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Wild and remote west coast of Mayo...

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I think this might be a young third year Heerman's Gull.

I added 9 birds to my life list after one visit to Baylands Park on my trip to Mountain View for #SciFoo, including American Avocets and black-necked Stilts. No good photos of them bc no SLR but here's some pelicans.

Do male leading authors retract more articles than female leading authors? Scientific retractions reflect issues within the scientific record, arising from human error or misconduct. Although gender differences in retraction …

Thought it was supposed to be women who are ruining science 🤨

“male first authors have higher retraction rates, particularly for scientific misconduct such as plagiarism, authorship disputes, ethical issues, duplication, and fabrication/falsification”

Celebrating with my first ever Gaja! Worth the money and the wait!!

Chimpanzees and children are curious about social interactions | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Curiosity is adaptive, enhances learning, and reduces uncertainty. Social curiosity is defined as the motivation to gain information about the actions, relationships, and psychology of others. Little is known about the developmental and evolutionary roots ...

"Chimpanzees and children preferred to watch videos of social interactions compared with videos of a single conspecific, and young children and male chimpanzees even paid a material cost to gain social information" royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

The consequences of the attack on S&T is clear. NSF cuts are the most impactful bc we are the major funder for discovery science in the US. Social sciences are the most at risk and the most critical bc you can't advance anything without knowing people.

In other news, my BlueSky is now in Finnish and I don't know why...

Just got my hotel reservation for #SciFoo at #GoogleX. Can't wait for July 18. By coincidence coincidence, it will also be my first day post NSF with no job on the horizon. Looking for research analytics job tips!

On a more positive note, the red-winged blackbirds are back at my favorite birding spot. I heard blue teals peeping and spotted a handsome Northern Pintail with some lovely lady friends.

The guy who plays golf during work hours, remote works, and outsourced his work to a tech bro claims: “Nobody is gonna work from home,” Trump said Monday. “They are gonna be going out, they’re gonna play tennis, they’re gonna play golf, they’re gonna do a lot of things. They’re not working.”

Pintails Thursday morning. Consider a weekend gliding through food.

Hello Bluesky. My favorite woodpecker from Friday morning's walk in the woods.