Parrots, ancient DNA, and a long trek across the Andes! 🦜🧬🏔️ Check out the video summary for our latest @natcomms.nature.com paper by @wildlifemessengers.org. We discovered pre-Inca societies transported live Amazonian parrots from the rainforest to the Pacific coast: youtu.be/Vb5eoTaGLO0
We're chuffed to announce Apache SedonaDB 0.3.0! This release features a rewritten join that supports larger-than-memory spatial/KNN joins courtesy of Kristin Cowalcijk, new functions, parameterized SQL queries, GDAL/pyogrio reads, GDAL/sf based reads in R, and the beginnings of an R DataFrame API!
A Softshell Turtle looking up at me #herps
Gosh that’s the worst! Have you thought about publishing somewhere like stacksjournal.org? They seem like a cool future of publishing and I was thinking of trying them out next time
This is cool! Have you seen any skills for stats?
Yeah what does better mean???
Upcoming Sonic Connexions meet-up: Listening at Scale: Edge and Cloud Computing for Large Bioacoustic Datasets
Join the conversation on March 5th!
Register here:
whoi-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@asa-news.bsky.social
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Ooooooo I am so interested in what you find in your comparison!!
Lake Powell is nearing a level where Glen Canyon Dam can’t generate power.
Federal officials are considering unprecedented cuts to water releases to keep turbines running — with ripple effects for ecosystems, water users, and the Colorado River Basin.
Read the story: buff.ly/LAE9KAx
What is the sensor at the bottom?!
Hopkin’s rose nudibranch in high detail showing the gills and cirata
I am so excited for #ICTC2026 conservation tech is my happy place!
Grazalema, Spain, received over 2,000 mm (78 inches) of rain in just the last 20 days.
Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.
@coralcitycamera.bsky.social any chance your camera records sound? I feel like hearing these fish would be informative and potentially scientifically valuable
Art!!
OMG this would be the best puzzle!!!
OMG this would be the best puzzle!!!
What if your dplyr pipelines ran on GPU?
That's what I built with cuplyr! A CUDA-powered backend for #rstats data manipulation. Looking for testers and feedback!
github.com/bbtheo/cuplyr
Now online in Journal of #Ornithology
Open access
First report on habitat use and trip parameters of Yellow-footed Gulls Larus livens during the breeding and post-breeding period
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Have you heard about the Yellow-footed Gull (Larus livens)?
🟡 One of the world’s rarest gulls, found only in the Gulf of California. With an estimated population of ~20,000 individuals, they breed in small, scattered colonies.
📡 We’ve just uncovered the first insights into their movement ecology!
Get out! It’s truely an evil beast!
Population estimates for Buff-breasted Sandpipers in this study are 10x higher than previously agreed global estimates, which makes sense given that it was difficult to explain its relative frequency as a vagrant to the Western Palearctic... #Ornithology ##UKBIRDING
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
New paper out! 🐦📊
We realease AVONICHE, a global dataset with detailed information on the proportional use of 32 foraging niches, combining dietary categories with the behaviours and substrates used to access resources.
Openly access the paper and data in GEB: doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress approve of what the President is doing.
I turned as much off as I could and it feels a little better.
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
