Where Did Yellowstone’s Black Wolves Come From?
"Black wolves are either absent or very rare in most parts of their range, but are mysteriously common in some parts of North America"
#wolf #color #genetics #CanineDistemperVirus #MateChoice #Evolution #Behavior #Yellowstone https://grrlscientist.medium.com/where-did-yellowstones-black-wolves-come-from-a21008634f54
This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- A second-hand copy of The Desert Bones: The #Paleontology and Paleoecology of Mid-Cretaceous North Africa by Jamale Ijouiher from Indiana University Press
- The just-published H. P. #Lovecraft Collected Fiction Volume 3, the final of three annotated collections by S. T. Joshi from Chiroptera Press
- Following on from my review of Lechuguilla Cave, I found the earlier photographic book Lechuguilla: Jewel of the Underground by Urs Widmer from Speleo Projects for a very reasonable price on eBay.
#Dinosaurs #Palaeontology #Horror #WeirdFiction #Caves #Speleology #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon
It's #SciAnts News Friday! New species, plant technologies, CRISPR and STEM cells, yeast factories, and more! Come join the #scicomm fun! 9pm EST #twitch #TwitchPartner #live #livestream #stem #science #twitchambassador #twitchtv twitch.tv/sciants_stre...
To celebrate the release of #metroidprime4, we are talking Metroid science all week! Today's subject: Tallon 4 Phazon create environmental disasters. This mimics things like microplastics, and oil spills in the real world. #scicomm #stem #MetroidPrime4Beyond #metroid
Considerato che prestigiosi scienziati e autorevoli divulgatori gettavano discredito sull'OMS i giorni dispari, dicendo che approvava senza dati vaccini cinesi da non usare nemmeno da morti, mentre i dati c'erano e i vaccini servivano di più da vivi, quale sarebbe il motivo che nei giorni pari dovrebbe spingere i non addetti ai lavori, a cominciare dalla signora Maddalena, a rispettare questa autorevole e bistrattata istituzione? #Burioni #Scicomm
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What were the #SciAnts game of the year? Two for us! First was @teamcherrygames.com@bsky.brid.gy incredible #Silksong! From the point of view of an insect geneticist, this was perfection. Point of view as a life long gamer? Perfection! Enjoy Antonia the ant as hornet! #GameOfTheYear #scicomm
Our second game of the year was @supergiantgames.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy Hades II--the powerful story of Melinoe was captivating, and the botanical science was spot on! This is probably one of the hardest games to make, and you crushed it! Enjoy Antonia the ant as Melinoe! #GameOfTheYear #scicomm
To celebrate the release of #metroidprime4, we are talking Metroid science all week! Today's subject: The Luminoth and the Ing: These organisms are both parasites, but different types. How does this even relate to the real world? #scicomm #stem #MetroidPrime4Beyond #metroid
#Arctic climate rankings are in for November 2025: https://zacklabe.com/archive-2025/. A historic boreal fall for sea ice conditions (and not in a good way).
Last night’s visit to Estudillo Elementary School in San Jacinto marked our 40th and final trip in 2025 for Max’s Mobile Museum #M3! After a few weeks off for repairs and updates, #M3 will be back in action in January. #museum #Education #scicomm #paleontology #palaeontology
Where Did Yellowstone’s Black Wolves Come From?
"Black wolves are either absent or very rare in most parts of their range, but are mysteriously common in some parts of North America"
#wolf #color #genetics #CanineDistemperVirus #MateChoice #Evolution #Behavior #Yellowstone https://grrlscientist.medium.com/where-did-yellowstones-black-wolves-come-from-a21008634f54
And tomorrow I'm writing a photo reportage for my blog/newsletter. Hot story: I was on an expedition to a distant planet. Hiking there was quite tough!
If you don't want to miss my posts: https://steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/posts
#NatureMatchCuts #nature #wildlife #blog #newsletter #ReconnectWithNature #natureWriting #biodiversity #space #sciComm
New blog post!
So how does a snail that is limited to fresh water habitats spread across an entire continent, before people were around to carry them?
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#FossilFriday #paleontology #palaeontology #snail #malacology #museum #scicomm
https://life-from-a-certain-point-of-view.ghost.io/snails-on-the-wing/
🌎'There is always drama, but every COP does produce results.'
Prof. of #Energy Systems Analysis at the UG and Director of #Science and #Technology at #TNO André Faaij returned from the climate conference in Brazil with optimism.
'Eighty countries have committed to phasing out fossil fuels.' ⛽
Curious? Read more 👇
🔗 https://www.rug.nl/fse/news/climate-and-nature/university-of-groningen-professor-at-cop30-there-is-always-drama
🧪 #SciComm #COP30 #environmental #research #environmentalscience #scientistsOnMastodon @universityofgroningen
Day 12 of the advent calendar brings the 13th most viewed post of the year. Unlucky for some. Definitely for featured fish. I used to have some in my aquarium when I made this. RIP 😞
https://matildaslab.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/neon-tetra-fact-sheet/
#scicomm #adventcalendar
My cover for current Cell journal
"A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult Aedes aegypti mosquito"
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)01137-7
#sciArt #sciComm #illustration #mosquito #mosaic #cells #atlas
Where Did Yellowstone’s Black Wolves Come From?
"Black wolves are either absent or very rare in most parts of their range, but are mysteriously common in some parts of North America"
#wolf #color #genetics #CanineDistemperVirus #MateChoice #Evolution #Behavior #Yellowstone https://grrlscientist.medium.com/where-did-yellowstones-black-wolves-come-from-a21008634f54
(1/2) Sci_Burst has seen major growth this year thanks to all you lovely listeners/watchers - and that’s just our Spotify stats!!!
It’s been a big year for us and our 2026 plans are already looking equally exciting 💃🪩 Over the last 12 months we have grown into something more than a podcast: a broader next-gen #scicomm project bringing science and critical thinking to people through your favourite popular culture & entertainment and via various engagement channels 💖💖 More on that soon hehe… 👀😉
@khinsen Thanks for your encouragement! Whereas I'd at first thought of Maslow's hierarchy as just a basic pattern to follow, I now think there may be a kind of 'isomorphism' here:
Physiologic Needs: any part of the analytic pipeline (from data to results) that isn't fully scripted à la #reproducibleresearch is effectively DEAD.
Safety Needs: scripts not under source control, unstructured analysis data sets (spreadsheets≈crime), and indeed all unnecessarily imperative pipeline elements (e.g., shell scripts instead of makefiles) create an UNSTABLE and UNSAFE environment for analytic work. (Where applicable, safeguarding sensitive data also belongs in this tier.)
Love & Belonging: code reviews, documentation [incl. tests, pace Dijkstra], preregistration, conference presentations, preprints, and peer review at all stages of the work; using and crediting community-contributed software.
Esteem: contributing reusable code, bug reports, bug fixes, etc. to a community of scientific software users; contributing thoroughly reproducible and criticizable analyses in peer review.
Self-Actualization: At this stage, the values achieved have to be one's own, I think. Examples might be achieving technical transcendence by doing the whole project in #CommonLisp, #Guix or (for me) ISO #Prolog 🧘, or formally proving correctness of algorithms. Another example would be that others extend & improve upon your work. Finally, #scicomm could be regarded as a true pinnacle.
Where Did Yellowstone’s Black Wolves Come From?
"Black wolves are either absent or very rare in most parts of their range, but are mysteriously common in some parts of North America"
#wolf #color #genetics #CanineDistemperVirus #MateChoice #Evolution #Behavior #Yellowstone https://grrlscientist.medium.com/where-did-yellowstones-black-wolves-come-from-a21008634f54
