@Rasp @billstclair
Be careful to decribing any job as "sh!t". If they are in fact such, perhaps ask the question, why isthat the case.
Imagine if you liked cooking and serving great food.
Imagine if you lived above a cute little retail shop and when someone makes the door bells ring to have a look around it excites you whether they buy something or not. You pop down the stairs to see if you can help them find what they need.
You may not need to "work hard" to have #richness.
#BeHUMAN, don't be a computer!
We are conditioned to look for #simple answers, we want #stability, #truth and the ability to distinguish between "right" and "wrong".
Respecting the #richness of our divers (and now more connected) world, requires us to widen our #perspectives and deal with more options - in the end, that makes us #superior to computers, which are limited to 0 or 1, right?
#behuman #simple #stability #truth #richness #perspectives #superior
"**Interrogating 1000 insect genomes for NUMTs: A risk assessment for estimates of species richness"**
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0286620
#numt #pseudogene #richness #insects #Genomics #diversity
"**Community-wide correlations between species richness, abundance and population genomic diversity in a freshwater biodiversity hotspot"**
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.16991
#biodiversity #freshwater #abundance #richness #paywall
#biodiversity #Freshwater #abundance #richness #paywall
🚨 Now that #scientists are looking more closely – by finding or developing long-term #data #sets – there is growing evidence of major #insect declines.
A new study on a 15-year data set found #massive #declines in #abundance and #richness of #bees and #butterflies in a #southeast #US #forest. Species richness and abundance of above-ground nesting #bees both dropped by >80%!
Explainer: https://www.science.org/content/article/bee-butterfly-numbers-are-falling-even-undisturbed-forests
Paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00170-7
#biodiversity #conservation #entomology
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#scientists #data #sets #insect #massive #declines #abundance #richness #bees #butterflies #southeast #us #forest #biodiversity #conservation #entomology
Richness
#photography #wood #firewood #rural #winter #noroads #climatecatastrophe #energycrisis #Putinswar #outdoors #richness #selfsustainable #resilience #snow #January #Sweden #Jämtland #northernsweden #home #log #mountains #abundance #storage
#photography #wood #firewood #rural #winter #noroads #climatecatastrophe #energycrisis #PutinsWar #outdoors #richness #selfsustainable #resilience #snow #january #sweden #jamtland #northernsweden #home #log #mountains #abundance #storage
2/7 - #EntSoc22 in Vancouver is in full swing, and I wanted to take the opportunity to advertize the talk of my #PhD student Robert Ostrom. Using #HoneyBee #WaggleDances as #BioIndicators he is trying to predict native #bee #abundance, #richness and #diversity.
Honey bee foragers that have found a profitable resource will perform waggle dances when back in the hive. This was first scientifically described by Karl von Frisch (reviewed here: https://rdcu.be/cZvHq).
#EntSoc22 #phd #honeybee #waggledances #bioindicators #bee #abundance #richness #diversity
“While China’s income is now [2020] eighteen times what it was forty years ago, Brazil’s income is not twice as high as in 1979.”
“Enquanto a renda da China é hoje [2020] dezoito vezes o que era há quarenta anos, a brasileira não chega ao dobro da renda de 1979.”
— André Lara Resende. Consenso e contrassenso: por uma economia não dogmática. 1ª ed. São Paulo: Portfolio-Penguin, 2020, pg. 7
#brazil #china #wealth #richness #gdp