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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

@aptshadow.bsky.social saw this guy and immediately thought of Jack from Pretenders to the Throne of God…

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Yes when I was looking at this I noticed it was paraphyletic! I wasn’t happy, paraphylies annoy me.

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Nah just another one of my weird hobbies

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Martin Collinson @docmartin2mc.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Thank you to everyone who continues to contribute to our fundraiser. Recent greatest hits from samples sent in by ringers and birders for ID include an Atlas Flycatcher in Spain, and a Ménétries's Warbler in Poland! www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

justgiving.com

Genetic Identification of Birds - The Aberdeen Wildlife DNA Lab

Help Martin Collinson raise money to support University of Aberdeen Development Trust SCIO

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Sounds like a great book idea

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Cool cool cool, I probably need more shelves anyway 😂

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Finally got Mr. Tchaikovsky’s newest book, and absolutely love the art on the hardback. @aptshadow.bsky.social your books now take up nearly a quarter of my shelf space. Unrelated, do you know if the paperback of Bee Speaker will match my copies of the previous books?

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

all my people cat people 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Do I need a third copy? No, but I kind of want one now. Just a little bit. Dammit.

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The Ogres cover is 🔥🔥🔥

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

🚨Wee ooh wee ooh 🚨 Less than one week to get these shirts guaranteed in your size and color choice! @franzanth.bsky.social designed ‘em! They support science communication work here in Philly! Screen printed on 100% cotton next level tees. Get ‘em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com RTs super appreciated!

Two identical shirt designs but one is magenta and one is orange. It says biology is bigger than binaries and it has a clownfish and a bee and a lily

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

currently have Even in Arcadia on a loop. no other music exists in the universe.

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I also have an annoying brain so I really appreciated that segue 😂 recently read a secondary world fantasy where someone was reading braille. Was it cool to see? Yes. Would it have been a lot of work to make up an alternate system? Probably. But threw me right out of the world!

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This is the company that’s planning to “resurrect” the mammoth so not surprising. The woolly mice were cute, but not technologically groundbreaking.

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Martin Collinson @docmartin2mc.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Transgenic mouse rights are mouse rights ✊🧪🐭

Photo of transgenic mouse, a black mouse called King, wearing a photoshopped-in crown.

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The plot thickens. I reordered Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism and received the next 240 pages of The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair.

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I ordered a book off Amazon (bad Tess, I know). I was pretty excited to read about feminism and socialism and stuff. But I opened the book and it’s a different book inside! Wtf just happened?

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Today I learned that kangaroos have three vaginas and two uteri (and that the plural of uterus is uteri). I’m quite happy with my Friday.

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I wrote a PhD on taxonomy and systematics and species delimitation and all that stuff, and this thread is brilliant

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

and of all things it was apparently the most read in our department!

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Because my brain is kind of a dick, I have very detailed plans for several apocalypse scenarios. All of which are highly divorced from reality and its many constraints. Fun times all around.

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Jack 🦠 @jack-d-barber.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

reflecting on the past year of #queerphobia in my department (school of Biological sciences) at bsky.app/profile/unio... TW: #transphobia • posters torn down • posters defaced with penis stickers • transphobe invited by management to give #EDI workshop (1/5) #PhDSky #AcademicSky #QueerInSTEM

tweet on invitation of simon fanshawe to give EDI workshop

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Went into town to grab @aptshadow.bsky.social’s new book before going into work today. If I can mark three papers by lunch, I’ll reward myself with a little reading break 😊

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

peacock spider, pallas's cat, caracal, spoon-billed sandpiper

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

My cat has learned to boop my nose when she wants me to wake up and pay attention to her. I’m impressed but not thrilled.

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

I would just like to be a taxonomy nerd (a*****e) and note that 3 of these are not really “seabirds.” But carry on…

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

Got an email with the subject “Shrike corpse” I love my job

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

Did it leave cuboid poops everywhere?

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

Plan for the day: write a paragraph. At the very least, a coherent sentence. I'd be happy with a coherent sentence.

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

After an insanely busy weekend, wasn’t feeling up to doing any proper work this morning. So cleaned my space. Yes I consider this being productive and yes this is an improvement.

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Tess @tessaroo.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

On my way home from my first Worldcon. Such an overwhelming and exciting experience. Fun was had. But I also kinda want/need to not see any humans for a while if that makes sense? #Glasgow2024

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