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David Bender<p>Alright, all you <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/wetland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wetland</span></a> lovers - I'm digging all the <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/MarshMadness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarshMadness</span></a> photos you're sharing, but I hope you're also preparing for <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Swamptember" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Swamptember</span></a> and <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Bogtober" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bogtober</span></a> this fall and <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Fenuary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fenuary</span></a> early next year!</p><p>Let's make this happen.</p><p><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Mosstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mosstodon</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecology</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/NaturePhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaturePhotography</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Landscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Landscape</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plants</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Marsh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marsh</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Swamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Swamp</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Bog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bog</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Fen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fen</span></a></p>
swachter<p>Dude. Urban Forestry job in Boston accepting applicants, salaried ($62k) and benefits, plant trees and talk about trees and learn about trees and tend trees. Trees!!!</p><p><a href="https://treeboston.org/fellow/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">treeboston.org/fellow/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>🌳 🌲 🌱🍃🍁🍂🥦</p><p><a href="https://toot.boston/tags/boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boston</span></a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/urbanforestry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>urbanforestry</span></a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>botany</span></a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/trees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trees</span></a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a> <a href="https://toot.boston/tags/jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jobs</span></a></p>
Loki GwynbleiddSave the planet, plant trees. Bury fascism. <br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.fr/discover/tags/FediArt?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FediArt</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.fr/discover/tags/PixelFedArt?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PixelFedArt</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.fr/discover/tags/PixelFedArtist?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PixelFedArtist</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.fr/discover/tags/DigitalArt?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalArt</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.fr/discover/tags/KritaArt?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KritaArt</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.fr/discover/tags/Vintage?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vintage</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.fr/discover/tags/Cats?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cats</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.fr/discover/tags/Antifa?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antifa</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.fr/discover/tags/SiamoTuttiAntiFascisti?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SiamoTuttiAntiFascisti</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.fr/discover/tags/BashTheFash?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BashTheFash</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.fr/discover/tags/Ecology?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ecology</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.fr/discover/tags/Trees?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trees</a>
Richard<p>I will tell you what could be the next great school of thought. A commingling of:</p><p>- <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a> <br>- Space and Place<br>- Behavioral Studies</p><p>I would even say such a commingling would supersede what has been my primary preoccupation, <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/ViolenceStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ViolenceStudies</span></a>. The above could rise above that and lead the way. </p><p>I am giving it to you free of charge. It would be the new <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/ontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ontology</span></a>.<br> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>academicchatter</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a></p>
Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇪🇺<p>We know that when artificial light shines directly from a light source onto living things at night, it affects their behavior and physiology. But what about the diffuse glow of the night sky, does that affect the environment?</p><p>Turns out it does. Read more in this brief thread 🧵 </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Skyglow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skyglow</span></a> image by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://vis.social/@andreas_jechow" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>andreas_jechow</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/LightPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LightPollution</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecology</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a></p>
Let's make this difficult ⚫🟣⚪🟡<p>A spread of one of the more visually distinctive genera (groups) of mushroom forming fungi, Corinarius (the 'webcaps'). It is the largest genus of mushrooms in the world (it is extraordinarily successful, think like the Asters or Orchids) and its species have a mutualistic relationship with trees. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/mushrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushrooms</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/mycology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mycology</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/landscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landscape</span></a></p>
Let's make this difficult ⚫🟣⚪🟡<p>I have what I think is a good example of how useless ‘AI’ is for understanding. I am tagging widely. I searched “how to identify mushrooms” on DuckDuckGo, which then so helpfully spammed my screen with this lovely advice (see image with alt text). The source of much of my knowledge is mushroomexpert.com, managed by Michael Kuo.</p><p>“A mushroom is identified by its characteristics”. I could get semantic here too about the definition of a mushroom, but talk about a pretty useless statement. Fine though. That’s well enough and good if you want an explanation that is super entry level. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, though I don’t remember telling the ‘AI’ that I wanted only entry level information.</p><p>Then it talks about the danger in attempting to ID mushrooms because of the potential for poisoning. It tacitly assumes that my wanting to ID a mushroom means I want to eat it. I don’t. I just like mushrooms. I have a problem with the whole ‘some are poisonous’ throw-in, like its something their lawyers required them to include. How many are poisonous? 90%? 5%? We have no idea, and that’s OK. I didn’t tell the ‘AI’ that I wanted information on whether or not they were poisonous. But, as I’ll get to, the fact that this is included is not my problem. My problem is what they don’t include.</p><p>I think mushrooms are awesome. I think the fact that some of them are poisonous is relevant only based on the human-centric assumptions ‘AI’ is so obsessed with and what it’s dataset is built on. I don’t see the value in a mushroom based on whether or not I can eat it, and it chaffs me that they don’t also include any information about their ecological roles. You know what is a great way to identify a mushroom (including if I want to eat it)?!?!?! Their ecology (essentially, their ‘behavior’)!!! Let’s be sure to not mention that, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechBros</span></a>.</p><p>Ok let’s keep going, cause we’ve made it this far. It suggests talking to a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/mycologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mycologist</span></a>. It turns out that I don’t have any experienced mycologists on call. Mycologists are helpful but busy people. And I’m more likely than most of the population to know mycologists. You might as well say, ‘don’t bother trying to ID the mushroom’. Way to kill my interest immediately in something I’m trying to get into. If you really want to learn to ID mushrooms for foraging, there are sources you can look up to help you.</p><p>I’ll get to my main point. Identification of certain mushroom forming fungi to species is essentially impossible. Look up Amanitas or Russulas on mushroomexpert.com (phenomenal source, old school blogging). There is no clear delineating of what a mushroom forming species even is. Scientists argue over and reclassify bird subspecies all the time. Imagine the black box that is mushroom forming fungi, which most of the time is a web of single-cell wide threads hidden in the soil. Some mushrooms historically were ‘IDed’ (scientifically) by taste or color, which as you all know everyone experiences these things the same, all the time. And, darnit, I happened to leave my DNA sequencing kit at home (as if there aren’t issues with classifying mushroom forming fungi on their DNA alone).</p><p>If ‘AI’ were functional, to me, it would include the suggestion that one option is, instead of focusing on species, focus on species groupings (this also applies to foraging for mushrooms if done thoughtfully). Species groupings can be more useful, as is sometimes saying: “I don’t need to know exactly what this is. I’ll just focus on it’s ecology instead of obsessing over an arbitrary definition”. This nuance is not something that can be corrected with better algorithms or more training data (in fact, its going to get worse), because <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> s are designed to spit out the lowest common denominator.</p><p>In the end, given all the questions I brought up, the biggest problems I have with ‘AI’ is that it falsely assumes something gigantic about the question I am asking and gives a simplified and highly misleading perception of how much we actually know. I think it makes a big mistake assuming that I am uncurious and want a bare-minimum answer. And when it comes to the grand total of all there is to know about mushroom forming fungi, we know next to nothing. Of course, 'AI' cannot say that because 'AI' doesn't know what it doesn't know.</p><p>You know who can identify and communicate all of these nuances? Humans. </p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/mushrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mushrooms</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fungi</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/artificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artificialIntelligence</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/solarPunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solarPunk</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/EcologicalReciprocity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EcologicalReciprocity</span></a></p>
Flipboard<p>Primatologist Susan Perry has been studying capuchin monkeys for decades. Tim Vernimmen of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.science/@KnowableMag" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>KnowableMag</span></a></span> spoke to her about how that came to be, the challenges of observing animals that seem to move in fast forward, and what she’s learned about the similarities between humans and monkeys. </p><p><a href="https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2025/meet-the-capuchin-monkey" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">knowablemagazine.org/content/a</span><span class="invisible">rticle/living-world/2025/meet-the-capuchin-monkey</span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecology</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Monkeys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Monkeys</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Newstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Newstodon</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/NewstodonFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewstodonFriday</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/FollowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FollowFriday</span></a></p>
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Petra van Cronenburg

(To my US followers 🤫 ) I wrote: "Obviously, the immensely rich #diversity of choices offers evolutionary advantages for a wide variety of environments." I'm just writing about #moss sex. 😁 Without Newspeak. 💪

I'm proud to use the so-called "flagged" words ▶️ steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcut

Yes, my podcast comeback episode will be about #Moss!

Elder branch with green moss in sunlight, and a small snow cap on the top. The branch looks like a lying person with outstretched arms, the snow like the head.
#mosstodon#NatureMatchCuts#podcast
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Radical Anthropology

FREE community #fediscience, please BOOST!

Everybody welcome, just turn up!

LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM
TONIGHT
🌙Tuesday Feb 4, 6:30pm (London UTC)🌓
Paulina Michnowska talks on
'Notes from the Forest--storytelling with the Penan of Borneo'

In the age of the Anthropocene, interdisciplinary methodologies are seen as powerful tools to redraw and relearn our connections. Fine art practices that examine and rethink the position of ecology, indigenous heritage, and natural processes are gaining momentum and critical force. Moving away from a western-centric vision, they attempt to present new connections with the environment and cultural diversity of marginalised communities.

Artist Paulina Michnowska will explore a recent fieldwork trip to the rainforest of Borneo, where a series of art-based collaborative activities took place with the community of Penan people. It will focus on how deforestation, urbanisation, and environmental changes have affected the Penan people’s way of living and their relationship to the surrounding landscape. It will also look into the latest approaches to collaboration and knowledge exchange that the Penan people co-designed with artists and external researchers to preserve and protect their cultural heritage.

Paulina will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak.

An artist's hand sketches in pencil some Penan forest architecture and a figure in forest clothing, made from tree bark and leaf
#Penan#Borneo#environment
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Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈

If you live in the #MojaveDesert or have Spring Break travel plans to Death Valley or Las Vegas, you can help study Joshua trees!

Yoder Lab grad student Pryce Millikin has an iNaturalist project for Joshua tree flowering and fruiting, to study the trees' specialized pollinators

joshuatreegenome.org/archives/

The Joshua Tree Genome Project · Help us map and study the activity of Joshua trees’ specialized pollinators, yucca moths!Yucca moths interacting with Joshua tree flowers. Left, a female Tegeticula antithetica lays eggs in the pistil of an eastern Joshua tree flower before pollinating the flower with the yellow ball o…
#science#ecology#pollination
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DISNOVATION.ORG

🍽️☀️ "EATING THE SUN" 👉 This one is for ceramics lovers and economists! 💸

🍽️ We've been cooking up some artistic research on photosynthesis & bioeconomics for a year now, and we're happy to share the results!

☀️ It is called EATING THE SUN and consists of 12 engraved ceramic plates.

🍽️ Each plate explores a distinct perspective (biophysics, bioeconomics, philosophy…) relating renewable solar irradiance to the fundamental material needs of humans.

👉 You can find out more about each plate, and the research they encapsulate in the form of laser-engraved illustrations here
🌐 disnovation.org/eatingthesun.p

disnovation.orgEATING THE SUNExploring Human Sustainability as Solar-Based Regenerative Networks
#Degrowth#Disnovation#Sustainability
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