Robin Heinen

I once had one where I had to provide a publication list as PDF, with the top ten relevant papers highlighted. Then I had to fill out all aspects, incl authors, journal, date, volume page numbers, in seperate cells in some sheet. I didn't do it. Not invited despite a pretty great fit. Maybe better.

I fully agree. It's just a silly game of 'let's see how many hoops they will jump through.' Pretty horrible way to spend your precious time.

Lots of #birding this weekend. On Friday evening, I came past the Bodensee, where I decided to spend the night and go out for birds early morning. Great crested grebes engaged in their elaborate mating/pair-bonding rituals. Attenborough type stuff! Absolutely gorgeous to watch!

Common crane

Common crane

Common snipe

Stock doves

Then when we came home, I quickly went into the bird reserve on my doorstep, because I saw people reported birds that I had not photographed. A young crane has been hanging out here for about a week now. A common snipe was a nice bonus. Two stock doves were far away, but I like them.

Blue tit

Common chaffinch

Goldfinch

White stork

Today, I went out with the family, but of course brought my camera.

Fieldfare

Coal tit

Starling

Chiffchaff

Plenty of song birds active as well. I probably took 400 pictures of a group of fieldfares. This is the only one that was reasonable enough to post. Same for the coal tit, which kept hiding. Starlings and Chiffchaff were more cooperative :).

Eurasian jay

Eider

Black-headed gulls

Eurasian collared dove

But I saw other #birds, obviously. Particularly cool was the male Eider duck. These are less common this far inland, and although I have seen hundreds of them on the coast, seeing them here is a treat. Finally captured a Eurasian collared dove which I somehow had not seen since I got my new kit.

Lots of #birding this weekend. On Friday evening, I came past the Bodensee, where I decided to spend the night and go out for birds early morning. Great crested grebes engaged in their elaborate mating/pair-bonding rituals. Attenborough type stuff! Absolutely gorgeous to watch!

Moral is not in the US regime's menu...

Comic. [Two people looking at a board with apparent formula (3.1.3.1)/(3.1.2.1)] PERSON: Do mammologists think these are hard? I mean, this one just evaluates to 3/2. [caption] Mathematicians encounter dental formulas

Dental Formulas

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That illustrates exactly what I mean! I have been guilty of overlooking birds for a long time. I noticed them, but I did not really see them, as I often focused on other taxa. In the last five years I picked up birding, and recently picked up bird photography. I see them very differently now...

I guess all I am saying is you don't need to go far away to appreciate nature. All you really have to do is open your eyes - and maybe your heart - and see...

Moorhen

Look at this bird. I mean it. This bird is so common to many of us and because of this it gets very little attention. I also find myself often enjoying the rare or otherwise special animals, but let's be honest: how is this not special? Moorhens are spectacularly beautiful.

Marsh tit

To me, all marsh tits look like this; mostly hiding, never sitting still, very skittish. Why are these birds so shy? (at least they are loud this time of year, making it easier to find them at all!)

Curlews - two for the price of one :)

Curlew in golden hour sunshine

Some quick edits before work today. I am quite happy about these pictures, considering I had about 25 minutes to get to the spot, find the #birds, take the pictures, and be home for dinner. I made it though :).

A picture of a tv screen showing a picture of a curlew bathing in a subtle golden layer of sunshine

Too lazy to edit (and to be fair I don't have any means to at home), but boy was it a good idea to really rush my way into the field 30 minutes before sunset. Curlews are so cool!

Would be great if more people felt like that I suppose.

Thanks! All credits for the figure must go to our (former) colleague Antonia Haberer who is a lot more creatively gifted than the authors.

Therefore, we argue that while such Smart farming technology can offer promising benefits, they must go hand in hand with biodiversity targets. If this is not the case, we believe it is unlikely that such technological advances will lead to biodiversity benefits.

Sure, lower inputs will lower levels of pollution on the field and also in its surrounding areas. However the increased efficiency of Smart farming technology may also increase the proportional total land use in the landscape, leaving even less land for biodiversity.

We observed that many works on Smart Farming technology present solutions 'with benefits'. However, there seems to be a wide assumption that these benefits are a given, a natural result of lowering inputs into agroecosystems. We wonder if that is valid for all environmental parameters?

Future agricultural policies need to integrate biodiversity targets into smart farming npj Sustainable Agriculture - Smart farming (SF), the use of advanced technologies such as sensors, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, and automation, holds...

New paper online today. In it, we advocate for biodiversity in the increasingly modernized agricultural world. Smart farming could be a wonderful tool to alleviate pressure from agro-ecosystems, but, as we argue here, this will only happen if biodiversity becomes an explicit target.
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Why would ANYONE have any interest in this?

Wait. You found one not covered by twigs? It's almost as if these tiny birds are one with a bunch of twigs at all times! Beautiful though!

I had to look up the Porco Rosso reference. Very fitting for sure. These are ugly ugly times. And the absolute recklessness / lawlessness of it all. It's like every day we have a mew 'wtf is happening - where's the law in all of this?' But what do I know...

I wonder what kind of therapy would help these people. Utter sociopaths without any sense of humanity.

He'll take it as a badge of honor I think...

This makes me feel embarrassed to be Dutch. What an absolute diaper this guy is.

Also, spring flowers in my garden. Soon the garden will be buzzing with life!

Thanks! 🙂