A map from my copy of an 1832 atlas by educator & cartographer Emma Willard (1787-1870) who fought for equality in education knowing women were equally capable of subjects like math & philosophy. In 1821 she opened the first U.S. school for women's higher education. Eunice Foote attended her school.

Big sale at threadless! $14 tees & up to 35% off everything else! whistberry.threadless.com I'm busy adding new designs all the time but here are some of the newest and most popular!

Good morning! Dragonflies were a favorite with the Eastern Phoebe babies. 🪶

Begging news outlets to stop illustrating deadly heat waves with happy beach fun 🏖️😎 and life-saving vaccines with terrifying needle assaults 💉😭. Especially on social media (where many/most people get their news) the photo is the most prominent part of the story; these choices undermine it completely

Handy!

polka dots on the move 😂 sweet Bufflehead family #birds

An Anna’s hummingbird visiting a hummingbird sage (Salvia spathacea), a California endemic plant, for the #BirdsInTheirElement theme of #BirdOfTheDay picked by @alan678.bsky.social #birds #nature #birdphotography #hummingbird #nativeplants #ECK

Amber and cream banding wraps around a wavy inner core with a small druzy quartz pocket at center. Raw rhyolite rind intact. Yellow iron staining bleeds into the white chalcedony — classic layered halve. 🪨

A ghost throwback for #WorldHorseshoeCrabDay …a perfect molt. These guys shed their old exoskeleton by crawling out the front rim like an engine block climbing out from under the hood of a Corvette. And they leave this ghost of their former selves, golden and translucent and astonishingly not alive.

These are neat looking. Like tiny planets with a matching orbiting moon!

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Blazing stars are a big part of the fall garden but this species, Liatris spicata, blooms in early summer. Summer or fall, Liatris is a butterfly magnet. Native from one end of the state to the other and widely sold (perhaps more than any other).

In the 90 minutes after @theguardian.com article went live, BHL received more than US$2,500 in donations. Thank you to everyone helping keep biodiversity knowledge free and open. Please read, share, and help us build momentum.

Arthropod Photo of the Week: June 17, 2026 Jumping spider Habronattus americanus Araneae: Salticidae Observed in Nevada, USA By Kyle Scholz, California, USA #arthropodPOTW

Drosera rosulata One of the tuberous sundews that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. This one was happily growing around a granite outcrop in the Perth Hills in late autumn 🌿 #ozflora #fierceflora #sundew #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomscrolling

fun and educational

“Bee species that nest in plant stems appear to be at the greatest short-term risk from increasing temperatures due to climate change, while those that nest in the ground are better able to evade extreme heat” 🐝 🐙 👇

I have so many egrets (and herons)! We visited a heron rookery in a residential area of St. Louis and saw five different species. Here is the Black-crowned Night-Heron in various states of goofiness. 🪶

Obsessed with this 1735 illustration of hammerhead sharks from Japan

🌻 bigfruit sundrops 🌿 Oenothera macrocarpa more of an ozark region species but we have them in the limestone cedar glades of the nashville basin too #nativeplants #ecoregion71

The 2nd (of 2) rufous hummingbird chick in this nest is just starting its fledge from the nest in Nisqually NWR this morning. #Birds #Birding #Photography

Since it's heating up outside again a lot of places, I'm going to reshare this little webpage I made a couple summers ago as a guide on keeping your dog cool and how to identify heatstroke! Please feel free to share elsewhere. dogsummer.carrd.co

Extreme Checkerspot Alert! (Genus Euphydryas) Hot, hot, hot yesterday - butterflies went from mineraling to mudpuddling! You can SEE a droplet on his proboscis! Abbott Creek, Rogue River NF #inverts #becurious

Waxwings. #BirdOfTheDay #SilentPresence #Stunday 📷🌿🪶

Milkweed beetles #bugsky

It's not too late to drop a photo into the comments of the original post for consideration for a digital portrait. (Or just browse the comments for some very cute pet pics!)

This is an ugly scam. Please talk to the less savvy folks in your life so they know the signs.

It's Fossil Friday! Behold the dazzling colors of an iridescent ammonite. A relative of today’s squids, this ammonite lived some 80 mil years ago near what is now Alberta, Canada. This fossil’s spectacular coloration is the result of millions of years of high temperatures & pressures. Photo: © AMNH

Only one bookstore has filled out our Google form so far! Again, you only get pins if you follow these steps: 1. Email through website, receive link to Google form. 2. Fill out Google form. 3. Reply with order number when queried by my PA in several weeks/months.

A recent custom order that we are VERY proud of: a black leather D&D Core Collection (PHB, DMG & MM book sleeves) with gold inlay, and we managed to keep the shading on the PHB and DMG designs intact!! 🤩 #dnd #ttrpg #leather

Galaxy Spood 🌌 Hard to resist shooting these tiny gorgeous Micaria ground spiders, who often appear when I'm looking for other tiny creatures in the sands.

Just did maths and I would have to sell about 30 spiral pendants to make my goal for rent + laptop. I think I currently have about 15 listed. I’m half "Just give up now, it isn’t happening" and half "Better go find a box set and get wrapping". So... who wants a spiral? oishiny.etsy.com

🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) & interested email CV & transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️ @igs-egg.bsky.social

Some fireworks in the #backyard on the Fourth of July in 2024. A young Eastern Screech-Owl (Megascops asio) showed up In the daytime. We were thrilled. Blue Jays -- not so much. #UnexpectedNeighbours is the alternate theme for #BirdoftheDay. #birds #Florida #naturephotography

Little Wattle Bird with #Stripes chomping on some bottlebrush for #BirdOfTheDay 🦓 #birds #BirdPhotography #birding #birdwatching #nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Canon #R5 🦘🇦🇺🐨

"Backlit Gannets" - what do you mean you've never seen black gannets before? From a photo of a stained old wall. #animalart #wildlifeart #wildlife #birdart #noai Digital download available at: buymeacoffee.com/adrianhillma...

#FridayFrocks – The pearl and crystal #Beadwork on this platinum lamé evening gown, c.1927, by Paul Poiret, is a masterclass in the art of embellishment. #Fashion #Poiret #1920sFashion #1920s

Tambour work was a wildly popular embroidery technique in the second half of the c18th and this c 1795 dress is covered in branches of the fine chain stitch. It was worked on a large hoop with a tambour hook, forerunner of the couture luneville technique, Brighton Pavilion

Best local jay dutifully posing for a #Thursjay portrait briefly this afternoon. 📷🌿🪶

#GlassObjectThursday 🏺 Eye catching #Roman iron blue jar with applied grains of yellow and green glass. C1, from Pozzuoli nr Naples. Part of amazing collection bequeathed to BM 19th C by Felix Slade, who also enabled establishment of Slade School of Art + many arts professorships and scholarships.

I have embellished this lily of the valley cyanotype with a couple of linocuts: the Karner blue butterfly and hummingbird clearwing moth. I think I should do some more #multimedia with #cyanotype. minouette.etsy.com/listing/4519... #linocut #printmaking #butterfly 🐡

"Weathered Owl" - created from macro photographs of a weathered corrugated metal fence. No AI. #bird #owl #animalart #wildlifeart #wildlife #noai

Foraging among the flowers completely upside down (A bumble bee on Penstemon/Beardtongue) #NativePlants 🌿 #BloomScrolling #invertebrates 🐝

Plants that thrive in what we might consider challenging conditions (such as standing water) deserve special respect. Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) is a large native shrub that thrives in wet conditions, offering beauty and nourishment where you might not expect. (1/3)

The blue of the cyanotype evokes the blue of the bluegrass. I have made two prints combining bluegrass sheet music (an excerpt of Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Stomp) and the bluegrass itself. minouette.etsy.com/listing/4519... #cyanotype #botanicalPrints #bluegrass #music #longGrass

Our UK warehouse is closing, which means we're saying goodbye to all inventory stored there. Everything shipping from the UK warehouse is 35% off. On the final day of the sale, 2 July, any leftovers will be marked down to 50% off before the warehouse closes for good. Shop at mayakern.uk #store

This is Simba. He has a special stuffed friend who protects him while he sleeps. Partly by being big spoon, and partly by being a pretty good decoy. 12/10 (IG: simbaaeyo)

We used to post etymologies. We still do, but we used to, too.

Swamp milkweed leaf beetle looking fine this morning #bugsky