Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩‍🔬

Donate to Help Kristina with Veterinary School, organized by Kristina Muise Hi everyone! As many of you know, becoming a veterinarian has always been a dr… Kristina Muise needs your support for Help Kristina with Veterinary School

& here is the GFM link if people are more comfortable with this route

I appreciate any help that people can provide! ♥️
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I'm sharing my fundraisers across all of my socials to raise the money to go back to university. I appreciate any help that you can provide ♥️

Please donate through my Paypal link or GoFundMe & share this post - both are ways to help get me back to school

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🧪🌎📸🐦🪶🦋🦇 #vetsky

Anoles are probably the most fascinating and beautiful lizards. Look at those guys. I have seen this behavior in quite a few species in various corners of Anolis distribution. They may look different depending on where you find them, but none seem to have lost that determination in a bluff match.

Rare bat species returns to Troodos, boosting biodiversity hopes - Sigmalive English Rare bat returns to the Troodos mountains have been recorded during a winter survey, offering encouraging signs for biodiversity and conservation efforts.

🦇 #RhinolophusEuryale #Cyprus #TroodosMountains
Positive #bat news!
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Bird-friendly design standards should remain

💯! Window collisions are a MAJOR preventable cause of bird mortality. Though the construction lobby argues it raises costs, the costs are very small as part of the total project. Bird-safe windows ARE available. You just have to try to source them. #Birds 🪶
www.winnipegfreepress.com/our-communit...

Green and magenta aurora borealis lights undulating across sky

Green and magenta aurora borealis lights undulating across sky

Green and magenta aurora borealis lights undulating across sky

Green and magenta aurora borealis lights undulating across sky

I think everyone could benefit from a little aurora break

A screenshot of the abstract submission for a conference talk. The title of the talk is “The Huddle Club: Big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) hibernate in a wide range of humidities using huddling behaviour or phenotypic flexibility in evaporative water loss”

✅ Abstract submitted for the 2026 @thewildlifesociety.bsky.social joint Manitoba Chapter / Canadian Section

First conference I’ll be going to literally since October 2019 😢

It’s #TautonymTuesday! Meet 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑎, the short-tailed #chinchilla. Native to the high #Andes , this species is built for cold mountains—with the densest of any land mammal, compact bodies, and strong hind legs for navigating rocky slopes.
#TaxonomyTuesday #Systematics Photo: Britannica

Leafcutter ant holds up a large piece of leaf that says "Call for Scientists."

Seeking scientist volunteers for the 2026 spring semester! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? Apply by 1/25. Please share widely. bit.ly/comicscollabspring2026

"Needle replacement did not improve patient comfort, and injectors were unable to perceive a difference between replaced and nonreplaced needles."

I'm not surprised! I'm glad theres a scientific study to back this up now. 🐶👩‍⚕️🧪

#vetmed @avmajavma.bsky.social

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The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states.

The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor.

One collision and the whale is dead.

We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍

We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

A 🧵 1/n

I’m really enjoying this semester teaching human anatomy 🫁🫀🧠

Students can be so inquisitive sometimes and I love spending the day talking to them and see that lightbulb of understanding go off 💡

Donate to Help Kristina with Veterinary School, organized by Kristina Muise Hi everyone! As many of you know, becoming a veterinarian has always been a dr… Kristina Muise needs your support for Help Kristina with Veterinary School

& the GFM link if people are more comfortable with this route

gofund.me/93f0a58fe

#vetmed #vetsky

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There's a job ad going around in some science and conservation groups that explicitly says "this is not a 9-5 40-hour-a-week job. If work-life balance is a priority for you, this job is not a good fit."

Some people are outraged by this.

I have some questions for them. 🧵

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As a person who studies bats, it is incredbly important to field assistants that they know the job requires stay up at all hours of the night - work hours far from the typical 9am - 5pm 🦇

Very curious to read where this is going, but the first dozen pages are already interesting, making me question what is right and wrong in ecology and my own approaches. Should be stimulating reading material!

WCS co-authored science has expanded the known range for a little-known bat species into La Moskitia, 1 of the Five Great Forests of Central America. Working with the local community and other partners, the scientists used acoustic monitoring to identify the presence of the chestnut sac-winged bat.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

I've been a-blockin' and a-mutin' all afternoon but I want everyone to know that I never block for this reply, though the universe gives me multiple opportunities every day. Many would block, but I have the patience of a saint. Go in peace, little one.

A screen shot of text where the reference 'Willis et al. 2009' has been repeated 12 times over

The Mendeley Cite plugin in Word has been severely messing up my references repeatedly, and the only fix is to manually go through all my references to delete the duplicates.

Mendeley - you've now made an enemy

Sad to see the Outside JEB section end!

It was great to be able to highlight articles from other journals

nothing screams 'back to teaching' like a projector not working for lectures 🙃

Always use the mic at a conference even if you’re loud. People who can’t hear you *can’t hear you * when you ask if you can hear them in the back. Some of us went to one too many hardcore shows in our youth without ear plugs and our hearing ain’t what it used to be 🥺
#SICB2026

Tips and tricks for writing constructive peer reviews Peer review has been the cornerstone of scientific inquiry for centuries and is considered the backbone of scientific quality and rigour (Spier, 2002). Des

Still searching for a New Year's resolution?

Why not commit to more constructive & collegial #peerreview this year!?

Our Editorial in @conphysjournal.bsky.social provides candid "tips & tricks" for constructive peer reviews.

doi.org/10.1093/conp...

Globe editorial: In a national emergency, Canada does not have a moment to lose The measures needed to safeguard this country’s sovereignty will take years. We must start without any further delay

This Globe Editorial is 100% wrong. Our security & prosperity does not rest on more #FossilFuel production. It rests upon freeing ourselves from the global politics of oil & gas and building a #RenewableEnergy economy. Investing in oil now is a sucker's bet.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Camera traps in China capture first-ever footage of Amur tigress with five cubs Camera traps installed in the world’s largest tiger reserve, in China, have captured footage of an Amur tigress and her five cubs for the first time. Recorded in November 2025, the footage from Northe...

Amur tigers were all but written off in China only 25 years ago, WCS’s @jonathanslaght.com says. “Since then, habitat protections and anti-poaching efforts have allowed them to triumphantly return.”

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A photo of a laptop open to lecture slides. The lecture slide shows the radius, ulna and anatomical terms.

First day of term & I stayed up ridiculously late to make my lecture slides

But I’m excited to start teaching again this Wednesday!

🩻 🧠🫀🫁

#anatomyandphysiology

A photo of a laptop with a text document pulled up. Some of the text is in read indicating edits.

Back at it - because I told myself I’d have it done by the end of 2025 but here we are

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