JeffBirdman
@birdguyjeff.bsky.social
I wasted so much of my life researching religion that I need to waste the rest of it studying birds. Love opera, sports, non-fiction, snow, and hiking.
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Can citizen science be trusted? At least when it comes to birds, hell yes it can
(bonus - openly licensed photos by @phylogenomics.bsky.social !)
(bonus - openly licensed photos by @phylogenomics.bsky.social !)
Can Citizen Science be Trusted? New Study of Birds Shows it Can
Platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird encourage people to observe and document nature, but how accurate is the ecological data that they collect?
biology.ucdavis.edu
April 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Can citizen science be trusted? At least when it comes to birds, hell yes it can
(bonus - openly licensed photos by @phylogenomics.bsky.social !)
(bonus - openly licensed photos by @phylogenomics.bsky.social !)
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We might feel that our experience of the world is somehow “correct,” but our vision, hearing, and sensitivity to magnetism are bested by those of other animals. How do our fellow Earthlings experience the world? We're “Coming to our Animal Senses” on @bipisci.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4jI7THh 🧪
February 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
We might feel that our experience of the world is somehow “correct,” but our vision, hearing, and sensitivity to magnetism are bested by those of other animals. How do our fellow Earthlings experience the world? We're “Coming to our Animal Senses” on @bipisci.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4jI7THh 🧪
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Any countries whose scientific research funding bodies are NOT currently under siege by their own national leadership would do very well announcing investments in bringing in foreign research talent right now
February 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Any countries whose scientific research funding bodies are NOT currently under siege by their own national leadership would do very well announcing investments in bringing in foreign research talent right now
Make them shag.
Hope for Britain’s loneliest bat after second species member discovered.
Greater mouse-eared bat was declared extinct in the UK but ecologists now believe population recovery is possible. 🧪🦇
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Greater mouse-eared bat was declared extinct in the UK but ecologists now believe population recovery is possible. 🧪🦇
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Hope for Britain’s loneliest bat after second species member discovered
Greater mouse-eared bat was declared extinct in the UK but ecologists now believe population recovery is possible
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Make them shag.
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The new Trump admin is already signalling it will kill potentially life saving research. 🧪
NEW: "Everything appears to have ground to a halt." Our story on the impact the massive pause on grant review at NIH is having on science. "I'm hearing from a lot of people, should I leave academia?" www.statnews.com/2025/01/24/t...
Trump freeze on NIH grant reviews alarms scientists, with long-term impact uncertain
While the National Institutes of Health employs 20,000-plus workers and spans 27 institutes and centers, the agency’s main job is to fund researchers
www.statnews.com
January 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The new Trump admin is already signalling it will kill potentially life saving research. 🧪
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Still, their presence gave scientists an idea. Lupine seeds are food for pocket gophers, and each gopher can shift as much as 227 kg of soil month digging for them. They may even do it deliberately, improving the soil so more seeds grow. Like farmers! 🧪 www.theatlantic.com/science/arch... (5/x)
Do Gophers … Farm?
Step 1: Dig tunnel. Step 2: Cultivate roots. Step 3: Profit.
www.theatlantic.com
January 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Still, their presence gave scientists an idea. Lupine seeds are food for pocket gophers, and each gopher can shift as much as 227 kg of soil month digging for them. They may even do it deliberately, improving the soil so more seeds grow. Like farmers! 🧪 www.theatlantic.com/science/arch... (5/x)
(This) Bird man offers congratulation to bird lady.
January 14, 2025 at 4:39 AM
(This) Bird man offers congratulation to bird lady.
Almost weekly I have someone ask how coyotes suddenly become 60+ pounds, and talk of coywolves and red wolves.
They’re invariably feral dogs.
They’re invariably feral dogs.
Coyotes are often considered to be the biggest contributor to livestock depredation and while regionally that might be true, more often than not feral dog kills are also attributed to coyotes. I find that a lot of people underestimate the spread of feral dogs in semiurban locations. 🧪🦊📷
January 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Almost weekly I have someone ask how coyotes suddenly become 60+ pounds, and talk of coywolves and red wolves.
They’re invariably feral dogs.
They’re invariably feral dogs.
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One of the reasons that southern California’s wildfires have been so intense this year is "hydroclimate whiplash," a sudden, intense swing between very wet and very dry weather. Thank you @weatherwest.bsky.social + others for great research and #scicomm.
www.earth.com/news/climate...
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www.earth.com/news/climate...
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"Hydroclimate whiplash" is wreaking havoc across the U.S.
California has become a vivid example of a global phenomenon known as “hydroclimate whiplash,” which involves sudden and dramatic swings.
www.earth.com
January 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
One of the reasons that southern California’s wildfires have been so intense this year is "hydroclimate whiplash," a sudden, intense swing between very wet and very dry weather. Thank you @weatherwest.bsky.social + others for great research and #scicomm.
www.earth.com/news/climate...
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www.earth.com/news/climate...
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Tom Brady's voice is so off-putting. He just spits out certain words so harshly. Every time he says "playoffs" he sounds like Jim Mora yelling.
And he says "socks" for "sacks."
And he says "socks" for "sacks."
January 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Tom Brady's voice is so off-putting. He just spits out certain words so harshly. Every time he says "playoffs" he sounds like Jim Mora yelling.
And he says "socks" for "sacks."
And he says "socks" for "sacks."
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After the rain let up, there were lots of smaller birds flitting about, mostly camera shy. This white-crowned sparrow posed for me though.
January 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
After the rain let up, there were lots of smaller birds flitting about, mostly camera shy. This white-crowned sparrow posed for me though.
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I want to remind everyone that your local library is both physical AND digital.
You hate streaming everything because the price is ridiculous? Library.
You hate ads because they're every 3 mins or less? Library.
You want to reduce your digital footprint? Library.
You want sourced info? Library.
You hate streaming everything because the price is ridiculous? Library.
You hate ads because they're every 3 mins or less? Library.
You want to reduce your digital footprint? Library.
You want sourced info? Library.
January 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I want to remind everyone that your local library is both physical AND digital.
You hate streaming everything because the price is ridiculous? Library.
You hate ads because they're every 3 mins or less? Library.
You want to reduce your digital footprint? Library.
You want sourced info? Library.
You hate streaming everything because the price is ridiculous? Library.
You hate ads because they're every 3 mins or less? Library.
You want to reduce your digital footprint? Library.
You want sourced info? Library.
Please stop telling the world about the Midwest. We kinda like all our rich jerkoffs heading to warmer climates.
In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers.
See what changes are in store for your county.
By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith
See what changes are in store for your county.
By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith
New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North…
propub.li
January 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Please stop telling the world about the Midwest. We kinda like all our rich jerkoffs heading to warmer climates.
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I just watched the film Conclave with a friend who said “haha imagine if real-life jobs were decided by a bunch of old dudes who don’t get to leave the room until they’ve agreed to vote for the person they dislike the least!” I didn’t have the heart to tell her about academia.
January 12, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I just watched the film Conclave with a friend who said “haha imagine if real-life jobs were decided by a bunch of old dudes who don’t get to leave the room until they’ve agreed to vote for the person they dislike the least!” I didn’t have the heart to tell her about academia.
Not work related, but every scientist knows it’s not not work related.
#neurosciences
#neglect
Great experiment.
People with aphantasia cannot mentally picture a an apple, for instance, but their primary visual cortex records its image.
When they try to visualize it in one side of their field of vision, they "show more activity on the same side of their brains,
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#neglect
Great experiment.
People with aphantasia cannot mentally picture a an apple, for instance, but their primary visual cortex records its image.
When they try to visualize it in one side of their field of vision, they "show more activity on the same side of their brains,
1/2
People who can’t picture images in their ‘mind’s eye’ still represent them in their brains
Imaging study of people with aphantasia reveals differences—but not a complete deficit—in visual processing area
www.science.org
January 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Not work related, but every scientist knows it’s not not work related.
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Please look at this baby capybara whose name is Tupi.
January 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Please look at this baby capybara whose name is Tupi.
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Neuroethology of natural actions in freely moving monkeys www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... - neural activity in freely moving conditions is richer and more generalizable than in restrained conditions
Neuroethology of natural actions in freely moving monkeys
The current understanding of primate natural action organization derives from laboratory experiments in restrained contexts (RCs) under the assumption that this knowledge generalizes to freely moving ...
www.science.org
January 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Neuroethology of natural actions in freely moving monkeys www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... - neural activity in freely moving conditions is richer and more generalizable than in restrained conditions
Me: weird…. Why won’t this bird answer the house sparrow caller?
November 22, 2024 at 1:24 AM
Me: weird…. Why won’t this bird answer the house sparrow caller?
To all my fellow midwesterners tracing one warm line…
(Especially the IUWBB team)
(Especially the IUWBB team)
Northwest Passage
Provided to YouTube by IDLANorthwest Passage · Stan RogersThe Very Best of Stan Rogers℗ Fogarty's Cove Music & Cole Harbour Music Ltd.Released on: 2011-03-01...
youtube.com
January 14, 2024 at 2:09 AM
To all my fellow midwesterners tracing one warm line…
(Especially the IUWBB team)
(Especially the IUWBB team)
Fuck you, guy.
January 13, 2024 at 1:56 AM
Fuck you, guy.