Medieval field strips for nature!
"Weasels darted across the paths and whitethroats sang from the thistles. Hen harriers returned to hunt in the fields left fallow..."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/23/natures-ghosts-excerpt-sophie-yeo-the-vile-national-trust-aoe

#medieval #farming #OpenField #biodiversity #Gower #Rhossili #NationalTrust @medievodons

Nature’s ghosts: how reviving medieval farming offers wildlife an unexpected haven

Agriculture is often seen as the enemy of biodiversity, but in an excerpt from her new book Sophie Yeo explains how techniques from the middle ages allow plants and animals to flourish

The Guardian
Part of the solution to reducing the number of animals used in research could be to switch to using other species, like insects. I've just written a blog about that:
https://www.noldus.com/blog/flies-fst
#Behavior #behavior #Porsolt #Danio #Dropsophila #OpenField #LightDark #ForcedSwimTest #Psilocybin #Psilocybe #zebrafish
Replacing rodents with insects in behavioral testing | Noldus

In this blog we delve into the use of flies as a new perspective for behavioral testing. How do they compare to rodents? And can conventional rodent tests be adapted to insects?

Replacing rodents with insects in behavioral testing | Noldus

A little introduction..... My name is Ericka and I am currently working on my dissertation disassociating the effects of ethanol exposure during prenatal vs. perinatal development on spatial orientation and gross-motor control.

Other interests include assessing the effects of acute (TBI, stroke, radiation, EtOH) and progressive (AD) brain damage on fine-motor control #StringPulling , gross-motor control #Gait , spatial orientation #OpenField #Navigation , and alterations to the brain #IHC. Happy to be here!

Two wooden benches standing back to back in an open field in a park yesterday afternoon, a lonely birch tree would be providing shade with its branches reaching over—now of course it's gray, gloomy, slightly foggy, and only individual leaves are still on the tree. Minor color grading to add a green/blue tint to the photo to underline the miserableness slash melancholy of the gloomy winter cold.

Nikon D7500
AF-S DX Nikkor 18-140mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR
1/100 s · f/8.0 · 40 mm · ISO 1600
2022-12-11

#winter #park #rehberge #berlin #openfield #trees #birch #bench #wiese #bäume #birke #walk #spaziergang
Tried making some scenery that can also be used as a phone wallpaper! Feel free to use #digitalart #scenery #clouds #sky #openfield #countryside #wallpaper #MastoArt #artistsofmastodon