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Happy National Coming Out Day!
Happy National Coming Out Day!

It’s #NationalComingOutDay. Here’s a little icon for all our our science friends in the LGBTQ community! In your own time, in your own way. Thanks for being YOU

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NewsKika TuffOctober 11, 2018love, LGBTQ, coming out day, people, News
See our newest film "The Future of Science is Open."
See our newest film "The Future of Science is Open."

In this inspirational film, we showcase 3 scientists revolutionizing the way ecology is done in the field and in the lab through their work with the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).

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NewsKika TuffAugust 29, 2018new orleans convention centerNEON, science, science communication, filmmaking, scifilm, sciart, scicomm
Come see us at #ESA2018
Come see us at #ESA2018

Come see our IGNITE talk on Thursday, August 09, 2018 from 1:30 PM - 03:00 PM in Room 243 at the Convention Center, as part of the session Scaling up from the Smallest Actors to Global Patterns.

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NewsKika TuffJuly 30, 2018new orleans convention center
In Search of HoneyBloom wins award at science film festival
In Search of HoneyBloom wins award at science film festival

"In Search of Honey Bloom" wins its category (Documentary, <10 minutes) at the Raw Science Film Festival. Congrats to the team, Matt, Pete, Sharon, and Kika!

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NewsKika TuffFebruary 1, 2018
IML helps rebut Courchamp & Bradshaw's "100 articles every ecologist should read"
IML helps rebut Courchamp & Bradshaw's "100 articles every ecologist should read"

In this rebuttal, we argue that the future of ecology is collaborative, inclusive and deconstructs biases, but the recently published "100 articles" does not reflect this reality.

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NewsKika TuffDecember 19, 2017
Founder Kika Tuff featured in Young Photographer Profile
Founder Kika Tuff featured in Young Photographer Profile

In this interview, Kika talks founding IML, the nature photography community, and the shared struggles of people pursuing meaningful work.

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Kika TuffDecember 19, 2017News
#skinktober day 18: eulamprus heatwolei sneaky peeking 👀👀 . . #skinksofinstagram #reptiles #reptilesofinstagram #skink
#Skinktober day 17: skink museum specimens in a jar, awaiting scanning. . #behindthescenes from my PhD project on changes in skink body size and shape following the fragmentation of their forest habitat. These skinks will be arranged in large sheets, pressed with a plate of glass to reduce curvature, and then run through the #Satscan machine to produce images for analysis. . Skinks were captured as part of the @wog_wog_ecology project from 1985 to 2015, offering 30-years worth of individual, population, and species-level data. We use this data to understand the short- and long-term effects of landscape change on wildlife. . . #skinksofinstagram #naturalhistory #science #scicomm #naturestudy #fragmentation #habitatfragmentation
#skinktober: day 12. Skink on a log, being boring but gorgeous at the same time 💅 . As a herp photographer, I spend a lot of time watching reptiles do...well, not a whole lot. Wander around, smelling things, tasting things, taking the pulse on local vibrations, and checking the sky for predators. . But skinks (and all wildlife, for that matter) don’t have to DO anything to be worth watching. It’s enough just to observe as they forage—their scales iridescent in the sunlight, their golden color entrancing all who watch them. . And you will learn loads about behavior, and diet, and habitat use. But mostly, you’ll be waxing poetic about soft light and coarse scales and golden skin on your Instagram account, and people will have no idea what to do with you 🙋‍♀️ . So enjoy this young #eulamprus #heatwolei hanging on a log. Doing nothing but totally worth watching anyway ❤️ . . #skink #skinksofinstagram #reptile #reptilesofinstagram #naturephotography #naturelovers #spendtimeinnature #naturewatch
#Skinktober day 11: baby Lampropholis in hand. . February always meant one thing for me in grad school: #hatchlings!!! Glorious, glorious #skink hatchlings, all over my field site in southeastern Australia 🇦🇺. . In good years, they peppered the ground like confetti at the end of a New Year’s party. And they are naive and easy to capture — basically Christmas for a handsy herpetologist such as myself. . And luckily these species (I say these cause I’m not sure if this is L. delicata or guichenoti) are robust generalists and populations are doing well both in their native range and in places where they’ve been introduced, like Hawaii. It’s nice to fall in love with a species and NOT have to worry about whether or not future generations will get to experience them like I have. . At least for these guys, chances are good 👏 . . #skinks #skinksofinstagram #lampropholis #science #scicomm #impactmedialab #skinktoberismynewfavoritemonth
In honor of #Skinktober, here is a wave of skink specimens from my PhD (all Lampropholis guichenoti) . While artistic in its design, this image is actually packed with precious data on skink body size and shape over a long-term study. I photographed hundreds of skinks, using a 3D camera on a fixed grid, so that I could measure their body features in excruciating detail. Swipe right to see the resolution of the real image 👉👉👉 . I used this image (and others like it) to study changes in the size and shape of skinks over time, as part of a 30-year study on deforestation and habitat fragmentation (see @wog_wog_ecology ). . The paper was recently resubmitted and I’ll happily share the link here when it’s ready). . . #science #scicomm #skinks #Australia #lampropholis #guichenoti #gardenskink #reptiles #reptilesofinstagram #skink #skinks #skinksofinstagram
Ever wonder why the leaves turn yellow in the fall? 🍁 . During the spring and summer, leaves serve as factories for the tree, exploding with chlorophyll to fuel growth and light consumption while the climate and conditions are favorable. . Even in the summer, leaves have yellow and orange pigments, carotenes and xanthophyll, but they are masked by the abundance of chlorophyll. . But in the fall, because of changes in daylight and temperature, the leaves stop their food-making process. The chlorophyll breaks down, the green color disappears, and the yellow and orange breaks through. . And other chemical changes can occur, like the development of red anthocyanin pigments. Some mixtures give rise to the reddish and purplish fall colors of trees such as dogwoods and sumacs, while others give the sugar maple its brilliant orange. . The spectacular variation in foliage is due to the mixing of varying amounts of chlorophyll residue and other pigments in the leaf during the fall season. . As the colors appear, other changes take place as well. At the point where the stem of the leaf is attached to the tree, a special layer of cells develops that severs the tissues that support the leaf. At the same time, the tree seals the cut, so that when the leaf is finally blown off by the wind, it leaves behind a scar. . It turns out that even when the beauty of nature is already immeasurable, knowing the science underlying the phenomenon still makes it all the more spectacular 🔬 . Text modified from New York's Global Environmental College . . #science #scicomm #isntnaturewonderful #leafpeeping #fall
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