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Dr Alex Bond

@thelabandfield.bsky.social

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🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🐧 Conservation, curator in charge of birbs, island hopper, climber, connoisseur of fine teas, biscuit fiend, v left, queer af, Erdős–Bacon = 8, he/him. 📍 Tring & Milton Keynes, UK https://linktr.ee/albnd

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 1h

If anyone intended to pre-order Wrath Month and hadn't got round to it yet, we're currently £8 away from a cool £40,000 and it...

is...

driving...

us...

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ALT: a close up of a woman with curly hair and a hair clip in her hair making a funny face .

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 7h

This is the last issue from our fabulous Editor @islandamy21.bsky.social 😢❤️ We're really sad to see her go, so we hope you'll join us in giving her a huge thanks for all the news and #seabird stories she has brought to us over the last few years 👏👏👏👏👏

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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 4h

If you're in London in February and want to get your geek on with me:
"This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of 2 Indigenous researchers to collaborate through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics."
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Counting across worlds (or, how to love a zero)

This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of two Indigenous researchers to collaborate across incommensurability through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 7h

We hear from our Chair @thelabandfield.bsky.social on the upcoming AGM & Group vacancies, get new ECR papers from @jacquiglencross.bsky.social & an update on Roland Arnison's 'Call of the Loon' Expedition 🦆

On top of this - a note for those on Instagram to follow us over at @theseabirdgroup 📲🤩📸

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 7h

By now issue #60 of our newsletter should've hit your inbox! 📩

This time is a hefty one, inclu. round ups from many #seabird breeding colonies around the UK! 🐣

We've got herons predating kittiwakes, brood patches in stormies & we spotlight Lindsay Young - VP. Research for Pristine Seas (NatGeo) ⭐

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99 Kaninchen? In dieser Wirtschaft? @aremay.bsky.social · 11h

The plural of Jeffrey Combs is Jeffries Combii

lupi @chimoora.zone · 15h

literally the instant you posted this, someone tagged me in discord (where i was discussing this in parallel) with this

the dude with progressively more enthused reacitons meme:
- jeffrey combs as brunt
- jeffrey combs as weyoun
- jeffrey combs as weyoun and brunt

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 8h

Accept as is. No corrections.

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Ruffle

Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 21h

I know and it amused me greatly

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I mean...

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

Weren't the birds and other vertebrates in an annex that was less affected?

Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

I can guarantee there was one alternative you did not grasp (it's an iykyk situation).

Rio: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...

National Museum of Brazil fire - Wikipedia

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

Other options include:
"I saw a thylacine!"
"Ivory-billed Woodpecker discourse"
"What's a salvage plan?"
"how are you thriving?"

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

"So, you remember Rio...."

Scott Fabricant MD PhD @safabric.bsky.social · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Cefiderocol-resistant Pseudomonas osteomyelitis" 👻👻

Darren Irwin (he / him) @darrenirwin.bsky.social · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"Developed new species concept"

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

This joke worked better in your old job

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Just Frites

Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

Least Auklets weigh 85 g (a puffin is about 350-450 g, and a guillemot is 700-900 g for comparison). They take the same ring size as a European blackbird and are totes adorbs

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

I've been remiss in celebrating #Auktober, so here are four delightful pics of the smollest one, the Least Auklet from Kiska Island, Alaska (where there are 1.2 million PAIRS in about 2 km sq).

Bonus early PhD Alex for scale.

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 1d

Continuing our #AUKTOBER theme, here's a Common guillemot (or Common murre) with its beak full 🐧🐟

These little guys are incredible freedivers - recorded diving at depths of up to 180m in pursuit of prey 🤿 They have even been spotted through the window of submarines! ⚓

#Seabirds #SuperSeabirdSunday

A Common guillemot with a large fish in its mouth. Photo: Joshua Pedley.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

anything can mean /something/ gendery if you use the right intonation and knowingly nod

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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davidbowman17.bsky.social @davidbowman17.bsky.social · 2d

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Dr Joby Hollis @jobium.bsky.social · 1d

Did a wedding, got a husband, best day of my life!

Photo of two men wearing suits and crowns and walking through a cloud of confetti while grinning. The left man is wearing a green suit and a wreath of bay leaves on his head, the right man is wearing a pink suit with a flower crown on his head.

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Trip Galey @trip.bsky.social · 1d

Not all mothers love their children; not all rulers deserve their crown.

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF VALENZIAGA

Coming in 2026

(Yes, it’s hella gay 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️)

#booksky #fantasy #sciencefantasy #amreading #lgbtq

www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...

Coming soon: The Fall of the House of Valenziaga

A queer, science fantasy novel featuring a city beyond the edge of time and space, drag magic, and world-shaking family drama! LGBTQ+

www.kickstarter.com

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 1d

Regent parrot chicks getting weighed are just so absurdly adorable and undignified 😂😭😇

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