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Amanda MacDonald, PhD

@mannamacdonald.bsky.social

Wildlife disease, growing things I can eat, seeing things that make me feel.

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Latest posts by mannamacdonald.bsky.social on Bluesky

That’s what I thought…

02.11.2025 20:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trick or treat?

02.11.2025 19:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Two fighter jets just flew over!!!! 💘 🛩️

23.10.2025 20:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So pointy and sharp!!

18.10.2025 01:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I still cringe.

17.10.2025 23:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

When my Dad eats an apple, he eats the whole apple, core and all.

17.10.2025 17:30 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Those feet…

17.10.2025 14:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is it Caturday yet…

16.10.2025 21:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy thanksgiving!!

13.10.2025 13:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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😭

13.10.2025 13:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The -40 is out

12.10.2025 22:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Out picking peppers by flashlight because of frost warnings 😭

12.10.2025 22:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jane Goodall, conservationist and chimpanzee researcher, dead at 91 | CBC News Jane Goodall, the British conservationist and researcher renowned for her work with chimpanzees, has died at age 91.

This one hurts…

www.cbc.ca/news/world/j...

01.10.2025 18:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

:(

26.09.2025 15:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Red pepper jelly!

21.09.2025 14:58 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But do you have a car Tylenol bottle?

18.09.2025 10:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The smell of dehydrating hot peppers is one of my favorite smells. 🌶️

16.09.2025 21:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mother f….

13.09.2025 22:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes.

27.05.2025 21:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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 — 👍 12961    🔁 2696    💬 205    📌 138

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
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Last day 💔

22.03.2025 23:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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All
Cormorants
Are
Beautiful

01.03.2025 18:37 — 👍 256    🔁 22    💬 8    📌 2
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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

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