Exciting! Endangered, cryptic eastern ground parrot found well outside known areas of occurrence in Narawntapu National Park

I like his mother too: “Art and museums are living spaces,” she said. “Life without art is not life.” Also, "The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin." That's exactly the energy I needed. Especially from a 15-year-old French boy, in these uncertain times.

Wait, people are claiming the BBC was biased IN FAVOUR of trans folks‽

If Webster ever runs for office: a) this will be his campaign shot b) oh no

Look, at the point when your game of dress-up results in a month-long mystery around a robbery at the Louvre, I think it’s fair to say you’ve made your dream come true

It’s our 13th episode! UNLUCKY for some… but not for @joshlukedavis.com and @nhcooper123.bsky.social as they share their favourite UNLUCKY specimens. m.youtube.com/watch?v=JwGf... Yes we know some might be considered LUCKY depending on how you look at it! Picking stuff is hard! 🤣

Frankly I’m with Lubo

Time to make the Christmas cake!!

Our paper on tinamou evolution is finally out in @systbiol.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

the fear of checking your notifications and not knowing if it's 30+ like 31 or 30+ like the international society of pedantic strangers just reviewed your post at their annual conference

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

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I'm just surprised no one's done this yet.

Weekends are for being lazy (I did have some work today to meet a deadline and will claim back the time later)

oh yeah ok this is super cool not only did they find a gynandromorph spider, it also turned out to be a new species! 🤯🧪🕷️

Oops. Ooooooooooooops. I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675 h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social

All subject areas are of interest (so long as the focus is #ornithology & #conservation); however, we’re particularly keen to hear from folks with expertise in: - climate change - bushfire - habitat loss - species distribution models - invasive species - ecotox - quantitative & movement ecology

Are you an #ECR working with #birds and looking to put your critical writing skills to use? Consider joining our team at ‘Avian Conservation & Ecology’ as a Subject Editor ace-eco.org/our-editors/

In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

I'm sorry but she made the sculpture 100% better www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you're a Seabird Group member, remember to check your inbox for the link to join our #AGM next Weds (12th Nov) at 12 noon 📅🕊️ Come along and hear what we've been working on this past year. You can also vote for the incoming Executive Committee members using the link in the email! 👥🗳️ #seabirds

A MARKET OF DREAMS AND DESTINY is getting a LIMITED EDITION *beautifully* blinged-out HARDCOVER print run! Only 1000 will be sold! £35 PreOrders LIVE So if queer boys fighting systemic oppression with fey magic and contractual loopholes is your thing, check out... litpinsandco.com/products/a-m...

like 50% of orchid pollination is horny male insects having their day ruined

Its taken a while, but a summary of our "enhanced surveillance" for HPAI that we undertook last spring is now on bioRxiv. Lots of cool LPAI viruses in arriving shorebirds, but no HPAI. 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Someone could buy the rights to the name and turn it into a rapidly-reviewed scholarly publication focused on longer term forecasts/trends and active meteorological events.

My favorite comment on the FT story

✈️ WSC4 Travel Awards are here! Supporting students, early-career researchers & conservation practitioners to attend the 4th World Seabird Conference. 📅 Apply 1 Oct 2025 – 15 Jan 2026 More info on the Registration page. 🔗https://bit.ly/4nAYG4j #WSC4 #Seabirds #Research

yes DSE eLearning lady, it's called having a job, but thanks

New paper assessing the use of seabird diet data into fisheries stock assessment. We found that the integration of predator (i.e., seabird) diet data into an assessment model can improve assessment outcomes by filling in critical data gaps where appropriate. 🧪🪶🦑 doi.org/10.1016/j.fi...

New work out from our @islandbirdproject.bsky.social team lead by @raquelponti.bsky.social We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25 "A day at the museum: collections-based ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.

I've already two factor-authenticated myself six times in the last five minutes. I need to start keeping a bottle of gin in a drawer in my office.

DID OTTERS RUIN THE KELP FOREST? by S. purpuratus

News | British Library chief executive steps down amid strike action – board member takes over as interim director after resignation of Rebecca Lawrence Public and Commercial Services Union

We've been down on the beach today picking up firework debris. It's odd, isn't it, that you can be fined £250 for dropping litter but somehow it's OK to launch rockets containing plastic casings into the sky.

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

I have no idea who to credit for this, apologies. But fuck, that's so accurate based on recent workplace conversations I've overheard.

Hoopoes bred in Leicestershire & Rutland in 2023, the first confirmed breeding record in the UK since 1996. Here’s the family - parents and three offspring. Can you see them all? Read more about rare breeding birds in 2023 at rbbp.org.uk/2023-report-... 📸 Carl Baggott

Zohran says you’re trans now

I'M HERE TO SPREAD THE GOOD WORD OF 520myr OF COOL MORPHOLOGY why are you backing away I have specimens to share please I love your work and you could do it on fossils too hi hello don't leave???

Another failure for nature at the hands of @teamlabouruk.bsky.social who promised so much to protect our natural environment and are breaking promise after promise. Just the latest disappointment.

Such a mystery, what MASS DISABLING EVENT could have happened after 2019 to cause this?

New paper alert! Worked with an incredible group of scientists across fields on this vision for much needed investment in Indian natural history collections: Linking eras and data: natural history collections as the foundation of India’s biodiversity science url: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

As a Canadian researcher/academic, it's beyond discouraging that the federal gov't is rolling out the welcome mat for foreign assistant professors, doctoral students and postdocs, while *cutting* domestic research funding and doing nothing to support those of us who are already here, doing the work.

The Canadian government has seemingly never read a single one of its own commissioned reports on what Canadian science needs. (It's not more people.)

Looking at the papers I currently have on plate, a bunch will be very low impact but the result of collections queries or just happening to open a cabinet. And what was seen cannot be unseen, so must be dealt with.

I revisited a really thorny taxonomic problem today involving one of our specimens, and it's amazing how 6 months away can make you look at things with fresh eyes. Also: good LORD this one has been annoying.

... & let's sonify that: xeno-canto.org/explore?quer...