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I will never understand why there are so many reasonably affordable station wagons in Europe and now there is not even one model in the US

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I am willing to consider that The Old Man and the Sea may not be the best book in absolute terms, but I don’t think there is a better one pound-for-pound

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A lot of blood sweat and tears put into this one: we revisit Robert MacArthur's classic warbler study—with @eliotmiller.bsky.social and colleagues—using, among other techniques, fecal metabarcoding. 🧪🦉 📸 Ronnie d'Entremont royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @psubiodept.bsky.social

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Loathsome human

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Lost a prospective international graduate student with a gov’t scholarship and had to send out information on what is happening with visa revocation to two others. Have to say, I don’t particularly appreciate this administration

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Making government more cost-effective by firing all the youths doing back-breaking manual labor for $5 an hour

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Henceforth only publishing in Elsevier journals so I can do this

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Delighted to promote this year's African Raptor Leadership Grant - an amazing opportunity for an African National to undertake an MSc on #RaptorResearch. Including on the FitzPatrick Institute's Conservation Biology MSc course. #Ornithology 🪶 raptorresearchfoundation.org/grants-award...

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looking to chat with someone with experience applying for USFWS banding / blood & feather sampling permits. anyone out there?

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if you have elderly parents who might be vulnerable to this you need to arrange a passcode with them for 'this is really me'

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Wilson’s warblers and common yellowthroat today on the San Pedro River, so migrants are definitely coming through

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New publication out this weekend in Ecology highlighting the long-distance movements of lesser long-nosed bats. Individuals migrated as far as 1631 km between roosts and completed overnight flights across the Gulf of California (~189 km) 🧵1/7 @esajournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

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Been seeing white-winged doves here and there for a week or so, but the bulk of them showed up today. Cool how large a chunk of a migratory bird population can show up in one day (also, summer has arrived in Tucson)

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We’re speedrunning the Disney movies because my son is of that age and Zootopia is highly underrated

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New cyber threat dropped

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College football is clearly better for players now than it was 10 years ago but the fan experience for all but like 10 schools is much worse. I think it would be better at this point if NFL teams each signed a deal with some university to be its minor league team

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At some point I want to write an essay about why I became less pro-union during the pandemic, and this sort of our-members-over-society wagon-circling is right at the center of that

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'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

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New study came out doing essentially a European replication of a North America-wide study of mine. Exciting! Includes nearly a full paragraph on my study—even more exciting! Main claim of passage is totally wrong in a way I have no idea how is possible with even a cursory read of the abstract 🤨

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nice paper showing very limited evidence of historical human disturbance (fire or increases in light-associated palm species) at Cocha Cashu Biological Station in Peru: doi.org/10.1111/btp....

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RIP to a real one open.spotify.com/track/6tzty1...

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I thought the Popularism Discourse was tiresome but the Abundance Discourse has rapidly outpaced it

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Hello Bluesky! Good to see you all again! Job alert: I'm looking to recruit a postdoc interested in working at the interface of AI and wildlife ecology, supported by the AI for Biodiversity Change (ABC) Global Center. Apply by April 15, 2025. gaynorlab.weebly.com/join-us.html

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JOB ALERT! We are hiring two seasonal field technicians for mid July - mid October to conduct research on mule deer in the Santa Monica Mountains, CA. The project is a collaboration between UC Davis and NPS. Ungulate capture experience preferred. Please share! jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

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I’ve never understood the pushback from the fishing industry on offshore wind because adding structure always attracts fish

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