One thing I miss about living in Scotland is nobody knows Jewish holidays so you never have to work. excuse me, you want me to come to the office on tu bishvat? yeah ok I think the TREES will have something to say about THAT one

Hey all, I hope you're having a great start to the week.

I try not to get ahead of myself, but I can't help getting excited about the prospects of Spring. There's something special about the woods coming alive after a long winter.

That said, winter is still my favourite season - it can be so varied and rewarding when everything aligns perfectly.

Here's an image from a cold morning in January.

#woodland #trees #LandscapePhotography #nature #art #PhotoMonday #mosstodon #forest #winter

I met a Siren by the lake. #aicinema #aiphotography #aiportraits #stablediffusion #digitalportraits

@aspiringcat I just think a lot of people are just lazy … even to the point of not bothering to ask somebody else what they can Google/research for themselves 😝

My pet peeve is people asking you for information that you’ve given them before. Asking twice is OK, but asking every single time because they can’t be bothered to remember something? That’s just annoying … Happens to me way too many times these days …

Dandelion, refracted. I like this one because it shows an 'old' flower that almost appears to be dreaming of younger days, with the full-bloom flower refracted through the water droplet. I think it might be one of my favorite photos I've ever taken. (though still some technical aspects I'd like to improve upon...) #PhotoMonday #photography #macro #flowers #reflection #water #WSSA23 #weeds #weedscience

did someone say birds time???

The covered run for the young chickens developed THOUSANDS of tiny icicles. The photo does NOT do it justice. I should have got out the fancy camera and tried to get a better image, but even with the fancy camera, I'm not much of a photographer.

I have to have a covered enclosure for my young chickens because a family of red tailed hawks moved into the area. The hawks can't (or very rarely) kill full-sized chickens (though they try), but they sure can kill smaller chickens.

#IceStorm #Photo

I agree with Sun Tzu.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

In the Heart of the Rosette Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Lyman Insley

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230206.html #APOD

Remember, monsters aren't real. Ghosts aren't real. They're just in your head, forever.. you can never escape them.

Also don't tell this to kids they get super scared.

@harshad The "golden hour" is *not* an hour long. Time can absolutely be of the essence. Not enough time to dig through my 500+ sky photo collection; I tend to be too quick cleaning out the misses.

But you could imagine how a few minutes difference would have produced a very different result on this one:

Here is some color for you all!

#butterflies #color #flowers #gardening #Nikon #art #Sunday #photo #photography #nature #naturephotography #insects

#Bougainvillea is everywhere in #Melbourne #Australia!

This gorgeous specimen snapped in the evening sunshine just now, in #Elsterwick.

#Gorgeous!

#urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #FebruaryFun #aesthetichedonist #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #godmustbeabotanist #makesmehappy

Natasha my curly girl #donkeysofmastodon

The #ForbiddenCity, located in #Beijing, China, was the imperial palace for the Ming and Qing dynasties from the 15th to the early 20th centuries. The dragon head tiles are particularly noteworthy and are often carved in great detail, depicting the dragon's open mouth, curled whiskers, and fierce eyes.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/1-ayearforart-dragon-tile-screen-wall-steve-estvanik.html

#FebruaryFun r #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Art #ArtMatters #MastoArt #FediGiftShop
#BuyArtNotCandy
#Chineseart #forbiddencity #beijing #dragon

#Squirrel of the Day for February 5, 2023, dug up a walnut for Sunday brunch #Squirrels #NaturePhotography

Dr. Mae Jemison, MD, the first black woman in space and first actual astronaut to appear on a Star Trek show, one of the very few people on this planet of whom two pictures can be posted depicting them doing their job on a spaceship with entirely different contexts.
#StarTrek #BlackHistoryMonth

Just moved to neuromatch.social, so here it goes (again), #introduction :

Hi everyone, I'm a last year undergrad in #Neuroscience & #ComputerScience at McGill. I'm doing #ComputationalNeuroscience research in the Baillet Lab at The Neuro (MNI), focusing on whole-brain dynamical models of coupled neural masses calibrated to #MEG #Neuroimaging data (more details @ https://neurolife77.github.io/ if anyone is curious).

I am also the VP of the #MachineLearning committee at PharmaHacks, a hackathon that blends #Biology & #DataScience with a focus on #Pharma.
@neuroscience #neurodon

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Since I have the space to put it in the same post now, thanks to the freedom in post length from this new server, here's a bonus:

I regularly share links to preprints that catch my attention and tag them with: #arxivfeed

I started doing this because I thought that the arxiv bots on mastodon were not super efficient, but after doing it for about a month I'd say it's also a good way to keep some form of history of my nightly exploration of the literature in my fields of interest. I usually share stuff about #ComputationalNeuroscience, #Neuroimaging, #DynamicalSystems, #MachineLeaning, #ArtificialIntelligence, etc.

Disclaimer: I usually only read the abstract or skim through them at the time of posting.
Disclaimer 2: I am definitely not consistent.

Without a lab, access to research libraries/university facilities, entomologist Charles Henry Turner (1867–1923) died with a personal library of 1,000+ books, having published 50+ scientific papers; he revolutionized our knowledge of ants (Earth’s most abundant animal); he was 1st to prove insects can hear& distinguish pitch, alsi 1st scientist to achieve Pavlovian bug conditioning, training moths to beat their wings when he whistled #BlackHistoryIsHistory h/t @mariapopova

A picture of Cambridge every day since 2010. (No 4699) Monday 6th February 2023.

#photography #Cambridge #CambridgeUK