Atticus Murphy

postdoc @ virginia tech; pollinator gardening, social contagion / formerly @ UC Davis & Tufts; all smart & funny opinions courtesy of my beautiful fiancee

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Pollinator gardens are having a moment, with good reason! But what can these gardens realistically achieve for conservation and for the people who make them? Led by Nick Dorian, we take a stab at these questions, out today in Conservation Biology: https://t.co/WRWGSfBV6x

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Ever-prescient Marshall McLuhan, 1969: "Under electric conditions there can be no privacy. The privacy invaders are the bulwark of the new knowledge industries, from the pollsters, to the insurance companies, and the credit ratings, ‘the eye in the sky,’ the age of the ‘snoop’."

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Fascinating to see people grapple with the Information Age when it was really starting to rev up -- what do we do with all this information? what should we be allowed to do? it all seems very quaint now, though I'm not sure we ever answered these questions...
(Bowker & Star 1999)

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As someone born after the Web's invention, there is something kind of sad about looking back at a time when we felt entitled to this amount of privacy. It would never have crossed my mind!

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Add this to the pile of reasons why permitting denser #housing by law is a good idea. Current zoning restrictions (min. lot sizes + min. setbacks) create larger yards and thus more lawns (low diversity, high chemical and water inputs).

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Out now in Landscape and Urban Planning: the first pub from my dissertation! We used Google Street View to map urban pollinator gardens. Gardens were more common small + wealthy lots. Suggests unexpected biodiversity benefits to denser housing development! https://t.co/e8jpZFusol

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https://t.co/glxWaqA306

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I was curious so I made a plot of N postdoc postings on https://t.co/CfLPnE4yiA by month. September is surprisingly the quietest! I assume the semester start makes everyone busy or something...

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Wish I could write articles with half this much Voice 🤩

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🔥https://t.co/oj9j7m42Y5

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Incredible what you could get away with when communications were slow and unreliable

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Just how at-risk are migratory monarch butterfly populations? And can density dependence be counted on to rescue them from down years? Elizabeth Crone, @CherylBSchultz, & I comment on these issues, out now in @InsectDiversity: https://t.co/lTqcxj7yCp

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@friendchristoph https://t.co/XFHopdeWKQ neat discussion here abt this

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@focusfronting With this amount of skeletonizing I vote fungi as opposed to bugs :)

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ok it gets crazier...continent-wide aphid superclone??

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what the hell?????

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@surliertexan I think there’s a pretty low chance I would notice either but a bathrobe seems like a frankly great idea in this scenario for anyone

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With something like 800 students and staff and 20 gal per day per person (https://t.co/E9ibOEX4sF) over 200 school days, Weston High makes >3 million galls of sewage a year itself. 😉

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I wonder how much sewage the high school makes itself lol. I would bet it’s close to that…and they’re piping it only feet away from the children! The horror!