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Dr Alex Bond
@thelabandfield.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🐧 Conservation, curator in charge of birbs, island hopper, climber, connoisseur of fine teas, biscuit fiend, v left, queer af, Erdős–Bacon = 8, he/him.

📍 Tring & Milton Keynes, UK

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canadianpaintings.bsky.social
Haida Raven
Bill Reid ~ Haida
1972
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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perfect-specimen.bsky.social
Exciting new episode today is SPIKY, featuring our first ever guest the incredible @flygirlnhm.bsky.social. Spoiler alert - there may be some flies! m.youtube.com/watch?v=8si6...
Our first guest brings a powderpuff with wings | The 'Perfect' Specimen Ep14
YouTube video by Natural History Museum
m.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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ijayas.bsky.social
Want to know the cost/benefit balance of outing 🏳️‍🌈 oneself* to your students? Here’s the analysis from 9 instructors, 2045 student surveys, implying mostly positive &/or beneficial to the students.

*I don’t think anyone should feel obliged to, not least bc the study features no trans/nb instructors.
Nine Undergraduate Biology Instructors Revealing their LGBTQ+ Identities in Class Resulted in Benefits for their LGBTQ+ Students and Students with Other Marginalized Identities | CBE—Life Sciences Edu...
Few LGBTQ+ biology instructors reveal their identities to undergraduates, often without considering the potential student benefits. Although instructors who have revealed their LGBTQ+ identity perceiv...
www.lifescied.org
November 23, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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sydcannings1.bsky.social
A carload of somewhat crazy birders drove to the beautiful little town of #WatsonLake, #Yukon today to see the female #EurasianBullfinch that has been visiting a feeder there... First record for Canada! (that wasn't an escaped cage bird) #birds #listers
Female Eurasian Bullfinch in spruce tree: Small chubby bird with black head, grey back and smoky pale pink belly Happy birders!
November 23, 2025 at 4:17 AM
thelabandfield.bsky.social
I listened to this year's Massey Lectures on the plane down. Chilling, infuriating, agonizingly poignant, and with a tinge of feeling hopeful. www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
2025 CBC Massey Lectures: Alex Neve on renewing human rights in a fractured world | CBC Radio
Universality was supposed to be the promise of human rights. Yet it’s been broken countless times. So how can we still fulfill it? Canadian human rights lawyer Alex Neve explores that question in this...
www.cbc.ca
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
thelabandfield.bsky.social
Nothing says international environmental policy like "voluntary agreement to begin discussions on a roadmap to an eventual phase-out"
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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parliamentarygoose.bsky.social
This is a genuine question: Outside of the UK, does anyone know of another National Park where it is an annual event to release thousands of non-native birds? Or even occasionally? I only ask because the more I think about it, the more barking mad it sounds. #birds #nationalparks
November 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
thelabandfield.bsky.social
Hello Australia! It's nice to be back.

It's less nice that I missed my connection and was rebooked on JetStar
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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dornitholges.bsky.social
Now online in Journal of #Ornithology

Cryptic diversity in the Amazonian Red-shouldered Tanager (Tachyphonus phoenicius) Swainson 1838 with a neotype designation and revalidation of Tachyphonus saucius Strickland 1844

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Cryptic diversity in the Amazonian Red-shouldered Tanager (Tachyphonus phoenicius) Swainson 1838 with a neotype designation and revalidation of Tachyphonus saucius Strickland 1844 - Journal of Ornitho...
The Amazon is home to the greatest bird diversity in the world, but its avian diversity is still underestimated, partially due to cryptic diversity. An accurate assessment of cryptic species is necess...
link.springer.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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bci-journal.bsky.social
🌊Investigating where Swinhoe's Storm-petrels go across the north-western Pacific and Indian Oceans

🛰️Insights from geolocators recovered from four birds: doi.org/10.1017/S095...

#BirdConservation #Ornithology #Conservation #Research
#Swinhoe's #stormpetrel #seabird #tracking #migration
Swinhoe's Storm-petrel, small brown seabird flying across open sea. Seasonal migratory movements investigated in BCI study © feathercollector/Shutterstock
November 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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natforsdick.bsky.social
We had a brilliant time at #AOC2025! Congratulations to all the organising team for a fantastic meeting, and we can’t wait to host you all in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in 2027!!
pezoporus.bsky.social Rob Davis @pezoporus.bsky.social · 3d
And in case you didn’t catch it, the next AOC will be held in Auckland, NZ in February 2027! Looking forward to returning to Aotearoa and catching up with that Kōkako!
November 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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lastpositivist.bsky.social
This (from: www.ft.com/content/75ce...) is something you can *feel* if you are in the UK, especially if you've experienced living abroad. But infuriatingly successive governments and our entire media are somehow absolutely committed to suggesting anyone who wants to change this is the devil...
Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour. https://www.ft.com/content/75ce2fba-f6df-4d72-a5a4-0a297d50891f?emailId=5ae282da-81cb-4162-8f99-b98a89b5f638&segmentId=22011ee7-896a-8c4c-22a0-7603348b7f22 Successful social democracies spread both taxation and spending across the population. Everyone pays their way and everyone reaps the benefits in the form of high-quality and well-funded public services, fostering socio-economic solidarity with buy-in from the top and bottom alike. At the other end of the spectrum, the US has lower taxes and public spending, but a far more dynamic economy and strong incentives for work and innovation. Its robust growth means high living standards are no longer confined to the top but increasingly shared across much of the population. The UK has the worst of both worlds: it collects much less tax revenue from the middle of the income distribution than its European neighbours with better-quality public services, while at the top the combination of high and rising taxes with the abrupt withdrawal of public goods creates bad incentives and resentment all round. The UK’s curious experiment in eating the rich while shrinking the state has left Britons less satisfied with their public services than not only Scandinavians but most Americans, and poorer than not only Americans but most Scandinavians.
November 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
thelabandfield.bsky.social
Hello! Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour, delicious nectar?
nnedi.bsky.social Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 3d
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:
A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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oddthisday.bsky.social
It’s also the 83rd anniversary of this diary entry from James Lees-Milne about a feeling many of us recognise. (And I think we can all agree it’s better the other way round – when you get fuck all done, but don’t care)
Saturday, 21st November I have got through a lot of difficult work this week and should be feeling pleased with myself. Instead I have such a consuming sense of guilt, about nothing particular that I can recall, accompanied by an uneasy queasiness in the stomach, that I can only attribute it to mental instability.
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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betarayben.bsky.social
what if instead of working i just became a bird today
November 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social
Some of our colleagues have displayed classic #FOMO behaviour and joined in with Brian Houghton-Hodgson (1801-1894), an early expert on the fauna of India and Nepal, where he lived for many years.

Today, he graces our public reading room in South Kensington. #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Movember2025
Two men holding up pretend moustaches pose either side of a marble bust of Brian Houghton-Hodgson (1801-1894).
November 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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thelabandfield.bsky.social
Webster reminds us all to sometimes just log off.
A grey cat sits his front half on a closed laptop
November 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
thelabandfield.bsky.social
Webster reminds us all to sometimes just log off.
A grey cat sits his front half on a closed laptop
November 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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willoremus.com
every company in 2025
comic strip with call and response text. who are we? CEOs what do we want? AI! AI to do what? We don't know! When do we want it? Right now!
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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danifroom.bsky.social
Barbie crying [edited]: He thinks I'm megafauna? I don't suppress the growth of woody vegetation or stabilize the abundance of smaller animals.
October 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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lukaslarge.bsky.social
Biblically accurate Eukaryote?
November 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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contaminantsenvsoc.bsky.social
The wait is over - share your research with us! We are now accepting submissions on topics like ecotoxicology, heavy metals, plastics, or microplastics and help grow our community of environmental researchers.

Get published ▶️ https://ow.ly/YzpM50Xun71
Cover of Contaminants, Environment, and Society journal showing a wetland with trees and a blue sky. Announcement of submissions opening.
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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chrisward.de
One thing I'd caution against those who say "what my company does can be done entirely with AI... I don't need to pay actual people"...

If that's true, then what are you building that your customers can't just use ChatGPT to get?

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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americanbeetles.bsky.social
Birdos the world over tugging nervously at their collars
November 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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birdhistory.bsky.social
I want someone to make a Merlin app but it's just Mark Catesby's descriptions of birds from 1732.

"This Bird, by its ungrateful brawling Noise, seems at Variance and displeased with all others" is a great field mark
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM