Historian of biology, PNW, fur trade, science & empire, science & conservatism. Now on Bluesky: @bschefke.bsky.social
Seattle, Wash.
Joined December 2009
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ALT A woodcut of a canada goose beside the text "what the fuck is your deal?"
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Our buses can get you to the big #SeattlePrideParade on Sunday! 🌈🌈🌈
Parade info: seattlepride.org/
Service advisories: kingcounty.gov/en/dept/metro…
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Kickoff #SummerReading at the #detroitpubliclibrary Campbell Branch this Tuesday, June 20 at 1 pm with the Huron-Clinton Metroparks! Learn about birds of prey in Michigan--hawks, eagles, falcons, and owls. Can you spot them in Detroit?
RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/metroparks-…
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The school voucher movement began as resistance to the integration of public schools.
kut.org/education/2017-03-16…
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Postdocs reached a Tentative Agreement on our next contract tonight! ✊
Tomorrow, we will make a collective decision around the timing for ending our strike. Members, check your email for details as well as information about the ratification vote process!
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The number of birds in North America has declined by 3 billion in the last 50 years. to.pbs.org/3NoBpUw
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Local Man Fondly Recalls When Seattle Residents Could Actually Afford Homes to Do Drugs In: bit.ly/40CVI3V
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1962 concrete and glass law office in Cuyahoga Falls, OH designed by Akron architect E. Keith Haag
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When they're nestlings, Belted Kingfishers have acidic stomachs that help them digest bones, fish scales, and arthropod shells. But their stomach chemistry changes by the time they leave the nest, and they begin regurgitating pellets, similar to owls. bit.ly/3q0aUJ4
ALT A Belted Kingfisher perched on a branch. Credit: Brian Kushner/Audubon Photography Awards
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Good paper about the limitations of polygenic scores: bmj.com/content/380/bmj-2022…
"Incorporating PGS into existing screening programmes is not without risk... screening for colorectal cancer found that adding PGS did not improve diagnostic accuracy but did add complexity & cost."
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Call-for-Proposals: the Midwest since 1965 #twitterstorians @WhaHistory @The_OAH @AHAhistorians @WHAGrads @BGSUGradCol @PubHistoryUIUC @kshistoryjrnl @notesoniowa @illinoisIHLC @ohioarchivists @mnhs @NewberryLibrary @HistoryNebraska @UNPjournals @wihumanities @MichiganHist
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“It’s going to be impossible to fix the sideways escher-lators, and I can’t even begin to put a timeline on the upside down ones,” said engineer Kelly Jackson, examining a lithograph blueprint.
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Birds have complex, four-color visual systems & intricate social lives—resulting in a tremendous array of plumage and facial ornaments to help. Rediscover the beauty & diversity of birds by taking a peek into @TimFlach’s entrancing photography collection. bit.ly/3tgwsSn
ALT Two Splendid Starlings stand next to each other, lustrous feathers on full display. The iridescent play of colors over the plumage is punctuated by black spots on the tips of their wing coverts that have dense arrays of upwardly curved barbules, creating microscopic cavities that trap light. Photo credit: Tim Flach
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I'm sad. 😔
I get so many followers saying that they don't see my tweets anymore..😔
Can you please do me a favour?
If you follow me and you see this tweet, can you please retweet it.🙏
To make it more worth sharing, here's one of my fave pics, Kingfisher in berries. 😊🐦
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‘A lot of midwestern history simply is not being recorded anymore,’ writes @jlauck1941 in this grim look at the newspaper landscape in the Midwest ….
Project MUSE - Introduction: The Shredding of Midwestern Newspapers muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/…
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Paczki being prepared at Roma Bakery in Lansing
Lansing State Journal 2/19/1993
