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jim mallet
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natural historian, PhD Texas, native Londoner. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/jim (Profile pic from Mauro Cutrona https://facebook.com/profile.php?id=100006219407348)
Now that's weird! But, how MANY pairs of 2 did you find? Was there a significant bias towards groups of 2? Were they always males?
November 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
😀
November 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Some of them seem like real people, and I write back to them. They often like that.
November 22, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I don’t think it’s all AI. As far as I can tell they believe that we evolutionary biologists promote the”hoax” of evolution because we are in the service of Satan!
November 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Maybe we should start a website that publishes such emails to academics? I got some as an evolutionary biologist at University College London, but I get a lot more at Harvard!
November 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I know this because early in my career i did studies of gregarious roosting in Heliconius butterflies. Wandering around in the gloaming I saw all these other insects doing it too, like dragonflies, and solitary bees!
November 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Many solitary bee males roost in groups by holding on with their mandibles to thin stems. I would say it’s perhaps unusual to have multiple groups of two, though. How many observations of 2s? Any 3s or 4s?
November 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Many thanks - that works!
November 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Reposted by jim mallet
I believe it was updated to a new version and should be available here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=xWmz...

Hope you enjoy it—-there are also several others on the SMTPB channel
Reflections on the History of Model and Theory series - Bob Holt
YouTube video by SMTPB
m.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I’d be interested but the video seems to be private
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Maybe more conventional. Sticky Fingers -- Rolling Stones: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekr9...
Th̲e R̲o̲lli̲ng Sto̲n̲es - Sticky Fingers (Full Album)
YouTube video by ALTP
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I am sorry to say that I am at a loss for when I was 16. 1971 seems to have been a bad year for albums. I offer Little Feat as maybe the best of that year's crop: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGVG...
Little Feat - Little Feat 1971 - Full Album
YouTube video by SOUNDS FROM A TURNTABLE
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I loved the Grunewald! I had a blast finding Black Woodpeckers there in the spring! Listen to their drumming and follow them. They seem to be invisible the rest of the year!
November 17, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Thank you so much! I finally located the characters, one-by-one in the Cyrillic alphabet on Wikipedia, and got this: я ʜe ocb, и ʙbi ʜe бoЙτecb (was that wrong?). Google Translate's suggestion was quite different: "I am afraid of the disease, and I am afraid of it"!!! So much for AI translation!
November 17, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I guess you've already seen the wild boars!?
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
But it seems porcupines spend a lot of time chomping on hominin bones, while avoiding the mandibles. See Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giganto...
Gigantopithecus - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:55 AM