@nearbirdstudios.bsky.social
Science illustrator and designer. I like things with feathers. She/her Portfolio: www.nearbirdstudios.com Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/nearbirdstudios Merch: https://nearbirdstudios.threadless.com
@davidho.bsky.social is absolutely right. NCAR isn't just a great institution in its own right, but vital for all of us Earth scientists at universities and institutions across the country and around the world. To learn more, watch the video below. Write to NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov today and #SaveNCAR !
I thought it was cute that his side-to-side dance matched the lyrics, but he seems to have had other ideas 🪶#parrotsky
I just submitted my letter to NSF responding to its proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). I argue that doing so would be an astonishing and avoidable misstep, and that federal support for the institution should in fact be *increased.* [1/4]
Are you concerned about safety, either your own, your family's, or the public's?
Shitty relatives are not a reflection on you. I also have a deeply terrible uncle, and it's a weird feeling to have somebody that twisted related to you. I'm sorry you're having to deal with him directly.
They're running around my neighborhood 😁
Apantesis tiger moths! Wonderful bold, geometric patterns.
Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
We do have Weird Al, though
So if using AI actually does erode human cognition the way studies suggest, then it's a feature instead of a bug?
The world is gross enough without "take away people's ability to think so we can sell it back to them" being on the list.
I just had to buy heating oil 🙃
There's a similar Chelm story - a fish hits a man with its tail, and is sentenced to death by drowning.
No no, this is different - it has to be open-air so we can get a nice drone shot of the initial wave sloshing down and everybody can go "oooooohh"
Also, it will be bright yellow plastic, like a playground slide
Big slide
"THANK FUCK"
Aphrotite
I recently finished a project for some researchers. My primary contact said she enjoyed the process because the questions I asked made her consider aspects of the organisms' structures and ecology in greater depth.
Another perfect Little Guy!
— let’s talk about birds?
Surprise surprise, I like birds, dragons, fossils, and bugs
These guys had a more coherent plan for managing the gas crisis than the current administration
I got stopped by border patrol and regular cops when out looking for paraques at night, so it's probably not as uncommon as all that. Be careful, though, it easily could've gone differently.
But it's much, much better than it was at the time! They're currently having a record breeding season.
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products in general, I believe, which does include AI.
He was so good at this stuff.
"I am so hip, I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis."
Last Chance to See was how I first became aware of Kakapo, and I've followed their recovery ever since. They should really name one after him!
"It's a lateral thinking problem, isn't it? We just have to sidle up to the problem sideways, when it's not looking, and...pounce!"
"But have you got an answer?"
"No, but I've got a different name for the problem!"
Very cool!
Reconstruction of the bizarre branching crinoid Iocrinus. Done as part of an internship reconstructing Ordovician invertebrates with Paul Mayer, curator of fossil invertebrates at the Field Museum of Natural History
#sciart #paleoart