My #birdoftheday is a gorgeous Snowy x Little Egret I saw this past weekend. Didn't realize it wasn't a typical Snowy until someone on @inaturalist.bsky.social pointed out that it was likely a hybrid, based on plumage and lore color.
#birding #hybrid #egret
What I'm suggesting is that when you post an image that someone made for you, you include their name in the social media post so they are credited. You can also include their name in the image summary when submitting the cover art to the journal. The journal won't publish it if you don't provide it.
Don't forget to credit whoever made this image for you! There's no credit on the journal's site either.
I present, the magnificent neckbird
#birdoftheday
I just started birding in the last month and made the fatal mistake of deciding to only count birds for my life list if I have a photo. I didn't know what I was getting myself into...
A blurry photo of a bird from below
An overexposed photo of a bird from below
For comparison, here are the best pics I've got of Yellow-rumped and Pine Warblers so far.
A palm warbler sitting on a branch
A palm warbler sitting on a stick on the ground
A palm warbler sitting on a thorny vine
All of my other attempted warbler photography has so far been frustrating and fruitless, so I was elated to find a group of Palm Warblers this misty morning who were NOT hopping around the tops of trees and sat still for a second!
#birding #warblers #springmigration #birds
I grew up in California where they are hooded. When I moved out East a few years ago and saw the Juncos here I thought maybe I was calling the wrong bird a Junco my whole life. But no, they're all Juncos!
I just uploaded my 1000th observation on @inaturalist.bsky.social and am approaching ten years since my first! Since then, I've lived in 5 different states. Much has changed, but one constant is my love for connecting with my environment through learning about the life I share it with. #inaturalist
Today's #birdoftheday is this Bohemian Waxwing I saw yesterday! After hearing a few small groups in the neighborhood throughout the week, a photo or even a good look at one still eluded me. Then I came across this lone fellow on a trail, separated from his flock. New #lifer for me!
#birding #birds
While successes and public opinions have varied, the significance of plant engineering efforts in recent decades are undeniable. I've illustrated three notable examples here for HudsonAlpha: Rainbow papayas, golden rice, and Bt corn
#biotech #illustration #sciart #engineering #editorial
Suns out, birds out.
Finally got some bird feeders and ready to work while I bird.
Just kidding I got almost no work done. But I did see a lot of chickadees!
#birdoftheday #birding
“This back and forth of federal protection for a clearly imperiled species whose conservation status is very much in doubt is shameful, and it is not how the Endangered Species Act is supposed to work,” said Jason Rylander, senior attorney for the Center.
This will be my first year consciously birding and I am still learning a lot. This is SO helpful!!
I just hit Follow All! Failure to credit the work of any human creation on the internet is a scourge, and more important than ever as we enter the Slopocene.
An illustration depicting the process of plant gene editing, beginning with a gene gun shooting nanoparticles, and agrobacterium microbes both entering a microscope image of a plant cell, followed by small plantlets on a petri dish, and finally a fully grown miscanthus grass plant.
Unlike microbes that easily take up DNA, engineering plants requires first getting through their cell walls. Gene guns literally shoot plant tissue with nanoparticles covered in DNA, and Agrobacterium, a plant pathogen, acts as a trojan horse to the sneak DNA inside. For HudsonAlpha #plants #science
A mockingbird sitting on a tree branch with light blue sky behind it
Met this Northern Mockingbird yesterday. After his lady friend flew off, he noticed my dog and I hanging around. He moved to a branch where we could see him and put on a lovely mimic show just for us! It was so quiet, I don't think anyone else was meant to hear it.
#birding #maine #birdoftheday
A medium dark-skinned hand holds a pencil and writes in letters of the genetic code into a book, representing how genetic technologies can be used to rewrite plant genes. Plants are in the background.
Rewriting the genetic code of plants to help solve big agricultural problems.
An illustration for the #HudsonAlpha Institute for the Everyday DNA blog.
#editorial #illustration #scientificillustration #genetics
Illustration showing the comparison between plant growth and butterfly metamorphosis. A butterfly crysalis on the far left becomes a butterfly in the upper middle, while a corn shoot in the left middle grows to be a corn cob on the far right, all against a minimal blue sky and brown earth background.
Made some illustrations for the #HudsonAlpha Institute for their blog Everyday DNA. Title image for March focusing on the theme of "Molecular Metamorphosis". The post discusses plant gene editing and the work that HudsonAlpha does using these technologies.
#editorial #illustration #biotechnology
The entire concept of masculinizing and feminizing certain modes of thinking or knowledge is what she's pushing back on. It's gatekeeping certain behaviors for everyone and reinforcing a gender binary. Men can be spiritual and women can be shapers and analysts and it in no way affects their genders
As idiotic as RFK and the Tylenol take is, I'm inclined to question claims that circumcision leads to absolutely no downstream mental health effects. Didn't we only recently dispel the myth that babies don't feel pain?! I'm curious to know what the literature more broadly concludes here.
This only reads as sexist. Shoes have no impact on the content of character or political views. There are hundreds of better comparisons to make about how lame Collins is, but don't bring her gender into it.
Wonderful, I've already got plenty of that laying around! Thanks for sharing.
The more she wants a taste of something, the longer she gets.
#sploot #dogsofbluesky
What's your favorite paper for Copics? I assume the smooth blends and crisp lines are mostly skill/expertise, but paper has to make a difference right?
Yes
Yes
It's almost as if human phenotypic diversity is explained by genetic diversity 🤔
