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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Phew, the news is dark. Here’s a moment of beauty to catch your breath 🌿

The sun sets in a layer of yellow sky at the horizon and the blue sky and pink clouds above and a line of trees silhouetted and a dark stone wall in the foreground. It’s very peaceful.

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L @depressedbiologist.myatproto.social · 13/09/2026

Passed my aquatic vegetation identification quiz. Here’s some pondweed.

Fingers holding curly leaf pondweed laid across them. The leaves are crinkly looking with serrated margins.

Fingers holding Richardson’s pondweed laid across them. The leaves are wavy looking with smooth margins.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Alright everybody, time to text the teachers in your life. The fall semester is open at SkypeAScientist and we are ready to match classrooms, scout troops, library groups, and more with scientists! Tell the educators in your life, and send them to SkypeAScientist.com

A frog uses its comically long tongue to catch a fleeing fly and the words say “send this to a teacher” pointing right. Then under the tongue it says “Skype a scientist matches classrooms with scientists for free Q&As” and there’s a little pond scene with lily pads and spatterdock flowers and a rock with a snail on it and a salamander with the words get a match at Skype scientist.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 18/07/2026

Hey, do me a favor and do an internet search for "free fridge" and your town's name. And then go drop some stuff off when you have some food you're not gonna eat. Got some takeout with an extra wonton soup you're not gonna eat? Take it to the free fridge. Someone needs it. Seriously.

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L @depressedbiologist.myatproto.social · 08/05/2026

A moment of beauty from Yellowstone National Park.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

By the way if you are ever having a day that you don’t have the spoons for writing ALT there are people around to help you with that! -

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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

A moment of zen for your Sunday night: A crap ton of frogs in Donnelly, Idaho, in a chorus

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

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Explore live radio by rotating the globe

Explore live radio by rotating the globe.

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L @depressedbiologist.myatproto.social · 22/03/2026

A lovely #TenMinuteMerlin while sitting on a park bench this morning. 🪶

Screenshot from the Merlin Bird ID app, showing a list of small photos and the names of detected birds:
Yellow-billed Magpie, Bewick's Wren, American Robin, Oak Titmouse, House Finch, Northern Mockingbird, California Scrub-Jay, Anna's Hummingbird, Yellow-rumped Warbler, American Goldfinch.

Screenshot from the Merlin Bird ID app, showing a list of small photos and the names of detected birds:
Red-shouldered Hawk, Northern Flicker, Black Phoebe, Cedar Waxwing, White-breasted Nuthatch.

Screenshot from the Merlin Bird ID app, showing a list of small photos and the names of detected birds:
Purple Finch, Hooded Oriole, House Sparrow.

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L @depressedbiologist.myatproto.social · 19/03/2026

It’s not often I miss my old job, but rad-former-coworker-finds-two-Delta-green-ground-beetles is absolutely one of those times.

Fingers holding a clear plastic cube with two Delta green ground beetles inside. They’re gorgeous and look like tiny emeralds.

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L @depressedbiologist.myatproto.social · 18/03/2026

It’s hideous. I messed up a bunch. I tried to knit continental for the first time. I had a bunch of horrible migraines. I didn’t use the right size needles. But I had fun making it and pulling it apart afterward so I can practice again. 🧶

A raggedy-ass green knit square that kind of says FUCK in the middle of it, with all sorts of mistakes in the knitting. It’s laying on top of a paper pattern for how to make it.

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Remember that you are more likely to become disabled than not. You can be disabled by illness, injury, climate disasters, war, police brutality, unmitigated pandemics, lack of access to healthcare, etc. Disability justice is for us all, and it’s foundational to all other forms of justice.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Would you like a little rest? I made this little video for you. It’s just trees. A small creek. Nothing happens. It’s 2 minutes long. Come sit 🔉

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L @depressedbiologist.myatproto.social · 13/03/2026

Casually pushing my pug in a stroller through a bunch of neighborhood turkeys. 🪶🦃

A white house with black trim and a yard full of turkeys. On the sidewalk in front of the house is a baby stroller with a pug in it.

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Tim Dawson @timblor.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

The wildflowers in Death Valley were near peak for this year and amazing. Here are a couple of closeups of some of the varieties. Plus, a hungry sphinx moth caterpillar which were everywhere happily munching on the vegetation.

A purple desert wildflower (Phacelia calthifolia)

A colorful white sphinx moth caterpillar walking on the ground

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L @depressedbiologist.myatproto.social · 01/03/2026

Why yes, I did 3D print the Croc jibbitz yarn spinner. 🧶

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Make art about it. Make art to process it. Make art to escape it. Make art to protest it. Make art to change it. Make art to grow from it. Make art to recover from it. Make art to understand it. Make art to question it. Just make art about it.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/01/2025

Y'all I'm just tring to survive out here, and do what very little i can to help make a world that doesn't make me feel like fucking dying every single goddamn day. What in the actual fuck.

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L @depressedbiologist.myatproto.social · 22/01/2026

A sunset memory, reminding me of the beauty and good out there.

A sunset over the Pacific Ocean, lighting the water orange, erupting the blue sky with bursts of yellow and orange and turning the clouds pink. There is a tiny silhouette of a person stand up paddle boarding. It was the most spectacular sunset I’ve ever seen.

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L @depressedbiologist.myatproto.social · 27/12/2025

Spending some of 2025’s end at “nightmare rock” felt fitting.

Me! Wearing a black top, black leggings, black shoes, and tall white socks, and sitting on a large rock. The rock is so big that I look like an ant sitting on it. The rock has a face painted on it with a wide open red mouth with pointy white teeth and big white eyes with blue irides and long black eyelashes. One eye has a star around it like Paul Stanley in Kiss. In the background is a blue sky with a few feathery white clouds and more massive rocks.

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L @depressedbiologist.myatproto.social · 08/11/2025

There is a lot going on that’s out of my control and sometimes feels overwhelming. I’ve started darning holes in my socks to give my brain breaks from it all (and also I haven’t gotten paid in over a month). You can probably guess which sock was done after I had a two day long migraine versus not. 🧶

A hand holding two grey and white socks folded in half so that the bottom of the socks face the camera. Both socks have lime green and teal woven patches on their grey heels, one woven patch looks much more chaotic and uneven than the other.

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L @depressedbiologist.myatproto.social · 27/10/2025

Happy Monday! Please enjoy this photo of a cute kangaroo rat.

A close up photo of hands gently holding a small fuzzy brown and white kangaroo rat by the scruff of its neck. Sunlight shines into the picture from the top right and the person's hands have magenta and neon green nail polish. In the background is blurred dirt ground and vegetation.

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L @depressedbiologist.myatproto.social · 18/10/2025

A video from when I was a GS-3 doing bird surveys. That's right, a GS-3. I also had to pay rent to the Army Corps for the FEMA trailer I lived in that flooded when it rained. My first paid gov job.

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L @depressedbiologist.myatproto.social · 12/10/2025

Will I be illegally fired this week?! Who knows! But here's a picture of me with a giant tree that will outlast us all!

Me! Standing on a platform in front of "Big Tree", a massive coast redwood. I'm holding my arms out wide to emphasize what a teeny tiny itty bitty baby I am next to this giant tree. A sign says Big Tree is 286 feet tall, 23.7 feet in diameter, 74.5 feet in circumference, and an estimated 1500 years old.

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L @depressedbiologist.myatproto.social · 07/10/2025

Being furloughed during a gov shutdown over healthcare seems like a good time to stock my local little free libraries with covid supplies.

A blue little free library, with books, boxes of covid tests, and ziplocks with filtration masks inside.

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L @depressedbiologist.myatproto.social · 06/10/2025

In the style of Mah-Na-Mah-Na: Ba-na-na-slug do do do do do

A close up photo of a banana slug on a tree. It's body is curled with it's mantle and optic tentacles pointing down the tree. The tree bark has speckles of light green lichen.

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