Megan Miller

#ethnoprimatologist | recovering academic | she/her | birder

[Megan Miller @Megan_Millerr]

Me? Blogging? It is more likely than you think! For my first trick, a story about why I love starlings. No idea how often I will write, but I really enjoyed this! https://t.co/wIBtlptxpY

[Megan Miller @Megan_Millerr]

sometimes I forget that I have one of these... anyway I spent 3 weeks in South Africa this year, just got promoted, and am now a database manager. Things are lovely... just don't ask me about how much I miss primate research </3

[Rich McFarland @rich_mcfarland]

We are looking to recruit FOUR volunteer field assistants to join our research project studying wild chacma baboons in South Africa: https://t.co/xJ1PHl8g1w @evo_NTU @PsychologyNTU @UZH_en @unisa @drchrisyoung1 @PrimateSociety

[Megan Miller @Megan_Millerr]

I am so excited to share that I will be returning to Africa in the spring as a teaching assistant for my former bachelor's program. I am so grateful and lucky to experince the part of my life I've been missing so much: data collection and research in natural spaces!

[Robert Komaniecki @Komaniecki_R]

Saying “I can recognize this is AI lmao” is missing the point, your parents and grandparents are about to be bombarded with realistic fake propaganda images on Facebook and it’s going to work

[Margaret Dedloff @MargaretDedloff]

It was very exciting to present my research for the first time at the second day of the M&I retreat!! 🦠🦟

[Megan Miller @Megan_Millerr]

jokes on me I am now going to a work conference for DATA MANAGEMENT

[Megan Miller @Megan_Millerr]

I’m just going to say it: after 6 weeks in my stable 9-5 (with benefits and actually decent pay) I dont miss academia. And what do I miss the least? Conferences 😅

[Dr. Erin P. Riley @ethnoprimate]

I am recruiting master's students to join my #NSF funded project on the human-macaque interface in #Sulawesi, Indonesia! 🐵🌳🇮🇩 I will cover field research expenses for students who conduct their thesis as part of this project! First application deadline: 12/15. RT please 😁

[Alex Sacco, PhD 🪩 @alexandra_sacco]

“No longer can we assume that an individual ape’s social landscape is entirely occupied by members of their own species” -@JakeFunkhouser

Exciting new research out of Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the northern Republic of Congo!

https://t.co/pg78MROlDJ

[Megan Miller @Megan_Millerr]

ha ha i know how to spell. **unsurprisingly

[Megan Miller @Megan_Millerr]

people who have left the research/academic field and returned... how did you get back into it? I might be having a career crisis unsurprisinly. I'm missing research something fierce

[Megan Miller @Megan_Millerr]

i dont really go on here much anymore but my life has been pretty great. filled with lots of love and happiness and birds and plants. what else could you need!

[Megan Miller @Megan_Millerr]

I am so proud of the women who have brought this despicable man’s actions to light. I’ve been wanting to scream his name from the rooftops for years. No longer can the school sit by and deny that he was sexually assaulting young women for over a decade. https://t.co/WkTeCZIDG1

[Megan Miller @Megan_Millerr]

I’m just going to say it: after 6 weeks in my stable 9-5 (with benefits and actually decent pay) I dont miss academia. And what do I miss the least? Conferences 😅

[Megan Miller @Megan_Millerr]

This is my city. These are my neighbors. My friends. The horror of checking up on people I love, just making sure they were safe on Saturday. Of course… I would not have been that individual’s target. It’s not about me- I do want to make that clear.

[Megan Miller @Megan_Millerr]

Thinking about how vehemently racist buffalo and the surrounding suburbs are. How white nationalist organizations run rampant in this city. How local government is complicit in the least, and involved in those organizations more often than not.

[Megan Miller @Megan_Millerr]

Just look at this absolute BEAUT of a white-throated sparrow😍

[Megan Miller @Megan_Millerr]

This Ginsberg poem has my heart. Love as a burden we must carry, an act of resistance in a world that wants to see us hardened 💛

[Megan Miller @Megan_Millerr]

Hearing woodcocks last night was exactly what I needed to get me through the week. I’ve missed their peents!!

[Megan Miller @Megan_Millerr]

Shit. Trying to move away from calling earth (and every being) “it.” Holding myself accountable here 😤

[Megan Miller @Megan_Millerr]

Having conversations with the earth today as it’s warming up. And with the cardinals singing their hearts out. And the grackles that have just arrived this week. And the RWBBs, who are settling in nicely (they’ve told me as much). Spring in the northeast… extraordinary