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jaybaeta

@jaybaeta@mastodon.social

Thoughtfulness & compassion.

I run the Scenoptica project, where we share footage, tell stories, make documentaries, and share knowledge on ecology, science, and academia (in English and Bahasa Indonesia).

Quickly: he/him, live in #Indonesia (previously Europe/Africa); enjoy #cinema, #reading, #music, #art, and #games; played #hockey; play #drums; interested in #ecology; love #ferns but other #plants are cool too; #creativecommons member; use #linux & #kde; have a dozen rescue #cats.

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jaybaeta, to random
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My local mosque is a small joglo with a moat full of gourami, so many people have to pray in the courtyard under the blazing sun. While being such a person, I thought up this chart: a guide on moving to Indonesia, based on how much I enjoy the sun, food, meeting new people, and the language barrier, with annotations.

I think it's quite accurate, especially the sun and food. Curiously, if I switched it around (Indonesian in the west), food would start at the bottom and rarely leave there.

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It also goes without saying that sun and humidity go hand-in-hand. I grew up in a hot, semi-arid part of Africa, and although it wasn't quite as hot as here, it also didn't prepare me from the wall of dense, wet air that greets you the moment you step foot outside an air-conditioned building. The sun itself will burn you, but humidity just takes everything over the top.

jaybaeta,
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@cendawanita The humidity is the big one, because otherwise I really need to think hard about whether my positive memories are nostalgia or reality. 😂 Hollywood tells the same (but different) lies about the mystical wonders of Bali and the reality is it's just bros getting drunk and partying and going into temples in beachwear.

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A late (for me) : Macrothelypteris torresiana, which I shot for our cat documentary but never wound up using.

https://youtu.be/UMfOR528mRw

jaybaeta, (edited ) to Cats
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Continuing with the release of the source footage for 'The of the Faculty of Biology,' and today we have Kunkun fighting one of the twins.

https://youtu.be/TALdPNnSA7o

jaybaeta,
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@photovotary Thank you, especially for the comment on the image quality, because that is the one* thing I'm always self-conscious about. 😂

*Okay, besides sound, too.

jaybaeta,
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@photovotary Hehehe, an even more welcome compliment! 🥰

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I usually meditate in this bird hide every morning. This morning it was nearly swamped because of all the rain and wind. Quite dramatic! Water from all sides. Lovely sounds.

Video from inside:

https://youtu.be/DdYuyVzx3ec

jaybaeta,
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@Zumbador I imagine this is off a dam or lake, and not ocean-adjacent? I just want to know what it smells like in there. 😅

jaybaeta,
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@Zumbador Bruised vegetation and slightly salty, you say. I think I can imagine that. 🤔

At least it's better than inland. I swam in the Vaal exactly once, and once was enough for me. 😂

jaybaeta, to random
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I don't think she's on the fediverse, but since Apple seems to be doing AR things, I want to send some love to the OG, Jeri Ellsworth. 😊

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The Appalachians are an old, worn-down mountain chain that runs down the eastern side of North America. The ecology of the Appalachians is fascinating. For example:

Ecologists have tested many species of Appalachian trees to see how much cold they can survive. As you'd expect, for many trees the killing temperature is just a bit colder than the lowest temperatures at the northern end of their range. That makes sense: they've spread as far north - and as far up the mountains - as they can.

But for some other trees the killing temperature is much lower than that! For example white and black spruce, aspen and balsam poplar can survive temperatures of -60° C, which is -80° F. Why is that?

A good guess is that this extra hardiness is left over from the last glacial cycle, which peaked 20,000 years ago - or even previous glacial cycles. It got a lot colder then!

So, maybe these trees are native to the northern Appalachians - while others, even those occupying the same regions, have only spread there since it warmed up around 10,000 years ago. Ancient pollen shows that trees have been moving north and south with every glacial cycle.

I learned this cool fact from Mountains of the Heart: a Natural History of the Appalachians, a great book by Scott Weidensaul. I got this book before a drive through the Appalachians.

jaybaeta,
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@johncarlosbaez @djc I'm not very familiar with this region, and it could be many factors (one study suggests the soil moisture and fertility gradient shapes Appalachian tree communities), but Robertson (2012; https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/handle/11122/3222) found that the northern genotype of balsam poplar can withstand cold better than the southern genotype, which grows very well in warmer temperatures but is more susceptible to cold injury and has a growing season that's too long for colder climes. 😁

jaybaeta,
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@johncarlosbaez Happy to contribute! 😊

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Trying to find people I relate to on Mastodon. Please boost if you:

-don't believe in palindromes.

-once saw a psychic who told you that you will die in a tragic mini golf accident.

-think that cops should give you one chance to rock, paper, scissors your way out of a speeding ticket.

-microdose bananas to keep your potassium levels stable.

-constantly say sorry whenever you're walking just in case you bump into a ghost.

jaybaeta,
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@lowqualityfacts Dangerous toot.

I know someone who knew someone else who could see ghosts, and they said that the absolutely worst thing you could do is acknowledge a ghost. They're dead, they're grumpy, they inhabit an ethereal plane that is neither here nor there. The last thing they need is the not-yet-dead trying to talk to them. So be careful about trying to apologise to a ghost; you might invite a haunting.

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