📢CALL FOR COLLABORATION📢
My PhD student Warre is looking for flies infected with #Laboulbeniales fungi. Especially Musca domestica!
If you have any, store in 96% ethanol or in the freezer, record on @inaturalist.bsky.social, and/or contact Warre.
#TeamLaboul #LFEE #LuminaQuaeruntur
@rwell.org has begun something like this at observ.ing, though one goal is to get in line with existing (non-atproto) biodiversity schemas. Were you thinking of using one of the existing attestation lexicons instead?
Best one yet!
Looking forward to watching this when the recordings are up!
Anthropocene strata of Oakland. Makes me wonder, what's the deepest core you could drill through a road and have all strata still be road?
observ.ing now has automated species suggestions based on photos thanks to @rwell.org and huggingface.co/imageomics/b.... Just a list of scientific names for now, but so cool!
Maybe a stupid #atproto newbie question, but are lexicons ever versioned (e.g. blog.lexicons.v1.post or something) and are there examples of tools for migrating between major versions of the same lexicon, or tools for migrating between similar lexicons (e.g. from one blog post lexicon to another)?
Might be a while before actual iNat data gets on atproto, but @rwell.org is exploring at least one alternative at observ.ing (I'm helping out a bit).
Really enjoying the #atscience talks at #atmosphereconf today. Learning about so many projects!
Yup, though I honestly don't remember from where, but somewhere in the East Bay.
Also time to re-watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzlM...
Listening to music I copied off my 2005 iPod to my 2011 Macbook running a 2025 version of Ubuntu using a 2019 version of Rhythmbox by streaming to my 2025 Macbook via a 2026 version of Jellyfin. What a world.
Cabinet / drawer, closet / shelf, room / desk, cabin / seat, cabin / bin, rookery / nest...
Bonus: there's a spring back there.
Plant with white flowers growing with orange poppies.
Now it has friends.
Lily-like plant with white flowers in a backyard garden
Second year blooming after 5 years of waiting on this death camas. Gardening with California native plants definitely gives me a new appreciation for the difference in time that goes into equally beautiful flowers. Perennials are playing long, long game, at least from my blinkered human perspective.
And since it's relevant to distributed iNat ideas and #atproto nerds, special shout out to observ.ing by @rwell.org , the beginning of an effort to make something like a distributed iNat.
I know I've been pretty quiet for the last month and I should probably post about what *I've* been working on, but first, check out these other cool projects I learned about recently! www.patreon.com/posts/other-...
Interesting stuff. In your example, the full location doesn't live on the author's PDS, though, does it? It seems like it lives at locations.dayton-pokemon.club, or at least that service is in control of the full location, wherever it's stored. Doesn't that break portability?
Lightning and thunder over Oakland *while I'm awake*?! Long have I waited...
Just updated to v1.18.7b of @zen-browser.app and my pinned tabs are gone and I can't pin new ones. Back to Firefox I guess.
COYOTE's featured alongside a handful of our fellow worker-owned outlets in @niemanlab.org today, talking about the reality of doing democratically managed journalism. Summary: It's a lot of fucking meetings! www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/jour...
Of course, though I did not sample all of the estalishment's other drinks to verify his claim.
"The best drink they serve here," said a man named Walter Riley, "is the Walter Riley."
"What's in it?" I asked.
"You'll have to ask."
That man was Boots Riley's dad.
Agree that any part of Saguaro is great. Sabino Canyon is cool and close to town. For Sky Islands, the drive up to Mt. Lemmon is fantastic, East Butterfly Tr up there is great, and if you can get out of town the loops from Madera Canyon are wonderful.
Several weird flowers that look like saxophones from the Upside Down in Stranger Things
My California pipevine really snuck up on me this year.
I haven't noticed anything like that, but FWIW, I find bsky.app/profile/skyf... very useful. Supporting independent feed algorithms is one of my favorite things about Bluesky... even if this is the only one I use.
Hah, that would help, right? Fixed.
