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Catherine Sheard@sheardcat.bsky.social |
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#NewPI @ University of Aberdeen
professionally: macroevolution, especially birds & languages
personally: drinks too much coffee, plays too much D&D
she/her
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Catherine Sheard
@sheardcat.bsky.social
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Q: What's the average litter size (of this mammal)? A: 17,000 offspring. (To be clear, this is my own data that I'm cleaning, not someone else's.)
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BOU
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EARLY VIEW in IBIS
Body mass, diet, foraging strata and foraging behaviour predict variation in the propensity to join mixed-species flocks across birds | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Guy Beauchamp, G. Giselle Mangini | #ornithology
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Catherine Sheard
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Data checking can be so entertaining sometimes. Q: What's the average litter size? A: 0.8 offspring. Q: How often does this (mammal) species give birth? A: Once every 468 years.
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Catherine Sheard
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(look I'm from a country that has the electoral college, I don't really have a leg to stand on)
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Catherine Sheard
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if nothing else this is the first graph I've seen today that acknowledges, y'know, that Northern Ireland exists, sooooo
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Bronwyn
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Cool Thing for today: an official Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) dub of Star Wars: A New Hope debuts in Winnipeg next month, August 8, and will stream at some point on Disney+! www.youtube.com/shorts/OPVVb...
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Catherine Sheard
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is trusted to *run a? is trusted *with a? who knoooooooooows. but this is clearly enough internet for me today. 🤦♀️
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Catherine Sheard
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there are a bunch of unwritten social norms about bsky/etc. interactions, and everyone's on edge because a non-trivial number of accounts are actively acting in bad faith. it's really hard. :-(
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Catherine Sheard
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oh gosh, apparently. I have been tagged in so many things today oh no
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Catherine Sheard
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Me: is trusted to a professional social media account Also me: is somehow a total gremlin on my own socials????? ughhhhhhhhhhhhh.
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Catherine Sheard
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so over the weekend, on the Other Site, I posted something totally inane and included a gif, because why not. Today(!), I noticed that instead of the gif I thought I had included on that tweet, I had instead clicked something TOTALLY RANDOM AND WEIRD omgggg. sigh.
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Catherine Sheard
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oof yeah I really miss Twitter-heyday's diversity. it was so nice to see a range of voices and lived experiences!
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Catherine Sheard
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That's a fantastic point -- seeing people talk (positively, or at least constructively) about science is really missing from bsky. I also deeply miss the days of live-tweeting conferences, it was a great way to learn more about what everyone's up to!
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Catherine Sheard
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I think some combination of fewer people on bsky, lots of people being deeply burned out on social media, and maybe bsky (or at least the people I follow here) skewing older than the voices I followed during Twitter's heyday?
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Catherine Sheard
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okay not a useful answer to your question, but I've always wanted to do the drive up to Alaska, and I want to know everything about that drive when you do it, please and thank
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Margot Finn
@eicathomefinn.bsky.social
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"The new report provides an evidence-based critique of a recent independent review in the U.K., known as the “Cass Review,” that has become central to U.S. litigation." This article is important in itself, but also as a reminder that "postcolonial" US law remains entangled in English legal thinking.
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Dr Ben Britton
@bmatb.bsky.social
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This is a wild amount of money that we are talking about.
The average post doc salary in the UK is circa £40k. The NHS surcharge of c. £1k per year, up front, makes me understand why folks have been struggle to recruit in the UK.
www.theguardian.com/education/ar...
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Microplastics Sommelier
@leastactionhero.bsky.social
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einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
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David Ho
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Last night was a shitshow, but I'd still vote for the one who struggles to finish a sentence but has done more for climate than anyone in recent memory over the convicted felon who cannot utter a truthful sentence. 🤷🏻♂️
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Mike Wiser
@drmikewiser.bsky.social
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Virtual #Evol2024: If you have to miss a talk that looks interesting to you (bad for your time zone; another speaker at the same time; non-conference life conflict; etc), most speakers have OKed their talks being recorded. After they're processed, you can replay previous sessions from the lobby.
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Catherine Sheard
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oh man, that's such a good paper
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Katie Mack
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Just FYI we’re entering a summer Covid wave right now (especially western regions in the US); you can see it in the CDC wastewater plot here (and anecdotally a bunch of my friends are suddenly testing positive). www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVI...
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Apoorva Mandavilli
@apoorvanyt.bsky.social
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Breaking: All Americans ages 6 months and older should receive one of the new Covid-19 vaccines when they become available this fall, scientific advisers to the CDC said on Thursday.
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/h...
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Catherine Sheard
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You have top-tier snacks, good sir. (I stocked up on M&S snacks in anticipation of the conference, but then proceeded to eat a decent chunk of them last night 😂)
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Catherine Sheard
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My experience of #evol2024 so far -- whoops!
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Catherine Sheard
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The guy and I did the phone-equivalent of staring blankly at each other, then I gave up and wrote a cranky email to the company, including proof that I was the one paying the bills during the time that they overcharged me. But I'm baffled???
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Catherine Sheard
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Electricity company (EC) letter: Hello, we overcharged you. Call this number to get a refund. Me: Hello! I would like my refund. EC: Oh, that refund's not for you. Me: Oh? EC: It's for the occupier. Me: I am the occupier. EC: No, the occupier is the person responsible for the bills. Me: I am???
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Shoshana 🏳️⚧️
@shoshana.bsky.social
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🏳️🌈 Summer Camp for Trans and Non-Binary Kids 🏳️⚧️ It's hard for me to even imagine how life-changing and life-affirming it would have been to go to a trans summer camp growing up.
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Catherine Sheard
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I am reviewing the most BEAUTIFULLY written manuscript holy cow. Whoever you are, I want to write science like you, please and thank you. (Earlier today I was reviewing a different manuscript, which I'm like 80% sure was written by AI. Swings and roundabouts.)
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Ro-gue Algorithm
@boredoftheoldone.bsky.social
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Since Victoria was on throne there have been numerous studies, hundreds of articles and statistics, millions of kids... Yet still it's supposed to be news to learn that - would you believe it? - growing up in poverty has a negative effect on your life.
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Tim Onion
@bencollins.bsky.social
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Here’s a miracle solution: stop fuckin doing it
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Emily Lakdawalla
@elakdawalla.bsky.social
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Every academic article has a corresponding author whose email address is listed on the first page. If an article is paywalled, just send a short, polite email requesting a PDF from the author. 95% of the time you’ll receive it within a day. People like knowing their work is being read!
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Catherine Sheard
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I totally get that most Americans don't know anything about Namibia, but if your literal job is to check people in for international flights...
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Catherine Sheard
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Once when checking in for a flight in Memphis, TN, I got the standard "where's your final destination" question, and when I answered "Windhoek, Namibia", we proceeded to have a truly surreal conversation where the airline employee tried to insist Namibia isn't a place -- did I perhaps mean Libya?
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Andrew Ducker
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Laura Helmuth
@laurahelmuth.bsky.social
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Take it easy this week if you're under the heat dome, where Vermont will be hotter than Miami. Here's why & what to expect, by @andreatweather.bsky.social 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/inte...
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Dr Manabu Sakamoto
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I hope people realise that UK citizens having their citizenship withdrawn regardless of where they were born is a terrifying thought. You might think immigrants aren't really British so it's not a big deal but who else can this apply to next?
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Catherine Sheard
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also what I wrote wasn't really English, sorry, I clearly meant all-gender restrooms 🤦♀️. all kids, one category of restroom. sigh. it's Monday. but yeah we didn't even have gendered restrooms until 4th grade, and kids are definitely getting periods by then
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Catherine Sheard
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1) YES THIS 2) also yes to everything your first post in-thread 3) ...my elementary school had single-gender restrooms? Was that unusual?
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Kevin Gannon
@thetattooedprof.bsky.social
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The problem isn't that AI can do your job (it can't). The problem is management thinks AI can do your job.
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Delthia Ricks
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#H5N1: Traces of bird flu virus have emerged in Austin wastewater, far from affected Texas dairy farms. State health officials are struggling to keep up with H5N1’s spread but the scope of the outbreak remains *unknown* despite increased surveillance www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Julia Doubleday
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I was nervous to write this bc I know all the outlets I called out have a lot more resources than me; however, I’m simply tired of watching journalists bill themselves as leftists while they silently watch us die. Enough.
t.co/5Y4qsQ6B4p
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Catherine Sheard
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Also while I'm just, like, grousing, I'm 0/2 for smart meters working, and also 0/2 for utilities companies believing me that the smart meters aren't working. (Today I got an email that Octopus FINALLY realised I was correct that they were undercharging me. Argh.)
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Catherine Sheard
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This evening's grocery order just, like, never arrived. It's extremely mysterious. 🤷♀️🥖🍎 (I'll call them in the morning. It's just, y'know, strange.)
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Catherine Sheard
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Also, having extremely patient people around me helped A TON. I go to France, I get mocked for, like, existing, of course I'm not going to speak French unless I absolutely must. I rock up to a little village in Indonesia, people are super friendly? I'm super motivated to learn how to talk to them!
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Catherine Sheard
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Immersion's pretty unusual, especially given that most of us have data-connected phones in our pockets these days, but, uh, near-complete immersion worked pretty well for me. I had no choice in Indonesia but to figure out how to communicate in Bahasa, so I did. 😂
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Brian J. Enquist
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This was a bomb waiting to go off. We desperately need to revamp our databases as this is unsustainable 'we rigorously assess data within the global plant trait database, TRY...for one trait ~3/4 of data in TRY either lacked applicability or traceability' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🌎
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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️🌈🚀🦄 📜
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Hey US freelancers, if you are the kind of person who does quarterly estimated taxes, they are due in a few days on June 15.
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Rob
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I know it's anecdotal, but the only people I've met who oppose UBI on the grounds that it "breeds apathy", are well paid people who admit they'd do nothing if given UBI. Most of us aren't that lazy and want to contribute to society's betterment and our own personal growth.
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Catherine Sheard
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Congratulations!!!
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