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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 22h

A very metal bug. Edessa splendens 🌿🌱

A stink bug with sharp shoulders, metallic green wing covers and red edged abdomen.

Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 23h

Piero, a childhood fave of so many Latin American kids of my generation, died yesterday. He was a good guy, fighting oppression and violence in Argentina during the worse of it. Lived in Colombia for many years. This is the one song I always sing in my head when I think of him.

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La Canción de la Abuela

Piero · Sinfonía Inconclusa En La Mar · Song · 2017

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The far-right's favorite "intellectual" says the quiet part out loud.

A tweet from Curtis Yarvin that says "what if Open AI solves the Jewish problem"

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My starting word finally paid off I today’s Wordle 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I attended a preschool named Bertrand Russell so, out of curiosity, started reading whatever of his I could find at my high school library well before the internet. Have been a huge fan since. And he was friends with John Dewy, another excellent human being.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My mom has a hummingbird feeder outside her window. Every day at sunset the bats come and mop up whatever the hummingbirds left behind. It’s really fun to watch them so close to the glass. I have some slow motion videos of them from a few years ago.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also, wtf. I got my booster last week. Got it for free because they had an open vial that needed using. If I had had to pay, it was the equivalent of $13. Why is it ten times more in The US than in Colombia? It’s not a new thing w high R&D costs. It’s all about the money grab.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This gets better. It’s not any CVS. It’s a select number of CVS locations listed in a dark corner of the Aetna phone app. And even if he goes to a select CVS, he might have to pay for the shot out of pocket for reasons unknown. $132. I can pay but many vulnerable people can’t. Sucky system.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My kid went to get a measles booster at Patient First in RVA. Aetna will only pay for it at CVS although the cost is the same. Why not just make it available everywhere? Wouldn’t that be more helpful. The point of insurance in the US is to be unhelpful.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

😁 heading over to take a look and follow you there

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I just got to 3000 unique species on iNat yesterday. I know he goes to zoos and stuff, but still an inspiration for me walking around my little patch of rainforest.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I really thought there would be many more fans of The Americans here. Watching season 3 and it’s just so, so good!!

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A flirty curly-tailed mantis nymph about 2.5cm long. Genus Pseudovates 🌱🌿

A mantis nymph on some white flowers. The mantis is standing with its tail curled up and facing the camera. It is brown with little flaps on its legs that make it look like a little twig.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I hope it goes easy. Well worth it, though. I did it last week. Here in Colombia they do endo and colonoscopy with the same sedation, hopefully with different cameras. They look for presence of Helicobacter pylori in everyone’s stomach to prevent ulcers.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Marion Barry got such a bad rap and it was just Elizabeth and Philip Jennings and their friends who committed all the murders.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A lion and a horse. What do you call that mythical creature?

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“The productive part” was no good to my great-grandfather who kept saying he was ok because he fought for the Kaiser in WWI. He believed that right until he was marched onto a train car. His eldest son, my grandfather, was the only survivor of the whole family. Your hot take is garbage.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They surprise me constantly with the beautiful colors and patterns.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is a big difference between a very rich country and a country where very rich people live.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Which makes today like every other day

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No, bsky user with 2500 identical posts and a single follower. My bugs are not AI. Not even this one I shot earlier in the week. I don’t need AI. I have 20 hectares of restored rainforest next door. Genus Amastus, maybe A. hyalina 🌿🌱

A moth with clear wings and a furry thorax. The thorax is white with two yellow lines along the sides and one red line down the middle.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Don’t be thoughtful, dont be smarty. Come and join the maga party.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Historically accurate and super hot in every single movie 😁

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Dan Cassino @dancassino.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

NYT really asking the important questions. What would Benjamin Disraeli think about the Eras Tour? What would Virgina Woolf say about cryptocurrency? Does Philip the Navigator have a favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe?

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thanks for the link! Followed. Has so many good pix!!!

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m looking at you Genus Trosia, maybe T. incostata, male.

A moth looking over the edge of a leaf. The face is red. The eyes, legs, and antennae are black. The antennae look like combs. The thorax is striped white and red.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Glad I got my nails done so I could feature my thumb in this image for scale. A frog in the genus Centrolene. 🌱🌿

A green frog squatting very flat on a leaf. My thumb, with sparkly lavender polish, is next to it. The frog is not much bigger than my thumbnail.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I happened to pick up this moth off the canvas by the lights with an almost perfectly matched leaf. Eois 🌱🌿

A yellow moth on a matching yellow leaf. The moth has silver bands in concentric patterns across its wings.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They blame the “woke left” the same way an abusive person tells the abuse victim “look what you made me do” It’s a pattern. They do it constantly and consistently in so many fields.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I learned so much from HASTAC over the years. Thank you.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The perfect soundtrack for this weird drama 😁

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My kids are grown now but I was always that mom, for my kids and for their friends whose parents couldn’t be. I always asked before jumping in, of course. Now my kids know they should stand up for and with others. It’s the thing I’m most proud of.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yay!! We got measles boosters and flu shots so we can visit the kids in the states without worries. Will get Covid while we are there since they don’t have them here in Colombia right now.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah. You and me both. If you are in Copenhagen, and if you have time, go get some cake and hot chocolate at Conditori La Glace.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I just found out HASTAC is sunsetting. I learned so much from their work over the years. I’m eternally grateful for the people who put in the work to educate so many of us over the past 25 years, and to the one guy at VCU who pointed me in their direction when I first started teaching.

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"As things stand, students who commit infractions like plagiarism — which typically has no real victims — are often punished more harshly than the male students directly responsible for making the campus dangerous for female ones."

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Time to seed the ground wherever these go with super strong magnets

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wasps will find treehoppers on hot days and do this. I’ll find the video and post it later. I was shooting a treehopper sitting on its eggs (yes, like a bird but not for the temperature) and a wasp stopped by so I switched to video.

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Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes! They even tickle the treehopper’s tail to make them pee 😁

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