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David Lei

@davidlei

Flaco, the escaped Eurasian eagle-owl, perched on the Naumburg Bandshell last Friday night. Extreme opinions have been expressed about him. On this subject and others, perhaps we should behave more like owls: patiently watch and wait. (1/15)

#birds #birdwatching #nature #birdcpp

The question of Flaco’s continuing freedom is moot with the zoo suspending its efforts to capture him again. I was able to observe their efforts to attract him with playback last Thursday night. He was responsive vocally but seemed to fly away from it more than towards it. (2/15)

They tried and it didn’t work. Any continued use of loud, sustained playback could be more harmful to sensitive birds in the park than Flaco would be as a novice hunter. Flaco might one day be a threat to sensitive birds but he isn’t today. (3/15)

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EuroMarine OYSTER

@EM_OYSTER

🚨🌊Are you ready for the Thursday thread 🧵of job #opportunities for early-career #scientists in marine and #ocean #Science?

🌊🦤🦭🐋🐳🐬🦈🐟🐡🐠🦠👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬🌊

Look down there!👇

#ECR #PhDchat #PhDjobs #ScienceJobs #PostDoc #Academictwitter #Internships #Researcher

🚨🌊@giulia_ghedini lab at @IGCiencia in Lisbon is recruiting a postdoc (euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/53594) and offering a research fellowship (master required) (euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/53587) to work on metabolic adaptation in phytoplankton communities

🚨Deadline: 31st Jan

🚨PhD opportunity!

5-year teaching & research studentship at
@PlymUni with @DrSimonIngram and @ClareEmbling studying #cetacean #abundance, #distribution and exposure to #shippingnoise joint with @CefasNoise

plymouth.ac.uk/schools/school…

📢Deadline: 26th Jan

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𝘔𝘪𝘬𝘬𝘰 𝘒𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘬𝘢𝘭𝘢

@XCsci

Mikä on suosikkilintusi?

Meinaisin kirjoittaa, että onpa hienoja valintoja ihmisillä suosikkilinnuksi! Sitten mietin, että mikäpä lintulaji noin kymmenestätuhannesta vaihtoehdosta *ei* olisi hieno valinta!

#lintu #linnut #bird #birds

...10000 *elävästä* lintulajista – mikäpä ettei suosikkilaji voisi olla jokin sukupuuttoon kuollut lintukin, vaikka jokin niistä, joilla oli vielä hampaat!

#lintu #linnut

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simey

@simeydotme

A while back I tried to get MidJourney to produce some nice Chinese Watercolour / Ink, Wall Scroll style paintings, in v3.

The original results were a bit wishy-washy as I was a noob...

@midjourney_ai #aiart #aiartcommunity #digitalart #MidJourney #Chinese #Watercolour

🧵...

But the results improved greatly with some reference images for the #AIart to grab onto. However it was still missing something to make it feel like the real thing... And that Red Crowned Crane🤢 ...

🧵...

But recently @midjourney_ai made it possible to do 2:3 and 3:2 aspect ratios in v4, and I decided to re-visit the concept with v4.

It started out promising with almost exactly the same prompt and reference image. This time with a little --chaos added

🧵...

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Santa Fe Institute is on Mastodon

@sfiscience

"Liquid and Solid #Brains: Mapping the #Cognition Space"

Today's SFI Seminar by Ext Prof @ricard_sole, streaming now — follow this 🧵 for highlights:

"Why #brains? Brains are very costly...it seems like they are not a very good idea to bring complex cognition to a #biosphere that just needs simple replicators."

"I also want to explore the problem of #consciousness, which is around all the time..."

@ricard_sole

Two different views of #evolution:

- Stephen Jay Gould and an emphasis on #contingency

- Simon Conway Morris/Pere Albach and an emphasis on #constraints and #convergence

--> "Replay the tape with different results vs. 'the logic of monsters' & 'life's solution'"

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Fish & Dive 🐙'Préservons la Méditerranée'

@fish_dive

Vous avez sûrement vu passer des observations de Pingouins, et vous manquez d'explications sur ce phénomène exceptionnel ? Des ornithologues réfléchissent sur des explications probables, MAIS pas forcément confirmées. Donc #Thread #globalwarming #birdwatching #birds

Je cite : "L'afflux de pingouins n'est probablement pas sans lien avec celui des mouettes tridactyles qui commencent à atteindre la région, et celui d'autres oiseaux pélagiques sur le littoral atlantique. En cause, vraisemblablement les dépressions, et vents violents, qui...

...touchent l'Atlantique Nord depuis plusieurs semaines, notamment l'épisode du 17 novembre qui précède l'afflux des différentes espèces concernées. On aurait donc affaire à des oiseaux épuisés, ce qui expliquerait également la mortalité non négligeable signalée...

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The Better India

@thebetterindia

Born on 12 November 1896, Salim Ali scraped through high school. He barely passed the matriculation exam of the Bombay University and dropped out of St. Xavier’s College in his first year.

What attracted the innate scientist in him was the forest that surrounded his family’s tungsten mines in erstwhile Burma.

Having honed his skills in the forests and made connections with notable scientists at the Forest Service in Burma, Ali returned to India in 1917, with an abandoned university degree and eyes full of dreams.

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⭐️🪶🔮⭐️they/them⭐️🔮🪶⭐️

@mx_semee

#wip #collage #analogcollage #birds #art #altar #collageart #indigenous

I'd like to share what this collage means to me.

starting from the top: u'uhig (birds)
birds are central to akimel o'otham culture especially song culture. in this collage i used the oriole, red-winged blackbird, house finch, and the blue-throated hummingbird. the birds are

positioned at the top as i see them emerging from the altar, the space below them that can represent a mountain or earth. on the altar, the dresser on which everything is placed on or above, to the left are depictions of my diné great grandmother's rug and my mom's hopi

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Graviola Finland

@GraviolaDOTfi

#MinkGate. #Martians attack.
#Poultry #Lockdown Looms in England to Thwart Spread of #BirdFlu | 2h ago
- New #mandatory measures will require all poultry and captive birds to be kept indoors,
- Orson #Welles cannot explain the phenomenom.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#India's crematoriums #overwhelmed as a# virus '#swallows people' | Apr 25
- Hopefully the #martians have a #mercy on us.

https://twitter.com/GraviolaDOTfi/status/1386275572377165824?s=20&t=mJdZJjnHx7euX-v90sntqQ

The War of the #Variants

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Dr Robert Bohan Artist

@RobertBohan

My little nieces & nephews are amongst my greatest inspirations. They look at the world with new & fresh eyes. I think that’s how artists should be & I love sitting with them & chatting about what they see. Here’s one of my nieces & myself after a busy day exchanging ideas!

I love creating art. I think you can see that joy in the works. It’s fantastic that my drawings make people happy & a great pleasure when I’m sent photos of the framed drawings in new homes! I’m really grateful for that!

Free Spirit (2022)
Buy here: etsy.me/3eDeOoF

It’s important to me that art is accessible. I think it’s a good thing that kids live with original art in their home - & that they are inspired by it. A surprising number of people (to me) buy my work for their kids

The Man in the Moon (2022)
Buy here: etsy.me/3T7g9TC

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Dr Robert Bohan Artist

@RobertBohan

I think everyone should have access to art & I wanted to do something about it! As a result I decided to share my work on here & give everyone the opportunity to have original art in their home whatever their age. This is me & my nephew (aged 1y) discussing Picasso.

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Dr Robert Bohan Artist

@RobertBohan

I am very lucky that people support me in creating art. This is a Dublin collector’s group of my works. I’m delighted every time someone adopts some of my ink drawings. Here’s a group of works available now as well as some recent commissions

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Dr Robert Bohan Artist

@RobertBohan

One of my greatest inspirations are my little nieces & nephews. They look at the world with new & fresh eyes. I think that’s how artists should be & I love sitting with them & chatting about what they see. Here’s one of my nieces & myself after a busy day exchanging ideas!

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Guillermo Navalón

@GNavalon

Very excited to see our work published in @Nature! We present 1 of the most comprehensive characterisations of 3D #shape across (almost) the whole #skeleton in a group of land #vertebrates. Paper: nature.com/articles/s4158…

We studied the diversification of skeletal forms during the radiation that originated the staggering diversity of living #birds. Bird pics by @fieldpalaeo! Collage by moi

Our work harkens back to some of the most fundamental early works on macroevo. theory by George G. Simpson. Among the most influential palaeos of all times, & one of the main reasons palaeontology as a discipline made it into the high table of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis.

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Kaya von Eugen

@KayavonEugen

Birds do it better: our latest work in @CurrentBiology shows their neurons consume 3x less glucose compared to neurons in the mammalian brain. Very excited to share the results of lasts years work with you! A🧵
authors.elsevier.com/c/1fjL23QW8R~d…
#Birds #Neuroscience #Evolution #SciComm

Brain tissue is metabolically costly. This is mostly caused by expensive neurons that need a lot of glucose. Across mammals, the neuronal energy budget appears to be fixed.

Birds pack many more neurons in their brains compared to mammals. This partly explains how they enable advanced sensory and cognitive processing capacity with such small brains. But how can they support such high cell numbers?

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Keep Your Cat Inside

@KeepCatsInside

Here is a list of 45 #birds, 22 #mammals, and 30 non-avian #reptiles that are CRITICALLY ENDANGERED due to feral or pet #cats
#invasivespecies #conservation #ornithology #BiodiversityCrisis
pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.107…

first off, I'd like to highlight that "feral #cats on islands are responsible for at least 14% global #bird, #mammal, and reptile extinctions and are the principal threat to almost 8% of critically endangered birds, mammals, and reptiles"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

AND within our own lifetimes, North America has lost more than one in four of its birds. These are not all critically endangered now, but these trends are pointing to #extinction
#BringBirdsBack #ornithology
science.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/fu…

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Keep Your Cat Inside

@KeepCatsInside

Do you purport to care about #conservation? Keep your damn cats indoors and minimize their threat to #birds, #mammals, & lizards.

#cats that are allowed to roam outside, feral or otherwise, are a major threat to our #wildlife and #biodiversity.

There’s fantastic studies on the threat to #wildlife that outdoor #cats pose in Australia. But don’t be fooled into thinking this problem is restricted to just Australia—#feral and free roaming cats are contributing to millions of wildlife deaths every year in the USA.

Thanks to @tiredguineapig for highlighting these fantastic Infographs in a recent tweet. We need these for Europe and the US!

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Santa Fe Institute

@sfiscience

🧵 "A #biologist's perspective of #process and #pattern in #innovation"
by SFI External Professor @HochTwit

Starting in just a few minutes on our YouTube channel.

Follow this thread for select slides and quotations...
youtube.com/user/santafein…

"I'm not going to pretend there's a unified theory of #innovation, and I'm going to explain why."

We begin with a tale of #Minitel: the original, now-extinct French "Web"...and then back further to #ARPANet...and then to theoretical precursors.

@HochTwit

"There is no first-principles definition for #innovation."

"How could a company start with selling books online when people want to see a book in person and look through it? Nonetheless, @amazon survived..."

Before Amazon, Books.com on TelNet, later bought by B&N

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charlesrathmann

@charlesrathmann

THREAD: So if you love #fishing and your water, something to consider. I have bald eagles, trumpeter swans, pelicans, herons here on the Lower #Wisconsin #River. Lead kills #birds. I lose probably more than my share of jigs and hanging with the @riveralliancewi got me thinking.

I am more pragmatist than activist, but #environmentalism hits home as you watch eagles soar as you fish pristine, delicate waterways. The 92 miles LWR is mostly in conservancy, and is recognized as a @RamsarConv Wetlands of International Importance. rsis.ramsar.org/ris/2417

So I cultivated a local guy who makes lures out of his garage. Very skilled fisherman too and I have learned a lot from him out on the water. Had him cast me this initial run of jigs out of tin bismuth alloy.

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Palm Oil Detectives

@PalmOilDetect

Happy #WorldSnakeDay. #Snakes have an unfair reputation as being poisonous/ aggressive. Our fear of snakes may come from Christianity. Satan took the form of a snake tempting Eve in the Garden of Eden. Yet snakes aren't bad at all! They're critical to ecosystems around the world

#Snakes evolved 130 million years ago in the Cretaceous period from a common ancestor that they share with #birds and other #reptiles. They have cloacal spurs or vestigal limbs, which shows their shared ancestry with limbed reptiles. #WorldSnakeDay 🐍🐍🐍

#Snakes see on the infrared spectrum using heat receptors called pit organs making them epic predators with natural night vision goggles to see prey. Snakes have a detachable jaw which can swallow food whole that is much larger than its own body weight. #WorldSnakeDay 🐍💚

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Emily Williams

@wayfaringwilly

I want to share a story with you about an infamous American Robin, GG-XY (for green over green on left leg, metal over yellow on right; pictured).

1/x
📸@CKaster

This bird is a female who literally made the front page news last year, as the photo of her diligently feeding her young while sporting a GPS antenna festooned the feature by @APNews writer @larsonchristina.

It was a fantastic shot by @CKaster that showcased this awesome robin doing her annual rhythm of raising young while also showing how she'll be providing us this awesome data about where she spends her time throughout the year.

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