Joanna Bagniewska @JMBagniewska@qoto.org
Zoologist, science communicator, author of The Modern Bestiary.
Joined Nov 2022
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Ewolucja stworzyła zębatkę, by umożliwić fulgomorfom synchronizację pracy odnóży podczas skoków.
Zdj. Igor Siwanowicz (nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/…) i Wikipedia.
#PieknoNauki
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Southern Iceland is home to one of the most surreal landscapes I’ve ever seen. Nothing but moss as far as the eye could see. We got close to the ground and looked carefully, but didn’t see a single insect even when we gently rolled a small rock to peek underneath.
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@JimsPhotos @Caroline21 I love both of them. Here's some photo evidence that nuthatches go every way including upside down!
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Jak rozpoznać osobę nową na #mastodon, przychodzącą z #birdsite?
Mało podbija, sporo lajkuje.
Dlaczego?
Przyzwyczajenie, lajk wystarczy, resztę zrobi algorytm.
Otóż nie, tutaj tak to nie działa. Bo tutaj nie ma algorytmu innego niż ludzie.
Podbij, samo się nie zrobi :)
Nie podbijesz? Ludzie nie zobaczą.
Nie dziwią setki czy tysiące podbić dla tootków anglojęzycznych, ich #fediverse jest starsze i większe. Chcemy, by nasze polskie urosło?
Podbijajmy tootki
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#FediTipsPL #FediPomoc
I've had my first sighting of the #Australian subspecies of #TheModernBestiary in the wild 💙 The staff at Dymocks in Knox City were very kind to not laugh at my absurd enthusiasm, but let me sign a couple of copies instead.
#book #author #nonfiction
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This is my favourite photo I have taken. It is the Kalbarri National Park in Western Australia.
#australia $westernaustralia #landscapes #landscapephotography #art
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New native bee species 🐝 with distinctive 'snout' described in Australia 🇦🇺. "Bees don't have noses, they smell with their antennae, but it looked like a snout," claims researcher @beebabette@twitter.com.
🗞️@abcnews@twitter.com: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-05/native-bee-species-discovered-perth-kings-park-snout/101616420
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I am 100% not shitting you when I say scientists named mastodons after their teeth which they thought looked like nipples. “Mastos” as in breast. “odont” as in tooth.
We’re on a website that, in Greek, literally means “Booby Tooth.”
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If you want to be a kind Mastodon citizen and use alt-text for your #images so that those who are vision impaired can enjoy, too, follow @PleaseCaption and it will magically remind you when you forget! #photography #photos #photo
I should probably do a proper introductory toot, seeing that more and more people are making the move from the avian to the proboscid side of the internet...
So, #hello 👋
I'm a zoologist and a science communicator, from Poland, based in Oxford, UK. Currently, I split my time between #academia (Senior Lect at #Brunel Uni London) and public engagement (at #Oxford University), I also do freelance #scicomm in both Polish and English.
Oh, and I wrote a #book (non-fiction, about animals, not for kids unless you're happy to do your own explanations of awkward sex stuff): https://geni.us/modernbestiary
What I like:
- #animal facts and factoids
- #cycling as the main mode of transport
- #HigherEd teaching
What I dislike:
- pictures of fake animals posing as the real deal
- lack of public transport infrastructure
- scary movies
Pic © 2022 Greg Blatchford yewneek.com
I took this picture 14 years ago - and now, thanks to the hashtag #Mosstodon, it will hopefully get the recognition it truly deserves!
If you're in #Australia and wondering what pressies to buy this Christmas, look no further - head to your local bookstore for a lovely paperback of #TheModernBestiary!
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It may not be too late to wake up
RT @ProfBillMcGuire@twitter.com
Staggering findings.
Yet one more piece of evidence that we are sleepwalking towards environmental catastrophe.
By the time we wake up, it will be far too late.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ProfBillMcGuire/status/1604772960518242307
Today's article in #Nature: "Results show that a quantifiable and meaningful portion of COVID-19 vaccine side-effects is predicted by vaccine hesitancy, demonstrating that side-effects comprise a psychosomatic nocebo component in vaccinated individuals."🤯
#COVID #vaccine #nocebo
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-21434-7
It only took 92 years... French ref Stéphanie Frappart becomes the first woman to take charge of a men’s football match at World Cup finals. Well done to her and her team!⚽️🔥
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/nov/30/stephanie-frappart-to-be-first-woman-to-referee-mens-world-cup-match
Now this kind of verification I can get on board with!
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#hedgehogs
#HedgehogOrCactus
#NotARobot
Toot toot! Here I am, hello - I'll write about zoology, academia, Poles in the UK, and probably other stuff, too.
Zoologist, science communicator, author of The Modern Bestiary.
Joined Nov 2022
