Dr Alex Bond
@thelabandfield.bsky.social
Conservation, curator in charge of birbs, island hopper, runner, connoisseur of fine teas, biscuit fiend, v left, queer af, Erdős–Bacon = 8, he/him.
[🏳️🌈🇨🇦🐧 and some 🇦🇺🇵🇳]
📍 Tring & Milton Keynes, UK
https://linktr.ee/albnd
[🏳️🌈🇨🇦🐧 and some 🇦🇺🇵🇳]
📍 Tring & Milton Keynes, UK
https://linktr.ee/albnd
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I'm starting to get the emails. Reporters: please see my comments below.
It's the most magical time of the year — when estimates of last year's global average temperature anomaly come out. Time to dust off my "last year was hot" auto-response.
January 5, 2026 at 6:20 PM
I'm starting to get the emails. Reporters: please see my comments below.
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Zero degrees Kelvin!
January 5, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Zero degrees Kelvin!
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Quick reminder that I run a micro-press called The Braag @thebraag.bsky.social / thebraag.co
We have
🐸 poetry in the language of a pond
🌻 A Ukranian poem-fairytale
🍀 Lush, queer ecofiction
💀 Queer Texan hauntings
🪐 Plannet-hopping poems
🏚️ Historic necro-capitalist fiction
All for sale!
We have
🐸 poetry in the language of a pond
🌻 A Ukranian poem-fairytale
🍀 Lush, queer ecofiction
💀 Queer Texan hauntings
🪐 Plannet-hopping poems
🏚️ Historic necro-capitalist fiction
All for sale!
The Braag Presents
thebraag.co
January 5, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Quick reminder that I run a micro-press called The Braag @thebraag.bsky.social / thebraag.co
We have
🐸 poetry in the language of a pond
🌻 A Ukranian poem-fairytale
🍀 Lush, queer ecofiction
💀 Queer Texan hauntings
🪐 Plannet-hopping poems
🏚️ Historic necro-capitalist fiction
All for sale!
We have
🐸 poetry in the language of a pond
🌻 A Ukranian poem-fairytale
🍀 Lush, queer ecofiction
💀 Queer Texan hauntings
🪐 Plannet-hopping poems
🏚️ Historic necro-capitalist fiction
All for sale!
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The first two hours this morning
January 5, 2026 at 11:21 AM
The first two hours this morning
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happy ‘i will reply to your email on my return’ day to all who celebrate
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 AM
happy ‘i will reply to your email on my return’ day to all who celebrate
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Stunning views of Big Ben from the deck of RSV Nuyina at Heard Island. Big Ben is an active volcano and Australia’s highest peak. It’s usually swathed in cloud, but not yesterday! #subantarctic #MarineScience #eDNA
January 5, 2026 at 7:31 AM
Stunning views of Big Ben from the deck of RSV Nuyina at Heard Island. Big Ben is an active volcano and Australia’s highest peak. It’s usually swathed in cloud, but not yesterday! #subantarctic #MarineScience #eDNA
Wait Reddit is a thing again?!
January 5, 2026 at 6:51 AM
Wait Reddit is a thing again?!
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Here’s a closer look at the amazing prehistoric rufous scrub bird - ancient relatives to most song birds and related to lyrebirds, we are hoping that our breakthrough with capture techniques == new opportunities for conservation (1/2)
January 5, 2026 at 6:17 AM
Here’s a closer look at the amazing prehistoric rufous scrub bird - ancient relatives to most song birds and related to lyrebirds, we are hoping that our breakthrough with capture techniques == new opportunities for conservation (1/2)
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The Rufous scrub-bird is one of the world's oldest surviving species of songbird, but scientists believe fewer than 2,000 of the birds remain.
DNA project aims to save ancient songbird
The Rufous scrub-bird is one of the world's oldest surviving species of songbird, but scientists believe fewer than 2,000 of the birds remain.
www.abc.net.au
January 4, 2026 at 9:08 PM
The Rufous scrub-bird is one of the world's oldest surviving species of songbird, but scientists believe fewer than 2,000 of the birds remain.
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Stromness this afternoon. The sun sets as another snow shower arrives.
January 4, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Stromness this afternoon. The sun sets as another snow shower arrives.
"so I says to Mabel, I says 'that's not a scaup!'"
*Laughter, but in grebe*
*Laughter, but in grebe*
January 4, 2026 at 10:07 PM
"so I says to Mabel, I says 'that's not a scaup!'"
*Laughter, but in grebe*
*Laughter, but in grebe*
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If you're worried about starting going to the gym and if people will judge you for being new... You have nothing to worry about. It's people who have never felt like that in their lives and instead take over all the space and equipment like it's their own private gym that are the problem.
January 4, 2026 at 12:57 PM
If you're worried about starting going to the gym and if people will judge you for being new... You have nothing to worry about. It's people who have never felt like that in their lives and instead take over all the space and equipment like it's their own private gym that are the problem.
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It’s encouraging that Jerdon’s courser still survives.
It’s also revealing that a brief sound recorded at night now counts as a major conservation milestone. 🫤
www.ecoticias.com/en/for-more-...
It’s also revealing that a brief sound recorded at night now counts as a major conservation milestone. 🫤
www.ecoticias.com/en/for-more-...
For more than ten years, no one had heard it, until two recordings at night confirmed that one of the rarest birds on the planet is still alive
Two night recordings revive hope: the elusive Jerdon’s courser is still alive after more than a decade of silence.
www.ecoticias.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:40 AM
It’s encouraging that Jerdon’s courser still survives.
It’s also revealing that a brief sound recorded at night now counts as a major conservation milestone. 🫤
www.ecoticias.com/en/for-more-...
It’s also revealing that a brief sound recorded at night now counts as a major conservation milestone. 🫤
www.ecoticias.com/en/for-more-...
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STRONG AGREE.
Any of the sooty albatrosses are just so spectacular.
(Gough Island, 2015)
Any of the sooty albatrosses are just so spectacular.
(Gough Island, 2015)
January 3, 2026 at 8:17 PM
STRONG AGREE.
Any of the sooty albatrosses are just so spectacular.
(Gough Island, 2015)
Any of the sooty albatrosses are just so spectacular.
(Gough Island, 2015)
STRONG AGREE.
Any of the sooty albatrosses are just so spectacular.
(Gough Island, 2015)
Any of the sooty albatrosses are just so spectacular.
(Gough Island, 2015)
January 3, 2026 at 8:17 PM
STRONG AGREE.
Any of the sooty albatrosses are just so spectacular.
(Gough Island, 2015)
Any of the sooty albatrosses are just so spectacular.
(Gough Island, 2015)
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It's a frigid day for a Parkrun and your mittens are terrible geese.
January 3, 2026 at 10:45 AM
It's a frigid day for a Parkrun and your mittens are terrible geese.
I'm so thrilled we rely on that reputable service called Google Scholar for important decisions. It's so good at tracking citations and metrics 🙃
January 3, 2026 at 8:10 AM
I'm so thrilled we rely on that reputable service called Google Scholar for important decisions. It's so good at tracking citations and metrics 🙃
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Academia friendly peer-reviewed journals in EEB: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology
Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R
academic.oup.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Academia friendly peer-reviewed journals in EEB: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...
Wtf with the bots on here today. Goodness it's feeling a bit like 2021 on the bird site
January 2, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Wtf with the bots on here today. Goodness it's feeling a bit like 2021 on the bird site
UK and Irish queers - block off the entire day if you haven't seen it already.
Trust me.
Trust me.
FYI all six episodes of Heated Rivalry will be on Sky and NOW from January 10th.
January 2, 2026 at 10:05 PM
UK and Irish queers - block off the entire day if you haven't seen it already.
Trust me.
Trust me.
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I say this often but it bears repeating: if you make your money from creating art then you NEED to find an art or craft where you just do it for fun and don't try to be perfect or make any money from it, and when anyone tells you to monetise it you say 'No', because otherwise your soul will die.
Have needle. Have thread. Have scraps of paper. Have free will. Have made a notebook.
January 2, 2026 at 9:10 PM
I say this often but it bears repeating: if you make your money from creating art then you NEED to find an art or craft where you just do it for fun and don't try to be perfect or make any money from it, and when anyone tells you to monetise it you say 'No', because otherwise your soul will die.
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Hey, this post has set my notifications alight (sorry). If you fancy helping us pay for our actual, non-£100k candle budget then you’ll make my job a lot easier: stnicholasleicester.com/donate
Donate — St Nicholas Church, Leicester
stnicholasleicester.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Hey, this post has set my notifications alight (sorry). If you fancy helping us pay for our actual, non-£100k candle budget then you’ll make my job a lot easier: stnicholasleicester.com/donate
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It's the new financial year in the CofE and I've not yet put in the new budget numbers but we've had some invoices to pay and our finance system is now projecting we'll spend [checks notes] £100,000 on candles
somebody who is good at the economy help me with this, etc
somebody who is good at the economy help me with this, etc
January 2, 2026 at 7:36 PM
It's the new financial year in the CofE and I've not yet put in the new budget numbers but we've had some invoices to pay and our finance system is now projecting we'll spend [checks notes] £100,000 on candles
somebody who is good at the economy help me with this, etc
somebody who is good at the economy help me with this, etc
It's wild that we can make such wonderful connections on the Awful Bird Site, and then all move here and like 2 years later finally reconnect.
Gosh online spaces are so liminal.
Gosh online spaces are so liminal.
January 2, 2026 at 7:00 PM
It's wild that we can make such wonderful connections on the Awful Bird Site, and then all move here and like 2 years later finally reconnect.
Gosh online spaces are so liminal.
Gosh online spaces are so liminal.