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This is what #MountStHelens looked like the day before it erupted.
#MountStHelens 1980: Bulge on north flank 1 mile long, 1/2 mile wide. Many geologists agreed it was only a matter of time before it failed. Concern great enough that most stopped driving into the area to check instruments. Trips made by helicopter in case a hasty exit was needed.
ALT Image of Mount St. Helens on April 27, 1980. The "bulge" is the area of fractured ice high on the north flank. The Timberline parking area is at the center bottom of the photo. Image taken by R. Hoblitt.
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Did you know that NYBG's Steere Herbarium has one of the best collections of #algae in the world? In fact, our 130,896 specimens of algae include more than 10,000 species, and weigh as much as 1.5 bull African Elephants! #NYBGscience
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For anyone interested in drawing phylogenetic trees, here’s a new free and powerful tree-drawing software application called TreeViewer. Available on Windows/macOS/Linux, it lets you transform phylogenetic trees, add layers, map data to branches, align text, and much more! 👇
Treeviewer, developed by Bianchini & Sánchez‐Baracaldo (2024), aims to be a flexible, modular and user-friendly application that can help make phylogenetic trees publication-quality without needing to do additional modifications on graphics packages such as Photoshop.
Its modular system also allows future transformations to be developed by its creators and its users.
Its features allow:
⭐ Alignment of images with branches, for example drawing taxon images next to their respective clades
⭐ Displaying alignments alongside phylogenies to show taxonomically important regions
⭐ Displaying character states next to each branch, for example taxonomically important characters or the presence and absence of specific genes
⭐ Extensive modifications using transformations, colour-coding, and additional objects
⭐ Custom scripts
The software is very powerful and has lots of different options, so it may take a little while to get used to it, but fortunately it has a detailed manual with worked examples that should get you familiar with the key functions.
TreeViewer can be downloaded from treeviewer.org/, and you can read the accompanying article here:
Bianchini & Sánchez‐Baracaldo (2024). TreeViewer: Flexible, modular software to visualise and manipulate phylogenetic trees. Ecology and Evolution, 14(2), e10873.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Adding another beautiful parrotfish to the dataset! This is Chlorurus strongylocephalus another "Steephead parrotfish". These guys inhabit the Indian Ocean and use their huge beaks to excavate coral skeletons. Shoutout UT Austin for the scans! #backdatwrasseup
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That gorgeous pink glow to the south at #sunset tonight in #Seattle lit up the sky above #Tahoma/#MountRainier. 01/15/24.
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Tonight's 98.1% moon rising behind the #Seattle skyline and the cascades shot from 10 miles away. October is a great month for moon chasing as the moon is close to full over 3 days. This year the 3 days fell over a weekend and we got unusually clear skies.
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October's Full #HuntersMoonrise aligned with various buildings in #Seattle tonight (Saturday). As you can see the lighting got more and more difficult as the night progressed. #SmithTower #F5Tower #ColumbiaTower
You are tasked to create science department for a new middle school, and your supply budget is $400 for grades 5-8 for the whole year.
> What NGSS-aligned curriculum are you using?
> What priority supplies do you buy?
Must be lab-based, inquiry with low teacher prep time 🤔
I can’t stop thinking about the prof that that tweeted he was angry about the child care space they put up next his building at UW. I left that grad program, and candidly, the sexist culture was a primary factor. Sigh 😔
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My caretakers told me I'm at 100% bloom. Just doing my best for y'all. 🌸 #UWcherryblossoms
Omg 😳 stay safe!
Some Seattle buses, trains to get fentanyl detectors after operators fall ill seattletimes.com/seattle-new… via @seattletimes
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And, for my favorite paper I’ve published so far 🥁🥁🥁 we measured predation of #sunflowerseastars on sea urchins and found that they eat them fast enough that they are strong top predators that likely prevent urchin barrens! And they chow down on starved urchins from barrens!
We have a new study on Pycnopodia predation on purple sea urchins! Our lab experiment and model finds that the recovery of #SunflowerSeaStars will be key in #kelp forest restoration. w/ @sarahgravem @DanielKOkamoto et al, @uoregon @OregonState @Conserve_CA
royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
ALT A photo mosaic of the 24 Pycnopodia sunflower sea stars used in the study. Each one has a slightly different color pattern and size, and even shape. Some have thick long arms and some have more spindely arms.
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SnoCo: here’s a map for cold weather shelters. Please share with anyone who you think may need it. And, please, think of times like these when forming your ideas around housing. No one should be dying in the cold outside—housing is a human right. snohomish-county-public-safe…