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EEB faculty-fellow at Rice University. The great avian evolutionary tradition. Equally passionate about research and teaching. Pics of my cat, Rosalind Franklin. 🇧🇷 https://www.rafaelmarcondes.com/
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I'm bored. What obscure species should I make a Wikipedia article for next? Put your suggestions below

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Family includes everyone! ❤️

submitted 97 days ago • 716 comments

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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To the receptionist at The Club lounge near gate A22 who discreetly let me in FOR FREE (even after they had stop selling day passes at 6pm): you are truly an angel and I believe in God now. 👼🪽😇

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

If anyone knows of the best place to nap for 2 hrs at CLT airport without having to dish out $, please hmu. It’s an sleep-deprivation emergency. Thxs.

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I follow French politics a lot, as many of you know. Any effort for mass layoffs of public sector employees there would create such huge strikes and marches, the level of disruption and paralysis would be biblical.

submitted 4 days ago • 641 comments

If we all commit to the bit I bet we can get Gen Z saying “skep” instead of “skeptical.”

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

Hey #ornithologists or really anyone. Help Flocks Take Flight by donating today: www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

State-level public-good-focused research institutes. California can afford an in-state CDC / NOAA / etc. Protects research and researchers, grows goodwill, prevents international brain drain, easy linkages with California universities. Ditto Mass. Surely people thinking about this already?

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

From the same folks that brought you Needlessly Genderized Personal Grooming Products, now introducing Needlessly Politicized Personal Grooming Products

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

This sanderling I saw yesterday hopping around on one leg is was a real charmer 🥰 I watched them for a half hour and never saw a second leg on the ground. It operated like most sanderlings Not sure if they had an injury or were born that way. If any bird researchers have ideas, I can go back 🪶

submitted 19 days ago • 18 comments

Welp i guess today we learned that airplane seatbelts do actually work as intended.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Dear NSF scientists and staff: If you're looking to talk to a journalist about what's going on at the agency, please reach out (from a non-governmental phone/computer) via signal @jonlambert.12

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Does anyone know what the attention spam of a rotifer is? Cos “attention spam of a gnat” is not describing me well anymore

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Fun news, considering i have at least 10 individual separate domestic flights in the next 6 weeks

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Sad to see rapid recent decay in rigorousness of science published in one my formerly favorite journals in our field. Just read a paper where there's no explanation whatsoever how the major phenotypic dataset used in the analyses was generated. NO word. Zero. Nada. Zilt. How does this even happen?

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I lay off 63 million people a year. Then they're transferred based on performance reviews.

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

Any GIS folks know why this is happening? Or do these issues pre-date the renaming fiasco?

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Sorry about reality. My bad.

submitted 9 days ago • 40 comments

A weird thing about me is that one of my favorite environments is a completely empty classroom or lecture hall. Whenever I enter one, I’m instantly invaded by a tremendous and pleasurable feeling of peace.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

she is beauty she is grace she has melted cheese for face

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

You hear that??! It’s the sound of hundreds if not thousands of folks around the country simultaneously interrupting their evening family/leisure time and panickyly jumping on their computers to check if they are on some malevolently released, shittily formatted spreadsheet

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Science Lab Manager: I SAID ABSOLUTELY NO FOOD OR DRINKS IN THE LAB AT ANY TIME

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Around every April Fools, I tell my paleontology class these are trilobites and make them prove me wrong using the characters they learned in lab.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This is only happening because these morons don’t understand the Mercator projection

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