Just got to 200k IDs on iNaturalist identifying some bees from Minneapolis. I'm hoping some nature lover gets back from a vigil tonight and sees they have a flood of notifications and knows people around the world are thinking of them.

A&M has the juice 6 pt deficit and taking the first set?? Chester (class of '13) says gig 'em

the things i would do for a mission-style burrito rn... wrapped tight with tin foil. hold with one hand. pour salsa on with each bite. why is it so hard to find this outside of NorCal?

The worst part of camping instead of doing a traditional Thanksgiving is no leftover pie for breakfast

just saw the northern lights from my front porch nbd

He's still alive, y'all! 105!

Did anyone dress up as Boba Fett Bo Bichette for Halloween?

Lmao baseball the best dumbest sport

Anything for walkers, bikers, transit users? Clearing sidewalks along city parks and other city property? Enforcement of sidewalk clearance ordinance at grocery stores, etc? #waronpedestrians

Oh sweet glorious rain, how I've missed you

Just visited a super sweet endangered species public mural project in Grand Rapids. Each species done by a local artist and there's a QR code for local range maps and conversation actions on the placards. www.pleasantpeninsula.org/2025-species

I took action with People Not Politicians - Missouri. Will you join me? Use this link to sign up: www.mobilize.us/pnpmo/event/...

just packed for a normal day at working, leading a meeting all day at work, frisbee tournament, j-chilling in COMO, camping and fieldwork aka half my closet it in my car

There’s only one IP I care deeply about and that’s the lively and whimsical world of Otter Pops

Bittersweet moment of depositing my bees in the entomology collection at The Ohio State University.

Car full of bees

Toadstool 🐸🪑 (Yes I know it's actually a frog)

I’ll give Microsoft this: they’re right that I want to see the confetti every time I mouse over the word “congratulations” in an email

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The participants in the participatory science program I ran submitted ~6k/8.7k of the @inaturalist.bsky.social brown belted bumblebees in MO highlighted in this XKCD comic xkcd.com/3118/ Pretty neat IMO!

Everyone deserves to see my sister's rambunctious kitten sitting on their toaster

Wanna come save science with us? 🚨WE ARE HIRING🚨 Details below!

Forest Park is unrecognizable. The amount of massive trees down has really changed the sight lines. It's wild.

Move over Ne-vah-dah, there's a new horrible pronunciation in town. I just learned the local pronunciation of Nevada, Missouri (population 8k) is Ne-vay-duh

I love that you can't do the wave at the Royal's stadium cuz the only people in the outfield are drivers on I-70 #carsruincities

UT's entomology teaching lab, where I run the fall field entomology class, is being forced out of its decades-long home to make room for the Republican Civitas think tank. No obvious replacement site for us has been offered.

In my most Mid-Missouri interaction to date, I told someone I was from California and they replied "California, Missouri* or the state?" *CA, Missouri has a population of 4500, or about 2x my high school

Balls

Just realized I have some pre-pandemic matzoh. But like isn't matzoh the definition of food that's supposed to not spoil?

Please share! The Appalachian Mountain Club is hiring a new GIS scientist to work in their northeast US-based research group (www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...). Ideal candidate has a MS in ecology-related field with at least an additional year of work experience. #jobs #ecology #conservation

Sports!

Hey St. Louisans -- stop trying to name things after a plane flown by a Nazi sympathizer.

The Bradford pear is an invasive species that grows so quickly it can displace Missouri’s native wildlife. Here are the local organizations offering free native trees to Missourians who remove an invasive pear tree:

Move over, Green M&M. We have a new unnecessarily hot mascot in town

Spotted the first (non-native) bee of the year in my yard! Spring has sprung!

I read 7 good books in a row. What more can someone ask for? --------------------------- Come and get it - Reid Somewhere beyond the sea - Klune Mrs Caliban - Ingalls The god of the woods - Moore Cold enough for snow - Au The great believers - Makkai Margo’s got money troubles - Thorpe

Nice to see Bluesky get big enough that #stlwx works to see exactly what candy size the hail is

Ssssssssspelling bee???

At the Science Branch conference at work and you can tell people's background by if they say "the data" or "these data"

Happy birthday to my childhood friend who I've lost touch with and is completely ungoogleable because she has the same name as the reigning WNBA MVP

Absolute perfect doze off for a few minutes in the sunshine weather today

My Gene Hackman story is that my mom worked in a dry cleaner in ~1972 (after he had already won an Academy Award) and he used to stop in the dry cleaner with a pair of pants stuffed with all his other pants and shirts, like scarecrow pants.

Signs Point to Confusion and Frustration at St. Louis City Hall nextstl.com/2025/02/sign...

Apparently Shrewsbury doesn't take themselves too seriously

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@hyperfixedpod.bsky.social @agoldman.bsky.social I swung by the Missouri Department of Revenue to pay my respects to where the green hex code license plate sequence was made

In our household the holiday we celebrate on February 14th is Iggy's adoption day! What a great five years it has been.

Winter walk on my day off to celebrate Darwin's, whoops, sorry, I mean Lincoln's, birthday

Universities are predatory, and elite universities even more so. WashU (note, a lot of money was spent to decide that this will be our new cute and friendly moniker....) spends more every year on TULIPS than it does on the community. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Me, today