Edgar A. Poe John Coltrane Tony Hawk Sally Ride

Harmit Singh Malik@harmitmalik.bsky.social · last mo.

Did not think this as closely but there are already great names in this thread. Biased towards more recent Americans. Jonas Salk Jackie Robinson Aretha Franklin Mark Twain

Every morning, this critically endangered Red Ruffed Lemur spreads its arms and sunbathes for up to 40 minutes to warm up instead of burning internal energy. Only 2,500 left in the wild.

PLoS One paper from my MS days leads to conservation win! people.com/worlds-oldes...

World's Oldest Oak Tree Protected from New Development After Surviving for 13,000 Years in Calif.

The world's oldest oak tree, the Jurupa Oak, will be protected from a new development after conservation groups, city officials and a real estate developer were able to reach an agreement. The clonal ...

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What is acoustic spatial capture-recapture (aSCR)? In this blog post, Ané Cloete goes through aSCR, answering question on what it is, what it needs to work, what data the model uses and what kind of ecological questions aSCR can answer. Read the whole blog here 👇 buff.ly/1q2Ib6F

What is acoustic spatial capture-recapture (aSCR)?

Post provided by Ané Cloete What is acoustic spatial capture-recapture (aSCR)? Estimating how many animals live in a given area is one of the most fundamental challenges in conservation. For specie…

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Polish state rail operator PKP Intercity is launching a series of special "unhurried" weekend journeys along picturesque routes in restored 1980s carriages with historical locomotives to celebrate its anniversary.

Polish rail operator launches special "unhurried" weekend trips in 1980s trains

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Who COULDN’T use some good news? ‘ Scientists with the Yurok Tribe say that two of dozens of condors released to the wild in Humboldt County since 2022, to reestablish the endangered birds, have paired up, built a nest in a redwood tree and appear to be tending to an egg.” #californiacondor

If you - like myself - are scrapped for time to dig into papers these days, I discuss my recent urban stopover paper on this episode (which I learned was a first for TMIB)!

American Birding Association@aba.org · 5mo ago

New American Birding Podcast episode! In this episode, guests Jason Hall, Mikko Jimenez, and Sarah Swanson join host Nate Swick for the ever-popular "This Month in Birding" roundtable. Listen here: www.aba.org/10-08-this-m...

Let’s make 2026 the year of the bog. The world’s most unique and interesting plants, clean water, cooler climate. Bogs deserve our thanks, care, and deep respect. Please join me and love a bog today.

Happy Catmas!

Thanks to @doc-brock.bsky.social for the invite for a seminar at SDSU this week! Had a great time chatting with faculty and grad students and learning more about the department. Love our San Diego biologist community!

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Mola Mola Three-toed Sloth Bornean Orangutan Coastal Giant Salamander Vermillion Flycatcher

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️@napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Caribou Ravens Seals Kea Turkeys

NSF GRFP is out, but they’ve unexpectedly made 2nd year students ineligible.

DR℮W 🪿🏳️‍⚧️@giantmolecular.cloud · 10mo ago

It does seem like they have barred 2nd year graduate students from applying. This is devastating, I've been preparing my applications materials for MONTHS and now they all have to get binned...

So amazing our team’s work is getting recognized on @npr.org for our successful bi-national translocation of California red-legged frogs. Was super fun chatting with Nate about the project!

NPR@npr.org · last yr.

How do scientists monitor the populations of the threatened California red-legged frog? With careful listening and a little help from AI.

NSF GRFPs terminated for those in graduate school and already attending Harvard, too.

Dave Baltrus 🦦@surtlab.bsky.social · last yr.

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

Sunny Day Real Steak

I’m losing my mind here. USTR made a list of “Unfair trade practices” they’re retaliating against, complaint number 5 is that the EU cares too much about stopping illegal deforestation, complaint number 7 is that the South Americans are doing too much illegal deforestation

Marching off to the Trade War

I mean, they constantly are wearing tuxedos, they must be rich.

Lauren Goode@laurengoode.bsky.social · last yr.

Islands that have no humans and many penguins and are the size of Philadelphia and aren't even a country have been hit with a reciprocal country tariff and what is happening www.wired.com/story/trump-...

'Real Emo' only consists of the dc Emotional Hardcore scene and the late 90's Screamo scene. What is known by "Midwest Emo" is nothing but Alternative Rock with questionable real emo influence... 😆

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · last yr.

What would you talk about for 19 hours?

An interactive map shows where IMLS funding is / was by state. I found this info very helpful for sharing locally about what such "invisible" support infrastructure provides for our communities. 2// www.imls.gov/map

IMLS Interactive Map

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Amidst *everything* going on, I'm still proud to see my 2nd chapter of my PhD out in full in the latest special issue of @animalecology.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1111/1365... (1/4)

Quantifying intraspecific variation in host resistance and tolerance to a lethal pathogen

Our study highlights the importance of considering intraspecific variation in host tolerance and resistance to pathogens. We apply a multistate model as a new way to quantify host tolerance and resis...

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Chilling to see this list of terminated NIH grants. Research on Alzheimer's, HIV, rare diseases, vaccines -- gone. Cancer centers closed, training grants & fellowships terminated. Young scientists stranded. Patients waiting for treatments that'll never come. Just sad. taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

-Don’t touch birds -really don’t touch dead birds -call rehabbers about sick birds -bird feeders can stay up (unless you have chickens)

Sarah Primate@langurlover.bsky.social · last yr.

🪶 (repost this one as its quite important!)

If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations. Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers. Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...

🦎🍀 Happy St. Patrick's Day! We're getting our green on with the different green-colored specimens of our Herpetology Collection at #NHMLA!

Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order

Navajo Code Talkers get "DEI" label as military info disappears under Trump order

Also vanishing: The Civil War regiment from "Glory," women pilots from WWII and a Medal of Honor winner.

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Endure amidst the current Be motionless in the tumult When the shadow descends Be muscle, be maw, be might And fend with one's being entire

NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes — theonion.com/noaa-cuts-le...

NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes

SILVER SPRING, MD—As mass firings of career experts and scientists continued to roil the federal government, officials confirmed Friday that cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...

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