Sandra Swart
@wildpasts.bsky.social
Animal history. Stellenbosch University. Lion’s Historian.
I said GOOD DAY SIR
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I said GOOD DAY SIR
Locked together by their horns in turf battle, two kudu bulls died of exhaustion.
There has to be a metaphor for one’s academic enemies in this?
There has to be a metaphor for one’s academic enemies in this?
November 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Locked together by their horns in turf battle, two kudu bulls died of exhaustion.
There has to be a metaphor for one’s academic enemies in this?
There has to be a metaphor for one’s academic enemies in this?
I made this exact expression when you said that
September 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I made this exact expression when you said that
Committee: So Sandra, tell us your five year plan?
Me:
Me:
September 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Committee: So Sandra, tell us your five year plan?
Me:
Me:
Aisle of Cthulhu.
September 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Aisle of Cthulhu.
This is the most helpful visual guide to social media I’ve ever seen
September 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
This is the most helpful visual guide to social media I’ve ever seen
Inspired by the quiet resistance of this room. #BeUnbookable!
September 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Inspired by the quiet resistance of this room. #BeUnbookable!
The magnificent @libbydeq.bsky.social put Anthropocene scientists and historians together to see what would happen! The experiment was a success.
August 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The magnificent @libbydeq.bsky.social put Anthropocene scientists and historians together to see what would happen! The experiment was a success.
We can hang! Arriving soon!
August 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
We can hang! Arriving soon!
As you know, I’m not one to boast. But just between you and me, my hometown snake is kicking your snake’s ass
August 13, 2025 at 7:50 AM
As you know, I’m not one to boast. But just between you and me, my hometown snake is kicking your snake’s ass
the literary circle of life
August 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
the literary circle of life
It’s been a helluva year but here’s a full moon over a mountain - through the ears of my horse Voodoo. And suddenly it’s all ok for a moment.
August 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It’s been a helluva year but here’s a full moon over a mountain - through the ears of my horse Voodoo. And suddenly it’s all ok for a moment.
Today I got my Honours students to care about spoor. They are renaming our WhatsApp group from Anthropocene module to … “Scat Queens”.
August 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Today I got my Honours students to care about spoor. They are renaming our WhatsApp group from Anthropocene module to … “Scat Queens”.
I feel this. They just need graduate students to explain the apps and make the font bigger
July 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I feel this. They just need graduate students to explain the apps and make the font bigger
Um. I think we can all agree this ends in terror
June 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Um. I think we can all agree this ends in terror
And at one point - during my lovely mate @ruthamorgan.bsky.social ‘s speech - the small dog launched himself onto my laptop! My main fear (after the coffee apocalypse that resulted) was that the zoom mute button would be pressed
June 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
And at one point - during my lovely mate @ruthamorgan.bsky.social ‘s speech - the small dog launched himself onto my laptop! My main fear (after the coffee apocalypse that resulted) was that the zoom mute button would be pressed
When one works from home, one is reminded that office politics is the same everywhere
June 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
When one works from home, one is reminded that office politics is the same everywhere
I just wrote the finest footnote of my career.
June 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I just wrote the finest footnote of my career.
Nobody ever tells me anything. I only learned this fact today but I feel like it changes *EVERYTHING*, don’t you?
June 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Nobody ever tells me anything. I only learned this fact today but I feel like it changes *EVERYTHING*, don’t you?
Maybe because it pities me? #DeptChair
June 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Maybe because it pities me? #DeptChair
I file under … I don’t know? FishBong? Blob Marley? Blowtox? Puff Squiddy (work with me here)
June 10, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I file under … I don’t know? FishBong? Blob Marley? Blowtox? Puff Squiddy (work with me here)
I wish Science would just fuck off with AI and Mars and focus on the only thing that matters: keeping our dogs alive.
June 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I wish Science would just fuck off with AI and Mars and focus on the only thing that matters: keeping our dogs alive.
Just when I hate humanity, I remember I still love *people* very much indeed…
There is a working pink fridge - powered by solar panels - in the middle of the Namib Desert, and it’s stocked with cold drinks for anyone passing by. I’d like to see it one day and sit down and take a drink.
There is a working pink fridge - powered by solar panels - in the middle of the Namib Desert, and it’s stocked with cold drinks for anyone passing by. I’d like to see it one day and sit down and take a drink.
June 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Just when I hate humanity, I remember I still love *people* very much indeed…
There is a working pink fridge - powered by solar panels - in the middle of the Namib Desert, and it’s stocked with cold drinks for anyone passing by. I’d like to see it one day and sit down and take a drink.
There is a working pink fridge - powered by solar panels - in the middle of the Namib Desert, and it’s stocked with cold drinks for anyone passing by. I’d like to see it one day and sit down and take a drink.