A stellar jay for a stellar season 3! Thank you to the thousands of volunteers identifying 📸 wildlife for Canyon Critters on the @the_zooniverse. Season 4 releases tomorrow. #cameratraps

found a dissertation progenitor! love when same questions appear in vastly different systems (new england bats 🦇 vs southwestern ringtails 🦝)

also yes, using progenitor because it was worth $2000 yesterday in @Jeopardy

Thankful to have kept this box of empty bags after labwork on top of my bookshelf for several months. There was some missing data entries and I was able to find the bag with our written #backup 🪄💰

In one week exactly, #canyoncritters we have 50k classifications, almost a quarter through our target! Thanks @the_zooniverse #cameratraps #raccoon canyoncritters.org

Exhausted by yet another 2010+ review and meta-analysis with no provenance of compiled studies or open data. Cited 60 refs, which surely don't include the 79 papers they extracted data from.
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

I guess I'll send an email, but suspect with 6 years passing since publication these data are locked up... dissappointing as seems like big effort and valuable #plantfrugivore interactions @SiavashHeshmati

WOW. this journal was previously #Vegetatio, which in 1989 the entire editorial board quit due to poor publishing principles. I guess 35 years laters things haven't changed jstor.org/stable/3236047…

Never seen the word "addle" before, then today twice: NYT mini crossword + a paper about brood parasitism and addling eggs. good word.

@DukeU's herbarium decision hits home: one-time big donations and short-term outrage are not effective to fund a museum. Museums need to have sustainable, ongoing funding measures. Many parts of the story missing! [1/8] dukechronicle.com/article/2024/0…

The Herbarium has an incomplete roster. Emeritus curators should not be the only contact for a taxa group. To stay balanced and relevant, collections need to maintain working curators who are actively applying to grants, training students, and using the collection. [7/8]

I'll stay tuned & hope that @DukeU finds a solution. Other collections take note: either you're next to be cut or receive an #inheritedcollection, which can exacerbate your own viability. Either way, the archives are struggling, making the #specimens and science suffer too. [8/8]

I've pumped 37,166 #cameratrap images through the #megadetector algorithm in 2 days. 530k to go, but this is likely a game changer! Thanks @Microsoft

Winter holidays are really behind us 🫣. Looking forward to a spring of finding more @ZionNPS ringtails in the Canyon Critters #cameratraps. Hard work, but with our 🦅-eyed citizen scientists from @the_zooniverse and your support, we will find them all!
give.uga.edu/funders/canyon…

How well 🦠🍄🌱🦀🪼🪱🦟🦂🦋🐫🐑🦃🦜🐈‍⬛🐉🐿️🦨 represent the Earth's Tree of Life?

Since people were dying to know (sic!), we explored the comprehensiveness of available nature-related emojis. Read #OA in @iScience_CP:

doi.org/10.1016/j.isci…