Ari Rice

Bird nerd studying avian landscape genomics with the Manthey lab at TTU. Lover of hybrid zones, memes, and obscure animal taxa. He/him. Tweets are my own.

[Ari Rice @AriBirdman]

PRAYING MANTISES ARE INSECT CENTAURS!

[Ari Rice @AriBirdman]

I. ALWAYS. GET. THE. LAST. DAY. OF. PRESENTATION. SLOTS. AT. CONFERENCES.

ALWAYS!

[Ari Rice @AriBirdman]

Tell me why 🎵

My code gives me a headache 🎵

Tell me where 🎵

My shell script has a mistake 🎵

Tell me why 🎵

I cannot run this slurm array 🎵

rm * my life today 🎵

[Ari Rice @AriBirdman]

@AubertHeidi1 (2/2) My stance has softened since then. Like, I get it. Cats are irresistibly cute and make humans think irrationally. But for fuck’s sake, be responsible. You don’t let your cat wander unsupervised for the same reason that you wouldn’t let an animal-abusing toddler run amok.

[Ari Rice @AriBirdman]

@AubertHeidi1 I used to get into all sorts of online arguments with outdoor cat advocates who might as well have been nazi sympathizers in my eyes. Then I took in a stray cat who was cruelly abandoned by my neighbor & found indoor homes for 2 more. (1/2)

[Ari Rice @AriBirdman]

@Chigalow @NewYorker Or maybe you just can’t read?

[Ari Rice @AriBirdman]

@triangleDAYS @NewYorker No. I’ll tell you why this doesn’t work. Firstly, desexed cats still kill wildlife. Secondly, having groups of well-fed cats living outside just encourages more idiots to dump them, negating any population decreases. Cute as they may be, cats do not belong outside. Period.

[Ari Rice @AriBirdman]

Visited my old “home” today. Measured some specimens. Talked to several amazing folks at happy hour. Paid respects to a Bachman’s Warbler. #FMNH

[Dan Baldassarre @evornithology]

“Dad, I don’t like birds. I wanna be a marine biologist!”

[Ari Rice @AriBirdman]

AAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Ari Rice @AriBirdman]

@Sirforde_Vol2 @samanthaiam (I’m not being completely serious)

[Ari Rice @AriBirdman]

@Sirforde_Vol2 @samanthaiam Hey, they’re just trying their best to make up for past transgressions!

[Ari Rice @AriBirdman]

@NeonTetraploid Yes

[Ari Rice @AriBirdman]

I hope I’m reincarnated as a bird. Not so much because I’ll be granted the gift of flight. But more so that I can shit on people without legal repercussions.

[Ari Rice @AriBirdman]

I see no difference between these two options. The bird is misidentified and I find that offensive.

[Ari Rice @AriBirdman]

All I want for Christmas is whole-genome sequence data for my warbler samples!

[Ari Rice @AriBirdman]

@skwinnicki I would honestly prefer an email like this over the usual novella of groveling that leads to begging.

“Dear Professor Rice,
I am so sorry to bother you, but I am very concerned about my grade in this class…I am a hard-working pre-med student… please show some compassion.”

[Ari Rice @AriBirdman]

@evornithology If I HAD to guess, birds are probably smart enough to not bathe when there's a serious risk of hypothermia. Hot springs would otherwise be death traps for them, and those have been around a lot longer than heated bird baths.

[Ari Rice @AriBirdman]

The only vote that matters is right here.

https://t.co/sGuSyMuEeG

[Stephen Hopkins @phil_lol_ogist]

Sundays are for asking the hard hitting questions