Last week we had (a dusting of) snow! Fia adores it and makes the most of it by thoroughly engaging with it at every opportunity

I made the mistake of messaging all of my friends in one go and now I'm in no mood for socialising as they are all responding at once

@rebeccagrut.bsky.social ’s poster is up at the #asabwinter2024😃 Stop by to learn about how to study #prosocial behaviour in laying hens 🐔🐣 Do hens help their friend get a treat?
#layinghens

Delighted to be at @asab.org #asabwinter2024 for two days of excellent #animalbehaviour talks & networking. Loving this idea as well to foster inclusive ways for attendees to engage! @basrodenburg.bsky.social @drmariarorvang.bsky.social can we do this for #ISAE2025?!

Have an idea for a short animal welfare project? @ufaw.bsky.social's student scholarship competition is open - applications due in Feb. www.ufaw.org.uk/animal-welfa...

Click to Visit #ASafeChoice Network

If you see this post, can you please help spread this information?

#ASafeChoice is a referral network of physicians who provide medication abortion services ACROSS THE US.

People everywhere need to know about this option. These doctors have capacity to help more women!

Let’s spread word! ❤️✊

It is our pleasure to announce that abstract submission for the 58th International Congress of the ISAE on applied animal behaviour and welfare is now open! Submission deadline is 15 February 2025! Instructions and topics can be found here: isae2025.exordo.com/login

A black dog with a Santa hat on

‘Tis the season 🎄

A black dog with a white star on her chest looking quizzically at the camera. The background is a wall hanging pattered with bats. The dog is wearing red fluffy devil horns

Checking the doggy daycare Facebook page and realising they dressed Fia up for Halloween is exactly what I needed on this rainy Friday

As I have somehow surpassed 7k followers on here I thought it might be nice to do a giveaway: All 7 of my books to one lovely winner. Just share and like to be in with a chance! 😁📚

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!

Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚

Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

Me: at my desk wading through peer review comments and ethical approval forms, trying to finish my PhD while starting a new job, stressy

Fia: has apparently never been so relaxed in her life

This is your reminder to get a library card. They have so many services and basically all of them are free.

Animals' Understanding of Death w/ Susana Monsó On this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by author and assistant professor at the Dept. of Logic, History, and Philosophy of Science at the National Distance Education University (UNED) in Madrid...

I enjoyed this chat with Cara Santa Maria so much! It honestly didn’t feel like an interview, just two little goths nerding it out.

Starting baldur’s gate 3 when I have muliple deadlines before the end of the month has turned out to be a very bad idea

The evolutionary genomics of life-history adaptations in pinnipeds - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network Project summary Pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, fur seals and walrus) are keystone marine predators, and sentinels for marine ecosystem health. Advances in genomics technologies are opening up the possib...

New PhD studentship opportunity in my lab & with collaborators from the Pinniped Genomes Consortium. Come help us unravel the genomics of seal physiological super powers! Closing date 6th January 2025 🧪🦭🧬🌍🦑🐳 #marine #mammals
#consgen #popgen #phylo #molevol #evolution
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She’s taken it upon herself to help the cows break the ice 🧊

Aristotle like chipotle

Boyfriend does not like this as Fia greets him in the morning with cold nose nudges and gentle paw pokes

A black dog curled up on a bed’s pillow

A black dog lying with her head on a persons face

Every morning when I wake up Fia comes and lays on the pillow for morning snuggles, and if the snuggles aren’t good enough she lets me know by smushing her head directly onto my face 😂

Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.

1) ‘priority boarding’ to the milking machine for at-risk dairy cows
2) robotically milked dairy cows & cognitive function

More often than not, I hear countless stories about the toxic culture that exists within academia.

Setting boundaries IS self-care.

#AcademicSky #MentalHealthSky, how are you setting boundaries in your work and environment?

#PostDoc #AcademicJobs #CarbonManagement 🧪

Bookish checkpoint

✧ last book you read: If Only They Could Talk by James Herriot
✧ your current read: Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
✧ last book added to tbr: Everything to Play For by Marijam Did
✧ next anticipated read: All the Murmuring Bones by Angela Slatter

#booksky 💙📚

Me in march: It’s a great idea to make all the presents I gift this year, it’ll be so fun and rewarding

Me now: Christmas is how soon?!?!

Libraries, providing free information to everyone, are the bedrock of a free society.

And a shoutout to all the librarians out there! Thank you for all you do!!!

#ILoveLibraries

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