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Hannah Miller

@hannahem.bsky.social

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US-based wildlife/conservation biologist • birds & habitat management • tea-fueled birder • she/her

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Hannah Miller @hannahem.bsky.social · Nov 18

What better time for an intro post than #LGBTQSTEMDay!

Hey y'all! I'm queer, disabled🦻🏻, and often distracted by birds 😜.

I work in bird conservation in an academic-adjacent role - think population monitoring and reporting. Florida Scrub-Jays are my current professional (& personal) jam.

A selfie of Hannah, a white woman with brown curly hair. She's wearing a colorful headband and has a headlamp around her neck. The background is filled with pines and lush sub-tropical tropical vegetation.

A white woman in a white-and-navy striped long sleeve shirt looks off into the distance with a smile on her face. The background is filled with lush tropical vegetation.

This photo was taken by a friend while we were on vacation on Costa Rica; none of us were fully prepared for how distracted I would be by nature whenever we ate outside hahaha.

A blue and gray Florida Scrub-Jay perched on a delicate oak branch.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7h

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.

The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

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Hannah Miller @hannahem.bsky.social · 13h

This past Sunday, #VacationSundays no. 19, I was hanging out with friends again. Highlights were watching Great British Bake Off in person with my cooking show friend (we've had to do virtual watch parties since I moved last year), and finding a barred owl out in the early afternoon while on a walk!

Photo of a barred owl on an oak branch, in front of palm fronds.

Hannah Miller @hannahem.bsky.social · 13h

For #VacationSundays no. 18 (Oct. 26) I made a dutch baby for breakfast, went birding in hopes of some later migrants, and went for an evening run!

Photo of a puffy dutch baby pankcake in a cast iron skillet.

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Hannah Miller @hannahem.bsky.social · 13h

#VacationSundays no. 17 (Oct. 19) was spend relaxing and recovering from lots of driving on Friday (down to Miami and back for a really popular orchid festival). I enjoy romance novels from time to time as lighter reading and couldn't resist one about birding (mixed feelings overall tho).

Photo of a white hand holding an ereader in a hammock with plants on a shelf in the background. The ereader screen is displaying the cover of a book titled 'Birding with Benefits' by Sarah T. Dubb. The cover art is a woman holding binoculars up to her eyes and biting her lip. One lens of the binoculars reflects a bird, while the other reflects the face of an attractive man.

I was judging this book way harder than I usually judge romance novels, probably because it's about something I know a lot about. Also apparently this is what that viral birding movie 'Adventures in Love and Birding' is based on?!

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Hannah Miller @hannahem.bsky.social · 13h

On #VacationSundays no. 16 (Oct. 12), I ran into a birding acquaintance and we ended up spending the better part of the morning together at 2 different natural areas in search of migrants. Overall we were pretty successful, though we missed a Nashville Warbler he had been seeing earlier in the week.

Hannah Miller @hannahem.bsky.social · 13h

Accidentally got over a month behind! 😬

Picking up where I left off, #VacationSundays no. 15 was the first weekend of October which I spent surrounded by friends celebrating my birthday (earlier in the week). It was a wonderful start to 32!

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 1d

NOOOO!!!! Teen Vogue’s political reporting was one of the last holdouts of actual political journalism left as mainstream outlets caved to fascism… this does not bode well.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Hannah Miller @hannahem.bsky.social · 11d

Happy birthday, Jer! Hope your next year is full of excellent birds and people!

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 17d

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 17d

19 hours left, please share ❤️‍🔥 Maybe you’re fatiguing of these hourly posts, but what are a few posts, a clicked share, in contrast with being able to help six families & a camp survive death every day?

Fight against this slow genocide. Food & shelter. Last check, we’re at 39/1000

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 21d

Please share, only 4 hours left: the giving circle has a special dose of hope: one of the families is expecting a baby very soon (🧿) !!!

With lack of food, shelter, medicine, we MUST step up for this malnourished mom. Anything helps.

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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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Hannah Miller @hannahem.bsky.social · 21d

I'm 100% with Ryan on this (and not just because I was on the same trip)!! Anthropomorphizing can of course go too far, but I've seen over and over again in my outreach work that a little bit can really help people connect to nature more!

ryan @ryanfm.bsky.social · 22d

maybe a little different from my usual newsletter posts. but also, we should talk to animals more.
ryanmandelbirder.substack.com/p/we-should-...

we should talk to animals more

an essay on what i really mean when i call them "little guys"

ryanmandelbirder.substack.com

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Hannah Miller @hannahem.bsky.social · 24d

I have a lot of complicated feelings about the Catholic Church after growing up in it, but they do get some things right.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 24d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Hannah Miller @hannahem.bsky.social · 24d

Ha! Then I'll continue with my plan to study and absorb bird info on the couch instead of watching tv, and then bring the knowledge in the field but not the book!

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 24d

For friendsofabracadaver on tumblr, a Least Bittern! Big thanks once again for the #Waymakers donation. The challenge is over for this year but I'll be wrapping up bird art for donors over the next couple weeks. Much appreciation to all of you who joined in!

🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

Digital painting of a Least Bittern clinging to green reeds as it aims downward, watching the water carefully for movement. It has yellow eyes, a very sharp pointy beak, and a mottled gray-yellow-reddish back. The water surface is murky and covered in little green duckweed leaves.

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Hannah Miller @hannahem.bsky.social · 24d

aww they're so tiny and cute!

Hannah Miller @hannahem.bsky.social · 24d

#birds

Hannah Miller @hannahem.bsky.social · 24d

haha yes that sounds perfect for it! if I wasn't in an apartment and had a yard that could support it I would totally get some!

Hannah Miller @hannahem.bsky.social · 24d

Well uhh that's something I guess 😬

(Depending on how far you're willing to travel, check out Sweet Bay Nursery. They're in Parrish, which is def worth the trip from Highlands Co but maybe not if you're further east and/or north. Lovely staff and good selection of natives.)

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Hannah Miller @hannahem.bsky.social · 24d

it's time I finally step up my shorebird ID skills (I live by the beach afterall!) so I was looking at guides but oof I didn't realize the weight of shorebird knowledge 😅

Screengrab of a book details page showing the cover of 'The Shorebird Guide' and listing details including the publisher and publishing date, number of pages, and product type. The dimensions section reads "9.0 x 6.0 x 1.1 inches | 35.4 pounds" (there is no way the book is actually this heavy).

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Hannah Miller @hannahem.bsky.social · 25d

schmear on poppyseed or egg and cheese on everything

Hannah Miller @hannahem.bsky.social · Oct 2

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Hannah Miller @hannahem.bsky.social · Oct 2

Thank you! And thanks for your always interesting curation of 'on this day' history nuggets!

Hannah Miller @hannahem.bsky.social · Oct 2

So weird! It *is* my birthday and I keep getting confetti over my profile pic but thankfully it hasn't asked if I want to tell any collaborators yet.

Hannah Miller @hannahem.bsky.social · Oct 2

1993: I was born and while I wouldn't say I'm following in Darwin's footsteps (which is for the best, they're a bit 😬 at times) I also enjoy staring at nature and making observations.

Happy birthday, birthday buddy!

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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · Oct 2

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Bird conservation threatened by shifting baseline syndrome

New research shows that populations of dozens of waterbird and seabird species have been declining for much longer than previously thought in Europe. The article "Shifting the baseline for waterbird a...

phys.org

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