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Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩‍🔬
@kristinamuise.bsky.social
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MSc & BSc (Hons) in bat behaviour/physiology @uwinnipeg.bsky.social 🦇 (she/her)

Veterinary Medicine, Wildlife Conservation & Diseases 🔬

https://kristinamuise.weebly
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It was my cats birthday yesterday and it makes me so sad that I couldn’t have been with her.

I miss this cat so much
October 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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I’m not an advocate of overworking one’s self

But it is a privilege to have the office space to be able to volunteer & do an outreach talk on a Saturday (plus fit in a bit of teaching prep + manuscript work)
A Birds Eye view of a desk set up, with a laptop, set of keys, coffee thermos, and a green notebook
October 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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I’m doing an outreach talk this upcoming Saturday for Skagway Public Libray (in Alaska) and they’ve made this public poster + it’s being announced on the towns radio station.

I love how they’re advertising & it makes me feel so appreciated ♥️
Poster announcing the following: “Skype a Scientist: Bats What better time of year to learn about bats than spooky season! Veterinary Student Kristina A. Muise will tell us all about her work with bats and answer your questions. Saturday October 18 @ 1:00pm”
October 15, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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From a plant FB group, a stranger gave me a bunch of free cuttings - so now I have some office plants!

🪴🌱♥️
A plastic cup filled with a variety of green plant cuttings sitting on top of a desk
October 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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In batches, the red blood cells are returned body to my body through the IV line.

What’s left is some plasma and mainly platelets to be used in the donation process.

Since it was my first time donating platelets, they took about 100ml, but normally they take about 200ml

(2/n)
September 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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After years of donating whole blood 🩸(38 donations in total), I decided to join in on donating platelets 🧵

The whole process took about 1.5 hours in which I was hooked up to a machine where my blood was centrifuged and my red blood cells were separated from my platelets/plasma.

(1/n)
A persons arm where there is IV lines containing red blood. In the background there is a machine in which the IV lines are leading to.
September 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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My roommate sometimes brings me home desserts from work (she’s a chef) and it’s always so perfect 😍
A takeout box with “for Kristina ♥️” written on top A circular pastry with flamed marshmallow and yellow custard, and a single leaf of basil as garnish
September 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Another walk, another small bunch of wildflowers to press 🌸
A hand holding a small bouquet of purple and yellow wildflowers
September 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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I’m Kristina!

For my B.Sc (Hons) and M.Sc., I studied the hibernation physiology and behaviour of North American bat species- notably those affected by white-nose syndrome.

My aim is to become a veterinarian and do a Ph.D in wildlife diseases and conservation medicine

🦇🌎🧪👩‍⚕️
An image of me doing surgery (supervised) when I was a veterinary student Me with a burrowing owl on my shoulder Me holding a new born lamb
August 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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My friend took me birding a few nights ago, but I was distracted by all the wildflowers

So I picked a couple to bring back & press between a book & they turned out so good

I’m obsessed.

🌸 🐦
Flattened and pressed, yellow and purple flowers lying on top of paper towel and parchment paper, ontop of pages of a book.
July 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Canadian Blood Donation #33 on my 33rd Birthday 🩸🎂

(+ 5 donations in the UK)
July 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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And a graph of the past four years of reading broken down by number of pages and number of books
Screenshot of a graph from the StoryGraph app showing the increase in number of pages (red) and number of books read (blue) in the past four years. Both lines increase linearly with the pages read dropping slightly in 2023.
June 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Not even half way through the year & I’ve reached my reading goal for 2025.

3 consecutive years of reading >10 books/year & the fourth year I’ve increased my reading goal by 3 books/year (but I don’t think I’ll manage 21 books next year)

Happy to have been able to catch up on some classics
Screenshot of the Apple Books app detailing the 18 books read for 2025. Titles include Dan Browns 5 novels of the Robert Langdon Series, Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green, 5 novels from the Hunger Game Series by Suzanne Collins, the Handmaids Tale and the Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Exotic Vetting by Romain Pizzi, Legacy by Uche Blackstock, The Choice by Edith Eger, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and the Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.
June 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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I love this game so much, I still do it every day. Finally hit 1000 days in a row
Screenshot of the ‘Streaks’ app for the task Wordle. Best streak: 1000 days, all time percentage: 99.1%, completions: 1,243 days.
June 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Putting this out here, but I’m available for peer-review request, guest lectures, article writing & collaborations.

My expertise is in animal behaviour & physiology with a focus in North America bats. I also have experience with wildlife diseases and veterinary medicine!

🦇🧪🌎🪶🐞🦅
June 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I’ve been so sick and literally bed bound for a few days, and I just can’t anymore 😭

I haven’t been this sick in so long
May 31, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Getting feedback like this on my writing is one of the best feelings ever 🧪🧫
An email excerpt that states the following: “I have received your article back from the mentor with the following comment: The author has done an incredibly good job of selecting the important information from the original paper and converting it into a very readable and engaging story! I have no comments or changes on the structure of the article but have suggested some updates to some of the wording. I hope that the author understands why I made these changes, but they are of course free to reject any that they do not agree with. Overall, I really enjoyed reading this and the author should be commended for a very well written article, especially considering it comes from someone who is not a full-time science communicator.”
May 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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🇨🇦 Canadian Donation #32 today through Canadian Blood Services

(+5 donations in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )

Making for a total of 37 blood donations 🩸
An image of an arm and an IG line with blood - the person in the photo is donating blood.
April 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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I ordered my ballot in advance, and only just received it today AFTER THE ELECTION

Thank God I went to Elections Canada to get a replacement ballot
An overhead shot of a Canadian election ballot and various envelopes underneath
April 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Working on manuscript reviews with the best coffeeshop vibes today ☕️ 🍵
A matcha latte to the top left, a slice of carrot cake on a white square plate to the bottom left, and a laptop screen
April 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Canadians! 🍁

It's Election Day - please don't forget to get out and vote! Below are the voting hours per time zone!

#CdnPoli #Elxn45
April 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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On IG @eyepatchbiologist.bsky.social ran a giveaway with Sage Leaf Studio which I was lucky to win 🍀

The piece arrived today which felt very fitting given that it’s #Earthday 🌎

I love everything about this artwork - from the colours resembling aurora borealis to the symbolism of rock cairns 🪨
An art print of a rock cairn (rock stack) coloured in deep blues, greens and purples. The frame of the print is black and the background is a soft white/grey and fur texture.
April 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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My cats new favourite bed: a painters tray in a shopping bag

Not like we already have a house full of beds for her already 🙃
A grey/white cat laying in a bed made of a painters tray in a blue shopping bag. There are other miscellaneous construction pieces to the top of the image (boxes, paint cans). The floor is wooded, and there is a white railing to the left and top of the image.
April 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Please check these out! (2/2) #CdnPoli

HT: Women's Health Clinic (WHC), MB (FB/IG)
Header: “Threats to access in the provinces and territories” Main Text: “On a provincial level, a Conservative majority government may affect access to sexual and reproductive health services through cuts to the federal Health Transfer Fund to provinces, and possible downstream cuts to abortion clinic funding in some provinces. A majority government may also embolden Conservative provinces to pass restrictive policies/regulations, or let access erode. Potential provincial restrictions may include parental consent laws for abortion, protections for belief-based care denial, protection for anti-choice speech and images on university campuses, repeal of Safe Access Zone laws, the delisting and defunding of abortion as a medically necessary service, or mandatory requirements for abortion seekers such as anti-choice counselling. Footer: “Help us prevent a Con gov’t: www.arcc-cdac.ca/2025-election-toolkit” Header: “Funding threats” Top excerpt from a news article: “The letter also added that Conservatives opposed the Liberals’ pledge to strip crisis pregnancy centres of their charitable status. Advocates of abortion access say many of them spread false and misleading information about the procedure – Source National Post.” Black Text: “Poilievre has already promised to preserve charity tax status for anti-choice groups.” Middle excerpt from a news article: “Poilievre says he plans to promote adoption as ‘greater good’ over legislating abortion. Poilievre himself was adopted by two school teachers as a child – Source: National Post” Black text pointing to above excerpt: “Poilievre has also touted his “adoption over abortion” stance, which implies that CPCs may get substantial funding.” Bottom text: “Other funding threats may include the restoration of Canada Summer Jobs funding to anti-choice groups, cancelling federal funding like the Sexual and Reproductive Health Fund, the cancellation or redirection of foreign funding for SRF (especially for safe abortion care), cuts to health care funding in general, and abandonment of the Pharmacare program that guarantees universal access to contraception”.
April 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Canadians 🇨🇦 - The election is 11 days away!

Exercise your right to vote, but realize who you vote for might be planning to take away the rights of people in certain groups in Canada.

Please don't vote Conservation, and check out the images below (1/2)

HT: Women's Health Clinic (WHC), MB (FB/IG)
A cover page with Pierre Poilievres' face, the Conservation Party Logo, and a legislation room in the background. The caption states: "What's at stake with a federal Conservative government' A news clip at the top stating: "Pro-life Canadians are welcome in out party. The Conservative Party of Canada is a big tent with a strong tradition of free votes of conscience, and I intend to maintain this status quo.' The main text states: "What's at stake with a federal Conservative government? A Conservative government could undermine reproductive rights, limit access to comprehensive healthcare, and reverse progress on gender-affirming care. Party members have been consistent in their attempts to introduce and/or support the introduction of anti-abortion legislation, amplify anti-2SLGBTQIA+ rhetoric, align themselves with far-right politicians and personalities, and chip away at access to reproductive and sexual health services. So what exactly could that look like?..." Header: "Help us prevent a Con gov't: www.arcc-cdac.ca/2025-election-toolkit" Top text: "Attacks on gender-affirming care and trans rights. The Conservative party, including party leader Pierre Poilievre has been repeating anti-trans rhetoric, such as "there are only two genders" which disregards the existence of intersex, 2 spirited, trans, and non-binary individuals." Bottom Text: "Canada Health Act enforcement -- or lack thereof. The Canada Health Act is responsible for mandating funding and accessibility for medically necessary care, including abortion. At best a 'do nothing approach would lead to erosion of access and ignores current access issues. At worse, the Conservatives would welcome lobbying by the anti-choice movement to establish anti-choice policies. Middle Images of two news articles 1. Header: "Conservatives approve policies to limit transgender health care for minors, end race-based hiring". By-line: "Other debate focused on female spaces, the energy industry and Canada's passport." Author: "John Paul Tasker, CBC News, Posted Sep 09, 2023, 4:55 EDT". 2. "In Canada, over the past year, conservative politicians have increasingly begun to introduce anti-LGBTQ2S+ policies and to use ideas such as 'gender ideology' and 'parental rights' to pander votes. At the Conservatives party's annual convention last year, delegates voted in favour of motions calling for an eventual Tory government to implement 'bathroom bill' laws and end gender-affirming care for youth." Header: “Legal and political threats” Main Text: “Under a conservative government, private member bills (PMBs) could target abortion rights and access. Possible bills include establishing fetuses as victims of crime, criminalizing sex-selection abortion, mandating “life-saving care” for fetuses born alive post-abortion, passing gestational limits on abortion, redefining “human being” to include zygote”. Image of a New Article in the bottom left: “Conservative MP’s abortion bill defeated 248-82 as Liberals blast O’Toole over free vote. By Stephanie Taylor, The Canadian Press, Posted June 2, 2001, 4:06 pm, 3 min read” Text at the bottom right in pink: “Since 2000, 21 anti-choice bills and motions have been introduced in Parliament – 19 of them by Conservative MP’s” Footer: "Help us prevent a Con gov't: www.arcc-cdac.ca/2025-election-toolkit"
April 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM