Daniella Lo

On the right, a red bar graph showing the number of described species by taxa. Insects have over 1 million described species, while molluscs, amphibians, birds, and mammals have less than 0.1 million. On the left, a blue bar graph showing the number of species assessed for the Red List. Insects have less than 5% of species assessed, while amphibians, birds and mammals have over 80% of species assessed.

As if I needed more convincing that bugs deserve all the love and respect (and funding) in the world

Figure from Cowie et al. 2022 (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...)

Wild fish use visual cues to recognize individual divers | Biology Letters Many animal species have been shown to discriminate between individual humans in captive settings and may use a variety of cues to do so. Empirical evidence remains scarce for animals in the wild, how...

The fish are judging your #scuba fit 💅

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Lesbians 💖

I would like clear justification incl. international consultation on this decision. If there is none, then I would like this name change to be addressed and corrected as an error. " End of 🧵

"The name for the Gulf of Mexico has been changed without any consultation with the Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management...🧵

Looks like a BIG ERROR was made on #Google #Maps. Better report it! If you also NOTICED THIS BUG feel free to use this script 🧵 to "report an issue" on your app...

I love free public data 🙌 I love transparency of data collection methods 🙏 I love being informed of risk, so I can make informed choices ✨ public.cnphi-rcrsp.ca/fluWatcher/r...

Kendrick Lamar’s Drake-baiting at the Super Bowl was a smokescreen - review Hip-hop king’s performance will undoubtedly go down as one of the most important halftime shows in the history of the event, if not the most significant mass-televised rap performance of all time

Incredible 🙌🙌🙌

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All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor There are a lot of them.

This is the most helpful list I've seen despite being in interview format (annoying)

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Thank the heavens

Oregon Giant Earthworm (Driloleirus macelfreshi) Oregon Giant Earthworm in December 2024 by bprim

What if we were both Oregon giant earthworms, the largest native earthworm in NA, and could grow up to 3 ft long, and could only tolerate well-drained, clay rich soil in mixed Douglas-fir forest....and then we kissed?

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If I wear shorts can I get a wellness check

When Settlers Seized and Set Fire to the Kitsilano Reserve | The Tyee As the Squamish Nation rebuilds with an ambitious new housing project, a scholar examines its long history of displacement.

As the new Sen̓áḵw goes up, a scholar looks back at how Vancouver coveted the urban reserve, how an AG coerced an illegal sale in 1913, and how the displacement of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh people sparked a political debate on how colonization should be packaged more nicely. @thetyee.ca
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I'm being told to download NOAA data by the end of the day in case DECADES of environmental data is removed from public access....this is DANGEROUS. You can't just delete evidence of climate change to support your denial.

Some good news of US law working properly for everyone today

As a Sociologist, I need to tell you

the chaos cascade (200+ exec orders) isn't dysfunction — it's disaster capitalism's playbook. your confusion = their strategy.

two drafts

Science/biology folks 🚨🚨🚨 Feb 4th online lunchtime meeting to organize for the future of research in Canada

Diversity is a Dangerous Set-up Recreational antiracism won’t change anything: a review of Jonathan Kahn’s critique of implicit bias discourse.

I keep thinking about what might have happened if people had listened to Patricia Williams, Charles Lawrence, Mari Matsuda, Gary Peller, Jonathan Kahn, and other actual critical race theorists about the shift away from racial justice towards diversity as a framework

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a brick red snake with a black head and two yellow bands across the neck. all of its scales are faintly iridescent

happy year snake

Trump’s Executive Order Ignores Science to Push Discriminatory Agenda Trump’s Executive Order neither defends women nor states any “biological truth.” It attempts to erase the existence of transgender and intersex people.

interACT Statement: Trump’s Executive Order Ignores Science to Push Discriminatory Agenda 🧵
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It's really about claiming the right to assert raw power at every single level: economically, militarily and inside the family. It's mass social engineering.

This brings us to the concept of chosenness, which is at the dead centre of this admin -from the tech oligarchs to the white nationalists.

A screenshot of the Executive Order titled "defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government" from the Whitehouse posted Jan 20 2025.

I need everyone to read this and be informed about the acts of trans erasure Tr*mp is executing this month. This is dangerous language that threatens access to healthcare, gender-affirming treatment, and self expression. Trans rights and lives need our protection now.
tinyurl.com/khuufzvb

a man and a woman are sitting at a table and the man is saying " my log has something to tell you " ALT: a man and a woman are sitting at a table and the man is saying " my log has something to tell you "

RIP David Lynch 💔 I will forever aspire to be the log lady of a small town

omg lol

A photo of Daniella standing in a wetland in fall. She wears a red touque, blue jacket, and waders, and is holding a wading rod. The foreground is brown wetland sedges, and a forest in fall colors is far in the background. The sky is blue and cloudy and reflected in the wetland water.

Hiii bluesky community 🌀 I'm a biologist currently working on Species At Risk for Fisheries and Oceans Canada. My background is in population and habitat monitoring, fish #physiology and #respirometry and #biogeography. Here for all things #science, #scuba, #sailing, #R, #stats, and weird fish 💖