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/

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