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A neotropical perspective on the uniqueness of the Holocene among interglacials - Nature Communications A 670,000-year vegetation and climate history from Lake Junín, Peru, showed that the last interglacial was the warmest while the current interglacial had uniquely high fire frequencies that were cause...

An amazing accomplishment, the 670 kyr long high Andes Lake Junin vegetation record www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌿

😂😂😂

YouTube video by Drag City Bonnie 'Prince' Billy "This is Far From Over" (Official Music Video)

this is far from over - bonnie prince billy www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON4T... (nice lullaby)

which trees do so?

even from a paper in an MDPI journal?🤪

This cleverness fails for earth science papers generally, where the last author is often someone barely involved in the study, and the lab head is often 2nd author. Biologists continue to assume their conventions = science conventions

For those in Australia who prefer/need the old Bureau of Meteorology website, it can still be accessed via reg.bom.gov.au (for now).

theconversation.com/unusual-red-...

theconversation.com/for-the-firs...

The Mesozoic terminated in boreal spring - Nature Examination of fish that died on the day the Mesozoic ended reveal that the impact that caused the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction occurred during boreal spring.

You're asking a lot but it was apparently in spring
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

which character is the PhD student?

Certified Financial Planner? College Football Playoff? clear flooring polyurethane?

"I don't need another productivity app"

This is excellent. We just need another 50 or 100 similarly minded billionaires. Though taxes are more accountable and probably yield less idiosyncratic outcomes

The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans Diverse forms of Homo coexisted during the Middle Pleistocene. Whether these fossil humans represent different species or clades is debated. The ~1-million-year-old Yunxian 2 fossil from China is impo...

Fairly clearly this bombshell:
The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Clearly this result is model-dependent: those raw skulls are indeed quite distorted, and your phylogenetic analysis is based on a virtually reconstructed skull. How sensitive are your conclusions to model parameterisation or model assumptions?

On the money as usual. It is actually bad

Has anyone written an R package or script with plottable data for all the Milankovitch curves? Wouldn't that be so convenient ⚒️🧪

Wouldn't it be. Keep us posted

Five people stand in a row on a terrace with a stone balustrade, smiling at the camera. From left to right: Saul Manzano, Graciela Gil Romera, Luke Aurilis, Juan Ivars and Lynne Quick. Behind them rises Cape Town’s Table Mountain, lit by the soft colors of dusk. The group looks relaxed and cheerful, dressed casually in jackets, sweaters, and trousers. The city spreads out below the terrace with rooftops and buildings visible in the fading light. Author: Jill Quick

A wide view of Cape Town at sunset, framed by two iconic mountains. On the left rises the flat-topped Table Mountain, while on the right stands the conical peak of Lion’s Head. Below them, the city stretches out with clusters of houses and buildings nestled among green hills. The sky glows in soft shades of blue, purple, and gold as the sun dips behind the mountains, casting a tranquil light across the landscape. Photo by Lynne Quick.

A dense cluster of Strelitzia plants, also known as bird-of-paradise flowers. Tall, narrow green leaves rise upright, while vivid orange and blue blossoms peek through, shaped like birds in flight. Sunlight filters from the upper left, and trees and a building appear in the background. Photo by Graciela Gil-Romera

Follow me into #PALARQUE ’s coring campaign in the Cape Region I'll be posting here this week! Co-led by my friends & almighty palynologists Saúl Manzano & Lynne Quick, the project explores fynbos Holocene & Anthropocene dynamics in the #Cederberg mntns., N Cape Region. Part of my 💜 belongs here! 1/

Which are more painful, desk rejections or rejections following peer review?

several individual Eucalyptus macrorhyncha trees with crown dieback

a Eucalyptus macrorhyncha tree that appears to have recently died, retaining fine twigs but leafless

Die back and apparent recent mortality of Eucalyptus macrorhyncha (red stringybark) in the Mullum Mullum valley, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 🧪🌿.

Angiosperms "kindly" facilitated change-management workshops for sullen Gnetaleans and Cheirolepids 🧪🌾

I remember my dad jumping with joy as he brought in the morning newspaper with the all-caps headline, "NIXON RESIGNS". I miss him terribly but he'd be rolling and rolling in his grave now

The Bad Energy of Casey Means For many years, it has been common enough to hear the refrain that large corporations are to blame for all of the world’s problems.

It's a central part of the MAHA playbook
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

One of the truly compelling features of using an LLM as a coding tutor, rather than, say, asking human coders for advice at Stack Overflow, is that the LLM is polite, never complains about your failure to provide a reproducible example, and is uninterested in being an arsehole.

by contrast, Decalobanthus peltatus (Convolvulaceae) belongs to a small (~20 spp) and recent Malesian/inner Pacific radiation of fast-growing vines. It probably arrived in Australia within the past million years or so

a specimen of Bowenia spectabilis growing on the forest floor of Daintree rainforest, northeast Queensland

a specimen of Bowenia spectabilis growing on the forest floor of Daintree rainforest, northeast Queensland

the cycad Bowenia spectabilis (Zamiaceae), Daintree rainforest, Queensland Wet Tropics. Bowenia has been kicking around Australia since at least the late Cretaceous 🧪🌿

‘Things keep evolving into anteaters.’ Odd animals arose at least 12 separate times Findings speak to the dramatic impact ants and termites can have on mammalian evolution

Crab-like creatures are famed for having evolved five times in evolutionary history. But anteaters have evolved at least 12 times--in half the evolutionary span. Cool story by @jakebuehler.bsky.social for @science.org

Decalobanthus peltatus (previously within polyphyletic Merremia) is a megatherm Convolvulaceae vine colonising cyclone-damaged Daintree rainforest (NE Queensland). Totally feral on Pacific Islands, esp where not native (no surprise). See George Staples' superb revision tinyurl.com/42dk4pe2 🌿🧪