Charlie T
@agentlaughingperch.bsky.social
Herpetologist & PhD student studying range dynamics and conservation of T. cristatus under global change 🐸
Conisseur of all things slimy, scaly and generally underrated🐍
I go to gigs 🤘 sometimes I draw stuff 🦎
All views my own 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🍉
Conisseur of all things slimy, scaly and generally underrated🐍
I go to gigs 🤘 sometimes I draw stuff 🦎
All views my own 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🍉
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Charlie T
@agentlaughingperch.bsky.social
· Nov 13
go.bsky.app/U5gPRq6
Re-skeeting to share the #Herpetologist starter pack I made! Please feel free to self nominate or suggest others to be added🦎🧪🐍🐸
Re-skeeting to share the #Herpetologist starter pack I made! Please feel free to self nominate or suggest others to be added🦎🧪🐍🐸
Feels especially pertinent right now. The hatred my community has received this past couple of years has been deliberately manufactured by very rich and powerful people with agendas beyond that which they would have you think. These people are costing lives.
Today is the Trans Day of Rememberance.
We are still losing so many innocent souls to murder and suicide. Sadly, in this climate of genocidal hostility cultivated by public figures and governments alike, it isn't surprising.
We must fight back. For the fallen. And for those still with us. #TDOR
We are still losing so many innocent souls to murder and suicide. Sadly, in this climate of genocidal hostility cultivated by public figures and governments alike, it isn't surprising.
We must fight back. For the fallen. And for those still with us. #TDOR
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Feels especially pertinent right now. The hatred my community has received this past couple of years has been deliberately manufactured by very rich and powerful people with agendas beyond that which they would have you think. These people are costing lives.
Looking forward to this week's department seminar with Rob Wilson @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social from the #science museum in Madrid, invited by @camilarocabado.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Looking forward to this week's department seminar with Rob Wilson @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social from the #science museum in Madrid, invited by @camilarocabado.bsky.social
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It's almost as if deliberately making every aspect of society worse has a negative effect on people.
November 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
It's almost as if deliberately making every aspect of society worse has a negative effect on people.
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Getting legacy media to give air time to actual scientists who can communicate - and there are plenty out there - is incredibly difficult; and they are then set up against cranks whose opinions are supposedly the same value as years of scholarship
Scientists are partly to blame by not learning to effectively communicate in lay language on modern communication channels. That information void is then ripe for disinformation to fill.
Embed lay comms & accessibility skills into academia.
Embed lay comms & accessibility skills into academia.
November 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Getting legacy media to give air time to actual scientists who can communicate - and there are plenty out there - is incredibly difficult; and they are then set up against cranks whose opinions are supposedly the same value as years of scholarship
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I moved the cory squad over to the 29 gal. Now they have more room for activities such as snorfling.
November 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I moved the cory squad over to the 29 gal. Now they have more room for activities such as snorfling.
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Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.”
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.”
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop
📢 Adoption of new IUCN resolution on #amphibian #conservation 📢 🐸
Big news, since a recent study showed that amphib conservation is serially underfunded. The TLDR of this are calls for:
-updated conservation guidelines
-govts to implement long term national plans
-funding research
Big news, since a recent study showed that amphib conservation is serially underfunded. The TLDR of this are calls for:
-updated conservation guidelines
-govts to implement long term national plans
-funding research
Adoption of new IUCN resolution guiding the conservation of amphibians | Oryx | Cambridge Core
Adoption of new IUCN resolution guiding the conservation of amphibians
www.cambridge.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:49 AM
📢 Adoption of new IUCN resolution on #amphibian #conservation 📢 🐸
Big news, since a recent study showed that amphib conservation is serially underfunded. The TLDR of this are calls for:
-updated conservation guidelines
-govts to implement long term national plans
-funding research
Big news, since a recent study showed that amphib conservation is serially underfunded. The TLDR of this are calls for:
-updated conservation guidelines
-govts to implement long term national plans
-funding research
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One of my favorite quotes I’ve heard across some of these short Chinese dramas:
“To be merciful to those who hurt you is the greatest cruelty to yourself.”
They really do use your mercy to continue to hurt you.
“To be merciful to those who hurt you is the greatest cruelty to yourself.”
They really do use your mercy to continue to hurt you.
October 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
One of my favorite quotes I’ve heard across some of these short Chinese dramas:
“To be merciful to those who hurt you is the greatest cruelty to yourself.”
They really do use your mercy to continue to hurt you.
“To be merciful to those who hurt you is the greatest cruelty to yourself.”
They really do use your mercy to continue to hurt you.
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Don't miss our @chillsubs.bsky.social page! Lifesaver for us writers looking for specific publication standards and guidelines! www.chillsubs.com/magazine/lun.... Just another publication hoping never to charge reading fees and encourage everybody to create art!
Lunar Sea Literary - Chill Subs
We vow to never charge fees for writers and artists, and hope, in time, to compensate successful submitters for their craft. This is our vision. A world in which the weird and wonderful thrive in harm...
www.chillsubs.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Don't miss our @chillsubs.bsky.social page! Lifesaver for us writers looking for specific publication standards and guidelines! www.chillsubs.com/magazine/lun.... Just another publication hoping never to charge reading fees and encourage everybody to create art!
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Just launched an online literary magazine that I've been working on this past year. Eager to read what everybody has to send us! We are accepting fiction, poetry, CNF, and artwork. #literarymag #openforsubmission #fiction #poetry #writersofbluesky #artmagazine
lunarsealit.wordpress.com/submissions/
lunarsealit.wordpress.com/submissions/
Submissions
Submissions are presently accepted via email: [email protected], or via the online submission form below. We do not presently accept snail mail due to timing and geographical difficulties …
lunarsealit.wordpress.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Just launched an online literary magazine that I've been working on this past year. Eager to read what everybody has to send us! We are accepting fiction, poetry, CNF, and artwork. #literarymag #openforsubmission #fiction #poetry #writersofbluesky #artmagazine
lunarsealit.wordpress.com/submissions/
lunarsealit.wordpress.com/submissions/
Can someone please tell me how the fuck I'm supposed to verify my age if this stupid verification site keeps not accepting my face scan or my card details...Like, no direct messaging for me I guess??? @bsky.app #fuckkierstarmer
October 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Can someone please tell me how the fuck I'm supposed to verify my age if this stupid verification site keeps not accepting my face scan or my card details...Like, no direct messaging for me I guess??? @bsky.app #fuckkierstarmer
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#OctoberForBats 🦇 Together, we can make a difference for bats! This month, let's rally behind bat research and outreach programs by fundraising and spreading awareness. Every contribution, no matter how small, helps us, help bats. Learn how you can participate and donate at www.albertabats.ca 💡
October 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
#OctoberForBats 🦇 Together, we can make a difference for bats! This month, let's rally behind bat research and outreach programs by fundraising and spreading awareness. Every contribution, no matter how small, helps us, help bats. Learn how you can participate and donate at www.albertabats.ca 💡
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Again I ask: how did we go from half of parliament and all of the press up in arms denouncing racism as a weapon to hound out the left, to the PM giving Enoch Powell speeches and fascists running riot in the street without a word of criticism from the main parties, and active support in some cases.
Refugee charities install safe rooms and relocate amid rise in far-right threats
Exclusive: One NGO placed on an online hitlist had to temporarily close its office owing to harassing phone calls
www.theguardian.com
August 22, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Again I ask: how did we go from half of parliament and all of the press up in arms denouncing racism as a weapon to hound out the left, to the PM giving Enoch Powell speeches and fascists running riot in the street without a word of criticism from the main parties, and active support in some cases.
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Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political.
Two genders - male, and political.
Two religions - Christian, and political.
Two races - white, and political.
Two genders - male, and political.
Two religions - Christian, and political.
Two races - white, and political.
Workers under cover of night removed a rainbow crosswalk outside of the former Pulse nightclub, apparently as part of state and federal transportation officials’ aim to wipe “political banners” from public roadways. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/21/r...
Rainbow crosswalk outside Pulse nightclub removed overnight
“We did everything according to state law, everything was compliant,” said Patty Sheehan, the city’s first openly gay elected official. “FDOT never moves that quickly with anything.R…
www.orlandosentinel.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political.
Two genders - male, and political.
Two religions - Christian, and political.
Two races - white, and political.
Two genders - male, and political.
Two religions - Christian, and political.
Two races - white, and political.
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Final words of the last #ESEB2025 plenary by @jmappes.bsky.social:
"Science moves forward when we keep both our curiosity and our humility"
"Science moves forward when we keep both our curiosity and our humility"
August 22, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Final words of the last #ESEB2025 plenary by @jmappes.bsky.social:
"Science moves forward when we keep both our curiosity and our humility"
"Science moves forward when we keep both our curiosity and our humility"
Very moving presentation from one of the recipients of the EUEA award from @eseb.bsky.social . As a trans academic myself, seeing effort being put into inclusivity has been refreshing. Thank you for platforming this topic and supporting people like this speaker 🏳️⚧️
August 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Very moving presentation from one of the recipients of the EUEA award from @eseb.bsky.social . As a trans academic myself, seeing effort being put into inclusivity has been refreshing. Thank you for platforming this topic and supporting people like this speaker 🏳️⚧️
A selection of the wonderful #herp posters I have seen this week at #ESEB the European society for evolutionary biology conference 🐸 the sheer breadth of topics being covered is awesome, from population trends and conservation genetics to transposable elements and sexual dimorphism in meiosis!
August 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."
It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.
I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.
I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
www.scrippsnews.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:48 AM
1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."
It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.
I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.
I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
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@karendeepsidhu.bsky.social tells us about how monogamy/polygamy alters responses to heatwaves in burying beetles (well a 25oC Scottish heatwave anyway)
August 20, 2025 at 9:06 AM
@karendeepsidhu.bsky.social tells us about how monogamy/polygamy alters responses to heatwaves in burying beetles (well a 25oC Scottish heatwave anyway)
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265,000 Long Term Empty Homes in England
720,000 empty homes in England currently
1,627,450 second homes in England (99610 in Wales)
It's not assylum hotels stopping us housing homeless people. It's political choice.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
720,000 empty homes in England currently
1,627,450 second homes in England (99610 in Wales)
It's not assylum hotels stopping us housing homeless people. It's political choice.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Empty home crisis: Why aren't they being used to solve shortages?
There are almost 720,000 empty homes in England. And many more on social housing waiting lists. Is using one to help solve the other a case of a missed opportunity?
www.bbc.co.uk
August 20, 2025 at 5:55 AM
265,000 Long Term Empty Homes in England
720,000 empty homes in England currently
1,627,450 second homes in England (99610 in Wales)
It's not assylum hotels stopping us housing homeless people. It's political choice.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
720,000 empty homes in England currently
1,627,450 second homes in England (99610 in Wales)
It's not assylum hotels stopping us housing homeless people. It's political choice.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
doi.org
August 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.
Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑
doi.org/10.1093/icb/...
Having a great time at the European society for Evolutionary Biology conference! Loads of interesting talks and posters, including a strong Aberdeen contingent, favorite title so far definitely goes to Eva Ringer with "who let the frogs out" 🐸 #evolution #biology #conference #herpetology
August 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Having a great time at the European society for Evolutionary Biology conference! Loads of interesting talks and posters, including a strong Aberdeen contingent, favorite title so far definitely goes to Eva Ringer with "who let the frogs out" 🐸 #evolution #biology #conference #herpetology
Looking forward to presenting my poster later at ESEB 2025 🐸 board 166 come find me if you're here
August 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Looking forward to presenting my poster later at ESEB 2025 🐸 board 166 come find me if you're here