#scicomm — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #scicomm, aggregated by home.social.
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He moved apartments up to sixty times in Vienna. When notes wouldn't come, he stripped down, poured pitchers of cold water over his head, and bellowed scales until the floorboards leaked. Beethoven: deaf, drenched, evicted repeatedly.
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Nice colour asagiite, but it’s no contest. Team #Quartz all the way!
Quartz gets my physics vote as 20% of the Earth’s crust & representative typical elastic moduli, piezoelectricity & its role in clocks, electronics, GPS, computers!
Quartz get art vote for carvings, jewelry & the making of pigments for centuries!
Vote for Quartz here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/vote-r1m06
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: three second-hand books, all revolving around the theme of ice.
- #Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent by Gabrielle Walker, published by Bloomsbury Publishing.
- The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the #IceAge by Edmund Blair Bolles, published by Counterpoint.
- Glaciovolcanism on Earth and Mars: Products, Processes and Palaeoenvironmental Significance by Benjamin R Edwards and John L Smellie, published by Cambridge University Press.#Books #Bookstodon #Glaciology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Volcanology #EarthSciences #Geology #Scicomm @bookstodon
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Vote #Orpiment in Round 1 Match 5 of the #MinCup26!
The storied pigment is found in the great Hokusai’s woodblock prints, and those of other masters of the Edo era. Cuprite could never.
Vote for orpiment here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/vote-r1m05
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Vote #Orpiment in Round 1 Match 5 of the #MinCup26!
The storied pigment is found in the great Hokusai’s woodblock prints, and those of other masters of the Edo era. Cuprite could never.
Vote for orpiment here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/vote-r1m05
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Vote #Orpiment in Round 1 Match 5 of the #MinCup26!
The storied pigment is found in the great Hokusai’s woodblock prints, and those of other masters of the Edo era. Cuprite could never.
Vote for orpiment here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/vote-r1m05
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Vote #Orpiment in Round 1 Match 5 of the #MinCup26!
The storied pigment is found in the great Hokusai’s woodblock prints, and those of other masters of the Edo era. Cuprite could never.
Vote for orpiment here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/vote-r1m05
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Vote #Orpiment in Round 1 Match 5 of the #MinCup26!
The storied pigment is found in the great Hokusai’s woodblock prints, and those of other masters of the Edo era. Cuprite could never.
Vote for orpiment here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/vote-r1m05
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Nefertiti says vote for Orpiment!
Her bust employs the storied pigment.
#MinCup26 #scicomm #artHist #Egyptology
Vote for Orpiment here:
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Cézanne thinks you should vote for orpiment the storied pigment in Round 1 Match 5 of the Mineral Cup!
Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/vote-r1m05
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Tintoretto thinks you need to go vote for Orpiment, the storied pigment!
Round 1 Match 5
Vote for #Orpiment here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/vote-r1m05 -
She stopped going to church at thirty. Skipped her own father's funeral one floor above. And yet Emily Dickinson lowered gingerbread by rope to the neighborhood children she called storm-tossed pirates.
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in the works of great masters like Rembrandt.
Ironically The Night Watch, cited in the worm article, long believed to use Orpiment was recently shown to have used pararealgar and semi-amorphous pararealgar instead. But both natural and produced orpiment have been found amongst his pigments in other paintings, like one previous, known as The Jewish Bride. 🧵3/4
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@projectseahorse Highlighting the excellent infographic in your linked paper:
https://projectseahorse.org/bottom-trawling-catches-thousands-of-fish-species/#BottomTrawling #ecocide #SciComm #SeaLife #seahorse #guitarfish #croaker
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Bones found in Yukon ID'd as ice-age cheetah
What a great discovery.
#Science #Paleontology #Canada #Scicomm
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-cheetah-bones-9.7327639 -
What have we learned from research on neuroplasticity & how the nervous system repairs & remodels after a #stroke or other injury?
This was a fun podcast episode w/ my amazing co-host Dr. Jyutika Mehta & our wonderful guests Drs. John Krakauer & Randy Nudo.
twu.edu/stroke-cente...
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Schrödinger’s muse: Cleverness as a strategy for popularizing physics
A few years before Erwin Schrödinger's cat fable-turned-meme of 1935, he delved into a style of science communication all his own. Writing for Koralle magazine, a popular science weekly in Berlin, Schrödinger took readers on a rhetorical jaunt through the peculiarities of natural science. Physics, his muse, was a terrible subject for leisure reading. Made popular by Einstein's relativity revolutions of 1905 & 1915, early attempts at explaining physics to the public defied comprehension. […] -
A bird-headed prince eats souls on a toilet. A choir of the damned sings from sheet music tattooed on a sinner's bare buttocks. In 2014, a sophomore transcribed the notes. They play. Hieronymus Bosch, patient deposition-filer of Hell.
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Bournonite has been used an minor ore of copper, lead & originally antimony, all of which are have important pigment uses & those cog-wheel crystals are cool, but truthfully I can’t find Bournonite-specific art uses.
So I vote for pretty Vesuvianite crystals which are sometimes cut as gems. #MinCup26
Vote here: https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-results/vote-r1m04
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#Wissenschaftskommunikation stärkt das gesellschaftliche Verständnis von Wissenschaft und das Vertrauen in sie. Die DFG bietet jetzt erweiterte Fördermöglichkeiten: Pauschale und Zusatzanträge in DFG-geförderten Forschungsprojekten. Details 👉 https://www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles/neuigkeiten-themen/info-wissenschaft/2026/ifw-26-63
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September is a big month for #scicomm with the #MinCup26 - the 10th annual round robin where minerals face off as well as #SciArtSeptember!
I will be looking, as always, as marine geophysicist/printmaker for art & physics applications to inform my mineral voting.
Check out the participants, share your findings & vote daily!
https://www.mineralcup.org/2026/bracket
#SciArtSeptember prompts here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DcqxrdqHMNL/
and share your art for each or follow the hashtag to fill your feed with science art!
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As promised, my #Astronomy / #DarkSkies / #Astrophotography List [alpha order] for #FollowFriday ! Suggestions welcome! 🔭 🌌 🌟
@AlexSanterne
#Astronomer, working @IPAG & teaching at #University Grenoble-Alpes (France).
Interests: #photography #Astronomy #Space@ArvitZ
Process Engineering Student, Amateur - #Astrophotographer, FPV-Quad Pilot
So in a nutshell I like STEM, watching our universe and flying around with fast drones basically...@badastro
#Astronomer, #scicomm, #author, etc.@cosmos4u
Science writer in Germany since, gasp, 1982 specializing in all things space@esa [bot]
This is an unofficial repeater of the RSS feed of the #EuropeanSpaceAgency [ #ESA ]@esoastronomy
The European Southern Observatory designs, builds & operates world-class observatories on the ground for the benefit of society.@JohnBarentine
#Astronomer. Historian. Author. Space environmentalist. Small business owner. Arizona native. Proud LGBT American. 🏳️🌈 Retiring to asteroid 14505. Questioning everything; occasionally getting in trouble for it. Toots about #Astronomy, #LightPollution, #DarkSkies, #Satellites, #SciencePolicy, #History and more.@malcircuit
"This is where I share my #astrophotography without all of the drama."@maxplanckgesellschaft
Germany's leading basic research organization. Toots in English and German.
#Astronomy #Physics@mustapipa
Astronomer, researcher at Helsinki University, discoverer of dozens of planets, notably the candidate habitable world #Proximab around the nearest star to the Sun, Proxima Centauri.@planet4589.bsky.social [bridge]
#Astrophysicist #LEO
Support the work of #JonathansSpaceReport
🌉 bridged from 🦋 planet4589.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact@salvabara
#LightPollution researcher. Former profesor titular de Óptica (retired) at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galiza (European Union).
Born at 317 ppm CO2@space_environmentalism
The #CenterForSpaceEnvironmentalism ( #CSE ) increases awareness and understanding of space environmentalism issues and helps stakeholders make better decisions about them by pursuing research, education, outreach and advocacy. https://www.spaceenvironmentalism.org #Space #SpaceEnvironment #SpaceEnvironmentalism@stargazersmith
Stargeezer, retired. Worked in computer science (PhD), aerospace engineering, and astronomy.
Interests: #amateurastronomy #scifi #software #perl #forth #linux #R #GnuOctave@starrytimepod
Sisters Jordan and Kit (@kitirving) cohost this #podcast featuring #astronomy & ret-cons(tellations) of #mythology. Season 3: Into the Wild is afoot!
Follow for toots related to #astronomy, #space, #astrophotography, #StarLore, #mythology of the night sky, and, occasionally, other things we're into (e.g., #StarTrek #Grogu #DoctorWho #Basketball #celtics #ThemeParks #scifi #writing #dinosaurs #storytelling #Creatures etc.)@sundogplanets
Professor of astronomy, farmer of goats. Asteroid (42910). She/her.
Living and learning on the land and under the skies of Treaty 4 (Saskatchewan, Canada).
Thanks to Saskatchewan's beautiful night sky, my research background in small body orbital dynamics, and a couple of really unfortunately placed SpaceX reentries, I spend a lot of time yelling about satellite pollution in international news media.@wawn [bot]
This bot posts daily updates on Earth's distances from its awkward neighbors, along with other bizarre weekly bulletins from the #SolarSystem. -
As a writer, it's always such a joy to be able to come back to my science homebase, microbiology. This week I'm working on two microbiology stories for clients and also an article for my blog (planning to release it on International Microorganism Day on Sep 17).
What are you working on this week?
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The fine folk at the awesome #Aberdeen Science Centre invited me to become their Patron, with a focus on promoting science and public engagement.
I said "when do I start!" 🤗
It's a fantastic day out - do come visit some time! 🏴 #scicomm 🎢🔭
aberdeenbusinessnews.co.uk/astronomer-r...
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NEW-ish ARTWORK
Ichthyosaurs (unnamed specimen), one adult and two juveniles, painted in 2025 for Lynn Museum: https://www.lynnmuseum.norfolk.gov.uk/
Also pictured are Caturus, Ptycholepis, and Saurichthys fishes; crinoids, Apoderoceras ammonites, and Belemnoteuthis belemnites.#SciArt #SciComm #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #MarineReptiles #Ichthyosaurs #Jurassic #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #Dinosaurs #Alt4Me
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This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- Another second-hand volume to my growing collection of The Correspondence of #CharlesDarwin, this one Volume 26: 1878, published by Cambridge University Press.
- #Warhammer: The Art of #GamesWorkshop, a rather rare exhibition catalogue of grimdark artwork that I bought via eBay.
- I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in #NaturalHistory, the final of the essay bundles from #StephenJayGould, published by Harmony Books.#Books #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #EvolutionaryBiology #Scicomm @bookstodon
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For Fossil Friday, here are all four artworks I've created for The Etches Collection: "The Sea Rex", "Deep Blue Buffet", "The Twisted Feast", and "Consuming the Fallen".
#FossilFriday #SciArt #SciComm #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Fossils #Dinosaurs #MarineReptiles #Pliosaurus #Mosasaurus #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #Alt4Me
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A crop from THE EXECUTIONER'S MEAL, one of 49 artworks I painted for THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, written by Dr Dean Lomax - Palaeontologist. It features a Nothosaurus giganteus taking off the head of a Tanystropheus hydroides - yes, there is fossil evidence for this behaviour!
#SciArt #SciComm #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Fossils #MarineReptiles #Nothosaurus #Tanystropheus #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
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Here are some crops from "Consuming the Fallen," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features over 50 fossil species from the museum and the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay.
#FossilFriday #SciArt #SciComm #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #Jurassic #JurassicWorld #Pliosaurs #Pliosaurus #Sharks #Ammonites #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Dinosaurs #Alt4Me
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: I went to DinoCon and treated myself to Sean Hennesy's Speed Thief Volumes 1 and 2, and two art portfolios by Steve White, Dread Sovereign and The Bone Cabin Chronicles
#Books #Bookstodon #Palaeoart #Paleoart #Dinosaurs #Scicomm @bookstodon
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Hello #PortfolioDay! I make 3d printed animal skulls, keyrings, magnets, and #SciComm models. I design, print, and finish everything myself. Check out my Etsy or Patreon for more!
Etsy: https://blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com
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This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I found a second-hand copy of Voyage of the Basilisk: A Memoir by Lady Trent, written by Marie Brennan (@swan_tower) and published by Tor Books. This is book 3 in a #Fantasy series I have been eyeing up for some time now. I will not lie that the striking covers grabbed my attention.
- Taschen had a sale some time ago, allowing me to finally buy a volume I have long coveted: the collected works of #HRGiger. When it comes to their art collections, I always end up choosing their XXL versions. Expensive? Yes. But it's a "go big or go home" choice for me.
- A lovely birthday gift from a family member: the latest book by the incomparable Dutch biologist Midas Dekkers, Het Menselijk Tekort, published by Atlas Contact.#Books #Bookstodon #Dragons #HumanEvolution #Anthropology #Scicomm @bookstodon
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What happens when AI helps write science?
A Nature commentary suggests one overlooked consequence: uncertainty may become less visible in scientific papers, even though it is central to how knowledge advances.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01605-6
#ArtificialIntelligence #Science #SciComm #ResearchCulture #AcademicResearch
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@minouette Loved the #biodiversity in the portrait, boosted that & bookmarked the bio. Today returning, to read & reflect... What an inspiring life, thank you for highlighting!
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What is peat?
How does it burn?
Why are we normalising “haze season”?
How do we feel?
Can we express it?Stimulating questions, thrilling performance & artistic exploration of science, social priorities and policy at ‘Echoes of Climate’. This promising collaboration continues.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t2SkK1oI9NDzsEtMWZiYFhayivCjpE5m/#RhythmInBronze #EcoArt #NewMusic #gamelan #peat #ForestFire #haze #ecology conservation #SciComm #Malaysia #UniversityOfYork #LSE
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Our new paper in Conservation Biology introduces #EcoKnowGames, a transdisciplinary project using digital games to bridge the gap between human behaviour and ecological modeling. 🎮🌿
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70308
Thanks to the authors: @bradduthie, Isabel Jones, Daksha Patel, and Nils Bunnefeld
#ConservationBiology #SeriousGames #DigitalHumanities #OpenScience #Ecology #AcademicFedi #FediScience #SciComm #Gamification #Sustainability #Biodiversity #TechForGood
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🫁‘Materials that implants are made of often cause inflammation or tissue damage.’
Prof. of Polymer Science Marleen Kamperman & research team at the UG & UMCG are developing softer materials for stents and valves, as well as less invasive means to insert them using magnets.🧲
Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/science-in-focus/the-hard-challenge-making-implants-soft-and-smart🧪 #SciComm #ScienceNewsroom #materialscience #lungs #biomaterials #biology #research #science #engineering #scientistsOnMastodon
@universityofgroningen @umcgresearch
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📰 O @Publico entrevistou Francisco Bairrão Ruivo (historiador e autor de "As FP-25 e o Pós-Revolução) e Ivo M. Ferreira e Jani Zhao (realizador e protagonista do filme "Projecto Global") a propósito do cruzamento da história e da ficção nesta representação e relato do período de acção das FP-25 em Portugal.
#Histodons #50Anos25Abril #25deAbril #PortugueseRevolution #PoliticalViolence #PoliticalHistory #ViolênciaPolítica #FP25 #HistóriaPolítica #SciComm
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📰 A Visão desta semana inclui uma entrevista a Francisco Bairrão Ruivo acerca do trabalho que fez com Ivo M. Ferreira para o filme "Projecto Global" e que deu origem ao livro "As FP-25 e O Pós-Revolução" (Tinta da China), que está no prelo. Para ler nas bancas e em:
#FP25 #Histodons #PortugueseRevolution #25deAbril #PREC #50Anos25Abril #SciComm #MastoLivros
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🎭 No Domingo, há debate em torno da peça "Torrente", de Joana Craveiro (Teatro do Vestido). Será na Galeria Zé dos Bois, em Marvila, com a participação da autora, Elisa Lopes da Silva, Felipe Brandi e Luís Trindade.
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/passado-cena-2026-01/
#Histodons #SciComm #Theatre #HistoryInThePublicSphere #HistoryOnStage #50Anos25Abril #UsesOfThePast #25deAbril #PortugueseRevolution
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🎭 Abril é também o mês de regresso do ciclo "O Passado em Cena": no dia 19, estaremos na Galeria Zé dos Bois, em MARVILA, para um debate em torno da peça "Torrente", do Teatro do Vestido.
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/passado-cena-2026-01/
#Histodons #SciComm #Theatre #HistoryInThePublicSphere #HistoryOnStage #50Anos25Abril #UsesOfThePast #25deAbril #PortugueseRevolution
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Here are some crops from "The Twisted Feast," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of fossil species from the museum and the Late Jurassic #Kimmeridge Clay: a bait ball of #Thrissops, #Grendelius and #Nannopterygius #ichthyosaurs, diving #Rhamphorhynchus #pterosaurs, #Caturus, #Gyrodus, and #Pachycormus fishes, a #Dakosaurus croc, and three #Kimmerosaurus
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #MarineReptiles #Alt4Me
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If It’s Such Great Literature, Why Does It Only Have 3.5 Stars?
"Do “mediocre” Goodreads ratings represent a lukewarm response to some titles, or reflect a readership passionately divided into polarised factions?"
#Literature #ClassicLit #GreatBooks #LiteraryCriticism #GoodReads #Ratings #Books https://grrlscientist.medium.com/about-those-3-star-books-that-are-considered-to-be-great-literature-4a9c1119b563
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If It’s Such Great Literature, Why Does It Only Have 3.5 Stars?
"Do “mediocre” Goodreads ratings represent a lukewarm response to some titles, or reflect a readership passionately divided into polarised factions?"
#Literature #ClassicLit #GreatBooks #LiteraryCriticism #GoodReads #Ratings #Books https://grrlscientist.medium.com/about-those-3-star-books-that-are-considered-to-be-great-literature-4a9c1119b563
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If It’s Such Great Literature, Why Does It Only Have 3.5 Stars?
"Do “mediocre” Goodreads ratings represent a lukewarm response to some titles, or reflect a readership passionately divided into polarised factions?"
#Literature #ClassicLit #GreatBooks #LiteraryCriticism #GoodReads #Ratings #Books https://grrlscientist.medium.com/about-those-3-star-books-that-are-considered-to-be-great-literature-4a9c1119b563
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She’s Back! Wisdom The Incredible Laysan Albatross Has Returned
"The world’s oldest known wild bird, Wisdom, the Laysan albatross, has returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge to nest."
#Albatross #birds #ornithology #seabirds #conservation #MidwayAtoll https://grrlscientist.medium.com/shes-back-wisdom-the-incredible-laysan-albatross-has-returned-2fcff1ba0cdf
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She’s Back! Wisdom The Incredible Laysan Albatross Has Returned
"The world’s oldest known wild bird, Wisdom, the Laysan albatross, has returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge to nest."
#Albatross #birds #ornithology #seabirds #conservation #MidwayAtoll https://grrlscientist.medium.com/shes-back-wisdom-the-incredible-laysan-albatross-has-returned-2fcff1ba0cdf
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How Human Behavior Is Driving Evolution In Wild Birds
"How a simple pleasure, feeding birds, has been translated into a mechanism for rapid evolutionary change in beak length in a British backyard bird species"
#ornithology #evolution #BirdFeeding #Birding https://grrlscientist.medium.com/how-human-behavior-is-driving-evolution-in-wild-birds-2c943d8f640c
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How Human Behavior Is Driving Evolution In Wild Birds
"How a simple pleasure, feeding birds, has been translated into a mechanism for rapid evolutionary change in beak length in a British backyard bird species"
#ornithology #evolution #BirdFeeding #Birding https://grrlscientist.medium.com/how-human-behavior-is-driving-evolution-in-wild-birds-2c943d8f640c
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How Human Behavior Is Driving Evolution In Wild Birds
"How a simple pleasure, feeding birds, has been translated into a mechanism for rapid evolutionary change in beak length in a British backyard bird species"
#ornithology #evolution #BirdFeeding #Birding https://grrlscientist.medium.com/how-human-behavior-is-driving-evolution-in-wild-birds-2c943d8f640c