Mastodawn

Dome Rock; 14 day free #dispersed camping right off of Interstate 10, right before it intersects with AZ 95.

#vanlifeusa #snowbird #desertlife #HomeIsWhereYouParkIt #arizona #mojavedesert #bureauoflandmanagement #publicland #camping #nomadland #nomadlife #nomadlifestyle

noordinaryspider Nov 28

This creosote bush has obviously been enjoying the rain. She is used medicinally for snake bites, chicken pox, and menstrual cramps, but since I don't have any of those problems, I've just been enjoying her company.

She smells sooooo good.

She's pretty small for being about my age or perhaps a bit older, but like all full time desert dwellers, she knows how to conserve her resources during the 120°F summers.

#mojave #arizona #snowbird #vanlifeusa #desertlife #camping #dispersed #creosote

noordinaryspider Nov 28

My pile of Rose Quartz was right where I left it last year, so I collected some more until I had enough to make a circle around "my" Ocotillo tree because I love her.

#vanlife #mojave #desertlife #campinglife #arizona #snowbird #dispersed #ocotillo #vanlifeusa

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Corina Logan (she/sie/ella)Aug 18, 2025

Great-tailed grackles in a #population toward the northern edge of their #range (Sacramento/Woodland, California) were less #related to each other, which means that they #dispersed farther from where they hatched 🐣 than grackles in a population nearer the center of their range (Tempe, Arizona).

In particular, females in Arizona stay closer to home 🏡 than males, while females in California disperse farther away from home ✈️ like the males do. To keep pushing the edge of the geographic range further, both males and females must be present so they can breed in the new areas.

Now we know that there are 2 things that are different about the grackles on the edge: they are more #persistent and they disperse farther from where they hatched (especially the females)

Thanks to @DieterLukas for leading this article on grackle genetics and dispersal! #TheGrackleProject

📰 Press release: https://www.mpg.de/25179774/0811-evan-exploration-and-dispersal-150495-x
📎 Article: https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.591

CellBioNews Jul 21, 2023

Wild #fruits with higher #alcohol content found to be more widely #dispersed by #mammals.

#yeast #fermentation

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-wild-fruits-higher-alcohol-content.html

Wild fruits with higher alcohol content found to be more widely dispersed by mammals

A team of researchers from the University of Calgary, Área de Conservación Guanacaste, the University of Exeter and the College of Central Florida has found that wild fruits in Costa Rica with higher alcohol content tend to be spread more widely by mammals than fruits with less alcohol. In their study, reported in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group collected and tested fruit produced in a tropical forest for alcohol content and documented their dispersal.

Phys.org

[·ʏᴏᴜᴛᴏᴘᴏꜱ·]Apr 13, 2023

“There is no explosion except a #book”—Blanchot/Mallarmé. The #Information_Bomb
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RT @youtopos
“The science in my books is #dispersed. Whoever reunites #the_dispersed reunites the science—& thus reaches his goal—since I have described the whole science without keeping any part secret; the only enigma is #their_dispersion” (Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, Kitāb al-Khawāṣṣ, Chapter 16)
https://twitter.com/youtopos/status/1480990535502467081

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“The science in my books is #dispersed. Whoever reunites #the_dispersed reunites the science—& thus reaches his goal—since I have described the whole science without keeping any part secret; the only enigma is #their_dispersion” (Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, Kitāb al-Khawāṣṣ, Chapter 16)

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