Stephen Murphy (smurph)

Now that’s a moonlight shadow ❤️
The sturgeon moon shining brightly over the fishing boat ‘Ceol na Mara’ on Carlingford Lough - viewed from Greenore shore.

Street sign for Horneytown Rd. Under is a second sign that says "This sign has RFID and GPS tracking"

Environmental storytelling.

Pair of dragonflies in what is called a mating wheel - the maneuvers of transmitting sperm is complex to explain

Slaty skimmer pair in a mating wheel, surely one of nature's intriguing solutions to reproduction. Sperm produced by the male in one spot has to be transfered to another on his abdomen before fertilization. Females are held by the head during copulation.
#Inverts #Dragonflies 🌿

Limited data I have access to bears this out

Last election it was “shut up about normalizing Liz Cheney” and now we want to go with “a little anti trans bigotry is ok?” No, fuck off. Unacceptable.

Every time you want to throw some of these people under the bus ask yourself: would we be ok if it was black people? latinos? women? no? Then we don’t. Period.

Being compromising cowards is part of the reason we’re even in this shitty situation. Keep telling people their rights are negotiable they stop showing up to vote for you no matter how awful the other people are. STOP IT.

No sorry I will not allow treating transgender people as anything less than full and equal members of American society be characterized as purity and something to be papered over to defeat the right. If people like Buttigieg and Newsom want to throw those rights under the bus we have more options.

Those De-Extinct Dire Wolves Were a Warning. Well, the Next Phase Is Coming. It involves a giant flightless bird.

Check out this great article in the US magazine Slate by their Dunedin based reporter about why the moa should not be brought back from extinction. slate.com/technology/2...

Facebook plea

The people of Richmound need help dealing with a QAnon cult barracaded in an abandoned school spewing raw sewage in their town. Is anyone listening? www.facebook.com/story.php?st...

I get the same damn question as if I don’t have any followers and contacts beyond here in Canada

“Sparking debate” as another example of sane washing

It’s about fairness in women’s sports.

Concerned about all the recent developments at the U.S.-Mexico border and not sure where that leaves wildlife? Join SIA’s wildlife team on Aug. 28 at 9:30 a.m. for our next virtual Coffee Break: ow.ly/gl2R50WBIrA.

Exactly right on both counts

Did you know there's a type of chronic anxiety that isn't diagnosable because it's not a condition in the DSM? This anxiety is tied to autism, and is triggered when autistic needs aren't met.

Researchers are calling it distinct anxiety because it's distinct to autistic brain wiring.

He could have saved a lot of words by simply writing ‘I’m a malevolent turd’

Beyond Species Richness for Biological Conservation Recent global policy developments have highlighted the need for straightforward, robust, and meaningful biodiversity metrics. However, much of conservation science is dominated by the use of a single....

Happy to share new work from the lab and a wonderful group of co-authors:

We argue that conservation biology needs to move beyond the current focus on species richness metrics.

While this has been argued before, we highlight the unappreciated impacts of using richness for a variety of problems:

We are honored to receive the @rooseveltinstitute.org's 2025 Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech and Expression, and to be among a stellar class of laureates including @wck.org, @cvt.org, and more. Details: tnvge.co/ZMIUg7v

Ugh. For what it’s worth, I’m notorious for demanding research papers have the numbers front and center. Same goes when I teach my ug courses where they do a practicum paper using real data modelled after the requirements in the journal I edit

Finland Drained Its Peatlands. He’s Helping Bring Them Back Tero Mustonen has led a successful effort to restore roughly 80 areas of ecologically critical peatlands across his native Finland. In an interview, he talks about the importance of bringing Indigenou...

"When our rewilding program started, many big corporations offered us huge amounts of money if we certified carbon credits. We consulted with communities. But our answer was that we don’t sell nature."

#RestoreNature @climateconnections.bsky.social

e360.yale.edu/features/ter...

The final version of the book should be available late next week (probably Aug 14th).
I will let you know here when you can get the final paperback hardcover and eBook version!

War with the Newts - Wikipedia

Can recommend Capeks R.U.R.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_wit...

Assistant Professor position in Traditional Ecological Knowledge at Stanford University. Applications due Sept 30, 2025

facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

I wish as many people wanted to actually click on Teen Vogue stories as like a post about our work being good and important, because this post is almost at 20k likes and that would be pretty good traffic!

If you can impress @diedrichbader.bsky.social this much with the McM hack, your life is complete.

Hats off to said legend whoever you are.

Restoring with forest monocultures: a mechanistic look at invasive species suppression To create conditions suitable for the recruitment of native forest species, tools are often needed to suppress grasses when restoring forests from abandoned pastureland. Planting trees is one method ....

New paper out! Can planting monocultures of N-fixing trees in old pastures in Hawaiʻi lower invasive grass levels to the point of natural regeneration of native woody species? TLDR: nope.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A blue jay perched on a branch.

A Blue Jay giving me a mean look.

#birds #birdphotography #photography #nature #wildlife #birding #TRAHR

A graph illustrating the decline in negative views of homosexuality across several wealthy countries from 1984 to 2022. The title states that “Negative views of homosexuality have dropped in Western Europe and the US” The countries are the United States, Spain, Great Britain, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Each line shows the percentage of respondents in each country who believe that homosexuality is rarely or never justifiable, represented by scores of 1 to 4 on a scale from 1 to 10. In 1984, the United States had the highest percentage at 75%, followed by Spain at 70%, Great Britain at 61%, Sweden at 48%, and the Netherlands at 34%. By 2022, the percentages had decreased significantly: the United States to 28%, Spain to 19%, Great Britain to 15%, Sweden to 9%, and the Netherlands to 6%. The data source is listed as Integrated Values Surveys (2024). The chart is CC BY Our World in Data.

Homophobic attitudes have fallen in Western Europe and the United States