iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Was it an annual competition before? It seems like it is biennial now: www.hhmi.org/programs

Graphic depicting various HHMI fellowships available to researchers at different stages of their career. Investigator competitions every five years, early career faculty and postdocs every two years; PhD and undergraduate competitions annually.

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Making lunch at home and noticed these western bluebirds enjoying the sprinklers 💙

A couple of western bluebirds (Sialia mexicana) bathing in the lawn irrigation mist

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ok folks, so I decided to invest in some home gym equipment and I am SOOO glad I did because today folks are lining up just to ENTER the campus gym 🫠

People queued up to enter the weightlifting room…

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Good job and what a precious kitten! Siamese are the best. I have been with this chatty lady (Mushka) for almost 13 years now!

Mushka, the Siamese mix, lounging on the carpet, and cooperating for a photo for once.

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Caught the tail end of the sunset 🌆

Palm tree silhouettes, street lamps, concrete and stone set against a brilliant blazing sunset

Tree silhouettes and street lamps frame a brilliant blazing sunset; glowing crimson clouds drift softly above a blinding golden horizon

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Other names include ‘almond-scented millipede’ and ‘cyanide millipede’ because, yes, these many-legged detritivores release hydrogen cyanide gas to defend themselves against predators.

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

For those who want to see the millipede in motion:

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I did not see any fireworks yesterday. However, I did see the redwood sorrel in bloom, lichen (Cladonia) erupting from a lawn of moss, a yellow-spotted millipede (or three), a small artist’s conk, and many big trees! 🌲🍄‍🟫

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I am still freaking out about these shadows, y’all 🌲

Late afternoon sun filtering through the tree canopy, casting shadows, and creating magical moments for those who look up.

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Tall trees, sweeping vistas, sun filtering through the tree canopy — a perfect day.

The South Bay / Silicon Valley and the Diablo range to the east, as viewed through the trees at ~2600ft above sea level.

Looking up into the canopy of coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) and Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)

Afternoon sun filtering through the trees and casting some epic shadows.

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I love serotinous pine cones 🌲🔥 (See alt text to learn more)

The spiky cone of the Knobcone pine (Pinus attenuata). Scattered populations exist in California and Oregon — primarily along the coast. Their cones are “serotinous”, sealed with resins that require hot fire to vaporize and release seeds. The cones can remain dormant (closed) for up to 20 years, only dropping from the trees and releasing seeds in the presence of hot fire (~200°C). Adults rarely live more than 80 years, with thin bark and low hanging branches seemingly adapted to provide kindling for their young rather than to withstand incidences of fire.

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

What could go wrong? smh 😒

Original 1988 theatrical release poster for AKIRA

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

likely a fledgling! I’ve been enjoying their antics as well!

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I am also awaiting passion fruit deliciousness!

An unripe passion fruit hangs from the vine

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Anyone know what species of Araucaria this is? 🌲

A young Araucaria tree grows beside a sandstone building. Orderly rows of succulent-like needles line branches outstretched to catch the sun’s rays.

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I do not like how frequently I am seeing poison hemlock (Conium maculatum) along hiking trails in the SF Bay Area these days…

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I was making breakfast, and next thing I know, I’m diligently harvesting strawberry seeds. I have yet to eat breakfast lol #ADHD

Two strawberries, a little beaker full of seeds.

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I love getting yawning/stretching cat action shots. They always look so ferocious and it cracks me up. Here’s one of mine:

Siamese mix does a big stretch while yawning on the sofa.

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

For perspective, 5 million tons of CO2 is roughly equivalent to the emissions of: 1. An average gas-powered passenger car driving around the Earth 93.55 times 2. Operating 13.1 natural gas-fired power plants for a year 3. 562,619,557 gallons of gas consumed Source: www.epa.gov/energy/green...

A list of carbon dioxide (CO2) emission equivalencies for 5,000,000 tons of CO2…

source: www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gas-equivalencies-calculator#results

The 5 million tons of CO2 emissions estimated from 14 days of the Iran war is equivalent to:

>1 million gasoline-powered passenger vehicles driven for one year

Nearly 4.5 million electric-powered passenger vehicles driven for one year

12,732,797,790 miles driven by an average gasoline-powered passenger vehicle (this is 93.55 times the circumference of earth)

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I said “A high of 88F in March feels more like Tucson, Arizona than the SF Bay Area” and… well…

Daily forecast for Stanford, California during odd spring heat wave (30F above average)

Daily forecast for Tucson, Arizona (14F above average).

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Jennifer Doudna @ Stanford: The 2026 Linus Pauling Lecture

Jennifer Doudna, PhD describes the crispr-cas9 system

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The FAQ is lit. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com/

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Did the family of US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick—an architect of the tariffs and Jeffrey Epstein’s good buddy—pay American companies 25 cents on the dollar to acquire the rights to receive their tariff refunds? And now that those refunds are actually happening, does Lutnick stand to make a shitload of money from insider government information, in one of the most profound and flagrant acts of corruption in the 21st century?

Yup.

Why isn’t every company in America doing this?

Great question! You should ask them.

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This is in fact not the peel of a small citrus fruit, but the fruiting body of Aleuria aurantia “the orange peel fungus”.

The bright orange fruiting body (ascocarp) of Aleuria aurantia

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Doesn’t get much better than this. 🌲

The fissured bark of Pseudotsuga, a narrow footbridge over the stream, the hooked and twisted tree curling around another.

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Murdering civilians that don’t agree with their inhumane agenda, and doing “door to door investigations”? Sounds like Nazi Germany to me!

From Holocaust encyclopedia (https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-terror-begins):

Arrests of Political Opponents
In the months after Hitler took power, SA and Gestapo agents went from door to door looking for Hitler's enemies. They arrested Socialists, Communists, trade union leaders, and others who had spoken out against the Nazi Party; some were murdered. By the summer of 1933, the Nazi Party was the only legal political party in Germany. Nearly all organized opposition to the regime had been eliminated. Democracy was dead in Germany.

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

No cheating, reskeet with the most recent photo of your pet.

A very fluffy cat with white fur and blue eyes laying on some blankets on the sofa.

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

What comes between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, you ask? Here in California, it is ANTMAGGEDON 🐜🐜🐜 😫

Terro ant bait traps set up at the edge of the shower. Quite the crowd has gathered. Newcomers will need a reservation if they hope to get their appendages on these delicious borax-laden meals.

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

My first time spotting California black trumpets (Craterellus calicornucopioides) — merry Xmas, indeed! 🖤 🍄‍🟫

A handful of California black trumpets (Craterellus calicornucopioides)

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I love the smirks and chuckles of onlookers as I bike across campus in my shorts on a rainy day. They sustain me. Keep them coming, folks!

Today’s shorts and the very wet ground on this rainy day.

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

The word “ostentatious” has never been more fitting.

Screenshot of a room from Redfin real estate listing for an Ann Arbor, MI. The room is packed with a dizzying array of decorative objects

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Still on my “wear shorts year-round” thing.

Photographic proof that I am wearing shorts on this rainy day. My backpack, water bottle and bicycle all in the shot.

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Roman (he/il) @trcava.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Good news for anyone who has ever worried about me getting lost in the woods; I swapped my Whoop subscription for a Garmin adventure watch! Excited to log my field metadata with style 🥾