🌃 Astronomers and stargazers have long campaigned for a return to darker skies.

Now it’s the turn of ecologists, alarmed by the toll on birds, moths and other insects lured to their deaths; by animals no longer able to navigate; by night foragers afraid to go out at night; and by creatures that use light to communicate but are unable to transmit their messages.

✍️ Stephanie Pain: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2018/there-goes-night

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🐦‍⬛ It's prime-time for spring bird migration in the US! How do they know where to go?

✍️ Sophie Fessl: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2020/earth-birds-take-next-left

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Hi #sciencemastadon, just migrated to social.edu.nl. A re-introduction: I'm a researcher working at Wageningen University and Research (#wur), studying the #ecology of #marinemammals (mostly #seals) in the Netherlands or #arctic, analysing #spatial distribution and #habitat selection based on #wildlife #tracking or #drone/ #uav/ #satellite data using #rstats

Also interested in human #behavioural ecology and alternative economic systems like #degrowth/ #postgrowth

Below movie of our research

Been in Dunsborough area of West Australia for the past week for Ocean Hack Week! Researchers and scientists working together tackling ocean related problems using lots of #OpenData.

Can't do ocean work without being near the ocean right? Here's the beautiful break in Yallingup 🌊

#ScienceMastadon #coding @academicchatter

"Like a bright city in the middle of a barren desert, our galactic neighborhood is enveloped by a cosmic void — an enormous, almost unfathomably empty pocket of space."

My latest for Quanta Magazine!

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-nearly-nothing-might-solve-cosmologys-biggest-questions-20230725/

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This stirred a long conversation on Twitter yesterday. What do you think about it #Mastodon ?

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I was delighted to write this NY Times article about astronomers' idea to build the most powerful gamma ray telescope ever on the backs of the thousands of satellites that crowd our skies!

(With plenty of caveats that we need more regulations around these mega constellations of satellites).

Here is a gift link to read the article for free.

#science #astronomy #ScienceMastadon #ScienceJournalism #ScienceWriter #BlackMastodon #BlackScientist

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/science/astronomy-starlink-spacex-kuiper-amazon.html?unlocked_article_code=H6ANW_gkSpczliJU_2lM69MTqe__KsesFEf9A0kHxQFxwIdQjNsYxNEXRbyKFrLOAG_Afqlg1nYp42PpKuEdl3y8hAN35Ra_kd_o_DVbU6SoqmLqAnnaLR0uRENfnQ4T0JbCaXFTiu8qj_8SthHFxIVowfWKOrqgIHAmtYhA_WdgQdxfHLtaO24AM8BKcW9ri86BloEfAJJuVHmroK7FThNAc9Mh8xSssEj9czdj1wDwEVbin4wbsT-SbGd7snBu9nGLhFZW6mAVak6PUF72sYmgrGxrndbNtgysBd1iRLA4xTjAw4fDBvOOEb3rWaRD1poXlH0ULHegyltNv3SwAlY2S69fUaSaolJF__7zhRQh&giftCopy=4_Disclaimer&smid=url-share