who built the AviList (www.avilist.org) taxonomy explorer? It's very good.
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AviList is a collaborative global effort to produce a single current consensus taxonomy for the birds of the world, along with key information on taxonomy and nomenclature. The checklist is free for d...
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Since we're talking about Michigan tonight, here's my 2nd favorite shot when I rolled on through last year.
“To test whether females can hear the difference, the team played recorded songs from both single and mated males in large outdoor aviaries. Most females (21 out of 29) made more visits to the nest box beside the speaker playing a bachelor’s song.” #scicomm www.sciencenews.org/article/chea... 🧪
‘Cheating’ birds change their tune
Female pied flycatchers can tell whether a male is paired or not based on song differences. Mated males sing shorter songs and repeat syllables less.
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Mapping one of the ocean's most extraordinary neighborhoods 🌊 MBARI researchers recently completed a 10-day expedition to conduct high-resolution mapping surveys in Monterey Canyon and a deep-sea octopus nursery near Davidson Seamount. Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/mbari-r...
MBARI researchers use innovative technology to map California's famous Octopus Garden • MBARI
This month, researchers from MBARI’s Seafloor Mapping Lab completed a 10-day expedition on the research vessel David Packard to conduct high-resolution mapping surveys with the remotely operated vehic...
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A complete skeleton of the archosaur Austronaga minuta, recovered in Early Triassic deposits from southwest China, has several specialized features indicative of an aquatic lifestyle, according to new research. Learn more in #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/4pLIct4
Highly aquatic marine stem archosaur with soft tissue preservation
A 240-million-year-old reptile exhibits elongate forelimbs, a morphology consistent with adaptations to an aquatic lifestyle.
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Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
ACESTA! Some deepsea bivalves from Kinlan Canyon in the North Atlantic at 935 m. #molluscmonday! From #Okeanos in 2019! Siphons open to water for filter feeding in full view!
This is my personal Sistine Chapel. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Another paper from our NASA-funded project on ferns has dropped! UWyoming MS student Fern (really!) Holian, developed a new schema for classifying fossil ferns, which are understudied. 🧪🌿☄️
Application of a novel schema for describing fossil fern foliage and investigating taxonomic and morphological change across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary in western North America
Premise The Chicxulub asteroid impact at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary triggered a mass extinction 66 million years ago. Ferns thrived in the aftermath of the extinction, evidenced by the.....
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Interesting article on the form and function of dinosaur gizzard tools -- the gastroliths, in the inference of their diets, and the evolution of feeding ecology. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio
One year after our original essay appeared, @astra.bsky.social and I are thrilled to reveal the North American cover of our forthcoming book END TIMES FASCISM - and the Fight for the Living World. On bookshelves Sept 15th and now available for pre-order. Canada: is.gd/RNravu US: is.gd/U3nR3H
if you want a very exhaustive rundown of who didnt invent the sloppy joe i wrote it all down buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Notable Sandwiches #140: Sloppy Joe
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I slip messily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...
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A beautiful new addition to the #Mammals bookshelves, covering the fascinating #marsupials, #bats & #rodents (and a sadly large number of invasive species) of the Southwest Pacific islands. The species descriptions are coupled with great photos and illustrations. 🤩🦘🦇🐀 @csiropublishing.bsky.social
We have great newts to share! Twenty tiny Mazama newts have hatched in our lab — the very first babies of their kind ever in human care.
cant be normal about Cenozoic molluscan taxonomy I’m so so sorry
Exhilarated to share a 2nd @science.org cover article this month from our lab @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social! A collaboration with US & Mexico colleagues on the role of a Mexican biogeographic holding pen in shaping the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI)(1/11) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...
Study Reveals How Avocados Reverse Sexes Throughout the Day
Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. How avocados do this has been unclear — until now, thanks to a UC Davis study.
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Eons: Life and Death on Pangaea thread The Eons team trusted @lacerdajulio.bsky.social @kiabugboy.bsky.social and myself to help with the reconstructions for the series. I'm consolidating my posts to this thread so that they're easier to find. #Art #SciArt #PaleoArt Watch link:
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Take a journey through the history of life on Earth.
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Not only is this jellyfish holding onto a kelp like a little spider, it has bright green headlights. These lights are formed by biofluorescent proteins, which absorb light (probably UV) & shine it out as a continuous bright green. 🪼 Vallentinia adherens 📸 in ALT text, @inaturalist.bsky.social
I couldn't help myself and had to boop the snoot!
Please say hello to Austronaga, an aquatic trachelosaurid from Triassic Asia. In a new OA paper published yesterday in Science Advances, Dr. Wei Wang , @stephanspiekman.bsky.social and colleagues presented a description of a COMPLETE Austronaga #paleoart #sciart
That day when I was looking through a 14th-century romance. First impression: That's not a very good stag, is it... Closer look: OMG LOOOOOL #medievalmanuscripts
I am beyond excited to share that our paper, "Neurodivergent Perceptions, Experiences, and Perspectives in Academic Biological Sciences Spaces" has been published! A 🧵incoming because this paper is so special to me and the co-authors. doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
Neurodivergent Perceptions, Experiences, and Perspectives in Academic Biological Sciences Spaces
Abstract. Neurodiversity has received considerable attention recently from the general population and academic researchers, coinciding with an increase in
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‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’
Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last wk.Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...
Welcoming Musango matusadonaensis, a new sauropodomorph dino from the Late Triassic of Zimbabwe found by our team back in 2018. Read about it for free here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... and have a look at this lovely reconstruction by @markwitton.bsky.social (1/2)
