Keith Barker
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Keith Barker
@fkbarker.bsky.social
Associate Professor, EEB; Curator of Genetic Resources, Bell Museum. Mostly posting about birds and science; all content my own. He/him.
https://barkerlab.weebly.com/
December 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
BTW, all similarity to a real quote is purely artistic.
December 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
“Our model was trained on millions of copyrighted pages of parenting books, scientific papers, news articles, advice columns, blogs, and web pages so of course it can synthesize amazingly good parenting advice.”
December 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

Lincoln’s Sparrow
Gray-barred Wren
Black-and-Gold Cotinga
Azure-winged Magpie
Meadow Jumping Mouse
November 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A northwest view in St. Paul, a couple of minutes ago.
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Around here they “chup chup” incessantly in spring (this is Tamias striatus), at least in the city. Fall chupping is demented.
September 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM