Electric Eels’ Shocking Ability To Alter The Genetics Of Nearby Animals | out of Nagoya University published by PeerJ

by @grrlscientist

#ElectricEels #evolution #ecology #genetics #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/12/06/electric-eels-shocking-ability-to-alter-the-genetics-of-nearby-animals/

hey everyone, look what just arrived: How to Care about Animals: An Ancient Guide to Creatures Great and Small, thanks to carmen the amazing & the good peeps at PrincetonUniversityPress

#books #philosophy #AnimalRights #vegan https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691240435/how-to-care-about-animals

wow! i did a thing this year! (i didn't do as well as last year, when i was in the top 1% of learners, alas ... )

#LanguageLearning #Duolingo2023

now reading The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh, thanks to celsie the magnificent & the good people at the University of Chicago Press

it's beautifully written & gently pulls the reader into a fascinating story

#books #amReading https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo125517349.html

How Dinosaurs May Have Influenced Human Aging | out of University of Birmingham, published by BioEssays

by @grrlscientist

#dinosaurs🦖 #aging #cancer #evolution #genetics #ecology #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/11/30/how-dinosaurs-may-have-influenced-human-aging/

Like People, European Parrots Do Have Their Own Regional Dialects | out of Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published by Behavioral Ecology

by @grrlscientist

#parrots #learning #culture #SciComm  https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/11/29/like-people-european-parrots-do-have-their-own-regional-dialects/

wheeee! i did a thing today

#language #learning #duolingo

just started reading this huge doorstop of a book: The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe by James Belich (2022, PrincetonUniversityPress)

#AmReading #books📚 #History🏰 #Pandemic #nonfiction #NonfictionNovember https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691215662/the-world-the-plague-made

Endangered Parrots Threatened By Deforestation And Climate Change | SanDiegoZooWildlifeAlliance & Organización Vida Silvestre AC | Global Ecology & Conservation

by @grrlscientist via ForbesScience / Forbes

#SciComm🧪 #parrots🦜 #ornithology #conservation #endangered #ClimateCrisis

https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/11/14/endangered-parrots-threatened-by-deforestation-and-climate-change/

“Vaccinations are important, but they cannot deal with many of the newly emerging serotypes early enough to be effective on their own.”

Willow Bark Extract May Cure What Ails You | out of University of Jyväskylä, published by Frontiers in Microbiology

by @grrlscientist

#SciComm #antiviral #WillowBarkTea #EmergingViruses #Health https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/11/10/willow-bark-extract-may-cure-what-ails-you/

Animal-To-Human Diseases Could Kill 12 Times More People By 2050 | Ginkgo Bioworks, published by GlobalHealthBMJ BMJ_latest

by @grrlscientist

#pandemics #epidemics #zoonotic #spillover #Virus #GlobalHealth #ClimateCrisis #deforestation https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/11/07/animal-to-human-diseases-could-kill-12-times-more-people-by-2050/

Wasabi Boosts Short- And Long-Term Memory In Older People | Nutrients_MDPI

by @grrlscientist

#Japan #food #wasabi #cognition #memory #OlderAdults https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/11/06/wasabi-boosts-shortand-long-term-memory-in-older-people/

Study: Mainstream Media Undermines Conservation By Promoting Fear Of Bats | out of HELSINKISUS & UABBarcelona, published by EcoHealth

by @grrlscientist

#SciComm #bats #conservation #newsmedia #disease #agriculture #insects #Halloween https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/10/31/mainstream-media-undermines-conservation-by-promoting-fear-of-bats/

Delisting species due to extinction is a ‘‘wake-up call on the importance of conserving imperiled species before it’s too late’’

21 Species Removed From The Endangered Species Act Due To Extinction | USFWS CenterForBiologicalDiversity

by @grrlscientist

#SciComm #ESA #EndangeredSpecies #extinction #biodiversity #ClimateCrisis https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/10/17/twenty-one-species-removed-from-the-endangered-species-act-due-to-extinction/

Giant Caribbean Mountain Chicken Frog On The Brink Of Extinction | ZSLScience ReWildCaribbean WildDominique

by @grrlscientist via ForbesScience / Forbes

#SciComm #frogs #amphibians #conservation #EndangeredSpecies #extinction #WildlifeDiseases https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/10/16/giant-caribbean-mountain-chicken-frog-on-the-brink-of-extinction/

Parrots Mimic Sounds, Yet They Still Recognize Each Other’s Voices — How? | Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior & MuseuCiencies published by RoyalSocietyPublishing Open Science

by @grrlscientist via ForbesScience / Forbes

#SciComm #Parrots #acoustic #ecology https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/10/14/parrots-mimic-sounds-yet-they-still-recognize-each-others-voices---how/

just started #reading The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown by Adam Welz, published by BloomsburyBooks

it has parrots in it!

my #review is coming

#MustRead #books https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/end-of-eden-9781399415873/

finished reading my previous book (all 1011 pages of it!) after numerous lengthy interruptions. #amreading the three body problem by cixin liu, translated by ken liu & published by Head of Zeus Books (2014)

1st of a series, being made into a #scifi series now by netflix #books #scifibooks

Discovering Life’s Story: Biology’s Beginnings By Joy Hakim -- #Review | MITeen Press

#BookReview by @grrlscientist via Forbes Science / Forbes

#nonfiction #science #books #teens #Biology #medicine #HistoryOfScience https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/10/02/discovering-lifes-story-biologys-beginnings-by-joy-hakim--review/

what happens in your brain when you change your mind?

The Neurobiology Of Changing Priorities In A Songbird | study out of Columbia & Cornell | published by Nature

by @grrlscientist via Forbes Science / Forbes

#SciComm #birds #neurobiology #dopamine #learning #motivation #memory https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/09/29/the-neurobiology-of-changing-priorities-in-a-songbird/