If you are in Australia and you feel the need for something to tide you over, until you hear the drawn-out result...
I am pleased to offer you this #haiku (again).
Interrupted Rations
Death cap's pale allure
Whispers promises, then chokes
Amanita's kiss
Love thy enemy's enemy: why hummingbirds nest near hawks
"Hummingbird eggs and babies are a favourite snack for nest-robbing jays, so what’s a mother to do to protect her family? According to a new study, it’s best to build her nest near or under a hawk nest"
#birds #ornithology #behavior #hummingbirds #hawks https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/love-thy-enemys-enemy-why-hummingbirds
🇩🇪Promovieren an der Hochschule Hof: Stephanie Kitzing gibt Einblicke zum Thema Promotion🧪🔍
👉Könnt ihr euch vorstellen zu promovieren?
🇬🇧Doing a doctorate at Hof University of Applied Sciences: Stephanie Kitzing provides insights into the topic of doctoral studies🧪🔍
👉Can you imagine doing a doctorate?
Mehr erfahren/Learn more: 🔗https://t1p.de/yrv1a
#hierwirdknallhartgeforscht #science #forschung #promotion #wisskomm #scicomm
Our bodies are marvels of evolution, yet evolution is not a perfect engineer. It works with what it’s got, which explains our sore feet and aching backs. We look at our complicated evolutionary past and What Moves Us on this week’s Big Picture Science.
Listen here: https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/what-moves-us
Bij een open sessie over AI kreeg ik vandaag de tip om generatieve AI te vragen om je presentatie te laten samenvatten in één sterk eindbeeld. Enfin...
#scicomm
New review: Is a River Alive? is a hydrological odyssey into three river systems that sees Macfarlane wrestle with this question and examine its relevance to the nascent Rights of Nature movement.
https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/07/04/book-review-is-a-river-alive/
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Rivers #Hydrology #RightsOfNature #NatureWriting #EnvironmentalLaw #Scicomm @bookstodon
Many of the stars in our Milky Way are part of binary systems. A good percentage of these systems are composed of two stars that orbit each other at a certain distance, but there are other binaries where both of the stars are so close that we can say they almost touch each other. These systems are known as semi-detached close binaries.
Normally, these binaries are comprised of a white dwarf star and its companion, which can be a main-sequence star, a red giant, or, sometimes, a brown dwarf. The thing is that in these systems, the white dwarf literally steals mass from its companion. However, the stolen material does not go directly to the white dwarf; first, it is gathered around it, forming an accretion disk that swirls around the white dwarf. And it is precisely the existence of an accretion disk that makes these systems so interesting, because of it, they tend to explode.
The first examples of explosions in these systems that come to my mind right now are the very famous Type 1a supernovae, classical novae, and dwarf novae. In this thread, I am going to write about the latter. And the main reason for this is that I had the opportunity to collaborate on a paper that studies a very peculiar dwarf nova star, which was recently published in the prestigious scientific journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Dwarf novae feature recurring outbursts. By “outburst” here, the reader should understand that we astronomers, amateur and professional, refer to “explosions”. In the case of these types of stars, the explosion occurs when the system loses angular momentum, resulting in an increase in its accretion rate, which in turn causes their temperature and viscosity to rise.
Some systems, after they reach their lowest angular momentum –i.e., when their orbital period is around 78 minutes– bounce back and start to slowly regain angular momentum. These systems are known as “period bouncers”. Well, it turns out that the paper in which I participated studies a dwarf nova, which was actually seen in action by several citizen scientists (!), that also happens to be a period bouncer. The star is question is known as GOTO065054+593624, or GOTO0650 for short. The paper, led by Dr. Thomas Killestein, GOTO065054+593624: An 8.5 mag amplitude dwarf nova identified in real time via Kilonova Seekers, can be found in the following link: https://tinyurl.com/GOTO0650. 1/2
#scicomm #astronomy #astrophysics #novae #variablestars #science #citizenscience
New blog post!
Alligator lizards are a thing, and they have armor! And we have their fossils!
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https://life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/armor-plated-lizard/
#FossilFriday #museum #scicomm #paleontology #lizard #fossils
@sergezaka : "Certains climatologues doivent demander une protection policière" @rts
https://www.rts.ch/info/environnement/2025/article/climatologues-menaces-serge-zaka-denonce-la-haine-des-climatosceptiques-28928030.html #climat #ChangementClimatique #scicomm
#Circadian #Biology has grown into an incredibly broad field, one that you can now learn the fundamentals of through a clear, concise, and expertly written book. For free.
Read it here and share it with your students and peers: https://doi.org/10.21827/68629ef93c8d0 [doi.org]
Currently cooking: Is a River Alive? Review coming soon to https://inquisitivebiologist.com
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Rivers #Hydrology #RightsOfNature #NatureWriting #EnvironmentalLaw #Scicomm
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here are my drafts drawings for the 2023 cover of DINOSAURS, HOW THEY LIVED AND SURVIVED (third edition), the official dinosaur book from the Natural History Museum, London, by Naish and Barrett.
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Pterosaurs #Reptiles #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Dinosaur #Spinosaurs #Spinosaurus #Baryonyx #Ceratosuchops #JurassicWorld #FossilFriday
Love thy enemy's enemy: why hummingbirds nest near hawks
"Hummingbird eggs and babies are a favourite snack for nest-robbing jays, so what’s a mother to do to protect her family? According to a new study, it’s best to build her nest near or under a hawk nest"
#birds #ornithology #behavior #hummingbirds #hawks https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/love-thy-enemys-enemy-why-hummingbirds
Wild Orcas Sometimes Offer To Share Their Lunch With Humans, study led by Bay Cetology, report published by Journal of Comparative Psychology
#Orca #KillerWhale #food #behavior #psychology https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/07/02/wild-orcas-sometimes-offer-to-share-their-lunch-with-humans/
#wisskomm stärken 👏
Das @KIT_Karlsruhe hat nun eine eigene Instanz hier gelauncht für die eigene #Wissenschaftskommunikation:
https://www.kit.edu/kit/202507-kit-launcht-eigene-mastodon-instanz.php
Es gibt weitere Akteure aus der #Wissenschaft, die Mastodon für ihre Kommunikation nutzen, z. B.
https://helmholtz.social/@helmholtz oder https://social.uibk.ac.at/@uniinnsbruck
‼️ Der idw bietet allen Wissenschaftskommunikator:innen ein zu Hause auf Mastodon, auf unserer Instanz: https://wisskomm.social/explore
Wir bleiben dran und wünschen allen hier viel Erfolg! #scicomm
Eine „Technik, die mich begeistert“ ist jedenfalls unser 3D-Röntgenmikroskop #GINIX @DESY, heute mal in einer anderen Ansicht zum #FotoVorschlag.
🗨️ ABL Roundtable Series 2025 — TODAY!🗨️ 🗓️ July 4th, 10:00 GMT
Coaching Early Career Scientists: Improving Scientific Communication
Join us LIVE in just a few hours! 🌐 https://youtube.com/live/4g6bv3QF_PM
Let’s talk resilience, communication & positive research culture 🗣️
Science is revealing the truth about 'dad bods' and how having a child can dramatically affect the brains and bodies of men.
#Science #Scicomm
https://gem.cbc.ca/the-nature-of-things/s64e13
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
From 2023, here's my cover art for the third edition of DINOSAURS, HOW THEY LIVED AND SURVIVED, the official dinosaur book from the Natural History Museum, London, by Naish and Barrett.
#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Spinosaurs #Spinosaurus #Baryonyx #Ceratosuchops #JurassicWorld
#PPOD: The first two images were taken by Landsat satellites on July 24, 2013, and July 25, 2019. They show the Valdecañas Reservoir in western Spain before and during a European-wide drought. The circle notes an area revealed during that drought, which contains a set of more than 100 standing granite stones, seen up close in the final picture and known as the "Dolmen of Guadalperal". Credit: NASA Earth Observatory / Lauren Dauphin / USGS; Pleonr via Wikimedia Commons
