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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🦢🪶 #birds #swanday A cygnet making a goofy pose in the moat near Malmö Central Station.

A cygnet floating in the water in front of a grassy shoreline. Its neck and head are thrown back along its back and it looks pretty darned silly.

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A painted bunting with house sparrows at all four corners behind my friends’ home in South Austin. #birds 🪶

A painted bunting perches at the center of a tall and narrow bird feeder. It is a vivid blue, green, and red bird. It is surrounded on all corners by feeding house sparrows. I took the shot through a fence and the focal sharpness’s on the bunting is a bit off.

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Why do my alma maters do such horrid things. I expect this kind of nonsense from Texas A&M but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by the University of Alberta’s prominent role in quashing legitimate dissent.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New reporting from @breachmedia.ca shows that Canadian universities operated a secret national effort to coordinate surveillance and policing of anti-genocide activism and encampments. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#birds 🪶 A robin poised to take a bath.

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Look at this handsome critter! A hooded crow observing the world from a stanchion on the Malmö pier. #birds 🪶 #corvids

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A talkative blue jay in Pinehurst, TX. #birds 🪶 #jay #corvid

A blue, white, and grey bird with a backwards pointed crest and its beak wide open. It is nestled among green St. Augustine grass with what may be fire ant beds to the right and left.

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

One tuckered out pigeon taking a rest on the cobblestones. #birds 🪶 #pigeonsky

A flat pigeon resting on the cobblestones.

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A green heron in the pond near my dad’s house in Pinehurst, TX. 🪶. % birds

A kind of derpy looking bird, perched on some branches in the middle of a pond, surrounded by lily pads, and intently observing the water below for a fishy treat.

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I met this northern lapwing at the Löddeåns mynning Naturreservat, just outside Lomme, Sweden. 🪶 #birds

A medium sized wading bird, hanging out in short grass and surrounded by lots of small white flowers. It’s not the best photo so they look black and white and you can’t see the usual iridescent coloration. It has a small jaunty crest on its head.

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Boss pigeon. No magpie may dine at the feeding platform when this pigeon is on patrol. This is the most aggressive pigeon I’ve ever seen. #birds 🪶 #pigeonsky

A feral pigeon, in all its glory, stands on an aluminum railing and observes the courtyard below.

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

A jackdaw poses among the tall green grass on an unusually sunny day in Malmö. Not today, which is gloomy as usual. 🪶 #birds

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I keep running into this family of mute swans, but I never have a proper camera with me when I do. I snapped this on my phone on one of the canals here in Malmö. 🪶 #birds 🐣🐥

A mother mute swan and five cygnets floating on the water next to some moss covered rocks. A sixth cygnet slides off mama swan's back into the water.

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

EU leaders are taking it out on cormorants, again. Sadly, this isn’t unexpected news. Until the ‘70s, cormorants were almost brought to extinction to “protect” fish stocks. Only in 1979, under the EU Birds and Habitat Directives, did it become illegal to kill or disturb them.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

"Too many scientists are willing to collaborate with Trumpism in the mistaken assumption that obedience will save their own necks." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

thenation.com

The Rise of the Vichy Scientists

Too many scientists are willing to collaborate with Trumpism in the mistaken assumption that obedience will save their own necks.

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen, which is also chock full of sociologists, philosophers, and political ecologists, is hiring for PhD fellowships. We pay a living wage, and have national health care.

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PhD fellow positions at the Department of Food and Resource Economics

The Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO) is inviting applications for positions as PhD fellows that will start on 1 August 2026 or later. IFRO carri

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Hanaa’ Tameez @hanaatameez.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Former LA Times managing editor @sarayasin.bsky.social launches The Key, a new publication about Palestine that will be "a home for journalists who have had their stories spiked in mainstream outlets." Her opening essay is worth every second of your time: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...

thekeymagazine.com

It’s Not Complicated

The mainstream media failed the public during the genocide in Gaza. The Key's editor-in-chief shares her vision for what comes next.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Thank you to @joshuasweitz.bsky.social. The origin of the current assault on science and public health has a direct tie to COVID contrarianism. But Bhattacharya, Prasad and the rest couldn’t rise without help and patronage. 1/ joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/grievance-...

joshuasweitz.substack.com

Grievance Is All You Need

Understanding attacks on NIH, CDC and FDA through the lens of COVID revisionists

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

A handsome jackdaw poses on a branch with a very blurred out castle in the background for #BranchBirds #BirdoftheDay #Birds 🪶

A jackdaw perched among tree branches. The background is completely blurred out so you can’t tell it’s a moat before castle walls.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 19/02/2026

The feelings provoked in me by seeing a former royal described as “A man in his 60s from Norfolk” could power cities

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Being reasonable for 9.4 million deaths makes you the kind of evil that will get you chapters in the history books for a thousand years. And I sure as hell don’t mean in a good way. But sure, keep buying his cars.

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

A jaunty hooded crow strolling across a snowy field next to the Malmö castle. #birds 🪶

A dark and light grey bird with one foot in the air taking a step forward across a field of snow.

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I used to teach sociology of gender at Texas A&M University around 2007-8. I have great memories of students, many of them young white men, opening up their minds. This backlash is gutting.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None.
Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law?
Zachary: Correct.
Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This sign does not encourage hospitality for our feathered friends. 🪶

A sign titled city birds with images of a crow and a jackdaw in hats and a gull in a crown. The sign asks you to bring your tray inside because we love to eat and poop everywhere!

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A magnificently enfloofenated pigeon in the Slottsparken in Malmö. 🪶 # birds.

A wood pigeon looking to the side with its feathers completely flooded out against the cold.

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A stern looking jackdaw in the Castle park in Malmö. #birds 🪶

A light and dark grey bird with piercing blue eyes looks straight into the camera.

A light and dark grey bird gives the camera the side eye.

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Coates is essential reading, as always.

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

A hooded crow shares its opinions with the world. 🪶

A black and grey bird perches on a pole against the blue sky. Its back is arched and its beak is open.

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

A hooded crow giving me the side eye while shuffling about on the iced over harbor in Lomme, Sweden. 🪶

A black and light grey bird standing on shimmering ice.

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

A little egret near my dad's house in Pinehurst, TX.

A large white bird with long beak and yellow eyes perched on branches above the water.

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

An elderly Muscovy duck, looking a bit careworn, near my dad's pond in Pinehurst, TX. 🪶 #birds

This large duck is seated between two pine trees on a bed of brown pine needles. It has grey and white feathers and a mottled red and black head with a crest. It is a bit careworn.

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

A Black-bellied whistling duck at my dad's pond in Pinehurst, TX. 🪶 #birds

A thin brownish black duck with pale salmon beak, feet, and legs. It is perched on a tree stump jutting out of the bank of a pond against a field of green St. Augustine grass.

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Black-bellied whistling duck down at my dad's pond in Pinehurst, TX. 🪶

A lean flying-duck with a peach colored bill, legs, and feet. It's wings are black and white, it's belly is white, and its chest and upper back are light brown. It's head is greyish.

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

A Yellow-Rumped Warbler in Pinehurst, TX down at the pond. 🪶 #birdbutt

A small grey, white, and brown and very round bird perched on a tree limb surrounded by black seeds. It has a conspicuous yellow patch on its butt.

A small grey, white, and brown and very round bird perched on a tree limb surrounded by black seeds. It has a conspicuous yellow patch on its butt which it is pointing right at you.

A small grey, white, and brown and very round bird perched on a metal fence. It has a conspicuous yellow patch on its butt and it posed directly above a warning sign.

A small grey, white, and brown and very round bird flying right above a metal fence with a warning sign. It has a conspicuous yellow patch on its butt.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Stop and read this.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

A bunch of us did a piece on RFK Jr.'s attacks on vaccines. Please circulate. Scientists and clinicians are sounding the alarm. It's time to act. youtube.com/shorts/4wnNy...

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Experts Warn: Trump’s Vaccine Rewrite Risks Public Health

YouTube video by Save America Movement

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Greetings from yet another gloomy day on the Malmö harbour.

A view on a harbour. A flat piece of concrete is in the foreground. In the midground, a pier juts out into the harbour, featuring a round tree and a small radio and light tower. To the left of the peer is a red buoy. The sky is overcast.

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Falafel please! Hanging out with my plump pigeon friend at X Falafel in Rosengård, Malmö. 🪶

A pigeon looks straight at the camera with the blue sky in the background. This pigeon is just as plump as you would suspect of a regular at one of the best falafel stands in town.

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Wesley Dean @wesleydean.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Greetings from another gloomy day in Malmö.

An overcast image of Malmö harbor at dusk. An orange buoy floats in the middle adjacent to a promontory on the left with a big round tree. Lights are reflected in the water.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

"Dogs don't bark at parked cars" is an all-time great line

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Kalistrya @kalistrya.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Hoagie Rat has entered the chat! (From Reddit www.reddit.com/r/philadelph...)

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Lund Academics for Palestine @luacademicsfp.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Welcome to: Words against death - a conversation about poetry, academia and silence on the Palestinian genocide 17.15, 2 December Edens hörsal, Lund Authors, poets and researchers reflect on language and violence, silences and screams: www.luap.se/activities/ #FreePalestine

A black and white drawing of a bird, carrying a key. The words words against death.

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Andrew Gurza @andrewgurza6.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Alice Wong ask that this be posted after her passing. Honoring that.

“This is Alice’s friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice’s wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing.”

Below, the main message continues in paragraph form:

“Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

And let's name names. #ElonMusk #MarcoRubio #RussellVought and #DonaldTrump (with help from #JohnRoberts). This is premeditated murder--of children. You can spin it anyway you like but you cannot escape this fact.

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