Prawn with discarded footwear and pencil. 🍤🐈

An added bonus of blocking all these accounts is they won’t be able to see your content and will be less able* to steal it. Back on Twitter you had to manually block each one. This list lets you block them all with two taps! Hit Subscribe > Block accounts. Bingo! *hopefully not at all

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Conference prep for pros: Step 1: Take week off work to prep for conference. Step 2: Procrastinate all week and end up panic prepping the day before anyway. Step 3: Wing it on the day.

Not me procrastinating on finalising my talk for #ISBE2024 next week… Gotta get back into conference-mode and cockatoo-mode. Anyone else going??? Cockatoo photo for attention (though we always need more cockatoo photos!)

Hey #Herbarium and #Museum peeps! Any resources or pro tips for digitising collections? We have a little regional herbarium in our office that I’d love to digitise so it’s available to more people and also just in case something terrible happens to it. Are there standards I should follow? #OzPlants

Halp! What does one put down as one’s affiliation and address for a conference when one is not at a uni anymore. But when one is presenting work they did as a PhD student at a uni before said uni kicked them out for refusing to be bullied any more? Asking for a friend…

Going to ask here as well… how does one go about getting adjunct status at a uni? And how much of your soul do they take in return?

My first post here. Hi everyone! This place looks nice. Also, for Aussies, do something positive and constructive for society, it’ll make you and others feel great (that’s a scientific fact), and it’ll change lives for the better. #VoteYES!

Given we can’t share videos on this app, here’s an IG video from last season that I made while orchid-peering™️ for the Kangaloon Sun Orchid (Thelymitra kangaloonica). It’s on the offish work IG, but my handle there is the same as here. 🌍🧪 www.instagram.com/reel/CwUHsi4...

Hello! I'm Shandiya 👋🏾 I have a background in evolutionary ecology and conservation genetics, and I currently work as a data analyst at the Atlas of Living Australia on projects supporting accessible and reproducible science. I like birds 🪶 and read a lot of fantasy and science fiction.

🚨WOOD DUCKLING ALERT🚨 There’s a video too but this app doesn’t allow nice things 😹

I am officially off work until the 9th October. Whatever will I do with myself?! 🙀

Just look at this ham

Rather borbular, wouldn’t you say? 🥔🦉 Once we get Polls here I’ll be able to do #BorbOfTheYear. Though I’m still a bit confused about whether we use hashtags here or not… there’s a finite number of emojis after all.

I guess with the mass exodus I should start posting more over here. I’ll do a proper intro eventually but for now, here’s yesterday’s office: looking for Sun Orchid (Thelymitra) leaves in a swamp in the Southern Highlands of NSW. It’s super dry so not much happening yet. Nice day out though! 🌍🧪

Lap status: it’s a bit chilly this morning

Saturday morning lap status: tea with Baci

Not me rewriting the lyrics of Single Ladies to be about swamp orchids in preparation for swamp orchid season 😜 It’s this one btw: Thelymitra kangaloonica. Ain’t she pretty? 🌍🧪

In which the Australian Gvt makes an announcement about a draft document and an intent to announce funding for swift parrots, without actually announcing the funding or finalising the document 🪶🧐 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Mr S is supervising me while I finish writing something tonight. He was ever my greatest critic.

Yesterday’s office: sample collection for a statewide orchid genomics project! It’s going to be a busy spring as we have a lot of species to sample. 🧪🌍

RED SHORTS! #BirdsWithPants🪶

“THE AUDAXITY!” #BirdsWithPants

Today’s Office: Look who just landed outside my window, distracting me from reporting! This handsome male King Parrot seems to have had a run in with something that has caused a beak deformity. Fortunately he’s having no trouble stuffing his face with berries! #HungryParrots🪶🌍

Hey so what do we do about scraper accounts? I’ve already found a few, which is a shame. This one is passing themselves off as legit by putting credits in alt text, but that’s not the way to give credit. Especially if you also watermark the images you’ve shared (ahem *stolen*) with your own name 🙄

A pair of Rainbow Lorikeets have stashed their kids in a tree in my yard and they are begging *constantly*. Begging lorikeets sound like a wheezy squeak, which is better than a lot of parrots, but it does start to get old fast. Old photo of some Rainbow Lorikeets from a holiday in Narooma for tax 🪶🌍

Hey peeps, how do people list Expert Elicitation panels on their CVs? Not sure what to do… One resulted in a factsheet. One resulted in a Masters thesis and a paper (submitted). The third… no idea yet 🤷🏼‍♀️ Help pls! I need to know for a job application that’s due tonight!

Australian Edition: Bush Stone-curlew “Is someone being murdered in the bush over there?” “Could be. Or it could just be a curlew 🤷🏼‍♀️” *insert Ivan Milat reference here*

I am attempting to find all my peeps from Twitter based on names and profile pics. It’s proving more difficult than anticipated. Did someone build a port or something to help find your Twitter peeps over here?

Post-work lap status. It’s a Baci!

In my family we call these Pants Ducks, as the plumes give them magnificent pants! I saw thousands recently at Fogg Dam near Darwin, NT. And the Darwin Airport even has them on the carpet! One of my favourite ducks. #BirdsWithPants (for when we have hand tags lol)

Today’s office. A good place to take an enemy (so you can push them off the cliff).

Look at this handsome fella! Being in Wilcannia he’s from the inland subspecies of Red-tailed Black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii samueli), which is listed as Vulnerable in NSW. We don’t know very much about this subspecies, as they are quite widespread and in remote areas. PS follow Sandy!