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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · Aug 28

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 11h

Leicester friends! Come along in a few weeks to see the birds of St Nick's parish! It's a lovely walk and good chance to see some autumn friends @leicsperegrines.bsky.social #ukbirding

St Nicholas Church, Leicester @stnicholasleics.bsky.social · 21h

Join us for a little walk around our urban parish with ornithologist @thelabandfield.bsky.social. The last time we did this we found over 20 different species!

Find out more here: stnicholasleicester.com/whats-on/urb...

Urban bird watch with Dr Alex Bond senior curator in charge of birds at the natural history museum, London.

18/10/25 @ 12:00

Meet at St Nicholas church from 11:30

A short 2km walk starting and ending at St Nicholas church, following the parish boundary along the canal and through the city of Leicester

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 14h

It's all downhill from there but occasionally can be uplifting

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 15h

👀

Have you tried skiing?

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 19h

Pour yourself a coffee and have a read of this tragic story about the last pair of Great Auks for #Auktober ♥️

Niels de Winter @nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 1d

Such a sad story, but good that it can be told in full in museums now.
doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Fate of the last female great auk is finally solved

DNA and historical sleuthing have traced the extinct bird’s remains to a museum in Ohio

doi.org

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St Nicholas Church, Leicester @stnicholasleics.bsky.social · 21h

Join us for a little walk around our urban parish with ornithologist @thelabandfield.bsky.social. The last time we did this we found over 20 different species!

Find out more here: stnicholasleicester.com/whats-on/urb...

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Dave Hemprich-Bennett @davehb.bsky.social · 1d

Just ecstatic to have a Labour chancellor bragging about removing protections for a very rare species. “I didn’t just use [that issue] as an example of how bad things were but set about fixing it.”

Their protection was a problem to be fixed, apparently. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

This is how I want to be awarded the Nobel Prize.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

Lemon/Captain, it's only etc etc

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

This is how I want to be awarded the Nobel Prize.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 2d

Updated my list of peer-reviewed critiques of The Cass Review, AGAIN for the second time today, adding McFadyen et al (2025)

This brings the number of peer-reviewed critiques of this pseudoscience to 13.

Peer-reviewed critiques of The Cass Review

Peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review (In chronological order of publication) Horton, C (2024) The Cass Review: Cis-supremacy in the ...

uncommon-scents.blogspot.com

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 2d

"Sorry I was late to class, professor, there's a moose charging people by the student union" god I missed Alaska

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · Sep 19

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors

The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

www.thebookseller.com

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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 2d

Excited to share this, and grateful to everyone who made it possible.

The key message is important: acknowledge those who make what you do possible, regardless of their training or background!
#InclusiveScience #authorship #CitizenScience

Jack Nunn @jacknunn.bsky.social · 2d

"Improving citizen science: Co-creating recommendations with researchers and the public"

A pre-print about an exciting project with Science for All, supported by the Australian Citizen Science Association & the Australian Academy of Science

doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#citizenscience #public #science

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 2d

Did you know that BHL has #FullTextSearch? You can search for scientific names, places, etc, but you can also find all the things that "Alfred Russell Wallace" found "delicious" in his travels (search for "delicious" and then narrow search results by author). #ILoveBHL www.biodiversitylibrary.org 🧪

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · May 6

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

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Daryl Baxter @darylbaxter.com · 2d

Again, I go back to what I saw from an ex-colleague:
'If you aren't talking about AI, what ARE you talking about?'

Literally anything else.

This is just sad.

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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From Create Mode
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2d

The same papers, the same ideas the same boring narrow path....

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2d

This really resonated, for a variety of reasons

PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 2d

Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience.
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...

Why I left academia and neuroscience

Don't worry, this isn't yet another story of rage-quitting.

mikexcohen.substack.com

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2d

oh THAT'S what that noise was

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BOU @bou.org.uk · 2d

⏰ EARLY-BIRD EXTENDED

#BOUasm25 A day at the museum | 18 Nov 2025 | Natural History Museum, London

Register now to attend in-person or online

Early-bird rates available until 21 October

bou.org.uk/event/a-d...

#ornithology

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 2d

One for the occasional series of #ornithology papers you need in your life but might not have read - Common/Spotted Sandpiper flight style as an antipredator behaviour.
academic.oup.com/auk/article-...

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 2d

We have vacancies available on our committee! 🕊️👨‍👨‍👧👩‍👩‍👦

We are recruiting for 5 roles:

Secretary 👩‍🏫
Assistant Journal Editor 📉
Social Media Lead 🤳
Assistant Newsletter/ Social Media Support 🤝
Website Officer 🧑‍💻

Feel free to DM for details & email [email protected] to apply (deadline 31 Oct) 📥

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 2d

News | National Trust cuts 500 full-time posts

Charity says a third of job losses will come from compulsory redundancies.

National Trust cuts 500 full-time posts - Museums Association

Charity says a third of job losses will come from compulsory redundancies

www.museumsassociation.org

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2d

phwoar!

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