super colleague. www.unr.edu/nevada-today...
It is impossible to focus on anything else right now while we plummet through new levels of hate, ignorance, lies, and violence. Dante's inferno had an exit...
We are America. How could you possibly target Native Americans - with ICE Officers - and then imprison us? That is impossible. It's legally impossible to do that. - Chase Iron Eyes
This is a nice (but grim) summary of the Chambers et al. paper that I was fortunate to work on.... Predicting the fate of tropical forests under intensifying heat www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Frey: "You know what I don't want [ICE] focusing on? Hunting down a dad that just dropped his kids off at daycare, is about to go work a 12 hour shift who happens to be from Ecuador. That guy makes our city a better place."
Juniper in the desert with Sierra snow in the background
I love this juniper. I can find some peace (and cool caterpillars) here.
"The veteran said he saw volunteering as an ICE observer as another way of serving his country.
'It’s the most American thing to do: not to be scared of people trying to scare you...
This is a pivotal moment we’ll be asked about by our kids, "Where were you?"
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
California Poppy
June 11th 2024
BBC news: Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three who had just moved to the city... was a prize-winning poet and a hobby guitarist, who city leaders have said was there as a legal observer of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities. 😥😡
“God damn them all.”
Adult Collared Aracaris show striking contrast in shades of black, yellow, and maroon and develop deep serrations to the tomium—the cutting edge of the bill. We’ve expanded the species account with more details on appearance, complete with new multimedia! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/...
Fresh hell every day.
Cool.
Gin
I recommend this!
near Homer Alaska got to take some pictures of songbirds in conifers - lighting was unreal. this is a beautiful round black capped chickadee with a white body and black cap and chin - wings and tail were shades of grey. its sitting on the end of a conifer branch
@robcrank68.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BlackAndWhite. - black capped chickadees are cuter in Alaska than our california chestnut back chickadees - maybe its being poofed up to stay warm? #birds #Photography #EastCoastKin - this one is lighted like a runway model...
Well, this is something.
kinda true... but the plans for exploiting oil are pretty well developed
If we can capture another country's president, can another country come and capture ours? Asking for a friend.
