mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06DIY Digital Media in the Wild. All open source. Former official Professor, but still teaching students weird animal interaction nature tech stuff! Lots of upcycling stuff too.
just gonna keep putting this out there!
Our www.mothbox.org project is really taking off and tons of researchers are mothboxing around the world, but us folks making it haven't been able to find funding anymore :/
So, cool opportunity: You can have us SUPER POWER your project just by hiring us to keep going!
danggg got rejected from 2 more fellowships and grants today!
it's a strange thing doing half a year of keynotes and invited talks and workshops where people talk about how "inspiring" or "impactful" your work is, when also you aren't able to get any funding to keep doing the work
We got our first big publication about the Mothbox out thanks to our team:
Hubert A. Szczygieł, Brianna Johns, Bernat Fortet, Daisy H. Dent, Kit Quitmeyer, Andrew Quitmeyer and more!
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/2041-210x.70327
It is still waiting to update as open access, so in the meantime if it tries to make you pay, you can just check out the pre-print:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.03.692171v2
If you are at @oshwassociation@mastodon.social Open Hardware Summit (or are just in berlin), I have a *couple* extra mothboxes I could probably get to you AT COST!
Hit me up!
digital-naturalism-laboratories.github.io/Mothbox/
Open science hardware foundation is hiring a program manager https://opensciencehardware.org/2026/05/oshf-seeking-program-manager/
Remote job with @OSHF@mastodon.social
We bumped into a Wim Wenders exhibit today and are now watching a cool as he'll cyberpunk movie called "Until the End of the World"
BTW we are moving away from Panama and actively looking for jobs that can let us
- continue developing the Mothbox project
- live somewhere less isolated
- not in the USA
If you see anything, connect us up 🙂
It's #earthday! And we suddenly had folks order 40 more mothboxes today!
This is effectively doubled however many we were already planning to make, so might as well go for broke.
Sign up to pre-order a #mothbox here: https://digital-naturalism-laboratories.github.io/Mothbox/
It's pride month 2026 and we still don't got multi-pronged spaghetti for non-monogamous ladiez+trampz
Last year
@wildlabs and ARM gave us another amazing prize to make a new, mass-manufacturable version of the Mothbox! We spent this time learning how to design industrial PCBs with
@kicad@fosstodon.org , and now have a wonderful version we are distributing around the world!
Check out its specs!
I have a fluorescent tattoo of an agouti on my hand to let me quickly test if certain materials let UV light through :)
I gave it to myself with tattoo silicone that people use for lizards, so can't recommend others actually do this.
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We have a little mailing list where we send monthly-ish email updates about what our little rainforest laboratory is up to, and opportunities and events in conservation, tech, art, and science!
you can sign up here:
https://www.dinalab.net/contact/
Also message me if you want to be on the mothbox news too
Said it many times before, but the most punk awesome thing you can do is make something neat and give it to the world.
Last #YearOfTheMoth of my 30's!
Heterogynis penella.
This alpine moth females remain a wingless grub who lays eggs in her old cocoon and then gets devoured by her babies.
ACCESS (Aarhus Computational Entomology Summer School)
Sep 14-18, 2026 Kaløvigcenter, near Aarhus
$: Up to 15 fully-funded spots + some self-funded slots
Deadline: April 30th
For grad students/postdocs in bio or data science who want to work on automated insect monitoring
https://darsa.info/ACCESS-2026/
Here's a fun #sciArt challenge for #yearOfTheMoth!
It's a list of weekly neat moths to make art about from now until #mothWeek
I find the idea that, as a scientist, someone could "scoop" the concept you are working on, is a sinister, anti-scientific mind virus that I hope disappears one day.
If you would like to get a monthly-ish newsletter from me about updates on what we are doing along with other cool opportunities and events coming up, you can toss you email here:
@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org is the name of the art about a trillion pages "one billion?", or am I having a problem reading the commas?
Does anyone know a good way to add some multi-language infrastructure to a github pages (just-the-docs) in a sustainable way?
it's already difficult enough to maintain updated instructions in one language, and I have had projects with multi-language support get bogged down and messy beyond use before (like making sure all my links are updated in triplicate failed hard). But maybe there's better infrastructure out there now?