⏳ Just 7 days to apply for the Flyway Monitoring Traineeship
Spend a month at Batumi Raptor Count, learning hands-on migration monitoring in one of the world’s largest raptor flyways.
Fully funded travel + acco. Open to conservationists in OSME region.
www.batumiraptorcount.org/flyway-monit... 🪶🦅
The new Master's programme in Ecological Forecasting at UBT and JMU Würzburg is looking to employ six lecturers and a program coordinator!
For more information, please contact Prof. Steven Higgins (www.pfloek.uni-bayreuth.de/en/team/higg...).
The Atlantic’s “conveyor belt” is slowing.
New observations from 16.5°–42.5°N show a two-decade, basin-wide decline in deep western overturning, the first robust observational evidence that the AMOC is weakening, confirming long-standing model predictions.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work*
Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!
I don't remember seeing an image of Earth before that captures the (thin, fragile, tiny layer of) atmosphere so clearly. I mean, look at that.
posting this 'ol thing again for no reason
🚨 Hiring a postdoc (2 years)!
We’re looking for someone with skills in data science, remote sensing, or computer science:
🛰️ Build next-gen nighttime light products
🦅 Link light spectra to migration & collision risk
Apply or reach out!
aeroecolab.com/opportunities
Our 2026 Flyway Monitoring Traineeship is open for applications from raptor enthusiasts living in the OSME region.
Learn all about raptor migration, identification and what it takes to run a count like the BRC, and receive up to €1300 to cover costs.
www.batumiraptorcount.org/flyway-monit... 🪶
Call for Counters!
Join BRC in Autumn 2026 to witness the magnificent migration of >1 million raptors, improve your ID skills, and contribute to population monitoring! Fees: €10-24/day with discounts available!
Read more & apply here: www.batumiraptorcount.org/volunteer-as-raptor-migration-counter
A close up image of the head of a Ring-necked Parakeet showing its bright green plumage and red bill. Wording alongside reads: Origin of the UK’s Ring-necked Parakeets finally revealed!
1/ Forget tales of escapees from the film set of The African Queen. Ignore rumours of Jimi Hendrix’s supposed liberation of a pair on Carnaby Street. Newly declassified documents from the Ministry Of Defence reveal how Ring-necked Parakeets colonised the UK through Operation Norwegian Blue! 😮 🪶
An absolutely stunning view of a large haboob sweeping across Texas.
#rstats Here's a useful guide to creating publication-ready #ggplot figures to journal specifications, which is often quite fiddly.
jaquent.github.io/2026/02/crea...
In Greenland's Scoresby Sund, a beautiful iceberg floats in front of distant mountains painted in warm light. A glorious morning, as we sailed on calm waters surrounded by crackling ice & towering mountains!
#photography #nature #landscape #bluesky #art #landscapephotography #naturephotography
I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.
I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too!
preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵
Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
Aurora Borealis, from the middle of Amsterdam. Visible with the naked eye. Truly exceptional from this light polluted part of the Netherlands. Go outside if you can! #auroraborealis #noorderlicht
I research dictatorships for a living and have spend a non-negligible amount of time reading the words of madmen like Gaddafi, Hitler, and the Kims of North Korea. Even to me this is fucking bunkers.
The ICC is under U.S. siege, the majority of Dutch journalists don’t seem te care. The new MAGA world order is here.
That was, unfortunately, no different here. Over time, fireworks had, more than anything, become a topic of identity politics. Recently, bc of extremely visible negatives (warzone scenes and attacks on first aid responders), we've reached a point where a full ban is in place from next year. Hope!
We do! And have been doing it for more than half a century already. ;-)
Thanks for sharing! Somehow I had never come across that Taylor Texas video. Shocking. That one is going into my future talks on the topic.
On the other Dutch radar it is very clear birds are fleeing away from fireworks towards quiet places like the Wadden Sea and IJsselmeer (a huge inland lake). See the patterns of reflectivity moving towards the East/ESE.
More, including GIFs of Belgian radars, here: horizon.science.uva.nl/fireworks/
Happy New Year! 🎆
As expected, sadly, the radars once again lit up with MILLIONS of birds fleeing from #fireworks.
GIF of the @knmi.nl Herwijnen radar
See other years: horizon.science.uva.nl/fireworks/
Thread and more science below 🧪🪶
A composite image of birds flying in front of fireworks, meant to depict fleeing birds.
Another NYE, another night of terror for millions of birds across the Netherlands (and around the world).
Last year we published in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Frontiers 🧪 about the massive impact of fireworks on birds 🦅.
Paper: doi.org/10.1002/fee....
Thread below 🧵👇
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
Portrait of Marina Vance, a scientist, sitting in a Colorado grassland.
The @nytimes.com Lost Science series continues. Here's my Q&A with a scientist who was studying how wildfire smoke threatens human health when the EPA decided that her research was no longer a funding priority. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jhpw14
