Haven't been around here much, but thought there might be a flurry of X-odus folks (though they are perhaps more driven to bsky?)

Anyway, hello.

I'm much more active over here: https://bsky.app/profile/thelabandfield.bsky.social

@bloor @Polypompholyx @alexlomas Hello! Can confirm that the image is fake. Otherwise that person would be in excruciating pain from the talons, as a start.

Just dipping back to say that the
@AdriftLab 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!

https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-postdoctoral-fellowships-2024 #PostdocJobs #PhDJobs

Just dipping back to say that the
@AdriftLab 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!

https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-postdoctoral-fellowships-2024 #PostdocJobs #PhDJobs

Given there's not really many folks here, and the desire to spend less social media time, this account will be in abeyance. Profile links are other places where I can be found.

Here's a crack at some professional goals for 2024 https://labandfield.wordpress.com/2024/01/01/2024-goals/

2023 by the numbers - my annual numerical look back at the professional year that was. Enjoy! https://labandfield.wordpress.com/2023/12/31/2023-by-the-numbers/

2024 is already feeling a bit overly full with things I've already committed to, so the words for the year will be "No, but thank you".

Here's my year-end round-up of "things I thought I would do, and things I ended up (not) doing https://labandfield.wordpress.com/2023/12/25/2023-year-in-review/

Reflection time! 2023 was a mixed year. Some really exciting things professionally (papers, field work, successes in my team), some sadness (leaving colleagues) and lots of exhaustion (I'm far too acquainted with Heathrow these days)

Your fun Christmas bird fact - there are 6 species with "Christmas" in their name!
Christmas Island Boobook
Christmas Island Frigatebird
Christmas Island Imperial-pigeon
Christmas Island White-eye
Christmas Sandpiper
Christmas Shearwater

Happy Christmas (Cactus)

#Schlumbergera #bloomscrolling

It's my annual look back! Does anyone even blog anymore? https://labandfield.wordpress.com/2023/12/25/2023-year-in-review/

I'm running cladistic analyses of biscuits again. I haven't done this since Smith (2005) in the Journal of Unlikely Science.

#Cladistics #research #biscuits #JaffaCakes

Wrens

Scientists will be like "results should be replicable!" but then do all their experiments with a random walk of homebrew code that runs on four computers networked with a nest of BNC cables, each with a different version of MATLAB, and after every experiment the data is saved by walking a flash drive around to each of them since they cant be connected to the internet because one of them still runs Windows XP and if the rest so much as heard of a software update the work of 5 grad students whose whole PhD was spent setting up this monstrosity would be ruined forever.

American friends! (and other relations) -
@AdriftLab will feature on
ABC Nightline on 6 Dec - featuring our work on Lord Howe Island, talking about the mental health challenges of studying plastic pollution and more!

London friends! I'm doing a conversation with Dr Max Liboiron on Wednesday at UCL IAS Common Ground at 16:30.

Queering Science: A view from the bench

Free entry! https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2023/nov/queering-science-view-bench

Delighted and humbled to have been elected the next chair of the Seabird Group. I'm looking forward to the next 4 years!

gondor-critical views

SEABIRDS COUNT MEDIA COVERAGE!

More than half of UK and Ireland seabirds in decline, census finds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/16/more-than-half-of-uk-and-ireland-seabirds-in-decline-census-finds