This is my take on the situation. Anyone you think should be moved up or down?

Yes! Also remember that a lot of people resistant to getting rid of their entire lawn are open to shrinking it. Evaluate what is actually needed for a play surface etc. and then expand native plant beds outward over time :)

It’s earth day!! 🌎 plant a pesticide free native 🌱 🌎 switch your energy supplier to a renewable 🌎 take transit instead of an uber 🌎 then make fun of your friends (lovingly) for taking Ubers when the train is right! there! 🌎 heckle your family members. About whatever you want! It’s earth day!!!

About to be run out of Maryland by a mob wielding pitchforks and crab pots for saying this, but celery salt is disgusting and so Old Bay is also disgusting. Love crab though!

Someone is at work making sure there are blueberries later :)

ORCIDs having so many digits is beautiful. They envision a future where our knowledge rests on the shoulders of up to nine quadrillion nine hundred ninety-nine trillion nine hundred ninety-nine billion nine hundred ninety-nine million nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine giants

reading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum define term “eplungulate” - lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous

These flowers are from 3 families, but they look quite similar. Do any #botanists, #entomologists or forest-floor enthusiasts know if there's some kind of spring ephemeral #pollination syndrome? (1: bloodroot - Papaveraceae; 2: rue anemone - Ranunculaceae 3: twinleaf/jeffersonia - Berberidaceae)

Worm people HELP!! Any idea what this beauty might be? Collected in a tide pool in Eastern Taiwan.

Has anyone figured out why if you want to warm a cinnamon roll at home it takes 15 seconds in the microwave but if you say yes to having your pastry warmed at a café they will place it into some kind of arcane warming contraption that takes 47 minutes?

I googled "lactic acid insect microscopy" and this was the mysterious result

He has vanquished a much larger foe

Anyone who needs a smile today, look no further! Someone made a collection of photos of grebes standing on their legs. www.inaturalist.org/observations...

The King Arthur Flour madeleine base recipes for vanilla and chocolate inexplicably use the two different leavening methods (vanilla = traditional, whipping air into eggs; chocolate = nontraditional, baking powder). I was curious to see what the result would be...

anyone have experience fragmenting DNA for WGS library prep with a Qsonica Q800R3? effective covaris alternative, or ineffective trap for cheapskates?

So excited that our first major empirical @themanybirds.bsky.social paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! Leading this big team science project, with our excellent core leadership team, is a labour of love for me, delighted to see our hard work over the past 4 years has reached this milestone!

ooooh new paper out today. a couple of years ago a big group of us were like "hey let's spend a few weeks painstakingly looking up the sources of every official bird common name" and as of today, you too can join us in our ornitholetymological (yes i made that up) rabbit-hole:

The American Southwest is home to extremely adorable undescribed species. If you are able, consider chipping in a penny to help them get described! experiment.com/projects/und...

My science communication pet peeve is people always putting photos of needles or a person being actively vaccinated as the photos to go alongside articles about vaccine hesitancy etc. when it's an extremely common phobia trigger that does not help the case for vaccines at all.

Silly #birds thought to break up your feed: there've been many discussions about what the most beautiful bird song is (e.g. Winter Wren, Hermit Thrush), but what do you think is the ugliest, most ear-grating bird song? I would like to contend: Yellow-headed Blackbird. Can anyone beat this?

Exactly! Before transgenic bacteria that can basically 3D print human insulin, patients were treated with insulin from slaughtered livestock. Cow/pig insulin didn't work very well and many people were allergic to it and couldn't take it. They simply died.

Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues: - Develop new cancer treatments for kids - Are curing sickle cell disease - Build new tech to help premature babies survive - Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose - And more #NIH #MedSky #research #science

🧵 🔭 🧪 1/ An international research team has discovered a new giant radio galaxy dubbed “Inkathazo,” meaning “trouble” in African languages such as Xhosa and Zulu. Source➡️ sarao.ac.za/news/the-age... The discovery, obtained using South Africa's Meerkat interferometer, offers new insights into

Lewis Howard Latimer 9/4/1848– 12/11/1928 was an American inventor and patent draftsman. His inventions included an evaporative air conditioner, an improved process for manufacturing carbon filaments for electric light bulbs, and an improved toilet system for railroad cars. #Blackhistorymonth

Happy #WorldWetlandsDay to all who celebrate. Wetlands help reduce climate change impacts, they sustain the water we drink, and they support an amazing diversity of wildlife. In short: wetlands rock 🌿

If you have been affected by the fires in LA, or are concerned about your ability to keep precious Drosophila strains going during the latest funding crisis, we will host your strains as a backup. Please email me. Please amplify. If you are also able to host fly strains, add your name as well.

The Bristle-thighed Curlew range is because they saw one of those maps with Alaska and Hawaii next to each other and thought it would be a reasonable migration, only to realize it was a huge mistake, but there's no going back now.

You are being inspected by a Plate-billed Mountain Toucan so act accordingly. 🪶 #ArtAdventCalendar

Sharks eating dinosaurs! At the charming National Museum in Prague. Totally morbid paleoart. But based on one of the few Czech dinosaur fossils, an ornithopod bone crisscrossed with the razor blade bites of sharks.

Reminds me of middle school algebra--my classmate frustratedly asked the teacher WHY we had to keep solving for the variable when the teacher already KNEW the answer! Who knew, she was ahead of her time :')

For #MammalMonday let's look at the Eastern Chipmunk. Infinitely easier to identify compared to the Western species since out here we only have the one. "Chipmunk" is an Anglicization of Ojibwe "ajidamoonh," meaning "head first," or "one who descends trees headlong." An apt name to be sure.

A watercolour illustration I've just completed featuring the Canary Island endemic succulent, Euphorbia handiensis:

Sorry about the late reply, currently being swamped by emails. The emails:

Day 7 of #ArtAdventCalendar: a little ringed plover a-walking! #birds #digitalart

WRITER OF 'WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS': And then we end on wishing them a happy new year, and that's the song 😊 FIGGY PUDDING MARKETING DEPARTMENT: Great! Just one minor suggestion

Someone having a bit of fun with it at the NYT crossword desk. I could hear it 😂

Completed at last. My heinous gift guide for sworn enemies. Enjoy this curated list of cursed objects. Bequeath one to your detested foe! open.substack.com/pub/holapapi...

I just love the ways bugs try not to be found. Here's a Phytocoris lichen-mimic plant bug from Texas, if you can see it. #Miridae

Portrait 4 in the series is "The clarity of untangling the threads (portrait of a stitch artist) Sue Spence" thread painting - hand embroidery artwork. #portraitartist #HandStitch #StitchArt #FigurativeArt #artist #art

I love this! Going down the rabbit hole and finding things no one else could gives me so much joy... as long as I'm not the one who misplaced the thing in the first place, because who likes searching for car keys?

Just another #MallardMonday. Here's a Mallard hen shaking off after washing herself. Did you know that Mallards are the bird species with the highest recorded number of species its produced offspring with (39!!!!)?

Good morning. Here's a little jelly mushroom (Leotia species). This little guy is an #Ascomycete, meaning that it's more closely related to the #yeast in a pizza crust than it is to the #mushroom slices on top. Is it too early for pizza? I want pizza.

this has to be the prettiest cladogram i've ever seen! #botany #plantscience #phylogeny #sciart #twitterrepost

As I share around this time of year, the various derived features on the turkey skeleton, and where they first emerge on the phylogeny of dinosaurs:

Quando eu clico em "rejeitar cookies"

Here's something a bit #goblincore. I found a fallen pair of Mourning Cloak butterfly wings silently resting on a hummock of moss. Mourning Cloaks are actually among the longest-lived butterflies, hibernating through freezes, living up to a year.

It's the sacred duty of every American to save Europeans from making the classic touring-the-USA blunder which is assuming that something that's an 11 hour drive away will totally be a doable day trip.

Great evidence that posting weird bugs in iNaturalist really does help us do a better job detecting invasive species. entomologytoday.org/2024/11/19/c...

Here's a two-for-one #wasp pic. Left: double-banded scoliid wasp. Right: eastern tawny-horned spider wasp. They both pollinate flowers, but they also kill and parasitize other arthropods. The scoliid specializes on #beetles, and I'm sure you can guess what the #spider wasp goes after!