Nigel thornberry throws his hands into the air, in a "can you believe this beautiful world" way
Miss Frizzle throws her hands into the air, sitting in the drivers seat on the magic schoolbus, with liz the jackson's chameleon on her lap
Somewhere between these two, my spirit lies.
If any of my friends are Federal employees considering taking the "buyout," please be aawre that the Federal employees Union has a court hearing at 1:00 P.m. today. So maybe wait until after then to accept in case there's a court action.
Merry Xmas eve, eve!
We are looking for a PhD student applicant interested in working on Pacific salmon, quantitative ecology, and collaborative fisheries management with the Central Coast First Nations. See attached advertisement. Please circulate widely!
The IUCN Red List categories and criteria
The IUCN Red List logo
Did you know that you can get trained in IUCN Red List assessment for free online?
I have my undergrads do this as a semester-long assignment to understand policy-relevant science. You can do it too! π§ͺπ¦π
www.conservationtraining.org/course/index...
Scene from jaws with a dorsal fin sticking out of the water
Someone asked me why sharks stick their dorsal fins out of the water. The answer is simple.
Sharksβ dorsal fins stick out of the water sometimes because their fins are on top of and therefore higher than the rest of their body, and sometimes their body is near the surface of the water.
I am finding these starter packs useful for finding others with similar interests so here is another. Ping me if you work in the recreational fisheries science and management space and want to be added! #recreationalfisheries #angling #anglers #fisheriescience go.bsky.app/3UoUZkC
No access to academic papers and books? Here's a guide for you! Isabella Bruno lays out very clear paths.
gotta be Identifying Species from Pieces of Feces
A fun video from OR Dept Fish and Wildlife for the last day of wolf week (I missed the rest of the weekπ€¦πΌββοΈ)
Dispersal is such an important part of wolf population expansion but hard to do justice explaining to people. ODFW nailed it though and in cinematic style π
Give it a quick watch!
Beginning of article from Scientific American sowing a lovely orange-toned painting of a naked woman running with a spear
Beginning of an article reading "Even if you're not an anthropologist, you've probably encountered one of this field's most influential notions, known as Man the Hunter. The theory proposes that hunting was a major driver of human evolution and that men carried this activity out to the exclusion of women. It holds that human ancestors had a division of labor, rooted in biological differences between males and females, in which males evolved to hunt and provide, and females tended to children and domestic duties. It assumes that males are physically superior to females and that pregnancy and child-rearing reduce or eliminate a female's ability to hunt. Man the Hunter has dominated the study of human evolution for nearly half a century and pervaded popular culture. It is represented in museum dioramas and textbook figures, Saturday morning cartoons and feature films. The thing is, it's wrong."
You will be shocked, shocked to hear that "The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong"! π Duh! OF COURSE IT'S WRONG. But now there's a cool article listing the biological and evidentiary reasons, along with nifty diagrams.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
I'm not cut out for any of this.
*Gesture at absolutely everything*
Apparently thereβs an influx of far right nazi arseholes.
Remember the rules.
Do not engage.
Do not quote post to dunk.
Block early, block often.
Starve them of oxygen.
Data sets I like to use as toy sets:
Australian public toilets:
data.gov.au/dataset/ds-d...
UFO sightings:
www.kaggle.com/datasets/NUF...
Big data: A million songs:
millionsongdataset.com
The price of weed:
github.com/frankbi/pric...
Medieval crop yields:
web.archive.org/web/20200203...
There is no cookbook that tells you how to do a "correct", objective statistical analysis. π§ͺ
This thread makes me so happy
The naturalist at home book cover, with a illustrated curiosity cabinet in the middle
Did you know I had a new book out this year? The Naturalist at Home: Projects for Discovering the Hidden World Around Us.
You can learn to cook a beer mix to attract moths, dig up some mud to make a microbial garden or squeeze moss to find tardigrades.
www.metrofieldguide.com/the-naturali...
"Research shows that lands managed by Indigenous peopleβboth through legal title and informal, customary ownershipβhave lower deforestation rates than similar lands managed by other forest users..." π§ͺ
www.wri.org/insights/ama...
A hexagonal design with the words lterdatasampler at the top. Within the border are plants, animals and weather patterns representing the different datasets currently in the package.
Teaching intro data science or stats in environmental sciences / ecology this fall? The lterdatasampler package is now on CRAN, with curated real world datasets from the US Long Term Ecological Research program! Check it out: lter.github.io/lterdatasamp...
Need to see some animals? From photographers posting their own work?
@jencross.bsky.social (bugs, birds & more) @saskajanet.bsky.social (birds & prairies) @ok2panic.bsky.social (lots of birds) @kellybrenner.bsky.social (invertebrates & more)
@watchinthesky.bsky.social (birds, lizards, flowers)
Here check out this βotherβ dinosaur fish, one of several soon to be adopted into GarLabπ
*juvenile Lake Sturgeon!
I know a lot of science writers have been worried because, well, with the collapse of Twitter, how do editors and jobs find us?
@theopennotebook.bsky.social has come to the RESCUE and has made a science writer DATABASE! www.theopennotebook.com/writers/
Love this so much! Join! Hire from it! π§ͺ
