

Described in 2009, assessed as Critically Endangered in 2010, not seen since 2013...until now.
The cave crayfish Cambarus laconensis.
And you lucky ducks who follow me get to see a photo of it! It is endemic to a single cave. Talk about pressure! It has one home in the entire world. Let's protect it, shall we? By protecting the small critters, we protect us all.
#endangered #critical #habitat #crayfish #cave #caves #biology #ecology #nature #animal #wild #wildlife #science #life#SilentSunday
Described in 2009, assessed as Critically Endangered in 2010, not seen since 2013...until now.
The cave crayfish Cambarus laconensis.
And you lucky ducks who follow me get to see a photo of it! It is endemic to a single cave. Talk about pressure! It has one home in the entire world. Let's protect it, shall we? By protecting the small critters, we protect us all.
#endangered #critical #habitat #crayfish #cave #caves #biology #ecology #nature #animal #wild #wildlife #science #life#SilentSunday
Some #tardigrades have an unusual #sex move.
1. He penetrates her skin anywhere and jizzes just inside it.
2. She sheds her skin, then lays eggs in it.
Oh baby
Aureonarius baimaensis
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3C531213-6F46-3878-FF57-87AB5E62EC9B
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.706.2.2
#Phytotaxa#AureonariusBaimaensis
#FAIRdata
#science#OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #fungi #mushrooms #mycology
Aureonarius baimaensis
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3C531213-6F46-3878-FF57-87AB5E62EC9B
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.706.2.2
#Phytotaxa#AureonariusBaimaensis
#FAIRdata
#science#OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #fungi #mushrooms #mycology
Sweden has a native species of brick-red forest slug, Arion rufus. The country has also recently acquired an invasive slug species that is likewise brick red, Arion vulgaris. Swedish people immediately forgot that A. rufus exists and started to exterminate all brick red slugs.
A Gothenburg study that asked people to send A. vulgaris specimens received 60% indigenous A. rufus. Because people just can't tell them apart.
Sweden has a native species of brick-red forest slug, Arion rufus. The country has also recently acquired an invasive slug species that is likewise brick red, Arion vulgaris. Swedish people immediately forgot that A. rufus exists and started to exterminate all brick red slugs.
A Gothenburg study that asked people to send A. vulgaris specimens received 60% indigenous A. rufus. Because people just can't tell them apart.
I came across this awesome website with (mostly) free to use silhouette images of different organisms - great for scientific publications and presentations! I really appreciate people making/uploading these images for others to use - will probably be using these on graphs in the future. The bee species available are a bit lacking, though.
https://www.phylopic.org/
#science #biology #entomology #bees #research #academia#ScienceResources
I came across this awesome website with (mostly) free to use silhouette images of different organisms - great for scientific publications and presentations! I really appreciate people making/uploading these images for others to use - will probably be using these on graphs in the future. The bee species available are a bit lacking, though.
https://www.phylopic.org/
#science #biology #entomology #bees #research #academia#ScienceResources
New preprint out!
Beyond picking and choosing: The emerging neurobiology of decision-making
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16571152
Part of an upcoming special issue with contributors from this conference:
My talk was recorded:
https://youtu.be/Yabf5Y1KQ68?si=OyTSx5zSBW5jKCOg
as was the kick-off presentation of organizer Anne Sophie Meincke:
Due to continued silence from iNaturalist about everything, October 31. That’s my deadline. That’s MORE THAN FAIR amount of time for them to:
1) Have a proper outline of the project and exactly what it will be.
2. Have a solid opt-in to the project, so no users are auto opted in without their consent
3. Have added account deletion options from an over-year-old feature request to add ways to delete including without removing ID’s for others along with anonymization. If data loss is really such a problem to them (which I think it should be) not having a way to do such a type of delete should be TOP PRIORITY especially with all this genAI bs going on...already it sounds like some power users have fully deleted their accounts over this, tired of waiting.
- Signed, someone with almost 25k ID’s for others, and almost 4k observations, including some firsts on the site (including new species to science) and other rare reports.
Please boost because I don't think most users know what is going on. All this info is mostly occurring on their separate forum, which you need to make a separate account to join. This is part of the issue of lack of transparency!
#AI#genAI#LLM #programming #computers #nature #naturalist #iNaturalist #iNat #biology #ecology#communityScience #cave #critters #invertebrate #insect
Due to continued silence from iNaturalist about everything, October 31. That’s my deadline. That’s MORE THAN FAIR amount of time for them to:
1) Have a proper outline of the project and exactly what it will be.
2. Have a solid opt-in to the project, so no users are auto opted in without their consent
3. Have added account deletion options from an over-year-old feature request to add ways to delete including without removing ID’s for others along with anonymization. If data loss is really such a problem to them (which I think it should be) not having a way to do such a type of delete should be TOP PRIORITY especially with all this genAI bs going on...already it sounds like some power users have fully deleted their accounts over this, tired of waiting.
- Signed, someone with almost 25k ID’s for others, and almost 4k observations, including some firsts on the site (including new species to science) and other rare reports.
Please boost because I don't think most users know what is going on. All this info is mostly occurring on their separate forum, which you need to make a separate account to join. This is part of the issue of lack of transparency!
#AI#genAI#LLM #programming #computers #nature #naturalist #iNaturalist #iNat #biology #ecology#communityScience #cave #critters #invertebrate #insect
Loved this encounter with a cuttlefish near Sydney (from Peter Godfrey-Smith, author of Other Minds)
https://metazoan.net/124-bower-cuttlefish/
#cuttlefish#MarineBiology #biology #zoology #animals #nature#AnimalBehaviour #mollusks #photography#NaturePhotography#UnderwaterPhotography#PeterGodfreySmith
What a difference a research field makes! 📢 new paper on high rates of #OpenData sharing in #Biology at #EdinburghUni, led by Haya Deeb from our BioRDM team with 5 student researchers 👩🎓.
Previously on her #Metascience2025 poster. 🧵 1/3
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328065
@toothFAIRy @fresseng
What a difference a research field makes! 📢 new paper on high rates of #OpenData sharing in #Biology at #EdinburghUni, led by Haya Deeb from our BioRDM team with 5 student researchers 👩🎓.
Previously on her #Metascience2025 poster. 🧵 1/3
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328065
@toothFAIRy @fresseng
Starting off the second day of the CogEvo workshop
https://event.unitn.it/cogevo/
in pretty Rovereto, Italy, is Elizabeth Spelke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Spelke
talkng about "From birds, fish and newborn babies to primary school classrooms: Leveraging developmental cognitive science to improve children's learning of mathematics"
Now, Nicola Clayton
https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people/nsc22@cam.ac.uk
talking about memory, mental time travel and some magic at the CogEvo workshop.
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