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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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L @depressedbiologist.myatproto.social · 06/08/2026

Adding two more members to the dragon toy club!

Two pugs, one laying and one sitting, both looking adorable near a pile of toys. A blue dragon toy has been selected from the toy pile and is in front of the smaller pug that is sitting.

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

A moment of beauty from Yellowstone National Park.

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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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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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L @depressedbiologist.myatproto.social · 05/03/2026

Yessssss. Come to the dark side. Like literally it is so dark outside. Eek! Hope you’re enjoying it despite getting soaked in the thunderstorm.

A California tiger salamander in a bucket on top of some wet sponges and plant debris.

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

Wait! I actually did this this morning while on a walk and thinking of your past posts about it. 💙🐦‍⬛

A screen shot of birds detected during a Merlin Bird ID recording. A small photo of the type of bird and it’s name next to each:
Cedar Waxwing
Mourning Dove
Northern Mockingbird
California Scrub-Jay
California Towhee
Yellow-rumped Warbler
American Crow

A screen shot of birds detected during a Merlin Bird ID recording. A small photo of the type of bird and it’s name next to each:
Oak Titmouse
House Finch
American Robin

Below American Robin it says “YOUR BIRD OF THE DAY” but I have no idea why it’s that particular bird.

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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 · 29/12/2025

Hi, fellow fairy shrimp lover. You’re not alone. I wish we worked together so I had more coworkers against AI. 💔

A hand holding a white sampling tray with fairy shrimp.

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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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