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Nikolaj Bichel

@nikolaj-bi.bsky.social

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PhD and research on hunting, environmental ethics, conservation. Author of the 2023 British Ecological Society book of the year. Open to remote work.

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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · Jan 10

Paperback version of our book 'Trophy Hunting' has been made available for €38:

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 1d

I will never understand the choice to sell your soul and integrity for more money when you already have more than you could ever use.

bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-08/cristiano-ronaldo-is-first-football-billionaire-after-saudi-al-nassr-deal

Ronaldo Becomes First Football Billionaire With Big Saudi Contract

The Portuguese national is in the twilight of his playing career but his contract at Saudi Arabia’s Al-Nassr has propelled him into a select group of the very wealthiest athletes

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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 2d

Bestemt. Jeg er dog enig i, at det vil være praktisk, hvis en enkelt ansat kan noget dansk, bare så ældre danske par ikke risikerer, at føle sig helt ekskluderet. Men det er ikke noget, der skal være regler om.

Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 2d

Jeg var ikke klar over, at der var restauranter i DK uden dansktalende ansatte. Det må vist have ændret sig i den tid, jeg har været væk.

Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 2d

Of course.

How has he not yet demanded that his head is added to Mount Rushmore, but bigger than the others and made of gold?

Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 2d

Lion estimates are a circus when both hunting orgs and antihunting orgs try to be involved. If you combine the silliest "research" coming out of each side, you learn that there are less than 7,000 lions left in the world and that over 20,000 of them are in Tanzania.

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WildCRU, Oxford @wildcru.bsky.social · 3d

Meet PhD researcher Jenny Linden!

Jenny’s research aims to assess the potential impacts of climate change on the endangered African wild dog using data from remote sensing, accelerometer collars, thermal data loggers, and fieldwork in South Africa.

👉 wildcru.org/members/jenn...

@biology.ox.ac.uk

Photo of a young woman wearing a green t-shirt smiling at the camera.

On screen text: PHD RESEARCHER

MAIN SPECIES: African wild dog

KEY REGIONS: South Africa

RESEARCH FOCUS:
Potential impacts of climate change on African wild dogs at range and individual scale.

Passionate about supporting inclusive species range mapping and conservation action plans.

FUN FACT: Before her wild dog days, Jenny spent a year following dwarf mongooses’ daily lives on foot and still misses her mongoose family.

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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 5d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy0e...

Bill Burr BREAKS HIS SILENCE On SELLING OUT For Saudi Bloodmoney | The Kyle Kulinski Show

YouTube video by Secular Talk

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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 6d

Long interview with Sean Bean, which I gather is pretty rare. I like that man.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCLt...

Sean Bean on ANEMONE, Daniel Day-Lewis, LORD OF THE RINGS, GAME OF THRONES, GOLDENEYE, PATRIOT GAMES

YouTube video by Josh Horowitz

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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 7d

Alt text: ZSL social media posts with AI-generated images of grey-haired elderly women that look vaguely like Jane Goodall.

Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 7d

@zslofficial.bsky.social wtf are you doing?

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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 7d

Normally the appeal to authority is considered a fallacy, but I somehow can't help but feel that being the pope adds a bit of extra credibility that Austin doesn't have.

worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 7d

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Pope Leo XIV
Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal

Austin
I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says

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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 9d

"How Russia Lost Chess."

Good little video.

It's been fun to see India take over in recent years.

How Russia lost chess

YouTube video by Search Party

www.youtube.com

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nda @ndasfw.bsky.social · 11d

Bill Burr should never EVER be allowed to live down performing at the Riyadh comedy show. None of them should be, but especially him.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9d

DAVID CROSS: “I am disgusted and deeply disappointed… These are some of my HEROES… how can any of us take any of you seriously ever again?”

Here’s who went to the Riyadh Comedy Festival: www.timeoutriyadh.com/news/riyadh-...

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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 9d

And that guy's pinned tweet has screenshots.

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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 9d

That's a really dumbass "I want to be aggressively against this little thing that can conceivably have some downsides just to be really edgy" opinion.

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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 9d

Cannot stop laughing at this. Look at them running like toddlers and getting outrun and outmanoeuvred by the guy dragging a bike. I have never seen that many big men being that pathetically unathletic at the same time.

Look at the time it takes the first three to change direction! 🤣

Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 10d

No reason for that. I don't have a problem with it. It was just new to me.

Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 10d

Is that a "[sic]" to note that it's not politically correct to write "men"? I don't see any grammar or spelling mistakes. I've never seen a political correctness sic before.

Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 10d

I genuinely hope to be wrong, but I suspect @rory-stewart.bsky.social & @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social are in the top fraction of 1% of hi-emitters & so cling to future tech salvations & the allure of weak but well crafted legislation. The challenges we face raise profound questions of "moral code".

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11d

This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!

Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 11d

Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...

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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 11d

I just watched a PlayStation 2 restoration video and felt a little old.

Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 11d

Surely we'll soon be at the point where the military will refuse to follow what they believe to be illegal orders?

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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 12d

Saw someone testing guitars on YT. Testing cheap and expensive guitars. Lots of commenters are saying that the testing should be "double blind" to be scientific...

What... You mean to ensure the guitars don't know they're being tested?

I think they just mean blindfolded and not double blind.

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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 12d

Af alle artikler til hjælpeløse forældre... Hold da kæft.

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