Nathan William Burke

Evolutionary ecologist, permaculturist, visual artist🏳️‍🌈

[Amazonia - Kaua e tautohetohe ki nga riwai @Jandal_It]

Nice Guys, Happy Family pix, & DV🧵

The first time my ex husband hit me, was after I had taken $200 out of our account to put a deposit on a washing machine. He apparently used to check the bank balance on his way home from work each night (no atms/online banking back then).

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[Lee Mordechai @LeeMordechai]

1/ I’m an Israeli academic. My community is still too silent about the war in Gaza. Following my viral tweet last month, this is the updated & expanded version of how I see things based on >1000 articles and 1000s of videos/images of the war. 🧵of summary conclusions:

[Nathan William Burke @Nathwilliamb]

Proud to finally have this paper out on plastic background colour matching in the springbok mantis

[Functional Ecology @FunEcology]

📰Published📰 The springbok mantis develops a brown or green colour to match its surroundings https://t.co/ZpE4M9ONXJ

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@RowanLym @MurielleAlund Hi Rowan, I've got a code. I'll send it to you😉

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@MorganeMerien Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Morgane!! 🎉🎉

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@historyinmemes "Insects like spiders and scorpions"?? Um, spiders and scorpions are arachnids, not insects🙄. Sheesh

[Nathan William Burke @Nathwilliamb]

@DaniRabaiotti I'm definitely interested! Anywhere's gotta be better than what this place has become

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Why you shouldn’t truncate the y-axis

https://t.co/PHNirK18aN

[Doug Saunders @DougSaunders]

Most Italians had never heard of pizza before the 1950s. Carbonara was invented in the United States. Much of what we call classic Italian food — cacio e pepe, tiramisu — was probably invented in the 1960s. And other sacrileges! https://t.co/nacsI9wxCe

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@DaniRabaiotti Queer scientist here. Super keen to check out the sky place! 😃

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@FrankBuijk @barriecassidy The real cost of Sky is incurred by our democracy.

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

simply incredible.

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@engineers_feed Soap

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@masonfidino I like to use 'language of evidence' when reporting results (see https://t.co/c8OFHKhSrS). A p-value >0.05 but <0.1?: "We found weak evidence that X and Y were different". A p-value >0.1?: "We found little evidence that X and Y were different".

[Thies H. Büscher @h_buscher]

Leaf #insects are fascinating, but pretty uniform. Their eggs are remarkable in regard to their morphological diversity. Happy to spread the news our manuscript investigating the #evolution and functional #morphology of these eggs has been published today. https://t.co/5CwcXXjCmc

[Nathan William Burke @Nathwilliamb]

@h_buscher The morphological diversity of those eggs is astounding! Super interesting research! Congrats!

[Nathan William Burke @Nathwilliamb]

@engineers_feed Under the Skin

[Richard Ngo @RichardMCNgo]

If you had to explain human psychology to aliens, a crucial claim to convey: "humans spend their first decade doing social learning with a very high learning rate, and then often apply the heuristics and strategies learned during that period for the rest of their lives".