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This bit in the From Russia With Love game made me laugh out loud. You've got a fairly grounded, low key fight based on the one in the movie, then the most video game looking fucker of all time slides into frame.
Presenting my newest #ornithology game: Ratite Runner! 😀
jenteottie.github.io/RatiteRunner/
Pick your favorite flightless bird, use the power-ups wisely and avoid the obstacles. Enjoy!
Others might have ideas similar to yours, but they’ll always be different in some way. Your mind and body produces unique ideas and expresses them in a way unique to you. When we pass away they are gone forever. So please, express yourself while you still exist. Do not rob yourself and others of it
Congratulations!! 🎉🎉
The fledgling seen from the side, with distinctive pale eyes and pink inside the beak, turning its head with beak open, while the parent places food in its beak
A fledgling carrion crow delighted to receive a piece of roadkill from a parent
#photography #birds
PhD position: Evolutionary Physiology of Avian Energetics
Review of the applications begins on March 16, 2026, and continues until the position is filled.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/413707
How and why does cognition vary so greatly between individuals and species? In @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, we propose the "Predatory Intelligence Hypothesis" which posits that the cognitive challenges associated with predator–prey interactions drive a cognitive co-evolutionary arms race
rdcu.be/e5KIj
🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...
Tag line for philosophy as a discipline
"Life is Different". Science needs a new vision of nature when it comes to living systems and philosopher Hans Jonas was the first to articulate the contours of that new perspective.
Also "K-Pop Demon Hunters" is great.
bigthink.com/13-8/nature-...
« C'est une pie, citadin de tes morts », version Guardian 😅
Franz Marc never missed with the horses. In the 1930s, the Nazis named Marc an "entarteter Künstler" (degenerate artist) and some of works vanished. So to the list of things that scare fascists, you can add "blue horses"
#Postdoc #Job opportunity in #AnimalBehaviour with Jorg Massen at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Check out the position here: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Have you ever asked yourself, how insect brains represent places? And whether insects do have place cells? Then move to Germany this summer and start your PhD in my lab. We conduct tetrode recordings from bumblebees that freely forage laboratory mazes. 🧠🐝#BeeSpace @erc.europa.eu @neuroethology.org
A landscape page with a pale green background and two illustrations of Ginkgo on it. On the left is an inaccurate one with leaves coming directly from a branch. On the right is an accurate one with clusters extending from short shoots.
I, too, would like to have a go at the new Spinosaurus soon, but in the meantime:
Here's a slide from my recent talk, which covers the DOs and DON'Ts of restoring ginkgoes within palaeoart!
Enjoy! #Ginkgo #FossilFriday #paleobotany #paleoart #SciComm
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Pencil drawing of two crows in a tree with heavy snow fall. One crow is pulling a PRIVATE PROPERTY sign off of the tree. The crows are now on the snowy ground. One says "Hold on tight!" the other replies "To what?" looking down at the sign it is standing on. The first crow pushed the second and it slides down a hill screaming AAAAAHHHH. Perspective from between the legs of the crow going down the hill. Snow streams by as it continues to scream AAAAAAHHHHHHHH. The first crow watches from the top of the hill as the second screams "I'll never forgive youuuuuuu". The second crow's scream continues "uuuuu–oh I've stopped. That was thrilling!" It is covered in snow, face is plastered with the stuff. In the distance at the top of the hill, the first crow is crying "my turn! my turn!"
Hold On Tight
New greatest bird photo of all time just dropped
Royal Penguin
📷 JJ Harrison, eBird ebird.org/checklist/S2...
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a couple walking through a busy zoo. The girl says, “come on! They have the monkey that looks like Mao Zedong!” Panel 2: her boyfriend says, “what? That can’t be right…” Panel 3: a little marmoset clings to a mossy branch. It’s the spitting image of Mao Zedong. The boyfriend says, “oh dang”
Happy Alligator #herps #reptiles
📌 Welcome to the Birds! 🦉 feed - photography, science, news, art, & more welcome!
To post to the feed, you must be on the feed contributor list. See thread for feed info/rules, how to get added, & how to check if you’re already on the list.
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📌 Welcome to the Mammals! 🦊 feed - photography, science, news, art, & more welcome!
Please no domestic dogs/cats! To post to the feed, you must be on the feed contributor list. See thread for feed info/rules, how to get added, & how to check if you’re already on the list.
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📚 Reading Women in Cognitive Science 📚
“Recommendations for readings are welcome, especially in the history of cognitive science (prior to 1950s, and the older the better).”
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/15/%...
A collection of six ominous bird valentines set against a background of pink hearts. In the first one, a Canada Goose looks angry and hisses and the text says "Baby, I'll make you fall head over heels if you approach within 10m of my nest." In the second, an American white pelican opens its mouth to eat the reader and the text says "There are plenty of fish in the sea, but I want this one." In the third valentine, a Black Vulture looks suspiciously at the reader and the text says "I will love you until you die. And after that, I'll love you even more." A Southern Cassowary stands proudly against the heart-covered background. The text says "My wattles are red. My head is blue. My deadly reputation has been somewhat overblown, but I'd kill for you." In the fifth valentine, a Northern Giant-Petrel stands open-billed next to a large brown furry object, and the text says "Let's seal the deal by sharing a 3000 kg elephant seal carcass." In panel 6, a happy-looking Bearded Vulture holds a bone in its beak, and the text says "I love every part of you, especially your bones."
Ominous bird valentines.
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a guy in a pawn shop talking to the employee at the counter. He has about half a loaf of bread in a bag in front of him. The seller asks, “how much will you give me for this stale bread?” Panel 2: the unsure employee replies, “tell ya what— I got a buddy who’s an expert on this stuff.” Panel 3: a goose in a hat and sunglasses walks confidently through the shop entrance towards the counter.
A very large black bird perched on a horizontal tree limb with more limbs in the background. Bird has its back to the viewer with head turned to the left in profile.
Do yourself a favour and take a moment to appreciate all the feather textures on display here. What an amazing creature! An uncommonly beautiful Common Raven #birds
small crab eating a grape (important)
“What a pity that everything we say to each other is always the same; the ideas we exchange are just alike in every conversation we have; yet inside each of these isolated machines, what hidden passageways, what secret compartments! Each man bears a whole world within himself! a world nobody knows that’s born and dies in total silence! What solitudes these human bodies are!” Alfred de Musset Fantasio
Alfred de Musset 💕
