Dr Alex Bond

@thelabandfield.bsky.social

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🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🐧 Conservation, curator in charge of birbs, island hopper, connoisseur of fine teas, biscuit fiend, v left, queer af, he/him.

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SWIFTS! (they've been unusually quiet this summer around here)

Purdah is over. I'm ok with the predicted results. I'd be even more ok if Labour stopped pandering to transphobes. Looking at you, Wes Streeting.

OK who put Ibisbills in with Oystercatchers?! We're gonna have to go outside and "discuss" this...

Did a vote! Two doggos outside getting their photo taken. No line. Smooth as ice wine. 5 stars. Highly recommend.

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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...

Top scientists turning down UK jobs over ‘tax on talent’, says Wellcome bosswww.theguardian.com Next government urged to lower upfront visa costs that are 17 times higher than international average

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Little old me, talking about gay animals for CNN 🥰🌈🙌🧪 edition.cnn.com/2024/06/21/s...

Same-sex behavior among animals is being underreported, study finds | CNNedition.cnn.com Same-sex sexual behavior has been observed in more than 1,500 animal species, but a new study has found that it is massively underreported by researchers.

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kindly requesting that palaeoartists for new papers work in landscape so that I don't have to heavily crop their lovely art to fit the image dimensions at the top of news articles 🙏

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Magnificent birds great skuas #seabirds

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"Your AI girlfriends are neither girls nor friends." is not even the second most barbed point in that string

The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...

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Breaking News: Thailand is poised to become the first country in Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex marriage after lawmakers approved an equality bill on Tuesday.

Thailand’s Legislature Approves Same-Sex Marriage Lawwww.nytimes.com The bill, which needs the king’s endorsement to become law, underscores Thailand’s status as a relative haven in Asia for L.G.B.T.Q. people.

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My debut novel A MARKET OF DREAMS AND DESTINY is eligible for nomination for @britfantasysoc.bsky.social Awards! A goblin market in the faerie underworld of an alternate Victorian London. Gay boys in love, magical bargains, strike action…and a talking cat! NEVERWHERE x NEWSIES! Vote below:

Voting for the British Fantasy Awards is open! Cast your votes here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... by Saturday, June 29th. Would you like to be a juror? Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Vote for the British Fantasy Awards 2024docs.google.com You can vote for the BFAs if you are any of the following: - A member of the British Fantasy Society - An attendee at FantasyCon 2023 (Birmingham) - A ticket-holder for FantasyCon 2024 (Chester) For ...

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Hmm, seems right to me. 🧪

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One of the best, most poignant paper titles out there @pdpolly.bsky.social

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It's #PrideMonth! Follow in @sarahdalgulls.bsky.social's steps and head to our Teemill store to buy your #seabird themed pride merch: seabirdgroup.teemill.com 🏳️‍🌈🌊🐦

This month excitingly I've got Edinburgh Pride with my amazing cousin and Dundee Pride with my wonderful friends @mkhardywrites.bsky.social so I've treated myself to one of the excellent pride-themed t-shirts from @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social seabirdgroup.teemill.com

Seabird Groupseabirdgroup.teemill.com

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Quick heads up. Gavin Thomas, Thomas Guillerme and I will be hiring a 3 year postdoc (based in Sheffield) to work on a convergent evolution project. R, PCMs, multivariate datasets etc. Advert will go out in the next few weeks. Please contact us if interested!

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You don't need another reason to never, ever publish in an MDPI journal. But in case you do, consider this one: pretending it's OK to plagiarise a thesis because it isn't "prior publication"

“the publisher said the behavior did not amount to plagiarism because the prior work was a thesis.” I’m sorry WHAT (Adding a citation might be the right fix, but the journal needs to move a LOT faster — and if there’s verbatim copying a citation won’t fix it) retractionwatch.com/2024/06/03/a...

‘A disturbing experience’: Postdoc fights to have work that plagiarized her thesis retractedretractionwatch.com Solange Saxby In December, Solange Saxby, a postdoctoral research fellow at Dartmouth Health in Lebanon, New Hampshire, was notified by her friend of a paper published in the MDPI journal Nutrients…

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June the 4th be with you!!

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New comic: How to tell a Carpenter Bee from a Bumble Bee. Thanks watchingbees.com for the help! Support me on Patreon for more content: www.patreon.com/birdandmoon

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This may be a radical thought but: if you say this meeting could be an email, you do need to actually read the email.

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Thinking of a good #postdoc #fellowship at a cool workplace with an awesome host (all of which I can attest to)? If you're into #ConservationBiology and #PlasticPollution, check out @thelabandfield.bsky.social's pitch!

The @adriftlab.bsky.social is looking for applicants to the Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship scheme! We do cutting-edge research on the effects of #PlasticPollution on wildlife, mixing lab & field tools. Folks with CT/morphology or wildlife acoustics experience particularly encouraged!

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'I've robbed the rainbow to make you gay' Jester Wools (UK), 1947. Via messybeast.com

And if your Pride Month to do list includes "find a postdoc" and your eligible for the below, drop us a line!

This is a bird site pride month trend. I'm Alex (he/him), a conservation scientist & ornithologist in charge of the bird collection of NHM London. Outside of work, it's running & climbing at the moment. And of course being a dad to Webster. Fun fact: I've fallen into 4/5 major oceanic basins.

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🌈It's #Pride Month!🌈 Which means my ✨debut book✨ is now in the wild! A Little Gay Natural History has been a bit of a labour of love, and I hope you'll all enjoy it! Get your hot little hands on a copy exclusively from the Natural History Museum 👇 www.nhmshop.co.uk/a-little-gay...

The lovely @aremay.bsky.social has been keeping this wonderful travelogue of the 1959 BOU Expedition to Ascension for me for nearly a year. It's such a lovely read 🥰

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Do you remember when the V&A put a jockstrap on display in "Fashioning Masculinities"? Good times 😁👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Bonus bum in the Farnese Hercules artwork in the background 🍑➕ Thanks Dan Vo for sharing 😁

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CHOOSE YOUR TEAM

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Last week I was interviewed about our work at the Natural History Museum on plastic ingestion by wildlife, and how plastic releases potentially harmful chemicals as it degrades in the ocean. You can read about it here: www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

Plastics in birds’ stomachs release toxic chemicals, study suggestswww.independent.co.uk The researchers are just finishing the six-month study of deliberately degrading plastic in artificial seawater

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We sometimes find Brown Long-eared Bats using our bird boxes on Öland, but this is the first time I can remember finding a Pipistrelle. I have no idea if it is identifiable down to the species level from this photo, if anyone can ID it, let me know! @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social

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Harrowing but entirely unsurprising analysis on the prevalence of bullying & harassment in these science fields. All data pointing to how marginalised groups experiencing these epidemic proportions of bad behaviours at work. The data is so striking, but will it lead to meaningful change?🧪

A bullying problem reveals an astronomy and geophysics community in crisis - Nature Astronomywww.nature.com A survey of astronomy and geophysics professionals has revealed prevalent bullying and harassment within the sector, with women and marginalized groups most likely to suffer. It is time for the commun...