2025-09-21 10:02:32
Penguins, gophers, crabs... I like the wildlife in my systems.
Penguins, gophers, crabs... I like the wildlife in my systems.
16 breathtaking images from the 2025 Ocean Photographer of the Year contest
https://www.popsci.com/environment/2025-ocean-photographer-of-the-year-finalists/?utm_source=flipboard&am…
Oh no! My beloved dinosaur, the cassowary, has been kicked to the curb, once again unfairly out of the running for the Guardian's bird of the year comp. 😭🦖
Looks like it's now up to my favourite chorister, the magpie, once again.
#ByeByeBirdie #BirdOfTheYear
🧙♂️🎂 It's my birthday, and I'm celebrating by wandering Middle-earth on a Linux-powered PC. Sauron fears penguins, right? 🐧🔥 #LOTRO #LinuxGaming #BirthdayStream
Thermal convection in huddling emperor penguins
Dmitry Bratsun, Kirill Kostarev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16586 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16586
🐧 Dagger beaks and strong wings: New fossils rewrite the penguin story and affirm NZ as a cradle of their evolution
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-dagger-beaks-strong-wings-fossils.html
Bird Photographer of the Year winners, and even highly commended shots for 2025 are all incredibly epic (as usual)
#photography
Librewolf: the best browser? - Bread on Penguins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gkmx3ixUXE
Theoretical framework for lattice QCD computations of $B\to K \ell^ \ell^-$ and $\bar{B}_s\to \ell^ \ell^- \gamma$ decays rates, including contributions from "Charming Penguins"
R. Frezzotti, G. Gagliardi, V. Lubicz, G. Martinelli, C. T. Sachrajda, F. Sanfilippo, L. Silvestrini, S. Simula, N. Tantalo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.0…
"The life of microplastic: how fragments move through plants, insects, animals - and you"
#Plastic #Plastics #Microplastics
"Penguin Guano in Antarctica May Help Cool the Planet"
#Antarctica #Penguins #Climate #ClimateChange