@evornithology YES WTF
If I had half my students fail, that's an issue in the course design, if I set reasonable (and may I note, not-in-the-least-dumbed down) standards and the course can't get them there, that's a FAILURE on MY part.
@TalisenTales@phoggyyarf pls no TNR, it doesn't solve the primary problem of having cats outdoors - that they're invasive predators outdoors contributing to a roughly 50% decline in bird populations in the past 50 years
I'm going to befriend and trap the new stray cat on campus and HOME it
@dhm Internally screaming - who has decided it's DESIRABLE to do "scholarly" research as a high school student? That would raise a huge red flag for me, the last thing I want in my lab is someone who thinks they're an "experienced researcher" but actually just paid to play
@evornithology@sunyoswego@brookedgoodman those students in the second picture look so unimpressed with the tuftie... don't worry tuftie I think you're fantastic
@lollypng Made the main story worse, made the postgame better, added the wormhole to the alternate reality where Buzzwole lives and everything (even the trees) is flexing
@isabelkaplan From undergrad to Ph.D. to postdoc to faculty - and closeted/feminine-presenting to loudly out nonbinary - my partner is there helping me manage all the obnoxious life details so I can build telescopes and burn the way we teach physics to the ground so I can rebuild it :)
@wiscobirder One of the absolute joys of winter birding, they have the sweetest voices and just don’t seem to care that I’m Right There watching them
Extra bonus red-winged blackbird call in the background reminding us that spring does come!!