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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Everyone peep the rad 70s lamps I just thrifted 🤩

2 70s Chrome and cork table lamps on a tile table

Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This is the single reason I switched to Apple years ago. I had a friend who was a developer for Microsoft at the time tell me “oh - but you can’t add X and fiddle w/ y”. What I want is to turn my machine on, do my shit, turn it off. Nothing else.

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Just his food pellets. He acts like he’s never been fed in his life.

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I present you my granny’s Easter cake, circa 1970

A white cake on tinfoil. It marginally resembles a rabbit with suspicious looking bright colored unidentified objects that kind of might be eggs?

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

A very happy hello from Smokey the foster bun who finally got his egg open 😮‍💨 🥚

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

About to be the before pic for State Farm

A girl sitting in the grass trying to feed Canada geese ritz crackers. A city skyline is in the back

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This is an excellent example - can I share your post with my science communications course?

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

What city/state?? (Googling flights now …)

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Jeez I feel old - I was a toddler when we were on the moon (“we”)

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Yeah that’s cool

(See the quoted post for more; it’s a septagonal patch with the astronaut names around the edges and pictures of mythic animals and a stylized bird image at center)

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I can no longer eat canned food because stupid histamines, and I’m v upset about it 😠

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Imagine sitting strapped in and hearing “oh hang on - there’s a dead battery” JFC, they need an admin assistant

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Stop 8, part 3: Fun Fact: In some wrasse, a single fish can change from a female into a dominant nesting male later in life. Completely shifting its body, colour, and behaviour to take on a new role.

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Stop 8, part 2: Smaller sneaker males look more like females and dart into the nest during spawning to release sperm. All types of males contribute to fertilizing eggs. In some species these strategies can even change during a lifetime

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Stop 8: In several wrasse species, there are two or three distinct male strategies. Nesting males build nests and court females. Satellite males form temporary alliances with nester males. This strategy attracts females and possibly increases survival of offspring.

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Stop 7, part 4: In parrotfish, biological sex can change in response to their social environment. Fun Fact: Parrotfish woo with dancing under the full moon

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Stop 7, Part 3: The development is often triggered by social conditions. If the dominant male in a group disappears, the largest female may transform into the new male, taking over reproduction for the group.

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Stop 7, Part 2: Many species are protogynous, meaning individuals begin life as females and later develop into males. Notably, their reproductive organs shift from producing eggs to producing sperm.

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Stop 7: Sex Change Parrotfish are brightly coloured reef fish known for their beak-like teeth that scrape algae from coral surfaces, helping maintain healthy reefs.

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Stop 6, part 4: Fun fact: Hermaphroditic flat worms engage in “penis fencing” to determine which individual will become pregnant

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Stop 6, part 3: Some species have evolved dramatic strategies to increase their success. The Roman snail (Helix pomatia) fires a tiny calcium “love dart” into its partner during courtship, delivering hormone-rich mucus that improves the chances its sperm will fertilize the eggs.

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Part 6, part 2: When two individuals meet, they exchange sperm so that both partners can later lay eggs. For slow-moving animals that rarely encounter mates, this system increases the chances that reproduction will happen.

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Stop 6, All in One: Many snail and slugs species are simultaneous hermaphrodites, meaning that in these species, each individual has both male and female reproductive organs.

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Stop 5, part 4: Fun Fact: Seahorses often mate for life and start their mornings with a 1 hour courtship dance involving color changes and tail-twining.

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Stop 5, part 3: The pouch regulates oxygen and nutrients much like a uterus. When development is complete, the male releases dozens—or even hundreds—of tiny seahorses into the water.

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Stop 5, part 2: During courtship, the female seahorse transfers her eggs into a special structure on the male’s body called a brood pouch. Inside this pouch, the eggs are fertilized and protected while they grow.

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Stop 5, When Males Get Pregnant: In most animals, females carry developing offspring. Seahorses show that this is not always the case.In seahorses, males are the ones that become pregnant.

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Stop 4, part 4: Fun Fact: Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins at the Central Park Zoo, successfully raised chicks together. Interestingly, afterwards Silo paired with a female, showing that some animals can bond with both sexes, an example of bisexual behaviour in nature.

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Stop 4, part 3: they are able to defend larger territories and share duties evenly. These examples show that in many species, successful parenting depends less on the sex of the parents and more on cooperation, care and shared investment in offspring.

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Stop 4, part 2: In fact, some male-male pairs have successfully raised chicks after being given abandoned eggs. Same-sex parenting is not unique to just penguins. In black swans, male-male pairs sometimes raise young together and have higher parenting success than male-female pairs because

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

STOP 4: Same Sex Parenting Penguins are known for forming strong pair bonds during the breeding season with partners working together to build nests, incubate eggs, and raise chicks. In both the wild and in captivity, scientists have observed same-sex penguin pairs that form similar bonds.

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Stop 3: (Peacocks- classic example of sexual selection - move on to Stop 4)

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

No males, part 3: where eggs develop without fertilization. Even Komodo dragons have occasionally produced young this way when no males were present. (Option: make a side quest to see the Komodo Dragon at location 05.06)

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

No males, part 2: Small pieces break off, settle nearby, and grow into new individuals—essentially cloning the plant. This is one of several species where no males have ever been found. Some animals also reproduce without males. Certain whiptail lizards produce offspring through parthenogenesis,

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

STOP 2 (Part 1): Life Without Males Stop 2: What If There Are No Males? Many people assume reproduction always requires both males and females. That’s not always true. The alpine moss Takakia lepidozioides relies mostly on asexual fragmentation.

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Fungi (part 3) In the mushroom Schizophyllum commune, scientists estimate there may be more than 20,000 mating types (or “sexes”.) This system is an example of sex that is not binary. Fun Fact: Some fungi can also change mating type to find a suitable partner (Lee and Haber, 2015)

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Fungi (part 2) In many mushrooms, reproduction depends on two regions of DNA called mating-type loci. Two fungi must differ at both regions to reproduce. Because each region can exist in many versions, the number of possible mating types can grow very large.

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Stop 1: 20,000 Ways to Find a Match (Part 1) Fungi (including mushrooms, molds, and yeasts) don’t reproduce using male and female sexes. Instead, they use genetic categories called mating types that determine whether two individuals are compatible.

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Friends! My students are finishing a term project that will go live to the public. It's a Secret Tour of Sex and Gender that will be available at the Biodiversity Museum. If you're versed in inclusive language, we would really appreciate your input in final edits!

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I was only diagnosed because I had obvious skin stuff - chronic spontaneous urticaria etc etc - but I have friends who’ve had the more “oh it’s menopause” symptoms- fatigue, digestive issues, etc - and it’s helped them. I hope it works for you!!

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I have a mast cell destabilization thing and subsequent histamine intolerance. The enzyme is on Amazon and it’s not expensive - maybe worth a try? I’m convinced that histamine overload is highly under diagnosed

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/04/2026

"We expected protective paternalism to play a central role in explaining why some men perceive the tradwife movement positively... We were taken aback to discover that it was instead men’s overt sexism that played the most important role in their attitudes about the tradwife movement.”

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