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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 19h

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 20h

There are two types of people in the world-- those who like manakins and those who haven't met them yet (this gif isn't the correct species but you get it). I'm really excited to watch Kristen's defense and learn more about manakins and rainfall, and you're invited to it too!

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Manakin Bird Dance

Alt: gif of a Red-capped Manakin doing its iconic moonwalking courtship display as it slides backward along a branch. It is a fabulous looking tiny tropical bird, black with yellow fluffy pants, a red face and head, and piercing white around its eye.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

writing a faculty job application "mentoring philosophy" statement about how I believe a good mentor both teaches and models a healthy work-life balance and I'm deeply feeling the irony of deliriously writing that at 3:45AM on a weekend

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As climate scientists, it sucks to be defunded. But it adds insult to injury to be defunded by this moron who has access to the best climate science and data in the world and still says asinine things like this.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The park also had at least two Black-throated Blue Warblers, who don't tuck themselves into the vegetation as thoroughly as Common Yellowthroats but do love to move very quickly and stay in the shadows where it is hard to get decent photos. I love them but ooof they also frustrated me today haha

Four blurry photos of Black-throated Blue Warblers. This is the male type plumage; the bird is deep blue on the head, back, wings, and tail, shining lighter blue where the light hits the feathers. He has a black face and throat, and a white belly with white patches on his wings. He is blurry and tucked among the low vegetation, near the ground.

Female plumage type Black-throated Blue Warbler. She is more subtle, an olive green-yellow overall, with soft white lines on her face and an off-white handkerchief wing patch where the male has a white wing patch. She is scooting her way up a small branch between large tree trunks.

Female-type plumage again, she is on a more bare branch with lovely fall foliage behind her. You can see a hint of blue in her darker olive green wings and back, with lighter yellow below, and now her wing patch looks more white.

Head-on view of the male plumage type, showing off his black face, throat, and sides, white belly, and blue back.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My backyard park was just loaded with migrating Common Yellowthroats today, a minimum of six of them in one ~20 meter stretch of trail. Just a photographer's nightmare, they're such spooky and painful little warblers, constantly in motion but almost always staying tucked in the vegetation

Four photos of tiny olive green birds with yellow on the throat and breast, pink legs, and variable faces based on their age and sex. They are almost always in motion or tucked deep in the vegetation. This is an older male plumage type individual, with a black Zorro mask and a gray-white eyebrow on his face.

This is an individual with more female type plumage, no black on her face but instead a subtle white eye ring and a yellow throat. She's tucked among some flowers, mostly behind vegetation.

Another paler individual, with a hint of darker feathers on the face where the mask will grow in but mostly mask-free and olive green instead, again about fifty percent obscured by vegetation.

Male type plumage bird walking on a fallen log, obscured by some saplings in front.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It is October now babyyyyy and around here (Central Ohio USA) that means Sparrow Time™️ There were no sparrows in my backyard park yesterday, and now there are flocks of White-throated Sparrows with some Dark-eyed Juncos mixed in, plus a Swamp Sparrow and Eastern Towhee

White-throated Sparrow, a gray and brown bird with a white throat and striking gray, yellow, white, and black stripes on its head. It is perched among some fall foliage.

Dark-eyed Junco, a slate gray bird with a white belly and a pink beak, perched on a little knob on an otherwise branch-free tree stem.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

people who understand baking: a question I have oven access (after years without thanks to landlords who don't think ovens are important). I want to bake frozen pizzas on some sort of sheet/pan but still get the crispiness of pan-free baking. Does any sheet/pan come close to that?

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I walked fewer than 2,000 steps, briefly birding this afternoon little enough movement, back and forth across my yard, that I counted it as a "stationary" list on eBird yet I still managed to slip on a wet slope, overextend my knee, and mess up something in my thigh (vastus medialis?)

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is bad and it sucks, obviously. I'm guessing most of us doing this work (protesting, observing) correctly assumed this was the case. It'll likely continue to be the case. A short-term solution? We all need to get out there. These data are less relevant if we're all in the database.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh, what a nice idea. (Closing streets for a safer Halloween.)

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I can't say I love the party culture at Ohio State, mostly because I live amongst the undergrads and I'm too old for the noise (but also because I'm anxious for their safety) but they're so subdued lately that I'm getting more anxious about the *lack* of party. Too depressed, too broke?

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

this job search has taken so much out of me, even though I'm quite happy with the results thus far (going much better than I thought it would) so having my application-writing briefly interrupted by one of these gorgeous friends right outside my window made this previous post text more meaningful

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

my urban backyard is small (~30m x 20m) but with vertical structure from century-old oaks so good for dark understory migrating birds (Ovenbirds, Black-throated Blue, Mourning, and Canada Warblers) but horrible for photography on gloomy days grateful for the friendly pals who get close, stay still

Two only slightly blurry photos of a White-breasted Nuthatch, a strangely flat bird with a blue-gray back, white belly and face, and black cap. This one is looking at me

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've not been able to get out birding much this fall (part of why I went so hard for spring migration this year) but the birds have my back-- a glorious male Black-throated Blue Warbler just fluttered down in front of my home office window, pursuing a moth

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't consume a lot of visual media, so maybe I just don't watch enough profound pieces but Inside feels like it was a unique and profound combination-- both immediately dated and of a time that, for many people, had passed by the time it was released *and* disturbingly relevant well beyond that

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remember when the Democratic party removed "ending the death penalty" from its 2024 platform.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

pairs nicely with this interview, about why the nazis won the 1930 election "[Hitler]... had talked about one thing: executing his political opponents... In the run-up to the 1930 vote, it didn’t talk about social policy, it didn’t talk about building the autobahn. It just had murder plots."

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‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong

In a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakt...

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm doing some job interviews from my work office, but because it's a shared office it's easier to do them on days I'm working from home and when I'm working from home I've got an emotional support snoring elderly dog in the background

Medium sized stout black and brown hound mutt passed out on the cheap blue comforter of the guest bed in my home office, which has brown walls for some reason.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Abolish the death penalty. Not just for Christa Pike and Allan Miller, but for every victim of premeditated state murder who went before and every one yet to come. Retribution is not justice; it is barbarism.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026

My god, SCOTUS acted within hours to clear the way for this execution and Tennessee completely botched it and tortured her. She's still alive. This barbaric practice needs to end. www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...

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Court stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: Updates

Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 01/10/2026

End the death penalty. End it now. There is no reason for it, never.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

yet another nepo baby getting roles because of their parents

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

bagworm cocoons aren't a great sign for the well-being of my local trees but I can't help but be so impressed by them, such great design, just marvelous

gray moth cocoon dangling from a twig on a tree along the sidewalk. It is vaguely cone-shaped, with vegetation attached to the sides to camouflage it from predators and parasites, like a neat art piece inspired by natural elements.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't often use binoculars for my local birding, as everything is close so I don't need them to collect accurate data about bird presence but that means sometimes I forget they're more than just a good tool for data collection. Looked at a cardinal through bins today and thought "ooo that's nice"

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Times are stressful, it's hard not to fantasize about living in a fictional world specifically, the fictional world of Pokemon Sleep, where your energy levels are objectively measured and publicly available so that everyone on your research team knows your output will be reduced until you recover

Screenshot of the game, showing a large anthropomorphic blue beetle called a Heracross and a bubble indicating he is 67% rested and therefore only capable of 67% functionality

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think the scale of the problems we face require a big tent, that we'll need to put aside some ideological differences to respond en masse but there are some fucking limits (this is a communication from my local ICE watch, doing double duty as Klan watch at the moment I guess)

Facebook post from Columbus Ohio, showing an image of anti-Flock surveillance posters seemingly created by a local KKK chapter, reading "Neighborhood watch: no need for flock when were on the block. You can sleep sound tonight the Klan is awake, if you can't join us support us." And yes they printed posters that say "when were on the block" instead of "when we're on the block." The local ICE watch shared an image of those posters with overlayed text that reads "community members are reporting anti-flock Klan recruitment flyers posted by Trinity Knights KKK likely last night in Columbus Ohio. Found mostly around the Clintonville area; World Language Middle School, up and down E. Dominion and west of High Street along Olentangy Boulevard. Patrollers have been actively taking them down since last night. If you see one, take it down and please shoot us a DM about where you found it. Nazi Scum out of Ohio!"

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

News is bad. Vibes are bad. WHO NEEDS A TEENY TINY FROG?! (A Wood Frog baby so little it could sit on a quarter) #herps 🌿

A very small brown frog sits on a lily pad.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If I wasn't working I was dropping in on my professors' offices to chat about their expertise with absolutely no regard for their research time I'm paying my dues now by keeping my office door open for students in my classes

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We actually don't hate this administration enough

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another museum in trouble

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As promised, here is the recording for anyone who was interested but missed last week's webinar about #PrairieBabies! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3h...

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MPF Webinar: Prairie Babies — Insight Into the Lives of Grassland Birds

YouTube video by Missouri Prairie

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love you, UK pals, but sometimes it's a bit hard to take the UK seriously what do you mean a Wildlife Trust rents a bunch of islands from a historical Duchy for "rent of one daffodil per year"

Wikipedia screenshot from the page about the Isles of Scilly. It reads: A majority of the freehold land of the islands is the property of the Duchy of Cornwall, with a few exceptions, including much of Hugh Town on St Mary's, which was sold to the inhabitants in 1949. The duchy also holds 3,921 acres (1,587 hectares) as duchy property, part of the duchy's landholding. All the uninhabited islands, islets and rocks and much of the untenanted land on the inhabited islands is managed by the Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust, which leases these lands from the Duchy for the rent of one daffodil per year.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

sent this to my folks like "hey look it's me" and their response was "hopefully you can reset it" 😕 (one diagnostic factor is that this can't be reset and that you'll get all sorts of health problems from trying to force your body to be something it's not, as they tried to force for years)

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Took the political alignment quiz that is going around my bluesky spheres this evening and appreciate that I won the quiz Folks sometimes say "Hitler did evil things but had some decent ideas at the beginning" but couldn't be me. Disagree on all twelve axes (trade, diplomacy, biology, etc.)

Screenshot of the individual with the political ideology furthest from mine. It shows that I'm least like Adolf Hitler.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Doesn't surprise me that this is their (garbage) take But it does remind me that so many social movements (successful and failed alike) were driven by underemployed, overcredentialed, and aggrieved young people, even movements that primarily benefit other groups we're dangerous to the WSJ types

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've been assuming that my adrenal issues caused my sleep phase shift, but reading this article has me wondering if it's the other way around if trying to force my body to keep typical hours is what damaged my adrenal glands and then all the downstream systems and organs. Kinda neat to ponder 🧵

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

not on the same scale (it's not a LLM like OpenAI) but this is my fear with eBird announcing that Merlin recordings can now be directly uploaded Merlin is a MLM trained on data posted to eBird. So making it easier to upload data (recordings) identified by the MLM to the training dataset seems bad

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it's one thing when Google's AI can't adequately integrate other sources (they're all presumably in different unpredictable formats) but it's especially funny when Google AI can't integrate Google's own tools. Looking up a county in Western Ohio-- it's over an hour and a half away, not "9 minutes"

Google AI results for the search Auglaize County Ohio. It shows a map, a weather panel, a directions panel, and some quick facts that lists the county seat. The county is outlined in red on the map, clearly closer to Fort Wayne Indiana than Columbus Ohio, but the directions panel in the AI summary says it is 9 minute's drive from Columbus.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

every time I hear them confidently saying they're expecting the >1 million balloons to just disappear to Canada, excited by their disappearance because they won't harm fish and wildlife anymore... as if Canada's side of the lake has no fish or other wildlife....

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

aw apparently "hormone cycles so shifted that your natural sleep time is 4AM-noon since you were a teenager and there's nothing you can do to change that" isn't just something unique to me, it has its own name en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed...

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Delayed sleep phase disorder - Wikipedia

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

wandered around the neighborhood today, playing Pokemon and looking at warblers while trying to avoid any interactions with/harassment from drunken tailgaters clearly more stressed about it than I thought, because some young women told me they liked my shirt and I'm pretty sure I responded "shirt!"

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

feeling for all my friends in the line of this Nor'easter but also, made the mistake of reading the comments below an AP article and saw someone going on about how the AP is blowing it out of proportion and "it's not even raining in NYC." But, like, hours before it hit. So, feeling strangely smug?

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

oh no I hate how much I'm relating to this quote about (checks notes) the UK

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Internet provider, electric provider, natural gas provider, and a streaming service all emailed in the last 7 days to say they're increasing their costs effective immediately I'm no economist but this doesn't seem ideal

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

imagine dissociating from our collapsing reality so hard that you decide that iced coffee is a reasonable thing on which you need to focus everyone's attention

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"we invented a false binary and then wonder why people don't accept it" most liberal politicians have never and will never support open borders, yet voters have been force-fed that lie for ages

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