Matthew Shawkey

Bird guide today: "i wish you two were ornithologists so you'd know how rare this bird is"😐 "I know you're not biologists so you don't know this" 🤐

Not the best picture but a lifer for me

So loud, but so hard to find.. #3_wattled_bellbird

I have heard more (Netherlands-accented) Dutch than Spanish in Monteverde over the last week..

Nice of him to pose for us

View for the next few weeks

Best airplane movies recently are Clint Eastwood's "Juror #2" and "Mister Jimmy" (documentary about an obsessive and talented Japanese Jimmy Page imitator)

Interesting that Sonny in the F1 movie repeatedly calls Joshua "swan" but the Dutch subtitles say "Pauw" (peacock), which actually makes more sense, unless "swan" refers to the color of his uniform

Hezbollah is destroyed. Assad is destroyed. The Iranian regime is toothless, and might soon be destroyed. Soon Hamas will be destroyed. Soon the Abraham Accords will be expanded, and peace will break out across the Middle East. All this, just to keep Netanyahu out of jail

I have to prove that I can speak English well enough to teach in it

trots om BOF-ZAP onderzoeksprofessor te blijven aan de @ugent !

Reptile eggs, while less colourful than bird eggs, have more diverse morphologies, including keratin nanofibers thought to enable variable H2O absorption. Here we (led by Yana Maudens) test this hypothesis by making biomimetic eggs of electrospun keratin! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Whenever I consider whining about the heat, I think of Morbid Angel practicing in a storage unit with no AC in the summer in Tampa, Florida

Our spots were practically in Zaventem, it was really hot out, some of the songs were duds, but the "needle and the damage done"->"harvest moon" transition (among other moments) hit hard

I know I'm just writing about someone else's cool work, but it is still nice to have my byline on the main story on the Science website!

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