Okay but that largely sounds delicious. (I'm a _huge_ fan of tuna noodle casserole.)
Also, I adorable home-made rice crispie treats, especially made from the Christmas edition rice crispies. Though those plastic-y pre-packaged one can get in the bin. 😂
Huh, American food more broadly -- Kraft Mac & Cheese? That staple childhood food of a particular age and social class? So gross. 0/10 not for me.
Oh man, I adore biscuits and gravy 😂.
As someone who grew up adjacent to Québec before poutine became trendy, though, I would like to say that poutine is not to my personal taste.
(I can't think of any North Country foods that I dislike. Because maple syrup is delicious.)
Crikey this is a nice (and, yes, extremely North America-coded) house.
Uh, 1918 would like a word.
I've never actually seen a flamingo in the wild, despite twice being in places where there should have been a gazillion. Oh well, excuse to go back to the Camargue!
A friend of mine just messaged me to ask if I had any pictures of dead flamingoes that she could show her 5-year-old.
FRIEND, DO I EVER.
(As in, museum specimens, not roadkill.)
(Look, I have a *very* specific skillset.)
Our paper on generalized dynamic phylogenetic models is finally out in MEE 🥳 The brainchild of @err-ring.bsky.social, GDPMs open up a vast new space for comparative studies on complex, coevolving traits, greatly aided by @scottclaessens.bsky.social's work on the accompanying R package. Check it out!
"Human activity fills the world with noise. The sounds of cars, airplanes, boats and industrial activities produce a steady roar that impacts wild animals."
I've written an article for The Conversation about noise pollution and bird song. 🚘🎶🐦 Read it here:
theconversation.com/paris-has-su...
Yes, driving is a thing I've been able to do for over half my life. Yes, driving is an activity that virtually every USian adult does virtually every day. Yes, teenage!me drove *a lot*.
Truly, I am three gremlins in a trenchcoat, and this week those gremlins are terrified of driving.
Yes, these days I have not one but two driving licenses. Yes, I drove in six different countries last year (including straight after a trans-Atlantic flight) and nothing too terrible happened.
Still. 😭
I have to drive in a New Place later this week, and, y'all, I am very anxious about this 😱
Good morning Bluesky.
Say hello to our resident Orca, in front of the Seattle waterfront during a gorgeous PNW sunset. He was traveling with his family and T034s, T037/T037Bs. Those little ones in the pods are always the most playful ones. We love our whales. This photo should be a poster!
All* of my USian friends and family are baffled that I've never owned a car and are horrified when I try to explain that I walk or take public transit everywhere. 😂
*Exception: the NYC folks get it.
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
Guys there are so many belugas. A truly ungodly number of belugas.
Great tit perched on a branch, with beak slightly open. Photo credit: Alizée Vernouillet
📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us:
🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦
Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social
📆29th May deadline
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I'm hiring! 2 x postdocs in Cognitive Anthropology, Archaeology and Linguistics, to work on the cultural history of Australia and Papua. More details in link below, and please do repost or share elsewhere!
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🐦 New PhD position!
@prfju.bsky.social @ckecz.bsky.social
Nest defence in passerine birds
Interested in animal behaviour, fieldwork and evolutionary ecology?
📅 Start July 2026 | ⏳ 4 years | 💰 Fully funded
Apply by May 10 → veselp03@jcu.cz / krausl07@jcu.cz
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What happens *after* enemy release? In a new paper, we present 7 years of infection & immune trait dynamics in 16 lake populations of stickleback.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
This is definitely the longest-scale study I've done in my career, I'm very excited to see it out.
1/6
This is probably how my undergrads feel after some of my stats lectures 😂
Words to live by!
And there is additional strong evidence that Shingles vaccine delays or reduces dementia. Everyone eligible should get this vaccine
"The big math changes to small math by same change".
"This part show how change in number make line in graph up or down for speed, spin, hot, and mix in layer."
I have a personal rule that I don't criticise other academics on social media, unless there's clear and direct harm to a human being.
I'm making an except for this beautiful dumpster fire. The abstract is practically performance art.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I’m looking to hire a postdoc. We’re interested in the evolution of organs and cell types, and evolutionary and developmental genetics more broadly. Please reach out if you’re interested and please pass on to any folks that you know who might be! 🪰🧬
Things can be both scary and manageable. Or so I tell myself every time I have to deal with MCSA/ERC/Horizon/etc. 😂
(C.f. UKRI, whose online systems are a breeze to navigate.)
Also, if you're a bit baffled by the fellowships call (marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post... is a more direct link than what I quote-tweeted), you aren't alone. It's a much less scary process than it looks, though. Competitive, yes, but I promise the bureaucracy is manageable.
Want to switch countries for a postdoc? Specifically, are you European, or are you non-European wanting to come to Europe? Now's the time to reach out to potential host labs!
(It's very normal to cold-email a PI about potentially hosting -- don't be shy!)
