Notices by ubi (ubi@ecoevo.social), page 2

@rakyat @atomicpoet @liztai After many years of study, her disciples ask her, "Ok, but when do we learn all the flying fighting stuff?"

@liztai Isn't that PNB 118? TRX is distant in the background. Although TRX is a very evil looking building too.

The two towers of the Najib era.

The way I receive news on Mastodon: I get some strange random references that make no sense (submarine! Cage match! Russia!) about a day before I actually see the actual news report.

Maybe I should follow more news accounts.

@youronlyone I'm so annoyed by those things, thankfully that tiktok driven craze has died down in Malaysia. It was everywhere earlier this year.

@youronlyone@c.im @gowin @hishgraphics @cendawanita @youronlyone@calckey.social @rakyat @Munkao @irfan
There is an anthology of SEA steampunk stories published in Malaysia. It had some Philippine authors if I remember correctly.
https://www.nlb.gov.sg/biblio/202544696

@hishgraphics @Munkao Biologists have a name for the area that comprises Perlis, Langkawi and Northern Kedah: Kedawi. The species there are a bit different from the rest of the peninsula and have more similarities to Southern Thailand and include some Northern Thailand species as well.

This biogeographic pattern is believed to be caused by climate, physical barriers like mountain ranges and historical factors.

@irfan @hishgraphics @Munkao There's a whole field that studies this called biogeography and that is one of the classic case studies.

Basically we're on the Sunda plate, which has its own unique flora and fauna compared to Eurasia.

Fun fact: Malaysia used to be a biogeographic term until some politicians took it. Now biologists have to use Malesia as a substitute.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malesia

@cendawanita @irfan @hishgraphics @Munkao Now I'm curious about this tankie theory. Where do they think the name comes from?

One of the particularly narrow niche skills that I've developed over the years is the ability to reliably find trilobite beetles.

This one here is the most common species in forests around Kuala Lumpur: Platerodrillus ruficollis. #coleoptera #lycidae #entomology