#Arctic climate rankings are now in for February 2025: https://zacklabe.com/archive-2025/. This was a historic month for the region with record warm conditions and record low sea ice relative to any prior February.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The third and final Severn Estuary painting (2022), this time showing the Late Devonian. "Denizens of the Beach and Copse" features a group of Elginerpeton, an Ichthyostega, fungi, slime moulds, algae, rhyniophytes, lycopsids, equisetids, & others.
I just updated my #Arctic sea-ice thickness and volume graphics for February 2025 using PIOMAS data: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-volumethickness/
This month was the 2nd lowest February volume on record.
Tomorrow night there will be a total #lunareclipse over North and South America! Lauren Sgro explains what that means and what to watch for. (Is it cloudy or raining where you are? We empathize.) More information: https://www.seti.org/total-eclipse-moon-coming-americas-night-march-13-14
#PPOD: NASA's Curiosity rover captured this image of the Sun through the dusty martian atmosphere in July 2018 while the dust storm that ended the Opportunity rover's mission was still raging. Curiosity was not affected by the decline in solar input because it is powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Thomas Appéré
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Into 2022 with a painting of the Severn Estuary during the Middle Triassic, called "The Salt Lake Severn," featuring Thecodontosaurus, cycads (Dioonitocarpidium), ferns (Thaumatopteris), and dust devils.
Planting Clues: How Plants Solve Crimes By David J. Gibson — Review
"A fascinating and compelling book that examines how to use plant science in matters related to the law in order to solve crimes."
by @grrlscientist via #Medium
#books #BookReview #plants #ForensicBotany #Crime #SciComm https://medium.com/grrlscientist/planting-clues-how-plants-solve-crimes-by-david-j-gibson-review-36c6bb098d62
Planting Clues: How Plants Solve Crimes By David J. Gibson — Review
"A fascinating and compelling book that examines how to use plant science in matters related to the law in order to solve crimes."
by @grrlscientist via #Medium
#books #BookReview #plants #ForensicBotany #Crime #SciComm https://medium.com/grrlscientist/planting-clues-how-plants-solve-crimes-by-david-j-gibson-review-36c6bb098d62
Planting Clues: How Plants Solve Crimes By David J. Gibson — Review
"A fascinating and compelling book that examines how to use plant science in matters related to the law in order to solve crimes."
by @grrlscientist via #Medium
#books #BookReview #plants #ForensicBotany #Crime #SciComm https://medium.com/grrlscientist/planting-clues-how-plants-solve-crimes-by-david-j-gibson-review-36c6bb098d62
Adam Rutherford is starting a Newsletter.
Substack Link: https://arutherford.substack.com/p/punctuated-equilibrium
Don't @ me about it being on Substack. He briefly alludes to the Nazis on the site in the post linked above.
Pet Flea Treatments Are Poisoning Wild Birds: Study out of University of Sussex, published by Science of the Total Environment
#ornithology #birds #Pets #FleaTreatments #Ecology #toxicology #pesticides #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/03/10/pet-flea-treatments-are-poisoning-wild-birds-study/
My monthly #Arctic temperature graphics have just been updated through February 2025, which was one of the most anomalous months on record for this region: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-temperatures/
New review: Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior is a concise, well-structured, and beautifully illustrated book that transcends being "merely" good popular science by also addressing professional palaeontologists.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #AnimalBehavior #Ethology #Fossils #Evolution #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Dinosaurs #Scicomm princetonupress@mastodon.social @princetonnature @serpenillus @bookstodon
Considering the recent trend toward media monopoly, I hope you won't mind me shamelessly promoting my newsletter, Brief Ecology. It's part #journalism, part #scicomm, part #political education. It's also free to read.
If you're interested in independent, ecologically-oriented writing, maybe check it out:
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Today @alexverkade presented our plan for the Dutch National Centre of Expertise on Science & Society to minister Dijkgraaf during #pcst2023. I am so excited for this to actually happen!
An English summary of our plan can be found here:
https://zenodo.org/record/7808844
Let me (re)introduce myself! My name is Ionica. I am a professor of science communication in Leiden where I study and teach #SciComm.
I moved from social to mathstodon, looking for a smaller local community (and you have the best t-shirt). I did my PhD on number theory and most of the science communication I do is still related to mathematics.
My posts will be mostly in Dutch, but work-related things will be in English (hope that is okay)!
We are #obspy, resistance is fudel.
We make code that other people use to make code to make everybody understand this piece of rock better that we all sit on.
observations are that person that operates the seismometer their own
