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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist @chelseaherps.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

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

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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist @chelseaherps.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

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.

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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist @chelseaherps.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

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

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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist @chelseaherps.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

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

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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist @chelseaherps.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

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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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

🚨 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 🧪

Adult male (small) and female (large) of Armillifer sp. Looks like a big and small crinkle cut french fry, also with paired hooks at the front.

Both photos from this paper:
https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0000320

Adult female Linguatula serrata. Looks like a wrinkly tube, a bit wider at the front and tapering to a tail. There are some hooklike bits at the front.

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Sofia Castelló y Tickell @sofiaatsea.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

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

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Dominique Ramsey 𓃥 @dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social · 15/07/2024

FASHION (afghan hound)

A brown, purple, and pink Afghan hound struts it’s stuff. Inspired by 70’s fashion.

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The Doctor (Commissions open) @lucidillusions.in · 21/12/2024

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

a fresh water crab submerged under water, walking on rocks with moss on them.

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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist @chelseaherps.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

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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The Black Supreme Kai @blacksupremekai.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

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.

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Discover the best baby gear to give and get.

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Katie Duffy @kduffy1718.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

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.

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

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 🧪

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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist @chelseaherps.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

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 🖤🖤🖤

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 10/12/2024

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!

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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist @chelseaherps.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

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!

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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist @chelseaherps.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

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

A photo of a blue rectangular bumper sticker that reads “Number One Bug Enthusiast”. Three “true” bugs are drawn above the text - a green planthopper, an oak tree hopper, and a periodical cicada.

A photo of a half-circle shaped bumper sticker, with text that says “Cambrian Kids Remember”. The sticker is black with an orange border and features anomalocaris and trilobites, which are invertebrates from the Cambrian time period 540-485 million years ago.

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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist @chelseaherps.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

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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Grumpy dad energy @fdsignifier.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I was really trying keep this PG...

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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist @chelseaherps.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

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

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Matt Tobey @mtobey.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

She's so crazzzzzzzzy! Love her!!!

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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist @chelseaherps.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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

Mirror selfie. I’m wearing black as always.

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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist @chelseaherps.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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

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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist @chelseaherps.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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

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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist @chelseaherps.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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

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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist @chelseaherps.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

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

Gamer shrimp posture check. Illustration of a shrimp in tears in a red gaming chair with headphones and a controller

Chest xray dog meme but it’s hummingbirds and I drew it

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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist @chelseaherps.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

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

Little seal in a pool standing on his back flippers like he’s standing on his tip toes

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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist @chelseaherps.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

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

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Black Mammalogists Week @blackmammalogists.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

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 🧪🦊

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Wildlife Media Panel

YouTube video by Exploring By The Seat Of Your Pants

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Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

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)

Top of an open Mac laptop with three stickers: (1) a humpback whale with three lobsters on its head and the legend "Maine;" (2) a manatee regarding the viewer, surrounded by the phrase "THE GRAVITAS OF THIS RESEARCH IS MANIFOLD;" (3) a plain round sticker with the word "Awas," which is Cree for "Go away."

Bottom of a Mac laptop with a sticker representing a pink Popsicle with two anole lizards climbing on it and licking it (one green, one brown).

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mariah-rose 𓃦 ✦ 𓅛 @mariahrosemarie.bsky.social · 25/01/2024

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.

a Palestine sunbird holds red poppies in their beak next to the text RIGHT TO EXIST. a Palestine crocodile (a subspecies of the Nile, now extinct thanks to occupying forces) guards a shining key next to the text RIGHT TO RETURN. a Palestinian olive tree, full of fruit is next to the text RIGHT TO RESIST. a Palestinian family of five, all embracing each other next to the text RIGHT TO REMAIN.

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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist @chelseaherps.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

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.

Poster for the movie FernGully: The Last Rainforest, featuring all of the main characters on a forest canopy background

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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist @chelseaherps.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

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.

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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

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

Thick black snake partially coiled in defensive posture, head up, staring you down

Closer shot of the creature's head through the grass

Top view of the whole creature on the move. Thick black noodle in the grass

Very close shot of the head, from underneath, as the head is the pointed straight upward - revealing the mottled white throat. The brown eye is piercing as it stares you down

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cambrian epic wet animal @dinoserious.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

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

block of a repeat pattern containing a number of simply drawn light brown/red ants in different positions on a light yellow background. there are little stylized flames in the areas between them. there is an offset version of the pattern in the background in a slightly lighter yellow

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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist @chelseaherps.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Got Roti some Halloween toys as an early birthday present!

Picture of my hand with a toy cauldron with a stuffed potion bottle, eyeball and frog in it. My black cat Roti in the background waiting for his toys.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

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.

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🇩🇲 Chelsea Connor, Anime Biologist @chelseaherps.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

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

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

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 😂

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Chelsea Connor: Mother Maria by The 'We Out Here' Podcast

Herpetologist, artist and graduate student from the Commonwealth of Dominica in the Caribbean: Chelsea Connor joins the podcast this month with a story of a community surviving the storm of Hurricane ...

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