Author of 'The Urban Naturalist' and 'Darwin Comes to Town'. Rubber-stamped tweets on ecology & evolution. TED speaker.
Leyden, The Netherlands
Joined October 2011
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What a pleasant surprise today, this great review of my The @mitpress book The Urban Naturalist by the eminent Kevin Gaston in Current Biology:
cell.com/current-biology/abs… (paywall)
10 Non-Fiction Books We Would Recommend Everyone to Read timesnownews.com/lifestyle/b…
Calling for removal of dead wood and planting fire-resistant trees are NOT the way to reduce forest fires,
@FredHarter at @ObserverUK. What we need are natural, biodiverse forests that conserve moisture and quickly regenerate. Dead wood & natural recruitment is what we need!
Lees dit artikel op Trouw trouw.nl/ts-b9fdad2d/
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Passing on @WOEIP’s book recommendations on urban ecosystems and ecology. As it’s on my own bookshelf I’ll attest to @schilthuizen’s Darwin Comes to Town as a worthy mention for its easy-pacing and good humour.
#goodreads
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De Tijdcapsule met Menno Schilthuizen nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/de-n… via @nporadio1
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Zondag luisteren!
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Er staat een kubuswoning te koop. Ik herhaal: er staat een kubuswoning te koop!
Koekeloeren: funda.nl/detail/koop/rotterd…
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Have you ever wondered how much diversity exists in the shapes of living organisms?
Registration is now open for the course "Introduction to the Analysis of Morphological Disparity"
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ALT Course advertisement for "Introduction to the Analysis of Morphological Disparity" running online from October 7-16, 2025, featuring instructor Thomas Smith.
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This is one of the craziest ideas I've ever seen. He converted a drawing of a bird into a spectrogram (PNG -> Soundwave) then played it to a Starling who sung it back reproducing the PNG.
Using the birds brain as a hard drive with 2mbps read write speed.
youtube.com/watch?si=HMtVdHB…
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America’s Kids Have Never Been Safer (so why do today's parents not let their kids out of their sight?) by Freddie deBoer open.substack.com/pub/persua…
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The club winged manakin does not sing. Instead it creates a pure tone by rubbing two feathers together up to 100 times per second.
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Ok, here’s an unusual post. There was no wind, and all these starlings were lined up chattering away, so stuck my camera on the tripod and filmed. 😄
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