and Pica pica! (which tragically is unrelated to pikachu)
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and Pica pica! (which tragically is unrelated to pikachu)
so cool! I had zero intentions of watching the film until I read this but I'm looking forward to it now!
someone pls tell me i’m misunderstanding this and the enviro minister, after fining a foreign mining company for clearing endangered habitat, did not then give them permission to *continue clearing* said endangered habitat using an ‘economic interest’ provision?? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
awesome work!
How much temperate rainforest could there be in the UK and Ireland, and where? Despite campaigns calling for restoration in both countries, these questions have been difficult to answer. In our new paper we assess the evidence base 🌏🧪🌐🌳🌲 1/9
The dream dplyr update for my data cleaning pipelines 😍
filter_out() is going to be SO nice, no longer will I need to wrangle with annoying is.na() conditions
replace_values() and recode_values() also going to be a dream too, go read the post!
#rstats
As you probably know, this is "line editing" and it's what yields the "red pen blood bath" most writers dread. Though it's almost irresistible, line editing isn’t actually helpful for most developing writers and all but the most polished drafts. 2/
Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
Are you a scientist that uses cameras, acoustics or drones to monitor wildlife? Are you using satellite imagery to assess forests? Join the Biodiversity Monitoring starter pack and let the world know! Reply below and point me to your research to be added. ECRs and PhDs welcome😊
go.bsky.app/eFMQQX
i like to start the new year as i intend to go on so i headed out in the rain to manly dam and saw these lovely dapper fellows (variegated fairy-wrens) #birding
i'm at the point of writing up a methods section for my current draft and i just realised that due to a typo i've been running all my analyses on ebird data from before 2020 instead of after 🥲
i'm getting some very interesting results from this analysis
...... unfortunately i do not understand what those results mean but they sure are interesting
"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
a chubby cat sleeps blissfully on a sofa
my main takeaway from @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social’s plenary is that if my cat was a orange-bellied parrot juvenile, she’d definitely survive her first migration #AOC #AOC2025 #difficultbirds
Busting all our assumptions about sexual dimorphism, bird colour and song, Kristal Cain gets #AOC2025 off to a rollicking start!
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
my parents are visiting and we spent a few days up in the blue mountains where we could barely turn a corner without tripping over lyrebirds and crimson rosellas!
A photo of a dense garden bed with mulch, groundcover plants, native grasses, shrubs of different heights, and a couple of young eucalyptus trees. In the background, you can see a couple of two storey houses and a bright blue sky.
Melbourne’s native bird community is becoming progressively simplified, or homogenised, with greater urban development. In my recent paper, I demonstrate that more developed suburbs are home to fewer individual birds and a reduced diversity of bird species. 1/5
doi.org/10.1007/s109...
An employee at Sequoia Park Zoo in Northern California found a black bear who came in from the wild, introduced itself to the zoo’s bears and played with their toys, before being shown the exit.
I'm excited to share our new (in press) paper on vocal individuality and acoustic recognition. We looked at Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos, Little Penguins, Little Owls, Tree Pipits and Chiffchaffs, with promising results. #bioacoustics #vocalindividuality www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
An infographic summarizing the key findings of the paper and showing cats with birds in their mouth. T
Our team has published a new study in Avian Conservation Ecology showing that #cats kill between 19–197 million #birds each year in Canada!
In the time it has taken you to read ~3 posts (1 min) 114 birds have been killed at the paws of cats in Canada.
ace-eco.org/vol20/iss2/a...
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u kiss it on the nose next question please
eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
Totally not shocked
"After only one year, the transformation is dramatic. A colony of 2000 Sooty Terns, where there was previously none, were feeding hundreds of chicks. We also counted 1000’s of native Pisonia grandis tree seedlings across just 60 12m monitored plots on the forest floor—in 2024 we found zero." 🌏
this is something that's been bothering me for ages! Decades of agricultural intensification had already occurred by the 1970s in many developed countries
I had some time to explore before #SER2025 started and was lucky enough to get to join a bird banding session at Barr Lake state park yesterday! So cool to see different warblers up close and see valuable data being collected
We've just recorded a Rare Earth on animal migration & this app is amazing. It's called Animal Tracker (www.icarus.mpg.de/29... ), and it's real time data on 100s of animals - birds, foxes, bison & more. Their tracks are fascinating, taking clear routes with intent. More to come next wk on the air!
Keeping cats contained is safer for them and safer for the environment. This is a massive issue in Australia 🧪 The #biodiversity crisis is existential for humanity.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
