#Naturalists

Sid the Birder

siddisimple

A thread on Salim Ali The legendary Bird man of India Dr. Salim Ali was orphaned at the age of 10. He stayed with his maternal uncle in Mumbai. He

Julia Brokaw

juliabonz

Hey #EntSoc20! Are you interested in using emergence traps for ground-nesting #bees but aren’t sure where to start? Check out my talk on the benefits and challenges of using them,

CofCNatHistory

CofCNatHistory

What, if anything, does paleontology have to do with racial injustice? The 1st identified vertebrate fossils from North America, mammoth teeth - were identified as elephant teeth by enslaved Africans

Dorsa Amir

DorsaAmir

A historical tidbit that demonstrates the predictive power of evolution — in 1862, a botanist sent Charles Darwin a beautiful & rare orchid from Madagascar (Angraecum sesquipedale) with an unusually long spur.

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christo71213435

1/7 bueno, iñaki @multicellgenome, here we go: I've always wondered how biologists could come up with the tree metaphor because already 18th/19th century naturalists/botanists knew that trees are alive from

Oxford University Museum of Natural History

morethanadodo

Happy #DarwinDay! Yes, #lockdown 3 is long but imagine being stuck on a boat for years with no TV, no internet & definitely no Netflix. Luckily, when #CharlesDarwin set sail

Borja Esteve Altava

B_Esteve_Altava

There was a time (roughly 1850-1950) when naturalists were searching for law-like phenomena (physics envy?) to better understand the evolution of species.How many of these do you know?Do you know

Helen De Cruz

Helenreflects

Fascinated by Kropotkin's ethical naturalism. K. argues that we have 2 drives that are at odds (a "double tendency") * a tendency to community, mutual aid* a tendency to individual

Philip Amies

AmiesPhilip

Grassland, hated by some vegans and rewilders, meat and not ‘natural’. Ancient grasslands are loved by botanists, entomologists, naturalists, conservations, hardy native cattle. Not by many farmers or government policy,

Philip Amies

AmiesPhilip

I can think of few things more repugnant or dangerous than stifling academic freedom, debate, search for truth, I would rather tolerate a 100 bigots as academics than stop one

Dickie Bush 🚢

dickiebush

For 500 days I've written 500 words of Morning Pages.While they're usually just brain dumps, I'll sometimes reflect on specific questions.As @tferriss says, if you want better answers, ask better

Dan Barton

oreothlypis

I think the history of @AmOrnith's approach to the standardization of English common names of birds deserves a little attention so I'm going to tweet about bird names a little

Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن

EveKeneinan

What doxastic involuntarists (DIs) trade on is a distinction between an immediate act & complex action. Now, ACTS are the province of the WILL, and believing is an ACT. That

John Martinson🌹

RealJKMartinson

I would like to wish my best to these Wisconsin candidates tomorrow:@JessicaKing6th (my step-cousin)@Gwen4Congress @TriciaforWI @MarkPocan @tompalz who’s running against State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, a real piece of

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