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Martin Stervander 🏳️‍🌈🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏛️🦉🦤🪶

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Singing evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, insulaphile. PhD. Senior Curator of #Birds @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social, Scientific Assoc @nhm-london.bsky.social‬, ME+AE Ornis Svecica, ~Sequencer+RAGer AviList. [Views obvs my own; ex-X-@nesospiza]

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Stu Butchart @stubutchart.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Translocation of Raso Larks to the island of Santa Luzia in 2018 after eradication of invasive cats has been spectacularly successful, with nearly 1000 individuals now. Great work by @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social partner Biosfera, and long-championed by Mike Brooke www.birdguides.com/news/raso-la...
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Raso Lark reintroduction proves a triumph
After a small number of Raso Larks were translocated to Santa Luzia in 2018, the population has grown to as many as 1,000 individuals.
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It's 5y since my greatest scientific breakthrough was published w the great @dhaelewa.bsky.social in OFOAJ! It truly marks a paradigm shift! 🤣 Need a break from the world? Read about fishy #birds + fungi + pizza at doi.org/10.19080/OFO... — and background at tinyurl.com/4ayknbty! 🪶🧪🐦🐟🍄‍🟫 #Scam
Figure 1 from Stervander & Haelewaters (2020). It is ... undescribable ... because it does not make sense, since the paper is a scam to reveal predatory "scientific" publishers. Suffice to say, there are birbs, fish, mushrooms, and pizza in there, and it's oh so significant.An actual "peer review report" from a journal on our paper. It reads: 

"1. The paper is well written and discussed about the innovative work about the species.
2. And also discussed about the traditionally bird- like morphology and inter-class taxonomic relationship.
3. The new thing has been discussed like some birds are more morphological similar to fish than others 
4. The paper can be published in your journal."
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#Thanksgiving 🦃 with our amazing volunteers in the bird collections of National Museums Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿! 😉 Do you live nearby and would like to join? We're capturing data from all our #birds. Well, now's your chance! Don't wait... careers.nms.ac.uk/job/800113 #museum #ornithology 🪶
Shawn, Allan, Rosie, and a Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today. Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology
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I've been silent a while, as I've struggled to keep up with *most* things, due to accumulated stress from hubby's 5-month unemployment, teenager+school+drama, challenging relatives & whatnot. #Birding gives me relief when #MentalHealth is so-so: recent Sabine's Gull (Xema sabini) = golden band-aid!
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Martin Stervander 🏳️‍🌈🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏛️🦉🦤🪶 @stervander.com · 31/08/2025
A good 6 hours and 6 minutes left to apply! Don't be shy.
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The most chilling science video ever shot www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...
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Whelks overwhelm and consume lobsters
YouTube video by Christie Wilcox
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Martin Stervander 🏳️‍🌈🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏛️🦉🦤🪶 @stervander.com · 22/08/2025
Great news, the new application deadline is 31 August. 9 more days for you all to spread the word or/and submit your application for our position as Assistant Curator of Vertebrates! Again, in reality this should be a longer-term position despite what the ad says. Happy to chat/answer questions!
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#EOU2025 #ornithology folks and friends liking #birds and #mammals, this is the position I just highlighted. Join us! Cool collection and very active continuous preparation of new specimens. Deadline soon... Happy to chat with anyone curious today!
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Join us as Assistant #Curator of Vertebrates @ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿NMS! Large collections of #birds & #mammals + very active specimen prep = cool place! The ad doesn't say, but I say there's a good chance of prolongation beyond 1y. Hurry up and apply/spread the word: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553! 🪶🧪 #museumjobs #job
Yours truly and our mounted Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) specimenThe bird collection store, busy with visiting researchers, mounts, and in the background our volunteers who capture data from the specimen labels. It's not always this packed, but we do have a fair number of volunteers and visitors.Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) in trays in the cabinets. The collections spaces are pretty new, fresh, and functional, which is not always the case for museum collections...A tray of African raptor eggs to illustrate the breadth of the bird collection, which holds som 70K skin specimens, 60K egg clutches, and 10K skeletons.
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Spoke @wintersparv.com · 03/08/2025
Either you recognize a state or you don't. If you do, that sovereignty shouldn't be any less, depending on a third party. This is like telling someone you're their friend unless their neighbor stops parking in their driveway. Where's the integrity? Where's the spine? #KeirStarmer #palestine #israel
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UK to recognise state of Palestine in September unless Israel holds to ceasefire
Cabinet agrees to support Middle East roadmap at emergency meeting called amid humanitarian crisis in Gaza
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/07/2025
1. Here's a fish swimming upstream. Nothing unusual about that. What's unusual is that this particular fish is *dead*. Vortices in the water as it flows past the fish cause the fish's body to flex, maintaining orientation and actually propelling it forward. (D. N. Beal et al 2006 J. Fluid. Mech.)
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Welcome a new family of #birds, the Caribbean cave rails, Nesotrochidae! They were—surprisingly—the sisters of NZ adzebills, all sadly extinct. New #OpenAccess paper out in Avian #Systematics w Gerald Mayr, Chen Guangji & Feng Shaohong: www.avespress.com/uploads/down... 🧵 #ornithology #taxonomy 🧪🪶
An artistic rendition of the extinct Antillean Cave Rail, Nesotrochis debooyi Wetmore, 1918. ©Piotr Gryz, with permission.
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Steffen Oppel @steffopp.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation managing two major restoration projects for #islands important for #seabirds: buff.ly/yfl1Vo2
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🐦 It's been a while (in several aspects), so I'm extra excited to start the day with a #paper accept. Can't wait for this to hit the press, clarifying relationships among a bunch of cool #birds and introducing a new #avian family! Which one? You'll soon see... 😉 #taxonomy #systematics 🪶🧪
[Road sign with the text "Accept"]

Accept by Nick Youngson (http://www.nyphotographic.com/) under CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) from Pix4free (https://pix4free.org/photo/2221/accept.html).
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My main contribution to this monumentous project has been to shake up the linear sequence of the checklist to better reflect our current understanding of the avian evolutionary tree! Ostrich first—Saltator last no more... We go from Somali Ostrich to Blue-necked Tanager!
Somali Ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes), photo by Steve Garvie under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 at https://www.flickr.com/photos/rainbirder/5396924328.Blue-necked Tanager (Stilpnia cyanicollis), photo by Alexandra Castañeda Hincapié under CC BY-NC 4.0 at https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/122443363.
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🦅 The new unified global #avian #taxonomy #AviList has just been released at www.avilist.org! Xmas for anyone interested in #birds & checklists... The first version will be followed by annual updates, with decisions and processes aimed to be more transparent than its predecessors'. 🪶🧪 🧵
Start page screenshot.
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Life's been a bit much and I haven't logged on in a few months... But today's a good day to post. Über luck with 15-20 bottlenose #dolphin (Tursiops truncates), 2 minke #whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) & 5 (2♂ 3♀) #ORCA (Orcinus orca) in the #FirthOfForth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿! Seabird count with #cetacean extras!
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Happy New Year's Day from Portobello beach, #Edinburgh! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Santiago Claramunt @sclaramunt.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the University of New Orleans starting in Fall 2025. Research topics will focus on building and using phylogenies to study the diversification of birds, with an emphasis on Neotropical bird radiations. Contact me if interested.
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🪶Help me out, #ornithology folks of #BirdSky! Curating @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social collections for digitisation, I found this labeled Stripe-tailed Yellow Finch (Sicalis citrina), which it's NOT. #SouthAmerican #birds ≠ my forte: is this a Blue-black Grassquit (Volatinia jacarina) or something else?
Bird skin specimen from the National Museums Scotland collection. This is a brown and streaky finch-like bird with conical bill. Lateral view of the head and upper body.Bird skin specimen from the National Museums Scotland collection. This is a brown and streaky finch-like bird with conical bill. Lateral view.Bird skin specimen from the National Museums Scotland collection. This is a brown and streaky finch-like bird with conical bill. Dorsal view.Bird skin specimen from the National Museums Scotland collection. This is a brown and streaky finch-like bird with conical bill. Ventral view.
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Ash Whiffin @ashwhiffin.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Sometimes an insect specimen will have me thinking: HOW ARE YOU EVEN REAL?! Today, that was the Oleander Hawk-moth (Daphnis nerii) #Museums #Invertebrates 🧪
Specimen of an Oleander Hawk-moth careful on held in my hand, by the pin, showing its hypnotic dark green and brown wing pattern.Selfie taken with an Oleander Hawk-moth specimen carefully held in my hand, by the pin, its hypnotic wing pattern facing the camera.Another view of some Oleander Hawk-moth specimens.
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Bob Gooday @bobgooday.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Mineral science and mineral collections are becoming more important than ever – 34 raw materials now deemed ‘critical’ by the UK government. I hate having to justify science with the language of capitalism, but we have to, and these reports can be very useful for promoting continued support. ⛏️💎
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Lachlan Fetterplace @fiskeforbrains.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
Scientists raise the alarm: Too many harbour porpoises dying in nets. In Danish coastal waters over 900 die each year vs a 24 death limit that would keep Belt Sea population stable. In 2012 & 2016, there were around 40.000 individuals, by 2022, only 14.000 left.  🧪🦑🌎 tech.au.dk/en/about-the...
"A dead harbour porpoise on the beach in Løkken, Denmark. Part of the net that it got entangled in is still visible. It's estimated that 900 harbour porpoises die every year as by-catch in the fishing industry. Photo: Lisbeth Cedray"
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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Wisdom's still alive, she's back at her breeding grounds! This season she'll turn at least 74 years old. 🎉🎊💃
screenshot of wisdom news
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Mark Westneat 🐟 @mwestneat.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This week I’m giving thanks for the Sling-Jaw Wrasse, and it’s amazing jaw #biomechanics! 🐟🦑🧪🌿
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Also, last bird overwintering in Morocco: 1995 Me searching for Slender-billed Curlew in Morocco*: 1996 😳 🪶 *After, as a 15yo, having secured lots of 💰 from several foundations to bring a dozen youths on a 2w-trip for awesome #birding and meeting a 🇲🇦 environmental youth org. Precocious, anyone? 🤣
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Last week, rigorous analyses by @thelabandfield.bsky.social & co-authors saw Slender-billed Curlew declared #extinct in #OpenAccess @ibisjournal.bsky.social paper (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), while we (coincidentally!) digitised the 7 @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social specimens. #birds 🪶🧪
A skin specimen of the Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) in the National Museums Scotland bird collections. The labeled bird is lying on its back. (Photo: Martin Stervander)Our star volunteers Shawn Waddoups and Rosie Filipiak record the data from the labels of Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) skin specimens in the National Museums Scotland bird collections. Rosie, with a camera in one hand, is handling and documenting one bird, while Shawn is entering data in front of the computer. Between them on a work bench is a tray with another six Slender-billed Curlews. (Photo: Martin Stervander)
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'Tis done. From now, I'm here, and all of me except an informative finger is removed from #Twitter. For anyone considering it, I'd recommend @luca.run's free & efficient script github.com/lucahammer/t.... It's a 2-step process that'll also give you an archive of your Twitter history! #xit
Screen shot from my the only tweet on my Twitter profile, which feature a photo of a blue sky and a photo of butterflies, along with the following tweet text: 

"I'm really not ok with what's going on here at ⓔI🔛's playground, so I have removed my 5,371 posts over 13 years. If you want to follow/interact with me, my handle info tells you where to find me, and the photos give you another hint. Don't expect response here. Over and out."
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 19/11/2024
As ecologists we celebrate diversity, both of the natural world and of the people in this field. This Transgender Awareness Week, @rowankuminski.bsky.social co-chair of EDGE Network shares 5 small steps you can make to support transgender ecologists www.britishecologicalsociety.org/five-steps-t...
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Five steps towards being a trans ally - British Ecological Society
We encourage everyone to explore resources about being a proactive ally to trans people in their personal and professional lives. This Transgender Awareness Week, the EDGE (Equity and Diversity for al...
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Participated in a photo project combined with some #birding at Ferny Ness ( #Edinburgh -ish) this morning. Freezing cold, but beautiful and quite rewarding with at least 50 Little Auks (🇺🇸 Dovekies; Alle alle) and 1 Great Northern Diver (🇺🇸 Common Loon; Gavia immer) at Ferny Ness. 🪶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Ferny Ness 19 November: sunny with clouds on a blue sky, some land in the foreground, behind that Firth of Forth, in the distance Edinburgh.
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The porphyrins in Northern Saw-whet Owl feathers glow under UV light. They degrade over time, so older feathers glow less intensely than new feathers. This bird has a clear molt limit between old juvenile feathers and new basic feathers, meaning she was born last summer!
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Agreed! Preferably right about yesterday.
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Chase W. Nelson 倪誠志 @chasewnelson.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
A starter pack of scientists working in molecular evolution and population genetics, with an emphasis on the human and virological. go.bsky.app/2xnyMrS
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
In the simpler days of 2015/16 we wrote the BES Guide to Reproducible Code: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/wp-content/u.... It’s time for a refresh! Would you like to help? I’m looking for people to review the existing booklet by 5th December.
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Hi all new followers & other folks! In National Museums Scotland's #birds collections, our amazing volunteers are digitising specimen label data to make the #museum collection accessible for #research. Today colourful pittas (Pittidae) and Whimbrels (Numenius phaeopus). #Ornithology 🪶🧪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
A Blue-headed Pitta (Hydrornis baudii) in focus at the left, with its glimmering blue crown and deep russet back. In the blurry background, trays of brown Whimbrels (Numenius phaeopus) and our volunteers Shawn and Iain in action in front of the computer. The beautiful breast of the Malayan Banded-Pitta (Hydrornis irena). Glossy blue and orange horizontal stripes!
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 13/11/2024
Geometriphylogenetics xkcd.com/3010
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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Our lab discovered & described a #NewSpecies of tiger beetle in 2024, then I found a pinned specimen for sale on #eBay collected in 1975 for $5. #entomology
Pinned tiger beetle specimen collected in 1975 in Houston. Texas.
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On derogatory names: Today, in BirdLife 🇸🇪's #Taxonomic Committee, we announce phasing out almost all remaining eponyms, but also renaming #extinct Numenius borealis to BÄRSPOV. I urge 🇬🇧-speaking #birding communities to join in highlighting the cool ecology of the Crowberry Curlew [Eskimo Curlew]! 🪶
Numenius borealis skin specimen and egg in the National Museums Scotland bird collections. Photo (c): Martin Stervander.
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Glad to see fab @thelabandfield.bsky.social & @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social's piece in @ibisjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/ibi....! #BirdNamesForBirds are better than eponyms, but racist/derogatory names of #birds also need replacing. Hi Sable Shearwater (Ardenna carneipes). 🪶 #ornithology
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A feathered past: Colonial influences on bird naming practices, and a new common name for Ardenna carneipes (Gould 1844)
Recently, there has been increased focus on the origins and history of common names for organisms, especially birds. Of particular interest are eponymous common names that reflect our colonial past. ....
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
Any Black #seabirds early career researchers (<24 months postdoc experience) interested in joining the @adriftlab.bsky.social at the Natural History Museum? The Royal Society's Career Development Fellowships are now open! royalsociety.org/grants/caree...
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Career Development Fellowship | Royal Society
This scheme provides the most talented early career scientists from underrepresented groups in STEM with research funding and high-quality training opportunities to build a strong base for a successfu...
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Martin Stervander 🏳️‍🌈🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏛️🦉🦤🪶 @stervander.com · 25/08/2024
Ooops, I guess I forgot activating MC1R! (What a stunner.) 🪶
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Martin Stervander 🏳️‍🌈🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏛️🦉🦤🪶 @stervander.com · 25/08/2024
Peak #Edinburgh? Breakfast, last #EdFringe show with Maeve Press, ☕️, #NMS exhibition, home to Portobello, walked to the beach for some #seabirds & saw 11 Manx Shearwaters 🪶 + other stuff, 2 more Manx from kitchen window ❎ just before dinner, and now the 🇮🇪 neighbours came with a Guinness loaf. 🤩
NMS, National Museums Scotland, the other day.
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Martin Stervander 🏳️‍🌈🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏛️🦉🦤🪶 @stervander.com · 13/08/2024
Y/day was bonkers in the NMS #musem #birds collections! Ian Andrews & I stumbled upon—and identified—a new 🇬🇧 1st record of Pechora Pipit (Anthus gustavi), knocking a decade off the previous 1st. We also found a remarkable first for N America 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽 & S Am by >130 years! 🤩Stay tuned! #Ornithology
NMS Pechora Pipit specimen collected in there Orkney Islands 1 October 1913: dorsal view.NMS Pechora Pipit specimen collected in there Orkney Islands 1 October 1913: ventral view.NMS Pechora Pipit specimen collected in there Orkney Islands 1 October 1913: tail feathers.
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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
Women in Entomology at National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh 29 June. Conversation with women entomologists, a moth recorder and historian of science Don Optiz on amateur naturalist Alice Blanche Balfour (1850-1936) www.nms.ac.uk/exhibitions-... #envhist #enthist #histsci #moths #collections 📜
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Insect Week: Women in Entomology
Discover a diverse programme of exhibitions and events across National Museums Scotland's four museums.
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Martin Stervander 🏳️‍🌈🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏛️🦉🦤🪶 @stervander.com · 07/06/2024
Alright folks, buckle up for some 🦩 pink 🦩gayness, with yours truly, Florence Schechter & Andrew Rannells: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnB1.... For 🇺🇸🇺🇸 with access to @peacock, check out the whole "Queer Planet" #nature doc for more #birds, #queer, and whatnot. Plenty cool stuff! Happy #PrideMonth! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Queer Planet | Exclusive Clip
Take a worldwide journey exploring the rich diversity of animal sexuality — from flamboyant flamingos to pansexual primates, sex-changing clownfish, multi-gendered mushrooms and everything in between. This documentary looks at extraordinary creatures, witnesses amazing behaviors, and introduces the scientists who are questioning the traditional concept of what’s natural when it comes to sex and gender. Queer Planet premieres exclusively on Peacock on June 6, 2024.
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Martin Stervander 🏳️‍🌈🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏛️🦉🦤🪶 @stervander.com · 06/06/2024
🔔🚨‼️ Dream team alert! ‼️🚨🔔 #Postdoc position at @sheffielduni.bsky.social and 2 #Research Assistant #jobs at NHM London in a cool #evolution project with nice people. Go for it! #PostdocPosition #PostdocJob #job
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Martin Stervander 🏳️‍🌈🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏛️🦉🦤🪶 @stervander.com · 02/06/2024
Thinking of a good #postdoc #fellowship at a cool workplace with an awesome host (all of which I can attest to)? If you're into #ConservationBiology and #PlasticPollution, check out @thelabandfield.bsky.social's pitch!
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Martin Stervander 🏳️‍🌈🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏛️🦉🦤🪶 @stervander.com · 21/05/2024
For #PrideMonth, Peacock airs the #nature doc #QueerPlanet in 🇺🇸. As a #queer 🦩🐧🦜🪶scientist & nature tv viewer since age 7, I'm proud to feature in this, talking #birds! Naturally, ➡️ anti-wokers go 🍌🍌; 🙏 for PR: www.them.us/story/queer-.... Check trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gikf.... #LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Queer Planet poster from Peacock, featuring two flamingos whose necks and heads for the shape of a heart.Yours truly waiving his hands and talking about same-sex behaviour in birds in Queer Planet.Upset anti-woke folks, doing a segment on some conservative Americans TV news show about the horror of featuring same-sex behaviour and sex change in animals. The banner reads: "The radical gender agenda".A male lion mounting another male lion, a piece from Queer Planet that seems particularly provocative.
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