Amanda MacDonald, PhD @mannamacdonald

Yes.

27.05.2025 21:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy birthday, David Attenborough! 99 ways he has inspired us, by Barack Obama, Billie Eilish, Morgan Freeman – and many more This week the presenter turns 99. To celebrate, we asked 99 nature lovers – including Margaret Atwood, Jane Fonda, Bono, Kate Winslet and Michael Palin – how he has helped us see the world with fresh ...

Inspiring celebration of David Attenborough from Kate Winslet and many others - and a much-needed reminder to stand with science www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

04.05.2025 14:23 — 👍 13062 🔁 2719 💬 207 📌 139

Yes!

28.04.2025 21:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Right there with you

27.04.2025 23:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Amazing P!

27.04.2025 22:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Right?

08.04.2025 17:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Paper accepted klaxon! A small one, but a fun one, led by @mannamacdonald.bsky.social: "First detection of the mosquito Uranotaenia sapphirina (Diptera: Culicidae) in New Brunswick, Canada."

08.04.2025 16:44 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

They also bioaccumulate in the wildlife that feed on the coated seeds!

31.03.2025 21:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Last day 💔

22.03.2025 23:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

All
Cormorants
Are
Beautiful

01.03.2025 18:37 — 👍 256 🔁 22 💬 8 📌 2

Postdoc Comparative genomics and genome architecture in early-diverging fungi and their protist relatives (3-year position)

Exciting news! I'm looking for a computational biologist to join my lab at Wageningen University & Research! It's a 3-year postdoc position on Holomycota genome architecture and evolution. Spread the word! www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

05.03.2025 11:56 — 👍 28 🔁 39 💬 0 📌 1

Any QGIS fluent people here?

05.03.2025 15:25 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

So sorry

02.03.2025 16:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don’t know how he did but I’m so glad he did.

28.02.2025 23:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Proud of Zelensky

28.02.2025 22:41 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Pretty much.

28.02.2025 16:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Canada geese found dead in eastern P.E.I. had avian flu, preliminary results show | CBC News A large number of dying and dead Canada geese in Vernon Bridge, P.E.I., were likely sick with avian flu, says a veterinarian with the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

28.02.2025 13:10 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

Writing Course I can help your students write! I can offer a one-week, in-person writing course for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at your institution. Class sizes of 8-25 work well; we can discuss la…

I can teach Scientific Writing at your institution! I can offer a one-week intensive course for grad students and other early-career scientists. I'm (more than) fully booked for 2025, but have open slots in 2026. Contact me to discuss; more info here: scientistseessquirre...

27.02.2025 16:40 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

And some ‘surprise me’ that they will hate

23.02.2025 15:34 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0