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UPDATE: maker (and wearer) is michellelikesbirds; she apparently has not printed the pigeon sweater pattern yet but is writing is up! www.instagram.com/michellelike...
December 24, 2025 at 4:22 AM
UPDATE: maker (and wearer) is michellelikesbirds; she apparently has not printed the pigeon sweater pattern yet but is writing is up! www.instagram.com/michellelike...
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Fish recognize faces, seagulls recognize voices & the Chicago rat hole was actually made by a squirrel royalsociety.org/blog/2025/12...
Celebrating the most popular papers of 2025 | Royal Society
As 2025 draws to a close, we’re excited to reveal the top 10 most popular papers from across the Royal Society’s journals, ranked by Altmetric attention scores. These studies captured global interest,...
royalsociety.org
December 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Fish recognize faces, seagulls recognize voices & the Chicago rat hole was actually made by a squirrel royalsociety.org/blog/2025/12...
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“Data is just what you decide to pay attention to.”
Nice quote from Mikko Jimenez in this Audubon mag piece on how to have fun with your birding data:
www.audubon.org/magazine/bey...
Nice quote from Mikko Jimenez in this Audubon mag piece on how to have fun with your birding data:
www.audubon.org/magazine/bey...
Beyond the Checklist: How to Explore, Experiment, and Have Fun With Your Birding Data
Counting and identifying birds is just one option. Try a fresh approach to shake up your time outside.
www.audubon.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
“Data is just what you decide to pay attention to.”
Nice quote from Mikko Jimenez in this Audubon mag piece on how to have fun with your birding data:
www.audubon.org/magazine/bey...
Nice quote from Mikko Jimenez in this Audubon mag piece on how to have fun with your birding data:
www.audubon.org/magazine/bey...
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“What were once bedrock aspects of daily life & spirituality increasingly appear as infrastructure, background scenery, or vague environmental concern. Our lived relationship w/ rivers has, in a quiet but profound way, been deleted.”
— @andrewrypel.bsky.social
tnature.substack.com/p/no-one-tal...
— @andrewrypel.bsky.social
tnature.substack.com/p/no-one-tal...
No One Talks About Rivers Anymore
How modernity blinded our aquatic ancestry
tnature.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
“What were once bedrock aspects of daily life & spirituality increasingly appear as infrastructure, background scenery, or vague environmental concern. Our lived relationship w/ rivers has, in a quiet but profound way, been deleted.”
— @andrewrypel.bsky.social
tnature.substack.com/p/no-one-tal...
— @andrewrypel.bsky.social
tnature.substack.com/p/no-one-tal...
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Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas :: Unsanctioned Soundtrack (1977)
aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/12/07/e...
It’s the 3rd week of December and if you grew up in the 80s, Jim Henson’s 1977 holiday epic really needs no further explanation. Welcome to Frogtown Hollow.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/12/07/e...
It’s the 3rd week of December and if you grew up in the 80s, Jim Henson’s 1977 holiday epic really needs no further explanation. Welcome to Frogtown Hollow.
December 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas :: Unsanctioned Soundtrack (1977)
aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/12/07/e...
It’s the 3rd week of December and if you grew up in the 80s, Jim Henson’s 1977 holiday epic really needs no further explanation. Welcome to Frogtown Hollow.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/12/07/e...
It’s the 3rd week of December and if you grew up in the 80s, Jim Henson’s 1977 holiday epic really needs no further explanation. Welcome to Frogtown Hollow.
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Emergency Brownies | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson share.google/qRMlTiIRdveY...
Emergency Brownies
This is for those times you urgently need a brownie, but don't want to make — or, rather, can't justify making — a whole batch. This recipe makes two (four if needs be) fudgy brownies to be snaffled s...
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December 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Emergency Brownies | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson share.google/qRMlTiIRdveY...
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I mostly study songbirds, which don't tend to live very long, so 11 years old seems like a very old bird to me. I wondered if that was close to the record for oystercatchers but it's not even close-- a Eurasian Oystercatcher lived to be at least 43! wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/01/16/w...
December 4, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I mostly study songbirds, which don't tend to live very long, so 11 years old seems like a very old bird to me. I wondered if that was close to the record for oystercatchers but it's not even close-- a Eurasian Oystercatcher lived to be at least 43! wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/01/16/w...
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Huzzah! After a lot of work, I'm happy to share that the results of my first chapter have been published and are available for your perusal. In this paper, I was interested in understanding how characteristics of urban environments influence the diel activity of cats academic.oup.com/jue/article/...
Housing proximity and vegetation cover affect diel activity patterns of domestic cats (Felis catus) in regionally protected shorelines
Abstract. Free-roaming domestic cats (Felis catus) are among the most impactful non-native species globally, causing the extinction of 63 endemic vertebrat
academic.oup.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Huzzah! After a lot of work, I'm happy to share that the results of my first chapter have been published and are available for your perusal. In this paper, I was interested in understanding how characteristics of urban environments influence the diel activity of cats academic.oup.com/jue/article/...
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You should also check out Lucy Worsley's documentary on Agatha Christie on iPlayer
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC Two - Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen
Lucy Worsley discovers the origins of Agatha Christie's macabre magic.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
You should also check out Lucy Worsley's documentary on Agatha Christie on iPlayer
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
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Here’s what would happen if we replaced all the protein humans get from fishing with land-based farming for meat.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🧪🦑🌎🐠
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🧪🦑🌎🐠
Biodiversity Consequences of Replacing Animal Protein From Capture Fisheries With Animal Protein From Agriculture
Replacing animal protein sourced from marine capture fisheries with animal protein from agriculture will likely increase the threats to biodiversity given current human diets. Approximately half th...
www.tandfonline.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Here’s what would happen if we replaced all the protein humans get from fishing with land-based farming for meat.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🧪🦑🌎🐠
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🧪🦑🌎🐠
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NEW! 🦠🦧 We revisited a perplexing paradox: do wildlife really pose less of a risk to human health as they become more endangered? Turns out, it's sampling bias all the way down: conservation risks correlate with disease surveillance blindspots. 🔓 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Viral diversity and zoonotic risk in endangered species
A growing body of evidence links zoonotic disease risk, including pandemic threats, to biodiversity loss and other upstream anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem health. However, there is little current...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
NEW! 🦠🦧 We revisited a perplexing paradox: do wildlife really pose less of a risk to human health as they become more endangered? Turns out, it's sampling bias all the way down: conservation risks correlate with disease surveillance blindspots. 🔓 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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We can map the world's existing forests with incredible accuracy now, but clearly we cannot (or will not) stop them from disappearing at rapid rates almost everywhere. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎
Natural forests of the world – a 2020 baseline for deforestation and degradation monitoring - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Natural forests of the world – a 2020 baseline for deforestation and degradation monitoring
www.nature.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
We can map the world's existing forests with incredible accuracy now, but clearly we cannot (or will not) stop them from disappearing at rapid rates almost everywhere. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎
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Give a man a bird and he’ll eat for a day.
*Teach* a man to bird and he’ll eat for a lifetime, but mostly just breakfast burritos from the gas station by the park
*Teach* a man to bird and he’ll eat for a lifetime, but mostly just breakfast burritos from the gas station by the park
November 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Give a man a bird and he’ll eat for a day.
*Teach* a man to bird and he’ll eat for a lifetime, but mostly just breakfast burritos from the gas station by the park
*Teach* a man to bird and he’ll eat for a lifetime, but mostly just breakfast burritos from the gas station by the park
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To new Bluesky peeps: I'm currently working on another book, on the organisms nearest my heart. It's fundamentally about fish as engineers—both of ecosystems & human affairs—and how we revitalize their roles in our waterscapes & lives. If this aligns with your interests & expertise, cast me a line!
November 15, 2024 at 3:20 PM
To new Bluesky peeps: I'm currently working on another book, on the organisms nearest my heart. It's fundamentally about fish as engineers—both of ecosystems & human affairs—and how we revitalize their roles in our waterscapes & lives. If this aligns with your interests & expertise, cast me a line!
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
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This is everything I want a chocolate cake to be: squidgy, cocoa-rich, and as good for after dinner as at teatime. It’s also easy to make and, as it happens, vegan, not that you’d guess it. Yes, #RecipeOfTheDay is my Dark and Sumptuous Chocolate Cake! www.nigella.com/recipes/dark...
Dark and Sumptuous Chocolate Cake
This cake. It confounds me. It delights me. I never ever thought I would be in raptures about the joyfulness of a — yes — vegan chocolate cake.
I now make this as my chocolate cake of choice for peop...
www.nigella.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This is everything I want a chocolate cake to be: squidgy, cocoa-rich, and as good for after dinner as at teatime. It’s also easy to make and, as it happens, vegan, not that you’d guess it. Yes, #RecipeOfTheDay is my Dark and Sumptuous Chocolate Cake! www.nigella.com/recipes/dark...
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Granger et al. Multispecies sensory networks and social foraging strategies: Implications for population decline in procellariiform seabirds www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #ornithology #seabirds
Multispecies sensory networks and social foraging strategies: Implications for population decline in procellariiform seabirds | PNAS
Multispecies sensory networks, where different species prioritize different sensory
modalities and then use heterospecific information in a likely ...
www.pnas.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Granger et al. Multispecies sensory networks and social foraging strategies: Implications for population decline in procellariiform seabirds www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #ornithology #seabirds
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This article, about the role and lives of Indigenous women in early Spanish colonial society, is maybe one of the most important things ever written on the conquest, IMO
d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/36589291/JOW...
d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/36589291/JOW...
d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net
November 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This article, about the role and lives of Indigenous women in early Spanish colonial society, is maybe one of the most important things ever written on the conquest, IMO
d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/36589291/JOW...
d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/36589291/JOW...
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Bravo to space.com for this deeply reported, lengthy piece.
Depressing, but a shocking thing is Goddard is using the shutdown to order moves out of lab and engineering spaces on 2-3 days notice, requiring major equipment to just be left behind and demolished
www.space.com/space-explor...
Depressing, but a shocking thing is Goddard is using the shutdown to order moves out of lab and engineering spaces on 2-3 days notice, requiring major equipment to just be left behind and demolished
www.space.com/space-explor...
November 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Bravo to space.com for this deeply reported, lengthy piece.
Depressing, but a shocking thing is Goddard is using the shutdown to order moves out of lab and engineering spaces on 2-3 days notice, requiring major equipment to just be left behind and demolished
www.space.com/space-explor...
Depressing, but a shocking thing is Goddard is using the shutdown to order moves out of lab and engineering spaces on 2-3 days notice, requiring major equipment to just be left behind and demolished
www.space.com/space-explor...
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Worth remembering…
October 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Worth remembering…
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How many poor cities in the south gave away tax incentives & savings to build their goddamn huge ass plants in their cities in exchange for jobs???? Looking at you, Moses Mike Grindr Johnson.
www.ktalnews.com/news/local-n...
www.ktalnews.com/news/local-n...
October 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
How many poor cities in the south gave away tax incentives & savings to build their goddamn huge ass plants in their cities in exchange for jobs???? Looking at you, Moses Mike Grindr Johnson.
www.ktalnews.com/news/local-n...
www.ktalnews.com/news/local-n...
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Two races: white and "political"
Two genders: Male and "political"
Two hair styles for women: long and "political"
Two sexualities: straight and "political"
Two body types: normative and "political"
Two genders: Male and "political"
Two hair styles for women: long and "political"
Two sexualities: straight and "political"
Two body types: normative and "political"
October 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Two races: white and "political"
Two genders: Male and "political"
Two hair styles for women: long and "political"
Two sexualities: straight and "political"
Two body types: normative and "political"
Two genders: Male and "political"
Two hair styles for women: long and "political"
Two sexualities: straight and "political"
Two body types: normative and "political"
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Now that we're properly moved in & set up in the new Life & Mind Building, we're pleased to restart our tradition of Friday afternoon seminar speakers, kicking off with Alex Thornton of @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social at 3.30pm on 31 Oct. Also live streamed: see below for details. Corvid-themed for 🎃
October 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Now that we're properly moved in & set up in the new Life & Mind Building, we're pleased to restart our tradition of Friday afternoon seminar speakers, kicking off with Alex Thornton of @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social at 3.30pm on 31 Oct. Also live streamed: see below for details. Corvid-themed for 🎃
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California condor range expanding into the Bay Area and Santa Cruz Mountains, further south into Santa Barbara County too. 🪶 www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/20/f...
October 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
California condor range expanding into the Bay Area and Santa Cruz Mountains, further south into Santa Barbara County too. 🪶 www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/20/f...