My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A male (leaping) & female Confuciusornis with anatomy, plumage & colouration based on fossil evidence, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR (2023), by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press).
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#PPOD: This spectacular view into a crater near Mars's south pole illustrates the layered terrain that typifies this region. The crater's walls are striped with alternating layers of water ice and fine sediments. These ‘polar layered deposits’ are also exposed in exquisite detail in the rusty red ridge that passes through the scene. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin
New review: A balanced whistlestop tour of all the major fossil groups, including the less glamorous ones, this book might in places challenge the general reader.
https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/06/26/book-review-fossils-the-essential-guide/
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Fossils #Evolution #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Dinosaurs #Scicomm @bookstodon
The Inquisitive Biologist · Book review – Fossils: The Essential GuideA balanced whistlestop tour of all the major fossil groups, including the less glamorous ones, this book might in places challenge the general reader.
A closer look at yesterdays new dinosaur species, Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, from the Morrison Formation. It is always a big thrill to be the first to reconstruct a new species.
Wie kann Europa beim internationalen KI-Rennen mithalten? Vor welchen Herausforderungen stehen Start-ups im Bereich KI? Was können wir von den USA lernen?
Im neuesten Video der @LernendeSysteme gibt es Antworten 
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/sciencevideo/235
#PPOD: This full-disk image from NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite was captured at 7:45 a.m. EDT (11:45 UTC) and shows the Americas on June 21, 2012, the start of astronomical summer – in the Northern Hemisphere – that year. June 20 was the first day of summer in 2025 and the longest day of the year. In the Southern Hemisphere, it was the shortest day of the year and the beginning of winter. Credit: NASA
Dear Scientists,
Please stop being so clever with the acronyms for your teams and projects. RECOVER, CELEBS, and PERFORM are all real acronyms used by research groups. How very clever of you to arrange words so neatly! Except that then FINDING your work becomes much, much harder.
Do you have any idea how many useless hits there are for "CELEBS"+"COVID-19"?!? Even for "CELEBS"+"SARS-CoV-2"?
Adding a search term of a researcher name in quotes isn't a perfect solution. Yes, there are scholarly search tools; no, they aren't as popular (nor often as financially accessible) as general purpose search engines. Researchers leave and don't always contribute to every project output from a team.
If you MUST, make it something like "CELEBS-1" or "PERFORM-LC".
We all know you're clever. Your work itself shows us how clever you are. You don't need to show off your vocabulary and acronyming skills. Please!
Birds And Bats Provide Natural Pest Control To Vineyards, study by Hungarian Academy of Sciences, published by Journal of Applied Ecology
#ecology #PestControl #farming #vineyards #pesticides #birds #bats #landscape
https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/06/25/birds-and-bats-provide-natural-pest-control-to-vineyards/
I'm giving a talk about #linguistics communication with broader audiences at #lingstitute in a few weeks and I may have somewhat ambitiously titled it "101 ways to do lingcomm" So far I have 84 types of projects... anyone have examples of unusual #lingcomm or #scicomm projects I might have missed?
Here's my skeletal reconstruction of Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, from the new paper by Maidment and Barrett 2025.
Dear researchers. If a journalist contacts you because they're reporting on your study and have questions/need clarifications, please don't ignore them. If you're too busy, or they need to go through other channels before you're allowed to talk to them (like your university media dept), let them know. Or the story will get written anyway-- without your insight. They have short deadlines.
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
The changing size and shape of Triceratops' head as it ages, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR (2023), by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press).
Forschung trifft Öffentlichkeit – an der Düsseldorfer Rheinpromenade
Am Samstag, 28. Juni, werden zwölf Wissenschaftlerinnen aus unterschiedlichen Fachrichtungen der Exzellenzcluster CEPLAS @CECAD #ML4Q in kurzweiligen Vorträgen ihre Forschung vorstellen.
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https://www.hhu.de/news-einzelansicht/forschung-trifft-oeffentlichkeit-an-der-duesseldorfer-rheinpromenade#news12200
No new #SETILive #podcast this week, so let's go back to April 1 and an interesting exoplanet called HD 20794 d with an eccentric orbit. The temperature differences make it a great place to study a planet's potential habitability! Listen to the whole show: https://sites.libsyn.com/462636/super-earth-laboratory-using-hd-20794-d-to-understand-habitability
The ocean is changing colour
Satellite data (2003–2022) show oceans are getting greener near the poles and bluer in the subtropics – a sign of shifting plankton patterns that could reshape marine food webs and economies.
Our upcoming #SETILive interviews look at a new #LaserSETI exhibit and observatory location, the stunning artwork created in honor of this year's #DrakeAward recipients, and new science that reveals how #Ceres froze. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for notifications: https://www.youtube.com/SETIInstitute
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...
A Psittacosaurus creche (fossils show these babies lived in groups possibly with an adult carer), from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR (2023), by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press).
Das FDMK der HHU Düsseldorf zeigt in 6 Handlungsfeldern, wie Beratung, Infrastruktur & Strategie im Forschungsdatenmanagement verzahnt werden.
Präsentation in der EUNIS25 Session RDM Structures – Shared Impact
Für nachhaltige #FDM-Strukturen jenseits von Projektlogiken #RDM #OpenScience #NFDI #EOSC #WissInfra #Forschungsdaten #Wisskomm #SciComm #DigitalScience #FAIRdata @fdm_nrw @rda_deutschland
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Relevant meaning of AI here is "a computer" ie computational data analysis and logical output:
"A hive contains up to 15 frames and a BeeHome can hold up to 10 hives, providing thousands of datapoints for Beewise’s AI to analyze.
While a trained beekeeper can quickly look at a frame and assess its health, AI can do it even faster, as well as take in information on individual bees in the photos. Should AI spot a warning sign, such as a dearth of new larvae or the presence of mites, beekeepers will get an update on an app that a colony requires attention."