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Sarah Winnicki

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6 Mar

Trying to make wildlife biology more diverse?

Don’t forget disabled people!

If you’re looking at a #fieldwork job candidate in a zoom interview and think “I don’t think they look like they can physically handle this job” examine your biases

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If someone reads the requirements and thinks they are capable of doing the job why make the assumption that they can’t?

Disabled folks know their limits better than you do

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On paper, I shouldn’t be able to do fieldwork well— I’m overweight, I had three reconstructive surgeries on deformed feet, I have an autoimmune disease that makes it hard to regulate my core temp.

But I love field biology, and this’ll be my eighth successful field season

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Sarah Winnicki

@skwinnicki

5 Mar

CW: death

I used to find funerals so pointlessly sad that I wished we didn’t have them, but I’d give anything to be able to attend a service for my therapist who died this week

I just need some closure, but there’s been no obituary, no mention of her passing anywhere

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I mean, if I just logged into our zoom link tomorrow maybe she’d just be there and it would turn out that the call I got from her office was just some sick joke?

Wow I don’t handle grief well, I’m so blessed to not have had to deal with it too much so far in my life

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So anyway, fuck covid, mourning is important and it’s such a tragedy that in a time period filled with so much death the very thing that helps us process death is inaccessible

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Sarah Winnicki

@skwinnicki

29 Apr 19

It is the N. American songbird breeding season, AKA time for my annual #bird & #birding PSA:

Don’t kill #cowbird brood parasite eggs/nestlings! It is illegal and likely doing more harm to your birds than good. How? Behold, a mega-thread: 1/37

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Before I start, know I’m going to be citing lots of academic articles that are likely behind a paywall. If you want to know more about the articles and can’t access them please DM me! Science should be available to everyone, but that is an argument for another time. 2/37

The Brown-headed Cowbird! A sharp-looking blackbird from North and Central America. Males have black bodies and chocolate-brown heads. Females are sleek and brown. They make fun bubbly noises. 3/37 allaboutbirds.org/guide/Brown-he…

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