@mrosenberg
Evolutionary Biologist, Data Scientist, Amateur Fiddler Crab Wrangler I don't so much focus on specific topics as meander randomly through the topical landscape, like a broken adaptive model that doesn't realize downhill isn't supposed to be an option.
Good article, but the framing is wrong. There is not a dearth of interest in taxonomy. There is a scarcity of funding and positions, which is a deliberate choice by funding agencies and institutions. The youth love taxonomy! It's the olds that are failing to meet their passion!
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Slightly out of focus photo of a long-haired gray tabby staring at the camera
A slightly out of focus photo of Normal as he is actively beginning his headbutt of my phone. #cats
Our paper is out from Animal Behaviour! Fiddler crabs can discriminate between neighbor unfamiliar individuals and familiar ones in the territorial fighting.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A smoky black cat with green eyes sitting up and looking at the camera
Abby wants to know what the stupid human is doing #cat
New species of fiddler crab has been described from the Pacific coast of Panama, bringing the current total number of recognized extant species to 108.
doi.org/10.15359/rev...
Allometric constraints and the modulation of weapon evolution by mating system in fiddler crabs
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
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GEOGRAPSUS GRAYI DANARMA LEPTOMERUS MACROPHTHALMUS SP. TUBUCA COARCTATA
crab studies from @crabspromenade.bsky.social photos
A long-haired gray cat, standing on the floor while looking up at the camera, with his massive feather-duster of a tail proudly displayed.
Admire the marvelous spectacle that is Normal's absurdity of a tail. #cats
A long-haired, smoky black cat with green eyes and long tufts of hair coming out of her ears.
Here is Abby, asking wassup?
#cats
I believe an early study suggested they were about the same
A long-haired calico with a massive ruff of hair beneath her chin like a huge beard or the lower half of a lion's mane.
Here is Winter showing off her winter ruff/beard
#Cats
A long-haired ~11-month old gray tabby--named Normal--looking at the camera from a close distance.
Looking back at 2025, I realized I posted a deficit of cat photos, so while not a New Year's resolution per se, I aim to be a bit better about keeping the "Internet Cat Photo Gods"™ appeased this year.
Here is Normal, ~11 months old, asking why I'm shoving my phone in his face.
An Eastern Gray Squirrel sitting in some patchy grass
An Eastern Gray Squirrel being all squirrel-like
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A not particularly good photo of a Bald Eagle perched in a tree but leaning forward as it was just about to take off and fly away
A Bald Eagle about to take off from a tree (poor photo, unfortunately) 🦉
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Northern Mockingbird in the top of a bush
A Northern Mockingbird 🦉
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A female Purple Finch in a tree
A female Purple Finch 🦉
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A Bufflehead in a lake
A Bufflehead duck 🦉
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A line of five Canada Geese in a lake
Canada Geese 🦉
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A red-bellied woodpecker perched on the side of a tree
Red-bellied Woodpecker 🦉
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A red fox standing on a bank by a lake, looking into the water with its reflection seemingly looking back at it
A pair of red foxes standing on some steps
A pair of red foxes on the shore of a lake
Some visitors for the New Year:
A pair of red foxes having fun
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@amalelmohtar.com did you do a top 10 books list this year that I missed? Enjoyed the last few as good recommendations to look for
This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
It won't prevent AI from hallucinating papers, but at least it won't be littering your profile with the hallucinations and/or later pulling those same hallucinations from your profile.
There is a way to block this in your Google Scholar profile: turn off the option to automatically add papers; instead it will email you whenever it wants to add anything and you have to approve/deny.
This has mostly been useful for other authors with similar names, but now with AI...
It's me. You found me out.
I suppose this might be a PC/console bias. Arkham Knight was playable on consoles but unplayable on PC, while Cyberpunk was unplayable on consoles but (more-or-less) playable on PC (I played C2077 on PC and didn't find most of the bugs too bad even from the start, beyond some clothing issues)
I enjoyed Cyberpunk 2077 from the beginning, despite the bugs, and do understand why its reputation was so tarnished at the start, but it is always held up as the standard bearer for a disastrous release: does no one remember Batman: Arkham Knight? It was pulled from Steam it was so unplayable!
Oh. My. Fucking. God.
You must listen to this.
