was pleasantly surprised to find this celebrity parasite in the woods! Leucochloridium are trematode flatworms famous for extending colorful, pulsating broodsacs into ambersnails’ eystalks so birds mistake them for tasty caterpillars and become the next host for the parasite
Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. Scientists think a traumatized orca initiated the assault on boats after a "critical moment of agony" and that the behavior is spreading among the population. https://t.co/zJdP8eHtQW
Spring is around the corner and that means these little devils will be out again terrorizing our cameras soon! But if they give us entertaining, top-notch performances like this, we are okay with it 😅!
This video was from last spring and is one of our all-time favorites!
‘Scientific reasoning is completely dominated by the presupposition that mental funtionings are not properly part of nature. Accordingly it disregards all those mental antecedents which mankind habitually presuppose, in guiding cosmological functionings.'
– AN Whitehead (MT:VIII)
'Nature's Embrace' –
A new piece on the perceptual absorption of Nature (extended mind), interweaving the thought of A. N. #Whitehead and F. H. #Bradley.
https://t.co/w6ZNdIMr5N
Huge congrats to Meghan Barrett and Bob Fischer for launching this ethics column in American Entomologist!
Each installment will discuss a moral problem in entomology, and will be written by an entomologist and an ethicist.
Looking forward to reading!
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I’m thrilled to share our new book! Foundations of Socio-Environmental Research is an anthology of 53 readings tracing the history of socio-environmental research from the 1700s onward.
Buy it here: https://t.co/UtRc32FxUF via @CUPAcademic (20% discount with FSER2022).