That's just silly talk.

"From the Islands’ endemic species to its legendary surf breaks, these captivating images offer a glimpse into Hawai‘i’s dynamic landscapes. We recently launched a category dedicated to the island of Maui." #HawaiiPhotography #HawaiiBirds #HawaiiMagazine

Pretty sure that's me in the middle.

I can watch this daily.

That kid and that dog are gonna have a great life together.

This image is part of Bearing Witness, a photo show at Volcano Art Center featuring the perspectives of 3 #photographers documenting this eruption. The show ends this week November 9, 2025 so if you’re visiting Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, be sure to stop by before it’s gone. #HVNP #VAC #Kilauea

Local volcano student & photographer Yvonne Baur was hiking the backcountry of #HVNP a while back & found a few pieces of #reticulate. We will let her explain: This is gas-rich frothy lava blown here downwind from an #eruption. The delicate pieces are like little sponges & are extremely fragile. 🌋

Happy Monday morning rainbow from #hawaiivolcanoesnps and the artistic eye of NPS VIP photographer @janice_weicool! 🌈🌋 #MondayMotivation #HVNP #HawaiiRainbows #JaniceWei

Excellent work! All us scientists are gonna see this and be like: "yeah, that was 100% me when I was a kiddo"

A toothy critter cosplaying Betelgeuse for Halloween? :) This Yellowhead moray was...not thrilled I interrupted his evening hunt. This is something of a threat posture, the eel deepening its yellow head and grey stripes as a warning. One of the few species you want to be cautious around. :) 📷🌿🐟🦑

Rays gotta eat!

Keeping Hawaiian names alive is a responsibility and a way to place Hawaiʻi and Hawaiian culture firmly in the wider world.

Hawaiʻi is now at the center of a global "biobanking" network that will collect and store biological samples of endangered species for wildlife conservation purposes.

We can't stress enough how quickly conditions can turn dangerous. With EXTREMELY limited park staff, including law enforcement and first responders, any medical emergency or crime situation could devolve rapidly.

🦇 Visiting Hawaiʻi parks? Try to catch a glimpse of the little fuzzball named the Hawaiian hoary bat. Their little wingspans max out at ~1ft. They're #microbats. The National Park of American Samoa 🇼🇸 is home to 2 species of fruit bats, in Samoan: peʻa (pay ah). Large bats are called #megabats.

Sexy Banyan as a variety of Ficus

I think the message here might be: just go ahead and starve, you poors.

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A daye wythout anachronism ys lyke Emily Dickinson wythout her lightsaber.

The atmosphere is a tad unsettled tonight ahead of some approaching low pressure. Here's a look at the #Haleakala #sunset, and an image looking southeast towards the Big Island....

Yesssss!!! Our lab has a new paper out, and it comes with an awesome story:

Behold the shoreline nearest my dwelling. About four miles away and downhill.

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Hello again, all you wonderful people! If you need a good dose of peacefulness—who doesn't these days?—here is my starter pack of nature appreciators. go.bsky.app/BGhJymM

🎨 Huang Yongyu (1992)

🌊 Victory for seabirds! Johnston Atoll — home to 1.5M+ seabirds & nearly half the world’s Red-tailed Tropicbirds — will stay protected. 🚀 A rocket pad plan was suspended thanks to ABC & partners. 🌴 This Pacific jewel remains for the birds! Read more on the blog: t.co/vjupAY9G89 t.co/MPrWQdQGTM

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

'Lilith Fair' and 'Into the Void' provide enlightening perspectives on contrasting music genres

My last story for Maui No Ka Oi mag, one that was very important to me for the shout-out it allowed me to give the heroes/sheroes) of conservation who fenced the entire summit of Haleakalā Volcano/Haleakala NP, is being reposted on the mag social accounts. Link: www.mauimagazine.net/haleakala-fe...

How about a more unusual octopus this morning? This is the Hawaii-endemic O. ornatus, the Ornate or Night octopus. Long, slinky, move more like eels than cephalopods sometimes, just a beautiful animal, only to be seen on night dives. 🦑📷🌿🐙

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

Hats off and hands up 🙌 to @EpicLava for this astonishing capture of the Hawaiian nēnē on the wing...past the lava fountains of Eruption 32 of Kīlauea Volcano at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park! Mahalo for the permission to repost, Epic Lava! #nēnē #kilaueavolcano #hvnp #epiclava #wowjustwow

🪶✨ See you in October at the Hawaiʻi Island Festival of Birds! The HIFB Bird Fair is a stage for talented local artisans 🎨 who weave native birds into their work, conservation groups + wildlife agencies 🐦🌿 protecting Hawaiʻi’s unique species. #FestivalOfBirds #HawaiiIsland #HaakulaManu #HPPA

Alright, fuck it, enough of the shenanigans. We're spending an hour to edit a series of a pelican diving into the ocean that took 3 seconds to shoot. jking please continue with the shenanigans. we deserve it! #birds

Gahhh that's a tough one. But. Pearl Jam/Nirvana/RHCP New Year's Eve show at the Cow Palace, 1991. I was there early enough to get dead center up front. Then nearly got moshed to death but here to tell the tale. I knew then that there was something big breaking over the culture. Lifechanger for me.

Happy #AlohaFriday from HPPA, our talented photographer and volcano student team member Yvonne, and the rainbows and lava fountains of our partner Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park! #HawaiianRainbows🌈 #HawaiianVolcanoes🌋 #HawaiiParks🌿 #WowYvonne🤩

Volcano photographer & departing HPPA employee (so she can go be a volcano scientist) Yvonne shot this gorgeous image of cooled pāhoehoe lava at #hawaiivolcanoesnps: Black, yellow, & blue colors aligned in a beautiful abstract. 🖤💛💙 Mahalo, Yvonne! #HawaiianVolcanoes #BeautifulLavaAbstract

HVO/USGS Volcanic Activity Notice Volcano: #Kilauea Saturday, August 23, 2025, 3:23 AM HST Episode 31 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption ended abruptly at 2:52 a.m. HST on August 23 after 12.6 hours of continuous fountaining. IMG: Y. Bauer #HVNP #HVO

A photo you took that brings you inner peace.

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#DailyFlowers for you 🫶 Happy #RoseWednesday 🌱🌿 #ColorADay #RedWed #thelittlethings #photography #flowers #FlowerReport #naturelovers #PhotographersUnited #scape #onlybeautifulthings #photohour #Bloomscrolling #ArtYear #nature #EastCoastKin

Dobby, did we wake ya up? Behold sleepy Dobby, whose nēnē gosling plush ensures he'll fly into good dreams. HPPA park stores manager Wendy snapped this pic of these two, peacefully dreaming. (Maybe our big plush Hawaiian owl would be too scary?) #HPPAOhana #DobbyDreams #TeamHPPA #ThisIsWhereWeWork

Check out this cool #USGSVolcanoes infographic! During the past 30 fountaining episodes, Kilauea has achieved a number of superlatives: the highest lava fountain was 1,250 feet (381 meters) tall, lava flows have raised the floor of Halemaʻumaʻu by more than 240 feet. #Kilauea #eruption #Hawaii

Speaking of Hawaiian honeycreepers and owls and nēnē geese and crows and koa bugs: Shop your parks shop.hawaiipacificparks.org/collections/... #HawaiiBirds #HawaiiBugs #HawaiiParks #PinLove

Happy #AlohaFriday, & we will leave you with this jaw-dropper from NPS VIP photographer @janice_weicool (IG), whose images of the eruptions of Kīlauea Volcano at our partner Hawai'i Volcanoes NP are superlative. Always. (8/6/2025) #kilaueavolcano #eruptionepisode30 #hawaiiparks #HVNP #JaniceWei

On the Big Island, the team is trying to eradicate the beetle, which was found in March, before it’s too late. A crew traveled there in June, flying drones to spray pesticide into the crowns of the palms near the Kona airport. The state is stepping in to help. #CRB #HawaiiTrees

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

Our standards and expectations are low, trust us on this one.

Undergrad me, doing pretty fly for a white guy at karaoke and having recently taken bio classes where a cure or vaccine for HIV was presented as one of the hardest/most pressing issues in the field, would have been BLOWN AWAY by this

PTWC CANCELS #TSUNAMI WARNING FOR THE ISLAND/STATE OF HAWAII.