@hollypringle
🌱 Ecology PhD student, Biome Health Project, UCL 🦒 Research interests: human & livestock impacts on wildlife, camera traps, Maasai Mara 📍 Bedfordshire, UK 🐾 Bipedal companion to retired IED detection dog Charlie
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
#ATBC2025 has the best freebies
Scientists love to debate and argue, but if there are 3 things every scientist absolutely agrees on, it's that:
1. Climate change is real
2. Vaccines work
3. Those are NOT dire wolves 😤
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GODDAMIT. IT’S NOT A RESURRECTED DIRE WOLF. 20 edits in 19,000 genes.
IT’S NOT GOING TO AID CONSERVATION.
EVERY WRITE UP THAT SWALLOWS AND REGURGITATES THIS GUFFERY WOLFSHIT IS DOING PR FOR A FUNDING ROUND.
This is such nonsense. This company "claims that the same techniques it uses to summon back species from the dead could prevent existing but endangered animals from slipping into extinction themselves." We already have a method for preventing extinction. It's called conservation, and it works.
Dire wolves were not close relatives of gray wolves. They last shared a common ancestor more than 5 million years ago. What Colossal has done is make something new and slapped a dire wolf sticker on it, as if an organism equals a hypothetical genome.
One oat latte for me and a dog-friendly ice cream for Charlie Boy
The Fish Doorbell is live!
THE FISH DOORBELL IS LIVE 🐟 🐠
visdeurbel.nl/en/
“The days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are over.”
Uh....
* unless they're storming the Capitol in support of Trump.
Word of the day is ‘lickspittle’ (17th century): a person who fawns upon someone in power for personal gain.
We are all Zelensky.
Gene editing technology began by people studying salt marshes. Ozempic began by folks studying the venom of Gila Monsters. Support for basic science has empowered us to understand our world. Tethering it to applications health has transformed and saved countless lives.
Charlie and I took a trip to North Herts Museum yesterday. He was very interested in the natural history section. So so proud of how well this boy has adapted to civilian life 🥰 #belgianmalinois #retiredmwd
Nice to see our opinion paper on #species #range #shifts & #species #traits among the 🔟 most downloaded papers in 2024 in #GCB 🌏🌐🧪
@globalchangebio.bsky.social
shorturl.at/j7tQW
A guardian headline titled "hottest January on record mystifies climate scientists".
A BBC article titled "record January warmth puzzles climate scientists".
I don't know, I reckon I could probably guess what's going on 🧐
We are still recruiting Brazilian experts in species ID at Pivotal. It's remote flexible work so a really handy side gig.
If you can identify Brazilian plants or mammals from photos, of frogs, bats or birds from audio, please apply! 🧪
www.researchgate.net/job/1018369_...
Heron
Adult male northern elephant seal looking pretty dang adorable with the rising sun shining on its face.
Someone told me recently that it was impossible for adult male elephants to seals to be cute. I’ve never heard someone be so wrong before.
On the route where dogs are allowed of course!
Went on a beautiful wintery walk with Charlie at RSPB The Lodge the other day. Feel blessed to be within walking distance 🥰
Two visible coyotes and the rear end of one are looking around on a trail between thick oak and pine. The image is from a trail camera so there is a time stamp at the bottom.
Coyote pack in the Sierra Nevada.🧪🦊📷
🦅⚠️ Vultures save lives & billions
The collapse of vultures in India led to a 4% rise in human mortality due to sanitation impacts, costing $69.4 billion annually.
Clearly conserving keystone species has immense social & economic value
🔗 www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
#Conservation #SciComm 🧪
At least there's always 2025.
🧪 #academicsky
Belgian shepherd dog wearing a green velvet bow tie
The smartest boy 🎄💚
Does anyone else think that making money from charging NHS staff, patients+visitors to use car parks is wrong?
I’ve just found this info:
“NHS England Estates data reports that in 2018/19, £271.8 million was made from car park charges—£185.6 from patients/visitors and £86.2 million from staff.”
The last two days I've binged Black Doves and then immediately started The Day Of The Jackal. And, ummm, don't do that... my dreams last night were all about being followed 🫠
Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere.
The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back.
A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year.
Fiat lux!
📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social
