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markdavis79.bsky.social
Conservation Biologist Illinois Natural History Survey Prairie Research Institute University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Add me and @jhhartman.bsky.social
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And here I thought Nada Surf’s cover of There is a Light That Never Goes Out was the best version. Hot damn!
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Not a to be confused with Snow’s “informer” (1992)
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One of the most terrifying things I ever encountered doing field work was pulling a seine and finding one of those systematically dismantling and consuming a northern leopard frog. It haunts my dreams to this day.
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Throw in some “future considerations?
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No cap.
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Nooooooo…I mean yes. Absolutely yes.
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Missed opportunity?
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To run interference for turtles?
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Someday I’m finna tell y’all about the time I got “asked to leave” the North Dakota State University library for bottomless studying… …look, I reserved that study room, and there was no language about a pants policy in said reservation.
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Framing the Q of why science and evidence have become so polarized in this election/political enviroment as "how scientists may have contributed to the polarization of the use of science?" fails to recognize the systematic, profit driven dismantling of societal trust in science by vested interest 2/
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Didja boop that cute snoot?
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Birds aren’t real, but man can they poop!
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Point of order, how does one apply to be a part of this cabal (jobs.gov?) and how does one prepare for the initiation ceremony? Asking for a friend…
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I KNEW it!!!
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Perhaps a trade? Scott Mayfield for Ben Chairot with the Islanders 2025 2nd round draft pick and 34% of Mayfield’s AAV retained. Detroit kicks in $500 in Mom’s Spaghetti & $500 in Third Man Records gift cards. We calls it even?
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First of all, birds aren’t real. Second of all, that avian reptile is GORGEOUS.
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Burnt cinnamon? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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If you can’t fix it with flowers, duct tape, or key lime pie, it ain’t worth fixin.