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B.S. Environmental Science/Conservation Biology Volunteer Kelp Monitor and Scientific Diver - Island County, WA Curious about Community/Network Ecology especially in its application to describe Autopoeisis at the habitat scale. Dabble in photography
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New JWST image of protostar HH 30, with legend. ๐Ÿ”ญ ๐Ÿงช

Silent Erosion โ€ฆ โ€ฆ in so many ways โ€ฆ

While Roman engineers and architects were building cities, termites in Brazil excavated a massive network of galleries, creating millions of mounds that persisted until today and can be seen from space phys.org/news/2018-11... โ€ฆ A good reminder of the power and scale of collective intelligence.

Federal funds made me. I was in the free school lunch program. Went to public K-12 schools. I was a Pell grant recipient at a state university. I was a Fulbright Scholar. I received an EPA STAR Graduate Fellowship for my PhD. My lab is currently funded by an NIH R01 grant: gibbons.isbscience.org

A quick intro to anybody dropping by. Iโ€™m a #landscapephotographer drawn to the wilder spots in Scotland. You are most likely to find me in or around the Caledonian forest if not at work. Here are a few old favourites #scotland #photography #nature #landscape #caledonianforest

Quantum calculations are helping climate scientists understand the greenhouse effect in a new way. Tune in to this weekโ€™s episode of โ€œQuanta Science Podcastโ€: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... Or read the transcript: www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-p...

From my colleagues Kyle Harper and David Wolpert at the Santa Fe Institute: Position for two-year postdoc with background in computer science interested in working with social scientists/historians to study social evolution through computational lens. Details here: santafe.edu/about/jobs/p...

How much of an incredible bear shot is that ๐Ÿคฉ?! One of the best images Iโ€™ve seen lately. I really recommend following Viktoriaโ€™s incredible work.

Do you know someone who loves playing Minecraft?! BGS have a range of geological models and environments built in Minecraft which are free to access through our website (Including a volcano!) Happy building ๐ŸŒ‹โš’๏ธ๐Ÿ˜Ž www.bgs.ac.uk/discovering-...

Gosh, has it been 22 years already ๐Ÿ˜ฑ First GIS model on Laminaria hyperborea kelp forest distribution ๐ŸŒฑ, with the purpose of studying harbour seal resource selection ๐Ÿฆญ, www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Happy to share another paper from my PhD was published recently - covering 2 chapters! Using hidden Markov models and step selection functions to analyse fine-scale acoustic telemetry data and then predict spatial usage from model output ๐ŸŸ #trackingnotslacking Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

Ok people. Iโ€™m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.

Is there (like in physics) a "least action" principle for ecological network complexity, from microbiomes to forests? Check our paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by MIT + @sfiscience.bsky.social Serguei Saavedra & @jie-eco.bsky.social sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @guimaguade.bsky.social

๐Ÿšจ Recent paper by @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social et al. show that the 2022 oil & gas crisis resulted in record industry profits at the expense of the clean energy transition, and worsened inflation and inequality as the majority of gains went to the wealthiest 1%. peri.umass.edu?view=article...

Eye in the sky. You're looking at the Ring Nebula, the remnant of a star that had the mass of 3 suns and exploded ~4,000 years ago. ๐Ÿ”ญ ๐Ÿงช

MIRI version of the Ring nebula. ๐Ÿ”ญ ๐Ÿงช

OK, here is a very rough draft of a tutorial for #Bayesian #SEM using #brms for #rstats. It needs work, polish, has a lot of questions in it, and I need to add a references section. But, I think a lot of folk will find this useful, so.... jebyrnes.github.io/bayesian_sem... (use issues for comments!)

Namibia is not all desert, it's coast line has huge flamingo, pelican & seal populations. So many flamingos, it's difficult to isolate them, but the morning's fog helped, & created a magical mood! ๐Ÿชถ #photography #nature #naturephotography #bluesky #birds #birdtherapy #wildlife #wildlifephotography

I was today years old when I found this gem of a web app to explore 2500+ color palettes for R: r-graph-gallery.com/color-palett...

A big deal:

The stars in NGC 602 have fewer heavier elements compared to the Sun and most of the rest of the galaxy. Instead, the conditions within NGC 602 mimic those for stars found billions of years ago when the universe was much younger. chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2024/n... ๐Ÿ”ญ ๐Ÿงช

Our new (mini) review on computational methods in landscape ecology has just come out ๐Ÿ˜ƒ๐Ÿฅณ Nice little collaboration led by Max Hesselbarth and involving @nowosad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy Computational Methods in Landscape Ecology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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๐Ÿ“–Published๐Ÿ“– Check out our new application article ๐Ÿ‘‰ FEISTY Fortran library and R package to integrate fish and fisheries with biogeochemical models ๐ŸŸ ๐ŸŒŽ ๐Ÿงช https://buff.ly/3VnW0Mb

Look at this very cute Arctic fox I found

To be watched๐Ÿ‘€

No access to academic papers and books? Here's a guide for you! Isabella Bruno lays out very clear paths.

Sea life on the Oregon Coast. Starfish, sea anemones and kelp photographed at low tide.

All the bull kelp in these artsy presses were entirely lab-grown grown in closed-system recirculating culture doi.org/10.1111/jpy.... #phycologyfriday #phycology #nereocystis #nereocystisluetkeana #bullkelp #aquaculture #mariculture

Chapter two from my Yellowstone series. I would definitely like to go back one day and explore further! Hayden Valley in particular, wow - what a place! #usa #yellowstone #highkey #blackandwhite #monochrome #northamerica

I titled this image โ€œMidnightโ€ because the dark rocks reminded me of a night sky, and the scattered leaves felt like stars shining brightly. Sometimes, I let my imagination take over and just go with it. Happy #waterfall Wednesday! #fall #landscapephotography #photography #nature

Rainy summer day in the Jizera Mountains, Czech Republic ๐ŸŒณ

No matter how dull conditions, there are always photographic opportunities! A long exposure brings out streaking clouds, against the turquoise waters of beautiful Moraine lake in the Canadian Rockies. #photography #nature #landscape #bluesky #sunset #naturephotography #landscapephotography