I REALLY need multiple likes option for this one. ❤️‍🔥

Look at this beautiful piece of art and resistance! 🧶✂️💪

Mini quilted mug rugs for the techs at the wildlife hospital. #quiltsky #vettechweek 🐢🐍🦎🦃🦫🐿️

Tried it. Liked it. Will do more. #kawandi #quiltsky

I live in Florida. This was WAY harder than it should have been. It’s like “they” don’t remember what we all went through and the people who died. The people who risked their lives and sanity to bring us the vax should be remembered always. I thank them from the bottom of my vaccinated heart.♥️

As a necropsy team lead for several Atlantic large whales…checking my necropsy notes just to be sure….nope…no windmills. Hold tight, checking the peer-reviewed data and publications…. nothing about windmills, just lots of ship strikes and entanglements in fishing gear.

Microplastics have been found in the placentas of unborn babies, the depths of the Mariana Trench, the summit of Everest and the organs of Antarctic penguins. But how do they travel through the world, and what do they do to the creatures that carry them? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Yesterday we released two orphaned #otters after a long stay in the Florida Wildlife Hospital. North American River otters are still hunted and trapped in Florida and many other states.

Off Balance When I Look Up. Handwoven 44"x 70" #weaving #michiganartist

How rising seas are threatening the crucial #art of weaving in #Samoa #Weaving is central to #cultural life in Samoa but #ClimateChange is disrupting conditions needed for plants used to make the intricate mats share.google/HcgWzHYhnvQf...

Soap savers made on a rigid heddle loom. Reduce, reuse, use it all up. 🧼 #weavesky #unplastic

Mass mortality event at the wildlife hospital.

Scooping Plastic Out of the Ocean Is a Losing Game Open ocean cleanups won’t solve the marine plastics crisis. To really make a difference, here’s what we should do instead. hakaimagazine.com/features/sco...

I have been saving my single earrings for years- hoping the one I lost will magically come back. I have a LOT of single earrings. At last, a driveway miracle.

You don’t have to kill your grass all at once. Plant the right native plants and don’t water anything once they are established. The natives will outcompete and choke out the non-natives. Ta da!

I love this yarn. It reminds me of shedded #snake skin. 🐍 🧶 #weavysky

Only cool dogs get laser therapy. 😎 #dogsky

Decrease, reduce, terminate. 🥺

She’s the adult version of “they followed me home, can I keep her?”. This non-releasable, (non-native) quail is now my best friend.

We have houseguests again. 🦇 💩 #backyardbats

My daughter said that if Jurassic Park was real, I’d be the one to bring home the smallest, sickly velociraptor when the park shut down. They would be the one with one leg or a raging ear infection. No one else would be willing to adopt them and we would just increase our Care Credit again. 😅

Biodiversity allows for sustainable fisheries, better nutrition. news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

Casting my pod with the Bird Hugger- I talk about whales, tortoises and pelicans, good people and not-so-good people. #wildlifeforensics app.resonaterecordings.com/hosting/bird...

Seeing my son’s papers come out and suggesting edits on my daughter’s first paper is making me very proud and weepy. 🥹 That honor roll, kindergarten parent assembly feeling continues. 🧠💘📚

The best day of the year. Met some terrific people and spread the otter joy. Happy #WorldOtterDay. 🩵🤎

A new genetic study links otters found in exotic animal cafes in Japan with wild populations in well-known poaching hotspots in southern Thailand. The new DNA evidence of a wildlife trade route between Thailand and Japan backs up calls from experts for stricter monitoring of wildlife exports.

If your paper “methods” include the words “explosive harpoon”, I don’t care what your results are. I’m not reading it. 🐋

@anatrecord.bsky.social Minke whales were hunted and killed for this paper. I and many other scientists think that is terrible. Do better.

Researchers in Costa Rica found that pig carcasses decomposed twice as fast when vultures had access to them. The absence of vultures led to a doubling of fly populations at carcass sites, which could affect human health, since these flies can carry diseases like botulism and anthrax.

My first snake necropsy was the longest one ever. 🐍 Take your time, I’ll wait. ☺️ #wildlifeforensics

Find more in our research, led by @unpopularscience.bsky.social. In Table 1, we show that carnivorous fish farms for seabass, bream, and salmon require 2 to 5 kilos of wild caught fish for every 1 kilo of farmed fish they produce. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Aquaculture ain’t the answer. 👎

When @jdebruyn.bsky.social comes to visit, I learn so many cool things without even trying. 🐢 💀 #decomposition #wildlifeforensics

So good to be in the room with so many do-gooders. #wildlifeforensics

Just a reminder that shooting a #dolphin in violation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (U.S. federal law) is a misdemeanor crime. Same goes for nearly all animals in the U.S. legal system. #wildlifeforensics

Doc taught me all the really important stuff. Not just vertebrate zoology but how to take good field notes, how to tag a sea turtle, how to be part of a team and how to be humble, kind and careful with my words. He is dearly missed. 🐢 💚

You are invited to join us for #MIllionsMissing #DisabilitySOS on May 12th - two weeks from today! Join us in DC and online! All you need to know can be found here: www.meactions.org/millionsmiss... #MEAction will be sounding a Disability SOS at the nation’s capitol and across social media. #PwME

This little dude got some Spryng and some PRP in his bionic legs. He’s a “miracle” of science and the best of veterinary medicine. This is what science does, it fixes broken puppies and mends hearts. Also: trazodone is nice. #dogsky

Hey #quiltsky, let’s be the cool group who use alt text for all our posts. You can set up a reminder in this app. Here are some other quick tips. 🧵 accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/describe-con...

"Seadog" (Otter) animal thread painting - hand embroidery artwork by Emily Tull, wildlife portrait artist and embroiderer #WomensArt

For those who missed it last month, here's @sophianicolov.bsky.social talking about her amazing research on the legacies of British whaling in @nhm-london.bsky.social's collections: www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...

I’ve been honored with involvement in (euthanasia) and presence at the natural death of countless wild animals as well as family “pets”. Many of us scientists, veterinarians and “owners” are incredibly thoughtful but we can do better. And societies around the world need to recognize these unknowns.

Window shopping at the little box store. #wildlifeforensics #taphonomy #cameratrap

This is turning into an evergreen post -- just switch out EO on "Pacific Islands Heritage" to EO on "Deep Sea Mining" www.southernfriedscience.com/5-things-you...

And that’s a wrap. Three great days of the low-carbon virtual National Marine Mammal Stranding Meeting. So many great talks. So many things to be worried about. So many people doing amazing work. I always walk away from these meetings feeling inspired and wanting to do more. 🐋🦭🦦

Happy *almost done* Earth Day. 🌳 🌍 #weavesky

Leatherbacks made it to the sandwich stage. #quiltsky

📢 📢📢📢📢 Every biologist who cares about biodiversity should provide public comment on this rule proposed by the Trump administration that would REMOVE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS for endangered species! This is extremely bad. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

It doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be. #resistancegarden 🌶️ 🦇