Sebastian R.vH

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!

A congratulation screen with confetti saying you caught all discoverable Pokemon with Pickachu and Eevee in the background

Well that was a colossal waste of time

A screenshot of the Pokemon Articuno being caught in a Masterball with the Google Search screen in the background

At #5 it gives you a Masterball. I’m committed now

A screenshot of googling the Pokemon Medicham, which shows pictures of the Pokemon and a small Pokeball in the righthand corner

A screenshow showing the option to “Carch a Pokemon”. There is a button to “Search to Catch” and a progress bar of 0/151 Pokemon caught. The Pokemon’s silhouette is Graveler, with the hint being “Evolves into Golem”

A screenshot of the Pokemon Haunter being caught with a Pokeball, infront of the google search screen

uhm since when can you catch pokemon in google!?

There’s a progress bar and animation and everything!!?

#Pokemon #Google #PokemonGo

omg I love Stray, it’s the reason I got a gaming laptop lmfao

I have to highlight this amazing profile created for #PollinatorWeek and the folks studying them by the @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social Zoo & Roots student organisation.

❤️🐝❤️🐝

the OG

A picture of a compterscreen open on Windows Word with a blank white document. Above the blank page it is giving writing prompts for AI, reading left to right as “Write an interview guide for a software engineer intern position at Microsoft”, “Write a funny poem to was Happy Birthday to my five-year-old sister”, and “Create an outline for a resume with headings”

hi. can we PLEASE stop with AI being pushed down our throats?

#PhDsky #AcademicSky

huge georgia lore drop??

A picture of three puffins on the cliffside. The two puffins in the middle are looking left and right, where the puffin lower down the cliff has its face turned into its feathers, possibly cleaning itself. The cliff cuts the picture diagonally, making it look like a triangle. The cliff is covered in dark green grasses and mosses, with rocks inbetween. The entire picture has a white border

Puffin(s), 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢 𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢

📷 Fujifilm X-Pro1 XF 70-300mm
🎞️ 1/1000 • f/5.6 • 300mm • 1600 ISO

🪶 #puffin #birds #wildlife #photography #symmetry #coast #cliffs #Scotland #fujifilm