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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My advisor moved to Australia in my last year of my degree! Pre-Zoom/skype/etc, so that was ... fun.

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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 · 04/08/2026

It JUST came out in July, but Rebecca Thorne wrote Moss-ed In Space, which features a ship run by an organic computer that is composed of a moss colony. The computer is named, logically, Moss.

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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 · 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!

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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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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I've heard "but you don't SOUND like your folks live in Texas" more times than I can count. Yes. You are correct. That is intentional. (Except if I am visiting them, and then I do sound like I'm from Texas, just like I sound like I'm from Georgia when visiting those folks.)

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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 · 02/01/2026

Oh, the Salisbury and Ross stans will be here shortly to argue with you about this even though S&R hasn’t been updated since the early 90s. (Team T&Z all the way)

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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Thank you! I've been putting off my LJ import for years for no good reason but just started it (also paid for some time on DW since this has to be a load on your servers).

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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 · 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 · 21/06/2025

Bumblebutt! I love seeing bumblebutts sticking out of flowers.

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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

So, keeping in mind that I saw this listing several months ago and took the screenshots because no one would ever believe me otherwise when I told them about this, I think it was just two bedrooms up in that area. I could not begin to find the listing now to confirm that, though.

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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I regret to inform you that it was not.

In the foreground is a toilet and sink with no walls around them or in front of them. In the background is a door into a bedroom.

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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

If I recall, it was at the top of the stairs from the kitchen with no door at the bottom.

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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I found this picture in a listing not long ago. It was described, apparently unironically, as a "convenient half bath". I sincerely doubt it was permitted.

A toilet and a sink are installed at the top of an open staircase. There are half-walls on either side of them. No door. No walls. Just a toilet and a sink out in the middle of everywhere.

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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Just grabbed it! Thanks for the heads-up!

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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I am sure others say this frequently, but your Dogs Want Walks posts bring me joy. Thank you for sharing them.

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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Every time my dad sees a construction road sign that says "soft shoulder" while he's driving and my mom is in the passenger seat, he reaches over and pats my mom's shoulder.

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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The battle cry of all desert dwellers or visitors, at one point or another.

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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I get that metaphor! 🙂 I sometimes teach people who teach people, so when someone says, “… Can I use that?” I know I did a good job.

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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Oh! Me too! Recent metaphors have included trains, dodgeball, desserts, and sumo wrestlers.

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Traveling Squint @squintkes.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I’m left handed but mouse with my right because all the computers in the computer lab were set up with the mice on the right side.

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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

This happened in my first summer undergrad research experience (which was … awhile ago) so the protocol may have changed now, but we used NaOH to get it to 7.

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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

I have already changed that setting after seeing others encouraged to do so!

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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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