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Amanda Lytle

@salamanda22.bsky.social
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She/Her i 🖤 bugs, salamanders, evolution, & ecology MSc Biology Western NC // Cherokee Land

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Here's an image that requires a second look. It looks like a creature with big dark eyes is peering at you: it's not. You're looking at a FROG'S BUTT (you pervert). Let's meet the Cuyaba dwarf frog (Physalaemus nattereri). Maybe we should start with seeing the front of it? (📷: George Grall)
Stolen from a NatGeo article:  dark eyes on the rump of a frog look remarkably like big black eyes on a snake.  The rest of the animal is mottled brown, almost wood-like in texture, and it's on a red sand bed with blades of grass visible.
"A Cuyaba dwarf frog bloats its rump to frighten predators with false eyes."
Photograph by George Grall, Nat Geo Image Collection
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
František Kupka, Mme Kupka among Verticals, 1910-11 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…
Hillman Periodicals Fund
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
They grow bacteria on those hairy arms and then lick the bacteria off for a delightful snack, isn't that gross and cool?
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Friends Of Midway Atoll (FOMA) @friendsofmidway.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
#Wisdom is back! The world’s oldest known living banded bird, Mōlī (Laysan albatross) queen, has returned to Kuailhelani (Midway Atoll). #Birds
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Tyler Kingkade @tktk.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
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Nearly 21,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students absent from school on Monday, officials say
Officials did not make it clear if the absences were connected to the on-going immigration operation in the city.
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Apparently it’s #FlyDay or #DrosophilaDay in honour of the day Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly or vinegar fly line w1118 (the first variant with the white eyes) was isolated, so enjoy some drosophila #sciart! This print highlights the model organism with a ring of 5 of the different 🧵🧪
My linocut print highlights the Drosophila fruit fly model organism with a hand-printed ring of 5 of the different eye colour genetic mutations on lovely handmade Japanese washi paper with flecks of bark inclusions.
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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Jupiter says trans rights
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BloodhoundOmega @bloodhoundomega.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Messor barbarus & Lasius flavus [2024] #throwbackthursday I can't remember if I shared these here? D: Two commissioned ant illustrations, featuring a queen as well as several worker type ants from two different species. I used the amazing photos by John Hennequin and Eduard F. Niga for reference!
Two relistic digital ant illustrations, featuring a queen as well as several  different worker type ants from the two species: Messor barbarus & Lasius flavus

Reference from photos by John Hennequin and Eduard F. NigaTwo relistic digital ant illustrations, featuring a queen as well as several  different worker type ants from the two species: Messor barbarus & Lasius flavus

Reference from photos by John Hennequin and Eduard F. NigaTwo relistic digital ant illustrations, featuring a queen as well as several  different worker type ants from the two species: Messor barbarus & Lasius flavus

Reference from photos by John Hennequin and Eduard F. Niga
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/11/2025
You can disagree and argue as much as you like but the point of evaluating something scientifically is that not every statement should be given equal credence because evidence matters
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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Even ants are better at public health than Americans. 🧪 www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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Some ant architects design a colony to cut the risk of disease. Humans, take note!
One kind of tiny ant can serve as a monumental example for how to keep members of a community safe from pathogens. A new study shows how they do it.
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Looking forward to the congressional hearings in which Republicans demand that the president of an Ivy League school resign over this.
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Shirley (Not the Horror Author) Jackson @lioninthetrees.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Running Moon Wolf Totem 🐺🌙✨ I have a new piece available with Every Day Original ( @everydayoriginal.bsky.social )! Purchase here: everydayoriginal.com/product/runn... #art #SciArt
A ceramic black underglaze wolf sculpture posed as though it's leaping or running. It has it's head arched back and a crescent moon sculpture on it's back. There are sgraffito markings all along it's body including a crescent moon on the chest and a California Poppy done with a yellow underglaze.
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
september 30 ... october 1
the congressional building in washington DC, with the well known central dome/tower and stairsslightly different picture of the building with a spirit halloween banner added to it
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WIRED @wired.com · 20/08/2025
“It’s getting out of hand,” one seller says. “They realize the US market is a gold mine.” www.wired.com/story/usda-a...
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Government Staffing Cuts Have Fueled an Ant-Smuggling Boom
“It’s getting out of hand,” one seller says. “They realize the US market is a gold mine.”
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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Thom Tillis and Tommy Tuberville sound like characters in a children’s book about a piece of farming equipment and a root vegetable going on a friendship adventure
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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. The origin of Bear. Long ago there was a famine period that hit one clan of Cherokee called the
Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is bear and pronounced yawnuh
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Amanda Lytle @salamanda22.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
evolution is FASCINATING
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Amanda Lytle @salamanda22.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I love goofy titles for journal articles
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
anyways hope this helps
Three Spider-Man’s pointing at each other. They are labeled: race science, transphobia, and biological determinism
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
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Megan Thee Mummy 🎃 (she/her) @americanmegalo.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
With everything LA has gone through in the last few months (and couple of years), let's celebrate the hatching of: TEN CALIFORNIA CONDORS!!!!!!!!! Congrats to the team at the Los Angeles Zoo!!!
A hatchling condor on a white towel. it has downy feathers and it's head skin is kinda wrinkly
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Here is a photo of a trans non-binary biologist (me) holding a bird (Eastern Towhee) that is likely a bilateral gynandromorph-- a fusion of cells with female-type chromosomes and cells with male-type chromosomes in one bird! Biological sex and human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️🏳️‍⚧️
Photo of SK in a forest in Pennsylvania, wearing a tie dyed field shirt from the 2017 grassland bird Konza Crew and holding a large sparrow that is black on one side of the body and brown on the other.
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Dave Hemprich-Bennett @davehb.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Out of all small mammals, bats are *especially* poorly suited for these sorts of daft trinkets: long-lived (some species live into their 30s) and slow-breeding, their populations can easily get hammered. Please sign 🦇
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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
www.tumblr.com/gammija/7858... finally, a good explanation of how evolution really works.
A plinko machine that starts with "Some kind of small mammal put into death Plinko -> random ass mutations and changes to the environment over billions of years" and all the spots at the bottom say "chimp, extinct, extinct, extinct, YOU, extinct, weird monkey"
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Amanda Lytle @salamanda22.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
My favorite insect order. I 💚 my ants
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Amanda Lytle @salamanda22.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
iNat users, including me, are largely against genAI which destroys the environment, is inaccurate, and costs people jobs. Do better iNat! I'd rather delete my account and all my observations than support this.
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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
🧵🐙🌿Here is your Wednesday Wasp, one of the most fascinating things I saw in Costa Rica. It's a silk wasp, Microstigmus adelphus. They're ant-size, ~3 mm. This nest was maybe the size of a pea. Females produce silk from their abdomen (almost like spiders) to bind organic material for the nest, and--
A macro photo of a tiny pale orange wasp with light green eyes, clinging to the right side of a rough-textured orange-brown nest, against a green leaf, out of focus in the background. The vase-shaped nest is wider at the bottom and has a small entrance hole at the top, and hangs from a thin, white silk stem-like line.
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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Pest control business where a customer complains about Bugs and I show up in a van with hundreds of vials containing More Bugs
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Skull Issue @amagire.bsky.social · 01/06/2023
Black lives matter. No human being is illegal. Abolish the police. Happy Pride.🧱
illustration on an abstract grey background of a rainbow unicorn with a skull for a face and flames under its hooves. a banner around its neck reads "WE CALLED OFF PRIDE NOW IT'S GAY WRATH MONTH"
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Skull Issue @amagire.bsky.social · 20/01/2024
is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.
a bear walking upright, away from a trail cameraa skinny bear standing up on its hind legs, rummaging through a picnic areaa skinny bear with rangy, ape-like proportions, walking on all foursa mangy bear digging out a stump
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Cephalopods are the Masters of Sneaky: A male cuttlefish presents to a female on one side of his body while replicating a female pattern on the side that faces a guarding, competitive male (♂️➡️). *He's sneaking into his girlfriend's room disguised as a girl* (📷: Culum Brown)
The deceiving male simultaneously displays male courtship patterns to a receptive female on one side of its body and female body patterns to a male rival on the other side of its body. Symbols: ♀ = female cuttlefish, ♂ = male cuttlefish, arrow indicates the location of the male rival. Photo credit: Culum Brown.
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Amanda Lytle @salamanda22.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Personally I think "As" should be #1 🎵💜
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masonReloaded @masonreloaded.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Coprolite isn't my favorite fossil but it's a solid number two.
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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
guy who thinks the Protect The Dolls shirts are about tariffs
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The Mask of the Red Jeph @ass.golf · 06/05/2025
I wish I was a little bit taller I wish I was Pierbattista Pizzaballa
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Sanat Tarihi @sanatintarihi.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Paul Delaroche - The Execution of Lady Jane Grey - 1833 - (National Gallery)
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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
My pet gar that I donated to Shedd Aquarium would recognize me and swim over to say hi when I visited her exhibit ❤️🐠 A rare hybrid gar, I raised her since she was 2 inches long, and had to re-home her when I moved to Chicago. I was happy I could visit her in her new home! TO BE CONTINUED…
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MacroColombia @julianlobo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Treehoppers and ants exhibit a classic example of mutualism. As treehoppers feed on phloem sap, they excrete honeydew, which attracts ants. In return, the ants defend them from predators through aggressive behavior. The treehopper species is Membracis mimica #macrophotography #insects
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Pheidole militicida desert big-headed ant sisters. Major workers (left) and minor workers are set on different developmental trajectories by environmental stimuli as larvae, and mature to perform different roles in the colony. Arizona.
Photo of two ants facing each other on a clean white background. The ant at left is orange and massive, with a head that's nearly as big as the rest of its body, and small black eyes set low on its face near its mandibles. The ant at right is smaller, black, shiny, and slender.
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Amanda Lytle @salamanda22.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
My aspirator filter broke and I aspirated several fire ants directly into my mouth....
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Hawaiʻi Pacific Parks Association @hawaiipacificparks.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🪿 HPPA Supports #Nēnē Recovery Project at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park 🌋 HPPA donated funds to the park enabled a Scientist-in-Parks Intern & a Bio Science Tech 🧑‍🔬. These vital team members helped make intensive nēnē population surveys possible throughout the season—boosting conservation efforts.
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Happy #EarthDay from nature's biological control crew - weird and wonderful wasps. #invert Guinea Paper Wasp (Polistes exclamans), American Pelecinid Wasp (Pelecinus polyturator), Chalcid Wasp (Uropelma formosum), Chalcid Wasp (Perilampus sp.)
A paper wasp with burnt orange and yellow markings. It is rooting around in a spittlebug nest.A black wasp with an extremely long abdomen. She is standing on a blade of grass.A small metallic blue and green insect with an upright abdomen. She is standing on a pine needle. A stubby little black wasp standing on a green leaf.
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Vasily Kandinsky, Panel for Edwin R. Campbell No. 4, 1914 #artbots #moma botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…
Nelson A. Rockefeller Fund (by exchange)
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This is where your Harry Potter money goes
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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
a world without trans people has never existed and never will
a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.
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