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Lisa Buckley
@lisavipes.bsky.social
Paleontologist PhD & Medical Scribe
#BirdGlamour, #NameThatTrack, #ichnology, bird & dino tracks.
Fellow of Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
She/Her.
Views mine.
LOTS of Ash pics!
Pinned
Hello to new and familiar faces!
In my old life, I was a vertebrate palaeontologist who studied fossilized bird and dinosaur footprints.
Now, I work as a remote medical scribe for a podiatry clinic. I do #BirdGlamour a #scicomm project where I create makeup looks based on birds and other critters!🐡
It just flashed to mind certain scenes from Scary Movies I saw - the TV was perfectly positioned for viewing when I peeked over the headboard from my room - that scared the beezus out of me as a kid:
1. The tub and well scenes in "The Changeling"
2. Danny Glick scratching the window in "Salem's Lot"
February 14, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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Too many Valentine’s Day poems start with “Roses are red, violets are blue,” and nowhere near enough with “Here I sit, broken-hearted…”
February 14, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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Trace fossils FTW again! Earliest known (300+ mya) evidence from Germany of scaled skin in reptiles from body impressions with tracks, includes imprint of a cloacal vent (probably SFW because it's a trace fossil). 🧪🐾🦎 #ichnology
The earliest reptile body impressions with scaly skin

Cabarzichnus pulchrus n. igen. n. isp.

www.cell.com/current-biol...
February 12, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Podiatry Typo of the Day:
Patient presents in supportive snakers. 🐍
February 12, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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BRING US YOUR TIRED
YOUR THIRSTY
YOUR NERDS YEARNING TO SHOW US WEIRD BUGS
This is an accurate endorsement of Bluesky. The core user base are the kids who would whisper "wanna see a weird bug?"
And then proceed to show you the weirdest bug/thing/idea you have ever seen.
Welcome, #NewSkies
Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".
February 12, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Swift Bricks - Cheap & Easy!
www.swift-conservation.org
February 12, 2026 at 2:56 AM
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A not-completely-exhaustive illustration of our winter shorebirds, but these are the species that you’re most likely to see during winter around Teesmouth (northeast England).
🐡🪶
#birdingNortheast
February 11, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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😂
February 11, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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February is pretty much the Bird Doldrums around here, but every once in a while there is an unexpected highlight. In Feb 2022, this was mine. Great Grey Owl #birds

(The best part was that it wasn’t even looking at me. Undisturbed owl FTW!)
February 11, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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February 2026 - the BMJ publishes a piece called "Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one”

Some of us have been screaming this for years

www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one”
Covid-19 is not just a respiratory infection. Cardiovascular symptoms are seen in both acute and long covid. Katharine Lang reports on what we’ve learnt since the onset of the pandemic Cardiovascular...
www.bmj.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:54 AM
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STEM Black History Fact 9/28

Dr. Jane Cooke Wright pioneered chemotherapy techniques and helped establish personalized cancer treatment as a scientific discipline.
Ten Black Scientists That Science Teachers Should Know About
Help your students see the possibilities of careers in STEM fields by providing them with diverse role models.
www.pbs.org
February 10, 2026 at 2:44 AM
First Song Sparrow of the year for me (heard in the backyard through the super thin Wakefield of my second storey home office)!
February 9, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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🏺 #SuperbOwl 🧪
The oldest known image of an owl:

More than 30,000 years ago, someone skillfully scratched the figure of a long-eared owl (Asio otus) into the soft outer layer of the walls of Chauvet Cave, France. The owl is looking backward over their wings, head turned 180 degrees
carnegiemnh.org/ancient-owl-...
February 8, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Since Life has been *waves hands at everything* I'm resharing my Short-eared Owl #SuperbOwl #BirdGlamour!

bsky.app/profile/lisa...
#BirdGlamour celebrates #SuperbOwl by revisiting my first Glam in 2017, the Short-eared Owl! Short-eared Owls are found in the grasslands of all continents except Australian & Antarctica. They are also far travelers: there are accounts of Short-eared Owls landing on ships 100s of miles from land!🧪🐡🐦
February 9, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Me putting down a feather pillow on my spot on the couch to sit on for knee reasons (don't get me started).
Ash abandoning my lap and stealing half of the couch.
February 8, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Gee, why was the fridge not draining properly?
It's a mystery!

I AM STILL THE GREATEST ARTIFICER IN THE LAND!
February 7, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Sass Panther Security is always vigilant (for Churu).
February 7, 2026 at 6:22 AM
Tomorrow I'll be tackling the freezer drain in the fridge.
I AM THE GREATEST ARTIFICER IN THE REALM!

Narrator: Sigh. She unclogged one of those annoying pop top style drains and reassembled it. Don't get too excited.
February 7, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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Anyways get a tentacle pot to help you through these trying times i guess
February 5, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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3 hours ago, I shared my results of having combed through ~470 DOJ Epstein files that mention Jack Horner, his MSU email, or "Dinochicken". I posted a copy, w/ screenshots and receipts, to r/Paleontology. It has been pinned by moderators and thus far viewed 38k times.

www.reddit.com/r/Paleontolo...
From the Paleontology community on Reddit: Timeline of Jack Horner - Jeffrey Epstein contact per DOJ's newest releases (see comments)
Explore this post and more from the Paleontology community
www.reddit.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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Describe a horror movie as if it were a Hallmark movie:

A career woman discovers inner strength and finds success after facing many challenges with the help of her cat and a special friend (Alien).
Describe a horror movie as if it were a Hallmark movie:
A man with a troubled past moves to a remote small town in Serbia and finds acceptance after learning to embrace the local culture (Vampir 2021).
February 3, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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I’m putting my Rancho Gordo beans to work today in class. My paleoecology students are sampling and identifying “microfossils” (beans) from a time series and plotting relative abundance data. They have to grapple with how to handle data visualization, broken specimens, unknowns, lumping/splitting.
February 3, 2026 at 7:26 PM
I saw an American Robin downtown (the robins are super active in town with the warm winter) that has one white tail feather. I'll have to get a pic if i see it again!
February 3, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Describe a horror movie as if it were a Hallmark movie:

A career woman discovers inner strength and finds success after facing many challenges with the help of her cat and a special friend (Alien).
Describe a horror movie as if it were a Hallmark movie:
A man with a troubled past moves to a remote small town in Serbia and finds acceptance after learning to embrace the local culture (Vampir 2021).
February 3, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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Describe a horror movie as if it were a Hallmark movie:

New babies give a man and his chronically ill ex-wife a second chance at romance.

(I'll let you guess this one)
Describe a horror movie as if it were a Hallmark movie:
A man with a troubled past moves to a remote small town in Serbia and finds acceptance after learning to embrace the local culture (Vampir 2021).
February 3, 2026 at 1:39 AM