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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 7h

Ruffle

Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 7h

I know and it amused me greatly

Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 7h

I mean...

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 11h

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

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 11h

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

en.wikipedia.org

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 11h

"So, you remember Rio...."

Scott Fabricant MD PhD @safabric.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 12h

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 · 14h

This joke worked better in your old job

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 14h

Just Frites

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 15h

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 · 16h

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 · 16h

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

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 19h

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 · 1d

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Dr Joby Hollis @jobium.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 19h

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

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Grant Hamilton 🐨 @ecologygrant.bsky.social · 2d

The shrew’s extinction increases the tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 to 39 species. This is far more than for any other country. These losses represent about 10% of all Australia’s land mammal species before colonisation 🧪

theconversation.com/and-then-the...

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.

theconversation.com

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Derek Hennen, Ph.D. @derekhennen.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yeah

Archway with text over the door part of a longer message, message over door reads "Be trans"

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 1d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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

don't get me wrong, it's a useful tool in some situations, but the fat that it can be used to generate a number means there's lots of data out there and conclusions based on ignoring assumptions or just plain old chemistry.

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

don't get me wrong, it's a useful tool in some situations, but the fat that it can be used to generate a number means there's lots of data out there and conclusions based on ignoring assumptions or just plain old chemistry.

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

free project idea #47: what have stable isotopes actually "revealed" rather than "suggested" and how many of those "stable isotopes reveal" papers have significant interpretation errors that alter conclusions. I'd wager it's >50% which is pretty damning.

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

meanwhile, the field has largely stagnated, methodologically, and everyone treats references from >25 years ago as the most current knowledge because it's easier and doesn't make things too messy. Sigh.

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

meanwhile, the field has largely stagnated, methodologically, and everyone treats references from >25 years ago as the most current knowledge because it's easier and doesn't make things too messy. Sigh.

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