Wren Montgomery

I always seal my kids discarded kinder egg capsules really tightly before I throw them out, as I assume future alien scientists will test the contents to determine what the composition of our atmosphere was like.

You need to break this habit of checking your feed the moment you open your eyes in the morning. Nothing good comes of starting your day with high anxiety. Nothing good happened overnight. A broken world won’t mend because you read how it’s broken; it’ll just break you. This has been a note to self.

Employment jelly, repost for a job you'll love and deserve

Offer received and accepted, funemployment ends homies.

I release my employment jelly to the wild now, thank you friend.

Or keep.

Geologists Recommend Eating At Least One Small Rock Per Day

Geologists Recommend Eating At Least One Small Rock Per Day
theonion.com/geologi...

Here for the massive shapeless habit.

Tree sex.

O hai. It me.

on this date eight years ago, Tom Holland wowed Zendaya on Lip Sync Battle with his cultural critique of impervious surface stormwater runoff.

That's a bit of a slap in the face to the many talented people already in Britain who can't secure research funding or longterm positions, isn't it?

Boat painting weather! In April!

Does he, like my idiot, also love going to the vet?

A tiny Wren flares its wings, frozen mid-call. It looks furious for something so small. The translated outburst: “STRANGER! BAD! OUT! OUT! NOW! LEAVE NOW! OUT FASTER. PLEASE!”

Extract 1/18

Aside from the corrosive nature of emails assigning major tasks on non-working days, and then automated messages chasing them up, can we just stop the RUSH to publish.
A bit longer spent all-round on writing, checking, reviewing, reading, proofing and thinking would make science a MUCH better place.

a cartoon owl is sitting on a tree branch holding a coin and saying uh , 1 ... 2 ... 3 . ALT: a cartoon owl is sitting on a tree branch holding a coin and saying uh , 1 ... 2 ... 3 .

In the Rarest of Lab Events category…

We finally got to the center of a Parafilm roll!

In my 35 y in the lab I’ve never seen a roll completely empty

I hope it’s not a sign…

Oh, yes, please!

Is it available for purchase?

a pigeon sits on a nest made in a drinking fountain

become ungovernable

🧵 1/2 The fishing Wren - who knew? I'm playing in slomo so it's easier to see what's going on.
In fact the Wren is catching amphipods (happy to be corrected on species).
This shows the value of a weedy pond & providing access to it by placing branches over the surface.
@bto-gbw.bsky.social

Let me know how #3 goes...

> "I see myself as an academic...and nothing else"...

In fact, my problem was that people hiring outside academia could not see me as anything but an academic, despite extensive resume reworking (etc.)

Wren at the pond - it's unusual to see a Wren not find something to eat when they visit the pond. They come from dawn until dusk searching for invertebrates amongst the leaf litter.
Also a Dunnock & the ever thirsty Greenfinch - there's obviously not much moisture content in their seedy diet.

"adorable microfauna" (includes birbs and borbs).

If someone says they don't drink:
-the reason is none of your business
-hosts should have several non-alcoholic beverage options, not just one
-the holidays can be a tough period for non-drinkers
-many jokes about not drinking are bad
-people might just be tired

Today I learned about orange kyanite (which is, indeed, orange)...

As a postdoc (with no wet lab experience), I asked how to keep the round-bottomed flask upright.

The Wren welcomes a new day on BlueSky
#wildlife #birds #wrens

Helicoprion - Wikipedia

What I learned at work last week: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicop...

FYI, foxes can swim pretty well.

A painted triptych of a wren perched on a twig with lichens. The background of the painting is gold leaf, which is laid on antique French carved wood and gesso folding panels. The wren, which is facing to the right has a little bundle of lichens in his bill, for nest building

On its way to Jersey, this little wren icon, is going to be overwinding in warmer climes