Conservation, curator in charge of birbs, island hopper, runner, connoisseur of fine teas, biscuit fiend, v left, queer af, Erdős–Bacon = 8, he/him. [🏳️🌈🇨🇦🐧 and some 🇦🇺🇵🇳] 📍 Tring & Milton Keynes, UK https://linktr.ee/albnd
Never be caught out unable to identify that pterosaur in your bins again! An essential reference for all field workers
Nick GarlandEvery known pterosaur, in one book, illustrated. Five years of work with Pete Buchholz and twenty paleoartists. Now live on Kickstarter! fossi.ls/ks
Folks if you're looking for a career pivot, this actually sounds quite cool (and is just down the road from me?!)
The Heraldry SocietyA notice from The Heraldry Society concerning William Cowley the UK's last commercial parchment and vellum maker.
OK ENOUGH PLAYING AROUND WHO THE FUCK HAS THIS VARIED THRUSH?!
Dr Alex Bondyou know, for a taxon described in 1991, it's surprisingly hard to figure out where the holotype is.... Honestly, taxonomists.
This is a story of "what happens when £40k worth of tracking devices fail to operate as intended en mass". Stay tuned...
Dr Alex BondPaper accepted! Thrilled to salvage something from a project that definitely didn't go as planned...
PSA: your avocado is trans. What an absolutely wonderfully fantastical world we live in!
Jeff GrohAvocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Thread. Must be 18-30 years old. Grants up to $5k USD to locate taxa not seen in more than a decade.
Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab🧵 The Search for Lost Birds is looking for young, adventurous birders to lead expeditions to find “lost” bird species. Currently, 121 birds lack any scientific documentation for a decade or longer (70+ are entirely missing from the Macaulay Library!) Continued... searchforlostbirds.org
If any of you were curious about my thoughts on the bird selection of the proposed new Euro banknotes. @ecb.europa.eu I am available for further consultancy work.
Dr Alex BondWallcreeper: fucking S-tier bird. Kingfisher: 14/10 what a stunner. Bee-eater: The back - gorgeous. The front - stunning. White stork: lovely leggy boyos [gender neutral]. Avocet: Curvelicious bill. A+. Gannet: What a beast. Would destroy a penguin given the chance.
What utter noncery of the highest order.
Oxford ClarionOxford University's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division will no longer underwrite parental leave for all fixed-term researchers. This reverses its previous policy where all fixed-term researchers had their contracts extended to cover parental leave, regardless of funding.