Reposted by elijah ☆Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · 13/07/2025NEW PAPER: Same-sex partnerships in birds: a review of the current literature and a call for more data. ➡️ vist.ly/3n99bk6 #ornithology #birds #same-sexbehaviour #review #partnerships @tashgillies.bsky.social @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social Illustration: @bertillemohring.bsky.social 014159
Reposted by elijah ☆Alex Ries @alexries.com · 11/06/2025What you are detecting are not questions or concerns; its anger. Using generative AI, a resource intensive and exploitative technology, is hypocritical and immoral for any organization interested in nature. 017735
Reposted by elijah ☆Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Women make up only 16% of corresponding authors who submit to Nature, a new Springer Nature analysis revealed. This is not enough - there are 30-40% #womeninSTEM We want to change it, through targeted editorial policies & outreach. But change will take everyone! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comGender equality in research publishing is a responsibility for everyoneA concerted effort is needed to support women in their choice of journal when submitting their manuscript. 519671
elijah ☆ @elscapp.bsky.social · 27/05/2025my first time using a camera trap! we got lots of visitors :-) 020
Reposted by elijah ☆Natasha Gillies @tashgillies.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Out this week: a short review co-authored with @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social on same-sex partnerships in birds! 🐦🌈 Borne out of a shared frustration: why are these partnerships often ignored or actively removed from our datasets? 1/n doi.org/10.1002/jav....doi.orgSame‐sex partnerships in birds: a review of the current literature and a call for more dataSame-sex sexual behaviour (SSB), encompassing actions such as courtship, pair bonding, and parenting between individuals of the same sex, has been observed across numerous taxa, including birds. Yet ... 2319
Reposted by elijah ☆Uncut Femmes @juliagiantrat.bsky.social · 22/05/2025It rules being a tranny because you tune into the news on a random day and find yourself confronted with some new story like "New budget specifically says 'we wont cover healthcare for trannies. specifically those people'" and then i have to go back to work like everything is normal for 8 hours 191913476
Reposted by elijah ☆Claire McNear @clairemcnear.bsky.social · 09/05/2025help I'm obsessed with the warring mother robins who unhappily share a nest 3328381006
Reposted by elijah ☆Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 21/05/2025A little late for mother's day but...! 303028886
Reposted by elijah ☆Michelle Ma @michellema.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...bloomberg.comThe AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It MostA Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress. 6626401942
Reposted by elijah ☆RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Big news from the mudflats! The UK’s oldest known Oystercatchers - aged 41 and 43 - have been discovered on The Wash. That’s three times their species’ average lifespan! Legends wade amongst us... 😎 A reminder of why the East Coast Wetlands are so special: buff.ly/rgnjIeg 641085
elijah ☆ @elscapp.bsky.social · 28/04/2025why is the campus transphobe sending out emails to try and ship off students to maga boot camp 😭😭😭 100
Reposted by elijah ☆Internet Archive @archive.org · 17/04/2025📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️ 1181941315527
Reposted by elijah ☆Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · 23/04/2025tinyurl.com/UoATransphobia ☝️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 im sure many of you are aware of hostility towards #trans staff & students in my department myself & other ECRs have published a desperate call for action on #transphobia from departmental and university management please read, share and SIGN IN SOLIDARITY ❤️ 45726
Reposted by elijah ☆Bird sightings that sound like shitposts @birdingshitposts.bsky.social · 21/04/2025 131
Reposted by elijah ☆Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia. 131115352881
Reposted by elijah ☆Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/04/2025During COVID, mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives worldwide. Today, Minnesota republicans proposed a bill stating that "whoever knowingly manufactures, acquires, possesses, or makes readily available to another mRNA injections or products" can be sentenced to 20 years in prison. 61644342
elijah ☆ @elscapp.bsky.social · 21/04/2025my feminist bird club patches arrived! gonna keep them on my rucksack along with my gay bird club pin (2025 design by @alextomlinson.com ) 120
Reposted by elijah ☆georgia 🏴 @blahttodea.bsky.social · 20/04/2025amazing turnout in aberdeen today to say transphobia is NOT welcome in our city and jk rowling and her fascist mates do not speak for scotland. this is what solidarity looks like 🏳️⚧️✊ 821648
Reposted by elijah ☆wint @dril.bsky.social · 08/04/2025my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content 73199924885
elijah ☆ @elscapp.bsky.social · 16/04/2025kind of crazy that i have to get a 12 hour long ferry to get a measly blood test done because the aberdeen gps refuse to give them to trans people 100
Reposted by elijah ☆Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social · 16/04/2025It's driving me up the wall that legal definitions are increasingly based on (at best) primary school-level takes on complex concepts (like 'biological sex') which, I don't know, you should probably consult actual experts on. Also: trans rights are human rights; no LGB without the T(QIA+), ever! 12712
elijah ☆ @elscapp.bsky.social · 12/04/2025lovely fulmars this week :-) one of my favourite seabirds 010
Reposted by elijah ☆Riley Black 🏳️⚧️ 🦖 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Colossal’s bungled wolf announcement isn’t a conservation win. It’s a sad reminder of how the offensively rich want to foist their vision of the future on everyone. My latest for @slate.comslate.comThose Dire Wolves Aren’t an Amazing Scientific Breakthrough. They’re a Disturbing Symbol of Where We’re Heading.We shouldn’t be celebrating “de-extinction.” We should be focused on the species that are currently in danger. 311803709
Reposted by elijah ☆Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Inside me there are two wolves. One of them has a 15 genome edits the other 20 genome edits. Neither of them is a dire wolf. 12901188
Reposted by elijah ☆Ferwen @ferwen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025How big brains and flexible skulls led to the evolution of modern birds 🧪⚒️ phys.org/news/2025-03...phys.orgHow big brains and flexible skulls led to the evolution of modern birdsModern birds are the living relatives of dinosaurs. Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ostriches that walk upright on two hind legs, or predators like eagles and hawks w... 13715
elijah ☆ @elscapp.bsky.social · 08/03/2025heard my first chiffchaff of the year this morning! spring is officially here 010
Reposted by elijah ☆Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Supplementary feeding is a threat to UK Hawfinch populations #Ornithology #UKBirding 14125
elijah ☆ @elscapp.bsky.social · 05/03/2025I don’t usually pray but I have been actively begging God for the honours project I really want to do lol 000
Reposted by elijah ☆creature enthusiast @cowboyology.bsky.social · 03/03/2025why does it look like the Tooth White Banded Noctuid Moth is mimicking something straight out of a horror movie 24816
Reposted by elijah ☆NPR @npr.org · 23/02/2025Hawaiian crows are extinct in the wild and are found nowhere else on Earth. Now, a small group, safeguarded in captivity, has been released in the forests of Maui.npr.orgThis rare, intelligent species of crow is taking flight in Hawaii againHawaiian crows are extinct in the wild and are found nowhere else on Earth. Now, a small group, safeguarded in captivity, has been released in the forests of Maui. 364729827
Reposted by elijah ☆ceej @ceej.online · 23/02/2025FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics 106169513025
Reposted by elijah ☆PZ Spiders @pzmyers.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Richard Dawkins does not have the power to decree what is a "Universal Biological Definition" and what is not. He can decree that he personally is an extremist and a reductionist. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...freethoughtblogs.comThat’s so DawkinsRichard Dawkins has attempted to answer the question “what is a woman” by inventing a definition, while simultaneously decrying attempts to answer such a question with a definition. It&… 79321
elijah ☆ @elscapp.bsky.social · 17/02/2025some of the species im hoping to see the most in the new asian wingspan expansion! 110
Reposted by elijah ☆SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Here is a photo of a trans non-binary biologist (me) holding a bird (Eastern Towhee) that is likely a bilateral gynandromorph-- a fusion of cells with female-type chromosomes and cells with male-type chromosomes in one bird! Biological sex and human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️🏳️⚧️ 1017294997
Reposted by elijah ☆Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science. 12652768415652
