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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Do you have any good cabbage recipes? Our friend gave us three huge heads from his garden and I need ideas

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

What kind of parrots? Sounds like a great day

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

What bird is this? Clearly eaten by some sort of hawk but a little bit left. Morgan helped out that the brown might be from a hatch year bird, but that color definitely threw me

A bit of bird with some brown, black, and white feathers attached

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I got interviewed by FarmWorld about our bird poop paper. Had a lovely conversation with their journalist, and very fun to see our work get picked up and shared to the prime audience our work is for! We are on page 14 if you'd like to check it out: issues.farmworldonline.com/Issue/7109.pdf

issues.farmworldonline.com

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Well awarded by AOS too! Bird people are doing this!

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I know multiple well-awarded ecology PhDs who have gone to colossal. Makes a shit ton of money to do nothing and I’m worried about jobs in ag and conservation lol it’s just funny

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

But I made it anyways and will be back here posting more:)

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I think what I didn’t realize about getting off my medication (which is good and I finally fucking made it) is how sad I would be. Like a whole nother thing to work through

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Spoke too soon lol! Still off of it but definitely not feeling well

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

After my pcp giving it to me everyday for 11 months and feeling so so fucking sick coming off of it. But I did it! Never taking it again

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

After 4 months after learning that I was taking way too much lorazepam, I am finally off of it and feeling so much more like myself and feeling so much better

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

KEVIN FOUND ANOTHER THING IN THE COLLECTION @mothpotato.bsky.social

Massive, like cat-sized, model of a Melolontha melolontha. It is covered with coal dust, regular dust, and what appears to be animal fur that was glued there on purpose

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

In the office during spring break, alone, campus is empty. So to my surprise someone is playing some screamo metal so loud it is going through the walls…

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I look surprisingly angry too but I promise I’m happy partly because I have one more taper before I’m off this anti-anxiety medicine

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Made it through, got a haircut, and walking the dogs

A white man in orange with blurred trees and yellow bridge behind him

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I have a paper in frontiers, we had a good experience. I wasn’t lead author, so I now try to see how there can be good papers in bad journals and bad papers in good journals, giving grace😩

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

At this point the nausea and dizziness I’m getting is so bad I’m a little unsure how to move forward:( Can’t even sleep through the night and this is while taking ondansetron

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I know I keep talking about it and I’m also already annoyed but have been throwing up for 12 hours now😭 and I’m so so thirsty (also had a psychiatry meeting this morning and they know about this)

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

But working with a psychiatrist and therapist and I’m at a quarter of my dose and getting through it. Almost off it completely:)

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Ugh Alex it’s been so so bad. It’s a benzo and I got prescribed it because I got robbed, then it got prescribed for me for way too long. 11 months with no check ins. And now coming off it, I have so much gastro stuff which is both embarrassing and uncomfortable

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

And I feel silly complaining and I want to stop it but you can literally die if you don’t taper off correctly… which I would’ve loved to know beforehand

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I’ve never thrown up more coming off this medicine - I’m so so tired of it:(

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Well, I’m a post doc in Danny’s lab but I think our *overall* expertise would be birds, agriculture, landscape ecology

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Hey all - do you have a paper that we could review as a lab? I know people want reviewers and we want to teach about reviewing!

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Actually I think well organized, well communicated boycotts with clear demands to what leads to an end are much more successful than “don’t anything, but buy your supplies the day before” (read: spending the same amount of money anyways)

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This isn’t even my best sandwich picture! Kind of disappointing tbh because the sandwich was great

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Erik Gulbranson @erikgulbranson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

A monumental betrayal.

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I’m becoming one of those sandwich accounts because there are so many good places

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Chicken cutlet sandwich on homemade bread from my favorite Czech restaurant in Sacramento

A chicken sandwich with tomatoes and lettuce on foccacia

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I’m reviewing a paper and it is 248 pages with supplements….

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It is very funny trying to taper off medicine during the trump admin because I feel like I’m just complaining

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

So we just have to live with this now? And ajit pai gets to just live a regular life instead of facing any consequences?

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Tbh it’s probably a reject anyways for this particularly journal but I still want to give a thorough review to help the authors

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

There’s like 5 people who study torpor in the US, maybe a few more outside. Like… it’s so specific

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I got asked to review a paper that I do think I’m particularly qualified to review. They say stuff that *I* think in answered a bit in my old papers (which is fine!) but is it frowned upon to suggest my papers in the review? I honestly think it’d be helpful - not just looking for a cite

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Twitter is terrible but bluesky is full of the most full themselves academics at their worst so what can I deal with more lol

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Finally trying these and what’s your guess if they’re good

A can of black beans that says “hoppy cerveza flavored black beans”

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Researchgate: We found a recent article that cited you The author: me😈

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

We got to take part in this really fun write-up about our bird poop work that came out today🦃🦅🦆

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Daniel Karp @dskarp.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

So excited to see our paper led by @austinrspence.bsky.social out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social! We show most birds present low food-safety risks, but E. coli survives longer in big poops produced by big birds (a thread) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Assessing foodborne pathogen survival in bird faeces to co‐manage farms for bird conservation, production, and food safety

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The turkeys came to celebrate our new paper out TODAY in Journal of Applied Ecology (with turkeys!) Stay tuned for more details🦃🔬

A group of turkeys in front of a set of glass doors

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Welp the psychiatrist was literally horrified what had happened and her jaw dropped. But now have a plan and will hopefully not be feeling so sick soon

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Korben Dallas Spence @austinrspence.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Well got it emergency prescribed and have a psychiatry appointment tomorrow to make a plan to wean off. And it was honestly helpful when I needed it but I want to be off it so bad now

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