Hello, scholar social! Here's my #introduction
I'm here from the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology dept at the University of Toronto and the Palaeobiology dept at the Royal Ontario Museum.
I'm a PhD Candidate studying growth and life history in extant and extinct cats, using both observational data (collected by others) and data from the growth record preserved in bone (collected by me)! See below for what a fossil Smilodon bone looks like under the microscope 👀
This critter (perhaps some sort of caterpillar or inchworm?) seems to have made a camouflage cover from silk and bits of dead leaves.
#inchworm #caterpillar #camouflage #insects #bugs #critters #macro #ultramacro #venusoptics #luminarneo #carlschurzpark #nycparks #canonphotography
Magnificent Bird-of-Paradise
A medium-sized bird of foothill and lower montane forest. Male has bottle green chest and yellow from the back of the neck, both of which it can erect into elaborate ornamentation during the display at a court on the ground. Long, flattened, curly tail feathers reflect blue. The female is brown above and barred below. Male is unmistakable. Female Magnificent is smaller than female parotias and lophorinas, and larger than female King, and has a blue bill and stripe behind the eye. Male gives a series of downslurred “joo!” notes, a loud ringing “jip!” or harsh rasps.
Please make the rain stop! Fledgling Great Horned Owl at Linden Coulee Campground in Alberta, Canada.
#greathornedowl #canadaday #olympusomd #m43 #linden #inaturalist #alberta
Turns out the broadly quoted human wet bulb thermal maximum of 35C was an overestimate. A new study determined in young healthy people, it's more like 31C. Not like we're going to put this data to the real world test or anything! *laughs nervously, sweats ineffectively* https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/humans-cant-endure-temperatures-and-humidities-high-previously-thought/
Requesting help for an animal in need please boost
So long story short, a ferret i was only supposed to foster for a few days turned out to be in dire condition and the person who was supposed to claim her backed out upon finding out about her emerging health issues, so i find myself in possession of an adorable but ill ferret named Rosie. Instead of passing her off to another possibly careless owner I've decided to care for her myself. I got her into a vet and have figured out her medical issues (insulinomia, a type of diabetes) but it'll be a bit before i can save up enough to get her the meds she needs.
I've created a small wishlist of supplies that will help her and me here:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1O2RFFF13KK7J/?ref_=lol_ov_le&filter=unpurchased&sort=default&viewType=list#list-settings_1656508880985
Or if you prefer to help with her medicine directly we have an account set up just for that
Cashapp: $laurendevalcourt
I have far too many project ideas for a person of my level of executive function.
https://www.alm.website/blog/2022-06-28-note-1 (POSSE)Green onion, blooming (white, big), next to blooming green cabbage (yellow) & seeds.
@plants #plants #cabbage #blooming #windowgarden
There were some #cornflower and wildflower fields next to those poppy fields. Harder to capture, those lovely blues. #florespondence #summer #photography.
A tiger fly in Carl Schurz Park.
#tigerfly #fly #insects #bugs #entomology #macro #ultramacro #critters #carlschurzpark #nycparks #canonphotography #luminarneo #venusoptics
Some period tracking apps will share your data. Stay safe, use one from @fdroidorg without Internet permission.
Possible options are:
drip (safest!)
Periodical
log28
All of these apps don't ask for internet permission and thus can't share your data. Drip goes the extra mile and explicitly opts out of Android's backup framework so your data won't be backed up on Google servers.
Please boost for those who need it!
Wow, Microsoft is apparently harvesting links in Outlook emails and indexing them on Bing.
#surveillance #capitalism #microsoft #privacy #gdpr #email #bing
She/her ♠️
I want to be the very best cat lady, like no one ever was. PhD candidate at the University of Toronto & Royal Ontario Museum researching growth and life history in extant & fossil cats. I am interested in how life history affected extinction risk in the past and what that can tell us about extinction risks and conservation today.
Ask me your questions about cats!