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Digital Naturalism Laboratories
@dinalab.bsky.social
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A jungle makerspace for field biology in Gamboa, Panamá. www.dinalab.net We also organize the Digital Naturalism Conference: http://2025.dinacon.org
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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · Nov 26
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/
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The Mothbox is a low cost DIY insect monitor
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qdot @buttplug.engineer · 11h
Do you ever think about there are people posting on this site who weren’t alive for The Great Outdoor Fight
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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 18h
Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.
Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 16h
WHAT NOW - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELITON AT THERE COMPUTER " CANT BELIEVE I DIDNT LOOK UP MORE COOL SHIT WHEN THE INTERNET STILL WORKED" ,,, THE FUNNYEST THING ABOUT A SOCIETY IN DECLINE IS YOU DONT REALLY EXPECT IT TO HAPPEN TO YOU AND WHEN IT DOES IT FEEL'S LIKE A PERSONAL OFFENSE, WE WATCHED COMPUTERS AND NET GET BETTER AND BETTER FOR SO MANY YEARS THAT IT SEEMED OBVIOUS IT WOULD CONTINUE, WHY WOULD THINGS GET BAD ON PURPOSE, HOW CAN YOU MAKE MORE MONEY WITH WORSE PRODUCT'S , WELL THEY FIGURED OUT HOW TO DO IT , THEY SOLD OUR COMMUNITYS AND RESOURCES UP THE DAMB RIVER TO MAKE A FEW MORE TRILLION'S, AND WHAT CAN THEY EVEN BUY WITH IT, OBVIOUSLY NOT THE ABILITY TO ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE IN PEACE - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN BBUT IM STILL KICKEN A$$ AND ADDING CUSS WORD'S TO MY GOGGLE SEARCHES SO THEY DONT SHOW ME AI SHIT !!!! - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 17h
Could you imagine if like just 5% of the budget that went to cops went to some kind of "Help Squad" that literally actually just was around in case people needed help doing stuff? Navigating, finding things, discussing disputes, cleaning stuff, walking with people who needed help?
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18h
Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis
Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis
CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...
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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 1d
Neat projects all over! With @wellreadpanda.bsky.social
Cool whake drawing Cool.weird bear drawing Neat green panda Neat frog drawing
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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 1d
A bumping jungle craft night at Dinalab!
People around a table, crafting Drawing that says craft
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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 1d
The ñeques have begun to worship a new idol
Ring of small brown rodents praying to a 3D printed agouti God
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Jesse Louis-Rosenberg @nervousjesse.bsky.social · 1d
We have finally released our new puzzle, the Flummoxagon! We've done more tweaking and playtesting on this than any other puzzle, and I think we've managed to make a unique and addictive game. It's turned into something completely different from our original idea

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Meet the Flummoxagon
We’re excited to announce Flummoxagon, a new geometric puzzle game that might just leave you flummoxed. Imagine a mash-up of Pentominoes and Sudoku. Your goal is to fit all the pieces into the hexa…
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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d
As someone who works with satellite and 3D imagery, this project reinforced how crucial it is to question what’s rendered as truth.

Keep an eye out for some follow ups in different mediums looking ahead

Full story w/ @972mag.com via Oren Ziv:

www.972mag.com/israeli-army...
How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda
An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.
www.972mag.com
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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 1d
still so pissed by the amount of people who yelled at me when these assholes were first bl *wing up hospitals
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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d
One of the earlier and most-viewed examples was an animation of Al Shifa Hospital, published in October 2023.

The “underground command room” was recycled from a 2022 IDF animation of an UNRWA school in Tel Al-Hawa; the street above was built from prefab @kb-3d.bsky.social storefronts
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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d
One of the earlier and most-viewed examples was an animation of Al Shifa Hospital, published in October 2023.

The “underground command room” was recycled from a 2022 IDF animation of an UNRWA school in Tel Al-Hawa; the street above was built from prefab @kb-3d.bsky.social storefronts
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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d
We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Scans of parking lots, antennas, and pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites
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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 2d
Spoon flower, performance knit
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 2d
BOOOO
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We can do better than this dude. We must do better than this dude.
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LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 2d
Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 3d
"Rainforest that has been regenerating for 30 years after being used as cattle pasture showed a remarkable increase in butterfly colour diversity."

It turns out rewilding even has the power to restore the colours human activities are draining from the natural world.
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As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours
The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down
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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 3d
You can even catch me and @wellreadpanda.bsky.social talking about #opensource #sloths
Screencap of Livestream with a guy feeding sloths and there's a comment that says I'm going to make my own sloths
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Bento Lab 🧬 @bento.bio · 3d
Looks like the prop used in the movie was inspired by Bento Lab.

We do know that Bento Lab is used for dinosaur research in a Jurassic Park movie 🦖
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 4d
Curious about how the day is going to go? The first four hours of the livestream looks like this! Join us on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn0e...
screenshot of the schedule with Guy Dupont Kari Love APPC Nick Puckett Yu Lee Leon Anavi Ayesha Iftiqhar Olimex COSMIIC Michael Weinberg ICantMakeThings Michael Di-Rocco
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OSHWA @oshwassociation.bsky.social · 3d
We're moving into after noon programming! Check out who's speaking in the next four hours! Join us: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn0e...
tinyVision.ai Inc. Maker Brains OpenNerve BrailleRap Jan-Marteen Luursema Digital Naturalism Laboratories Darcy Neal NoireSTEMinist Educational Consulting, LLC Anna Sofia Pippolis Avinash/Humin Lab Creative Commons Varro Life Sciences
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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 3d
Did they have a Bento Lab in the movie, "One Battle After Another?"
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Portuguese Ethological Society (SPE) @spetologia.bsky.social · 3d
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#SPEetologia

#AnimalCommunication #SoundAnalysis #Ecoacoustics #LogScale #AnimalBehavior #EvolutionaryBiology #AcousticResearch #Spectrograms
Let's stop measuring animal sound frequencies in hertz
Research on the function and evolution of animal sounds typically analyses sound frequency on a linear scale (Hz), despite the perception and modulation of sound frequency by animals being better ...
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Michael Weinberg @michaelweinberg.org · 3d
Just joined the @oshwassociation.bsky.social 12 hour live stream membership drive to talk about certification

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn0e...
Show and Tell 12 hour Membership Drive
YouTube video by The Open Source Hardware Association
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 3d
Will the Epstein files implicate Trump, and tank his support?

Are you kidding me?

People are already fine with Trump being a rapist and convicted felon. They were happy when he started torturing 3 year olds.

They aren't going to give a shit about incrementally more evidence that their guy is bad.
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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 3d
You can even catch me and @wellreadpanda.bsky.social talking about #opensource #sloths
Screencap of Livestream with a guy feeding sloths and there's a comment that says I'm going to make my own sloths
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