Dr Alex Evans 𓅫
@avianevans
Science and outdoor learning educator, speaker, writer and nature journalist. Bird nerd. Animal flight researcher. Creator of #GuessTheCrest, #BestOfCrest and #CROSSBIRD. He/him.
/record scratch/ Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation…
me: hush now little one, it's time for nightie nights my 1 year old in her cot:
big props to the guy that rolled out a giant cardboard pangolin for our village fair parade this year
Thank you to @thelabandfield.bsky.social and @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social for a wonderful bird walk this morning! Lil’ Sam also had a great time and we may make a birder of him yet (but his heart still belongs to the fish)
my 1 year old, every single time I get the stickle bricks out: FUCK YEAH SEVERED HUMAN HEADS
That pair had an incredible run on Hawkeye - just top of the game in both the writing and the art
My wife had Hodgkin lymphoma 10 years ago and a few years later we stayed in a B&B and found this medical book from 1965. It said there was no treatment for her cancer back then and the main recommendation for delaying death was mustard gas with a prognosis of 2-7 years. Modern medicine is amazing.
10 years ago, the wonderful @rheisman.bsky.social gave this advice on Twitter and it resonated with me. I dropped the “aspiring” and took a more active approach to science writing. Soon after, I started writing freelance for a science society. The same science society that I now have a job with.
imagine being so insecure that you took this post as a personal attack
weekday me: [busy professional noises] weekend me: gee golly I sure hope my son likes the drawing I did for him 🥺
All this rocket launch talk reminds me of the Crew Dragon docking event a few years ago, and this was one of the auto-generated subtitles from NASA’s live feed on YouTube. I didn’t have the sound on and nearly shat myself.