Dave VolekDave Volek's Food Chain
I built a food chain simulation in 2014:
https://davevolekinventions.org/FoodChain/
Simulations tests an individual's abilities better than the traditional exam.
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬#FoodChains in #Caribbean #coralreefs are getting shorter
#Fish on modern #coral reefs may face more competition for resources than 7,000 years ago.
Habitat loss and #overfishing push species to compete for fewer resources and repositioned some fish within ecosystem’s #foodchain. Findings suggest fish could be less able to adapt if food sources suddenly become scarce, perhaps making reefs even more vulnerable in an already changing environment.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coral-reef-food-chain-caribbean
https://archive.ph/gi2Jg
#Fish on modern #coral reefs may face more competition for resources than 7,000 years ago.
Habitat loss and #overfishing push species to compete for fewer resources and repositioned some fish within ecosystem’s #foodchain. Findings suggest fish could be less able to adapt if food sources suddenly become scarce, perhaps making reefs even more vulnerable in an already changing environment.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coral-reef-food-chain-caribbean
https://archive.ph/gi2Jg
JIPB☠️Understanding the molecular mechanisms governing #cadmium uptake in #rice is critical to mitigate human #health risks.
🌾Yue et al. review what we know and explore where newresearch might take us!
🍚https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70094
@WileyLifeSci
#PlantScience #agriculture #FoodChain #botany
🌾Yue et al. review what we know and explore where newresearch might take us!
🍚https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70094
@WileyLifeSci
#PlantScience #agriculture #FoodChain #botany
Lusogeek🍔 Burger King AI Tool Tracks How Often Employees Say 'Please' and 'Thank You' 🍔
https://www.pcmag.com/news/burger-king-ai-tool-tracks-how-often-employees-say-please-and-thank-you
#burgerking #burgerkingnews #burgerkingtech #burgershops #burgerrestaurants #fastfood #fastfoodnews #tech #technews #foodnews #food #foodtech #please #thankyou #employee #cringe #cringetech #weird #weirdtech #ai #ainews #pattyai #foodchain
SaltPhoenixPSA learn about your favorite things: coffee, chocolate, sugar, tobacco/ouid, cheese, beer/wine/brew, etc and participate in their actual life cycle. These things come from LIFE AND DEATH processes. Time. Step into the cyclical web of life instead of severing it. It matters. It matters to literally everything. When you extract only the threads that serve only you, a very necessary, life-sustaining component is lost.
We may be eating, but in reality, we starve. #ecology #environment #foodchain #cycles
We may be eating, but in reality, we starve. #ecology #environment #foodchain #cycles
Dave Volek's Food Chain
In 2014, I built a food chain simulation where biology students role-play biologists trying to predict trends in an ecosystem:
Matthijs@Mikeini That does sound really cool! It depends, because I don't really have a genre for podcasts. #Gastropod, #FoodChain and #JapanEats! are great food casts. #FallOfCivilizations and #TidesOfHistory are great for History. I deeply miss #Overunderstood. So many science podcasts (#ScienceVs. #Sidedoor, #ScienceInAction). BUT, wish more people listened to Short Cuts. It's about everything and nothing, and comforts me enormously at times.
Maikel de BakkerThe garden falls silent.
A few weeks ago, a Sparrowhawk turned our garden upside down in a storm of panic and wings. Yesterday, he returned. This time, there was no chaos — only anticipation. Every bird seemed to know what was coming. Long before I noticed him, the garden emptied itself. Not in panic, but with experience.
Only two House Sparrows (Passer domesticus — Huismus — House Sparrow) made a mistake. They chose low cover beneath the bird feeder house. When the Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus — Sperwer — Eurasian Sparrowhawk) landed on top of it, right above them, they froze. Perfectly still. Camouflage doing what evolution designed it to do.
The garden was silent. Too silent.
The sparrowhawk scanned the area, clearly disappointed. Then the two sparrows shifted… and briefly quarrelled. A fatal error. In a flash of muscle and feathers, the hawk launched himself downward. The sparrows reacted instantly — nimble, desperate, alive. They fled with the hawk right on their tail, vanishing beyond the garden.
I don’t know how it ended. That’s nature.
Predators like the Sparrowhawk don’t hunt for sport. They take what they need, removing weakness and maintaining balance. Without them, ecosystems collapse quietly and invisibly. Watching this unfold from my lunch table was a reminder that even the smallest garden is part of a much larger system.
Photographed handheld with my Canon 5D Mark IV and Sigma 100–400mm at f/6.3, 1/250 sec, ISO 3200 — overcast, calm, and deceptively peaceful.
Nature rarely announces itself loudly. Sometimes, it simply holds its breath.
#AccipiterNisus #Sperwer #EurasianSparrowhawk
#PasserDomesticus #Huismus #HouseSparrow
#BirdPhotography #GardenWildlife #UrbanNature
#NatureObservation #EcologicalBalance #Predation
#WildlifeBehavior #BirdsInTheGarden #NatureStory
#HandheldPhotography #Canon5DMarkIV #Sigma100400
#WinterWildlife #OvercastDays #NaturalSelection
#FoodChain #Ecosystem #BackyardNature
#PixelfedPhotography #WildlifeMoments
A few weeks ago, a Sparrowhawk turned our garden upside down in a storm of panic and wings. Yesterday, he returned. This time, there was no chaos — only anticipation. Every bird seemed to know what was coming. Long before I noticed him, the garden emptied itself. Not in panic, but with experience.
Only two House Sparrows (Passer domesticus — Huismus — House Sparrow) made a mistake. They chose low cover beneath the bird feeder house. When the Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus — Sperwer — Eurasian Sparrowhawk) landed on top of it, right above them, they froze. Perfectly still. Camouflage doing what evolution designed it to do.
The garden was silent. Too silent.
The sparrowhawk scanned the area, clearly disappointed. Then the two sparrows shifted… and briefly quarrelled. A fatal error. In a flash of muscle and feathers, the hawk launched himself downward. The sparrows reacted instantly — nimble, desperate, alive. They fled with the hawk right on their tail, vanishing beyond the garden.
I don’t know how it ended. That’s nature.
Predators like the Sparrowhawk don’t hunt for sport. They take what they need, removing weakness and maintaining balance. Without them, ecosystems collapse quietly and invisibly. Watching this unfold from my lunch table was a reminder that even the smallest garden is part of a much larger system.
Photographed handheld with my Canon 5D Mark IV and Sigma 100–400mm at f/6.3, 1/250 sec, ISO 3200 — overcast, calm, and deceptively peaceful.
Nature rarely announces itself loudly. Sometimes, it simply holds its breath.
#AccipiterNisus #Sperwer #EurasianSparrowhawk
#PasserDomesticus #Huismus #HouseSparrow
#BirdPhotography #GardenWildlife #UrbanNature
#NatureObservation #EcologicalBalance #Predation
#WildlifeBehavior #BirdsInTheGarden #NatureStory
#HandheldPhotography #Canon5DMarkIV #Sigma100400
#WinterWildlife #OvercastDays #NaturalSelection
#FoodChain #Ecosystem #BackyardNature
#PixelfedPhotography #WildlifeMoments
DragofixJason White on plastic pollution in the food chain – cartoon https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jan/03/jason-white-plastic-pollution-food-chain-cartoon
WIST QuotationsA quotation from Robert Ingersoll
A devout clergyman sought every opportunity to impress upon the mind of his son the fact, that God takes care of all his creatures; that the falling sparrow attracts his attention, and that his loving kindness is over all his works.Happening, one day, to see a crane wading in quest of food, the good man pointed out to his son the perfect adaptation of the crane to get his living in that manner. “See,” said he, “how his legs are formed for wading! What a long slender bill he has! Observe how nicely he folds his feet when putting them in or drawing them out of the water! He does not cause the slightest ripple. He is thus enabled to approach the fish without giving them any notice of his arrival.”
“My son,” said he, “it is impossible to look at that bird without recognizing the design, as well as the goodness of God, in thus providing the means of subsistence.”
“Yes,” replied the boy, “I think I see the goodness of God, at least so far as the crane is concerned; but after all, father, don’t you think the arrangement a little tough on the fish?”
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Lecture (1872-01-29), “The Gods,” Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #circleoflife #creation #divinefavor #divinegift #divinelove #divineplan #foodchain #God #God'slove #intelligentdesign #lovingkindness #predation #predator #providence
Ingersoll, Robert Green - Lecture (1872-01-29), "The Gods," Fairbury Hall, Fairbury, Illinois | WIST Quotations
A devout clergyman sought every opportunity to impress upon the mind of his son the fact, that God takes care of all his creatures; that the falling sparrow attracts his attention, and that his loving kindness is over all his works. Happening, one day, to see a crane wading in…