Please read the second chapter on how science is done and science as a social process. Please also read chapter three on science literacy in an age of misinformation…then let’s talk!
Photo from the Corning Museum of Glass depicting a glass model of some squoogly sea creatures from the Cornell University EEB collection. In my day EEB just had these things out on display in the Corson-Mudd atrium, you could walk right up and look at them??
Like the Blaschka glass models of soft-bodied invertebrates, when you capture this record of shape and color, it helps future researchers AND creates a stunning body of artwork at the same time
Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.
Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.
I could totally see a person doing the exact same thing so….🤷♀️
Scaly pangolin amongst leaves
Hurrah - it’s World Pangolin Day!
My thoughts exactly! Currently reading a book by Yanomami shaman who calls white people, “people of merchandise.”
Is this real? 😆
Excited to announce I’ve got a book coming out this summer. If you are interested in reviewing it in advance, pop me a dm. I would particularly love to hear what folks who teach non-majors environmental courses think as I wrote it in part to serve as an alternative to current textbooks.
Non-native but oh so lovable! 💚
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
I’ll do it if you do it.
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
Thank you!
Who were those women playing violin and cello with Brandi Carlile? 💚
An illustration of a great cormorant standing in front of buttering
The wildest dream of a Cormorant🫧
#bird #birdart #illustration #digitalart #fish #bitterling #animalart #creature #artist
i don’t think we should have to rely on our ability to get a small child’s photo to get enough internet attention so that their representative can successfully physically extract them from the concentration camp for children
Bullfrog face emerged from pond full of different ways of being green
Bullfrog of the day!
Saturday, 7 Feb 2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This who runs this account 😊
A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.
Sigh. That sounds rough.
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
Reagan-appointee Judge Young on Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio:
“These cabinet secretaries have failed in their duties to protect the Constitution.”
Thank you!
A map of the US with each 2025 billion-plus dollar weather and climate disaster geo-located on it. Source: Climate Central
After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up.
Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes.
More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
Minn AG Keith Ellison spoke to me today on need for accountability in the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent
If you're grasping for anything to feel good about right now - and that's a very difficult thing to find - feel good about the fact that not everyone is as much of a spineless, collaborating coward as our elites. Total strangers will risk their lives to stand next to you.
A small toucan with a large serrated bill, black head and back, and yellow belly with a red band, perched on a branch against a soft green background.
A quizzical Collared Aracari
#CostaRica #toucanoftheday #toucantuesday #birds #toucans #nature
Isn’t there a Ben and Jerry’s banana ice cream called Funky monkey?
Drawing of a small weevil with large black eyes, a black snout, red thorax, and brown and tan elytra. Drawn with color pencils.
Day 24 of #ArtAdventCalendar, and one of my favourites from this year. (Also because we are almost beginning with #InverteFest)
#WeevilWednesday #Nature #SciArt #TradArt #ColorPencil
p.s. check reply for the link to original photo this was referenced from.
