{"id":83,"date":"2016-03-08T18:11:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T00:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2016-03-09T09:35:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T15:35:43","slug":"tuesday-mixed-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/03\/08\/tuesday-mixed-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Mixed Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was my birthday, so…other things got done than a post here.\u00a0 So what’s interesting right now?\u00a0 How about two urban predators mixing it up on the street in front of a lucky photographer?\u00a0 http:\/\/www.nhm.org\/nature\/blog\/hawk-attacks-snake-and-epically-fails<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 There’s another pair in the same post…that time reptile v. reptile.<\/p>\n

Several good Twitter science accounts to follow:\u00a0 https:\/\/twitter.com\/carlzimmer<\/a>\u00a0 Award-winning science journalist.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 And Asia Murphy,\u00a0 https:\/\/twitter.com\/am_anatiala<\/a>, \u00a0 studying Madagascar wildlife.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And Sophie Gilbert, https:\/\/twitter.com\/SophieLGilbert<\/a>, wildlife ecologist, conservation biologist.<\/p>\n

Been hearing about CRISPR and gene editing, but haven’t found a good explanation?\u00a0 http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/crispr-gene-editing-is-just-the-beginning-1.19510?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews<\/a><\/p>\n

We were missed by the tornado this morning but got 1.5 inches of rain (yay) that came down very hard and produced a lot of runoff (not quite as yay)\u00a0 slowed down by our various erosion control efforts.\u00a0\u00a0 I went out and did minor science when the storm quit, checking water quality in the runoff at different levels.\u00a0 Yes, we need to build two more checkdams, since last fall’s multiple flash floods managed to scour in areas that had been “safe.”\u00a0\u00a0 More storms are due overnight and off and on until Saturday.\u00a0\u00a0 One of our big bullfrogs glowered at me as I tried to get a better picture and flung himself into the water before I got exactly what I wanted.\u00a0 I should’ve put the big lens on the camera.\u00a0 But here it is:<\/p>\n

\"Bullfrog-03-08-2016\"<\/p>\n

The pond is not large enough to sustain a good population of bullfrogs, but apparently a small reliable pond is better (in their little amphibian minds) than a much larger area that isn’t reliable.\u00a0\u00a0 I had been quite happy with a breeding population of Rio Grande leopard frogs (much more in scale with our waterscape) and cricket frogs (ample room for them) but once you get bullfrogs, you’ve pretty much GOT bullfrogs unless you try to hunt them out, and I haven’t time.<\/p>\n

[Edited to add link to Nature News article on CRISPR tech.]<\/p>\n

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Yesterday was my birthday, so…other things got done than a post here.\u00a0 So what’s interesting right now?\u00a0 How about two urban predators mixing it up on the street in front of a lucky photographer?\u00a0 http:\/\/www.nhm.org\/nature\/blog\/hawk-attacks-snake-and-epically-fails\u00a0\u00a0 There’s another pair in the same post…that time reptile v. reptile. Several good Twitter science accounts to follow:\u00a0 https:\/\/twitter.com\/carlzimmer\u00a0 Award-winning Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22],"tags":[17,24],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-science","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}