Erika 🦜🥔

By multiple media formats do you mean like a photo and a gif on the same tweet? Or >1 photo on the same tweet? Because I have many tweets with >1 photo on them.
Do you also keep threaded tweets together? And can you pick and choose which tweets/threads to bring over? If so, I am very interested!

Yup. A lot of people have nice cameras and still take rubbish photos lol. Or take photos that should be good but are ruined by basic composition errors (wonky horizon, I’m looking at you!). Still, if they enjoy taking said photos then I’m not going to rain on their parade.

Mr S says hello, btw 😸

Photo of a grey tabby cat with white socks lying in prawn pose on a striped rug. He is surrounded by discarded footwear: two black Birkenstock sandals and one black boot, as well as a random red and white striped pencil. His human is very messy.

Prawn with discarded footwear and pencil.
🍤🐈

Me too! We have a fair few over here 😁
I even have a family of Babblers that come to my yard at my new house, as well as Apostlebirds. I got overly excited when they first came to visit!

Will check HANZAB (Aus bird bible) when back in the office next week.

I can’t remember if the genetics holds up (surely someone’s tested it by now), but if I recall correctly Apostles and WW Choughs got put together into Corcoracidae because of their cooperative breeding and identical nest-building. They look nothing like each other but behave the same.

Just our choughs here in Aus. The N Hemisphere choughs are totally different. Classic “let’s name all these new species after things they vaguely resemble from the UK”.

Photo of a medium-sized grey bird with standing on a wooden table next to a 1 litre Nalgene water bottle. It has a chunky pointed beak and a longish tail.

They are vaguely reminiscent of our Apostlebirds, who are also cooperative breeders. Though Apostlebirds are almost monotypic, sharing their family with only one other species, the White-winged Chough (they both make little mud cup nests).

Here in Aus (I’m my part anyway, we have so many variable seasons here), when we have a warm period around early sept followed by more cold we call it False Spring.
I’m not sure I’ve noticed anything specific between hot and cold times, but I’ll be keeping an eye out for it now.

An added bonus of blocking all these accounts is they won’t be able to see your content and will be less able* to steal it.
Back on Twitter you had to manually block each one. This list lets you block them all with two taps! Hit Subscribe > Block accounts.

Bingo!

*hopefully not at all

Content scrapers post images without permission or credit to the original creators. They rack up followers and then sometimes sell the accounts, making money off other people's work. Please consider blocking them and if you want to avoid all of them you can use this block list. Thank you!

I’m so glad this list exists!!! Though I am sad (but not surprised) that there are scrapers over here.

a close up of a stuffed monkey with a green shirt and a sticker that says $ kto Alt: A puppet monkey (?) in a green jumper looking left and right with big eyeballs.

Conference prep for pros:

Step 1: Take week off work to prep for conference.

Step 2: Procrastinate all week and end up panic prepping the day before anyway.

Step 3: Wing it on the day.

Ditto. Re pottery (and life in general) I love moved house twice in the last year (inc moving cities), started a new job, and had a major surgery on my elbow. So haven’t really been up to much 😩 life has bern chaos and very out of whack.

I’ve also been lurking over there but it’s time to bail. I never actually see any relevant people or content any more and everyone seems to be over here anyway! Just need to find all my peeps again.

Extra oooooooo!!!

I need to build my kiln a little shed so it’s safe outside, then I can fire it at my new place.

Ooooooooo!

Very true! This particular bird was from a few years ago, so hopefully now has a partner and juvies!

I think this one was actually a juvie, but yes to the naso! 😸

Photo of a large black cockatoo perched on a slanted metal roof. The cockatoo has yellow spots on its face and shoulders, yellow barring on its chest, and red barring on its tail feathers. The background is blurred green leaves.

Not me procrastinating on finalising my talk for #ISBE2024 next week…

Gotta get back into conference-mode and cockatoo-mode.

Anyone else going???

Cockatoo photo for attention (though we always need more cockatoo photos!)

I’ve been needing to run #BorbOfTheYear, but Twitter is basically dead so I’ve been holding off. I need to move over here properly and now that there’s a poll option here I can do ridiculous things again!

*Excellent bracket, even 🙄

Ahh! I was wondering how to do polls over here.
Excbracket btw

It really isn’t the same anymore :(
But logging in here I see all these faces I haven’t seen in ages because they aren’t on Twitter anymore and it’s like finding old friends again! It’s such a shame because managing more than one app is a bit too much 😩

The name sounds very familiar. I may have met him at some point (or possibly several times) in the past couple of years as we work with the bot gardens a fair bit.

Are you mostly over here now? I’ve missed you over on Twitter! It’s really not the same place it used to be. I should switch the apps on my phone for a while so I open this one by default instead so I can give it a real chance.

Hey #Herbarium and #Museum peeps!
Any resources or pro tips for digitising collections?
We have a little regional herbarium in our office that I’d love to digitise so it’s available to more people and also just in case something terrible happens to it. Are there standards I should follow? #OzPlants

Says my friend.