Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️⚧️
@marthaharbison.bsky.social
Journalist; editor; that person at the party who won't shut up about birds. They/them. NYC.
https://femalebirdday.wordpress.com/
https://www.feministbirdclub.org
https://femalebirdday.wordpress.com/
https://www.feministbirdclub.org
Pinned
Digging around in the couch cushions looking for some patience to deal with people today and it is not looking good for you finches.
This was such a fun conversation with three excellent people. @rheisman.bsky.social taught us how to talk to gulls, @jodyallair.bsky.social went long on what it's like to live in a hybridization hot zone, and @n8swick.bsky.social reminded us that Indigo Buntings only show up once the cows leave.
Check out the last TMIB podcast of 2025. I always enjoy being a guest panelist on these episodes, especially when I’m surrounded by some pretty amazing bird people. @marthaharbison.bsky.social @rheisman.bsky.social @n8swick.bsky.social
New American Birding Podcast episode!
Jody Allair, Martha Harbison, and Rebecca Heisman join host Nate Swick for the last American Birding Podcast episode of the year, with a wide-ranging discussion of some of the latest bird and birding news.
Listen here: www.aba.org/09-52-this-m...
Jody Allair, Martha Harbison, and Rebecca Heisman join host Nate Swick for the last American Birding Podcast episode of the year, with a wide-ranging discussion of some of the latest bird and birding news.
Listen here: www.aba.org/09-52-this-m...
December 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This was such a fun conversation with three excellent people. @rheisman.bsky.social taught us how to talk to gulls, @jodyallair.bsky.social went long on what it's like to live in a hybridization hot zone, and @n8swick.bsky.social reminded us that Indigo Buntings only show up once the cows leave.
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print this out, share it with your friends and family, give it to your homophobic aunt and make sure she knows they’re both supposed to be red ❤️
December 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
print this out, share it with your friends and family, give it to your homophobic aunt and make sure she knows they’re both supposed to be red ❤️
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Headcanoning the Grinch as aromantic and NOT asexual. He fucks, but he doesn't fall in love. That's Who stuff
December 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Headcanoning the Grinch as aromantic and NOT asexual. He fucks, but he doesn't fall in love. That's Who stuff
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Bari Weiss trying to perform an abortion and accidentally delivering 1,000 babies
December 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Bari Weiss trying to perform an abortion and accidentally delivering 1,000 babies
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I tried this at my bodega and the cat hissed at me
told my landlord he no longer has to apologize for being white and he lowered my rent by 25%. told the grocer it's now the trump kennedy center and he sold me potatoes for $1. told PG&E it's a christian nation now and electricity is free. try it sometime
December 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I tried this at my bodega and the cat hissed at me
By absolutely wild coincidence (or maybe not, considering how much my mom has complained to me about it recently), @redford.bsky.social and I have been out there this week informing folks about the inescapable clammy embrace of tule fog. defector.com/what-is-the-...
What Is The Tule Fog, And Will It Ever Go Away? | Defector
California’s Central Valley is a 400-mile long expanse, penned in by the Sierra Nevadas to the East and the Coast Ranges to the west. The flatland is composed of remarkably fertile soil, as both mount...
defector.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
By absolutely wild coincidence (or maybe not, considering how much my mom has complained to me about it recently), @redford.bsky.social and I have been out there this week informing folks about the inescapable clammy embrace of tule fog. defector.com/what-is-the-...
Read the @assignedmedia.org 2025 trans news roundup and am grateful of the work that @evanurquhart.bsky.social and crew do, both as an independent news org and uplifting excellent work being done elsewhere by cis and trans journos alike.
December 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Read the @assignedmedia.org 2025 trans news roundup and am grateful of the work that @evanurquhart.bsky.social and crew do, both as an independent news org and uplifting excellent work being done elsewhere by cis and trans journos alike.
Going to spend the rest of 2025 upgrading my siege engines and launching every cis person who did me wrong this year into the nearest brick wall.
December 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Going to spend the rest of 2025 upgrading my siege engines and launching every cis person who did me wrong this year into the nearest brick wall.
I am *spiraling* about how rancid and grossly obsessed cis people are with subjugating trans kids. Go to therapy, you bigoted freaks.
December 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I am *spiraling* about how rancid and grossly obsessed cis people are with subjugating trans kids. Go to therapy, you bigoted freaks.
Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis should never know a moment's peace until they're deep in the cold, cold ground.
December 18, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis should never know a moment's peace until they're deep in the cold, cold ground.
My phone delivering powerful memories of dreams that never manifested. Maybe 2026 is our year.
December 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
My phone delivering powerful memories of dreams that never manifested. Maybe 2026 is our year.
There is a sankey diagram in this research paper I'm reading and I want to get into a fistfight with it.
December 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
There is a sankey diagram in this research paper I'm reading and I want to get into a fistfight with it.
Truly an underrated life joy
love 2 hit da bricks
December 17, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Truly an underrated life joy
Lasted 20 minutes at the holiday party, introduced myself to somebody who I apparently already met, and decided that was enough.
December 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Lasted 20 minutes at the holiday party, introduced myself to somebody who I apparently already met, and decided that was enough.
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Gender — and restrictive gender roles — are core to authoritarian projects. Society uses concepts of gender to sort people. Data both reflects and imposes these social definitions.
Some notes from a speech about this last week: buttondown.com/stetdele/arc...
Some notes from a speech about this last week: buttondown.com/stetdele/arc...
what's in a data gap?
The project to redefine transgender data tells us some things about authoritarianism.
buttondown.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Gender — and restrictive gender roles — are core to authoritarian projects. Society uses concepts of gender to sort people. Data both reflects and imposes these social definitions.
Some notes from a speech about this last week: buttondown.com/stetdele/arc...
Some notes from a speech about this last week: buttondown.com/stetdele/arc...
Apparently I have meetings today? What the fuck just let me hibernate in peace, you monsters.
December 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Apparently I have meetings today? What the fuck just let me hibernate in peace, you monsters.
My friends that was one of the most brutal birding days I've had in a long time. My bins became so encrusted with snow and ice they were useless by the second hour. The snow was so wet I couldn't wear gloves because they were getting water-logged. Can't wait to do it again next year!
Me frowning severely out the window at the snow as I prepare to head outside for this year's Central Park Christmas Bird Count.
December 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
My friends that was one of the most brutal birding days I've had in a long time. My bins became so encrusted with snow and ice they were useless by the second hour. The snow was so wet I couldn't wear gloves because they were getting water-logged. Can't wait to do it again next year!
Me frowning severely out the window at the snow as I prepare to head outside for this year's Central Park Christmas Bird Count.
December 14, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Me frowning severely out the window at the snow as I prepare to head outside for this year's Central Park Christmas Bird Count.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh:
one of the things you can do to further your soul to immortality is "Hug Your Bro"
“if you accumulate enough Satisfaction Points through external achievements you will be reincarnated as a lotus flower” - the Sims 4, basically
December 14, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The Epic of Gilgamesh:
some day, my pri--refrigerator technician will come.
December 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
some day, my pri--refrigerator technician will come.
I'm a sector lead in Central Park again this year (SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!) in case anyone is feeling some kind of way.
Audubon's Christmas Bird Count starts this Sunday and runs through January 5th. This is a 126-year tradition that has built a critically important, long-term dataset on bird populations across the US and much of the western hemisphere. It's also fun and wholesome. www.christmasbirdcount.org
Audubon Christmas Bird Count
A hemispheric community science program with a century of history behind it.
www.christmasbirdcount.org
December 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I'm a sector lead in Central Park again this year (SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!) in case anyone is feeling some kind of way.
oh man, literally was just reading a paper whose conclusions partially hinge on carotenoid expression in wood-warbler hybridization, so very eager to dig into this.
New paper out. If you like colorful birds, hybridization, and phylogenetics, read on! 🧵https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003501
A colorful legacy of hybridization in wood-warblers includes frequent sharing of carotenoid genes among species and genera
Introgression between species can shape evolutionary trajectories in important ways. This study of the entire family of the colorful wood-warblers (Parulidae) uses whole-genome sequencing to reveal fr...
doi.org
December 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
oh man, literally was just reading a paper whose conclusions partially hinge on carotenoid expression in wood-warbler hybridization, so very eager to dig into this.
I expend so much energy* November through March to keep the Ravening at bay.
*half-assing my humidifier maintenance routine
*half-assing my humidifier maintenance routine
tfw the humidity goes back over 32% and the Dark Impulses are abated
December 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I expend so much energy* November through March to keep the Ravening at bay.
*half-assing my humidifier maintenance routine
*half-assing my humidifier maintenance routine
Love it when friends try to assure me that whatever accursed upstate town they've decided to move to is "just like Brooklyn, but cheaper," except that it's full of cishet white people. Yes, because nothing says "safe for visibly trans people" like that demographic triple-threat.
December 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Love it when friends try to assure me that whatever accursed upstate town they've decided to move to is "just like Brooklyn, but cheaper," except that it's full of cishet white people. Yes, because nothing says "safe for visibly trans people" like that demographic triple-threat.
My tarot deck is On One this week. First, it delivered the horniest Celtic Cross I've ever seen, then I got the grimmest shit when I was wondering about my job, and now it's telling me to YOLO something unhinged. Universe is really trying to make me relive my 20s ISTG.
December 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
My tarot deck is On One this week. First, it delivered the horniest Celtic Cross I've ever seen, then I got the grimmest shit when I was wondering about my job, and now it's telling me to YOLO something unhinged. Universe is really trying to make me relive my 20s ISTG.