Atticus Murphy
@MurphyAtticus
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postdoc @ virginia tech; pollinator gardening, social contagion / formerly @ UC Davis & Tufts; all smart & funny opinions courtesy of my beautiful fiancee
Joined February 2014
Pollinator gardens are having a moment, with good reason! But what can these gardens realistically achieve for conservation and for the people who make them? Led by Nick Dorian, we take a stab at these questions, out today in Conservation Biology:
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
In recent years, declines in animal pollinators have stimulated tremendous interest in pollinator-friendly gardening. There is a widespread notion that pollinator gardens are beneficial, but the...
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Ever-prescient Marshall McLuhan, 1969: "Under electric conditions there can be no privacy. The privacy invaders are the bulwark of the new knowledge industries, from the pollsters, to the insurance companies, and the credit ratings, ‘the eye in the sky,’ the age of the ‘snoop’."
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As someone born after the Web's invention, there is something kind of sad about looking back at a time when we felt entitled to this amount of privacy. It would never have crossed my mind!
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Fascinating to see people grapple with the Information Age when it was really starting to rev up -- what do we do with all this information? what should we be allowed to do? it all seems very quaint now, though I'm not sure we ever answered these questions... (Bowker & Star 1999)
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Add this to the pile of reasons why permitting denser #housing by law is a good idea. Current zoning restrictions (min. lot sizes + min. setbacks) create larger yards and thus more lawns (low diversity, high chemical and water inputs).
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Out now in Landscape and Urban Planning: the first pub from my dissertation! We used Google Street View to map urban pollinator gardens. Gardens were more common small + wealthy lots. Suggests unexpected biodiversity benefits to denser housing development!
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I was curious so I made a plot of N postdoc postings on https://t.co/CfLPnE4yiA by month. September is surprisingly the quietest! I assume the semester start makes everyone busy or something...
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Incredible what you could get away with when communications were slow and unreliable
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Just how at-risk are migratory monarch butterfly populations? And can density dependence be counted on to rescue them from down years? Elizabeth Crone, @CherylBSchultz, & I comment on these issues, out now in @InsectDiversity:
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With something like 800 students and staff and 20 gal per day per person ( https://t.co/E9ibOEX4sF) over 200 school days, Weston High makes >3 million galls of sewage a year itself. 😉
eorwa.org
Place Design flow (gallons per day) Waste strength range BOD5(milligrams per liter) Airport 15 per employee plus 4 per parking space 200 to 280 Apartment 120 per bedroom 200 to 280 Assembly hall 15...
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I wonder how much sewage the high school makes itself lol. I would bet it’s close to that…and they’re piping it only feet away from the children! The horror!
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anybody’s backyard could be like this!!! so cool.
Our new paper describes the 1,150 species we found in our urban backyard in @brisbanecityqld over 1yr. Trees, shrubs, & weeds (instead of manicured lawn) provided lots of habitat for a shocking amount of wildlife on an urban lot https://t.co/xqpCHWYV93 in @ESAEcology
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I just adore stuff like this…its so true it really does, maybe because you put the word fuzz in the name 😌
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