Sebastian R.vH

Top left; UEA broad just after sunrise; top right meeting welcome sign; lower left reflections of a bridge; lower right my poster and me.

Reflecting on #BESMove2025, nice couple days chatting all things #MovementEcology and meeting friends old & new. Thank you @besmovesig.bsky.social and the meeting organisers for your hard work to deliver a stacked and smooth running schedule and fun socials. Looking forward to the next one!

Here are all the talks I attended and sketched at #ESEB2025 ! Only a fraction of the 642 speakers at the conference 😮

I had an absolutely amazing week chatting about lots of fascinating science

#sciart #eseb #esebcongress @eseb2025.bsky.social

Collage of photos from the European Ornithological Union (EOU) conference 2025. Clockwise from top left: an amazing plenary about robust avian science by Antica Culina with a slide on FAIR data; a tiny solar GPS transmitter, the Menai bridge at sunrise; me and my poster; Welsh flag with bonus Welsh jackdaw; Vogelwarte research group; first Guinness after 2.5 months in Switzerland; cool hummingbird mural on a house; and in the centre: Vogelwarte research group - Team Alpine Swift-Barn Owl-Dipper et al!

It’s already been a week since #EOU2025! Fun week meeting and chatting cool bird science & geeking out at the cool tech! Presented another poster made from my tent in Bulgaria. 😅 Even got work done on the 14hr train journey, 🌱 but France took my Leatherman; rookie error not checking my field pack! 🥲

A picture of a presentation slide which reads "The path to freedom, surviving as a trans academic". To the left is also a banner displaying the logo of the ESEB conference and in front are a few chairs facing the stage.

Another presentation slide which contains some Qr code links to resources and some steps which academics could take to make space for trans academics. These steps are as follows: - apply for DEI grants - support LGBTQ+ scholarship funds - learn about local medical/legal systems to offer newly-arrived colleagues guidance - Avoid harmful rhetoric and behaviours

Very moving presentation from one of the recipients of the EUEA award from @eseb.bsky.social . As a trans academic myself, seeing effort being put into inclusivity has been refreshing. Thank you for platforming this topic and supporting people like this speaker 🏳️‍⚧️

I'm excited for my @eseb2025.bsky.social presentation later today. I'm part of the symposium on the Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations! I will have stickers to give out too (if bribery is required for attendance) 😁

#eseb2025 #sciart #eseb

I've had a wonderful 1st day at @eseb2025.bsky.social Here are the sketches from some of the talks I attended today. My highlights include Tristan on the adaptive genomics of colour spots on owls, Vicky on pearl mussel's response to climate change & Rebekah on firefly TEs & TE-induced mutations

A person standing in front of a scientific poster and smiling

Looking forward to presenting my poster later at ESEB 2025 🐸 board 166 come find me if you're here

I have been trying to make time for pottery alongside my PhD. I did my first official market last weekend at the Bowhouse. I was very nervous before but it was so lovely to speak to so many people about my work! I have added a few leftover pieces to my new website the-puffins-burrow.sumupstore.com 🐧

ohhh, drop the folklore!!

the big butterfly count starts this friday! all you have to do is spend 15 mins outside and log your butterfly/day-flying moth sightings. it's super easy to log your sessions on the website or app (click the link in the below post) and they have id guides to help too! 🦋

Thank you! That makes sense. Doing a trial test will be difficult as I've never used these filters before, and I won't know if it's not working because of the expiration date or because it's not suitable for my experiment. Contacting the manufacturer is a good, shout, though!

The man nearly died in a whirlpool and then wrote 1984. I don't see the connection in the themes of the book and the whirlpool, but I'm sure it's there

A picture of a large white spiralling whirlpool in the sea. The spiral shape is very distinct. In the background are hills that meet the sea.

It's called the Strait of Corryvreckan, between the islands of Jura and Scarba. George Orwell lived on Jura for three years until he got tuberculosis and had to leave, but you can still stay in the house he rented! Also, look at that whirlpool!!

why did nobody tell me that there is a small strait between two small islands off the westcoast of Scotland that has the worlds THIRD largest whirlpool, which also caused George Orwell (YES THAT ORWELL) to shipwreck with his 3-year old son

I’m so sorry to see you had to delete the account! I hope you can make a new one, and continue with what you love to do! 💙

A modified primer-pair designed for the molecular sex identification of black-legged Kittiwake (Laridae: Rissa tridactyla) - Conservation Genetics Resources In studies of avian populations accurate sex identification facilitates the study of sex-linked behaviour, ecology, social structure, decision-making, and life histories. To improve molecular sex iden...

Using #genetics to sex #Seabirds? 👉 New #openaccess #Methods note published today (optimize don't reinvent👍). No PhD student is an island: huge thanks to co-authors, collaborators and funders. #ornithology @ukri.org @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s126... @springernature.com

#Question! For the #eDNA crowd.

My lab has polyethersulfone membrane filters, but the expiration date is December 2023. Does anybody know if I can still use these filters? They're still sealed etc.

#PhDSky #AcademicSky #environmentalDNA 🧪🧬

I think I got told it’s the Indohyus. New archnemesis

A light pink background with a digital drawing of several seabkrds standing together in a group: the bird in the front center is a fulmar, which has the colours of the non-binary flag (yellow, white, purple, black); the birds behind it are seabirds (gulls, auklets, penguins, terns, and a guillemot) in their normal colours

At the end of #Pride every year I post this because I would not be where I am without the friends, mentors, and Allies who have gotten me through the hardest years of my life at Aberdeen. Happy Pride to those who provide me with support, safety, and hope so I can do what I love, study seabirds 💙

I never did zoology in undergrad so this hit me like a sack of bricks 😭

“Just because you lost the condition the clade is named for doesn’t mean you don’t belong” is somehow profoundly poetic

Thanks for explanation! My colleagues wouldn’t say more than “but they are”

Whales don’t ruminate. They don’t have hooves. WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY ARE UNGULATES

I just got informed that whales are considered as ungulates. I am unhappy.

(please don’t ask me to elaborate I still don’t fully understand)

#phylogeny #whales #ungulates

Got to hang out with a bunch of cool people from Biota Trace testing out an automated sampler (lovingly known as my wee robot pal) to collect water samples from Loch Craignish. @seawilding.bsky.social were also kind enough to let us use their shed and kept us company 😁 🐟 🤖

A nonsensical picture of a non-descript person with smooth mannikin-esk head, wearing a white labcoat and pink gloves holding a flask with pink liquid. They are standing in front of a pink/purple background with scribbles of chemical reagents. In big back letters in the left hand corner of the picture it reads “SCOIENS”

I’ve reached the point in my PhD where I need to redo my experiments because the initial analysis was wrong

which I found out by reanalysing said results a SECOND time with a different (better) program

so I can generate results and analyse those for a THIRD time.

ah joy

#PhDSky #AcademicSky

blue noticeboard covered in various posters and flyers and decorated with progress flag bunting along the top and side. many of the posters are related to pride month, as well as others advertising various activities around the department/uni/local community

first day back in work after a few weeks and it brings me a lot of joy seeing our pride month noticeboard 💕 (also knowing how mad this board makes the department bigot)

Yes, Safari is the Apple webbrowser! So that could be it, then

😮

i was using the webbrowser safari on my phone, could that be the trick?

Just google one of the OG 151 and the pokeball should pop up in the righthand corner!