Happy #RaccoonAwarnessDay! I know they're often referred to as trash pandas, but I get to experience them in their more 'natural' habitat where I live. I love them. They are intelligent, curious and best appreciated from a safe distance. #mammals 🌿

I am a different person after: - swimming - gelato

When the bluebells wake again, I will be in the Kingdom of Kent to welcome them *manifesting*

"The power on campus is out. The buildings are all locked down and there's no access." "There's a 4.56 billion year old asteroid fragment in my office that needs to be on an international flight tonight." This trip was not starting smoothly 🤨

I love this!!! The Bristol stool chart should be there too! What's better way to educate people about health than giving them guides to check their body waste? Found at the Indonesian Medical Education and Research Institute (IMERI) at the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia.

Always so drawn to patterns whenever I see one and just so happy to recognise a familiar pattern. Field trip to Orang Asli Villages in Segamat, Johor, Malaysia.

Renascence. When fog open to reveal mighty mountains surrounded by a forest and waterfalls in autumn… Panorama from a drone in the French Alps. #bluesky #photography #landscape #nature #autumn #landscapephotography #naturephotography #mountains

I never knew they actually went into the water!!! 😱 This is amazing!!!

Too late for #InverteFest (coz I've been on holiday), but here are two drawings with inverte representation at an exhibition of children art in Bangkok. I especially adore the second one named "Stag beetle on a stick". I mean, look at the kids looking at the beetle 🥹

Helping in ways I can #SEAStrong #Indonesia

Every two years I get to donate around 25 cm of hair to my local breast cancer foundation. The hair will be made into wigs for breast cancer patients. July 2023 - August 2025

Four moths from the final night of trapping at the Reserva Biológica União in the Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil. #teammoth #MothsMatter #UniversityOfHull #FieldStudies #UENF

My favorite fireworks

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

#InverteFest friends, @franzanth.bsky.social and I have been tossing around ideas to incorporate writing into InverteFest and this is what we came up with. A collaboration pairing writers with artists to create something for an anthology. Would any writers/artists be interested?

Tomorrow evening in Sandwich, Massachusetts I'm doing a book event at Titcomb's Bookshop! Most of my events are nicely packed, but so far there aren't many RSVPs for this one. So please share, and please come out and support the wonderful Titcomb's (and me!) titcombsbookshop.com/event-conten...

I get that people are deeply annoyed by iNat right now, but despite its deep flaws, I hope people can see that a better iNat, both the site functionality and the community, is worth fighting for. Here's my personal perspective.

This hurts me more than twitter. I've recommended @inaturalist.bsky.social as a reservoir of animal references untainted by Gen AI. My current friend circle is from iNat. #InverteFest was born there. We don't know the details of this program but knowing they're enabling google's BS is painful.

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

@kellybrenner.bsky.social new Japanese vocab just dropped!

I want to start something new. Every Friday, I want to feature HUMAN creatives and what you've made. So if you're an author, artist, musician or any other type of creative, drop your links below so we can buy your human made art. #HumanMadeArt Image source: hinokodo.itch.io/human-made

I was on a Teams meeting with my manager when she asked me to wait for her for a sec. When she returned, she said "there was a beautiful butterfly that got caught in a spider web, so I had to go and release it". I'm feeling very positive about this new job!

So I read a couple of papers for work today. And I realized I actually did a lot of the things mentioned in those papers, minus the literature review bc I was largely ignorant of the literature, and went "oh, I'm not as dumb as I thought". An achievement against my imposter syndrome ✨

It’s the attack of Bugwatching! Today I received a dozen copies from the publisher, @princetonupress.bsky.social, and you can preorder from them, too.

It's the most beautiful time of the year! Happy Tết Đoan Ngọ! This is the best bakchang of my life 🥹

To protect the nature all around us, we first need to understand it a lot better — and sharing photos to iNaturalist can help with that. To celebrate #BiodiversityDay, here are just five of the *many* iNat observations that have made a direct impact on science over the years. 🧵⤵️

I feel like we're to the point where I need to say, my books are real, written by a real person, edited by real people, art by actual artists, published by a real publisher. 100% human made. (okay like 10% bug made). #MadeByRealHumans

Finally I am in a place where people take colds seriously! 🥹

And in an unlikely turn of events, jellyfish are just floating underwater bird feeders In the Arctic, baby fish seek cover inside the stinging tentacles of jellyfish, but birds, having figured out the bit, now swim underwater, through the tentacles, & eat them 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

So it's happened to me 🙃

🐝🐝 we are covered in bees 🐝🐝

my heart 🥹😍😭

Exactly 😌

This is so surreal 😭🥹

It’s #InverteFest again! 🧪🐡🦋So here is my bee (and other pollinator) propaganda for Manufactured Ecosystems. Thinking about the future of pollination and seeking solutions from technological and nature-based knowledge. This is essentially my conclusion: we can aid our beleaguered pollinators 🧵

Our community science project begins in more or less 24 hours from now (depending on your time zone!) If you're going out to spot your local wildlife, join our project here so your findings can be used for a lot of science stuff www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...

Today I heard the cicadas. Summer is here.

I find so much comfort and solace through #bluebells I don't know how to explain it 🥹

got teary eyes looking at this 🥹

Loved these bark patterns seen this morning on a fallen silver birch tree, in some woods near Berkhamsted. #LocalPhotography #abstract #Berko

THEY ARE HERE! THE BLUEBELLS ARE HERE!!!

Mariah Curry

Got my advance copy of my new book, “Bugwatching: The Art, Joy, and Importance of Observing Insects.” You can preorder now from Princeton University Press. Shoutout to @samanthagallagher.bsky.social for the amazing illustrations!

Helping my good friend with some qualitative analysis and the whole time I was like "oooh look at my prefrontal lope go" lmao No wonder programs can't do this as well as humans. It's some real complex analysis & decision making process going on in there.

Always love me some ancient Mesopotamia shade 🤣

being called a Trump supporter by an American migrant worker (why, he was living & working in VN) and a liberal by a communist Vietnamese

I've recently learned about learned helplessness, and today I watched it unfold right before my eyes. It was me. I was helpless watching myself being helpless. Oh, the price I pay for my knowledge sometimes!

Umm... how do I mass block bots?

April is here, which means the English bluebell season is coming very soon. Every bluebell season, I've lived vicariously through nature accounts back over that darn site. So if you know anyone from the UK here who I can follow for a snippet of this year's bluebells, please let me know! Thank you!