Targeted Conservation Efforts Help Restore Crashing Biodiversity | review out of Cambridge University, IUCN Red List, BirdLife International, Durham University, Oxford University, pub'd by PLOS Biology
#endangered #animals #biodiversity #conservation #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/03/27/targeted-conservation-efforts-help-restore-crashing-biodiversity/
This week's #NewBooks at the library: Some second-hand treasures - The Great #Comet Crash: The Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and #Jupiter from Cambridge UP, and two books from Rutgers UP: Upheaval from the Abyss: #Ocean Floor Mapping and the Earth Science Revolution (sans dust jacket), and Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant #Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Astronomy #Oceanograph #Geology #EarthSciences #EnvironmentalHistory #History @bookstodon
https://www.seti.org/exploring-hd-20794-d-super-earth-laboratory-habitability
The confirmed discovery of exoplanets revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Among the thousands of confirmed exoplanets, HD 20794 d in particular, recently attracted attention for a unique characteristic – an eccentric orbit that moves in and out of the parent star’s habitable zone. Astronomers are studying this planet to gain insights into habitability beyond Earth.
A draft comic I'm working on with colleagues. The idea is to create a simple message about a different way to think of success, with an environmental theme. #SciComm
#PPOD: This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope image features a rare cosmic phenomenon called an Einstein ring. What at first appears to be a single, strangely shaped galaxy is actually two galaxies that are separated by a large distance. The closer foreground galaxy sits at the center of the image, while the more distant background galaxy appears to be wrapped around the closer galaxy, forming a ring. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Mahler
Targeted Conservation Efforts Help Restore Crashing Biodiversity | review out of Cambridge University, IUCN Red List, BirdLife International, Durham University, Oxford University, pub'd by PLOS Biology
#endangered #animals #biodiversity #conservation #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/03/27/targeted-conservation-efforts-help-restore-crashing-biodiversity/
What The Flock? Birds Perform Intricate Aerial Ballets In Winter - But We're Not Sure Why
"During winter, European starlings perform intricate aerial maneuvers called 'murmurations' at dusk -- but scientists aren't sure why"
by @grrlscientist via #Substack
murmurations #flocks #starlings #birds #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/what-the-flock-birds-perform-intricate
What The Flock? Birds Perform Intricate Aerial Ballets In Winter - But We're Not Sure Why
"During winter, European starlings perform intricate aerial maneuvers called 'murmurations' at dusk -- but scientists aren't sure why"
by @GrrlScientist via #Substack
murmurations #flocks #starlings #birds #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/what-the-flock-birds-perform-intricate
New review: On the Wing is an excellent, factual primer on the evolution of flight that helpfully assumes little background knowledge.
#Books #BookReview #Scicomm #Evolution #Flight #Biomechanics #Paleontology #Palaeontology @bookstodon @EvolLetters
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Zooming into my 2022 Nature cover, featuring Tupandactylus. This painting was commissioned by Cincotta et al for their paper describing multiple feathers and their colours from a pterosaur fossil!
Somebody from my local #SciComm community published a boardgame she was working on for a while now!
If you are interested to try SciBorg, the print and play can be found there :
What The Flock? Birds Perform Intricate Aerial Ballets In Winter - But We're Not Sure Why
"During winter, European starlings perform intricate aerial maneuvers called 'murmurations' at dusk -- but scientists aren't sure why"
by @grrlscientist via #Substack
murmurations #flocks #starlings #birds #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/what-the-flock-birds-perform-intricate
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's my 2022 Nature cover featuring Tupandactylus. This painting was commissioned by Cincotta et al for their paper describing multiple feathers and their colours from a pterosaur fossil!
Data underpin science. We look at how the defunding of federal institutions may affect our ability to collect health, weather, and basic research data. It’s Disappearing Data on Big Picture Science: https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/disappearing-data
Updated diagram version for #SciComm usage!
Have stitched together the annotated image, along with that excellent diagram from The Planetary Society.
Someone said to me last night that this looks like a half-cut avocado, and now I cannot unsee it lolololol
Such a great image, and another fine example of how physics allows us to see around corners!
ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Mahler & Planetary Society
For our 12th trip of 2025, Western Science Centers’s mobile museum #M3 is visiting 4th graders at Hamilton Elementary School in Anza, CA! #museum #scicomm #paleontology #Education
#PPOD: NASA’s JWST observed Herbig-Haro 49/50, an outflow from a nearby still-forming star, in high-resolution near- and mid-infrared light. The young star is off to the lower right corner of the Webb image. Intricate features of the outflow, represented in reddish-orange color, provide detailed clues about how young stars form and how their jet activity affects the environment around them. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "Condemning the host," showing a prehistoric wasp (Xenomorphia) injecting an egg into a fly pupa.
