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Amy Russell 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦

@amyrussell.bsky.social
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Bat biologist, molecular ecologist, knitter, baker

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.
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U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidance
Key takeaways Many U.S. employers hire union avoidance consultants to keep their workers from organizing and bargaining
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/04/2026
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay
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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Postdoctoral Research Fellow @unisouthampton.bsky.social - Bat Ecosystem Services jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Research Fellow in Bat Ecosystem Services
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Southampton. The School hosts a vibrant, interdisciplinary research community...
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com · 12/02/2026
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Come to do a PhD with me, @bfraser.bsky.social and @batconservation.bsky.social at the University of Exeter on using genomics to understand bat population declines under global environmental change 🦇🧬🌍🌐🧪 Application deadline 8 January 2026 ⚠️⚠️⚠️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Applying genomic approaches to understand bat population declines. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry at University of Exeter on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Applying genomic approaches to understand bat population declines. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry at University of Exeter, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Amy Russell 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @amyrussell.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I made 2 pairs of socks with leftover bits of sock yarn over the last few weeks. Comfy and easy! #KnitSky
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Amy Russell 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @amyrussell.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Wrapping up 2025 with a new publication: Molecular versus microscopic analyses tell different stories of little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) diet in Alaska. Out in Acta Chiropterologica, with coauthors Veronica Brown, Esmarie Boyles, Gary McCracken, and Justin Boyles
A comparison of arthropod orders found in the prey of little brown bats from Alaska, assessed from the same samples using molecular and microscopic methods. There's a huge difference in some of these results, particularly spiders and caddisflies.
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Jady Marmalade @rabid-child.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Happy Boxing Day
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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
🦇Interested in a bat-related PhD? 👇 Using genomics to understand bat population declines under global environmental change with @orlyrazgour.bsky.social , @bfraser.bsky.social and BCT, based at the University of Exeter. Application deadline 8 January 2026: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Applying genomic approaches to understand bat population declines. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry at University of Exeter on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Applying genomic approaches to understand bat population declines. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry at University of Exeter, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Dr Orly Razgour @orlyrazgour.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🚨 2 PhD opportunities under Wessex One Health to join my group & work on: 1. Integrating bat and fungal pathogen ecology to understand epidemiology 2. AI-augmented metagenomics to map British bat virome and assess zoonotic potential Deadline 26 January 2026 🦇🧪🦠🌍🌐 www.surrey.ac.uk/wessex-one-h...
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Available studentships| University of Surrey
18 fully funded studentships for October 2026 start: interdisciplinary infection bioscience training to address disease threats to human and animal health.
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Jady Marmalade @rabid-child.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Just discovered #TautonymTuesday and thought it would be remiss to not mention this cutie, Mops mops, the Malayan free-tailed bat. #MolossidsRule #FreeTails #WrinklyLips
Elegant portrait of a Malayan free-tailed bat, Mops mops, a dark gray face and a beautiful coat of velvety orange-red fur. This pup has a wry smile, and looks at the camera knowing that he looks fine.
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Dávalos Lab @labdavalos.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
🧪New #OA paper! Shrews are weird. They evolved a whole new immune organ the size of a kidney 🫘🤯! Led by Bill Thomas (who's on thee job market!), pancreas of Aselli was known to be packed with plasma cells at different stages @bmc.springernature.com 👉🏽 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... 1/3
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Gene expression reveals the pancreas of Aselli as a critical organ for plasma cell differentiation in the Eurasian common shrew - BMC Biology
Background Almost all mammals rely on the thymus and bone marrow to generate and differentiate B and T cells essential for adaptive immunity. A few members of the family Soricidae, or true shrews with...
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Prof. Sharlene Santana @sesantana.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
🚨🦇New paper alert! We integrate information across fields to highlight key traits associated with the diversification of #bats, their roles as evolutionary drivers, and their importance to global ecosystems: An Integrative Perspective on Bat Evolution www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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An Integrative Perspective on Bat Evolution
Bats are one of the most widespread, species-rich, ecologically and morphologically diverse mammal lineages, and the only mammals capable of powered flight. Due to their evolution within the constrain...
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Amy Russell 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @amyrussell.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I really miss when my job was just doing science. I went to a really interesting seminar today and successfully troubleshot an analysis and it was so nice to not be running off to multiple dumb meetings all day!
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Huzzah! My paper is accepted!
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Megan Power, PhD @meganpower101.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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Two distinct host-specialized fungal species cause white-nose disease in bats - Nature
The identification of two cryptic species of the fungal pathogen that causes white-nose disease in bats highlights the need to integrate studies of genetic variability in pathogens into disease survei...
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International Bat Research Conference 2025 @ibrc2025.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Earlybird registrations for IBRC 2025 are now open until 8 June 2025 (11.59pm AEST; 9.59am EDT) Register here: whova.com/portal/regis... #ibrc2025 #bats
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Dr. Sabine Metzger 🦇 @drsabinemetzger.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🦇 www.batcon.org/press/rare-l...
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Rare Livingstone's Fruit Bat Downlisted by IUCN - Bat Conservation International
GPS tagging and updated population data contributed to improved Red List status.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Good luck today, Canada 🇨🇦 elbows up!
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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
These two biologists found purpose—and love—trying to save Nigeria's bats | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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These two biologists found purpose—and love—trying to save Nigeria's bats
Benneth Obitte and Inoro Tanshi’s efforts have documented a major hot spot of African bat diversity
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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘
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Jady Marmalade @rabid-child.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
There’s this deeply-held belief that public virtue is so self-evidently the natural state of things, that once the fog dissipates, wayward people will organically return to communitarianism like water seeking its own level. Which, if you’ve been around people, is just a bonkers thing to believe.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
chef’s kiss
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Amy Russell 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @amyrussell.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Why does every administrative office at my university feel the need to send out regular campus-wide emails about what they’re up to? When did this become a thing?
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Amy Russell 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦 @amyrussell.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Blocking Jady’s new sweater, with help from Marcy. Very proud of those sleeves!
Marcy, a gorgeous tuxedo cat, laying on a hand-knit sweater that is laid out flat to dry.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
New pots available now! www.roseschmits.com Tentacle pots and a bunch of tentacle cups!
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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Tank Girl for the New Year. We can be magnificent: we can turn this shit around. Brett Parson artist, and Alan Martin, writer, 2016.
The character Tank Girl, dressed in punk clothing and a mostly bald haircut, sitting on a rock in a desert environment in front of a beautiful sunrise. She's strapping on one boot and smoking a cigarette. There's a tea mug sitting on a rock next to her.

The speech box above her head says "I can't let things be this way. We can be wonderful. We can be magnificent. We can turn this thing around." 

Brett Parson (artist) and Alan Martin (writer), 2016
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/11/2024
"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting. Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/11/2024
AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride. "They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
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Dávalos Lab @labdavalos.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🚨 Out today in eLife! 🚨 @HFSP-funded postdoc Bill Thomas & #shrewcrew reveal how common shrews shrink their brains in winter! 🧠 Seasonal RNA changes in the hypothalamus hint at parallels in mammalian aging. 📖 doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @DinaDechmann @dechmannlab @aspcorthals @RichardGHunter1
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
They are counting on you to feel helpless, exhausted, scared, alone, too old or young. We have people worldwide who even at 90 years old went out and resisted. In Ukraine the grandmothers grabbed rifles, the children flew drones. You can hold a sign, organize, we know it’s scary but don’t give up.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 01/11/2024
Trans rights are human rights
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Elizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
New paper with @gerrycarter.bsky.social just in time for Halloween! Vampire bats' first impressions of each other don't predict the formation of long-term relationships doi.org/10.1111/nyas...
Image showing the title of the paper ("Long-term cooperative relationships among vampire bats are not strongly predicted by their initial interactions"), two bat contact networks (at 4 hours bats are poorly connected, networks are more connected at 24 hours), and two barplots (showing that allogrooming at 6 or 15 weeks is barely predicted at all by first contact times). Also a photo of two vampire bat faces
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Filigree 'Cranky Science Witch' @filigreemchana.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
1/ CW Holocaust I've said this repeatedly & will KEEP saying it: If I catch you on my timeline whining that you won't vote for Harris for whatever reason, I'm done with you. If I am following you, I will unfollow then block. You're getting blocked no matter what. I will tell you why.
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Jady Marmalade @rabid-child.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
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Kuwohi name restored to the highest peak in the Smokies - Great Smoky Mountains National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
Love it if you could repost this! Maybe we can change some minds about perceptions people have of bats? Let's try! 🦇
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Five False Myths About Bats…And One That’s Actually True - Bat Conservation International
How much do you really know about bats?
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Jady Marmalade @rabid-child.bsky.social · 07/08/2024
Last night, the Ottawa Impact MAGA weirdos lost all but three of their seats (and two of those were uncontested). Ottawa is extremely red, with zero chance of Democrats winning a majority of races, but seeing these folks lose to conventional Republicans is heartening.
Screenshot of an Instagram ad for Ottawa Impact PAC, a group of well-funded extreme MAGA Republicans who ran as a group and won in 2020. 

The image shows a group of men and women holding signs reading “Ottawa County is Trump Country” a woman stands behind a podium bearing the same slogan. 

The copy reads: 

Cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children. It's not acceptable!

These idiots lost their jobs to conventional Republicans last night.
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Jason Munshi-South @urbanevol.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
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Due to Falling Enrollments, We Will No Longer Offer Courses in Romulan at Starfleet Academy
Stardate 59963.2 Welcome to a new school year. In the coming days, a cohort of cadets will begin arriving on campus, and I look forward to continui...
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