Dr Alex Bond
@thelabandfield.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🇨🇦🐧 Conservation, curator in charge of birbs, island hopper, climber, connoisseur of fine teas, biscuit fiend, v left, queer af, Erdős–Bacon = 8, he/him.
📍 Tring & Milton Keynes, UK
https://linktr.ee/albnd
📍 Tring & Milton Keynes, UK
https://linktr.ee/albnd
It's been a very busy few days in Hobart with the @adriftlab.bsky.social team - some VERY exciting research coming together, and also quality time with the whole team in one place.
Plus some really exciting plotting for our future, so stay tuned...
Plus some really exciting plotting for our future, so stay tuned...
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
It's been a very busy few days in Hobart with the @adriftlab.bsky.social team - some VERY exciting research coming together, and also quality time with the whole team in one place.
Plus some really exciting plotting for our future, so stay tuned...
Plus some really exciting plotting for our future, so stay tuned...
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Ok but do you have socks with trans rights Silver Gulls on them? 🥰🏳️⚧️ #ornithology
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Ok but do you have socks with trans rights Silver Gulls on them? 🥰🏳️⚧️ #ornithology
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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Ok but do you have socks with trans rights Silver Gulls on them? 🥰🏳️⚧️ #ornithology
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Ok but do you have socks with trans rights Silver Gulls on them? 🥰🏳️⚧️ #ornithology
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UK wildfires devastated more areas in 2025 than at any time since records began, figures show
UK wildfires devastated more areas in 2025 than at any time since records began, figures show
Firefighters call for long-term investment and say UK is dangerously underprepared as climate crisis worsens
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
UK wildfires devastated more areas in 2025 than at any time since records began, figures show
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Australian authorities have confirmed the highly contagious H5 bird flu has reached Heard Island, about 4000km south-west of Perth and 1700km north of #Antarctica. High mortality rates in elephant seals have been observed in October, but no impacts on penguins and seabirds via @9news.bsky.social
Deadly bird flu strain reaches Australian territory for the first time
The deadly and highly contagious H5 bird flu has been confirmed in elephant seals on the Australian territ...
www.9news.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Australian authorities have confirmed the highly contagious H5 bird flu has reached Heard Island, about 4000km south-west of Perth and 1700km north of #Antarctica. High mortality rates in elephant seals have been observed in October, but no impacts on penguins and seabirds via @9news.bsky.social
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Haida Raven
Bill Reid ~ Haida
1972
Bill Reid ~ Haida
1972
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Haida Raven
Bill Reid ~ Haida
1972
Bill Reid ~ Haida
1972
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Exciting new episode today is SPIKY, featuring our first ever guest the incredible @flygirlnhm.bsky.social. Spoiler alert - there may be some flies! m.youtube.com/watch?v=8si6...
Our first guest brings a powderpuff with wings | The 'Perfect' Specimen Ep14
YouTube video by Natural History Museum
m.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Exciting new episode today is SPIKY, featuring our first ever guest the incredible @flygirlnhm.bsky.social. Spoiler alert - there may be some flies! m.youtube.com/watch?v=8si6...
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Want to know the cost/benefit balance of outing 🏳️🌈 oneself* to your students? Here’s the analysis from 9 instructors, 2045 student surveys, implying mostly positive &/or beneficial to the students.
*I don’t think anyone should feel obliged to, not least bc the study features no trans/nb instructors.
*I don’t think anyone should feel obliged to, not least bc the study features no trans/nb instructors.
Nine Undergraduate Biology Instructors Revealing their LGBTQ+ Identities in Class Resulted in Benefits for their LGBTQ+ Students and Students with Other Marginalized Identities | CBE—Life Sciences Edu...
Few LGBTQ+ biology instructors reveal their identities to undergraduates, often without considering the potential student benefits. Although instructors who have revealed their LGBTQ+ identity perceiv...
www.lifescied.org
November 23, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Want to know the cost/benefit balance of outing 🏳️🌈 oneself* to your students? Here’s the analysis from 9 instructors, 2045 student surveys, implying mostly positive &/or beneficial to the students.
*I don’t think anyone should feel obliged to, not least bc the study features no trans/nb instructors.
*I don’t think anyone should feel obliged to, not least bc the study features no trans/nb instructors.
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A carload of somewhat crazy birders drove to the beautiful little town of #WatsonLake, #Yukon today to see the female #EurasianBullfinch that has been visiting a feeder there... First record for Canada! (that wasn't an escaped cage bird) #birds #listers
November 23, 2025 at 4:17 AM
A carload of somewhat crazy birders drove to the beautiful little town of #WatsonLake, #Yukon today to see the female #EurasianBullfinch that has been visiting a feeder there... First record for Canada! (that wasn't an escaped cage bird) #birds #listers
I listened to this year's Massey Lectures on the plane down. Chilling, infuriating, agonizingly poignant, and with a tinge of feeling hopeful. www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
2025 CBC Massey Lectures: Alex Neve on renewing human rights in a fractured world | CBC Radio
Universality was supposed to be the promise of human rights. Yet it’s been broken countless times. So how can we still fulfill it? Canadian human rights lawyer Alex Neve explores that question in this...
www.cbc.ca
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I listened to this year's Massey Lectures on the plane down. Chilling, infuriating, agonizingly poignant, and with a tinge of feeling hopeful. www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
Nothing says international environmental policy like "voluntary agreement to begin discussions on a roadmap to an eventual phase-out"
November 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Nothing says international environmental policy like "voluntary agreement to begin discussions on a roadmap to an eventual phase-out"
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This is a genuine question: Outside of the UK, does anyone know of another National Park where it is an annual event to release thousands of non-native birds? Or even occasionally? I only ask because the more I think about it, the more barking mad it sounds. #birds #nationalparks
New report on gamebird releases in Cairngorms National Park doesn't tell even half the story.
Study included less than half (45%) of estates rearing & releasing non-native gamebirds. MSPs need to interpret results cautiously & appropriately.
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/21/n...
Study included less than half (45%) of estates rearing & releasing non-native gamebirds. MSPs need to interpret results cautiously & appropriately.
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/21/n...
New report on gamebird releases in Cairngorms National Park doesn’t tell even half the story
In spring 2025, news emerged that the GWCT (Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust) was going to be conducting a pilot study to look at the number of non-native gamebirds (Pheasants & Red-legge…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This is a genuine question: Outside of the UK, does anyone know of another National Park where it is an annual event to release thousands of non-native birds? Or even occasionally? I only ask because the more I think about it, the more barking mad it sounds. #birds #nationalparks
Hello Australia! It's nice to be back.
It's less nice that I missed my connection and was rebooked on JetStar
It's less nice that I missed my connection and was rebooked on JetStar
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Hello Australia! It's nice to be back.
It's less nice that I missed my connection and was rebooked on JetStar
It's less nice that I missed my connection and was rebooked on JetStar
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Now online in Journal of #Ornithology
Cryptic diversity in the Amazonian Red-shouldered Tanager (Tachyphonus phoenicius) Swainson 1838 with a neotype designation and revalidation of Tachyphonus saucius Strickland 1844
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Cryptic diversity in the Amazonian Red-shouldered Tanager (Tachyphonus phoenicius) Swainson 1838 with a neotype designation and revalidation of Tachyphonus saucius Strickland 1844
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Cryptic diversity in the Amazonian Red-shouldered Tanager (Tachyphonus phoenicius) Swainson 1838 with a neotype designation and revalidation of Tachyphonus saucius Strickland 1844 - Journal of Ornitho...
The Amazon is home to the greatest bird diversity in the world, but its avian diversity is still underestimated, partially due to cryptic diversity. An accurate assessment of cryptic species is necess...
link.springer.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Now online in Journal of #Ornithology
Cryptic diversity in the Amazonian Red-shouldered Tanager (Tachyphonus phoenicius) Swainson 1838 with a neotype designation and revalidation of Tachyphonus saucius Strickland 1844
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Cryptic diversity in the Amazonian Red-shouldered Tanager (Tachyphonus phoenicius) Swainson 1838 with a neotype designation and revalidation of Tachyphonus saucius Strickland 1844
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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🌊Investigating where Swinhoe's Storm-petrels go across the north-western Pacific and Indian Oceans
🛰️Insights from geolocators recovered from four birds: doi.org/10.1017/S095...
#BirdConservation #Ornithology #Conservation #Research
#Swinhoe's #stormpetrel #seabird #tracking #migration
🛰️Insights from geolocators recovered from four birds: doi.org/10.1017/S095...
#BirdConservation #Ornithology #Conservation #Research
#Swinhoe's #stormpetrel #seabird #tracking #migration
November 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🌊Investigating where Swinhoe's Storm-petrels go across the north-western Pacific and Indian Oceans
🛰️Insights from geolocators recovered from four birds: doi.org/10.1017/S095...
#BirdConservation #Ornithology #Conservation #Research
#Swinhoe's #stormpetrel #seabird #tracking #migration
🛰️Insights from geolocators recovered from four birds: doi.org/10.1017/S095...
#BirdConservation #Ornithology #Conservation #Research
#Swinhoe's #stormpetrel #seabird #tracking #migration
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We had a brilliant time at #AOC2025! Congratulations to all the organising team for a fantastic meeting, and we can’t wait to host you all in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in 2027!!
And in case you didn’t catch it, the next AOC will be held in Auckland, NZ in February 2027! Looking forward to returning to Aotearoa and catching up with that Kōkako!
November 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
We had a brilliant time at #AOC2025! Congratulations to all the organising team for a fantastic meeting, and we can’t wait to host you all in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in 2027!!
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This (from: www.ft.com/content/75ce...) is something you can *feel* if you are in the UK, especially if you've experienced living abroad. But infuriatingly successive governments and our entire media are somehow absolutely committed to suggesting anyone who wants to change this is the devil...
November 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
This (from: www.ft.com/content/75ce...) is something you can *feel* if you are in the UK, especially if you've experienced living abroad. But infuriatingly successive governments and our entire media are somehow absolutely committed to suggesting anyone who wants to change this is the devil...
Hello! Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour, delicious nectar?
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Hello! Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour, delicious nectar?
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It’s also the 83rd anniversary of this diary entry from James Lees-Milne about a feeling many of us recognise. (And I think we can all agree it’s better the other way round – when you get fuck all done, but don’t care)
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
It’s also the 83rd anniversary of this diary entry from James Lees-Milne about a feeling many of us recognise. (And I think we can all agree it’s better the other way round – when you get fuck all done, but don’t care)
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what if instead of working i just became a bird today
November 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
what if instead of working i just became a bird today
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Some of our colleagues have displayed classic #FOMO behaviour and joined in with Brian Houghton-Hodgson (1801-1894), an early expert on the fauna of India and Nepal, where he lived for many years.
Today, he graces our public reading room in South Kensington. #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Movember2025
Today, he graces our public reading room in South Kensington. #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Movember2025
November 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Some of our colleagues have displayed classic #FOMO behaviour and joined in with Brian Houghton-Hodgson (1801-1894), an early expert on the fauna of India and Nepal, where he lived for many years.
Today, he graces our public reading room in South Kensington. #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Movember2025
Today, he graces our public reading room in South Kensington. #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Movember2025
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Webster reminds us all to sometimes just log off.
November 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Webster reminds us all to sometimes just log off.
Webster reminds us all to sometimes just log off.
November 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Webster reminds us all to sometimes just log off.