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Claudia Munera
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Colombian in Oz
#Futures #Adaptation #TransformativeChange #Suatainability #Birds
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Love this article, and especially this quote from Mark Miodownik: 🧪 🐡
December 30, 2023 at 4:21 PM
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Superb parrot! 🦜 🪶
December 30, 2023 at 10:09 PM
First Christmas #beetle, and on Christmas Eve! 🧪🪲
December 23, 2023 at 11:08 PM
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🎯23 targets for 2030

‌🥅4 goals for 2050

🌐1 planet to protect

The new #BiodiversityPlan sets the world on a path to recovery to halt & reverse #biodiversity loss🌱 for people and #ForNature

📰 📸 Find out more with UN Biodiversity 🌏 🧪

www.cbd.int/article/one-...
December 19, 2023 at 12:52 PM
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Galapagos finches influenced Darwin’s thinking about evolution. But he didn’t notice, or report, that some of them use tools.

Today’s post is a search for just who did make that discovery, featuring a gun-toting teen, a fire, and a very rich man on a tortoise 🧪🪶🛠️🐢

twig.technology/blog/woodpec...
1906 | Isabela, Galápagos Islands
Woodpecker finch (Camarhynchus pallidus) stick probing
twig.technology
December 22, 2023 at 12:01 PM
When I started #Birdwatching in #Colombia many years ago, we never imagined it was going to become as big as it is now!
news.mongabay.com/2023/12/bird...
December 16, 2023 at 6:14 AM
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New great research on coral reef island vulnerability led by Tommy Fellowes (not here yet) in STOTEN has been picked by The Guardian and other media outlets 🌏🧪⛱️🌊🪸⚒️ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Some of Australia’s strategically important coral islands at great risk of vanishing, study finds
Fate of more than a dozen islands ‘hangs in the balance’ because of climate crisis, with vexed questions about maritime jurisdiction
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2023 at 5:55 AM
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I found some really interesting predictions from 1974 about what international borders might change by 2024
From Palestine to American Alberta: International Border Changes Predicted In 1974 For the Year 2024...
The August 24, 1974 issue of Saturday Review World magazine was completely devoted to what the world of 2024 would look like. And given the simple fact that we’re only a couple of weeks away from ...
paleofuture.com
December 15, 2023 at 7:32 PM
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Scientists are using leftover cocoa husks to extract lignin, an organic polymer that can become flame retardant, foam, or a straw.

Dr. Rigoberto Advincula, a materials scientist, joins us to talk about lignin and its potential uses. 

www.sciencefriday.com/segments/lig...
Flame Retardant Could Be Made From Discarded Cocoa Husks
Scientists are using leftover cocoa husks to extract lignin, an organic polymer that can become flame retardant, foam, or a straw.
www.sciencefriday.com
December 15, 2023 at 8:21 PM
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Hi all!

For those who don't know each other, reply to this tweet with your research area, or interest, or anything else about you. Will retweet some of them. Let's connect!
September 29, 2023 at 3:27 PM
I feel pretty much 'out of shape' about posting on social networks since I left the blue bird a year ago 😄 Looking forward to start reconnecting again
December 12, 2023 at 11:34 PM