Marko Draisma @markodraisma@qoto.org
entomology (diptera), programming (java, python, sql, javascript), music (lilypond), poetry
Joined Nov 2022
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One of my favourite display cases in the new #Insectarium of #Montréal . The #beetles are so beautiful!
It took countless hours by the #entomology technicians to pin the specimens and to create this masterpiece. The other display cases are just as impressive :)
#biodiversity
(I work with a fantastic team)
Via Menno Schilthuizen on Twitter: Why do so many animal species have #asymmetrical genitalia? Sanne van Gammeren flash-froze fruit flies in the act to see if she could solve this question. Her study was published today in
@PeerJLife
https://peerj.com/articles/14225 #AnimalBehavior #Entomology #EvolutionaryStudies #diptera
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Kirby's 1802 book titled Monographia Apum Angliae (A Monograph of the #Bees in England), attributes the name of the bee to the Rev. Goodenough with the following Latin explanation:
A viro Reverendo S. Goodenough, LL. D. Ca¬nonico Windsoriensi, Botanico summo tum et in Entomologia lynceo, nomen suum haec Apis mutuatur.
…roughly translated as:
This bee is named after the Reverend Samuel Goodenough, LL. D. Canon of Windsor, Chief Botanist of the time and in #entomology very sharp-sighted.
@Hesterloeff@mastodon.social
Happy birthday Esther Applin (middle)🎉 🥳🎊 —in 1921 Esther suggested that #microfossils could be used in stratigraphy, but was ridiculed: “Gentlemen...
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RT @denistrubetskoy
Guten Morgen aus Kyjiw.
Exakt 17 Stunden ohne Strom, Heizung, Wasser und fast ohne Empfang in meiner Wohnung.
Ab 7 Uhr Ortszeit geht es zum Teil wieder.
Denke vor allem an Menschen in Städten wie Charkiw, die mit dieser Realität viel länger direkt konfrontiert sind.
Question: is labeling a picture in your message as "sensitive content" also a way of improving the performance of the server, by alowing it not to be fully loaded until it is clicked on?
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Are you unfamiliar with the terms #STED, #PALM, #STORM, #SMLM, #MINFLUX, & #MINSTED, but would you like to learn more about these #superresolution #microscopy technologies🔬? If so, then you should check out #StefanHell's #Lindau presentation 🤓 Enjoy👉 https://mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/recordings/39775
Dit akelig prachtige en actuele gedicht schreef Mark Boog 10 jaar geleden al in NRC next.
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F&S werkten er zelf een jaar of vijf #DWDD (NRC, di, 22-11-22)
Verhaal en commentaar op de actualiteit door marvin vos: https://www.marwinvos.nl/
Lees vooral ook dit mooie artikel van Marie-José Klaver naar aanleiding van het verschijnen van dit prachtige boek.
https://neerlandistiek.nl/2022/10/om-niet-te-hoeven-stoppen-van-geluk/
Wat een prachtig boek. En dan bedoel ik natuurlijk de inhoud, maar het ziet er ook zó mooi uit, zo liefdevol en zorgvuldig gemaakt. Dol op. @JaapRo...
Also true for flies. Especially some cave dwelling fly families living on bats are wingless and look more like spiders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nycteribiidae
Did you know? Not all species of wasp have wings (apterous). And there are species with greatly reduced wing size too (brachypterous). First two p...
Metro 010, een stripverhaal over Rotterdam ligt morgen in de boekhandel. Initiatief van Ellen Schindler, verhaal geschreven door Abdelkader Benali, mmv vele striptekenaars , illustratoren, fotografen, poëten, vormgevers, historici en schrijvers.
https://www.trouw.nl/binnenland/stripverhaal-over-rotterdam-moet-jongeren-liefde-voor-hun-stad-bijbrengen~b4f739d1/
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Behalve een kritische noot over de #stikstof special van @nrc_nl past ook een compliment. De portretten van de boswachters zijn zeer verhelderend en, belangrijker, er staat ook een goed stuk in over de gezondheidseffecten. Dat krijgt nog veel te weinig aandacht.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2022/11/18/stikken-in-het-stof-van-de-varkenshouderij-2-a4148429
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Figured I should explain this here in case folk are wondering why my finger is often in my photos - I have scale bars tattooed on my index fingers, the lines and dots are 5mm apart and they’re super useful for quick field photos 😅 Demonstrated here with some gorgeous crinoidal limestone from Fife 🏴
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The strange magic fountain pen.
A reservoir connected by wormhole to a bizarre improbable planet, a long forgotten world with a hidden history, the planet covered almost entirely in a sea of useable writing ink.
The air is still on the ink planet, the surface of the seas like obsidian traced with rivulets of starlight.
When the water caps or ripples it catches the light of a distant sun: blue-black dark waves stain the ancient shores.
You can write forever when you draw from an ocean.
Via instagram: met het prachtige gedicht "Ontheemd" won Saskia van Leendert de Literatuurprijs Zeist 2022.
🤓 #nerdstuff #rpn #calculator alert:
Who else here uses the old reverse polish notation (#rpn) calculators of HP? One of the best is the HP42S - quite expensive on the second hand market. A free alternative is the Free42 app of Thomas Okken: https://thomasokken.com/free42/
SwissMicros has built an actual calculator, DM42, based on the Free42 software https://www.swissmicros.com/product/dm42
Edward Shore has a nice calculator blog, on which he posted a fibonacci program of mine for the Free42 / DM42 , in two versions. https://edspi31415.blogspot.com/2022/09/dm42-recursive-fibonacci-by-marko.html
On the picture left: the original HP42S calculator, right: the SwissMicros DM42 version.
entomology (diptera), programming (java, python, sql, javascript), music (lilypond), poetry
Joined Nov 2022
