Maxime Dahirel

I don't know what genre yet, but "No Gulls Breed In Yelling" is certainly a Book Title

Never not be snailposting 🐌

Amphissa versicolor, Montana de Oro state park, CA

If you see this, post your bird art

We're snailposting, post your snails!

#invertebrates #SciArt

Decollate Snail (Rumina decollata) Decollate Snail from Dos Hermanas, Sevilla, España on January 3, 2021 at 01:04 PM by Santiago Martín-Bravo

*they start with more "normal" looking shells, but they lose the top whorls as they grow, so their shells always look like that as adults (see a bunch of younger snails here www.inaturalist.org/observations...)

I did not break this shell, nor did it break after the snail died; they are just Like That* www.inaturalist.org/observations...

You know that if one day I finally manage to grab stable research job, I have Ideas and Plans about Europe vs rest of the world comparisons of introduced European snails?

(About loping: bsky.app/profile/mdah...)

I obviously have many, but let's go with this one because you can see it loping www.inaturalist.org/observations...

A bunch of Northern Lapwings flying towards the left of the frame on a grey sky. These are blue/black and white birds with quite large wings

A Goldcrest on a tree branch. It's a small bird with a black spot around its eye making it look bigger, and a big yellow stripe on its forehead. The background behind it is very orange, very fall colours

Apparently there are Birds outside?

Not easy and just barely but I can

Of course pelicans would know about fishlore

so many good goobers

I've seen "Does It Fart?" mentioned already, the herring that's mentioned elsewhere in replies is literally the first example in the main text of the book. The species the authors put in the book are in no way representative, but I just checked my copy and there is more "yes" than "no" fish in it

No Talk, I’m Sleepy Unfortunately, the spotted garden eel. With regret, the lark. My apologies, the dark bleating of winter, the vice-like grip of my heart. How language deserts me, its most faithful engineer, its very best silly sod. There is altogether too much of everything. The light is only pretending to get out of bed. Where is my soup and hibernation? Why am I expected to be? I have become a dormouse. Undisturbed until spring.

Reposting this poem here for @thelabandfield.bsky.social who retweets it every winter. Yet again, I'm wondering where *is* my soup and hibernation?

something felt off on 3, then on 17/18, but gotta admit it didn't click at all until I checked the floorplan

Tumblr post by user spookyoboro: my favorite thing about the title ‘teenage mutant ninja turtles’ is how every word throws you a new curveball

Tumblr post by user spookyoboro: like, teenage? Solid starting point. Popular protagonist demographic. I can understand that. Suddenly hard left into ‘mutant’ and oh shit that’s wild are we going into xmen territory here? How are they gonna play this? Let’s wait and s- ninjas? Yo this can’t possibly get cooler ninjas are wild right? And then suddenly they end with ‘turtles’ and your hopes and dreams don’t know what to do anymore and your entire worldview has been shattered. Good title.

The 'direct, specific and distinctive' is specifically why it reminds me of that tumblr post so much I guess

I think it's the combination of the WTH of it all and the starting 'Remarkably' that makes it pop

Remarkably loud snaps during mouth-fighting by a sponge-dwelling worm Goto et al. report a soft-bodied marine worm, Leocratides kimuraorum, that makes loud snaps during intraspecific mouth fighting. Loud popping sounds are caused by an extremely rapid expansion of the p...

In 'favourite' & 'recent'-ish I mentioned this one in a chat the other day www.cell.com/current-biol...

sticker design for a bug professionals conference, featuring an iconic beetle of the PNW (a rain beetle, Pleocomidae) in front of a generically Portland-like backdrop. I know that's not a perfect Mt Hood but at least I didn't just draw Mt Rainier like I always do

photo of last year's sticker, an Eleodes in front of a generically Sonoran desert landscape (for the same conference but in Phoenix)

lil sticker design for ECN this year, trying to retain design consistency with last year's stickers but also needed to add little gumboots and a tiny oatmilk latte

I have so many questions on my mind and they're all variations of "where can I get this?"

Heteronotus nodosus - Wikipedia

I was thinking there had to be membracids doing weird mimic stuff with their weird pronotum, and a quick search gave me a couple potential candidates: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteron... + www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I *think* I got the why! It's a 'in which order are we grouping them' thing! (plot1|map1)/(plot2|map2) also works

A patchwork of 2 random plots and 2 random maps. The limits of the map panels are not aligned with the plot panels.

A patchwork of 2 random plots and 2 random maps. The maps and the plots are aligned!

I might! I'm tired so I'm struggling a little to understand *why* it works when (plot1/plot2)|(map1/map2) doesn't, but playing with plot_layout does: (plot1+map1+plot2+map2) + plot_layout(ncol=2,nrow=2) for instance

(unless I'm so tired I didn't get your question right)

Some of these sound like honorifics you'd give members of some weird parliament

Most Nighthawk
Most Pauraque
Most Seedsnipe
Most Sandpiper
Most Auklet
Most Tern
Most Grebe
Most Storm-Petrel
Most Bittern
Most Pygmy-Owl
Most Boobook
Most Honeyguide
Most Flycatcher

We just need to fund people to find @rosemarymosco.com 's Most Bittern

(also just realized what your display name is still set to)

I've literally just bookmarked it because I was like, I need to read it more deeply later to really think about I could do with all that

just posted it in the lab group chat to break more brains