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Nikolaj Bichel

@nikolaj-bi.bsky.social
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PhD and research on hunting, environmental ethics, conservation. Author of the 2023 British Ecological Society book of the year. Open to remote work.

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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Et andet ord for denne "råddenskab" er ganske simpelt jagtetik. Udsætning af ænder og fasaner har ingen rolle i etisk jagt.
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So, the Netflix Lizzie Borden series wants me to buy the premise that this woman can't find a partner because she's plain-faced, horse-faced, and unattractive?
Ella Beatty being pretty.
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Look at the size of this praying mantis I just found in my laundry.
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Almost two-thirds of hunting outcomes were positive, 26% were negative, and 9% were ambiguous. Conservation outcomes for hunted species abundance were more often positive than negative [...] Looking beyond hunted species [...] hunting predominantly increased the extent of land conserved."
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Outcomes of Trophy Hunting for People and Nature in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Trophy hunting is one of the most contested conservation activities. There is mounting pressure in the Global North for policy changes that would dramatically curtail the activity across Africa. We s...
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Spiritual people are just the absolute worst.
"Most men have no energetic discernment for the 4th dimension and their auric fields nor have ever cleared contracts or healed past lives. And if their feminine isn't fully healed none of what they present matters. But when that's all done most women can't align anyways due to their own shit. It's multidimensional healing that matters to talk the talk and walk the walk. Because in the end your intimate with the entirety of their souls trauma across all planes of existence, and if you don't discern that you aren't actually awake yourself."
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Regulating pig factories in Denmark is "racism" towards the "minority" of pig factory owners now, apparently, according to the pig factory industry. You almost have to admire the imagination.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The US is preparing sanctions against the ICC which indicted Putin and Netanyahu, potentially cutting it off from US banking, technology and services. The US already sanctioned 13 ICC officials and vowed to dismantle the war crimes court “brick by brick.”
yacnews.com
US prepares to sanction the ICC, that indicted Russia's Putin and Israel's Netanyahu for war crimes
Trump is preparing sanctions against the International Criminal Court itself, potentially cutting it off from U.S. banking, technology and services. The US has already sanctioned 13 ICC officials and ...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.
latimes.com
Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level
Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I guess in some small way I can be proud of being one of the last generations of academics who know how to write.
aiandeducation.mit.edu
Report – AI and Education
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Guess the dad. Beginner mode.
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Prosecutors in Poland, Norway and Latvia and police in Britain report that the US Justice Department is stonewalling their investigations and has not answered their Epstein evidence requests for over a year. #OpDeathEaters www.yacnews.com/european-inv...
yacnews.com
European investigators report that the US Justice Department has not answered Epstein evidence requests
Prosecutors in Poland, Norway and Latvia and police in Britain report that the US Justice Department is stonewalling their investigations and has not answered their Epstein evidence requests for over ...
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I can't decide if I'm an idiot for trying to teach university students academic writing in the current academic environment where everyone just uses AI for that, or if I'm just too early. Will there eventually be a backlash trend against AI-writing or is non-AI-assisted writing just dead?
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 08/09/2026
Taylor & Francis is investigating an article in one of its journals after the editors published an editorial about academic freedom that contains multiple fake references and citation errors.
retractionwatch.com
Editors of higher education journal coauthor editorial with fake references
Taylor & Francis is investigating an article in one of its journals after the editors published an editorial about academic freedom that contains multiple fake references and citation errors.&n…
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
1 person is alone on one court and 3 people are on the court right next to it, and they're all around the same (low) level. But they still play their entire booking time as 3 and 1 without anyone suggesting to play together. I just find that strange. 🤷‍♂️
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is so messed up... I mean we got used to random lies all the time when he speaks, but an entire made-up story about being caught in the rubble of 9/11 when actually he was just in his office, watching it all on TV... The total disrespect... Is this also just "trolling the libs"?
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A+
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Americans just aren't civilized enough to be spectators of sports like golf and tennis anymore.
theguardian.com
Will hordes of influencers, weed smokers and mid-point talkers bring down the US Open?
This year, the noise at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center has officially become A Problem. But changing it would mean changing society
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I found this a very enlightening short new documentary about why you might not want to buy Driscoll's berries (though Driscoll's doesn't even grow a single berry, it's a genetics company).
youtube.com
I Tracked Down the Company Ruining Fruit
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Highlight of the US Open.
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Trump signs executive order on wolf delisting.
msn.com
MSN
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
There is not a living thing on this planet that won't put an American cop in mortal peril.
theguardian.com
Georgia police officer put on leave after family’s pet donkey killed during search
Donkey named HeeHaw was shot and killed as authorities reportedly looked on property in search of a missing person
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Joachim Mergeay @jmergeay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We calculated the effective size of the Scandinavian wolf population every year since its founding from the entire pedigree. Why? Because we could. But also because this population is vulnerable, and policy keeps pushing for lower and lower conservation targets 1/ #consgen
nature.com
The effective size of the Scandinavian wolf population is too small for both short- and long-term conservation - Heredity
Heredity - The effective size of the Scandinavian wolf population is too small for both short- and long-term conservation
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I get the claim that a lot of social science/humanities research seems like useless BS, but how much of mathematics is useless BS too? I bet it's quite a lot, but with math no one will ever know that because only mathematicians can understand it well enough to tell useful math from BS math.
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Many hunters who purport to love wild landscapes are still deeply attached to Trump. Some of them probably don't love them. Some of them hate liberals more than they love wild landscapes. Some of them will sell out their wild landscapes for promises that they can be allowed to hunt on the scraps.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
An old US-ophile friend once told me that Americans love their wild landscapes so deeply that something like this could never happen I so wish he'd been right, though in a way I'm glad he's not around to see this. It would have broken his heart, twice
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║ Winther ║ السلام لا يمكن أن يحقق إلا بالعدل. @wintherscorner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Danmark anno 2026 #dkpol #dkmedier
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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Think the Prof is also on the money about the Arday case here - agree with everything in his first para. Nobody comes out of it well, and all the monoview Culture War-marinaded takes on the Arday affair - some alarmingly prevalent on here - are not helping.
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Honestly, this is probably one of the least harmful things that he could be spending his time on. If all his remaining time in office were spent renaming bodies of water, we should just count ourselves lucky.
Trump holding a drawing where he renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Holy shit. You expect to see the water start flooding in from the side, following the street... Then... 😨
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In the last 24 hours on different TV networks, Republicans in Congress blamed the cost of beef and housing on immigrants as well as the measles outbreak. Everything bad that happens in the country they are currently in charge of is caused by either immigrants or Biden.
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I will excitedly await the papers from academics who think they're the victims of literature review violence.
Abstract for a paper with the title "The violence of literature review and the imperative to ask new questions"
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It is wild to me that so many academics are pretending to think that this doesn't amount to plagiarism.
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
So we know AI helped a negligible number of students. But how many did it harm? I've crunched the raw data provided by the lead researcher, and what I've found is that ~9,500 students using AI studied less than even the *least* studious, non-AI using student. This should shock the conscience.
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Noget der er bemærkelsesværdigt ved ulvedebatten er, at den oftest overdrevede risiko for mennesker ved at have ulve - selv hvis den ikke var overdrevet - aldrig rigtig bliver sat i perspektiv. Det vil jeg prøve at gøre her. 🧵 1/19
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Stuart Spray @stuartspray.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Despite unprecedented heatwaves, droughts and wildfires across the UK, not only is it business as usual for Drax, UK's biggest carbon emitter, they're planning to build a hyperscale data centre powered by burning trees. Watch full film here👉 youtu.be/V5ZfbMYi2y8the @stopburningtrees.bsky.social
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Natalie Harp seems like the type of obsessed where she's one rejection away from stabbing Trump to a bloody pulp with a pen, and then they'll find her covered in his blood, cradling his broken head, and singing a lullaby to him. A man can hope.
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Will Allen @wlallen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
New Paper: Ornaments evolve faster than weapons Combining a new theoretical model of sexually selected trait evolution with comparative analyses across ten clades, we suggest that drift in female preferences accelerates the rate of ornament evolution. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
royalsocietypublishing.org
Ornaments evolve faster than weapons
Abstract. We investigate the evolutionary dynamics of sexually selected traits using both a mathematical model and comparative analyses, focusing on the re
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"UK universities are trying to recruit more women. I look at how that's going."
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I'm seeing what I think are some horrendously low academic plagiarism standards being defended these last few weeks. Quoting and paraphrasing correctly without plagiarizing is so easy and should be second nature by the time you're PhD'ing. I don't even see they grey area. (1/4)
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I'm seeing what I think are some horrendously low academic plagiarism standards being defended these last few weeks. Quoting and paraphrasing correctly without plagiarizing is so easy and should be second nature by the time you're PhD'ing. I don't even see they grey area. (1/4)
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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"Arday was fetishized in his ascendancy by white liberals, for whom he served as a mirror in which they could see their own goodness. And he was fetishized... www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
theatlantic.com
The Truths That Failed Jason Arday
Systemic, ritualized dishonesty undid the Cambridge professor.
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Carsten Suhr @csuhr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Det er fuldstændig ubegribeligt, at Viborg Kommune nægter at følge indstillingen fra sin egen forvaltning om at stoppe Tangeværket. Spærringen ved Tangeværket blokerer Gudenåen og er i direkte strid med naturbeskyttelseslovgivningen. #dkpol #dknatur politiken.dk/klima/art109...
politiken.dk
Viborgs politikere bryder EU-lov for at beholde omstridt sø
Et flertal i Viborg Kommune vil give tilladelse til, at et 100 år gammelt vandkraftværk kan lede vand for at undgå at tømme Danmarks største kunstige sø, selv om det er i strid med to EU-direktiver.
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Laura R LaBarge @laurarlabarge.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I know article authors dont write headlines - but I would hope BBC Wildlife would have a bit more care than to use such a hyperbolic headline given intersections between biodiversity heath and human health. Not to mention sensitivity to the many people currently affected in eastern DRC....
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Amazon self-publishing is suddenly absolutely flooded with stay-at-home moms who "finally had time" to write their own book. Gee, I wonder why.
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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Alberta Minister wants a G-bear hunt, pretends it's about public safety. He wants to let people hunt B-bears with dogs, pretends it's about saving caribou. Sustainable hunts, data-based, are just fine, but this minister ignores biologists and spreads misinformation. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Alberta says hunting bears with dogs will protect caribou. The province's former caribou manager disagrees | CBC News
Letting hunters use dogs to hunt black bears is a move the Alberta government says will help caribou conservation efforts, but wildlife biologists aren't convinced.
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Does my memory deceive me or aren't these the same people who have pushed the baseless claim for decades that videogames are what turn boys into school shooters? But they're fine with them controlling air traffic?
Laura Ingraham tweet about how gamers will be hired to do air traffic control
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
History professors when they're tired of living.
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Giving difficult and demanding live animals as gifts to other nations and global institutions is the global politics equivalent of giving your friend's toddler child water guns and noisy toys.
indianexpress.com
Why five Indian peacocks are strutting on the UN grounds in Geneva
While a peacock continued to be spotted here over the years, in 1981, then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi sent a breeding pair of Indian peafowl from Delhi Zoo as a gift from India, where the national b...
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Nikolaj Bichel @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I get so annoyed whenever I read comments about karma. You all need to stop hoping that whatever magic Karma is supposed to be is just going to do the hard work for you. That's a comforting fantasy. In reality, bad people do not get punished unless good people make an effort to punish them.
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