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My friends @chrishakk.bsky.social and @milliejohnston.bsky.social are moving back to NZ, so of course I had them over to rate the main Austrian sausages 🇦🇹 Rankings: #1 tie: Käsekrainer & Berner #2: Bratwürstel #3 tie: Debrecziner & Wienerwürstel #4: Waldviertler #5: Burenwurst #6: Knackwurst

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You never imagine the descent into despotism being quite this embarrassing, you know? You expect liberal democracy to fall to a Palpatine, not Biff Tannen.

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Exciting PhD position in a wonderful team! ✨️ 😊

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Movies you’ve watched more than 6 times using only gifs

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Flora and fauna of the coastal redwoods! 🌲🌧️

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We have an exciting new position in our lab for a PhD on parrot tool use! See below

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As a current PhD student at the Goffin lab, I cannot recommend working with Alice and the Goffins enough! Amazing opportunity. Come join us!

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This comic is really making our whole lab crack up!

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Check out this cool comic in the Guardian by First Dog on the Moon about our new research! 🤩🦜 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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1/12 Goffin's cockatoos, famed for their innovative abilities, are now surprising with a culinary breakthrough. This is only the second documented case of a non-human animal modifying a food to specifically alter its taste. It is a study by @zewaldj.bsky.social

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There is a beaver hidden somewhere in this photo. See if you can find it despite its amazing camouflage. 😂 #wildlife

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Our new study with @zewaldj.bsky.social on innovative food preparation in Goffins cockatoos just appeared in Current Biology: our results suggest that Goffins dunk noodles in selective yogurt mixtures to add flavour www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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This is the video abstract to our new study with @zewaldj.bsky.social on food flavouring behaviour in Goffin's cockatoos www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wko...

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Do you like to dip your fries in ketchup before eating it? Our cockatoos do too! In a new study in Current Biology, we showed our cockatoos innovated a new way to flavour their food: they dunk noodles in blueberry soy yoghurt. Read about it and watch our video abstract: www.cell.com/current-biol...

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I am reminded of this classic Far Side:

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Incredibly cool study by my labmate and good friend @zewaldj.bsky.social 🦜 Flavouring behaviour is incredibly rare in animals, and there is almost no data on it! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Here's Kendrick Lamar's full Super Bowl performance. youtu.be/KDorKy-13ak?...

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Good morning? How does our coup find you today?

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The first many-analysts study in ecology is finally published! 🥳🙌 300+ coauthors and 5+ years, this was a massive effort by @elliotgould.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Tim Parker and co. Open access 👉 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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More than 50% decline in the number of posts about scientific papers on Twitter from 2022 to 2025

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My mom LOVES Starbucks. Since I was a child, we've gone on "Starbucks dates." She gives everyone gift cards. She has their beans and their cups. She knows all the stores and baristas in town. She's a 🇨🇦 conservative yet even SHE is BOYCOTTING it rn becuz it is US-owned 🤯 Id never have believed it 💀

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I was out trying to get more photos of short eared owls with the golden sunlit field as a background when I noticed their much smaller cousin at the top of this tree. #owls #birds #canada #nature #wildlife #photography #wildlifephotography #birding #nikon #photographersunited

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Another graduate from the OG “thesis cafe” group. Congrats to Dr. @arianeveit.bsky.social !!!!! 🐷 👩🏻‍🎓 (Also fantastic hat making skills @zewaldj.bsky.social @labellejoel.bsky.social)

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It’s been a rough few weeks, heaven knows us queers need some new Lady Gaga 🏳️‍🌈 youtu.be/vBynw9Isr28?...

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Look. Like rest of the world, Canada is becoming increasingly polarized between left and right. But there is one thing that strongly unites us, and that is American fuckery.

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Red state alcohol is currently being removed at B.C. Liquor store in Victoria. #bcpoli

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Three For The Price Of One: #Genomics Reveals Three Distinct Cockatoo Species,2 studies: UHongKong & NationalUofSingapore | Molecular #Biology & #Evolution @official-smbe.bsky.social & Molecular #Ecology by @grrlscientist.bsky.social #parrots🦜 #ornithology🦉 #Scicomm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

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Went to my first spin class. Can confirm it was far worse than I ever imagined. But also I really enjoyed it? I.. think…

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Not going to lie, guys. I can’t WAIT for the day I completely move ASAB over to bsky. We gotta get the rest of the animal behaviour folks over here…. It’s just awful on X

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Gang-gang Cockatoo, adult male. #birds

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Really enjoyed Gibson’s bday celebration, featuring the brilliant Harry Heft 🎂 I’ve become a real convert to ecological psychology during my PhD, fascinating stuff!

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Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

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Best of 2024: It's a wine and cheese night for me tonight. While I go and get that, here's a lovely crimson rosella relaxing and having a scratch at Laratinga Wetlands in the Adelaide Hills. Worth a visit if you are ever in the area.

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