GrrlScientist

GrrlScientist, 13 days ago to science

The Climate Crisis Is Cooking Baby Bumblebees In Their Nests, study out of University of Guelph, published by Frontiers In #Bee #Science🔬

by @GrrlScientist

#ClimateCrisis #HeatWaves🌡️ #bumblebee🐝 #pollinators #insects #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/05/07/the-climate-crisis-is-cooking-baby-bumblebees-in-their-nests/

GrrlScientist, 27 days ago to Cognition

Mentally Stimulating Occupations Are Key To Avoiding Dementia, study out of ColumbiaMSPH & Folkehelseinst, published by Neurology

by @GrrlScientist

#cognition🧠 #dementia #aging #Jobs💼 #Neurology #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/04/23/mentally-stimulating-occupations-are-key-to-avoiding-dementia/

GrrlScientist, 29 days ago to SciComm

The Devil Lost In Details: Tasmanian Devil Cancer Transmission Is NOT Slowing | University of Cambridge, published by RoyalSociety #OpenScience

by @GrrlScientist

#Endangered #TasmanianDevil #Cancer #Oncology #CancerResearch #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/04/21/the-devil-lost-in-details-tasmanian-devil-cancer-transmission-is-not-slowing/

GrrlScientist, 1 month ago to nature

Biodiversity Is Nature’s ‘Magic’ That Improves Peoples’ Mental Health, study out of King's College London, published by Scientific Reports

by @GrrlScientist

#nature #biodiversity🪶 #ecotherapy #MentalHealth👩‍⚕️ #psychology #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/04/17/biodiversity-is-natures-magic-that-improves-peoples-mental-health/

GrrlScientist, 1 month ago to Birds

Four In Five Bird Species Cannot Tolerate Intense Human Pressures, out of Aarhus University, published by Global Ecology and Biogeography

by @GrrlScientist

#birds🦉 #ornithology🪶 #biodiversity #conservation🌍 #habitat https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/04/16/four-in-five-bird-species-cannot-tolerate-intense-human-pressures/

GrrlScientist, 1 month ago to Astronomy

ooo, pretty!

thank you, @NASA

The Changing Ion Tail of #Comet #PonsBrooks #Astronomy🔭 #astrophotography

credit: Shengyu Li & Shaining

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240408.html

GrrlScientist, 1 month ago to homebrewing

Climate change is coming for your favourite WINE🍷: 90% of winegrowing regions in Spain🇪🇸, Italy🇮🇹, Greece🇬🇷 & southern California🇺🇸 could lose their ability to grow grapes🍇 by 2100, study warns

#wine #ClimateCrisis https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13240999/Climate-change-wine-lose-ability-grow-grapes.html

GrrlScientist, 1 month ago to worldwithoutus

Antarctic sea ice ‘behaving strangely’ as Arctic reaches ‘below-average’ winter❄️ peak

#Antarctica🇦🇶 #Arctic #Ice🧊 #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #SeaLevelRise https://www.carbonbrief.org/antarctic-sea-ice-behaving-strangely-as-arctic-reaches-below-average-winter-peak/

GrrlScientist, 2 months ago to conservative

Killing Large Non-Native Herbivores May Be A Conservation Mistake | University of Oxford & Aarhus University, published by ScienceMagazine

by @GrrlScientist

#conservation #wildlife #plants #ecology #evolution #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/03/13/killing-large-non-native-herbivores-may-be-a-conservation-mistake/

GrrlScientist, 2 months ago to climate

Humanity Is Dangerously Pushing Its Ability to Tolerate Heat🥵

Extreme #Heatwave🌡️ are already here & they are killing tens of thousands of people. Blasting through 2 degrees Celsius of warming means they’ll happen many times more frequently

#ClimateCrisis https://www.wired.com/story/extreme-heat-tolerance/

GrrlScientist, 2 months ago to conservative

This Tiny Fish🐟 Can Produce Sounds That Are As Loud As A Firecracker🧨 | a study out of Senckenberg Natural History Collections in Dresden & ChariteBerlin, published by PNAS

by @GrrlScientist

#fish #teleost #sound🔉 #acoustic #ecology #evolution #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/02/28/this-tiny-fish-can-produce-sounds-that-are-as-loud-as-a-firecracker/

GrrlScientist, 2 months ago to australia

proof that #Australia🇦🇺 is STILL playing stupid games with those evil people who are decimating their precious endangered wildlife

#WildlifeCrime #Ecocide🌏 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-23/farmer-fined-koala-death-injuries-land-clearing-cape-bridgewater/103499336

GrrlScientist, 2 months ago to Japan

#Japan's🇯🇵new bladeless #WindTurbine💨 developed by @challenergy can survive even the fiercest typhoon🌀--a godsend to those who champion alternative (non-nuclear) sources of #energy

#windpower https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13144489

GrrlScientist, 3 months ago to conservative

Is The Flea Toad The Smallest Vertebrate In The World? a tiny study out of Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, published by Zoologica Scripta

by @GrrlScientist

#frogs #amphibians #physiology #ecology #Brazil #SciComm https://forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/02/17/is-the-flea-toad-the-smallest-vertebrate-in-the-world/

GrrlScientist, 3 months ago to Scotland

"It’s only a matter of time before banks pull the plug on the welfare nightmare that is Scottish salmon. A lethal industry riddled with 50% mortalities--from hatch to 'catch'--is ethically bankrupt"

#AnimalCruelty #salmon🐟 #SalmonFarming #Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24120438.2023-broke-scottish-salmon-farm-mortality-records-el-nino-blamed/

GrrlScientist, 3 months ago to lies

The Fraud of Plastic Recycling

How #BigOilCompanies & the #PlasticsIndustry deceived the public for decades & caused the plastic waste crisis

#lies🤥 #recycling♻️ #PlasticPollution #plastic #ClimateCrisis https://climateintegrity.org/plastics-fraud

GrrlScientist, 3 months ago to climate

Interesting visual: Oil🛢️ Production by country in 2022, Thousands of Barrels per Day

where's #greedy USA🇺🇸??

#OilAndGas #climatecrisis

GrrlScientist, 3 months ago to random

isn't anyone bothered by this?

The base of the food chain is collapsing

Even common species are declining

Populations of common gull species (like herring & great black-backed) have crashed significantly, in some cases more than 50% drop since the 1980s

https://dgrnewsservice.org/civilization/ecocide/habitat-loss/even-common-species-are-experiencing-population-crashes/

GrrlScientist, 3 months ago to climate

terrifying reading

AMOC WILL COLLAPSE AS EARLY AS MID CENTURY

Atlantic Meridional Overturning circulation (AMOC) or Great Ocean Conveyer is slowing & will abruptly collapse in just decades--high confidence study.

#ClimateCrisis #AMOCcollapse #ClimateSky https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk1189

GrrlScientist, 3 months ago to climate

i'll say it AGAIN: #NuclearEnergy is NOT the answer to our #climate problems!

#Nuclear is expensive to build, underwritten by #taxpayers, profits go to #corporations, cost blowouts paid by taxpayers

#Solar can go on your roof, OWNED BY YOU

#ClimateCrisis

GrrlScientist, 3 months ago to geopolitics

World's first YEAR-LONG breach of key 1.5C warming limit

The #economy📉, based on predatory #capitalism, has set up rapid mass #extinction🦕. Shame on #greedy💰 #capitalists💰 denying #biodiversity annihilation & blocking #ClimateEmergency action

#ClimateCatastrophe #ecocide #pyrocene https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68110310

GrrlScientist, 3 months ago to climate

buhbye #butterflies🦋! soon they'll all be gone forever

The number of monarch butterflies at their Mexico🇲🇽 wintering sites has plummeted this year

#ClimateCrisis #heat #drought #HabitatLoss #extinction #conservation🌎 https://apnews.com/article/mexico-monarch-butterflies-climate-change-9b8a69f58f3f576af0413fd045340c6e

GrrlScientist, 3 months ago to climate

#ClimateChange kills millions: An expert explains why most deaths aren't attributed to the #ClimateCrisis

#extremeheat also causes excess mortality through famines, conflict, suicides, wildfires & dozens of chronic & infectious diseases like dengue fever

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/01/31/climate-change-is-killing-millions-an-expert-explains-why-many-deaths-go-unnoticed

GrrlScientist, 3 months ago to environment

What You Need To Know About Chlorpyrifos

The neurotoxic pesticide harms children & the environment

#BrainDead🧠 #neurotoxin #Chlorpyrifos #Pesticides #environment♻️ #HealthyEating🥗⚕️ https://earthjustice.org/feature/chlorpyrifos-what-you-need-to-know

GrrlScientist, 3 months ago to parrots

Parrots Swinging By Their Beaks From Perch To Perch Are ‘Beakiating’, out of NYIT, published by RoyalSociety OpenScience

by @GrrlScientist

#parrots🦜 #ornithology🪶 #biomechanics #evolution #beakiating #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/02/02/parrots-swinging-by-their-beaks-from-perch-to-perch-are-beakiating/