Meet the 'bat parrot' that is sleeping upside down! 🦜🙃💚🪶

... another beautiful, fascinating bird threatened by habitat loss. 😥

https://beaksandbones.substack.com/p/hanging-parrots

#bird #parrot #birdsofmastodon #beaksandbones #science

Chlamydien sind eine der häufigsten sexuell übertragbaren Krankheiten überhaupt. Aber die wenigsten können sie in Umfragen spontan nenne. Um das zu ändern, gibt es allerdings herrliche Slogans.
Weil nichts so sehr hängen bleibt wie ein guter Spruch (außer leider Chlamydien).
🎧 Neue Folge "Pandemia" ↓

https://audio.podigee-cdn.net/2315726-m-1d3e7493c481a0f45e14edecbb252a5b.mp3?source=feed

webRios is live. #rstats on your iPhone and iPad.

I showed native R compilation on #iOS last week. Shipping it is another story (thanks, GPL). This version uses #webR 's #WebAssembly build instead. Different tradeoffs, but this one clears App Review.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/webrios/id6758071087

1/2 Young or old? There’s both in this image!

The main object depicted here is known as Ve 7–27. It was long believed to be a planetary nebula — namely, the end phase of a sun-like star’s life. Yet ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has shown it to actually be a still-forming baby star.

But there's also a dead star lurking just nearby, so keep reading!

https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2604a/

📷 ESO/J. Suherli et al.

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

This is an incredible, and ultimately very hopeful, interview. The generosity here to not let her slide while still being open to accepting someone who seems genuinely contrite and wants to try to fix a bit of what she’s broken.

https://youtu.be/KG-pL7aZoeY?si=JQ5M-Nk_eIbXMV1K