A Hummingbird cleaning her feathers #birds #photography #nature #photography #photographybirds #nature #wildlife

First pic of me... hello! I'm Victoria - I create aerial embroidery landscapes, mainly of the countryside and wild areas. The art I'm working on here is a particularly large landscape commission inspired by Ireland I've been busy with! I hope to meet other artists on here, embroidery or otherwise 💚

Buried in the tax bill: "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act."

democracy dies in gerontocracy

Every R and D dollar spent returns 1.40 to 2.10 since 1946. Slashing research funding is short sighted and needs to account for the long term losses in economic output that these actions have. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Newly published open access marine and aquatic parasitology book out there today! Nice to see this effort come together for a fairly comprehensive insight into the field. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Two jobs at a wonderful Zoo Dept at the University of Otago - a very high quality of life otago.taleo.net/careersectio... otago.taleo.net/careersectio... please repost and apply!

Newly published open access marine and aquatic parasitology book out there today! Nice to see this effort come together for a fairly comprehensive insight into the field. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Sustainability insights from Late Pleistocene climate change and horse migration patterns | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thought piece on what the impacts at NSF actually mean that aims to communicate to a broad audience. Preaching to the crowd around here, but a nicely laid out piece of writing that I felt good about sharing with family.

Vendors starting with "What's your budget?" to a price request for a part with no listed price on their page really start off on the wrong foot for me.... I want a price, and I know what the price of them rebuilt on ebay is if that's where you want to start.

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

📣 New paper alert! Parasites are everywhere, but we still do not fully understand where they fit in food webs. So, to speed up our understanding we built the largest global database of stable isotope values for host-parasite pairs ever compiled! 🪱🦈🦆 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/2

Interested in #parasites and #isotopes? New database and paper lead by Amandine Sabadel just out! All data based on the same standardised protocol and collected in a large global collaborative effort: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Heads up if you are applying for NSF funding. Follow the Co-PI guidelines to the T. Just had a proposal kicked back with no opportunity for revision due to unreported Co-PI prior support. Not complaining, just want others to not go through this, as things appear to be more stringent than before.

When Nature does a photo roundup, it’s always worth a scroll. March’s edition is packed with mind-blowing REAL shots that capture the beauty, weirdness, and wonder of science 🧪—no AI needed. Case in point: this gorgeous shot of two courting crab spiders. Just one of many stunners. 💘

Exciting PhD Opportunity! Join us in studying the impact of anthropogenic contaminants (POPs, HPA, heavy metals) on free-ranging cetaceans in the Eastern North Atlantic. Send your CV, recommendation letter and motivation letter to [email protected] by March 25.

Have you ordered your Christmas eels yet? Have you?? Medieval kings often served eels at their Xmas feasts. In 1213, King John had 10,000 eels at his holiday party. His son, Henry, once ordered up 40,000! So get on it! You don't want your party to be the First Nö-eel, do you? 🗃️🧪

Hey you know we have these as stickers to support @skypeascientist.bsky.social right? Juuuust saying. Squidfacts.net And if you *did* know… wanna give this a repost 👉👈

Christmas is around the corner and for years I’ve advocated that THIS fish should be the official FISHMAS mascot. The Peppermint Angelfish, Paracentropyge boylei, is a deep water coral reef species endemic to French Polynesia. Does it not look like a peppermint candy cane? #TeamFish

Okay, y’all… I have finally decided that retreat is the better part of valor. Bringing some rainbow energy over to these blue skies. #bydhttmwdi

🎉New paper🚩🚩 in TrAC an analytical chemistry review of the methods for analysis of amino acids via GC-C and LC-IRMS. Fairly comprehensive overview of the methods put out by Shaista Khaliq as part of her PhD project. Collaboration between: @unidue.bsky.social NIOZ

Records reveal the vast historical extent of European oyster reef ecosystems | Nature Sustainability

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1995: demoted by UPenn. 2013: "They [UPenn] told me that they’d had a meeting and concluded that I was not of faculty quality,” she said. ”When I told them I was leaving, they laughed at me and said, ‘BioNTech doesn’t even have a website.’”" www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna...

Glad to see this work out. This was the COVID baby. Resulted in some clarity about parasite-host relations with multiple pathways for impacts to alter stable isotope values for both partners. Indicates a strong need for paired sampling of infected and uninfected individuals from wild populations.

Annual reminder.

Ran across a cool looking paper very relevant to my program. oh look at the map! They must have cited me since there’s a point where I am! NO, they scraped the data from my paper with @DrBugKid and buried the citation in the supplementary materials. Don’t do this!