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Paige Byerly, PhD
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Postdoc at Senckenberg @sgn.one | research associate at Smithsonian NZCBI | conservation and museum genomics, seabirds, conservation biology | managing editor @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social

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I'm currently genotyping common hamsters for captive breeding support--one of the breeding centers sent the hamster's names along with the samples and they include Tortellini, Apollo, Cherry, and Hänsel. This project might be too cute even for me

📸: Zoo Leipzig
photo of two common hamsters peering out of a burrow
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Walking along a city street in the East End of London and found a Eurasian Woodcock, as I guess one does. No injuries, just stunned, so I found a fenced-in yard for them to recover. Moral of the story: if you’re going to hit a window, make sure there’s an ornithologist nearby #ornithology
Woman’s hand holding a brown bird with a long bill Same bird held upside down Same bird nestled into some tall grass
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Bigger celeb sighting in Piccadilly Circus
King Charles stepping on a rainy street with a black umbrella waving at the camera
November 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Fantastic keynote by @sushred.bsky.social on decolonizing collections research and building community. Action items for scientists: extend collaborators, explore novel research directions, build resources, expand networks of collections contributors

#BOUasm25 #ornithology
Slide that states: Who has access to collections? Who is being left out?
November 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Huge thanks to @bou.org.uk and @nhm.org for hosting such an inspiring day of collections-based ornithological research #BOUasm25 #ornithology
Photo of a conference slide entitled “A day at the museum”
November 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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All the greatest hits 🇬🇧 I genuinely thought this was a rumor
A large cup of baked beans next to two fried eggs on a plate
November 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Celeb sighting at Kew Gardens, London for #BOUasm25 😍
A red fox runs across a path
November 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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lmaoooo

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Screenshot of a CNN headline titled "A rare sight in Washington: The House of Representatives is getting down to work" with an image of house speaker Mike Johnson climbing some stairs with a weird expression on his face
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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always devastated to live just outside of the Hooded Crow's range, they are such stunning birds
range map of the hooded crow, with most of the range centered in eastern Europe and Italy, and with Germany bisected in half by the range
November 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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birds' nests and chantrelles--a good day in the woods #fungifriends #fungi
small round fungi with round white structures inside that resemble bird eggs in a bird nest a golden mushroom grows out of green moss
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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The shaggy inkcap is high on the list of fungi that are edible but look like they shouldn’t be
A white mushroom with black gills grows out of the forest floor
October 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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successful fungus walk before the rain came in #fungifriends #fungi
tall white mushroom with a shaggy top and black gills Small green mushroom growing out of leaf litter White mushroom growing like coral Slimy looking white mushrooms growing on a log
October 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Curse of the Totentrompeten—reminder that you still need to do tick checks into the fall season!!! Tragically I was not there to remind myself yesterday
An open page of a mushroom guidebook with a tick sealed in tape and a green tick remover tool on top
October 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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I don’t know but they seem to love mushrooms! spotted this one last fall
A small black beetle eating a brown mushroom
October 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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I love weird-little-guy season 🪲🍄‍🟫
October 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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along with some other nice finds the wild boars left behind
a cluster of white coral-like mushrooms on a log A cluster of brown mushrooms A single dome-like white mushroom A large cluster of brown and yellow mushrooms on a log
October 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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gorgeous black chanterelles on my mushroom walk today (“trumpet of the dead”’ in both German and French if you want to get goth with it, which oc we do🖤🖤🖤)

#fungi #fungifriends
Two black trumpet-shaped mushrooms on a bed of moss on the forest floor
October 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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and appear to be forming alliances with the plant community
A small mushroom and a sapling tree grow together on a mossy log
October 10, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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very small conglomerations of mushrooms are also reporting for duty
Tiny white mushrooms on a mossy tree Small white mushrooms grow from a mossy log with ivy
October 10, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Big year for large conglomerations of mushrooms
A large cluster of of mushrooms on a rotten log A large cluster of of mushrooms on a rotten log
October 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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a real lunker #fungi #fungusfriends
A large brown mushroom in a field the size of a hand held next to it for scale
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Edible mushroom foraging is a huge activity here but I only hunt with my camera bc I don’t trust my ID skills to not kill us. I asked some local friends if they’d be willing to show me the ropes but they politely brushed me off—no one wants the competition!
A small pink mushroom on the forest floor A cluster of orange and tan mushrooms on a rotting log A round brown mushroom with a shaggy top A cluster of yellow mushrooms on a mossy rotting log
October 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Lots of rain here recently, which means it’s finally autumn mushroom-hunting season here in the Spessart Forest of Central Germany 🍄🍁
#fungusfriends #fungus
A cup of coffee next to several German guides to mushroom ID A small blue mushroom poking out of autumn leaves A cluster of white mushrooms on a mossy log A large yellow mushroom on a forest floor
October 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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an extremely orange young man
An orange tabby cat lying on a bed with its eyes shut and a ray of sun falling across its face
August 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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ok, I bitch a lot about all the predatory journal emails I get but the subject line of this one had me crying. Congrats Archives of Urology and Nephrology, you can expect my manuscript shortly
Screen shot of an email with the subject line "Testicles". The email text then reads Dear Dr. Paige A Byerly, We were impressed by your earlier work, Haplotype-resolved genome and population genomics of the threatened garden dormouse in Europe and would be thrilled to see more of your research published with us in Archives of Urology and Nephrology.
August 14, 2025 at 11:07 AM