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Alarming Report Finds US Bird Populations Are Still Crashing

"About one-third of all American bird species are of high or moderate conservation concern due to low populations, declining population trends, or other threats."

by @grrlscientist

#ornithology #birds #birding #StateOfTheBirds #endangered #conservation #ClimateCrisis #SciComm forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist

Alarming Report Finds US Bird Populations Are Still Crashing

"About one-third of all American bird species are of high or moderate conservation concern due to low populations, declining population trends, or other threats."

by @GrrlScientist

#ornithology #birds #birding #StateOfTheBirds #endangered #conservation #ClimateCrisis #SciComm forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Some zooms into my "Denizens of the Beach and Copse" painting (2022), showing the Severn Estuary in the Late Devonian. Featured are a group of Elginerpeton, an Ichthyostega, fungi, slime moulds, algae, rhyniophytes, zosterophylls, lycopsids, & equisetids.

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The third and final Severn Estuary painting (2022), this time showing the Late Devonian. "Denizens of the Beach and Copse" features a group of Elginerpeton, an Ichthyostega, fungi, slime moulds, algae, rhyniophytes, lycopsids, equisetids, & others.

#notjustaliens

Jeffrey Smith began his academic passion in the field of Accelerator Physics, building a cyclotron - a small particle accelerator - as an undergraduate.

After turning his attention to the stars, he is centrally involved in a project to develop an automated pipeline to identify bolides (exploding meteors) in weather satellite data.

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Thanks for your feedback on the kinds of ORCID records you'd like to follow! It may influence how Encyclia will try to help you find them.

For the next question, let us flip it around: how do you feel about your own ORCID record being potentially available to follow on the fediverse in the future?

We put some work into the question of what privacy protections may be needed and whether an opt-out model is justified: encyclia.pub/optin-optout-anal

Encyclia – Bridging ORCID into the Fediverse
Encyclia.pubOpt-in vs. opt-out impact analysis – Encyclia.pubAn in-depth examination of the question whether Encyclia's ORCID bridge should be opt-in or opt-out

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's a second painting of the Severn Estuary, this time during the Early Carboniferous. Called "Primeval Clevedon Bay," it features fish, crinoids, othrocones, corals, gastropods, and brachiopods. This painting was the first winner of the Marsh Palaeoart Award.

#PPOD: NASA's Curiosity rover captured this image of the Sun through the dusty martian atmosphere in July 2018 while the dust storm that ended the Opportunity rover's mission was still raging. Curiosity was not affected by the decline in solar input because it is powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Thomas Appéré

#PPOD: Mars’ moons trade places in the sky! ESA released these images from its Mars Express orbiter a few months ago. They capture Mars' potato-shaped moons, Phobos and Deimos, as Phobos crosses in front of (or occults) Deimos. Two different versions are included: one where Deimos holds still and one where Phobos does. The real time of the frames is about one minute and nine seconds. Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin / @andrealuck