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Mais il n'y a rien là pour la Science. she/her.

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futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The moon occulting Jupiter (white blob center-right)

A low-resolution photo of the moon (waning crescent) occulting Jupiter

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A partial lunar eclipse darkens approximately 90% of the moon. A faint red tint is visible on the obscured portion.

A long-exposure shot of yours truly observing the lunar eclipse. In the long exposure, the eclipse is washed out; high clouds stream through the sky.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

These are pleasing fungus beetles (Megalodacne... heros, I think?) and imo the most pleasing thing about them is their golden soles

Two species of pleasing fungus beetle (a black and orange banded Megalodacne heros; I'm not sure on the ID for the smaller, spikier one) devouring a hemlock varnish shelf mushroom

A tipped-over pleasing fungus beetle, demonstrating that the bottoms of its feet are a striking reflective gold. (Don't worry, it was fine, just playing dead.)

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The beginning of a sunset. Heavy clouds in the distance, small fluffy could in a near-checkerboard pattern above.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Two Pleasing Fungus Beetles eating either side of a cedar varnish shelf mushroom

Utena and Anthy in opposite sides of the S-shaped bed

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

the thing about occluded fronts is that they are a bog-standard feature of the most basic explanation of the evolution of low-pressure systems and also they are also impossible to diagram. the meteorology cops are going to arrest me for this one.

Extremely convoluted attempt to diagram an occluded front on a white board in three dimensions

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

She's so funny

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

blurb presumably written to see if they could get Iori Miyazawa to read this one too

Cover of "The Hawk's Way" by Sy Montgomery, author of "The Soul of an Octopus".

A splendid and luminous celebration of one of nature’s most perfect and mysterious creatures—the hawk—from the New York Times bestselling author of the “astoundingly beautiful” (NPR) The Soul of an Octopus.

When Sy Montgomery went to spend a day at falconer Nancy Cowan’s farm, home to a dozen magnificent birds of prey, it was the start of a deep love affair. Nancy allowed her to work with Jazz, a feisty, four-year-old, female Harris’s hawk with a wingspan of more than four feet. Not a pet, Jazz was a fierce predator with talons that could pierce skin and bone and yet, she was willing to work with a human to hunt. From the first moment Jazz swept down from a tree and landed on Sy’s leather gloved fist, Sy fell under the hawk’s magnetic spell.

Over the next few years, Sy spent more time with these magnificent creatures, getting to know their extraordinary abilities and instincts. They are deeply emotional animals, quick to show anger and frustration, and can hold a grudge for years. But they are also loyal and intensely aware of their surroundings. In this mesmerizing account, featuring sixteen pages of gorgeous color photographs, Sy passionately and vividly reveals the wonderous world of hawks and what they can teach us about nature, life, and love.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

"Do you want other anime recommendations with excessive punctuation?"

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

cormorants by the dozen

three cormorants in flight, mountains behind

seven cormorants in flight, mountains behind

niece cormorants in flight, mountains behind

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

double-crested cormorant in flight

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

a Caspian Tern flies overhead

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

long-exposure night shot of Westport, NY from across lake champlain. orange-tinted clouds, bright stars, and jupiter directly above the horizon.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

GRAWNK

A Canada goose flying low over a lake.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

recognition of the self in the other

reflection of the photographer in a closely-cropped photo of a horse's eye

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

mother and foal rub their heads together

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

mama guards her two-dimensional child

An adult Morgan horse and her very small (and very narrow) foal--only a few days old.

The foal leaning against its mother's hind and tail.

The foal shyly hides behind the mother's legs.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

mom says no horseplay

a third foal in the foreground, walking sedately, as the other two race in the background

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

horsing around

two young morgan horse foals prance around each other in a large pen beside a barn

one foal chases the other

the foal is catching up

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Hepatica flowers.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

"I have a rockin' small business in the community"

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

one last artie cannibalism disclaim for the road

From Waste Land Pony Express:

“I– it’s not something I just do,” Artie said. “It’s not like, a habit of mine.”

“I didn’t mean that,” Lou said, holding up her good hand. “It’s just–”

“Three times– I know it sounds like a pattern, but– only three– and I haven’t eaten anyone in years,” Artie said. She was beginning to pull at her hair. “I don’t eat people. I’ve just– I’ve just eaten people. In the past.”

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futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

klemens von metternich as a fumo clipped to a backpack

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

They haven't fixed the black image error yet, huh.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

A lone velvet mite traverses an inhospitable expanse.

A velvet mite on bare rock.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The West Castleton Formation has high pyrite content which I suspect is the cause of these patches of intensely yellow, orange, and black calcareous precipitate on a nearby roadcut (including spots where the precipitate seems to be calcifying over the lichen)

$Sulfur-yellow blobby growth on roughly-fracture slate.$ Orange and white fine precipitate on obscured rock.

Orange and white fine precipitate on obscured rock.

Intermingled lichen and precipitate.

Black and pale yellow precipitate on a friable substrate.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I'm being mean, it's like 50% if you exclude what Massey (Sexual interactions in red-spotted newt populations, 1988) calls "spermatophore transfer interference"

Alternative Reproductive Tactics
Only 6.1% of the amplectant pairs that I observed culminated in the transfer of a spermato- phore by the courter to the female. This success rate is much lower than that observed in laboratory studies of this species (60%) or other urodeles (40-- 60%; Arnold 1976, 1977; Halliday 1977; Verrell 1982). This significant departure from laboratory findings is not due to an inability of males in natural populations to induce sexual receptivity in females. Indeed, after the courter dismounted, the female followed the male 53% of the time (69 out of 131). This value approximates that observed for isolated newt pairs in the laboratory (Verrell 1982).
The significant departure from laboratory pairs in the percentage of spermatophores transferred is attributable to spermatophore transfer interfer- ence. Forty-eight of the 69 times a sexually respon-

sive female followed the courter after dismount, a rival male interfered with spermatophore transfer. As a result, 39% of the amplexus courtships were disrupted by spermatophore transfer interference. In Verrell's (1983) laboratory study where two males were housed with one female, spermato- phore transfer interference (Verrell's female mimicry) occurred after 24% of the amplexus encounters.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

??? did you forget how the mating grasp works. also why are you trying to mate with an eft. no wonder only 6% of male eastern newt courtship attempts are successful.

Two eastern newts; one fully mature, the other still in eft stage. The mature newt has the eft in a grasp using its hind legs but is also positioned orthogonally to the eft and wrapped around the eft's hips like a U.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

eastern newts, adult and not-quite-adult

An adult eastern newt floating in a pond.

An eastern newt having adopted adult coloration but without redevelopment of the flat tail.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Trout lily.

Flower of a trout lily.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Blocks of slate, moss-covered, stacked in a stream.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Periwinkle. Very pretty! Also invasive in North America. :-(

Periwinkle flower.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

red-winged blackird (♀) perching on phragmites

red-winged blackird (♀) perching on cat-tails

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

STYLE

A female cardinal in silhouette. Her red tuft is illuminated from behind.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

A spider with her web full of spiderlings. I think an orb-weaver (Araneidae) based on the eye arrangement and general body shape but I've got no idea as to genus.

A spider stands on a ball of silk in her web which contains ~100 tiny young spiders.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

yellow rump ↓

yellow-rumped warbler perched on a branch, facing away from camera.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

yellow-rumped warbler (field mark: handsome)

yellow-rumped warbler perched on a branch

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

swifts dart across the lake around two common loons, both resting with their heads tucked against their backs

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

👁️👁️ again

an osprey in flight, wings on the downbeat, looking towards the camera.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

a loon shakes out its wings after a round of preening

a common loon on a lake. its body is slightly raised in the water and its wings are extended fully back.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

a broad-winged hawk(?) standing on the branch of tree, moments before taking flight

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

A beautifully-defined syncline of Cambrian slate, phyllite, quartzite and dolostone--the type location of the West Castleton Formation.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Evergreens on two promontories on a lake.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

A mallard duck flapping to exit the water.

Takeoff!

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futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

A mallard duck sitting on a submerged concrete dock. The patch on its wing is iridescing an intense purple.

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futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

a wolf spider (genus Hogna?) standing on leaf litter.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

A painted turtle on a log in a wetland.

futureperfecttense.bsky.social @futureperfecttense.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

A painted turtle sitting on a log, neck extended and reflected in the still water below.