Anup Bokkasa
@anupa.bsky.social
Conservation Scientist. Erstwhile Computer Scientist. eBird evangelist. Puzzle Solver. News Junkie. Political. Math!. Optimist?
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I just got one heck of a welcome home. Volume up, but not too high.
The wolves were singing tonight. A few seconds in you’ll hear the closest howling wolf I’ve ever heard. I couldn’t see it, but it might have been at the end of my driveway. I went right back inside after this. 😊🐺🦊
The wolves were singing tonight. A few seconds in you’ll hear the closest howling wolf I’ve ever heard. I couldn’t see it, but it might have been at the end of my driveway. I went right back inside after this. 😊🐺🦊
January 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I just got one heck of a welcome home. Volume up, but not too high.
The wolves were singing tonight. A few seconds in you’ll hear the closest howling wolf I’ve ever heard. I couldn’t see it, but it might have been at the end of my driveway. I went right back inside after this. 😊🐺🦊
The wolves were singing tonight. A few seconds in you’ll hear the closest howling wolf I’ve ever heard. I couldn’t see it, but it might have been at the end of my driveway. I went right back inside after this. 😊🐺🦊
Crown Shyness in a couple of 50m trees in the rainforests of western ghats, Coorg, Karnataka.
January 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Crown Shyness in a couple of 50m trees in the rainforests of western ghats, Coorg, Karnataka.
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OK, my left-of-centre friends, let us see if we can swing the vote in favour of Sadiq Khan; and really upset the Daily Express
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Do you agree with Sadiq Khan’s knighthood?
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December 31, 2024 at 11:50 PM
OK, my left-of-centre friends, let us see if we can swing the vote in favour of Sadiq Khan; and really upset the Daily Express
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Stunning 01-Jan evening
January 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Stunning 01-Jan evening
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'The National Agency for the Promotion of Research, Technological Development and Innovation, which is the main funder of research projects in Argentina, has nearly halted work under Milei, despite 85% of its money coming from international agencies such as the Inter-American Development Bank'
‘There will be nothing left’: researchers fear collapse of science in Argentina
One year into President Javier Milei’s presidency, scientists are exiting the country in the face of big budget cuts.
www.nature.com
December 10, 2024 at 4:04 PM
'The National Agency for the Promotion of Research, Technological Development and Innovation, which is the main funder of research projects in Argentina, has nearly halted work under Milei, despite 85% of its money coming from international agencies such as the Inter-American Development Bank'
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Every year around now, I start to see grad students on social media bemoan that they’re going home for the holidays to a family that doesn’t understand their research, or what they do in general, and it breaks my heart. 🧵 🧪 #SciComm
December 8, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Every year around now, I start to see grad students on social media bemoan that they’re going home for the holidays to a family that doesn’t understand their research, or what they do in general, and it breaks my heart. 🧵 🧪 #SciComm
Well well well. Still landing in Delhi in Air Vistara livery 🤩. The north remembers, eh @airindia?
December 8, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Well well well. Still landing in Delhi in Air Vistara livery 🤩. The north remembers, eh @airindia?
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Remember with increasing sample size, your averages become more reliable
The Ns justify the means
The Ns justify the means
December 7, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Remember with increasing sample size, your averages become more reliable
The Ns justify the means
The Ns justify the means
Intense discussion on strategies to handle the absolute carnage feral dogs are creating on the Biodiversity of Ladakh. THT, BNHS, Indian Army and Animal Husbandry department are partners in this.
December 7, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Intense discussion on strategies to handle the absolute carnage feral dogs are creating on the Biodiversity of Ladakh. THT, BNHS, Indian Army and Animal Husbandry department are partners in this.
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The Bachman's Warbler was last seen in Louisiana in 1988 & was just declared extinct in 2023. It was a specialist breeding only in North American swamplands, undervalued habitat that was destroyed in the 19th & 20th centuries for agriculture & development. #ornithology
📸: Jerry A. Payne, 1958
📸: Jerry A. Payne, 1958
December 4, 2024 at 2:35 PM
The Bachman's Warbler was last seen in Louisiana in 1988 & was just declared extinct in 2023. It was a specialist breeding only in North American swamplands, undervalued habitat that was destroyed in the 19th & 20th centuries for agriculture & development. #ornithology
📸: Jerry A. Payne, 1958
📸: Jerry A. Payne, 1958
A brown-headed barbet and a white-throated kingfisher look as though they've just had a tiff and are not talking to each other for a bit. Pic through the binocs.
December 4, 2024 at 6:10 PM
A brown-headed barbet and a white-throated kingfisher look as though they've just had a tiff and are not talking to each other for a bit. Pic through the binocs.
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That’s an absolutely crazy story 🤯 Also what are US secret agencies gonna do about non US based facilities mapping the sky?Could they could force similar procedures on other survey telescopes?
When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk
How do you know what you’re not allowed to see?
www.theatlantic.com
December 3, 2024 at 9:00 AM
That’s an absolutely crazy story 🤯 Also what are US secret agencies gonna do about non US based facilities mapping the sky?Could they could force similar procedures on other survey telescopes?
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If you think Wisdom is impressive (you should), consider that she’s roughly the same age at which 95% of orange roughies have begun breeding. They can live for over two centuries.
Can we see some love for all the endangered orange roughie mothers out there?
🦑 🧪
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3504...
Can we see some love for all the endangered orange roughie mothers out there?
🦑 🧪
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3504...
December 4, 2024 at 3:36 PM
If you think Wisdom is impressive (you should), consider that she’s roughly the same age at which 95% of orange roughies have begun breeding. They can live for over two centuries.
Can we see some love for all the endangered orange roughie mothers out there?
🦑 🧪
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3504...
Can we see some love for all the endangered orange roughie mothers out there?
🦑 🧪
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3504...
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Quote: "The impacts of invasive alien species [on people and nature in all regions of the world] are well-supported by thoroughly documented information that leaves no uncertainty as to their negative consequences and the urgent need for immediate action."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Overwhelming evidence galvanizes a global consensus on the need for action against Invasive Alien Species - Biological Invasions
Biological Invasions -
link.springer.com
December 4, 2024 at 1:34 AM
Quote: "The impacts of invasive alien species [on people and nature in all regions of the world] are well-supported by thoroughly documented information that leaves no uncertainty as to their negative consequences and the urgent need for immediate action."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Content Analysis: Anup's style is a delightful mix of enthusiastic exposition and scientific precision, like a TED Talk delivered via emojis and hashtags, just with more love for wolves.
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December 4, 2024 at 5:48 AM
Content Analysis: Anup's style is a delightful mix of enthusiastic exposition and scientific precision, like a TED Talk delivered via emojis and hashtags, just with more love for wolves.
blueskyroast.com/roast/anupa....
blueskyroast.com/roast/anupa....
Flying into Leh, chasing the sun. Winters in Ladakh are action-packed! A lot of the big wild mammals are at lower elevations.
December 4, 2024 at 5:31 AM
Flying into Leh, chasing the sun. Winters in Ladakh are action-packed! A lot of the big wild mammals are at lower elevations.
One can always wish to have more such days!
December 3, 2024 at 3:17 PM
One can always wish to have more such days!
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Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Starter packs
BIOLOGY General Science community https://go.bsky.app/HVYAMEA Research Institutions in Life Sciences https://go.bsky.app/LxXpcvJ LGBTQIA+ in STEM https://go.bsky.app/BFc4wgf LGBTQIA+ in STEM 2 h...
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November 26, 2024 at 2:47 AM
Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Those white specks on the right part of the pic through my binocs? They're the Argali - the monarchs of the mountains, and the shahs of the sheep. Very few left and not easy to spot, even in the vast emptiness of Ladakh. Very happy to see these.
December 2, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Those white specks on the right part of the pic through my binocs? They're the Argali - the monarchs of the mountains, and the shahs of the sheep. Very few left and not easy to spot, even in the vast emptiness of Ladakh. Very happy to see these.
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Movement and migration ecology starter pack! Help me fill it out as more folks join Bluesky 🌎🌍🌏
go.bsky.app/SSiWN2u
go.bsky.app/SSiWN2u
November 18, 2024 at 2:39 AM
Movement and migration ecology starter pack! Help me fill it out as more folks join Bluesky 🌎🌍🌏
go.bsky.app/SSiWN2u
go.bsky.app/SSiWN2u
What a lovely chancing upon of a Solitary Snipe at 4300m in Eastern Ladakh. Lifer no 899 in India!
November 29, 2024 at 6:31 PM
What a lovely chancing upon of a Solitary Snipe at 4300m in Eastern Ladakh. Lifer no 899 in India!