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/

Wild Blue-Throated Macaws Slowly Returning From The Brink Of Extinction

by @grrlscientist via @forbes / @ForbesScience

#parrots #conservation #SciComm #science https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2022/11/17/wild-blue-throated-macaws-slowly-returning-from-the-brink-of-extinction/

not the best title, but here you go:

Plastic-Filled Seabirds And Fish Found In Monterey Bay, and what might this mean for estrogenic pollution, a @UCSCscience study published by Environmental Pollution

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

Ancient Parrot Bone Unearthed In New Mexico Is From Lost American Parrot, a study out of @UTAustin published by The Wilson Journal of Ornithology (@WilsonOrnithSoc)

by @grrlscientist via @forbes / @ForbesScience

#Parrots #ornithology #EndangeredSpecies #conservation #Archaeology #SciComm #science https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2022/11/13/ancient-parrot-bone-unearthed-in-new-mexico-is-from-lost-american-parrot/

another of my parrots, a photo i snapped on 30 May 2016

(Shared from @[email protected])

Freyja, one of my Solomon Islands Eclectus parrots (Eclectus roratus solomonensis), eating fresh corn on the cob

#Parrots #birds #pets

i live with one of these guys now, and i used to breed them too (shared from @[email protected])

Red-fan Parrot (Deroptyus accipitrinus), AKA Hawk-headed Parrot, lives in undisturbed Amazon rainforest, feeding on fruits in the canopy. Monotypic. Males & females look alike. Elongated neck feathers can be raised to form a fan when excited. (Jonathan Wilkins CC-BY-SA 3.0)

#Parrots #ornithology

Hot Air: The Inside Story Of The Battle Against Climate Change Denial By Peter Stott — Review

published by @AtlanticBooks, #BookReview by @grrlscientist via @ForbesScience / @forbes

#books #ClimateCrisis #COP27 #climate #science #SciComm #ClimateAction https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2022/11/11/hot-air-the-inside-story-of-the-battle-against-climate-change-denial-by-peter-stott---review/

(shared from my twitter account, @grrlscientist)

WOW! microvasculature of pigeon head taken with computed tomography by Scott Echols DVM

#birds #ornithology #photography
#birds #ornithology #photography #anatomy

(shared from my twitter account, @grrlscientist)

3D reconstruction of the vascular system of the head and neck of an African Grey Parrot by Scott Birch & Scott Echols DVM

#Parrots #birds #ornithology #anatomy #photography

RT from my @[email protected] account

omg, too fun! if you or i dug a tunnel straight through the earth, where would we pop up? now we can find out!

"The antipodes of any place on the Earth is the point on the Earth's surface which is diametrically opposite to it"

#Earth #mapping #maps #antipodes https://antipodesmap.com

sharing from @[email protected] account because i love looking at it!

SPECTACULAR Bohemian waxwing photo!

by @ColytonWildlife / Tim White

"Cloudy background makes this look like a painting"

#birds #photography #wildlife #birding #birdwatching https://timwhitewildlife.blogspot.com/2017/02/waxwings-posing-beautifully.html

(shared from twitter)

short & fascinating read: women ask fewer questions in seminars when a man asks the FIRST question, but when a woman asks first, men & women then ask equal number of questions

via @theEconomist

#Equality #women #STEM #seminar https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2017/12/07/women-ask-fewer-questions-than-men-at-seminars

The beautiful & wonderfully intricate foot of a male diving beetle, Acilius sulcatus.

Image: Igor Siwanowicz

#photography #nature #beetle

Counting Wolves Across Washington State, featuring a beautiful #video by @bioGraphic about work by @WDFW

by @grrlscientist via @ForbesScience / @forbes

#EndangeredSpecies #wolf #wildlife #conservation #technology #Washington #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2022/10/31/counting-wolves-across-washington-state/

Why Are There So Many Black Wolves In Yellowstone? a fascinating study from @UniofOxford @COParksWildlife @Penn_State University of Montpellier, pub'd by @ScienceMagazine

by @grrlscientist via @forbes / @ForbesScience

#disease #ecology #evolution #scicomm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2022/10/29/why-are-there-so-many-black-wolves-in-yellowstone/

The Accidental Ecosystem By Peter S. Alagona — Review | #book published by @UCPress, #bookreview by @grrlscientist via @forbes / @ForbesScience

#books #ecology #environment #cities #UrbanEcology #wildlife #nonFiction #GiftIdeas https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2022/10/24/the-accidental-ecosystem-by-peter-s-alagona---review/