Amaro Tuninetti, Ph.D. 🦇

colorado critters! 🦬 📸🐦🦊

I feel like Bo Burnham’s Inside was the only piece of Covid media that was produced before everyone pretended like none of it ever happened

colorado critters! 🦬 📸🐦🦊

Our final champion might be a bit controversial. Your Bat Month Madness: Floofiest Champion is 🥁 𝘓𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘶𝘴! 🌯 Was the floofiest bat crowned? Or does 𝘍𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘴 deserve justice?

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

Halloween Animals Support Group.

Why would an animal weighing less than a teaspoon bother flying 150 miles in a night? We have fitted almost 100 with 'airtags for bats' to find out. When one flies near an iPhone, its position is pinged to us. Look what Mike and Mira did last night! @batconservation.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk

🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #WillEskridge Will Eskridge LITTLE LONG-FINGERED BAT, 2025 Watercolor pen on 184 lb Strathmore paper

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Starting to think we really should have listened to the Tic Tac USA Twitter account more

Most bats eat insects, some fruit, a few meat, 3 dine on blood. Two species of bat primarily eat FISH. 🐟 Let's learn about one of the LOUDEST ANIMALS IN THE WORLD & how they hunt by STEALTH. Meet the bulldog bats in family Noctilionidae. 🦇🧪

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

getting little pennants made that read THE TIME and THE ORC so i can audience participate more effectively

What the Trump administration has been doing to the federal government, in one chart. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

new preprint from us, about using sound to track a bat as it flies around: "Detection-Guided Beamforming for Efficient Bat Localisation" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.06.749406v1 #bioacoustics #spatial

“fairness in sports” [LOUD “WRONG” BUZZER] “18 and under” [LOUD “WRONG” BUZZER] “some concessions-“ [LOUD “WRONG” BUZZER]

One time, and I promise this is true, Bush gave a flip remark about violence while playing golf and it became a defining moment for his legacy. This president shrugging about a war he started while overseas at a golf tournament that is lining his own pockets won’t be remembered in two weeks.

Happy Birthday Arvo Pärt. 91 years old!

The new NSF letter is catastrophic. It shifts NSF towards applied research (which is NOT NSF’s mandate), will funnel money to business and away from universities, promises to push even more money to AI, and policital appointments can overrule entire panels. Also, golden tickets overruling everything

The wealthy countries seem to have a core of 15-30% of their voting populations who *just fucking hate foreigners*. This section of the electorate are for various reasons disproportionately well represented among the ultra-wealthy and thus are able to secure some favourable media coverage.

I'm recruiting new grad students for fall 2027, looking for students motivated by animal behavior and animal communication. Our main study system is acoustic communication in treefrogs. More details here, please spread the word: reichertlab.com/2026/09/07/r...

Every 1 in 5 people ICE arrested since February is a child. That and more in our latest analysis of data available through Freedom of Information Act lawsuits: www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/28/i...

the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...

Is this the greatest nutmeg ever?? 🤯 🎥: @denversummitfc.bsky.social

What about university football coaches Sarah, surely those people need to make more money than all the adjunct faculty at that university combined? Right?

some favorite shots from a whonderful whale whatching afternoon 📸🐳 (note the fresh entanglement scars on pic 4 😓) #nikon #ocean #newengland

More than two dozen immigrants have been held at San Francisco’s airport this year for longer than three days, in violation of Customs and Border Protection’s guidelines.

some favorite shots from a whonderful whale whatching afternoon 📸🐳 (note the fresh entanglement scars on pic 4 😓) #nikon #ocean #newengland

🦇 It's that time of year when young, naïve bats turn up in places they would be better off steering clear of. Any bat that is on the ground or out in the open might need help. Thanks to Claire from AC Gallery in Kendal who found out who to call, this girl will be lucky .... #lovebats #batcare

ghosts in the night! Eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis) hunting in my backyard, captured with a short flash strobe 🦇🦊📸

again: they mean it

ghosts in the night! Eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis) hunting in my backyard, captured with a short flash strobe 🦇🦊📸

A Chicago chef and his wife were on his way to the World Cup. Then ICE detained them at the airport. Read @shokdiesel.bsky.social's reporting on how this respected industry pro is reimagining his future from inside the walls of a Louisiana detention center. www.weareravenous.com/ice-raid-la-...

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"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." Hannah Arendt

Time once again for one of the canonical soccer Twitter post

Yesterday, Aug. 20, was one of the worst days of ICE flights I've seen. -At least 82 ICE flights -At least 15 were removal flights, including Haiti -At least 5 removals were third-country removals (Cameroon, Costa Rica, Liberia, Paraguay, Rwanda) -Plus 1 emergency return for reasons unknown

The "special white house projects" are tech-centered things like AI where Trump is able to solicit bribes in exchange for "grants". This policy is just crime, like so much of what Republicans do.

<Pitchbot voice> "We wanted to understand what academia can learn from Jason Arday's rise and fall. So we asked someone who hates academia, is no longer a professor, and has never worked in a research university to weigh the questions his story left behind"