Biologist, All round naturalist and occasional photographer, focusing on butterflies (and moths!) and how they can be helped in taking over the world! 😎
Thyris fenestrella, an amazing moth now found for the first time in Portugal! This is the only European Thyridid, and still poorly known in Spain
We've dedicated the last few years gathering ecological and distribution data and now it is published:
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Scientists have been publishing climate models since ~1970.
A good way to evaluate their skill is to compare what they expected to happen in the years after the model was published to observed climate changes.
It turns out most models were pretty spot-on:
In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline.
As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone.
For example:
1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value.
2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger.
3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die".
4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying?
5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression.
6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc.
7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all.
It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.
❗Se por 'radicalismo verde' o Ministro da Agricultura se refere à evidência científica que há décadas prova que a principal causa para o declínio da biodiversidade é a agricultura intensiva (sobretudo pesticidas totais) então radical é a forma como a ignora.
You watched "The Hunger Games" and sided with the resistance.
You watched "Star Wars" and sided with the resistance.
You watched "The Matrix" and sided with the resistance.
You watched "Divergent" and sided with the resistance.
You watched "V for Vendetta" and sided with the resistance.
When it's fiction you understand. Yet you refuse to see it when it's the reality you're living in.
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@pbeldade @fct_pt As someone starting to give the first steps into the german funding possibilities (calls always open, 20-30% success rate, 25k foundations to ask for money, institutional help with applications, etc)...I look back at what is in Portugal with utter saddness and disbelief: how!? 😢
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3/3 ..., etc.) remained in Asia though and diversified.
Meanwhile, this species is found along dry riverbeds and slopes rich in its hostplants, Atraphaxis spp.
Tharsalea margelanica
Tajikistan, July 2022
Otherwise known as Phoenicurusia margelanica, Lycaena margelanica or other combinations, this central Asian species (and many others) was recently reclassified within genus Tharsalea, evidencing its close relationship with most... 1/2
2/3 ... coppers in North America, meaning the latter are mostly the product of a radiation after dispersal from Asia, a long time ago and across the Bering strait when there was a land-connection.
The ancestors of this species and many others (Phenicurusia, Athamanthia, Hyrcanana
Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory
A series of climate records on temperature, ocean heat, and Antarctic sea ice have alarmed some scientists who say their speed and timing is "unprecedented".
#climatechange
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