Dall sheep, Ovis dalli, ram, in the chill of a Yukon winter #wildlife #photography #WildlifePhotography #Yukon #Canada #winter #DallSheep #nature

#Reproductive success usually increases when a male mates with more females; a new #PLOSBiology study by @TimJanicke &co shows the same is true for females. Here, @kokkonutter & @Mikejennions explore why this is... Paper: https://plos.io/3X2ALyt Primer: https://plos.io/3QNSaJ3

Museums and herbaria contain thousands of person-years of specimens that biogeographers often deem "unusable" because they are imprecisely georeferenced. I'm happy to report a simple method for including them in species distribution models and other methods! Please feel free to ask for a reprint, as GEB open access charges were exorbitant ($4400!).

https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13628

Urban #lizards share #genomic markers not found in forest-dwellers

#evolution

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-urban-lizards-genomic-markers-forest-dwellers.html

Ice Eggs beach. Thousands of balls of ice cover a beach in Finland due to a phenomenon that occurs when ice is rolled over by water and wind. 💙

5-Jan-2023
Invasive rats transform reef fish behavior

Scientists have discovered for the first time that invasive rats on tropical islands are affecting the territorial behavior of fish on surrounding #CoralReefs https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/975349 #ecology See also my recent feature on #InvasiveSpecies, magic link still working: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2022/12/fighting-invaders.html

On why I'm not going to any conference in the first couple weeks of January:

https://smallpondscience.com/2023/01/04/good-bad-and-worst-dates-for-academic-conferences/

That's an #elm tree in #Amsterdam for #thicktrunkthursday, I hope it's well, haven't seen it for a while...
#artwork

Happy New Year. Road closure yesterday stopped us but today we made it. Bowling Ball Beach. Beena place I wanted to visit for some time. #seascapephotography #seascapes #january2023 #silentsunday

You know a paper is going to be a doozy when it starts with "(w)e are running out of time," and has an entire section called "Acknowledging failure."

Title of Racimo et al.: The #biospheric #emergency calls for #scientists to change tactics

Link: https://elifesciences.org/articles/83292

Also contains practical advice for better and more effective #environmental #advocacy. Worth a read!

Happy 2023! #oakland #bayarea

The first sunrise of 2023 in San Francisco.

A small group of us stood waiting for the sun to come up over the Oakland Hills.

#SanFrancisco #California #NewYear #2023 #Oakland #Sunrise

Sunset from Monday over the big lake. Vertical shot. If you haven't changed your image settings, you'll need to smash it to see the entire image.

One of the best sunsets of the year!

#Photography #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #LakeSuperior #Minnesota

New here on Mastodon. My group at University of Virginia studies #devbio and #evodevo of adult traits in #zebrafish and other species, mostly pigment pattern and scales. Also work on skeleton, postembryonic stem cells, behavior, natural history, other topics. Always looking for new weird stuff.

Live oaks in Louisiana #photography #thicktrunktuesday #mosstodon

Hi y‘all, and while we‘re sitting in the -cold -grey- dark- -wet- weather … Here is something from #Namibia to cheer you up.

It‘s so much fun to have a reason to dig in our archives and to remember the wonderful places we have visited. And the other thing is to learn about the amazing talent (technically and composing) I find here. Thank you for sharing - please keep it coming!

#photography #landscapephotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #landscape #fotografie

Beautiful northern lights this evening! 😍

we normally have lots during the winter here in Nuuk, and its only when its absolutely amazing I tend to look up and enjoy them. Tonight was one of those amazing ones - wow! 😍👌🏼

#northernlights #auroraBoreallis #nuuk #greenland #Thursday #winterwonderland 🥰