Amy Russell 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦

I really miss when my job was just doing science. I went to a really interesting seminar today and successfully troubleshot an analysis and it was so nice to not be running off to multiple dumb meetings all day!

Marginalia is a treasure!

Huzzah! My paper is accepted!

Two distinct host-specialized fungal species cause white-nose disease in bats - Nature The identification of two cryptic species of the fungal pathogen that causes white-nose disease in bats highlights the need to integrate studies of genetic variability in pathogens into disease survei...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Earlybird registrations for IBRC 2025 are now open until 8 June 2025 (11.59pm AEST; 9.59am EDT)

Register here:
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#ibrc2025 #bats

Rare Livingstone's Fruit Bat Downlisted by IUCN - Bat Conservation International GPS tagging and updated population data contributed to improved Red List status.

🦇 www.batcon.org/press/rare-l...

Good luck today, Canada 🇨🇦 elbows up!

That suits you so well! You look fantastic!

These two biologists found purpose—and love—trying to save Nigeria's bats Benneth Obitte and Inoro Tanshi’s efforts have documented a major hot spot of African bat diversity

These two biologists found purpose—and love—trying to save Nigeria's bats | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

There’s this deeply-held belief that public virtue is so self-evidently the natural state of things, that once the fog dissipates, wayward people will organically return to communitarianism like water seeking its own level.

Which, if you’ve been around people, is just a bonkers thing to believe.

chef’s kiss

No, fuck that shit. Basic human rights are not up for negotiation.

Why does every administrative office at my university feel the need to send out regular campus-wide emails about what they’re up to? When did this become a thing?

That’s what we do with the Noodle-O!

The best bat, hands down!

So cute!

Marcy, a gorgeous tuxedo cat, laying on a hand-knit sweater that is laid out flat to dry.

Blocking Jady’s new sweater, with help from Marcy. Very proud of those sleeves!

New pots available now! www.roseschmits.com
Tentacle pots and a bunch of tentacle cups!

If you do it on both hands, it’s a pattern. Bam! You’re a designer!

The character Tank Girl, dressed in punk clothing and a mostly bald haircut, sitting on a rock in a desert environment in front of a beautiful sunrise. She's strapping on one boot and smoking a cigarette. There's a tea mug sitting on a rock next to her. The speech box above her head says "I can't let things be this way. We can be wonderful. We can be magnificent. We can turn this thing around." Brett Parson (artist) and Alan Martin (writer), 2016

Tank Girl for the New Year. We can be magnificent: we can turn this shit around.

Brett Parson artist, and Alan Martin, writer, 2016.

I met one of these guys in Malaysia in 2001! Typically molossid in having a sweetheart personality!

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.

Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride.

"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."

🚨 Out today in eLife! 🚨 @HFSP-funded postdoc Bill Thomas & #shrewcrew reveal how common shrews shrink their brains in winter! 🧠 Seasonal RNA changes in the hypothalamus hint at parallels in mammalian aging. 📖 doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @DinaDechmann @dechmannlab @aspcorthals @RichardGHunter1

They are counting on you to feel helpless, exhausted, scared, alone, too old or young. We have people worldwide who even at 90 years old went out and resisted. In Ukraine the grandmothers grabbed rifles, the children flew drones. You can hold a sign, organize, we know it’s scary but don’t give up.

Knit and bake!

Trans rights are human rights

Image showing the title of the paper ("Long-term cooperative relationships among vampire bats are not strongly predicted by their initial interactions"), two bat contact networks (at 4 hours bats are poorly connected, networks are more connected at 24 hours), and two barplots (showing that allogrooming at 6 or 15 weeks is barely predicted at all by first contact times). Also a photo of two vampire bat faces

New paper with @gerrycarter.bsky.social just in time for Halloween! Vampire bats' first impressions of each other don't predict the formation of long-term relationships doi.org/10.1111/nyas...

1/ CW Holocaust

I've said this repeatedly & will KEEP saying it:

If I catch you on my timeline whining that you won't vote for Harris for whatever reason, I'm done with you. If I am following you, I will unfollow then block. You're getting blocked no matter what.

I will tell you why.