manu schwendener
librarian, photographer
manuschwendener.ch
Bluesky is on github.com/bluesky-social/soci…
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- 📚 Early Bird rate available until Monday 9 February 2026 (discounted rate is £480 +VAT)
- Reposted by manu schwendenerA #kakapo "bowl" on Pukenui/Anchor Island. Males dig these shallow holes at high points, with several clustered together in a "lek", and boom at night to attract females. Kākāpō are the only lek-breeding parrot. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds
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- Using our collection for your research? Join one of our open days for a deep dive into the collection areas most relevant to your research and the opportunity to pick the brains of our experts. Find out what areas we’re exploring this spring and book your place. link.bl.uk/DoctoralOpenDays
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- Reposted by manu schwendenerThird Iron's LibKey feature for #PrimoNDE is in Beta mode (' Not for Production Use' just yet). thirdiron.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/...
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- soundcloud.com/chatting-inf... Chatting Info Lit is an information literacy podcast for new library and information professionals, run by the CILIP ILG New Professionals Sub-committee. #informationliteracy #librarypodcast
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- Reposted by manu schwendenerSo what is an antiquated tool to block off content is now a tool that selectively serves content to the thousands of AI scrapers looking to train on your content. Instead of serving readers, these organizations are serving their writers' hard work to AI models on a plate, while blocking humans.
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- Reposted by manu schwendener📢 for atproto developers: Office Hours Livestream this Friday at 3:30pm PST! @jimray.bsky.team and @divy.zone and I will start with a news roundup, share about the team's Q1 roadmap, and then answer any Q&A. If people are into it, we'll make this a biweekly thing
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- Reposted by manu schwendenerWorking with #kakapo, this is the best thing you'll ever see. When "candling" an egg you hold your breath, hoping to see this: beautiful embryo development in a fertile egg. This is Tiwhiri's second egg, about 8 days old. About half of eggs are infertile. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds
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- #ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 Just announced: Medievalist Aden Kumler will present the 75th A.W. Mellon Lecture at the National Gallery of Art, May 3-24, 2026. Kumler will explore 'difficulty' as a medieval aesthetic and theme, using her research into how material conditions shape human thought and action.
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- 📷 Very useful tool to plan your photo shoots in #Basel: www.bs.ch/bvd/grundbuc... 3d.geo.bs.ch Enter date and time, and see how the shadow moves that day. Thank you, @baselstadt.bsky.social
- 🪶 #LEGO #Puffin set, open for voting. => 17 days left to reach 5000 supporters, which then extends the time to collect the votes needed to get to the finish line. beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
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- Reposted by manu schwendener🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: Two tiny humans (1?) are being carried in different directions down a busy street. Their mums cross paths and Tiny Human Strangers reach out their hands, momentary touching fingers, expressions marvelling at seeing another so small as themselves. (1)
- Reposted by manu schwendenerWe've got a new #kakapo webcam! It's on Rakiura's nest on Whenua Hou. She laid an egg yesterday (we caught that on camera), but isn't incubating it yet. Follow to (hopefully) watch her lay more! #conservation #birds www.doc.govt.nz/our-work/kak...
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- I wrote up a longer piece about scammers pretending to be me, how you can tell it's not me, and why neither I nor any other "big name" author is likely to be emailing you at all, and certainly not with obviously "AI"-generated verbiage. Please feel free to share. whatever.scalzi.com/2026/01/20/r...
- Reposted by manu schwendenerCow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social
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- 🧪 #Copenhagen!
- My collaborator at University of Copenhagen, Anders Garm, is looking for a 3 year postdoc to work on bioluminescence, neurobiology and ecology of ctenophores. More information here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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- well I've also posted my Adelaide Writers' Week opinions. It's my home festival and I love it, and I was among the many many writers who withdrew, and I know this whole thing has been such a mess but also, I am hopeful for 2027's event and so surprised by that hope buttondown.com/holly/archiv...
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- Reposted by manu schwendenerThree more #kakapo matings last night: Tumeke + Te Atapo on Whenua Hou, and Kotahitanga mated with both Marama and Kohengi on Anchor. Mating with different males substantially increases the likelihood of clutch fertility: peerj.com/articles/146.... Here's Te Atapo booming. #conservation #parrots
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