Yellow-billed Magpie for @kslivensky.bsky.social , thank you for your #Waymakers donation! For info, to donate & request a bird: act.theyoungcenter.org/a/birdsbeyon... All funds assist unaccompanied immigrant children in the US via @theyoungcenter.bsky.social Ends Sept. 30! 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

For @kslivensky.bsky.social (GOT IT RIGHT this time sorry!!) a fledgling Chipping Sparrow! So fluffy, so round! Thank you for your #Waymakers donation! For info + to donate & request a bird: act.theyoungcenter.org/a/birdsbeyon... All funds support immigrant kids in the US! 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

Happy fall stoat day

Folks, my 3yo is gonna be a 4yo and we are doing his birthday party this weekend for all his preschool friends and it's rainbows and unicorns themed and I will therefore be away until further notice to maintain the energy and joy levels needed to make this a special time for him. 🦄💙 Love to all. ❤️

Folks, my 3yo is gonna be a 4yo and we are doing his birthday party this weekend for all his preschool friends and it's rainbows and unicorns themed and I will therefore be away until further notice to maintain the energy and joy levels needed to make this a special time for him. 🦄💙 Love to all. ❤️

Not a forest trail shot. Just a picture in town from outside my youngest's favorite after school playground, back behind some bushes. Nature is everywhere!

She's off to her construction job...

10/10 accidental image caption 🪶

Not a forest trail shot. Just a picture in town from outside my youngest's favorite after school playground, back behind some bushes. Nature is everywhere!

The sign on the ground really completes this incredible photo.

3 hours of cleaning done, phew, mostly of the dusting and sweeping/vacuuming variety. Almost-4yo's birthday is just days away and at the very least I can make sure the new influx of toys don't land directly in dust bunnies and cobwebs. 😅 Reminder to self: set a more frequent cleaning schedule. 😳

The colors of sunrise nicely complement the volcanic action right now at Kīlauea. 🌋

Just taking a quick peek to see how things are going here. Happy Friday everyone! #wildlife #porcupine

Need to get my hands on this one ASAP! 😯❤️

This is such a special documentary and will honestly fill you up with hope... and many other emotions. 🌈

The ferns are putting on a show these days along many parts of the East Coast Trail. Near Bay Bulls, Newfoundland, Canada. #hiking #trail #backpacking

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Happy Halloween!

i am pained to say my most millennial trait might be ending every sentence with an ironic "lol" so people know that even tho i might have typed something important to me, i'm not like SO serious about it. cuz u know. lol. it's like a little detachment. as a treat lol

Kid 1 is coughing and sniffling everywhere so I have been cleaning and sanitizing surfaces all over and insisting on frequent hand washing from Kid 2, who just now smushed his fingers into a mucus-y mess in the sink basin because he "wanted to know what it felt like". I don't know why I even try.

None of us can stop all the bad things. But we can each do something. And that adds up. Don't let what you can do get subtracted because it all feels too overwhelming and you stop. That's what they count on. Push on in your specialty. Keep that determined light within you lit.

Over ~14 years, I have acquired five reusable water bottles of various origins, which has felt like an absurd number to me. UNTIL THIS PAST MONTH when somehow one by one they have each gone missing! I am down to just one! What is going on? Do I... do I need to buy a new reusable bottle? 😱

Wrapping gifts for our soon to be 4yo in pastel unicorn wrapping paper and putting inside each one the hope for a gentler future world for him.

If you're spiraling, please take a breath. Try not to fall into despair & lose hope. Fascists want that. A disengaged, silent populace is easier to bulldoze. What's one thing you can do right now? Write ABC a letter? Call your Reps? Donate to PBS? Cancel Disney? *Every* small act matters.

Wrapping gifts for our soon to be 4yo in pastel unicorn wrapping paper and putting inside each one the hope for a gentler future world for him.

Some days I have to remind myself that giving others what they need so they can recharge and keep fighting is also a valid contribution to the whole.

None of us can stop all the bad things. But we can each do something. And that adds up. Don't let what you can do get subtracted because it all feels too overwhelming and you stop. That's what they count on. Push on in your specialty. Keep that determined light within you lit.

All of this. Electeds and corps and media are acting like elections are already cancelled. We are the ones who have to stop the steal now.

YouTube has dared to suggest my go-to home workout video to me to play next READ THE ROOM YOUTUBE I HAVEN'T MOVED FROM THIS BED IN 20 HOURS 😂

102.3 degrees . Still. Would love to not have a fever anymore. Small potatoes in the world and I'm privileged to have gotten the COVID booster, but blah. ☹️

Last reminder! Applications for the Sound Science Fellowship are due this Friday, September 19 at 11:49 PM ET! ncse.ngo/sound-scienc... #EducationalResearch #edusky #museumed #edresearch #scied

Maybe a bit of a secret in the author world, but many of us never earn out advances, so we do not get royalties. The only way for a lot of us to make more money is to get another book contract. (1/2)

Me: Okay, so this isn't really COVID, it is just pretend COVID so you can know what to look for if the real thing sneaks in. My immune system: Got it. Absolutely. This is real COVID and we will be attacking with all the force we can muster, let's DO THIS let's RIDE!!!!!! RAHHHHH!!! Me: ...sigh.

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage. When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig. Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

23 hours into booster shot: I guess I live here now? Shivering under this pile of blankets until my immune system finishes its COVID drill? 😅 I've been under these blankets since Hour 12, going through fever after fever, because my body always takes this practice run WAY too seriously. 🙄🙄🙄

Me: I think... I think I need to lay down on the couch. Starting to fade here. What time is it? Oh? 9 hours and 45 minutes post booster? Hot dang, do I know the clockwork of my immune system. 😂

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

In honor of Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Month, we asked the authors of five books for young readers about highlighting different aspects of their culture and history

I was taking photos of a mushroom when I realized I was being watched! (Eastern Chipmunk) #manmals 🌿

Want to connect with delightful #kidlit creatives? Join #kidlitchat

8 hours in and definitely starting to feel sluggish. I usually hit the fever/headache/exhaustion zone around 10-12 hours in, worse at 24, and better by 36. Always worth it. ❤️ But 😴😩 for a little bit here..... may be less active online this evening. ...Or *more* active in a tired, impulsive way. 😅

Sharing this painting from last summer as I'm working on planting a native plant garden bed. My purple prairie clovers didn't germinate this spring, but I always enjoy seeing them while birding! #BirdArt #SciArt #Watercolor #FineArt #ArtYear

Boosted. Take that, COVID.

Asking for an author’s book at a library is a wonderful thing to do. The library buys the book, maybe even multiple copies, which really does help authors. A simple request can spread a lot of good around. Also I just love libraries and I’m always happy when someone checks out one of my books. 📚

I have made the goodie bags. There are 28 complete ones and 8 more bags with one item less because one item came in a smaller quantity than expected. Currently 20 confirmed kids as a yes, 7 more as strong maybes, and 3 probably-nots. So presuming we hit that 27... 28 should be enough??? Hopefully?

Having had COVID just once so far, I would still much rather give up a day once a year (twice if they'd let me!) to recovering from the vaccine rather than 3 weeks of feeling like death warmed over plus months of crawling back to real life energy plus risks of long COVID.

Alrighty. Drank a bunch of water. Moving my arm a lot. Doubled my antihistamine. Now to try to knock out as many to-do items as possible before the ~10 hour mark when I classically crash for 24-36 hours lol.

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to bluesky.

Boosted. Take that, COVID.