Heteroblasty is an abrupt (not gradual) change in the morphology of the plant during development. A common type of heteroblasty is seen in juvenile vs adult shoots in Hedera helix (Araliaceae). I’m holding an adult shoot against the juvenile climber. #heteroblasty#Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Excellent from Brian McGill: is ecology (and by extension, other disciplines, even digital humanities!) ready for really big code projects, and how both authors and readers can presume the code works? dynamicecology.wordp... 🌎🧪
I recently was informed that a paper in a glossy big name journal that I had paid attention to was retracted due to a coding error. I’m not going to name the paper because that is not the poi…
Attention: ALL OF ASIA Asia is home to rich, yet largely underdocumented biodiversity. This Fri-Sun, we're having a CONTINENT-WIDE community effort to record the wildlife around us. Join us in this historic effort—there's a high chance you'd be the first person ever to observe a new species.
The Asia Nature Challenge (ANC) hosted by CitizenScience.Asia is a two phase 10-day event that invites citizen scientists, environmental groups, and individuals to document local wildlife using iNatur...
Vinca minor, the nonnative escapee Lesser Periwinkle, blooming along Boulder Creek. Highly invasive in places like California’s coast range, it doesn’t seem to be spreading much into Colorado’s wildlands possibly because it’s too cold and dry here. 🌿 #FallBackFkowers#FallBack to April 13
Yup. Writing is thinking. So if you write a shitty first draft, you did some thinking and are on your way! If you got “AI” to write the draft, you haven’t thought AND now you’re trying to fix up what some non-thinking robot “thought.” You just put yourself 30 yards behind the starting line.
Direct link to the research mentioned in the post 👆 Driving Under the Cognitive Influence of COVID-19: Exploring the Impact of Acute SARS-CoV-2 Infection on Road Safety | Neurology www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
ObjectiveThis study evaluated the association between acute COVID-19 cases and the number of car crashes with varying COVID-19 vaccination rates, Long COVID rates, and COVID-19 mitigation strategies.B...
If anyone’s trying to figure out a Halloween costume and has a 3d printer, a friend of mine just published a Moo Deng chestburster 😹😹😹 cults3d.com/en/3d-model/...
God it would be good if we took COVID seriously and people masked again. Tired of hearing of friends catching COVID.
I know people are wondering what they can do to help beyond voting themselves in the November election. Here's a story about how I changed a family member's mind—something I truly believed I would never be able to do. Maybe it will be useful to you this month. 1/5