iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Looks like a baby direwolf to me (Aelurodon or Aenocyon), but if we are going extant, maybe Atelocynus?

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Gotta have the slimy slimy hagfish.

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Gosh Zach, you're really sounding like one of those cultists who think civil dialog can happen without ad hominems.

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Gradescope and Crowdmark are so nice. Especially helpful in future iterations if you design your layouts and question types to lean into their strengths (and/or away from their weaknesses).

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I kind of lived this experience. Someone who wronged me and friends of mine died in a way that could have been painful. While I experienced relief that I won’t have to interact with them again, I actually hoped that their last moments were swift and painless. I guess I would wish that for any being

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If it wasn't in LateX I'm not sure I'd believe it came from real mathematicians. 😂

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Not an Arizona person, but having visited, the desert museum is lovely!

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I LOVE the choice to go for a... bi-cle (?) as a spider monocle equivalent! 😂

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

How does gynandromorphy work with haplodiploidy? Are they sort of a haploid/diploid chimera?

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Gold plaque explanation says "You got a perfect board in less than 90 seconds!" I believe the perfect board is hub-first, purple->blue->green->yellow (or maybe just hub-first + purple first?), but the time component would turn perfect into a plaque. Is my guess.

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I agree! As a stopgap, my IDs are as follows: blue = indigo bunting, black/orange = american redstart, white under eye = magnolia warbler, full yellow eye ring = canada warbler.

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

You should wait. All PhDs require at least a little bit (and sometimes a lot) of spite fuel.

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

In roller derby, one team's jammer can hit the other team's jammer out of bounds, then skate back all the way to the front of the group of blockers. Since you have to come in behind the person who hit you out, the jammer can get drawn into the pack and held there. This is called "eating the baby."

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Better title: Predator learns the value of friendship

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I'm... maybe not an amateur, but I'm not the best at juveniles, so I was wondering if you might be more confident than I was. I do think we were looking at the same species, based on the photos, but I'm just not sure which!

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

How sure are you of black-crowned vs. yellow-crowned? I struggled with a similar-looking juvenile last week and landed on yellow because of the white outlines on the wing feathers.

Close up view of a juvenile night heron along the water's edge. It is mainly brown and white with an outstretched neck, a head and eyes that seem too big for its body, and a dark stocky bill.

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Beautiful Anhinga! Unlike many other water birds, they don't float on water. They swim around with their head out. They have to stand like this to dry their feathers after!

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

That's the problem with trying to impose order on nature: in biology we almost always have to drop a ton of "most of the time"s, "often"s, etc., as your source here does. Makes it almost impossible to make any hard and fast statements. :-P

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Hi Janet! I think you might be thinking of dragonflies (spread) vs damselflies (together). It's not quite as straightfoward with butterflies, moths, and skippers. Butterflies might have them tented or out wide, and skippers (which these look like to me) have front and back wings at different angles!

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Erik Corley @erikcorley.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The only factual connection between autism and vaccines was published in 2016 by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/autism...

smbc-comics.com

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Autism and Vaccines

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Let me beef frank, this season looks like a weiner!

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I was delighted by them when I got my T-shirt recently!

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I thought it was common knowledge that the H in Jesus H. Christ stood for haploid.

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I've always found the Sherwin Williams logo disturbing, and thinking of that red paint covering the Earth as right-wing ideology really seems to line up here.

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

About the time I was like, "oh no, his friends are tearing up" I knew it was all over for me.

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

If “less than half or even 1/3” of people I might interact with are dangerously violent and unpredictable and I don’t have a way to tell who’s who, it’s only logical and reasonable to generalize and assume anybody I interact with is dangerously violent and unpredictable.

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I have never been more excited for my second watching of a gamechanger episode.

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Literally the first thing I did was acknowledge the mistake (and additional ones besides)? 🤷‍♂️

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

That was certainly an egregious and harmful mistake, and the CDC have continued to make them, but we should be careful not to conflate the scientific community with the CDC. The community have quite rightly pushed back against CDC guidelines where they’ve clashed with the data.

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Also, if it's a push button ignition, you never have to take the keys out of your pocket, so they're more likely to just stay in there rather than ending up loose in the car.

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

To lock my car while it's running, I have to roll the window down, get out, close the door, reach in, lock the doors, then hit the auto window up button and pull my arm out of the way. I also have to use the physical key to open it again afterwards (fob won't do it).

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Paywalled. What are the units of the axis?

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Little house finch couple sharing a feeder.

A bird feeder against a background of tiny yellow flowers. On the left side is a reddish male house finch. On the right side is a brownish female house finch.

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

How about I try to name five non-dinosaurs that (some) people think are dinosaurs? - Ichthyosaur - Plesiosaur - Pterosaur - Dimetrodon - Glyptodon

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

As a collector of hobbies, I am so pumped for this. I make shoes!

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David Bingham Brown @bingham.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

As we're about to hear a whole lot more about autism and vaccines, the great @zachweinersmith.bsky.social has already pointed out the only relevant relationship between the two. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/autism...

Comic with two people talking, one wearing a white labcoat. "Wait a minute. Autism-spectrum people are over-represented in research science. But... But that means..." "My god" Caption: AUTISM CAUSES VACCINES.

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

They’re eating the broccoli! They’re eating the kale!

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Process of elimination purples drive me up the wall! Connections Puzzle #652 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Turns out following the law doesn't prevent law enforcement misconduct. Hope they got the pants sued off them.

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Elijah Carter @becarter.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Perhaps worth noting that in some states you are required to provide your name if you’ve been legally detained (and arguing about the legality of the detention is unlikely to be successful outside court). State ACLUs are a good source for knowing what to do.

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