A female Red-bellied Woodpecker showing the brush of red on her tummy.

This is absolutely #stunning! I didn't think much about #seeds until I volunteered in a lab at UofT Forestry sorting seeds. It was incredible how each species was different! The Hidden Beauty of Seeds & Fruits: The Botanical Photography of Levon Biss scientificamerican.com/article/see-bi…

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” - Martin Luther King Jr. 1963

St George testing the dragon for covid

Paleontology friends - have you seen the new UCMP Understanding Evolution website? It was awesome before but it’s even more so now! Understanding Evolution

WATCH: Penguin selfie filmed on back of gentoo penguin in Argentina as it twists through schools of sardines.

TOMORROW at 4PM ET, join us for an exciting webinar presentation featuring Rodney Stotts, a master falconer and licensed raptor specialist. RSVP here: act.audubon.org/a/inside-look-…

Ancient adventures in domestication: The Kunga Was a Status Symbol Long Before the Thoroughbred nytimes.com/2022/01/14/sci…

An outbreak of the Delta variant linked to a pet shopworker in the shop prompted officials to test hundreds of animals there - with 11 hamsters Covid positive. #Covid19 bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

Well that's a first: Just received an email from a colleague that referred to all the men in the thread as "Dr." and the women by their first names. Time to update my #WomaninSTEM bingo card

For anyone who missed this in December, as I did, pure, brief brilliance once again from Calvin Trillin: Florida Woman Bites Camel newyorker.com/magazine/2021/… via The New Yorker

THREAD is a must-read: "Having ~40% of the population infected by a single pathogen in the span of 8 weeks is remarkable and I can't think of an obvious modern precedent." #Omicron

How does Omicron spread so fast? A high viral load isn’t the answer nature.com/articles/d4158…

The book that I have been waiting for! Ordered it immediately. Pigeons deserve respect

In Sewage, Clues to Omicron’s Surge nytimes.com/2022/01/19/hea…

I downloaded all the data Amazon has on me, and honestly the creepiest thing about it is that they sent me the *actual audio files* of every time I spoke* to Amazon Alexa *years ago when I was young and foolish about surveillance

Neil Young wants Spotify to pull his music due to Joe Rogan's vaccine misinformation on platform usatoday.com/story/money/20… via @usatoday

“Nature is certainly doing its part to keep us humble”. Fascinating piece from Carl Zimmer Omicron’s Radical Evolution nytimes.com/2022/01/24/sci…