Dr Alex Bond

Exceptional

The starship enterprise except its also Guinan and the saucer section is one of her iconic plate hats

Dune (David Lynch, 1984)

Heck yes.

Ok but I kind of really like commenting my code and making short user guides... 🥺

Cranes

A female kākāpō looking out of a nest, with one small chick showing. Credit: Andrew Digby

Female #kakapo Kohengi on her nest with a newly-hatched chick and an egg (unseen). We removed the egg from underneath her and gave it to another female (Phoenix) who had infertile eggs. We're trying to ensure each female on Anchor Island has 1-2 fertile eggs to hatch. #kakapo2026 #conservation

Inside you there are two Finnish icons

Did he have a snail joke for YOU?

"I asked Chat GPT and -" ok, I asked the exhumed corpse of Pope Formosus during the Cadaver Synod and he went "... ... ..." and then his jaw fell off and it was still a better answer

An historic black and white illustration of a paper nautilus floating on the ocean. There are boats, a city and hills in the background.

🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more:
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran...
#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

With colleagues across ornithological societies and led by Nathan #Thayer, Ashley #Dayer, and Dai #Shizuka, I'm happy to share this first publication from some collaborative research we began in 2022 to study the role of #belonging in #ornithology: lnkd.in/gYGQzHer.

BAM! 90 minutes of coding, editing, and revising a paper I'm so genuinely excited about (one of many that came out of the @adriftlab.bsky.social writing retreat in November last year).

Never underestimate the feeling of accomplishing something and being really chuffed with it!

*Homophobically* We need the 4 Day Work Week

‼️ BREAKING: Greens WIN Gorton and Denton by-election in a landslide victory

🟢 Grn: 41% (+27)
➡️ Ref: 29% (+15)
🔴 Lab: 25% (-25)
🔵 Con: 2% (-6)
🟠 Lib: 2% (-2)

Green GAIN from Labour (+/- vs GE2024)

‼️First-ever Green win in an MP by-election

Really proud to see the new @royalsocietypublishing.org special issue now open: "Beyond Boundaries: Celebrating Global South and Indigenous Contributions to Molecular and Cellular Biology", led by Dr Jennifer Lavers @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social, Prof Sandhya Visweswariah, and Dr Temitope Fadipe.

A rainbow forms over Gough Island

First confirmed cases of High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza Virus (HPAIV) on Gough Island represent one of the most geographically isolated detections of HPAIV to date. But how did it get there?

Read on for a summary

Full paper: doi.org/10.1080/2222...

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#seabirds

Aw yay!

A very fluffy cat sat with his paws tucked under him

The fluffy loafing cat looks up and you can see his bright green eyes

Would ya look at this loaf of tiger bread!

Guillemot eggs, so pretty!

A delightful day at @morethanadodo.bsky.social talking spirit collection stores, and up with the bird specimens. A+ team and lovely collection as always.

Most things are adorable in their potato shaped life stage

A baby wombat grazing on a tussock, shaped like a potato.

Baby #wombats (wombatlets) are particularly adorable when they're still in their shaped-like-a-potato phase.
#WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #wombat #MammalWatching #WildOz

Tough on daddies. Tough on the causes of daddies.

In any other sector this would be front page news along with government funding announcements.

The UK just seems to not value higher education.

They just realise they couldn't possibly capture your brilliance so didn't bother trying

Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...

Median amount of time spent under review is 7.4–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles and the differences remain significant after controlling for several factors - analysis of >36.5 million articles in >36,000 journals
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Us: here is our paper on seabirds, toxicology, and plastics!

Journal: Desk reject. This is too narrow for us. Try a specialised journal focusing on *Water Research and Policy*

Clearly my role in life is to create administrative burdens for journals that utter nonsense.

1] There are too many weak arguments in this article to address in one thread. But none of them are new; they have been repeated over many years - though each has been refuted. Given burgeoning evidence of the role of invasions in biodiversity loss, it's time to confront this anti-science bias.🧵

Review of evidence that foxes and cats cause extinctions of Australia's endemic mammals Abstract. Over half of Australia's threatened and extinct endemic mammal species have been attributed to introduced red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) and cats (Fel

A recent paper claims, opposed to what conservation science has known for decades, that there is no evidence that foxes and cats were a major driver of Australia's mammal extinctions. Turns out there are quite a few issues here. Strap in for a looong thread 🧪

academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

#TodayInQueerHistory
February 24 (1956)
Today we celebrate Judith Butler, the legendary academic who works in the field of queer theory and gender studies, who was born #OTD.

Known for books Who's Afraid of Gender? And Gender Trouble, Butler has changed how scholars approach identity and power.