#the Riva

[jontycrane]

Split

The second largest city in Croatia, Split offers a wonderful mix of the old and the new, and is a good base for exploring the region. The heart of the tourist part of the city is the old town, which has grown from Diocletian’s Palace, built for the Roman emperor of the same name, in the 4th century. He was well known for his persecution of Christians, who got their revenge in the fifth century…

[sandrarivasart]

Wanted to draw the partners from one of my favorite games: Paper Mario The Thousand-Year Door! Uploaded in order from most favorite of mine!

[hoagiesnadwich]

an honest conversation

wahoo part 5! i was so excited to post this the entire time i was making it, i think its so funny

part 4 <- part 5 -> part 6

extra:

[markscherz]

I'm sorry... snake paper? Are things heating up in the snake researcher fandom?

16 February 2024: A team of researchers (including a generally well-respected anaconda expert) found minimal and partly contradictory genetic differences in green anacondas over an enormous area, summarily dismissed all previous work on the taxonomy of green anacondas, and gave the mitochondrial lineage concerned a new name, along the way making some huge fumbles that show plainly that they have no idea how taxonomy works or what certain technical terms mean. They published the work in a journal from a suspect publishing house that is known to rush, skip, or ignore peer review as and when it suits them. And apparently there was some suspicious funding involved, though I don’t know much about that. They made a media storm with ‘a new anaconda!’ but within minutes there were people raising huge red flags about the paper, for the reasons enumerated above and others.

The response from ‘the community’ has been swift and harsh, but mostly fair, in my view. The discussion on ResearchGate reflects this pretty well. There are some bad takes about keeping ‘wokism’ out of science; I would argue that it remains critical to incorporate native peoples, knowledge, and languages into taxonomic work—just not the way this was done, in flagrant and intentional conflict with the established methods and protocols. There are also responses in the discussion by the lead author that show that he is evidently impervious to all of this criticism, and stands by the belief that the work and taxonomic reasoning is sound.

19 March 2024: two papers were published simultaneously in Bionomia, that both enumerate and rebut the problems of the original paper. And I know there are more on the way, though I don’t know if they are all going to be completed now that two responses have already been published.

The one thing I would weigh in on from my perspective is that it is the *taxonomy*, and not necessarily the evidence presented in the paper, that is the biggest problem. Species are described based on mitochondrial data alone all the time. Some of the results are quite interesting. But the taxonomy of the paper is a mess, full of contradictions, cherry-picking, and terminological errors. In the hands of competent taxonomists, the work might have been much more difficult to dispute. But also, no competent taxonomist would have assigned a new name to this lineage; there are too many existing names that would have priority, if it is worth recognising.

Undoing public perception of there being a new anaconda species will take years, if it can ever really be achieved. Always easier for media stories to go around than corrections.

TL;DR big snake paper made big mistakes, and within a month was dismissed. It has probably done lasting damage to perception of anaconda diversity.

[dalishious]

Teia Cantori & Viago de Riva | Dragon Age: The Veilguard [x]

[cadaveerie]

me playing dragon age: the veilguard

lucanis: so are we heading out or not

rook: yeah just hold on a second

*pets assan* *pets assan* *pets assan* *pets assan* *pets assan* *pets assan* *hugs assan* *hugs assan* *pets assan* *pets assan* *pets assan* *pets assan* *pets

[emiko-matsui]

good morning to lesbians getting over 10 year old situationships, people trying to pay off their debt by tutoring spanish (without speaking spanish), people who's fallen for a pyramid scheme, people with the same name as their brother, big fans of grenades and the colour pink, and brain slugs who have taken over the body of a toxic space captain

[proffbon]

Viago: Rook, last time you 'did things your way' you fucked up a major Crow operation. What went wrong this time?

Rook, trying to think of a way to tell about two blighted elven gods they accidentally released:

[disgruntledwing]

"The world doesn't need a hero. It needs a professional."

Geralt of Rivia 🐺 ⚔️

[ribbittrobbit]

The Gunner Channel: where the ball is always rolling up

[mmhue]

They are still so beloved to me so redrew this old piece I did of them a couple years ago - comparison is under the cut :)

[sandrarivasart]

Optional partner after Chapter 4.

[rivastraut]

8/12/24 🌺 Me and Mike have officially been married for 1 year! Here's to plenty more years of our unconditional love for each other 💕 (c: @jadenvargen)

[m0nomercy]

One of the pieces i did as part of the d20 zine jam!! this ones for the mirror zine where you do my favourite thing which is imagine one seasons characters in another season!! i did my favourite spacer crew the gunner channel as fantasy high students!! :)

heres all their class info and stuff i had!! + aurora nebbins as a baby displacer beast !!!

you can get all the zines in the zine jam as part of a charity bundle for pay what you want <3

>link<

[beezhive]

could two crows still be considered a murder

[roughridingrednecks]

Rivas in Arkansas