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Traffic Noise Provokes ‘Road Rage’ In Male Galápagos Warblers
#SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/04/12/traffic-noise-provokes-road-rage-in-male-galpagos-warblers/
this piece was not indexed on forbes, so no one reads it! the only way i'm getting any readers is via social media (only 39 reads 24 hours after it published)
READS IS HOW I'M PAID. please pop in to read!
Traffic Noise Provokes ‘Road Rage’ In Male Galápagos Warblers
#SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/04/12/traffic-noise-provokes-road-rage-in-male-galpagos-warblers/
My #Arctic sea-ice thickness and volume data visualizations were just updated through March 2025: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-volumethickness/ #SciComm #DataViz #OpenScience #OpenData
Traffic Noise Provokes ‘Road Rage’ In Male Galápagos Warblers | study out of Anglia Ruskin University & University of Vienna, published by Animal Behaviour
#ornithology #birds #behavior #conservation #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/04/12/traffic-noise-provokes-road-rage-in-male-galpagos-warblers/
Traffic Noise Provokes ‘Road Rage’ In Male Galápagos Warblers | study out of Anglia Ruskin University & University of Vienna, published by Animal Behaviour
#ornithology #birds #behavior #conservation #SciComm https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/04/12/traffic-noise-provokes-road-rage-in-male-galpagos-warblers/
Question for non-native English speakers: would you say there is enough high-quality scientific information for those with non-science backgrounds in your language? (You can also add your language in the comments and elaborate if you’d like.)
In my native language (Romanian), I’ve noticed there is a vacuum that in recent years has been filled alarmingly fast by pseudoscientific, new agey hogwash. Trying to point people towards high-quality information is quite a daunting task, since there is very little available, so I’m curious how this looks in other languages.
Please consider boosting for reach. Thanks!
Intelligence comes in many forms, including your future car. How will AI and advanced sensor networks change our riding experience? Hop in as we explore the history and future of the automobile in "Vroom!" on Big Picture Science.
Listen here: https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/vroom
#PPOD: This image revealing the north polar region of the Jovian moon Io was taken on October 15, 2023, by NASA’s Juno. Three mountain peaks visible in the upper part of the image, near the day-night dividing line, were observed here for the first time by the spacecraft’s JunoCam. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Processing: Ted Stryk
Creationism is exhausting.
Anti-vaxxers are exhausting.
They just keep making the same stupid, flawed, or deceptive arguments over and over again despite these arguments being fully discredited.
And since every new generation joins the web and sees these old arguments *still floating around* you find yourself having the same conversations again and again and again...
It's just so fucking exhausting.
Just added #Arctic climate rankings for March 2025: https://zacklabe.com/archive-2025/, a month with particularly low wintertime sea ice conditions
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
Here's a cheat sheet for Megalograptus, commissioned in 2022 for a project I cannot talk about yet. The scientific consultant was Fiann Smithwick.
Back when this guy was last in office, and Covid was unchecked and data around it was being censored, and yet people were dying...I created this visualization to help communicate how many were dying...to communicate how big 400,000 deaths are: https://kristinhenry.github.io/howBig/
After a long hiatus, I've decided to start blogging about paleontology again! Most content will be free, but if you get a paid subscription you get to see content early, you can make comments, & at the highest tier you get monthly exclusive content. Plus, since all subscription fees will go to support research & education at the Western Science Center, you get the warm fuzzy feeling that comes from doing a good thing!
#PPOD: This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a wave structure in Saturn's rings known as the Janus 2:1 spiral density wave. As a result of the same process that creates spiral galaxies, spiral density waves in Saturn's rings are much more tightly wound. In this case, every second wave crest is the same spiral arm that has encircled the entire planet multiple times. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/CICLOPS
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax - Palaeontologist & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "Our Refuge and Tomb" shows multiple species of fish living in and around enormous clams (Platyceramus platinus).
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A few zooms into my painting of Haootia (Stauroza), commissioned by McIlroy et al for their 2022 paper. The Haootia fossils from Newfoundland (Late Ediacaran, 550Ma), Canada, have the oldest known evidence for animal muscle tissue. Also in this picture is a reclining Charnia and some Parviscopa.
Now online: The Science Barometer 2024! The 10th anniversary edition shows long-term trends and makes it clear what citizens think about academic freedom in Germany and how they feel about the influence of business and politics on science. In addition, interesting developments on peoples’ trust in scientists' statements on climate change and renewable energies can be seen.
You can download the Science Barometer here:
https://wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/ressourcen/#science-barometer15
IN-PERSON EVENT:
https://www.seti.org/event/new-worlds-analyzing-atmospheres-exoplanets-james-webb-space-telescope
Tonight, Wednesday, Apr. 9, 2025, at 7 pm (PDT), Prof. Jonathan Fortney (U. of
California, Santa Cruz) will give a free, illustrated, non-technical lecture
entitled:
"New Worlds: Analyzing the Atmospheres of Exoplanets with the James Webb Space
Telescope"
in the Smithwick Theater at Foothill College in Los Altos.
#PPOD: This beautiful photograph combines the wonder of nature and the legend of mythology. Giant's Causeway is in Northern Ireland, and according to legend, a great giant built a path stone across the sea to fight his rival. Scientifically speaking, however, the formation is a gathering of columnar basalt that formed 50-60 million years ago through volcanic activity. Credit: Josh Dury Photo-Media
Shingrix, The Shingles Vaccine, Could Reduce Your Risk Of Dementia
"The new recombinant shingles vaccine, ‘Shingrix,’ is associated with a reduced risk of dementia compared to an earlier shingles vaccine, according to a major new study."
by @grrlscientist via #Substack
#Vaccines #Shingrix #dementia #healthcare #SciComm https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/shingrix-the-shingles-vaccine-could
