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Traveling Squint

@squintkes.bsky.social
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Reader, traveler, crocheter, plant scientist, cat person.

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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“Excel data fail”. That was a typo, but I’m also not wrong. I’ve certainly had some data fails.
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026
If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:
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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Back from #ESA2026 and ... missing #Botany2026. I couldn't go to both and I am sad about it.
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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
How it feels to go to or from room 255 at #ESA2026 :
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Lord Of The Rings Gandalf Walking
ALT: Lord Of The Rings Gandalf Walking
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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The herbivory poster has experienced herbivory. This is so clever! #ESA2026
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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Tea report from #ESA2026: Bigelow! Many options, too. 🫖
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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Day 1 of #ESA2026 included finding a queer bookstore, talking science, and a dinosaur. Rawr. On to day 2!
A small green plush dinosaur with the ESA logo on its belly.
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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Getting ready for #ESA2026 aka an entire week of nerdy science and nerdy people. I will, as always, report on the tea situation in the exhibit hall as well as any bookstores I happen to find.
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Esther van Hulsen wildlife art @esthervanhulsen.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I am always having so much fun with scale drawings. These images are usually depicted quite small on a page in books, there just to show the size of the animal. I love adding some extra details and funny situations to these. :) Here is a series I have just made for an upcoming book. #SciArt
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Weaver and Clements.
The title page of a first edition copy of Weaver and Clements Plant Ecology text from 1929
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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Overheard at #ESA2025: “oh, I love that species. They’re *so* cute.” Were they talking about animals? Plants? Insects? Fungi? At ESA, it’s all of the above.
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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I love the range of attire and expression at ESA. Shorts and T-shirts? Fine! Dresses? Cool! Fair Isle Sweaters? Awesome — you are prepared for the A/C in the meeting rooms #ESA2025
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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The tea this morning was herbal only. 😕 #ESA2025
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/12/2024
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Tea report from #ESA2025: Twinings! 🫖
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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Went to #ESA2025, found a bookstore.
A paper bag with a Charm City Books logo.  The logo has a raven on top of a stack of books with a small vase of daisies next to it.
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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I'm starting to make my schedule for #ESA2025 and ... can anyone tell me how to select individual talks in a session? I can only select the whole session, so far as I can tell. What button did I miss?
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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I was hoping for the yearly confluence of the Ecological Society of America conference and the European Speedrunner Assembly in the convention hashtag and the Speedrunners already had their convention! Aww, no interleaving of discussions of Borderlands and border lands. #ESA2025
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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I recently learned that one of my study species in grad school can be purchased as distilled liquor. I can’t decide whether this is something I would rather have known in grad school or rather not have known.
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Lammoth Wraith @lammothwraith.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Let’s just say I don’t have any Elves as role models, but I do have Aragorn, Faramir, Éowyn, Théoden and Frodo as characters who I’d like to be like in real life. There’s a certain kind of wisdom to be gained from our experience of mortality that the Elves can’t. #tolkien #luinellë
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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The best thing about working from home: taking a quick lunch nap with the cats. The worst thing about working from home: having to get out of the nice warm bed and go back to work while the cats stay where they were.
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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
While trying to create LB media, I screwed up my pH balancing and it came out of the autoclave black and rubbery. Nothing grew on it. Nothing. 🧪
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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
This post is here so I don't seem like a bot. Hi Bluesky! I am a science person, plant person, travel person, book person, yarn person, and cat person (not always in the listed order). I'm looking forward to a social media site that is not a cesspool.
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