Sam Perrin

World's oldest known wild bird, Wisdom, cares for her newly hatched chick at 74 Wisdom, a 74-year-old Laysan albatross, is the world's oldest known wild bird. She also just became a mother yet again.

Some good news

I cannot recall the last time I felt this much Schadenfreude.

Finally got the last paper from my PhD published! It looks at different perspectives of alien species and their management, and how this could affect successful prevention measures.

neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1219...

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📚 The @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment Summary for Policymakers is now available!

➡️ Explore the most comprehensive assessment ever of the interconnections between biodiversity, water, food, health & climate.

🌏 Options for a just & sustainable future!
www.ipbes.net/node/85582

A cave lion rests obliviously on a steppe with snow-capped mountains in the background. Behind it, two Neanderthals are crouched, wearing animal pelts and holding spears.

A Paleoloxodon (giant extinct elephant) is surrounded by a group of Neanderthals on a field. The Neanderthals are using varying types of clothing made of animal pelts, and hold spears. Two spears are lodged into the stomach of the elephant.

Had loads of fun making these two illustrations for PBS Eons' latest video, on how Neanderthals were incredibly adept apex predators. #paleoart #SciArt #artbyjulio

Macklemore certainly shifted career paths.

A Little Queer Natural History a book by Josh L. Davis Beautifully illustrated and scientifically informed, a celebration of the astonishing diversity of sexual behavior and biology found in nature. From a pair of male swans raising young to splitgill mu...

For your barista at the indie coffee shop who knows your order by heart and has a roller derby name that’s an obscure wildlife name pun and wears a cute dinosaur pride pin on their name badge: A Little Queer Natural History by @joshlukedavis.bsky.social

bookshop.org/p/books/a-li...

Don’t Look Up Isn’t A Perfect Climate Change Film. The Lord of the Rings Is. Regardless of your opinions on it, Don’t Look Up got people talking. The latest in a line of apocalyptic climate movies, will this be the one to effect change? I think we need more climate movies, …

Gotta make some posts, so throwback to that time @samwperrin.bsky.social gave me free reign to talk about how The Lord of the Rings is a great metaphor for #climateaction actually
(and back in the day it got retweeted by some actual climate scientists!)

Optimist: the cup is half full

Pessimist: the cup is half empty

Ecologist: the cup's increasing density in the area is leading to a higher rate of ingestion of microplastics and lower species density for the following invertebrates...

I know I'm late on this but the correct thing to send #Raygun to would have been #Eurovision.

Kids are rewatching the first episode of Pokemon. And here's me thinking the cage fighting animals are the nastiest things about this world.

My eldest kid is obsessed with venomous snakes. When we were driving through Tasmania recently, we stopped for a breather and I went and did a mini iNaturalist bioblitz at the side of the carpark. Saw this Tiger Snake. Remained my son's favourite animal sighting for the entire 3 month trip.

Either that or Sony finally put Slimer out of his misery.

#InverteFest August 2024 What is #InverteFest? It's a periodic online event where we invite you to celebrate the overlooked invertebrate fauna around you and share the joys of discovery online. The hashtag was conceived w...

If you use iNaturalist, you could contribute to community science by surveying your local critters!

Note that only photos taken between 25-31 August your LOCAL time will be counted!

Ask me if you need tech help. Join using this link.
www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...

An Australian golden orbweaver spider

Orbweavers are so damn gorgeous, we saw so many on our last trip to Australia. My wife used to find spiders horrifying but even she had to admit that this one was pretty spectacular.

Don’t stop me now: Queen’s Brian May on saving badgers — and the scientific method The guitarist has spent a decade studying the science of bovine tuberculosis, which can be carried by badgers, and has identified a new method of spread. The guitarist has spent a decade studying the ...

Brian May has reached peak interdisciplinarity.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Big jump

Best alt text I've ever seen. Serious business.

This has already worked, thanks!

Dislike this article in general. They give the guy who wants to shut it down almost the entire article, then one paragraph in the IWC's defense. Unlike the Guardian.

Whales are doing well so it’s time to scrap the body that once protected them, says former head The International Whaling Commission has become a ‘zombie’ and should vote to disband itself, insists Peter Bridgewater

This is up there with
"people aren't dying in car accidents so let's remove seatbelt laws."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The One Born of Fire: a pterosaurological analysis of Rodan Henry N. Thomas University of California, Berkeley, USA. Email: h.thomas (at) berkeley (dot) edu Download PDF https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8241615 Rodan is a giant monster, or kaiju, created by Toho...

Love this website. Will submit something in the near future.

jgeekstudies.org/2020/07/05/t...

a man in a suit is standing in a room holding a jacket and asking where you are . ALT: a man in a suit is standing in a room holding a jacket and asking where you are .

Back after 6 months of paternity leave. Where are all the biodiversity researchers on Bluesky app? Need to be following people again.

Hate golf? Love rewilding? Better read this then.

www.salon.com/2023/10/27/w...

Been off social media for 2 weeks due to new baby. Can now formally announce that I've taken a full time position as a researcher with the Gjærvoll Centre at NTNU, trying to figure out where endangered species hotspots can be found in Norway!

Why don't humans have a penis bone? Scientists may now know Speed of human mating might be behind the lack of a baculum in humans, suggests study tracing bone’s evolution

Conversation we had the other night took a weird turn and now you should all read this.
www.theguardian.com/science/2016...

I have never seen an animal that so perfectly encapsulates the phrase "mate come over here and say that to my face".

From Nikki Redman's Kangaroo Island photo collection.

My wife discovered yesterday that Australians call our different crocodile varieties "salties" and "freshies" which is just furthering her belief that all of our slang is just made up by 6 year olds.

Ent-ertaining Extinction with Dr. Adam Hasik Listen to this episode from Biologists of Middle Earth on Spotify. In our final episode (for now), we chat to Dr. Adam Hasik, who has been working as a postdoc as part of the Fangorn Ent Project, a ma...

The final episode of Biologists of Middle Earth is up! I talk to Dr. Adam Hasik about his work with the Ents, their role as ecosystem engineers, and what dwindling Ent populations could mean for all of Middle Earth.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6AZG8QZTMQx4dXYkRLstqh?si=9252fdbdd85247ce&nd=1

Great example of how sometimes the "just let it grow" approach to rewilding can backfire. (but when it comes to your backyard seriously just let it grow)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/us/hawaii-wildfire-factors.html