“the widespread appeal of animal tool use is partly due to anthropocentrism” 👍 for this new comparison of how animal tools and nests are talked about, from Sally Street et al. The need to slap a human-like ‘intelligence’ label on animals is a symptom of this bias (writing a book on that now) 🧪🪹🔨

📣 There is a beaked whale out here with us!!! 📣

I do hope @whysharksmatter knows I'm not actually the person in his latest butthurt post, but maybe he should cool it on bashing kids if he can't tell where the criticism is coming from?

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So apparently there are other people well aware of how @whysharksmatter treats students. And he's shall we say lower body injured over being called out. Would love to meet the other folks with grievances!

Latest news… #birds #nature #wildlife #photography #photographersofbluesky

#Paleontology 🪶

Tier Zoo and David Schiffman blocking me! Must be doing something right! (It's calling out their pseudoscience and fraud)

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Garden Tiger from Skelton on Monday night @bcyorkshire.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social

The fraud @whysharksmatter seems to have blocked me for pointing out that he mocks students who try to reach him!

Throwback Thursday. Herring Gull in Chatham 12/18 #gull #HerringGull #birds #nature #NaturePhotography #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #photography #ThrowbackThursday #Chatham #CapeCod

@whysharksmatter.bsky.social is a fraud obsessed with putting down students. Do not buy his book.

Do I know any statistically inclined folks with some consulting time for rent? Probably very easy questions.

Apparently I needed three supervisors checking on my trail maintenance skills this morning at the Park 😁 🦌 🌿 Mule deer

A little spot of sunshine on an otherwise sad day for the planet #molluscmonday #planetoverprofit Rim-backed nudibranch (𝑃𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑜 𝑑𝑢𝑏𝑖𝑎) in New Castle, NH yesterday #marinelife

Good morning! 🪶

Chansey in Safari Zone levels of shrimp

Helpful!

Please please please please PLEASE PLEASE share my gofundme it is my pinned post

Anyone familiar with Center for Wildlife Studies?

Buy both of these and support TWO great causes and have an excuse to send your friends letters about your day. 2025 out: ignoring your friends bc you’re tired of screens 2025 in: sending snail mail and lighting up their lives (like fireflies you can learn about in Sarah’s cards)

I've written a post about a study that investigated the patterns of association between fish and isopods such as tongue-biters, gill-biters, and skin-biters, and how where they live on the host can influence the kind of fish they parasitise. #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/01/cymo...

Let's call deliberately steering students/advisees off course what it is: academic bullying.

Field based research assistants wanted to work on baboons in South Africa expenses paid. See below 👇 Might be of interest @primatesocietygb.bsky.social #fieldwork #research #primates #southafrica

There was some drama with the Tundra Swans at Finley NWR, Corvallis, Oregon today. Possibly a love triangle. #birding

A suet snack to go (Red-bellied Woodpecker once again showing that their name is not particularly accurate) #birds 🌿

Sea grass beds are for afternoon naps.

just restocked lots of tiny bug pins!! 🔗 to my shop below or in my bio 💕

"On your marks, get set..." 🪶 📸 Greater Roadrunner, aka Velocitus incalcublii* *Don't @ me...I know it's from the cartoon.

I arrived in Johannesburg South Africa this evening. It’s raining, and this Raucous Toad (Sclerophrys capensis) came into the hotel lobby. This trip is off to a good start! #herps #toads

The world lost many conservationists, Indigenous leaders, and environmentalists in 2024. Their lives were devoted to safeguarding the planet’s biodiversity, protecting vulnerable communities, and advocating for justice in the face of profound challenges. news.mongabay.com/2024/12/cons...

If I ever write another novel I’m forcing the publisher to give me 30 covers all by different artists.

living his best life

#mammals Raccoons "mouth each other" as a form of social interaction, communication & establishing dominance within their group with behaviors like playful nips & gentle mouth to mouth contact depending on the situation and the relationship between the raccoons involved.

I made it to Bluesky! My name is Julia Baak and I am a #Conservation #Biologist with #Environment and #ClimateChange Canada, based in #Iqaluit, #Nunavut. I focus on #Arctic #seabird #ecology, specifically monitoring the abundance and distribution of seabirds and #seaducks in the #Canadian Arctic!

Beautiful Anna’s hummingbird in a pine tree. 🪶

If you’re the kind of person who easily forgets what you’ve accomplished, you need a practice for reminding yourself. Count the years, the finished projects, the progress, the praise, count it all up and use it as evidence against the ever present criticism in your head that you’re not doing enough.

The next time I teach, each student’s final project will be to edit Wikipedia based on one of the lectures.

Did I ever tell you about that time we came across a fresh elephant carcass on the border of two hyena territories? * These photos contain blood, a dead elephant, and the circle of life * 1/ 🧪🌍🦊🪶

Ancient burial mounds, known as kurgans, “act as habitat islands in transformed landscapes” 🌎 www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2023/07/anci...

I always assumed it was halfway between shedding hair and losing teeth

Here's a Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukkah, Nine-banded Armadillo I met whilst engaged in my #ChristmasBirdCount on Saturday. youtube.com/shorts/g2tqf...

#Mammals Each leopard has its own unique roar by which it can be ID’ed. The first large-scale paired camera trap & autonomous recording survey for large individual leopards could ID by their vocalizations with 93% accuracy. Conservation of leopards by using Bioacoustics. phys.org/news/2024-12...

Here are some nice mushrooms