Why Do We Love Some Animals But Kill Or Eat Others?

by @grrlscientist via @ForbesScience / @forbes

#animals #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights #ethics #psychology #Anthrozoology #SciComm #science https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2022/12/17/why-do-we-love-some-animals-but-kill-or-eat-others/

Captive Bred Animals Have Reduced Survival In The Wild, by a team at @ANUmedia, published by Biological Reviews

by @grrlscientist via @forbes / @ForbesScience

#endangered #conservation #captive #SciComm #science https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2022/12/14/captive-bred-animals-have-reduced-survival-in-the-wild/

Angry Birds: Rural Robins Get ‘Road Rage’ When Exposed To Traffic Noise, a study out of @AngliaRuskin Uni & @kocuniversity pub'd by Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology

by @grrlscientist via @forbes / @ForbesScience

#ornithology #behavior #ecology #noise #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2022/12/12/angry-birds-rural-robins-get-road-rage-when-exposed-to-traffic-noise/

somebody wants a spray-bath!

(this is aegon, a 5yo male solomon islands eclectus)

#parrots #birds #pets

What Does Polly Say? Species Differences In Vocal Learning By Parrots Revealed By Citizen Scientists, study by @PittJohnstown & @UNC_Colorado published by @SciReports

by @grrlscientist via @forbes / @ForbesScience

#parrots #Vocal #learning #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2022/12/07/what-does-polly-say-species-differences-in-vocal-learning-by-parrots-revealed-by-citizen-scientists/

hm. i did a thing this year

Properly Feeding Your Microbiome Can Make You Healthier

by @grrlscientist via @forbes / @ForbesScience

#health #Food #microbiome https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2022/12/05/properly-feeding-your-microbiome-can-make-you-healthier/

just started reading Horse: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks, published by @VikingBooksUK. a fascinating & exquisitely beautiful novel based on real people, real #racehorses & horse #art. Won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize

#MustRead #books #horses #history https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/535715/horse-by-geraldine-brooks/

Different: What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender By Frans De Waal — Review, #book published by @GrantaBooks

#BookReview by @grrlscientist via @forbes / @ForbesScience

#books #Apes #gender #culture #social #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2022/11/30/different-what-apes-can-teach-us-about-gender-by-frans-de-waal---review/

congratulations to my friend, henry gee: last night, he WON the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2022 with his wonderful #MustRead book, A (Very) Short History Of Life On Earth

#books
my #review: https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2022/11/24/a-very-short-history-of-life-on-earth-by-henry-gee---review/
awards ceremony #video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6peNBZOCxI

Age Proof: The New Science Of Living A Longer And Healthier Life By Rose Anne Kenny — Review, #book published by @BonnierBooks_UK

#BookReview by @grrlscientist via @forbes /@ForbesScience

#books #health #aging #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2022/11/29/age-proof-the-new-science-of-living-a-longer-and-healthier-life-by-rose-anne-kenny---review/

Chasing Plants: Journeys With A Botanist Through Rainforests, Swamps, And Mountains By Chris Thorogood — Review, book published by @UChicagoPress

Book Review by @grrlscientist via @forbes / @ForbesScience

#botany #plants #travelogue #science #art #SciCom #books #BookReview https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2022/11/28/chasing-plants-journeys-with-a-botanist-through-rainforests-swamps-and-mountains-by-chris-thorogood---review/

Fifth Sun: A New History Of The Aztecs By Camilla Townsend — Review, published by @OUPHistory / @OUPAcademic, winner @CundillPrize 2020

#BookReview by @grrlscientist via @forbes / @ForbesScience

#books #History #IndigenousPeoples https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2022/11/27/fifth-sun-a-new-history-of-the-aztecs-by-camilla-townsend---review/

A (Very) Short History Of Life On Earth By Henry Gee — Review, published by @PanMacmillan / @PicadorBooks shortlisted by @RSocPublishing #science #book prize

#BookReview by @grrlscientist via @ForbesScience / @forbes

#evolution #books #review #nonfiction #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2022/11/24/a-very-short-history-of-life-on-earth-by-henry-gee---review/

OMG! look what literally JUST ARRIVED: Imagining the Heartland: White Supremacy and the American Midwest
by Britt E. Halvorson & Joshua O. Reno, thanks to Emily & @UCPress

VERY excited to read this #book! #MustRead #books #history #white #supremacy

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520387614/imagining-the-heartland

hopefully no one at the mothership will scream at me for this topic choice!

Why Do Some Poops Float Whilst Others Sink? about a recent @SciReports study

by @grrlscientist via @ForbesScience / @forbes

#microbiology #microbiome #Health #Food #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2022/11/19/why-do-some-poops-float-whilst-others-sink/

WOW! look what arrived last night: a surprisingly slim book that summarises what's known about this topic: Male Choice, Female Competition, and Female Ornaments in Sexual Selection by Ingo Schlupp published by @OUPAcademic

#books #evolution https://global.oup.com/academic/product/male-choice-female-competition-and-female-ornaments-in-sexual-selection-9780198818946

(shared from my twitter account, @grrlscientist, because i love looking at this gorgeous cockatoo & wanted to share with you)

Few Oz birds are more iconic than Pink Cockatoos, but these incredible nomads of the semi-arid zone are declining. Conservation efforts are underway, including chainsaw cut nesting hollows in Vic (by @ParksVictoria and
@DELWP_Vic). God speed! Photo Credit: Jan Wegener

(shared from my twitter account, @grrlscientist)

profoundly moving #MustWatch look at the Arecibo observatory & the critically endangered puerto rican parrot

The search for life beyond Earth is peculiar, from a parrot’s perspective

via @AeonMag_Psyche films (17min #video)

based on SciFi novelette "The Great Silence" by Ted Chiang, originally published in e-flux Journal in May 2015.

#parrots #extinction
https://psyche.co/films/the-search-for-life-beyond-earth-is-peculiar-from-a-parrots-perspective

oh this is kinda fun: my plastic-filled seabirds piece is listed on the @ForbesScience index page

#birds #ornithology #PlasticPollution #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2022/11/15/plastic-filled-seabirds-and-fish-found-in-monterey-bay/