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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's ya boy, the existential catharsis of Cathartes, the aura of six feet below ya. Finding a carcass a day every day...that is what I'd say if I had the syrinx to make amplitudinal vocalizations.... #vultures #birds #wildlife

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Yellow Garden Spider...a big beautiful woman....

A "large" black and yellow spider hanging in her web.

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Like, one does not ascribe morality to nature but...this wasp paralyzes its prey so its larva can eat the paralyzed prey alive....and it freaking has a smiley face emoji on its thorax!!??? Like man...if God is real he's a sick mother f**ker. #Wasps #Gardens #NightmareParalysisDemon #Watchmen

Bicyrtis ventralis, one of the Sand Wasps, a mid-large black and yellow solitary wasp. Notable is the dorsal thorax, which sports what looks like a smiley face between its wing attachments. This wasp, hunts hemipterans like ambush bugs, assassin bugs, kissing bugs etc, paralyzes them, and then takes them to their nest where their larva consume them alive.

Close up and flipped to show smiley face. Bicyrtis ventralis, one of the Sand Wasps, a mid-large black and yellow solitary wasp. Notable is the dorsal thorax, which sports what looks like a smiley face between its wing attachments. This wasp, hunts hemipterans like ambush bugs, assassin bugs, kissing bugs etc, paralyzes them, and then takes them to their nest where their larva consume them alive.

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The soulful look of the Bold Jumping #Spider giving you puppy dog eyes with four of theirs. #garden #arthropods

Bold Jumping Spider on a meleampodium leaf, looking into the camera in tge thoughtful way only a Jumping spider can.

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

She ain't nothin' but a Great Golden Digger, Out here hunting for some pollen and a Katydid-er.... Great Golden Digger #Wasp. #garden #pollinators.

Great Golden Digger Wasp nectaring on spearmint flowers. These large solitary wasps also hunt orthopterans like grasshoppers, crickets and katydids. They sting them, paralyzed them, drag them into a burrow and lay their eggs on the orthopteran. When the eggs hatch, the larva eat the paralyzed but alive orthopteran.

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

They're just a little fella, such tiny guy...just minding their own business... Striped Lynx #Spider on Beeing Alive #Bidens #flower.

Striped Lynx Spider, very small greenish white spider sitting on the petal of the yellow and red flower of Beeing Alive Bidens

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

#Herpetologists are the Amish of #systemic #phylogeny. Like come on now...you published this in 2022....we done did know #birds were as much #reptiles as #crocodillians are by then.....

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Patience runs thin when they air drop on you and then yeet you to the pavement... #Bees #yeet

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Dustin didn't quit on air, per his response to the viral response to his leaving message on air.....

Dustin Nolans response to going viral from his goodbye message.

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Look at this Porg looking #pterosaur.... he's just a silly little fellow, just a cutie patooty. #StarWars #Porg

A life restoration of a launching Anuragnathus ammoni, a small frog mouthed pterosaur that looks like a long-winged pork from Star Wars.

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

My hot take is, if you're selected to be put on the hot #priest calendar, the #Vactican is then required to ordain you as a priest A: to keep the hot priest calendar honest and B: you're theologically a hot vision of #God.

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

You have to love those ridiculously long #StarTrek titles. You just know that someone on #DS9 will totally learn something.

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

A shockingly tiny, nectarivorous dinosaur sipping sugar water. #Dinosaur #Wildlife #backyard #Bird

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

A small theropod dinosaur with mechanical pigmentation vocalizes from a tree before moving off. #Dinosaur #Wildlife #Backyard #Birds

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Two species of small granivorous dinosaur feeding on sunflowers. Whilst in the back the spiraling vocalization of another small dinosaur fills the air. #Dinosaurs #Birds #StoryofBirds #Brusatte #willdife

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Small, gray dinosaur with ruddy butt, washing itself in the backyard of a midwestern town. #Birds #Dinosaurs #Evolution #Paleontology #StoryofBirds #Brusatte #Wildlife

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

A crown coelosaurid archosaur savagely crushing sunflower babies in the backlot of a small midwestern town. #Dinosaurs #Birds #StoryofBirds #Brusatte #Evolution #Ecology #Wildlife

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

If I had a nickle every time archosaurs produced an advanced, sophisticated and efficient clade that evolved and mastered powered flight; I'd have at least two nickles, which isn't a lot but kinda weird it happened twice with things closely related to alligators and crocodiles. #Birds #pterosaurs

Picture of the cover of Mark Wittons book Pterosaurs, art is of a Pterosaur flying against a burnished orange sky.

Picture of the front cover of Steve Brusattes The Story of Birds, depicting a dromaeosaurid, a microraptor, and an eagle, hummingbird, swallow and cardinal.

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

And if/when the free-roaming cats post breaks containment I am totally expecting a shit storm...like...won't be surprised....

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

#OnPoint the #NPR program is doing a program on #avian population decline. They are requesting #birders to tell them about what they are seeing and why #bird populations are declining. Let's remember the major causes of human mediated avian mortality in the US.... #birdwatching #cats #freeroaming.

Spongebob Patrick hiding diapers meme, but the diapers have been replaced with dead birds and Patrick is blaming avian mortalities on wind turbines whilst Spongebob is showing that wind turbines are one of the smallest forms of human-mediated bird mortality, revealing that free roaming cats are by and large the biggest form of human mediated avian mortality causing somewhere around 75-80% of all human mediated mortalities at an estimate of 1.7-3.4 BILLION (with a B) birds a year with the nearest second cost being only in the hundreds of millions....

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Old Lady I live with: Why don't you put hummingbird feeders up on the deck? Me: You feed feral cats on the deck; why would I invite migrating hummingbirds into that charnal house? #feralcats #birds #birdwatching #aba #aos

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

In memorium of one of the elder gods of memery I submit to the Midnight Society this... #birds #memes #ChuckNorris #warblers

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Madeline G. Eppley, PhD @madeline-eppley.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

New paper out in ecology letters! with @andylee.bsky.social @allydefduf.bsky.social We synthesized the active debate on how scientists define sex, including limitations and assumptions. We believe this discussion will lead to more accurate science. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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There is No Consensus on Biological Sex

At this critical moment when misinformation about sex is being applied to policy globally, scientific clarification on the definition of biological sex is valuable. Here, we evaluate the primary appr...

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I often find myself, whilst putting covers on books, roasting successful authors based on their looks and what I think they look like, in a very juvenile way....Dean Koontz looks like someone took a 14yr old boy and aged his skin 56 years...I'm sorry....

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I get tired of explaining why "I dont have a real job". I worked in #field #biology for 16 years, getting exploited and abused and burnt out by #academia, no security, no stability, nothing. Until I just couldn't take it any more.

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

It's hilarious listening to these old fucks find ways of fat shaming an elite woman's athlete, just can't handle that a woman can be both an elite athlete and of a heavier build.

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

#TechnologyConnectionsjust put out a barn burner of a long video about #renewable #energy, particularly #solar. With a rather vociferous fallout for the regime's policies trying to stymy them. It's a great, informative watch. youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?...

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You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

YouTube video by Technology Connections

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

What more can be said about a regime that goes out of it's way to exceed even hyperbole? It's evil, it's wrong, it does not care. Though I gravely hope we can use our institutions and laws to oust this regime, I also am not naive enough to believe necessary reform will happen.

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I have once again meme on the auk penguins naming thing but with a twist!!! #birds #Audubon #auk #penguin.

Can I copy your home work meme featuring a square copying an albatrosses homework of making a flightless pelagic lineage of bird. Square names theirs penguins but albatross renamed theirs penguins resulting in a CSI Miami esque shades meme of the albatross declaring they skewered a skua (a phonetically terrible attempt at a punne or play on words). This is derived from the fact that the penguins lineage who shares a closest relation to albatrosses, are older than the auk lineage that shares a most common ancestry with Skuas. But penguins acquired their name from auks via northern sailors who called auks penguins before they knew penguins existed.....

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

A Paleontological double feature Chimerasuchus put out a new video on a Gorgonopsid. youtu.be/pYgw3lxAty0?...

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Rubidgea: The Most Powerful Gorgonopsian

YouTube video by CHimerasuchus

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Got a county record for Eurasian Tree Sparrow today!

Two juncos on the left, with a Eurasian Tree Sparrow on the left

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

He's making his list, checking it twice Doesn't care if you attacked Rana 3, or were in some other part of the territory Santa Douwd is coming to town! He knows if you're on homeworld or on a starship far away. He knows if your Huznok or not So better not be for survival's sake! #StarTrek #TNG

The Douwd from Star Trek TNG made up to look like Santa Claus with white beard and santa hat.

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I have many regrets, more than I should in fact, this is not one if them... #barredowl #owl #LukeCallen last one was probably a stretch... #PopeLeo.

Pope singing but he has a Barred Owl head and is singing Who Cooks for You.

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

NBC News: how did this pig end up running free on the highway? Me: Well, you start giving them badges and they think they can do anything...

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masked-ermine.bsky.social @masked-ermine.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Can I reiterate that Hallmarks pandering view of rural life, particularly farming and ranching is really grossly wrong, patronizing and annoying....

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