Aaron Purdy

MSc student at UBC studying the costs of diving for sea lions. Bird nerd, board game geek, podcast producer, and sea lion impersonator

[Web DM @WebDMshow]

🔴 BIGGEST #GIVEAWAY EVER 🔴

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5 @DnDBeyond Legendary Bundles
2 @ArtisanDice sets
@dwarvenforge terrain
@TabletopLoot gear
@Wizards_DnD Ghosts of Saltmarsh
@voidmerchstore shirt awesomeness

Enter: https://t.co/AYMU56XDXU #dnd #ttrpg #dnd5e

[Aaron Purdy @AaronSPurdy]

@nataliemahara I don't know how you always find me at my best...

[Natalie Mahara @nataliemahara]

When @UBCoceans students graduate... (sound on)

[David Rosen @MMeanLab]

Big grad day for @MMeanLab. Sarah, @AaronSPurdy, @RheaStorlund, Andrew Trites. Also Johanna Fee and Alessandra Gentile.

[Cleveland Museum of Natural History @goCMNH]

Stranger steps on the bus
Me: good morning
Stranger: hi, how are you?

my brain:
don't say it
don't say it
don't say it
don't say it
don't say it
don't say it
don't say it

me: 360 million years ago Cleveland was at the bottom of a sea ruled by an armored fish called Dunkleosteus

[Natalie Mahara @nataliemahara]

There are over 9,950 described species of #amphipods. These two were overwintering in the Strait of Georgia last year #ForTheLoveOfZoops

[Aaron Purdy @AaronSPurdy]

Trying to write my thesis and balance my other commitments got me like: https://t.co/VMEus4aKhI

[Anthony Hopkins @AnthonyHopkins]

This is what happens when you’re all work and no play...

[Aaron Purdy @AaronSPurdy]

@joshsilberg I TOO spend too much time talking about animal genitalia. Good to know I’m not alone

[Aaron Purdy @AaronSPurdy]

Do lions count as a marine mammal if their performing underneath a blue whale? #LionDance @scislamCA @beatymuseum

[Aaron Purdy @AaronSPurdy]

Da heckin’ heck???? https://t.co/TkRd2JMevZ

[Charles Bergquist @cbquist]

Good morning! Who needs a nightmare? You? OK!

A newly-described parasitoid wasp species, Dendrocerus scutellaris, may use the spines along its back like a saw to cut open the body of its host.

(img: Carolyn Trietsch)

[Dave Ng @Ng_Dave]

There's so much brilliance and common sense in this editorial decision (if this was D&D, 18s in both wisdom and intelligence scores to the @PLOSBiology staff)! "The importance of being second (a.k.a being scooped)" https://t.co/CU9X0ahPOH

[Aaron Purdy @AaronSPurdy]

@Ng_Dave I wholeheartedly agree. I’m a marine biologist who loves to act and sing. When is @Beakerhead bringing a branch to Vancouver? #scienceartmix

[Beaty Biodiversity Museum 🐳 @beatymuseum]

Very cool performance from @VAMSchool at tonight's #beatynocturnal!

[Dave Ng @Ng_Dave]

Happy Birthday to Sofia Kowalevski. A pioneer for women in mathematics around the world. Was the 1st woman appointed to a full prof in Northern Europe & was also one of the first women to work for a scientific journal as an editor. For more cards, see https://t.co/EH5Bgzfxli

[nature @Nature]

Biologists have created genetically modified fruit flies and yeasts that cannot breed successfully with their wild counterparts. https://t.co/EbOk5IRIt1

[Science Slam Canada 🌷 @scislamCA]

Science isn't just about research and discoveries, it's also about effectively communicating information!... https://t.co/mbxVc6gtJp

[Madeline Cashion 🦈 @madforsharks]

One of @AugerMethe's objectives in comparing different state-space models is simply minimizing the number of times the model says fish are hanging out on land... #IOFseminar

[Aaron Purdy @AaronSPurdy]

How 2 get fisheries nerds 2 care about state-space models on a Friday morning? @AugerMethe puts Clint Eastwood in a fisherman hat @UBCoceans

[Vancouver Aquarium @vanaqua]

Ice, ice...ice, ice, iiiiiice, ice ice ice. (Just an-otter day in the life of #Rialto.)

[Aaron Purdy @AaronSPurdy]

@erikakinach #picturebooksforall #stillachild