Avian flu delivery

hey Ce thanks for the *squints* hantavirus delivery

I wish there was a “no ducks” filter on ebird rare bird alerts

There was no one on the blue ridge parkway today

Help

grove's haunted

WIP

Every bamboo grove I visited today already had Chinese people in it

Bonus turtle pic cause look at it

You know the beltway is fucked when google maps routes you through Capitol Hill

No morels but found my first croc tooth!

In grad school one of my postdocs said “if you ever want to cheer yourself up, do a stain for tyrosine hydroxylase in the VTA” and I think about it all the time, bc 1. What the fuck kind of advice is that and 2. What the fuck kind of person am I that I immediately did it and it worked

I am exhausted

What do you mean there’s a native ibis in Maine

I call this: Thoughts and prayers

real schism hours

My ex gf was posted by the criterion collection, I have never felt so miserably unaccomplished

Half bird, half snake

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

I was at work for 11 hours but I got some really sexy figures out of it and now burger is making me nachos ❤️ I will not be absorbing any news about war crimes THANK YOU

it's only tuesday

Are you on team Dutchman’s breeches or team squirrel corn

A good lichen

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The best time of year to go to Virginia

In my science circle I am known for two things: my sparkling personality and my hatred of the insula

If anyone tries to April fools me at work I am going to launch them into space

Ketamine is like. Sure I’ll pay $500 to be thrown down a well

I got really into those mini dollhouse models over covid and have a backlog of different kits piling up so I started tinkering with them again. These are the 3 old school Rolife ones before they started using more ready-made plastic pieces in their kits

A minimally tolerant cat

these are great to put on the rim of a lamp, just a fun little surprise

Wasn’t going to buy anything but

Going to the UK for the first time May 20-26. Getting into Gatwick and thinking of taking the train straight to Peacehaven and doing a few days of fossil hunting and hiking around there/Seven Sisters. Attending a wedding in London on the 23rd and then 2 days in the city before flying home

Haven’t seen this spider in like a year, glad she’s still kicking

pov: you moved to Maryland

Speedrunning shark teeth at the Potomac

Mostly fossils plus an arrowhead and a couple of cool ironstone conceptions

I asked my boss if it would be unprofessional if I dyed my hair blue and she was like “I already hired you and you’re good at your job” My patient-facing job Guys, I’ve made it

Finally stabilized my best find from Chippokes to the point where I’m not terrified to pick it up— Intact Chesapecten jeffersonius, state fossil of VA

Twisters is better than Twister, and I’ll stand by that statement

I got a bag of used guinea pig bedding from my local buy nothing group to see if I can convince Pip to eat by rubbing her thawed rat in it, wish me luck (She knocked down a bunch of clutter in her cage here, don’t worry I put it back)

Neuroscientists love weird animal facts bc then they get to make them their model species. Armadillos always give birth to genetically identical quadruplets? Guess we’re studying armadillos now. Tree shrews are TECHNICALLY primates? Time to stink up the rodent facility

As a society we don’t talk enough about “I don’t need your pussy, bitch, I’m on my own dick”

you should not attempt to destroy your mentees professional life because they tried to use a zero shot classifier.

My new therapist thinks I’m funny :)

Treasures from today