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Dani Crowley 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇵🇸
@aquadan1.bsky.social
PhD student at Bangor University & ZSL 🦈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Shark ecology, culture & climate change 🌍 | Trans Rights 🏳️‍⚧️ | Views all mine | she/her is fine
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An AI-generated video showing a capybara, a South American rodent, in a bathtub, "could boost people’s interest in keeping such animals as pets and fuel the illegal trade of such species." Fab piece by Katarina Zimmer on the perils of AI-generated animals:

atmos.earth/science-and-...
AI-Generated Animals Are Distancing Us From Nature | Atmos
Cuddly polar bears and hyperrealistic chimeras may seem harmless on social media, but experts worry AI animal content can be harmful.
atmos.earth
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Is Nanotyrannus a baby T. rex, or is it its own species? @shamini.bsky.social has been finding out!
Decades of debate over the identity of a medium-sized Cretaceous predator may finally be over

Read more: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
October 31, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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In 2021, the chance of 40C heat in the UK by 2040 was estimated at 0.02%

In 2022, multiple regions hit 40C

This is one example of a systematic underestimation of climate risks in UK and internationally

Important new report @paulbehrens.bsky.social
www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/cost-of-living
Landmark report confirms that the UK's Cost of Living Crisis is being aggravated by climate change. — Scientists Warning Europe - Inspiring science-based climate action
A landmark economic report published by the climate science charity Scientists Warning Europe confirms that the UK's Cost of Living Crisis is being aggravated by climate change.
www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk
November 28, 2024 at 1:18 PM
When you change the console colours on the programming software you use
a man in a room with the word hackerman on the screen
ALT: a man in a room with the word hackerman on the screen
media.tenor.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Super late but had such a blast returning to @linneansociety.bsky.social to deliver an evening event on Queer Ecology featuring trailblazing scientists from the past, animals outside our human binaries, and the challenges facing us today. Thank you! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
October 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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The Starmer government is REALLY running scared of this petition, now at 2.75 million, to the extent that it has responded 3 months early, in a transparent attempt to spike it.

So please, under no circumstances should you sign it and share it widely. Starmer & his boss McSweeney would not like it.
Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
petition.parliament.uk
October 3, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Had a lovely evening at @linneansociety.bsky.social, listening to @aquadan1.bsky.social and generally being nerdy about #QueerNature, queer people in the sciences and why it's important to talk about both. Always great to hear different perspectives, Thank you! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
September 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Tonight! 😍🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
There are just a couple of places left on our Queer Ecology Evening with the brilliant @aquadan1.bsky.social. Join us for a thought-provoking tour, a quiz, and a relaxing drink in our library.

📍 Linnean Society, Burlington House
📆 Thursday 25 September, 6-8pm
🎟️ From £12
Queer Ecology Evening at the Linnean Society
A special guided tour exploring the diversity of nature and its interpretation by scientists throughout history.
buff.ly
September 25, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Parents, be vigilant against PragerU instructional materials in your kids classrooms! It’s an extremist outfit masquerading as an educational nonprofit. It’s a far right wing response to PBS kid’s programming, it is propaganda designed to appeal to children and careless or bigoted educators. Beware!
August 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Petition from @zslofficial.bsky.social about making sure every child has access to nature!
Sign the Petition
Make access to nature a statutory right for every school child
chng.it
August 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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BREAKING 🚨: We've just dropped a massive banner off Westminster Bridge to demand the UK Government #StopRosebank

It's time for Keir Starmer make the right choice 👀
July 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Pelagic fauna
July 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Happy Shark Awareness Day 🦈

Glowing in the dark, jumping high in the air or touching gently fins ...
They are such fascinating, crucial, and beautiful animals.
July 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Stop using AI and pay people to write!!
Lab drowning in paperwork? Hire an in-house writer
Hiring a postdoc to take over writing tasks makes good sense, argues Béla Z. Schmidt.
www.nature.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM
From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...
journals.plos.org
June 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Rewatching Mrs. America and would recommend it to everyone, especially younger millennials and gen z cause literally all the bullshit we deal with now is the same shit we've always been dealing with
July 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
New podcast from @zslofficial.bsky.social about the work we're doing on sharks in North Wales!
ZSL #047 Shark Tales of North Wales
ZSL Wild Science Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Accidentally printed badge templates too big last year working at the @linneansociety.bsky.social but now I get sweet nature #Pride decor!
June 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The sun bleaching out a stain on one of my first Pride tshirts.... ally 🥹
June 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Using swears to get rid of the AI summaries is so fun, thanks @georgiacowie.bsky.social !
June 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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The first US woman to fly in space said little about her personal life in public. A candid film discloses the pressures she endured

https://go.nature.com/43LB8TP
‘One of the true final frontiers’ — Sally Ride biopic highlights the struggle of gay astronauts
The first US woman to fly in space said little about her personal life in public. A candid film discloses the pressures she endured.
go.nature.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Watched this, absolutely loved it, go do the same!
My favorite movie of this year thus far. The rental style stickers in the VHS box are a nice touch.
June 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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TIL: When the Original Star Wars Trilogy finally aired on Chilean TV in 2003, the network spliced custom beer commercials into the films themselves to avoid cutting to commercial breaks.

these additional scenes turn Obi-Wan & Luke into raging space alcoholics who are constantly shotgunning booze.
May 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
89% of the world’s people want stronger action to fight the climate crisis but feel they are trapped in a self-fulfilling “spiral of silence” because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority, research suggests
Thanks @bes-cascade.bsky.social for sharing this link, love some afternoon optimism!
Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨

WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.

4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.

Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM