Digital Naturalism Laboratories
@dinalab.bsky.social
A jungle makerspace for field biology in Gamboa, Panamá. www.dinalab.net
We also organize the Digital Naturalism Conference: http://2025.dinacon.org
We also organize the Digital Naturalism Conference: http://2025.dinacon.org
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The Mothbox is a low cost DIY insect monitor
digital-naturalism-laboratories.github.io
Hiya folks! For new people here's the big project we have been working on in Panamá!
The Mothbox!
It's a fully #opensource insect camera trap with loads of documentation to build the whole thing yourself from off the shelf parts!
digital-naturalism-laboratories.github.io/Mothbox/
The Mothbox!
It's a fully #opensource insect camera trap with loads of documentation to build the whole thing yourself from off the shelf parts!
digital-naturalism-laboratories.github.io/Mothbox/
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New study confirms that short wavelength light (UV & blue) attracts the most nocturnal insects & that intensity increases attraction for all colours. Longer wavelength & lower intensity outdoor lights should reduce biodiversity impacts resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #teammoth 🌍
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
New study confirms that short wavelength light (UV & blue) attracts the most nocturnal insects & that intensity increases attraction for all colours. Longer wavelength & lower intensity outdoor lights should reduce biodiversity impacts resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #teammoth 🌍
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Our elites are so misanthropic they would rather give rights to a box of wires than actual humans.
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Our elites are so misanthropic they would rather give rights to a box of wires than actual humans.
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Sweet Remote SciComm JOB! with @xercessociety.bsky.social
Join Xerces and help our audience learn about invertebrates!
Job Title: Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing
🌎Location: Remote (USA)
💲Compensation: $32.34/hr; approx. $67,267/yr
📅Application deadline: Dec 7
Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
Job Title: Communications Specialist, Graphic Design & Content Marketing
🌎Location: Remote (USA)
💲Compensation: $32.34/hr; approx. $67,267/yr
📅Application deadline: Dec 7
Learn more and apply at xerces.org/jobs
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Sweet Remote SciComm JOB! with @xercessociety.bsky.social
For instance, it'd be like if some group got a grant to give out 100k to make tools.
And then they gave us 100k to work on the Mothbox, but said, "oh actually we will only give you the grant money we are supposed to give you, if you have your friends and family send us 10k first"
And then they gave us 100k to work on the Mothbox, but said, "oh actually we will only give you the grant money we are supposed to give you, if you have your friends and family send us 10k first"
There're some orgs that get grant money to give to people to make open source tools and they give the money to people and are great!
But there's some that make recipients raise extra money of which the grant giving org gets a cut, and oh boy, that feels SCAMMY!
But there's some that make recipients raise extra money of which the grant giving org gets a cut, and oh boy, that feels SCAMMY!
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
For instance, it'd be like if some group got a grant to give out 100k to make tools.
And then they gave us 100k to work on the Mothbox, but said, "oh actually we will only give you the grant money we are supposed to give you, if you have your friends and family send us 10k first"
And then they gave us 100k to work on the Mothbox, but said, "oh actually we will only give you the grant money we are supposed to give you, if you have your friends and family send us 10k first"
There're some orgs that get grant money to give to people to make open source tools and they give the money to people and are great!
But there's some that make recipients raise extra money of which the grant giving org gets a cut, and oh boy, that feels SCAMMY!
But there's some that make recipients raise extra money of which the grant giving org gets a cut, and oh boy, that feels SCAMMY!
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
There're some orgs that get grant money to give to people to make open source tools and they give the money to people and are great!
But there's some that make recipients raise extra money of which the grant giving org gets a cut, and oh boy, that feels SCAMMY!
But there's some that make recipients raise extra money of which the grant giving org gets a cut, and oh boy, that feels SCAMMY!
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SOS!! Share far and wide! The US Patent Office is working to make bad patents untouchable and that’s a problem for open source hardware! Read through EFF statement and get your comments in ASAP to help prevent this www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed new rules that would effectively end the public’s ability to challenge improperly granted patents at the Patent Office itself. We need EFF sup...
www.eff.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
SOS!! Share far and wide! The US Patent Office is working to make bad patents untouchable and that’s a problem for open source hardware! Read through EFF statement and get your comments in ASAP to help prevent this www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Excited to have our photo featured on the special issue of Evolutionary Ecology (Morphological responses to climate change)! Read it here:
doi.org/10.1007/s106...
Here is Ryan Taylor's beautiful cover photo of túngara frogs making a nest!
@springer.springernature.com
@evoecology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s106...
Here is Ryan Taylor's beautiful cover photo of túngara frogs making a nest!
@springer.springernature.com
@evoecology.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Excited to have our photo featured on the special issue of Evolutionary Ecology (Morphological responses to climate change)! Read it here:
doi.org/10.1007/s106...
Here is Ryan Taylor's beautiful cover photo of túngara frogs making a nest!
@springer.springernature.com
@evoecology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s106...
Here is Ryan Taylor's beautiful cover photo of túngara frogs making a nest!
@springer.springernature.com
@evoecology.bsky.social
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LISTEN UP MOTHER FUCKER - dashare.zone ADMIN
November 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
LISTEN UP MOTHER FUCKER - dashare.zone ADMIN
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!!!!CHRISTMAS ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!
November 23, 2025 at 1:06 AM
!!!!CHRISTMAS ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!
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Bus stop spacing distribution in New York City, Toronto, and Prague.
November 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Bus stop spacing distribution in New York City, Toronto, and Prague.
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ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
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Come closer, Baron…
November 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Come closer, Baron…
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JD Vance Cries In Bathroom After Trump Uses ‘Piggy’ Nickname On Someone Else https://theonion.com/jd-vance-cries-in-bathroom-after-trump-uses-piggy-nickname-on-someone-else/
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
JD Vance Cries In Bathroom After Trump Uses ‘Piggy’ Nickname On Someone Else https://theonion.com/jd-vance-cries-in-bathroom-after-trump-uses-piggy-nickname-on-someone-else/
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Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆
November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆
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It's the third thursday of the month....Which means it's live stream day! Join us around 1pm EST to hear about three newly certified open source hardware projects!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Tt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Tt...
November 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It's the third thursday of the month....Which means it's live stream day! Join us around 1pm EST to hear about three newly certified open source hardware projects!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Tt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Tt...
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This is not what the problem is. We have many excellent, talented, engaging science communicators.
Their reach is deliberately truncated by the social media companies, and billionaire-owned news outlets do not platform them.
Their reach is deliberately truncated by the social media companies, and billionaire-owned news outlets do not platform them.
Scientists are partly to blame by not learning to effectively communicate in lay language on modern communication channels. That information void is then ripe for disinformation to fill.
Embed lay comms & accessibility skills into academia.
Embed lay comms & accessibility skills into academia.
November 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
This is not what the problem is. We have many excellent, talented, engaging science communicators.
Their reach is deliberately truncated by the social media companies, and billionaire-owned news outlets do not platform them.
Their reach is deliberately truncated by the social media companies, and billionaire-owned news outlets do not platform them.
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In my capacity as your friendly neighbourhood blind person, I approve of this message.
periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute
Read easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer!
www.brailleinstitute.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
In my capacity as your friendly neighbourhood blind person, I approve of this message.
At the passport office because the dutch customs lady looked at me in disgust and asked "why does your passport smell like this?"
(And because it's expiring)
(And because it's expiring)
November 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
At the passport office because the dutch customs lady looked at me in disgust and asked "why does your passport smell like this?"
(And because it's expiring)
(And because it's expiring)
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Standing room only in the Queer Entomology symposium, especially for Chris Marshall and the greatest grad student T-shirt ever created
November 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Standing room only in the Queer Entomology symposium, especially for Chris Marshall and the greatest grad student T-shirt ever created
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i'm sorry but we really should just grind the entire country to a halt until we break this fucking monstrous apparatus. this shit is insane. it's insane to go to work while this is happening
Coercive sterilization in ICE detention. Eugenics.
"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...
November 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
i'm sorry but we really should just grind the entire country to a halt until we break this fucking monstrous apparatus. this shit is insane. it's insane to go to work while this is happening
I don't know what this guy is talking about offsets are great!
It's kinda like how if I kill 5 people, but promise to impregnate at least 6 people, I'm all good!
It's kinda like how if I kill 5 people, but promise to impregnate at least 6 people, I'm all good!
Offsets are such a bloody stupid idea. The idea of equivalence is false. Pretending to conserve species and habitat while simply carrying out business as usual. Anyone who works in the conservation space knows this 🧪
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Biodiversity offsets failed to protect habitat in NSW. Now federal Labor is about to make the same mistakes, critics warn
Offsets were meant to be a last resort for mitigating environmental damage from development projects, but rapidly became the default
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I don't know what this guy is talking about offsets are great!
It's kinda like how if I kill 5 people, but promise to impregnate at least 6 people, I'm all good!
It's kinda like how if I kill 5 people, but promise to impregnate at least 6 people, I'm all good!
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Boeing is paying Charm Industrial to remove 100000 tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere, which is a time machine that takes us back by 1 minute and 15 seconds. 🥲
Boeing has a carbon emissions problem. Startup Charm Industrial is cleaning up. | TechCrunch
The deal will see Charm Industrial collect forestry waste and transform it into a bio-oil it buries underground.
techcrunch.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Boeing is paying Charm Industrial to remove 100000 tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere, which is a time machine that takes us back by 1 minute and 15 seconds. 🥲
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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
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Pennywise: (tied to chair) Look pal, I don’t like you and you don’t like me but if we’re gonna get out of this alive we need to work together
James Bond: (also tied to chair) All right you clown bastard. A truce. For now
*Kramer walks in holding pliers*
Kramer: Giddy up
James Bond: (also tied to chair) All right you clown bastard. A truce. For now
*Kramer walks in holding pliers*
Kramer: Giddy up
Why Isn’t Pennywise in The Running Man? It's more complicated than you might think... bit.ly/4a04Vvk
November 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Pennywise: (tied to chair) Look pal, I don’t like you and you don’t like me but if we’re gonna get out of this alive we need to work together
James Bond: (also tied to chair) All right you clown bastard. A truce. For now
*Kramer walks in holding pliers*
Kramer: Giddy up
James Bond: (also tied to chair) All right you clown bastard. A truce. For now
*Kramer walks in holding pliers*
Kramer: Giddy up