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Brynn Paulsen, PhD @brynnpaulsen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

This fight is ON. ✊ JOIN US!

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P. L. Klein @plkleinauthor.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." ~ #AldousHuxley

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Orit Peleg @oritpeleg.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

In these chaotic times, I’ve been grounding myself in my mentees’ successes: here’s a beautiful story by PhD candidate Owen Martin (@lepurplemartin.bsky.social) on Colorado’s fireflies 🌟✨ theconversation.com/fleeting-fir...

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Fleeting fireflies illuminate Colorado summer nights − and researchers are watching

New research uses firefly flashing patterns to identify species and what they’re communicating.

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Owen Martin @lepurplemartin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Great to see my work and the work of my advisor @oritpeleg.bsky.social featured by one of my media heroes @zefrank.bsky.social ! Alongside my conservation heroes Candace and Richard from the @xercessociety.bsky.social! Let’s get talking about firefly conservation www.youtube.com/watch?v=czt_...

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True Facts: Where Have All The Fireflies Gone!

YouTube video by Ze Frank

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Goodnight. ‘‘(W)e are not separate from each other or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or billions of stars, not separate from the entire universe. Listening silently in…wonderment, without knowing…there is just one mysteriously palpitating aliveness.’ ~ Toni Packer 🖼️ C Dunn

Moonlit River by Chris Dunn, inspired by The Wind in the Willows of Ratty and Mole in a boat at night, a full moon, an owl in flight, reeds at the river banks. Illustration.

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Owen Martin @lepurplemartin.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Inca jay with a fun background ! the querrequerre has to be one of the most charismatic birds of the andean rainforest and has an extensive vocal repertoire, including buzzes, alarm bells, and whistles

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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Scientists analyzed thousands of bird sounds from all over the world to try to peck out some kernels of knowledge about what determines a bird’s vocal range and the sounds that they make.

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The Factors That Make Bird Sounds So Diverse Across The World

An analysis of 140,000 vocalizations from 77% of bird species showed that beak size and geography play a big role in the way birds sound.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA): “A program is not waste just because it doesn’t help the richest man in the world. It is not fraud just because he doesn’t like it."

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Sentient Futures @sentfutures.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Excited to have @lepurplemartin.bsky.social, PhD candidate at CU Boulder, join us at AI for Animals 2025, March 1-2 in Berkeley. 👏 His research focuses on swarm intelligence and collective computation, shedding light on how AI can learn from nature. 👉 Register today: aiforanimals.org/aia2025

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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Here 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 ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

Photo of SK in a forest in Pennsylvania, wearing a tie dyed field shirt from the 2017 grassland bird Konza Crew and holding a large sparrow that is black on one side of the body and brown on the other.

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I count, this first day of another year, what remains. —Jane Hirshfield

$Counting, This New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me by Jane Hirshfield The world asks, as it asks daily: And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured? I count, this first day of another year, what remains. I have a mountain, a kitchen, two hands. Can admire with two eyes the mountain, actual, recalcitrant, shuffling its pebbles, sheltering foxes and beetles. Can make black-eyed peas and collards. Can make, from last year’s late-ripening persimmons, a pudding. Can climb a stepladder, change the bulb in a track light. For four years, I woke each day first to the mountain, then to the question. The feet of the new sufferings followed the feet of the old, and still they surprised. I brought salt, brought oil, to the question. Brought sweet tea, brought postcards and stamps. For four years, each day, something. Stone did not become apple. War did not become peace. Yet joy still stays joy. Sequins stay sequins. Words still bespangle, bewilder. Today, I woke without answer. The day answers, unpockets a thought from a friend don’t despair of this falling world, not yet didn’t it give you the asking$

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Owen Martin @lepurplemartin.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

old condor painting found on my friend Marc’s wall in Medellin yesterday. Happy new year everyone!

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Eugene Galaxy @eugenegalaxy.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Feeling compelled to share something positive today. In the recent expedition by Conservation International & local indigenous groups to Alto Mayo, Northern Peru, 27 new animal species were discovered! A swimming mouse, a blob-head fish, and others! Merry Christmas everyone! ❄️☃️🎅

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

What if the basic ecological unit was not the individual or species, but the interaction? It is interactions that create ecosystems (This adapts Eleanor Catton’s idea about society in her great novel Birnam Wood)

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Owen Martin @lepurplemartin.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

thinking about Fort Collins Photuris fireflies, dancing over the marsh

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Owen Martin @lepurplemartin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

welling with gratitude for the fact that I spend my days staring at bioluminescent bug butts

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Melissa Florer-Bixler @melissaf-b.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)

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Owen Martin @lepurplemartin.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Hello blue sky community! Here’s a canyon wren and the spectrogram of their call echoing through the sky - maybe a metaphor for what it will be like being on this app instead of X at last!

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