I was going to tell you a joke about sodium, but then I thought, “Na.”
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I was going to tell you a joke about sodium, but then I thought, “Na.”
My favorite "they were roommates" comes from V. Geist, biologists HATED the idea that bighorn sheep could be kinda gay in 1966:
"a large ram will treat a sub-dominant ram like an ewe, performing sexual behavior, although this term serves as *no more than a nametag!* "
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Calling biologists, historians, and archeologists! Do you know of texts or images depicting headbutting in rams, goats, muskox etc? Also woodpeckers.
I'm writing a historical review and don't have anything before 1720 except an illuminated manuscript and rock art. Please share! 🧪🏺🗃️
The blue-eyed ensign wasp is known for its parasitoid lifestyle, specifically targeting cockroach egg cases (oothecae). The wasp's unique eye color might play a role in its ability to locate and identify suitable host egg cases, although this is speculative without further research. 🧪
A comic called "What City Pigeons Talk About". Two city pigeons are standing on the sidewalk. One says "Hey, do you ever think about the past?" The other says "The past?"
A closeup of the first pigeon. They say "Yeah - do you ever think about where we came from? Sometimes I forget that city pigeons are domestic animals."
A hand reaches out to three wild pigeons. The narrator pigeon says "Humans domesticated us many millennia ago in the Middle East. We provided meat, feces used for fertilizer, and much more." There are two very fancy pigeon breeds. "Over time, people split us into hundreds of pure breeds - some quite elaborate! Kings and queens proudly kept pigeons, and colonists spread us worldwide."
A closeup again of the first pigeon, who says, "But we fell out of fashion. Now we peck at the dusty concrete, our past glory all but forgotten. Do you ever think about that?"
Another thing I made this year. Pigeon history!
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a thread of some of my dumbest bird comics to date
I would love to be added! Thanks for making this!
cool study (with clever experimental design) about the evolutionary significance of individuals choosing habitats based on their own phenotypes. 🧪🌍 #evolution
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
And an open access 🧪 review:
The remarkable complexity of the brain microbiome in health and disease
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Infographic highlighting the threatened status of sharks and their relatives
Here are the latest and most up-to date figures on how many species of sharks and their relatives are threatened. These animals are some of the most threatened vertebrate animals in the world.
can I code fast? no. but can I code well? also no. but does my code work? alas, no
Picture of a Triganino Modenese, a black brown and white pigeon
I'm currently working on human relationships with pigeons and discovered something wild.
Did you know that throughout human history, there have been "games" of pigeon stealing (and it's still happening apparently) ?
www.nytimes.com/1985/07/28/n...
Around this time every year, I share a list of ways to support Native people. From supporting Indigenous people seeking abortion care to defending Native voting rights and keeping Native families together, here are some causes worth supporting. 🧵
I was in New York twice this year and I really miss their famous pizza.
“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say
