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Echo chambers Inaccuracy tolerance LLMs replacing search engines & encyclopedias ... and other possible effects of creeping normality of AI. #AcademicSky

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🧪 Investigate biodiversity in urban green spaces 🎓 Support graduate access 🦊 Take videos of cute species Just a regular day in the office at @ox.ac.uk ♥️ @biodivoxford.bsky.social #academicsky

Read my book, remain scarred for life. I present the tongue-eating louse. 🧪 😝 👀

Geologists have a higher death rate in movies than Sean Bean 💀 Of the 202 geologists in 141 movies released between 1919 and 2023, 69 die or are found dead, resulting in mortality rate of about a third. Movie geologists were mainly male, white and in khaki. 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Geologists on the silver screen—the sequelAs geologists, our interest is piqued when geological processes—with varying degrees of accuracy—are portrayed in movies and especially when a geologist unexpectedly appears on screen, even in a mino...onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Orangutans are solitary species, so, theoretically, opportunities for early socialisation are scarce. What do orangutan mums do? They go out of their way to arrange playdates for their kids. Research by @oddjacobson.bsky.social @bjjbarrett.bsky.social et al: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧪🌏🐵

Could be a good early stage #scicomm opportunity. #AcademicSky 🧪

It's been ten years since the #Brexit referendum. I'm still waiting to find a single positive thing that came out of it. Anyone? #academicsky

Do you know about the Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social? A great resource for nature-related collaborative work, with biodiversity literature and images made publicly available. www.biodiversitylibrary.org Drawing of a dusky titi monkey, from Description des mammifères. 🧪🌍🪶🦊

I will speak. It shall be entertaining. 🪧The Animal Butt Compendium: the ABC of Zoological Rear Ends 🍑From species that breathe through their bums, to those using their derrieres as weapons and ones that communicate through farting - there's something for everyone. 📆 1 Jul, London 🎟️ Tickets below.

Oh look, a girl spider, and her private bits look like the most adorable fox pawprint! 🐾 🦊 Yes, arachnologists spend way too much time looking at epigyne (🕷️ lady parts). Mammalogists, on the other hand, get excited when something looks like a track. 🧪

The Nature Festival is back, courtesy of @biodivoxford.bsky.social 🥬 Oxford folk, ready yourselves for the last week of June, with nature walks, talks, workshops and activities (including those from the @oxon-mammal-group.bsky.social). The programme caters to all ages. 🧪🌏 thenaturefestival.org

Home - The Nature FestivalA celebration of nature in Oxford. The Nature Festival is a collaborative, volunteer-led event celebrating nature in Oxford and the people working to protect and restore it. The festival’s main […]thenaturefestival.org

Exciting stuff - British pounds are getting a revamp and will feature wildlife. You can pick two animals in each category (mammals, birds and what looks like "creatures without eyelashes"). Vote here until July 3: www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/he... 🧪💷🌏

Dear @rspb.bsky.social, why would you choose to use what looks like AI-slop in your marketing, instead one of the amazing pictures you have of actual, real birds? Blue tit chicks are nothing like this awful misrepresentation. I quit my membership over this. #AITA? 🪶🧪🌏

🪶 Birds masturbate. 🦜 This is normal, and not (as often is believed) a maladaptive behaviour only found in captivity. 🍑 Pet bird owners - chill, and let your budgie have some fun. 🧪 Study of masturbation in 120 bird species, by @matildabrindle.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Have you heard of OneZoom Tree of Life Explorer? It's a great tool for visualising how all biodiversity in the world is related. And since it's #BiodiversityDay, well... Find yourself a friend whose love language is "I sponsored a slime mold for you". www.onezoom.org 🧪🌏 🦊🐦🐝 #biodiversity

🧪 In a study, bumblebee queens were overwintered in refrigerated test tubes - but an experimental mishap led to four tubes accumulating water. 🐝 Now we know that bumblebee 👸 can survive being submerged for a week - which makes sense, because in the wild their burrows may get flooded. 🌍 #WorldBeeDay

🕷️You're a smallish spider with big decoy ambitions 🕸️You patiently weave bits and bobs into your web to camouflage yourself, or to appear bigger 🏵️Your elaborate web decorations (stabilimenta) are made of delicate silk What do you get called? A "TRASHLINE orb weaver". 🤦‍♀️ Arachnologists... 🧪🌍

Future conservationists - here's a FREE resource to get you started on your career. Launching your career in wildlife conservation - an online course training.wildteam.org.uk/course/launc... 🧪🌍🪶 #AcademicSky

Launching Your Career in Wildlife ConservationFrom exploring the right role and building your competencies to preparing a strong application, performing at interview, and assessing an offer. This course can also be used as a training aid for anyo...training.wildteam.org.uk

The first species to be named after David Attenborough (in 1993) is Attenborosaurus conybeari. The Attenborosaurus is an extinct marine reptile from the Early Jurassic. Over 50 species have been named after Sir David - who turns 100 today. Happy birthday! 🧪🦕🌍