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Lecturer in Environmental Science at Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education. Zoologist, science communicator, 🇵🇱 in 🇬🇧. @ox.ac.uk #AcademicSky 🧪 I wrote a somewhat inappropriate book and you should buy it.
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It's #MotherTongueDay, and Polish is an incredibly birdy language 🪶🇵🇱 Here's a verse from one of my favourite childhood poems: "Ptasie radio" by Julian Tuwim, an onomatopoeic masterpiece. Birders, try identifying 7 bird species by sound, they start at 1:01 and finish at 2:36. youtu.be/A9epL5zIVP4

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Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only.

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It's more important than ever that scientists and clinicians communicate effectively. I'm increasingly convinced that means we need to embrace greater complexity in our public-facing #SciComm efforts. Here are some of my favorite places to start dialing in complexity. (1/11) 🧪

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The world is a beautiful place, and not terrifying at all. 🧪 🐼 💀

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🥿Foal slippers 🧚Fairy fingers 🪶Horse feathers 🍃Deciduous hoof capsule 🧪Eponychium These rubbery growths over a newborn foal's hooves protect the mare's uterus and birth canal, and get shed shortly after birth. They are akin to nail cuticles and are present in many other ungulates, too. 🐎

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🦔Hedgehog First Aid Course (you don't need to be a hedgehog to attend) 🦔 Learn how to help injured and malnourished hedgehogs under the guidance of Vale Animal Hospital experts. 🗓️May 17th 📍North Oxford 💲£80 for a full day of training and course materials. Sign up: tinyurl.com/HFACOxford17... 🧪🌏🦊

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Cockatoo: I'll have my noodles with blueberry yogurt please! First evidence of non-primate food flavoring behaviour, described in the linked study by Zeward and Auersperg (with videos) doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... 🧪 🌍 🦜🪶

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Blow fly's larva's butt looks like a termite's face. Termite nests are nutrient-rich and secure spaces that everyone wants to live in (but few actually can). The blow fly larva's looks and chemical profile matches the termites' well enough to integrate into the colony. 🧪🌏🪰 doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

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A Polish zoo is offering the broken-hearted a #ValentinesDay experience to remember - by letting them name a Madagascar hissing cockroach after their ex-partner and then feeding it to a meerkat. Proceed will be used to protect endangered species living at the zoo 🌎 💔 tvpworld.com/84953068/pol...

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Let's celebrate #DarwinDay by reminding ourselves that everyone has moments when they feel worse for wear. Darwin wrote to Charles Lyell in 1861: "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything." www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-L... So, hang in there, #academicsky! 🧪

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Latte art meets marine biology 🌊🐴 ☕ Talented barista from Oxford's Colombia Coffee Roasters - deservedly named the best coffee place in town.

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Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧪 🥼🔬 Longing for the day when funding is ample, jobs are steady, and autocorrect stops changing "Curie" to "cutie". #academicsky

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Celebrating the bog/limestone on Friday! ♥️ ♥️ 🧪 🌍

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Money for taxonomists! Apply! #Academicsky 🧪 🌍

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Asian elephants mourn and bury their young, often carrying their bodies to a preferred location for the burial. Bodies of the deceased young are buried on the backs, with legs up. More photos in the pdf of the study: threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/Jo... 🧪 🦊 🌍 🐘

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Let's channel our scrolling into something more wholesome: #WikiTok. Users can scroll through an endless stream of Wikipedia article stubs, TikTok-style. Lovely way of defying algorithm addiction. wikitok.vercel.app 🧪🌏 #academicsky

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A fish doorbell in a canal in Utrecht: an underwater livestream is used to open the canal lock and let fish through. www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts... 🧪🌏🐟🚪

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Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰

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🦇 I love old pictures of bats and I think I just found my favourite piece of #BatsInArt [Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)]:

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Bad-ass birds build nests from anti-bird spikes: a thread. This is gold. 🧪 🌍 🐦 🦉

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