Birds, Bugs & Benthos 🐤🐞🐚▪️Zoologist into Invertebrates, Taxonomy, Marine Ecology ... Science in general 👨🔬🔬🖖🧩▪️Dadof2▪️He/Him
Rostock, Germany
Joined March 2011
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Distribution map of Leopard (Panthera pardus) from GBIF. Does this say more about GBIF or about leopards?
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Our night science delivered the unexpected story of an animal, which appeared as a total enigma. It was spotted by Ryo Minemizu @ryo_minemizu in Okinawa and subsequently puzzled hundreds of biologists. Now we have the full answer for @RebeccaRHelm : science.org/content/article/…
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‘Mind-boggling’ sea creature seen by @ryo_minemizu spotted off Japan has finally been identified | Science | AAAS #wormwednesday science.org/content/article/…
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Introducing the Entomoscope! 🦟🔬 DIY microscope for getting detailed images of tiny insects in ethanol. Do this: 1️⃣ 3D-print the case 2️⃣ Order parts online 3️⃣ Assemble 4️⃣ Begin imaging! 📸Perfect for entomologists keen on training AI! tinyurl.com/bdh86krz #DIYMicroscopy🐜
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Feeding time for the predatory tunicates! #tunicatetuesdday!
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Heute startet die 5-tägige internationale Meeresnaturschutz-Konferenz „Progress in Marine Conservation“ in Stralsund. Bis zum 22.9. entwickeln 200 Forschende, Naturschutzorganisationen und Behören Handlungsempfehlungen.@DMarinemuseum @StadtStralsund #meeresnaturschutz #30jahrebfn
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Just published the final piece of my PhD thesis as a preprint! Our German-wide Malaise trap metabarcoding study estimated 33,000 insect species in Germany from 1,815 samples. Check out our findings here 1/3: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
@leeselab @thoerren @Julian_Enss
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By popular demand- updated with 2016-2023.
source: atmenv.envi.osakafu-u.ac.jp/… and this thread!
ALT A graph of cherry blossom date with year on x axis (812 AD - 2023), and day of peak bloom on Y axis. The data points are cherry blossom emojis and there is a Hokusai painting of a mountain in the background, so the plot kind of looks like a Japanese painting of cherry blossoms.
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Traffic was brought to a halt on a road in Podlasie, Poland while a herd of almost 100 bison crossed.
Via: bit.ly/41rIusu
💥🔥🔥🔥🔥!
Email I sent in response to @NatureComms´s request for me to act as a reviewer today (part 1 of 2).
#OpenAccess isn´t open if those of us in developing countries are economically excluded from publishing equitably.
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Need an up-to-date #TreeofLife for teaching/conferences/wall paper? Talented PhD student @BasileBeaud drew a schematic consensus ToL from the most recently published phylogenies. Hope this is useful! Downloadable version in the thread👇
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Get the fuck out of here! Carnivorous mushrooms killing nematodes with toxic lollipops. Coolest predatory strategy, apart from venom of course science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, recently returned to Midway Atoll!
The beloved Laysan albatross, or mōlī, is at least 71 years old. Biologists first identified and banded Wisdom in 1956 after she laid an egg, and the large seabirds aren’t known to breed before age 5.
ALT Large seabird, with white chest, yellow beak and banded right leg, stands on grass.
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My dream #cetacean has just surfaced in front of us in the #DrakePassage - the mythical Type D #Orca at 60o South! This pod of ~25 individuals came in to check the ship out, erupting out of the swell & then vanishing. Only described in 1955 & still an enigma! I am ECSTATIC!
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I find it frustrating that my 2019 @Zootaxa pictoral key to Alabama assassin bugs has over 1300 reads but zero citations (to my knowledge). Please cite your identification resources! I'm looking at you ecologists. These papers represent lots of hard work! #taxonomy #Entomology
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Shout out to Louis Jurine, a retired surgeon in the early 1800’s who kept jars of tiny crustaceans on his desk for fun. He published a book with incredibly detailed info on their anatomy and behavior that no one else noticed for another 100 years
