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Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the beaver PR team really is crack. This video -- about beaver reintroduction in Idaho --is an unexpectedly joyful 5 minutes youtu.be/adDEAUSqxs8?...

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geronimo was a beaver

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Looking forward to the next generation of papers—using built-in AI eye tracking, every time you try to actually read something Clippy pops up and asks what the fuck you think you're doing. If you hit Ctrl+F, Elsevier SWAT team smashes down your door.

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Evil Clippy

ALT: Evil Clippy

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The conflation of AI-critical with technophobic is tactical & infuriating. While accusing us of just knee-jerk hating tech, they’re enshittifying search engines, degrading digital archives, sundowning or enclosing popular tools, etc. We were all happily using that tech!

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I refuse to give up the joy of unexpected connections (and sometimes discovering a juicy scientific feud) to a robot.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2

A dinosaur on a white background with the text SAve the academy of Natural sciences museum rally Tuesday Sept 8 10am in front of the academy 1900 ben Franklin Parkway. "Tell Drexel University "Keep the museum open!" with the logos for Philly Science Action, Skype a Scientist, and Green Philly

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Truly awful news. "For nearly 200 years, the museum has been a welcoming space, creating memories for generations of families, schoolchildren, nature lovers and scientists." ... so we're gonna close it?

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changing-the-future-of-the-academy

The Academy of Natural Sciences will be closing its museum at the end of September, but preserving its research and collections mission.

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I can be forgiven for thinking this says "bird walk" and not "boardwalk" right? 🪶 (the boardwalk was in plain view though...)

A sign saying "Sunrise pond brdwlk" with two bird sculptures in the background.

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In Georgia for work. Smothered chicken, collard greens, mac and cheese, cornbread, with sweet tea out of the frame... Do... Do I want to move to the south?

A plate of food with smothered chicken, collard greens, mac and cheese and cornbread.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A red-bordered stink bug, Edessa rufomarginata. It’s one of the largest stink bugs I’ve seen, about 2cm long. 🌿🌱

A blue-green insect shaped like a shield with a bright orange border all the way around its body. Legs and antennae are also orange.

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My ode to how #bayesian #stats (which I do not profess to be very good at) has shaped my approach to #science and melded with my personal philosophy.

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"a guarantee that all of our words and ideas are our own" Outside of academia: There's such pleasure in parsing an author's style, even if word choice/phrasing is jarring or a bit weird—the pleasure of inhabiting another human's perspective and creative choices. Being AI-wary diminishes that joy.

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The #Birds #Caribbean conference just wrapped up in Trinidad. Fantastic group of people working for the future of Caribbean birds. Also beautiful art, starring the Pawi (endemic piping guan), a Motmot, morpho butterfly, a cocoa pod, our national flower (chaconia), and a White-tailed Sabrewing.

A collage of the described images in the shape of Trinidad and Tobago.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

That's right

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Wow, a massive coordinated effort to extract information from the internet and ultimately profit off of other people’s intellectual property. Hard to even imagine such a thing

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Academic's worst enemy, a stack of free books.

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

If they had high speed rail, the ring would've made it to Mount Doom much more easily.

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Totally obsessed with these tree ferns in Puerto Rico 🌿🌿🌿

fern leaves... up at the top of a trunk, against a blue sky

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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I know R, thanks, but I'm trying.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

multiculturalism is pretty great

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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

They should build loads of data centers all over the place that contain huge quantities of books that people can borrow for free if they fill out a form to get a data center card and promise to return the books on time and don’t make too much noise in the data center.

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Birds of Athens. Red-eyed glares of two kinds. 🪶

a Sardinian Warbler (small white and grey bird with red eyes)

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Let me get this straight: * blood is made of iron * some blood cells are made for killing enemies * these defense cells also eat old blood cells, and become 🔮superparamagnetic🔮 et voila, magnetic navigation I love biology so much 😭😭😭 🧪

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Who's got birding advice for #Crete or #Athens? 🪶 Willing to pay with blurry bird (or twig) photos.

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

👀👀👀 Is this because Paul McCartney said on the final Late Show episode that he had a bird book growing up? 🪶

The list of trending searches on my bluesky search. Number 1 is Bird Photography.

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

"What if, instead of going to useful websites, you just write messages to something that has the confidence and accuracy of the guy at university who goes on about Plato's allegory of the cave?" www.kagi.com www.duckduckgo.com

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

"mainstream politicians don't seek the interest of most people " vs "Hillary Clinton is a lizard, Hillary Clinton eats babies, Hillary Clinton trafficked children, and so on"

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I unironically said to a friend "some species don't demonstrate high fidelity to a geographic location" and she went "they move a lot?" Academic writing has broken me.

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The Man Who Mistook His Imagination For A Fact?

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I really think font size 11 is far superior to size 12. Sorry for the way I am.

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Gonna start using this kind of flat out lie on my CV: First, I solved climate change. Next up? Global utopia.

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Maybe time to take a page out of the finance bro book and start describing niche fields as high-growth sectors.

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

If I had a penny for every time a well-meaning scientist asked "did you try checking if X had an effect?" I'd have a lot of pennies.

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Frog jug + air plant. Can you tell how pleased I am with myself?

A green ceramic jug in the shape of a frog. The mouth of the jug is the frog's open mouth. Sitting in the mouth is an air plant.

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Water. Earth. Fire. Air. But that all changed when the Fire Nation attacked.

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Adi Khen @adlysia.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Colors and patterns of California seaweeds #SciArt #PhycologyFriday

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I've been trying out the free tier of @kagi.com and it's crazy how much better the experience is compared to what we've become used to. Honestly surprised that I'm considering paying for a search engine subscription. Quirky dog mascot doesn't hurt either.

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Bibiana Rojas @biobiiana.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Have you ever thought of all what animals can do when predation is not a big issue? In this review 👉 doi.org/10.1016/bs.a... @maribelrm.bsky.social @juancarvajalcastro.bsky.social and I show how aposematism can be viewed as an “umbrella trait” influencing multiple aspects of its bearers' lives🔴🟡⚫

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Google at it again. The link below summarises it very well: "You bought an Android phone because Google told you it was open. You could install what you wanted, and that was the deal. Google is now rewriting that deal, retroactively, on hardware you already own. " keepandroidopen.org

Google's "escape hatch" is a trap door
Google says "power users" can "still install" unverified apps. Here's what that actually looks like:

Delve into System Settings, find Developer Options
Tap the build number seven times to enable Developer Mode
Dismiss scare screens about coercion
Enter your PIN
Restart the device
Wait 24 hours

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

was feeling antsy yesterday evening and decided to channel the energy for once: Purple Honeycreeper cutout from of one of my photos set on dried tulip petals. Isn't he pretty? 🪶 (I always forget that you can just make stuff if you want to)

A purple bird with purple and yellow flower petals behind it.

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Alternatively/additionally, these findings align with a selection bias in plain sight: Many careers are started by findings that are flashy, surprising etc. Select for early disruption and you get more disruption early on... 💁‍♀️ 🧪

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Browsing phys.org / @sciencex.bsky.social and disappointed to see an article on the front page with the image credit "generated by the editorial team using AI for illustrative purposes." Surely there are creative commons images that would've worked just as well? 🧪

Image of a man with a laptop in front lf him. The screen appears to be casting heart/love/kiss emojis at/around him.

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

One of my secondary school teachers made us scratch the word "forget" out of our dictionaries. Later on, one boy didn't do his homework and said he forgot. Fuming, the teacher made him open his dictionary and look up forget. It was there, not scratched out. "Why is that still there?" "I forgot"

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I often wonder what fraction of the the science research memes are just jokes or reflections of actual practice... "me when P > 0.05 😭😭😭"

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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Alternatively…

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