Dave Hemprich-Bennett
@davehb.bsky.social
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A bunch of stardust with ADHD. Scientist working on the ecology of bats, mosquitoes and malaria, based at Oxford Uni. Used to be @hammerheadbat on twitter. Runner, photographer, guitarist.
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you go lil buddy, show the humans who's boss
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It's been an intense afternoon so now imma sit back and watch this video on repeat:
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The frilled lizard is an iconic Australian reptile because of their utter fearlessness.

Their scientific name, Chlamydosaurus kingii, translates to 'King cloaked lizard' & you can see why.

They're one of a few modern lizards that can accurately be called bipedal, running upright on hind legs.
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Wow, that’s extremely least. Leastest
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Ha. Yes and no: I’ve never really worked with bat call data but I do have friends who do…
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Probably yeah. I’m sure most people in the affected areas would prefer to slow the water down upstream, but I guess these issues never appear that pressing until they become so
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Europe’s gonna be the last one I need to get the set isn’t it? The very continent I live on
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Odd realisation: within the next year I'll have publications using bat-data from every continent bats are found on apart from Australia and Europe.

European and Australian people, hit me up
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📌Welcome to the bat-feed! A place for posts by bat-scientists, ecologists, photographers etc.

DM me to ask to be added as a contributor. Then use the 🦇 emoji for posts you want to show up in the feed. Rules in the next post:

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FWIW it wasn’t until I was running >=10ish miles that I started getting runners highs. i think some of it was more mental than physical in that I started getting them about the time that I felt genuinely good about what I was achieving out there.

Which is uh, quite a shit intro to tell new people
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There are four house martins feeding above my head. They’re six inches long and are about to travel 6,000 miles. That’s about 63 million times their body length. The lunatics.
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You’re an academic: the answer is always b) do not reply to email if you can avoid it
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Please god nobody quote that post out of context
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*great tits, but I’ll allow it
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With Jane Goodall's death last week and the Nobel Prize announcements this week, I wrote about why it's a big problem that we lionise individuals for achievements that resulted from the work of collective groups of people.
We spend too much time lionising people like Jane Goodall
Idolising people only entrenches the idea that it is spectacular individuals, not collectives, who change the world.
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It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case