Sam Perrin
@samwperrin.bsky.social
Biodiversity researcher. Invasive ecologist. Love exploring biology in movies. Sometimes freelance science journalist. Former editor at Ecology for the Masses.
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Some good news
World's oldest known wild bird, Wisdom, cares for her newly hatched chick at 74
Wisdom, a 74-year-old Laysan albatross, is the world's oldest known wild bird. She also just became a mother yet again.
eu.usatoday.com
February 19, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Some good news
Finally got the last paper from my PhD published! It looks at different perspectives of alien species and their management, and how this could affect successful prevention measures.
neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1219...
neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1219...
Contrasts in perception of the interaction between non-native species and climate change
Over the last century, intensification of human movement has resulted in a large-scale redistribution of species worldwide. In recent decades, this phenomenon has been further compounded by climate ch...
neobiota.pensoft.net
January 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Finally got the last paper from my PhD published! It looks at different perspectives of alien species and their management, and how this could affect successful prevention measures.
neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1219...
neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1219...
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🚨 OUT NOW 🚨
📚 The @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment Summary for Policymakers is now available!
➡️ Explore the most comprehensive assessment ever of the interconnections between biodiversity, water, food, health & climate.
🌏 Options for a just & sustainable future!
www.ipbes.net/node/85582
📚 The @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment Summary for Policymakers is now available!
➡️ Explore the most comprehensive assessment ever of the interconnections between biodiversity, water, food, health & climate.
🌏 Options for a just & sustainable future!
www.ipbes.net/node/85582
December 17, 2024 at 8:08 PM
🚨 OUT NOW 🚨
📚 The @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment Summary for Policymakers is now available!
➡️ Explore the most comprehensive assessment ever of the interconnections between biodiversity, water, food, health & climate.
🌏 Options for a just & sustainable future!
www.ipbes.net/node/85582
📚 The @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment Summary for Policymakers is now available!
➡️ Explore the most comprehensive assessment ever of the interconnections between biodiversity, water, food, health & climate.
🌏 Options for a just & sustainable future!
www.ipbes.net/node/85582
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Had loads of fun making these two illustrations for PBS Eons' latest video, on how Neanderthals were incredibly adept apex predators. #paleoart #SciArt #artbyjulio
December 17, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Had loads of fun making these two illustrations for PBS Eons' latest video, on how Neanderthals were incredibly adept apex predators. #paleoart #SciArt #artbyjulio
Macklemore certainly shifted career paths.
December 18, 2024 at 8:13 AM
Macklemore certainly shifted career paths.
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For your barista at the indie coffee shop who knows your order by heart and has a roller derby name that’s an obscure wildlife name pun and wears a cute dinosaur pride pin on their name badge: A Little Queer Natural History by @joshlukedavis.bsky.social
bookshop.org/p/books/a-li...
bookshop.org/p/books/a-li...
A Little Queer Natural History a book by Josh L. Davis
Beautifully illustrated and scientifically informed, a celebration of the astonishing diversity of sexual behavior and biology found in nature. From a pair of male swans raising young to splitgill mu...
bookshop.org
December 17, 2024 at 12:55 AM
For your barista at the indie coffee shop who knows your order by heart and has a roller derby name that’s an obscure wildlife name pun and wears a cute dinosaur pride pin on their name badge: A Little Queer Natural History by @joshlukedavis.bsky.social
bookshop.org/p/books/a-li...
bookshop.org/p/books/a-li...
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Gotta make some posts, so throwback to that time @samwperrin.bsky.social gave me free reign to talk about how The Lord of the Rings is a great metaphor for #climateaction actually
(and back in the day it got retweeted by some actual climate scientists!)
(and back in the day it got retweeted by some actual climate scientists!)
Don’t Look Up Isn’t A Perfect Climate Change Film. The Lord of the Rings Is.
Regardless of your opinions on it, Don’t Look Up got people talking. The latest in a line of apocalyptic climate movies, will this be the one to effect change? I think we need more climate movies, …
natureaccordingtosam.wordpress.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Gotta make some posts, so throwback to that time @samwperrin.bsky.social gave me free reign to talk about how The Lord of the Rings is a great metaphor for #climateaction actually
(and back in the day it got retweeted by some actual climate scientists!)
(and back in the day it got retweeted by some actual climate scientists!)
Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Ecologist: the cup's increasing density in the area is leading to a higher rate of ingestion of microplastics and lower species density for the following invertebrates...
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Ecologist: the cup's increasing density in the area is leading to a higher rate of ingestion of microplastics and lower species density for the following invertebrates...
Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Geochemist: Hey! No eating or drinking in the lab!
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Geochemist: Hey! No eating or drinking in the lab!
Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Mircobiologist: the cup is full. Just look at what grew on this plate when wd swabbed the inside of the cup and the sequences we recovered from the filtered air.
🧪🧫
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Mircobiologist: the cup is full. Just look at what grew on this plate when wd swabbed the inside of the cup and the sequences we recovered from the filtered air.
🧪🧫
September 3, 2024 at 9:15 AM
Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Ecologist: the cup's increasing density in the area is leading to a higher rate of ingestion of microplastics and lower species density for the following invertebrates...
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Ecologist: the cup's increasing density in the area is leading to a higher rate of ingestion of microplastics and lower species density for the following invertebrates...
I know I'm late on this but the correct thing to send #Raygun to would have been #Eurovision.
August 29, 2024 at 6:20 AM
I know I'm late on this but the correct thing to send #Raygun to would have been #Eurovision.
Kids are rewatching the first episode of Pokemon. And here's me thinking the cage fighting animals are the nastiest things about this world.
August 28, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Kids are rewatching the first episode of Pokemon. And here's me thinking the cage fighting animals are the nastiest things about this world.
My eldest kid is obsessed with venomous snakes. When we were driving through Tasmania recently, we stopped for a breather and I went and did a mini iNaturalist bioblitz at the side of the carpark. Saw this Tiger Snake. Remained my son's favourite animal sighting for the entire 3 month trip.
August 28, 2024 at 7:01 AM
My eldest kid is obsessed with venomous snakes. When we were driving through Tasmania recently, we stopped for a breather and I went and did a mini iNaturalist bioblitz at the side of the carpark. Saw this Tiger Snake. Remained my son's favourite animal sighting for the entire 3 month trip.
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If you use iNaturalist, you could contribute to community science by surveying your local critters!
Note that only photos taken between 25-31 August your LOCAL time will be counted!
Ask me if you need tech help. Join using this link.
www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...
Note that only photos taken between 25-31 August your LOCAL time will be counted!
Ask me if you need tech help. Join using this link.
www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...
#InverteFest August 2024
What is #InverteFest? It's a periodic online event where we invite you to celebrate the overlooked invertebrate fauna around you and share the joys of discovery online. The hashtag was conceived w...
www.inaturalist.org
August 9, 2024 at 3:08 PM
If you use iNaturalist, you could contribute to community science by surveying your local critters!
Note that only photos taken between 25-31 August your LOCAL time will be counted!
Ask me if you need tech help. Join using this link.
www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...
Note that only photos taken between 25-31 August your LOCAL time will be counted!
Ask me if you need tech help. Join using this link.
www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...
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This is up there with
"people aren't dying in car accidents so let's remove seatbelt laws."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"people aren't dying in car accidents so let's remove seatbelt laws."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Whales are doing well so it’s time to scrap the body that once protected them, says former head
The International Whaling Commission has become a ‘zombie’ and should vote to disband itself, insists Peter Bridgewater
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2024 at 1:27 PM
This is up there with
"people aren't dying in car accidents so let's remove seatbelt laws."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"people aren't dying in car accidents so let's remove seatbelt laws."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Back after 6 months of paternity leave. Where are all the biodiversity researchers on Bluesky app? Need to be following people again.
a man in a suit is standing in a room holding a jacket and asking where you are .
ALT: a man in a suit is standing in a room holding a jacket and asking where you are .
media.tenor.com
August 26, 2024 at 7:45 AM
Back after 6 months of paternity leave. Where are all the biodiversity researchers on Bluesky app? Need to be following people again.
October 31, 2023 at 8:43 AM
Been off social media for 2 weeks due to new baby. Can now formally announce that I've taken a full time position as a researcher with the Gjærvoll Centre at NTNU, trying to figure out where endangered species hotspots can be found in Norway!
October 16, 2023 at 7:32 AM
Been off social media for 2 weeks due to new baby. Can now formally announce that I've taken a full time position as a researcher with the Gjærvoll Centre at NTNU, trying to figure out where endangered species hotspots can be found in Norway!
Conversation we had the other night took a weird turn and now you should all read this.
www.theguardian.com/science/2016...
www.theguardian.com/science/2016...
Why don't humans have a penis bone? Scientists may now know
Speed of human mating might be behind the lack of a baculum in humans, suggests study tracing bone’s evolution
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2023 at 5:06 AM
Conversation we had the other night took a weird turn and now you should all read this.
www.theguardian.com/science/2016...
www.theguardian.com/science/2016...
I have never seen an animal that so perfectly encapsulates the phrase "mate come over here and say that to my face".
From Nikki Redman's Kangaroo Island photo collection.
From Nikki Redman's Kangaroo Island photo collection.
September 23, 2023 at 8:11 PM
I have never seen an animal that so perfectly encapsulates the phrase "mate come over here and say that to my face".
From Nikki Redman's Kangaroo Island photo collection.
From Nikki Redman's Kangaroo Island photo collection.
My wife discovered yesterday that Australians call our different crocodile varieties "salties" and "freshies" which is just furthering her belief that all of our slang is just made up by 6 year olds.
September 6, 2023 at 9:10 AM
My wife discovered yesterday that Australians call our different crocodile varieties "salties" and "freshies" which is just furthering her belief that all of our slang is just made up by 6 year olds.
The final episode of Biologists of Middle Earth is up! I talk to Dr. Adam Hasik about his work with the Ents, their role as ecosystem engineers, and what dwindling Ent populations could mean for all of Middle Earth.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6AZG8QZTMQx4dXYkRLstqh?si=9252fdbdd85247ce&nd=1
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6AZG8QZTMQx4dXYkRLstqh?si=9252fdbdd85247ce&nd=1
Ent-ertaining Extinction with Dr. Adam Hasik
Listen to this episode from Biologists of Middle Earth on Spotify. In our final episode (for now), we chat to Dr. Adam Hasik, who has been working as a postdoc as part of the Fangorn Ent Project, a ma...
open.spotify.com
August 14, 2023 at 7:14 AM
The final episode of Biologists of Middle Earth is up! I talk to Dr. Adam Hasik about his work with the Ents, their role as ecosystem engineers, and what dwindling Ent populations could mean for all of Middle Earth.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6AZG8QZTMQx4dXYkRLstqh?si=9252fdbdd85247ce&nd=1
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6AZG8QZTMQx4dXYkRLstqh?si=9252fdbdd85247ce&nd=1
Great example of how sometimes the "just let it grow" approach to rewilding can backfire. (but when it comes to your backyard seriously just let it grow)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/us/hawaii-wildfire-factors.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/us/hawaii-wildfire-factors.html
August 14, 2023 at 7:07 AM
Great example of how sometimes the "just let it grow" approach to rewilding can backfire. (but when it comes to your backyard seriously just let it grow)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/us/hawaii-wildfire-factors.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/us/hawaii-wildfire-factors.html
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If you’re going to have strong opinions about what makes effective climate messaging, you should know that there are decades of communications and psychology research on this exact topic. Any hot take you have is a testable hypotheses that someone has probably already tested.
August 12, 2023 at 4:05 PM
If you’re going to have strong opinions about what makes effective climate messaging, you should know that there are decades of communications and psychology research on this exact topic. Any hot take you have is a testable hypotheses that someone has probably already tested.
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OK, look at this adorable goof! Commerson's Frogfish come in many different colors, and when they get to this age they stop imitating sponges and start letting local algae grow over their skin to better blend in. Grey/blue is a great color for one, rather rare. Ambush predator ftw 📷🦑🌿🐟🧪🐡
August 13, 2023 at 7:57 PM
OK, look at this adorable goof! Commerson's Frogfish come in many different colors, and when they get to this age they stop imitating sponges and start letting local algae grow over their skin to better blend in. Grey/blue is a great color for one, rather rare. Ambush predator ftw 📷🦑🌿🐟🧪🐡