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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈

@jarome.bsky.social
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Biologist* wondering why the world is so colourful. Currently postdoc at NYU, formerly PhD at Princeton. Generally bird/scienceposting 🧪 Opinions are official Bene Gesserit policy. 📍 Jersey City *actually three parrots in a parrot suit

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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Reminds me of one of my faves by @xkcd.com
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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What a pleasant way to start my morning, thanks for sharing :)
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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
YouTube video by sawdustbear
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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This request combined with that profile pic... highly suspicious 👀
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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I seriously need to hire whoever the beavers have as their PR team.
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Beaver reintroduction improves peatland water storage and drought resilience
A study led by a doctoral researcher at the University of Liverpool has found that beavers may help restore degraded peatlands by keeping landscapes wetter and making them more resilient to drought.
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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.
static.klipy.com
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
Like, sorry, but a boring status quo summary doesn't do shit for me 🤷
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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 · 03/09/2026
If we replace 'genetics' with 'G-CAT' I think it would end genetic determinism. No one would take someone seriously who says "it all comes down to G-CAT".
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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
You're not familiar with the Gini Inequality Number for Inequality?
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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?
ansp.org
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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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Preach 👏 (yes, I see the irony here)
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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.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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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 · 22/08/2026
Are you secretly one of Douglas Adams' dolphins?
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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Where is your sympathy for the "I want to be hit by a car not a bike" demographic?
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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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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Looking forward to a follow-up modelling cylinders as weasels.
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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.
Literally, a stack of free books.
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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Hello, I'm not a robot, unlike that robot. Would you like to pivot the leverage of your research to enhance the fulcrum of your insights?
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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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Jarome Ali 🇹🇹 🏳️‍🌈 @jarome.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
You gotta stop this man, too much beauty, stressing me out 😭😭😭
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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) street art of a pigeon wearing a hat
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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
Obv, I know there are good reasons to write like this in certain contexts, but when it slips out in normal conversation we all deserve to be shamed a tiny bit lol
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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.
guilty possum meme
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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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