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Joseph Tobias @josephtobias.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

A data collection mission that began in 2012 is finally released as AVONICHE. Designed as a companion to AVONET bird trait database and updated to Avilist taxonomy, it’s an Open Access dataset providing updated diets and a detailed breakdown of foraging behaviours used by all bird species. 🪶🌐

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 08/01/2026

A Black led Marxist-Leninist activist organisation would be amazing again. Resurrect the Black Panthers, build a Rainbow Coalition like Fred Hampton dreamed, and show people that we can all be proud of our cultures and ethnicities, while also standing in solidarity with other working class peoples.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Get in loser, we're doing Fast and Furious science memes again

Sharks have been in our oceans for over 400 million years.They’re not only older than dinosaurs, but older than trees!

But family is forever.

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Judah McAuley @judahm.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

This is absolutely filthy. And I'm here for it.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/01/2026

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

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Judah McAuley @judahm.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Counterpoint: there is not a single damn way for this to go right. When an act is fundamentally corrupt and villainous, executing the act well does not make it better.

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Judah McAuley @judahm.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Ah, the time of year when I find myself pondering the deep questions of taxonomy in the grocery store. Graham Crackers should be found in the aisle of: Crackers? Cookies? Baking? Candy? Other? What say you, I want to know!

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Judah McAuley @judahm.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

News (sometimes) covers the big things, like judicial hearings and press conferences. But even though we know that there is more suffering behind each of those, it just doesn't hit people unless they hear what is actually happening on the ground. This is critical work.

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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

1/ 🎉 Black In Neuro is turning FIVE — and we’re celebrating with our first-ever in-person conference! 🧠✨ Join us for 3 days of connection, learning & celebration with the BIN community! 💥 📍 Sept 10–12 | Washington, D.C. Registration is LIVE so register today at the link below! tinyurl.com/BINW25

The image is the conference schedule for Black In Neuro Conference 2025. The top and bottom features colorful geometric patterns. Below the top geometric patterns is bold orange text that reads "Conference Schedule" and below in italicized black text that reads "Celebrating 5 years of diversifying the neurosciences". Central to the image is the conference schedule: 10 Sept: #Black In Neuro Roll Call (breakfast); #Seminar Series (industry); #Neuro Across The Diaspora (symposium); #Exploring BIN (professional development workshop); #Picture a BIN Scientist (poster session); #Black In Neuro Family (social). 11 Sept: #Black In Neuro Roll Call (breakfast); #NeuroRacism (seminar); #Black In Neuro Futures (keynote); #Seminar Series (academic); #Black In Neuro Alt-Careers (symposium). 12 Sept: #BINterdisciplinary. An information box states "Register Now" with an arrow directed towards the registration link "HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/BINW25".

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Crockett: I am tired of the white tears. When you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. So the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so, so much harder

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Judah McAuley @judahm.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Safe consumption sites, ftw! This saves lives, folks.

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

just a friendly reminder that one of my favorite secular holidays is coming up next week, so (if you haven’t already) it’s time to start figuring out your menu and shopping list for henry kissinger death day

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

It's kind of amazing that we showed we could cut child poverty in half for roughly 100 billion/year (absolute peanuts in a 7 trillion dollar budget), did it for a year, and then just stopped doing it.

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Dr. Catherine Macdonald @drcatmac.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

As someone working in conservation and ecology, I want to add that learning to see the world differently, with new eyes, is one of the most beautiful and rewarding aspects of ecological training and expertise. We live in a world of wounds AND wonder, both of which are often invisible to others.

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Ok, by request, here are my talking points for the seminar on countering misinformation. Note that this is a graduate course for STEM (almost entirely neuroscience)grad students & postdocs so while it's not preaching to the choir it's definitely teaching them a new song. 1/

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Judah McAuley @judahm.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

This is a good reminder that a poll is a combination of who people believe they will vote for (actual survey) which has a margin of error but is fairly solid and then sampling of those based on who the polls think will actually vote. The model is the least reliable and most opaque.

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

As you can see, the rise in profanity on Taylor Swift albums (left) is having the unusual effect of causing a dramatic rise in installed solar power capacity.

Chart of "Swear words in Taylor Swift albums." On the X axis is all her albums in chronological order. The Y axis is stacked bar charts with several popular swear words.

BloombergNEF chart of rising cumulative installed solar power capacity.

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Judah McAuley @judahm.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

4 years ago there was so much we didn't know. Couldn't know. But didn't pretend we didn't know anything, that we didn't have the ability to make better, more informed decisions than we did.

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Judah McAuley @judahm.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

This is a wild ride of mendacity. So many "wait... Wut?!?" moments starting with the fact that Florida seems to have Public Defender as a partisan elected position?

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Judah McAuley @judahm.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

The American Psychological Association does not have the most sterling record on human rights, to put it politely, but it is fantastic to see them stepping up on a timely and urgent issue.

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Judah McAuley @judahm.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

This is a problem I've seen first hand many times not only in academia but also private industry. Our rewards are often aligned towards answers we desire rather than process we need. We need to reward people for doing the work the right way, not giving us the answer that feels best at the time.

Story time:

In middle school biology, we did an experiment. We were given yams, which we would sprout in cups of water. We then had to make hypotheses about how the yams would grow, based on descriptions of yam plants in our books, and make notes of our observations as they grew.

Here's what was supposed to happen: we were supposed to see that the actual growth of the plant did not resemble our hypotheses. We were then supposed to figure out that these were, in fact, sweet potatoes.

What actually happened was that every single student in every single class lied in their notes so that their observations perfectly matched their hypotheses. See, everyone assumed the mismatch meant they had done something wrong in the process of growing the plant or that they had misunderstood the dichotomous key or the plant identification terminology. And, thanks to the wonders of a public school education, everyone assumed the wrong results would get us a failing grade. We were trying to pass.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

One of the six police officers charged after the killing of Freddie Gray has been tapped to oversee the Baltimore Police Department's Public Integrity Bureau, a unit that handles misconduct investigations

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Officer involved in Freddie Gray's death will oversee Baltimore police integrity unit

Captain Alicia White's move to the Public Integrity Bureau went into effect on Feb. 11, officials say. She is one of the six officers involved in Freddie Gray's death, none of whom were convicted.

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Judah McAuley @judahm.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

This is just one of the reasons we need a guaranteed income program. Everywhere it has been tried, it has worked. The monthly payments on the earned income tax credit during covid lockdown? Biggest reduction in childhood poverty ever. We can and have done it. Now make it permanent.

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