Bald Eagle's courtship cartwheel. 🦅💫💕

Throwback to the time I told my parents what “cisgender” meant and them being delighted “Wow, we’ve got a word too?” and also “Excellent! That’s another word I can use in scrabble!”

Magical glowing blue oceans created by billions of microscopic single-cell bioluminescent organisms known as sea sparkles (Noctilucantillans).

#CephalopodWeek last day! Two #livingfossil together (although I hate that term...), the #nautilus and #hagfish dining on raw chicken in the Philippines. This #BRUVs record also shows another occurrence of nautilus not attempting to eat live prey. #savethenautilus

今年上半期に描いた魚をまとめました。

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Office views from Lassen County this week… highlights include big sky, Pronghorns, & Horned Larks

Part of Osteoarchaeology aka the thing I had to master to get my PhD in Palaeopathology is skeletal sex estimation. Which all TERFs think they are teh bestest at and in fact would fail at the undergraduate level. Sooooo .... It's a #SchulzTake 🎊🎊🌈🌈🥰

The people of the Northeast are in a *good* mood today. Typically on a long drive, I’ll get a couple confused/tentative honks for squid. Today I’ve had 4 extremely enthusiastic honkings. A Philadelphia man, a car full in NJ, a couple in CT, & just now a Mass duo. Love it!

Suuuure, go ahead & remove affirmative action. AND remove legacy admissions. And paid tuition. And make all college acceptance done in a double-blind way, w/no identifiers. And include free health insurance & transportation. THEN I'll think your motivation is "equality."

A couple of jackrabbits hiding from the heat on Clark Dry Lake today (Photo: Sicco Rood).

It's Canada Day! 🇨🇦 Except, conservative antivaxxers/freedom truckers have bastardized our beloved non-obnoxious flag by flying it from their vehicles all year long (flag poles are the only place where that is fine,) so I don't feel good about it anymore; here's a better version!

I keep reposting this every other month is crazy.

Northwest Passage by the great Canadian songwriter Stan Rogers (1949 – 1983). From the across the Atlantic on the west coast of Ireland, Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦

Ohhh, I can block the Twitter Blue reply guys all at once...they're always right at the top. Hey! Hey...trans women are women! Climate change is caused by people! Healthcare is a human right! Birth control should be free and abortion should be legal!

Chaco Canyon was the focal point of a powerful, advanced civilization that emerged in what is now #NewMexico between 800-1200 A.D. - ow.ly/JIG050J6VIA #bucketlist #roadtrip #archaeology #NativeAmerican #AncestralPuebloan #travel #bucketlist #daytrip #aweinspiring

For #PhallusThursday one of the oldest depictions of a phallus, carved out of very fine-grained siltstone some 30,000 years ago. According to the museum's label "apart from its purely symbolic meaning different uses are conceivable." 😄 On display at our branch museum...1/2