Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@social.cleverlibre.org

@futurebird An insect hotel is a box filled with cut, hollow plant stems. But you can also use paper straws pushed into holes drilled in wood. Species of tunnel-nesting bees and wasps will move in and provision the nests with whatever their young need: pollen, spiders, caterpillars, tree crickets, etc. It's fun to watch, and a great way to learn about insects that you might not know are in your yard. https://colinpurrington.com/2019/05/guide-to-diy-mason-bee-houses/

Booklouse (Liposcelis sp.) found inside a stem used by Trypoxylon at my insect hotel. It's approximately 1 mm long. The spiders were still present in the cell so I'm assuming the booklice (they were breeding) caused the death of the developing wasp larva. The wasp's mud cell partitions kept them from spreading to the rest of the brood, luckily. A good reminder of why it's important to clean an insect hotel yearly. I.e., if you have one of those cute but un-cleanable bamboo units, the resident pests will take over. #insect #wasp #entomology #nature #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #Psocoptera

Who wants to see my insect hotel? It has three levels, an observation wing, and external add-ons with vertically-oriented stems. #bee #wasp #insect #InsectHotel #BeeHotel #entomology #Hymenoptera

https://colinpurrington.com/2022/03/photo-tour-of-my-insect-hotel-2022-edition/

Here we are in the 20s, and an auto manufacturer has bought a media outlet to promote his far right ideas that he thought were being "suppressed" by the "controlled press." Is it the 1920s and the Dearborn Independent, or the 2020s and Twitter? Hard to tell sometimes. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/henryford-antisemitism/

@MarkRuffalo Here’s a gift link to The New York Times Magazine article — The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare — by Nathaniel Rich on which the movie Dark Waters was based.

https://tinyurl.com/4k4p7up7

BREAKING: After nearly a year wait, I obtained the autopsy for Samuel Nunez, a fleeing 26-year-old Hispanic man fatally shot by Los Angeles Sheriff's deputy Chad Melton last year. Deputies later admitted Nunez wasn't the suspect for the call they were on.

Six shots were fired at Samuel Nunez with a 9mm handgun by Los Angeles Sheriff's deputy Chad Melton. Nunez's head, scalp, brain, neck, facial bones, tongue, and upper left extremities were ravaged in the burst of gunfire that came only seconds after deputies addressed Nunez.

Full story: https://www.vpsreports.com/post/los-angeles-sheriffs-trap-fatally-shoot-fleeing-hispanic-man-who-wasn-t-a-suspect

A nice poster on the applications of Mathematics in Manufacturing, produced by the USA National Academy of Sciences, can be found here: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/other/deps/illustrating-math/interactive/

And if you want more details on the topic, you may take a look to this book: https://www.routledge.com/Formal-Methods-in-Manufacturing/Campos-Seatzu-Xie/p/book/9781138074293#

"Hornetsecurity on Thursday reported that 33% of companies are not offering any cybersecurity awareness training to users who work remotely.

The study also pointed out that this causes security issues because nearly three-quarters, 74%, of remote staff have access to critical data, which creates more risk for companies in this new hybrid-working world."

#cybersecurity #training #remotework

https://www.scmagazine.com/news/security-awareness/a-third-of-companies-dont-offer-cybersecurity-training-to-remote-workers

And yet here you are, controlling what women can do with a bun in the oven.

NASA has a website dedicated to before-and-after images related to worldwide climate change. It's depressing to browse from one set of pictures to the next. This is how climate change looks like.

Bering Sea ice at record low, in just 5 years
https://climate.nasa.gov/images-of-change/?id=646#646-bering-sea-ice-at-record-low

Columbia Glacier melt, Alaska, in 28 years
https://climate.nasa.gov/images-of-change/?id=534#534-columbia-glacier-melt-alaska

Shrinking Mýrdalsjökull ice cap, Iceland, in 28 years
https://climate.nasa.gov/images-of-change/?id=535#535-shrinking-mrdalsj%C3%B6kull-ice-cap,-iceland

Pedersen Glacier melt, Alaska, in 65 years
https://climate.nasa.gov/images-of-change/?id=212#212-pedersen-glacier-melt-alaska

We shouldn't be seeing this moss. It's Janury in #Polesia in Eastern Poland. It should under a metre of snow.

#DogsOfMosstodon #IdąPsięta

It was "woke" people who ended slavery, ended Jim Crow, passed Constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote, passed both Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act plus championed marriage equality. Now you get why the GOP hates people who are woke.

Natural History museums are full of art, sculptures, but their purpose is communication—the cultural transmission of what little we know with some certainty about the world. #amnh

Debating whether or not Republicans *really* want to erect a cruel regime of merciless white patriarchal dominance is futile. The proof is in the pudding, and the pudding is the state level: Wherever they are in charge, they are embracing an authoritarian vision of society. (Thread!)

Sitting at a traffic light an hour ago, I saw a transfer-style sticker in the rear window of the SUV in front of me, that read

WHY ARE YOU WEARING A MASK IN YOUR CAR??

Two things came to mind:
1) Why are you so concerned about what other people do to protect themselves and others that you not only obsess over it but actually went to the trouble to obtain and apply this message to the back window of your car?
2. I often don't bother to pull my mask off right away when I get into the car. Sometimes I don't get around to taking it off at all between stops. Because unlike you, I don't like to imagine that my mask is hurting me, and I genuinely forget about it sometimes.

I received a baptism by tornado today, exactly 10 days after starting my new job as Assistant Provost and Campus Director at UGA Griffin. Can't wait for daybreak tomorrow to survey the full extent of damage and start the cleanup. Thankfully, we didn't suffer any injuries among those who remained on campus. Hundreds of downed trees and powerlines meant some employees were 3-4 hours late getting home.

I'm sharing this as an actual solution to empower civilians.

Please check out TurnSignl, an app founded by Black civil rights lawyers. It lets you video call a lawyer asap through voice activation or single touch when police pull you over. The lawyer manages & records the entire convo w/police & works to get you home safe.

It's like $7/mo and free for low income people. It's in a few dozen states & will be nationwide shortly. I have it myself.

See it here:

https://m.turnsignl.com/get_app/NbAW