Making myself the promise to post here more if only for my art 😭 also I just had another birthday. So I’ll be updating soon. Also been thinking about streaming in a serious sense????? linktr.ee/chelseaherps

This just happened again to me on Twitter yesterday. Like in all honesty this is why I’ve been staying out of birding recently. I will say something very mild or polite or I’m just being direct and the response is hostility or rudeness from your favourite white birders.

I have a super important and time sensitive phylogeography question 🙇🏾‍♀️

Hello~ I’m still a long way from the goal and running out of time. I appreciate your help! Thanks!

Thank you again to everyone for your help so far. I appreciate it. Still got a way to go but it’s progress. Thank you.

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🚨 Don't eat uncooked snake! Your eyes & lungs can be parasitized by pentastomids, which are a CRUSTACEAN. Adults lack so many features that they weren't believed to be arthropods at all until their DNA was sequenced (and sperm morphology, but that was not widely accepted). Yet, they are! #Crustmas 🧪

Deadline for ScienceWrite apps is getting closer, having participated last year I highly recommend!

FASHION (afghan hound)

Day 21 of #Crustmas + #InvertAdvent Some more fresh water crab 📸📸 🌿🖌️ #Photography #虫 🦀

He looks delicious. I’m sorry.

Thank you again to everyone for your help so far. I appreciate it. Still got a way to go but it’s progress. Thank you.

We are excited for the arrival of our skybaby. As we get ready to welcome in our little one, myself and my lady have started a registry to help us prepare. We would be so grateful if you’d like to celebrate with us by checking it out and help us gather some the things the baby will need.

I'm not in a place to donate right now, but perhaps you are. This person needs over $5000 in order to receive their diploma; they've been trying to work while studying and dealing with health issues. If you can help, please consider doing so.

So a couple years ago I was in a similar spot- couldn't graduate until my tuition bill was paid. Y'all came through for me- let's do the same for Chelsea 🧪

Thank you so much to everyone so far. I’ve been working on my thesis so I can defend by the deadline. Thank you for your help and well wishes. It means so much to me 🖤🖤🖤

Chelsea is a wonderful scientist and science communicator - please help her finish her studies! You can donate to the link in the below post - and share!

I’m still a ways away from the goal and I appreciate any help. If you don’t want to just donate, I finally opened an Etsy store (technically my partner did and I just make designs for him). It’s Rotis Bazaar on Etsy! We will upload more products soon!

Sharing this again and would appreciate it if you could share it too. Thank you in advance.

Final bumper sticker restock of the year! 🔗 in my bio or below 🚙🐞💕

A student today told me that I can’t tell him he can’t just walk in and out of class and do what he wants because I don’t pay his tuition… He then reviewed bombed me and said things like “you can’t drink water in the lab” This has been the worst semester of teaching of my life.

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I was really trying keep this PG...

I can’t post a video longer than 60 seconds so you’ll just have to follow me on TikTok for the whole thing.

She's so crazzzzzzzzy! Love her!!!

What if I started streaming?

Had a great day yesterday. Thank you for all the birthday wishes and everything 🖤🖤🖤

Just paid the govt $470 to look at an application. Not buying myself a fancy coffee anytime soon 🥲

Anyway I’m gonna be looking for jobs soon. You should hire me 🥺👉🏾👈🏾

Oh I think some of yall think my memory is short. If you ever said something racist to me or another Black person publicly, you got a lot of nerve to follow me lmao

Two of four new designs I finally got around to uploading as a birthday present to myself! t.co/OJ1geNjRDW

Just here for a bit to tweet about my birthday in 6 days. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Just here for a bit to tweet about my birthday in 6 days. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

If you missed the #BlackMammalogists wildlife media panel with @chelseaherps.bsky.social, Aalayna Green, & Anwar Abdul-Qawi that just happened don't worry we got you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-Y1... #BlackSky 🧪🦊

In the interest of putting my money where my mouth is: the whale with lobsters is for Maine, my home state. The manatee is an inside joke from a friend who received an extremely florid flattering e-mail with that phrase - it's there to remind me to take my work seriously, but not too seriously (1/2)

ever since learning that the national bird of 🍉, the p❤️lestine sunbird survived a name change attempt… & that occupiers drove a subspecies of crocodile endemic to the region to extinction… I couldn’t get this image out of my head. a ceasefire is the bare minimum. but let’s start there.

Hello BlueSky. I spent 3 days watching every frame of the animated classic FernGully: The Last Rainforest. I cross referenced lists, maps and my own approximate area of where the movie took place around Wollumbin (formerly Mt Warning), Australia to figure out a species list.

Just logged in. Saw all your (whatever we are calling them since they’re not tweets?). Sobbing on the couch rn. Didn’t realise how many people cared about me or my work and helping me. Thank you.

@chelseaherps.bsky.social is an amazing researcher and scicommer and she needs our help 🧪 feed! Please donate if you can, and spread the word if you can't. gofund.me/e48b7927

On the phone with my boss as I was walking this evening, and almost stepped on this magnificent cottonmouth. Largest I've encountered, and very feisty; neither of us would have enjoyed the experience if I had stepped on them. 🐍🌿 10/3/23

invertober day 3, little fire ant! bit of patterning fun ^_^

Got Roti some Halloween toys as an early birthday present!

This grackle flew in, gobbled up birdseed, drank sooo much water, then promptly sunbathed, completely still, on the deck railing, for 10 minutes before flying off. This batch of grackles is wary of humans, communicating me being on a walkway and leaving en masse temp.

The more I learn about virology, the less I want to learn about virology.

Oh my gosh, this @weouthere.bsky.social episode with Chelsea Connor @chelseaherps.bsky.social about how Hurricane Marie affected her home island is so moving. Helps to understand how these increasing and intensifying hurricane seasons are affecting people. Also that closing line got me 😂

*taps on mic* hello? Is this thing on?