<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello, tweets.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Having followed the Arkansas and Florida “rediscoveries” and the failure to have had anything come of them, I’m afraid I’m no more convinced by this one, after having read the preprint paper word for word. Alex Lees’ argument makes complete sense (even though I’m a little surprised that Twitter is the news medium he felt was the best place to present it).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dennis Paulson</div><div class="">Seattle<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 17, 2022, at 3:00 PM, Matt Bartels <<a href="mailto:mattxyz@earthlink.net" class="">mattxyz@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here’s a decent skeptical take on this latest round of claims:</div><a href="https://twitter.com/Alexander_Lees/status/1514290140365082631" class="">https://twitter.com/Alexander_Lees/status/1514290140365082631</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">my favorite quote from the thread:</div><div class="">“I<span style="color: rgb(15, 20, 25); font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.027451); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">f you find a mountain of evidence suggesting the creature you are hunting is common and there is no biological rationale for why you can't find the creature, then you need to reappraise your evidence threshold”</span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(15, 20, 25); font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.027451); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(15, 20, 25); font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.027451); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">Matt Bartels</span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(15, 20, 25); font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.027451); text-decoration-thickness: initial;" class="">Seattle WA</span></div><div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#0f1419" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, system-ui, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.027451);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 17, 2022, at 2:05 PM, Jane Hadley <<a href="mailto:hadleyj1725@gmail.com" class="">hadleyj1725@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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claim to have documented physical evidence that the bird is still
alive in Louisiana. In a<span class=""> </span></span><a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.06.487399v1.full.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit;
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has not yet been peer-reviewed, lead author Steve Latta and a
number of other researchers lay out the evidence that while the
Ivory-billed Woodpecker may be reclusive, it has not been wiped
out entirely.</span><p class=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/13/ivory-bill-woodpecker-not-extinct-researchers-say">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/13/ivory-bill-woodpecker-not-extinct-researchers-say</a><br class="">
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</p><p class="">Jane Hadley</p><p class="">Seattle, WA<br class="">
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