This horseshit. I dedicated mine to my partner and married her afterwards.

If this is the kind of stuff the prof is sending in writing I can only imagine the kind of bullshit the are pulling in person and with everything else.

I would be complaining to the dean.

I’d call you a salmonologist but that’s semantics almost

Hi, is this still available?

This is green washing no matter how you slice it. While it’s an interesting idea, artificial refugia, like bat boxes or these balls, have to be very carefully designed so they don’t have one of these negative outcomes:

• Act as a trap for the targeted species with regards to predators
• Kill the target species - often through thermal extremes
• Just don’t get used by the target species

There’s some good work about this on (fuck, fine rummaging for paper) Australian quolls

I actually reached out to Cowan to asks a few questions. He was pumped that we were citing his work and using it in reclamation planning as landscape enchantments.

Anyway, artificial refugia should, at best, be viewed as a temporary fix, or a way to layer habitat on the landscape, never a full substitution.

Your nuts are also full of microplastics

If it freezes on the way down does it become a snowcone?

Let’s eat grandma

No, I think we have painted ourself into a corner again. You now HAVE to do controlled burns since our previous management avoided any fire at all costs and built up huge fuel stores that would have normally burnt.

Also, sidebar: our ecosystems today are not those that were present thousands of years ago. I can hear the keyboards clacking already, but what I mean is this: ecosystems will come together and then fade away as conditions change - your pine dominant forest may not have even existed as you see it today and instead had a different canopy and/or different understory species. Ecosystems live, breathe, and adapt just like a giant organism and I think that’s super cool.

Your soil moisture regime changes? A new community moves in. You have a global cooling or warming? That original community may go extinct, or only some species will remain and those species may not have the same dominance they once had as they are now operating at the edge of their niche conditions rather than under optimal ones.

Look at that, you got me monologuing you sly dog

Generally, good land management is lazy land management. Nature (and her ecosystems) got on just fine without us. The only reason we need to manage the fire cycle now is so that we don’t have our population centers burnt by the natural fire cycle. However, we largely already fucked that part up by intervening in the fire cycle, and not allowing areas close to these centers to burn. As a result, you end up with conflagrations popping up where you don’t want them to.

if it’s any consolation, I found it outside of lemmy

Amazing. Bunch of stoned-out-of-gourd-anarchist-ninjas trying to burn Gotham to the ground and the only saviour is a playboy billionaire

It’s almost as if systematically dismantling your health care system is a bad idea.

The UCP have been doing this for years in the hopes of painting the system as ineffective so that they can better sell a privatized system like the US has.

Fucking dickheads

Correct!

PP at the world economic forum:

GLUCK GLUCK GLUCK GAH… We need to support our allies in seizing Greenland GLUCK GLUCK GLUCK

What else do you call a female Bichon?

This guy gets it

@fossilesque@mander.xyz if you yank my meme, I’m going to give you a lump of coal.

It’s a shitpost, but there’s enough nerdery to fit here

it’s pronounced kneesh, but I’m willing to overlook it for the sake of a meme. You may ask, ‘will you die on that hill?’ and I’ll reply “some will”.