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Sarah Rose Cavanagh

@sarosecav.bsky.social
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Psychologist. Sr Assoc Director Teaching & Learning @simmonsuniversity.bsky.social. Author of SPARK OF LEARNING, HIVEMIND, & MIND OVER MONSTERS Writes about emotions, teaching, brains. Enjoys speculative fiction, Halloween, and the sea. sarahrosecav.com

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
nothing quite like that feeling when your favorite people get the recognition they deserve 👏👏👏 Congrats Jessamyn!
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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Such a great event! The lunch after was buzzing with ideas.
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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Breaking news: Jonathan Franzen is still insufferable. Here he has flashes of insight into his past dickery and wants a whole lot of credit for acknowledging it. Pass. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Jonathan Franzen: ‘It’s still mysterious to me that I was angry for so long’
The author of The Corrections talks about a new TV adaptation, the future of reading and why creating new work is ‘horrible’
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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Schrödinger wakes up, groggy, no memory of the last few hours, unsure of his surroundings. He seems to be confined inside some kind of box. There is a strange mechanism at one end. His pulses quickens; from outside he hears a cat purring.
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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"The Transformers do not endorse the views of the President" okay, great, yeah, it's very normal that you had to say that. This is an ordinary world where things make sense. It's normal that I'd wake up to an official statement from cartoon robots denouncing the man who has the nuclear codes.
Image from Hasbro's Instagram: Optimus Prime is a beloved character who represents humility, leadership, compassion and justice. Hasbro is aware of the recent posts using his likeness.
These posts were done without permission and do not represent the Transformers brand or Hasbro.
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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland
A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"We grieve the worlds we've known and what it felt like to live in them, and people are part of that. We grieve the fact that someone or something that accompanied us through the world will no longer accompany us through whatever comes next." organizingmythoughts.org/grief-is-not...
“We often misunderstand something fundamental when we imagine people are simply grieving a person they believed to be wholly good.

Often, they are grieving a kind of accompaniment.

They are grieving the way someone's music, art, words, performances, or ideas helped carry them through the world ... They are grieving a bedroom they sat in twenty-five years ago, listening to the same album over and over, or a book that knocked down walls when they were nineteen. They are grieving nights spent with friends they no longer know and conversations they can barely remember. They are grieving their own proximity to death, as marked by the disappearance of someone whose presence in the world always seemed continuous with their own, until it wasn't.” - Kelly Hayes
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Pooja K. Agarwal @retrievelearn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What are @sarosecav.bsky.social and I creating? 🧠 Comment with your guess! #EduSky
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 05/09/2026
If anyone wants to host me in your scenic cottage for a writing retreat where I’ll either finish my book and find love with a handsome local or become increasingly unglued and lose my grip on reality, lmk
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Joe Dator @joedator.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
there are many serious reasons to follow scientists on here but also for “it glows in the dark, like all lantern sharks”
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Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The internet was absolutely a mistake but this is one of like five admissible pieces of evidence that it’s good actually
What I'm doing with my life
sometimes sheets can be propped up to be a cave but other times they lie flat like a ground. why is that
I'm looking for
• poposable thumbs
• Tall as counter
• Understanding of locks
• Warms
The first things people usually notice about me i am small enough to use pieces of furniture in different ways that are surprising to humans eg edge of the bed is actually a tiny step for me to use like a borrower
The six things I could never do without cold chickens, heated chickens, small dry pellet chickkens, chickens from a can with picture of cat on it, chickens from the sea (also in can but missing cat picutre on can), chicken from larger animals like beef
The most private thing I'm willing to admit iwill climb on top of you in the night and settle like a tiny rain cloud
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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Join me and @dewsbury.bsky.social! We're also going to be sharing some of our most recent work on the intersections of instructional choices about assessment, feedback, and grading and self-determination theory. gardnerinstitute.regfox.com/2026-symposi...
Flyer for a preconference session at Gardner Institute "Feedback as Care" October 13 2026 Indy IN, headshots of folks tagged in the post
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ceej @ceej.online · 08/07/2024
welp, just about time for bed in my spooky old mansion. better walk through every room putting white sheets on all the furniture
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 27/08/2026
Today's @xkcd.com
It's a stickman holding a hammer, lifting up his leg, and saying:

"Listen up, leg. I've been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off!"

It is captioned: tariffs
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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
get 'em www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfHE...
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THE SOCIAL RECKONING – New Trailer (4K)
YouTube video by Sony Pictures Entertainment
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/08/2026
Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Psychological Science invites submissions that advance psychological science through careful description of psychological phenomena. Psychological research often focuses on explaining and predicting phenomena before we have a sufficiently detailed understanding of them. It can be difficult to build strong theories on incomplete empirical foundations of the phenomena themselves. Careful descriptive research helps establish shared empirical reference points developed around well-characterized phenomena. As such, descriptive research contributes to psychological science both by improving our understanding of the phenomena themselves and by providing a stronger foundation for future theory-building, explanation, and prediction.

We are interested in manuscripts that:

Deepen our understanding of psychological phenomena, including what they look like, how they vary, and how they unfold;
Draw on a variety of sources of evidence and methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches; research conducted in naturalistic settings; intensive, longitudinal, or small-sample designs; and open or large-scale datasets; 
Provide necessary context for interpreting what is being described, including who is represented in the data, the settings and circumstances in which phenomena occur, and the broader social contexts in which they are situated; and/or
Make a substantive contribution to psychological science through the quality, depth, or significance of the description provided.
The deadline for submitting regular manuscripts is April 15, 2027. Registered Reports will also be considered. The deadline for submitting Stage 1 Registered Reports is November 15, 2026. Authors should indicate in the “Comments to Editor” box during submission that the manuscript is intended for the “Descriptive Research in Psychological Science” special issue.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
tim curry's genius was in knowing full well how ridiculous a part was and giving it everything he had regardless, treating it as the most important character that had ever been written and in the process making it real
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bookriot.bsky.social @bookriot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Tell me, what is it you plan to watch on your one wild and precious summer night? If Mary Oliver’s poetry means something to you, here’s your answer.
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Mary Oliver Documentary Premieres Tonight on PBS
Tell me, what is it you plan to watch on your one wild and precious summer night?
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It's pub day for PREGNANCY INTERRUPTED: THE SCIENCE AND STORIES OF HOW PREGNANCIES REALLY HAPPEN. Woo hoo!!!
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Book describes loss as a central feature of pregnancy – News Bureau
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said. Both were unvaccinated. These the first deaths related to measles within the state in 35 years, it reports
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2 people die from measles in Pennsylvania
Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said Tuesday.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
yelling “wake up sheeple!! they’re coming for the race/IQ guys!” to a room vacated months since by academics fired for teaching about gender or quoting Charlie Kirk’s less flattering lines
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Here are some nice mushrooms
A family of vibrant purple and green fascinating Stereum mushrooms grow like a pile of ears on top of a moss and lichen speckled log. All photos by me
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Jess Liotta 🍄 @jessliotta.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Today I walked in on the downstairs shrimp having an all hands (all… maxillipeds?) meeting on the big rock and I felt like I was interrupting something Important (Plus, bonus shot of a fine young lady shrimp and her pal from later)
Like a dozen or more red cherry neocaridina shrimp all hanging out on the aquarium rock for ??????? reasons A pretty female neocaridina cherry shrimp on a piece of wood with another maybe? female behind her
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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
THREE black cats crossed my path on my morning run just now. As a big fan of cats I am taking this as a blessing rather than an omen.
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Cute Black Cat Rolling in Grass
Alt: Cute Black Cat Rolling in Grass
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
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Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 10/06/2024
new favorite playlist
[id a spotify playlist titled "kate bush threw a house party but there's too many people and now she's stressed" with three songs in it. the songs are "wow" by kate bush, "full house" by kate bush, and "get out of my house" by kate bush end id]
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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Two in-person keynotes (one for faculty, one blend of faculty and students) with a virtual keynote for a different uni in between. Lovely day, but just dead. Time for a hotel re-heating methinks.
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Heated Rivalry Ilya Rozanov
Alt: Heated Rivalry's Ilya Rozanov winks at the camera
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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head
Scene from Dirty Dancing where Baby and Johnny lipsynch on the floor together
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 20/08/2026
Turns out that right now, it is very hard to find a job if you ethically refuse to work on Murder or Mass Surveillance
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17/08/2026
Today’s college students spend much less time socializing than past generations did, @rosehorowitch.bsky.social reports. She explores the theories behind the campus loneliness crisis:
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Even College Students Have Stopped Hanging Out
The loneliness crisis comes to campus.
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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"effective teaching is *affective* teaching" A bit louder for those in the back.... www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/o...
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Opinion | To Save Higher Ed, Professors Need to Get a Little Weird (Gift Article)
Teachers need to model the passion they want to see.
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union.
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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Excited for this conversation with Chavella Pittman this fall - join us! onehe.org/event/pedago...
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Pedagogies of Care… for Whom? Myths and Misunderstandings about Teaching and Instructor Well-Being – OneHE
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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
July newsletter! Featuring @retrievelearn.bsky.social and Bethany Lisi, some new curiosity & learning research, why college should be more fun, a battle about phones and play and mental health, and one solution for what to do about all that zucchini. newsletter.sarahrosecav.com/on-curiosity/
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On Curiosity
The end of July is always takes me by surprise. Even more so since making the transition from faculty to educational developer, where August is one of the busiest months of our calendar year (orientin...
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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
July newsletter! Featuring @retrievelearn.bsky.social and Bethany Lisi, some new curiosity & learning research, why college should be more fun, a battle about phones and play and mental health, and one solution for what to do about all that zucchini. newsletter.sarahrosecav.com/on-curiosity/
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On Curiosity
The end of July is always takes me by surprise. Even more so since making the transition from faculty to educational developer, where August is one of the busiest months of our calendar year (orientin...
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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"The term was coined in the 70s by the psychologist Dorothy Tennov, but it is not recognized as in the DSM, the diagnostic guidebook used in research, medical training and clinical care." Yet? w.t.a.f. we are going to diagnose infatuation as a mental disorder now?? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/w...
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This Kind of Obsessive Attraction Isn’t Love. But It Has a Name. (Gift Article)
Limerence is more than a crush, psychologists say, and it can persist for months or years.
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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Sometimes I fantasize about moving closer to the city, but then someone posts on the town's book of faces about spotting someone's missing sheep and
too overly-furry sheep wander down a country road
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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
How like @thomasjtobin.bsky.social to swoop in with just the book we need as we all scramble to make our courses more accessible (should always have been a goal; but the scramble is real). Get yours: www.oupress.com/978080619705...
Author smiles in a warmly lit office while holding up UDL at Scale (book mentioned in post)
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Philip K. Dick couldn’t have invented a fictional company as good at eroding social trust and goodwill as Meta. It’s almost as if it’s their sole purpose.
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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Human 2.0? AI and the Future of Well-Being, Connection, and Personal Growth: A Narrative Review 👀 www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/16...
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Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The other thing I think about all the time is how some of us will have to negotiate how we deal with these apps and those glasses in the classroom in the coming academic year.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Our now-un-paywalled MSG stories are here: www.wired.com/story/madiso... www.wired.com/story/madiso...
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Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”
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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
yes. www.publicbooks.org/heated-rival...
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“Heated Rivalry” Is the “Moby-Dick” of Canadian Gay Hockey Shows - Public Books
The literary genre of contemporary MM romance realizes an imagined world that Melville was trying to write into being.
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Sarah Rose Cavanagh @sarosecav.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A cognitive scientist and an affective scientist walk into a bar… stay tuned to find out what we are thinking & feeling. Collab with @retrievelearn.bsky.social coming soon! #EduSky #AcademicSky #SciComm
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
You could get mad about dead senator discourse *or* you could enjoy this video of sea lions who have retaken an island with a decommissioned lighthouse off the coast of Oregon and now use the staircase as a giant slide.
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
She’s here! Today is the start of this Couch to 5k for reading I’ve put together! Come and join us :-D open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
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let's do a 'couch to 5k' for reading
we're going to work ourselves back to good 'reading fitness' over the next eight weeks. come and join us.
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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Here’s the thing: I could probably come up with lots of creative, AI-proof online approaches. But finding the time to reflect an innovate comes at a premium. I often revamp my courses, but this is an order of magnitude much higher in redesign. AI is not a pedagogical crisis, it’s a labor crisis.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Look again! 🤨 We have wildlife photographer Andreas Kay to thank for this video of the 'feather mimic moth caterpillar' in the rainforests of Ecuador. Protective mimicry is common in this family of moths, but this is an uncommonly exceptional job. 🪶😀 (📷: Andreas Kay)
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