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Vancouver, BC and Ithaca, NY—A new study helps uncover why tropical mountain birds occupy such a narrow elevation range, a mystery that has baffled scientists for centuries. While many temperature assumptions are responsible for this limited distribution, recent research suggests competition from other species plays a larger role in shaping bird ranges. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of British Columbia and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, included 4.4 million citizen science observations of 2,879 bird species worldwide. The findings were published in Science on July 21. “You have incredible biodiversity in the mountains, especially in the tropics. From one scenic point in the Andes, you can see mountain slopes that are home to as many species as the rest of North America,” said lead author Benjamin Freeman, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia. “We want to know, how does it work?” Freeman and his collaborators obtained the range of data

Tom Pidcock, 22, further cemented himself as the future of British cycling after picking up his first Tour de France stage win at the end of a long solo climb at L’Alpe d’Huez. Key points: British youth Tom Pidcock adds debut Tour stage win to a cycling CV that includes cyclo-cross world champion and Olympic gold in cross-country mountain biking Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark defends the yellow jersey and leads defending champion Tadej Pogacar by two minutes and 22 seconds Pidcock team leader, Geraint Thomas, sits in third place overall The cyclo-cross world champion and Olympic gold medalist in cross-country mountain biking attacked from the breakaway that day with more than 10 kilometers remaining on the final climb — a 3.8km effort at 8.1 percent — and never looked back. “Riding the Alpe d’Huez, the most iconic finish in cycling, at the top of the race, it was one of the best experiences of my life,” said the Pidcock Tour debutant after stage 12, a 165.1km journey from Briancon. Fendin

Mooners and Shakers is sponsored by Dacxi, the world’s first purpose-built Crypto Wealth platform. Bitcoin lost a nice, round, $20K psychological mark earlier, but has managed to find some decent support above $19.6k, at the time of writing. Meanwhile, the CPI inflation data on Wednesday July 13 in the US, and all the technical analysis in the world today may not be able to keep up with the results. Is it as simple as: lower-than-expected inflation, rising crypto/risk assets; high inflation, crypto assets/risk down? Perhaps, despite the old high inflation “entry price” argument is also floating again. Perhaps the real kicker will come when the US Federal Reserve announces its response to the July 26-27 CPI inflation data with the possibility of another 0.75bp rate hike. Right, got it – inflation… macro sucks right now… is there anything else scaring the market, other than crypto also doing its best to burn internally through the “contagion” effect of Terra LUNA, Celsius and 3AC et al