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#TwitterMigration #MastodonIntro #Introduction
Hello Mastodon Friends! Since Twitter now has a Musty Smell, I'm going be active here as well.
I'm a vertebrate palaeontologist by training, who focused on fossilized bird footprints ( #ichnology) from 145-66 million years ago! Why past tense? I was working for an NGO org for 17 years and the research program was denied funding. I retrained as a medical transcriptionist & started working as a remote live medical scribe in Podiatry in January 2022!

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#TwitterMigration #MastodonIntro #Introduction
Hello Mastodon Friends! Since Twitter now has a Musty Smell, I'm going be active here as well.
I'm a vertebrate palaeontologist by training, who focused on fossilized bird footprints ( #ichnology) from 145-66 million years ago! Why past tense? I was working for an NGO org for 17 years and the research program was denied funding. I retrained as a medical transcriptionist & started working as a remote live medical scribe in Podiatry in January 2022!

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@CStamp A couple of other incidents, one explainable (loose piece of wood rattling in a movable temporary wall when you'd walk past it) and one not explainable.

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@CStamp A couple of other incidents, one explainable (loose piece of wood rattling in a movable temporary wall when you'd walk past it) and one not explainable.

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Someone tell Mr. Ash that, just because he woke me up and received his morning crunchies at 2am, it doesn't mean that he gets additional morning crunchies now.

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Someone tell Mr. Ash that, just because he woke me up and received his morning crunchies at 2am, it doesn't mean that he gets additional morning crunchies now.

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@CStamp Unfortunately no. I was truly the only person in the building, and the building was detached. I even looked outside.

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@CStamp Unfortunately no. I was truly the only person in the building, and the building was detached. I even looked outside.

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He believed me, but we're a joking household & he knows this isn't my first rodeo.
So, my plan? Eh, I finished what I needed to do for the night, locked up, and went along my merry way. I did hear the footsteps a few more times.
I also kept the collections door open: I wanted to see if the phenomenon repeated from internal air currents. It didn't.
Tell me your #ScientistGhostStories !

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He believed me, but we're a joking household & he knows this isn't my first rodeo.
So, my plan? Eh, I finished what I needed to do for the night, locked up, and went along my merry way. I did hear the footsteps a few more times.
I also kept the collections door open: I wanted to see if the phenomenon repeated from internal air currents. It didn't.
Tell me your #ScientistGhostStories !

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...when I hear honest to goodness footsteps in the rooms adjacent to the collections room.
"FFS, I was JUST in there asking if anyone was there! Who the hell...?"
So I go into the hall again to find the person.
I am the only person there.
I'm at a loss at this point. Some strange sh*t is going down.
So I call Rich (who wasn't with me on this trip) and tell him what just happened.
His response? "They're coming to get you, Barbara!"
#ScientistGhostStories

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...when I hear honest to goodness footsteps in the rooms adjacent to the collections room.
"FFS, I was JUST in there asking if anyone was there! Who the hell...?"
So I go into the hall again to find the person.
I am the only person there.
I'm at a loss at this point. Some strange sh*t is going down.
So I call Rich (who wasn't with me on this trip) and tell him what just happened.
His response? "They're coming to get you, Barbara!"
#ScientistGhostStories

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Nothing. Huh.
Oh well. I attribute it to random air currents and go back into collections to get back in my groove.
I *just* start getting back into my zone, when I hear honest to goodness footsteps in the rooms adjacent to the collections room.
"FFS, I was JUST in there asking if anyone was there! Who the hell...?"
So I go into the hall again to find the person.
I am the only person there.
I *just* start getting back into my zone...
#ScientistGhostStories

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Nothing. Huh.
Oh well. I attribute it to random air currents and go back into collections to get back in my groove.
I *just* start getting back into my zone, when I hear honest to goodness footsteps in the rooms adjacent to the collections room.
"FFS, I was JUST in there asking if anyone was there! Who the hell...?"
So I go into the hall again to find the person.
I am the only person there.
I *just* start getting back into my zone...
#ScientistGhostStories

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My immediate reaction was anger and indignation because I already had permission to be there and to do what I needed to do. How dare someone passive-aggressive close the door like that?
Of course, I fume my way over to the door and open it to enter the hallway & find out who didn't have their adult pants on to talk to me...
and the hallway is empty. Like crickets empty.
I walk the hallway to see if anyone is in their offices.
Nothing.
I call out. "Hello! Anyone here?"
#ScientistGhostStories

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My immediate reaction was anger and indignation because I already had permission to be there and to do what I needed to do. How dare someone passive-aggressive close the door like that?
Of course, I fume my way over to the door and open it to enter the hallway & find out who didn't have their adult pants on to talk to me...
and the hallway is empty. Like crickets empty.
I walk the hallway to see if anyone is in their offices.
Nothing.
I call out. "Hello! Anyone here?"
#ScientistGhostStories

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I was alone in a collections building. It was after hours, and I was most definitely alone. I did a lot of my track research in the dark: I shine low angle lights on track slabs to make the teeny bird footprints stand out.
I'm focusing on my work, and I had the collections door open, leading to the inner parts of the main building so that the security light could shine in and give me a little bit of background light.
Then SLAM! the collections door gets slammed shut!

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I was alone in a collections building. It was after hours, and I was most definitely alone. I did a lot of my track research in the dark: I shine low angle lights on track slabs to make the teeny bird footprints stand out.
I'm focusing on my work, and I had the collections door open, leading to the inner parts of the main building so that the security light could shine in and give me a little bit of background light.
Then SLAM! the collections door gets slammed shut!

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I'm very interested in #ScientistGhostStories - encounters with odd phenomena that scientists have experienced in their homes/work places. We're often discouraged from talking about this because we really have no repeatable data regarding these occurrences: it's anecdotal.
But they happen, and I want to hear about it!
I'll share one of my stories:

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I'm very interested in #ScientistGhostStories - encounters with odd phenomena that scientists have experienced in their homes/work places. We're often discouraged from talking about this because we really have no repeatable data regarding these occurrences: it's anecdotal.
But they happen, and I want to hear about it!
I'll share one of my stories:

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@TheLabAndField Same. I figure I predate the Musty Smell and they'll have to boot me off!

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@TheLabAndField Same. I figure I predate the Musty Smell and they'll have to boot me off!

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This is absolutely the morning where I turn my coffee into a mocha.
Chocolate amd sugar take the wheel.

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This is absolutely the morning where I turn my coffee into a mocha.
Chocolate amd sugar take the wheel.

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After dreams of 1. Seriously sleeping through my earlier shift start alarm and having to climb into a chair 10 feet tall, and 2. Visiting someone's paleo lab carrying an open bottle of nail polish remover (because who doesn't) and spilling it on an in-progress skull (because of course), I'm ready to be awake now.

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After dreams of 1. Seriously sleeping through my earlier shift start alarm and having to climb into a chair 10 feet tall, and 2. Visiting someone's paleo lab carrying an open bottle of nail polish remover (because who doesn't) and spilling it on an in-progress skull (because of course), I'm ready to be awake now.

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Just so you all know it's me, here's a new pic of Ash looking annoyed that I'm trying to muddle my way onto a new platform. #mastocats #catsofmastodon

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Just so you all know it's me, here's a new pic of Ash looking annoyed that I'm trying to muddle my way onto a new platform. #mastocats #catsofmastodon

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Black kitty laying on a blue and green comforter, looking peeved.

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@OneGrenouille Toot!

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@OneGrenouille Toot!

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Chestnut-sided Warblers have perfect Fall #BirdGlamour! These eastern North American Warblers thrive in regrowing and disturbed areas. In their winter grounds in South America, they flock with antbirds and tropical warblers and return to the same winter flock every year! #SciArt

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Chestnut-sided Warblers have perfect Fall #BirdGlamour! These eastern North American Warblers thrive in regrowing and disturbed areas. In their winter grounds in South America, they flock with antbirds and tropical warblers and return to the same winter flock every year! #SciArt

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Eye makeup in Chestnut-sided Warbler colors with white eye, black graphic eyeliner, yellow eyebrow, and eyeliner wing of black, grey, white, and yellow stripes.

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We've been seeing a lot of Clouded Sulphur Butterflies lately...at least before it snowed! These meadow butterflies are found across North America except in Labrador, Nunavut, and northern Quebec. Females will lay single eggs on clover, vetch, ground plum, and alfalfa!
#GlamorousByNature #BirdGlamour

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We've been seeing a lot of Clouded Sulphur Butterflies lately...at least before it snowed! These meadow butterflies are found across North America except in Labrador, Nunavut, and northern Quebec. Females will lay single eggs on clover, vetch, ground plum, and alfalfa!
#GlamorousByNature #BirdGlamour

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Star light, star bright, Indigo Buntings use stars to migrate at night! They winter in South America and breed in Mexico and the southern & eastern US. Indigo and Lazuli Bunting compete for territory in the Great Plains, but will share songs & sometimes interbreed!
#BirdGlamour

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Star light, star bright, Indigo Buntings use stars to migrate at night! They winter in South America and breed in Mexico and the southern & eastern US. Indigo and Lazuli Bunting compete for territory in the Great Plains, but will share songs & sometimes interbreed!
#BirdGlamour

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Ok, I think THIS is the Mastodon link to find me on! I'll get the hang of this yet!

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Ok, I think THIS is the Mastodon link to find me on! I'll get the hang of this yet!