Studying how animals adapt to environmental change | NWO VENI laureate | Nerd | Birder | Editor @JGeekStudies
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Barbara Tomotani retweeted
Bird photography tips.
ALT A four panel comic titled "Bird Photography Tips". In panel 1, labeled Good Bird Photo, a Cape May Warbler stands on a branch. The caption says "excellent lighting, subject in focus, field marks clearly visible". In panel 2, labeled "Great Bird Photo," the warbler is caught mid-leap, and the caption says "peerless athleticism, levitation?, powerful". In panel 3, labeled Excellent Bird Photo, the warbler is facing the camera and is very round, and the caption says "borb, round, a good bird". In panel 3, labeled Exceptional Bird Photo, the warbler is frozen in mid-flight, its wings tight against its body so it looks like a torpedo, and the caption says "nyoooooom".
Barbara Tomotani retweeted
And here's a second one for #MolluscMonday: bit.ly/3CsoWtz
The fossil pupilloid land snails from the Borgloon Formation in Belgium. These tiny millimeter-long snails are around 30 million years old. The greyscale images were made by micro-CT scan.
ALT Images of fossilized snail shells belonging to 4 species of puppiloids. They were found in the Borgloon Formation in Belgium and date back to the early Oligocene.
Barbara Tomotani retweeted
Newly-published account on the rapid spread of the Japanese jumping snail in Brazil: mdpi.com/1424-2818/14/10/815…
Oh if only exotic species were the only problem right now...
@HailtheSnails #MolluscMonday #MolluskMonday 🦑⭐️❤️
ALT Photo of the jumping snail, Ovachlamys fulgens.
ALT Distribution map of the jumping snail in Brazil, showing the species' spread throughout the past decade.
Barbara Tomotani retweeted
🇳🇱 The Dutch Hublet for this year's ASAB winter meeting is in Wageningen.
Organised by Aurelia Strauß at @AnimalEcol_NIOO
For contact details & list of other hublets check out:
asabwinter.org/hublets
Barbara Tomotani retweeted
Amidst terrible fomo seeing all the cool conferences, I’ve been dying to share the news of our latest discovery 🥳 You thought jumping spiders peaked in their coolness? Buckle up!!! We need to talk about #jumpingspiders potentially #dreaming. @PNASNews
A thread with #videos 1/7
Barbara Tomotani retweeted
I am looking for Master's Degree students starting Fall 2023. Come work with comparative questions! Students will learn macroevolution, phylogenetics, and statistics in R. More information here: caetanods.weebly.com/join-th…
Still time to apply! Come to work with wild bird clocks @ArcticSeasonal 😁
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Barbara Tomotani retweeted
PhD position available in the topic of “wild clocks” to study latitudinal adaptation of circadian clocks using the songbird great tit as a model system: jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo…
Barbara Tomotani retweeted
A very cool PhD position on clocks in great tits with Barbara Tomotani @babi_mt in Tromsø. Work also involves experiments in Netherlands.
jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo…
Barbara Tomotani retweeted
Here, Bailey et al. investigate the phenology of two bird species across their breeding ranges, and find that their sensitivity to temperature is uncoupled from exposure to climate change
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
@ldbailey255 @AnimalEcol_NIOO
Barbara Tomotani retweeted
I chatted to @Kraken_Scholar about @JGeekStudies, publishing geeky science things and #scicomm and science outreach on this week's episode of Geekoscopy 101. You can catch the show here: geekoscopy.com/podcasts/gksp…
Barbara Tomotani retweeted
Is anyone else finding a lot of harlequin ladybirds in their nest boxes? I mean I appreciate their polymorphism, but they were everywhere in Utrecht #TheGreatEggRace @SPIbirds @WythamTits @StA_Nestboxes @MadingleyBirds
Barbara Tomotani retweeted
He pango ōna kura, he tea te pito 🪶
The extinct Huia bird was last sighted around 1907, and known for having the most pronounced differences in male/female beak shapes known in all birds! @babi_mt @Kraken_Scholar take us through the research🤓blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2021/12/…
Barbara Tomotani retweeted
Acabei de encontrar um artigo (brasileiro! da USP! talvez este seja o Twitter dele, mas ele não usa: @JVTomotani) sobre títulos gigantes de light novels, que 1) tem oficialmente meu gráfico favorito do momento: jgeekstudies.org/2020/11/09/…
Barbara Tomotani retweeted
.@babi_mt et al. Great tits do not compensate over time for a radio‐tag‐induced reduction in escape‐flight performance onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #ornithology
Barbara Tomotani retweeted
Our article, led by @babi_mt, was published just in time for #LostSpeciesDay.
Huia are extinct birds from New Zealand. Females had long sickle-shaped bills, so we used morphometrics and isotopes to see if they ate different things from males.
🔓article: bit.ly/3G1eTus
Barbara Tomotani retweeted
Āta titiro ki te ngata nei 🐌Curator Invertebrates @Kraken_Scholar tells the story of a Dutch garden snail, whose shell ended up at Te Papa. Learn more about our little, slimy friends here; blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2021/10/…
Barbara Tomotani retweeted
Somehow, somewhy, I wrote an article about extinct ducks... Gotta be my weirdest #FossilFriday yet! 🦆
Isotopes-based feeding ecology. You can see it 🔓@ tandfonline.com/eprint/5HWPC…
Many thanks to K. Rogers, @TennysonAlan and @babi_mt for working on this with me.
Barbara Tomotani retweeted
For those with a penchant for the absolutely crabulous, check out this non-peer-reviewed article from @jgeekstudies : jgeekstudies.org/2020/08/20/…
Barbara Tomotani retweeted
Here's something special for #FossilFriday: a new species of kiwi!🥳 Described by @TennysonAlan & @babi_mt
Despite their thorough analysis, we still don't know if this was the legendary laser kiwi.😆
#paleontology #ornithology #birbs
Full paper at: doi.org/10.1080/08912963.202…
