Barbara J. King

Two hooded mergansers, one male, one female, glide side by side through a pond in light rain. The male is brown, white and black with a dramatic white head patch and yellow eye. The female is mostly gray with a beautiful fluffy brown head.

For me, always a thrill to see hooded mergansers. Local pond, Yorktown, Virginia. #birds #birding #nature #naturephotography

317K views · 16K reactions | Jesse Jackson leads the kids of Sesame Street in an inspirational message, 1972. | Muppet Wiki Jesse Jackson leads the kids of Sesame Street in an inspirational message, 1972.

A short clip of Rev. Jesse Jackson: "Beautiful children will grow up / and make the whole world beautiful." Sesame Street, 1972. www.facebook.com/reel/1242590... #JesseJackson #RevJesseJackson

Frustrating indeed. Sending empathy and a wish for a wildly entertaining dream as you sleep.

I can't remember the theorist offhand, but there's a Black scholar who talks about the urgency of white supremacy.

"We can't address racism right now, we have to address [emergency]."

And there will always be an emergency.

It's a common strategy used across most modes of oppression.

Constant Sexual Aggression Drives Female Tortoises to Walk Off Cliffs

Extreme sexual aggression by male tortoises in North Macedonia: They "pursue mates aggressively, making life unhealthy and short for the island’s scarce females. Some of those females even die by walking off the island’s cliffs." Distressing to read. #tortoise #tortoises #animalbehavior #ecology

I thought the same.

The dark-colored cover features an oval portal on a blurry greener landscape- and some of the title is slightly blurry. What can we really know about the past?

He had the knack in argument of making dissenting opinions appear like personal hostility. -- My #SundaySentence this week is from What We Can Know, Ian McEwan's latest novel. A literary mystery, and a post-apocalyptic landscape, done beautifully well! #Booksky

The cover features some kind of fabulous being or event in fiery yellow that I can't properly describe because I haven't yet read the book! The background color shades from orange to rose.

My Valentine just gave me @aptshadow.bsky.social 's Alien Clay and I couldn't be happier. #Booksky #scifi #ValentinesDay

Yes exactly- I hope we in #anthropology #archaeology #paleoanthropology heed this message: employ human artists!! #art #noAI

Imagining the rich lives of invertebrates A writer’s evocative meditations invite readers to consider the often-overlooked creatures on their own terms

Mandy-Suzanne Wong's essay collection Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl, about the rich lives of invertebrates from sea snails to squid, is often quite beautiful; my review, which takes up the role of imagination in science, is up @science.org #invertebrate #invertebrates #nature #naturewriting #Booksky 🧪

Perfectly said; see whole thread. #PEM #longCOVID #chronicallyill #health

#BirdOfTheDay theme #Birds&Bugs.
Mountain Bluebird.
#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #nature #photography #EastCoastKin #ArtChallenges #AlbertaBirds #CanadaBirds #photographersofBlueSky #NikonPhotography

Painted portrait of a Great Hornbill with a muted green backdrop. A striking yellow and black bird with a large bill and casque. The bill is weathered and textured, and the eyes are a deep red.

Weathered King

Recently finished portrait of a Great Hornbill
9x12" oil painting
#birds #sciart

The cover shows a plate of chicken wings, baked beans, and cole slaw with the title imposed over it: The WING List: 20 Best Chicken Wing Spots in the South.

I wrote politely to @southernliving.com Southern Living Magazine: this current cover story glorifying chicken wings was too much for me. 700+ million chickens killed for the Superbowl weekend alone. Awful harms to the environment and Southern communities. #chickens #factoryfarms #animalrights

The cover shows a plate of chicken wings, baked beans, and cole slaw with the title imposed over it: The WING List: 20 Best Chicken Wing Spots in the South.

I wrote politely to @southernliving.com Southern Living Magazine: this current cover story glorifying chicken wings was too much for me. 700+ million chickens killed for the Superbowl weekend alone. Awful harms to the environment and Southern communities. #chickens #factoryfarms #animalrights

Such a peculiar article!

Good question!

Further, the suggestions about the effects on people of toxoplasmosis via cats are hyperbolic. #cats

Are pets good for kids’ mental health? Type of animal and duration of bond could make all the difference Out study found that dogs and cats are not the same in this regard.

"Cats are more independent, which limits emotional bonding"-- just one place where I think this analysis goes very wrong. Cats do not show love in dogs' ways. But to say there is limited emotional bonding tells me... these folks DO NOT KNOW CATS! #cats #animals #anthrozoology #humananimalstudies

Trans and queer people still exist and their historic actions deserve to be remembered.

And honestly will be, whatever these silly people try to hide

Against bright blue sky, six cedar waxwings perch in a bare tree, with one robust mourning dove near. Some of the waxwings show their yellowish colors including the yellow tail tip.

Beautiful cedar waxwings stopped by yesterday, and a mourning dove hung out with them-- made my whole afternoon. #birds #birding #nature

War Came to Ukraine and Its Dogs Are Not the Same

On the war that came to Ukraine, and former pet dogs: "Dogs on the front line, in a remarkably short period of time, had become more like wild dog species, such as wolves, coyotes or dingoes." Lead researcher Mariia Martsiv, journalist Anthony Ham. #dogs #Ukraine #zoology #ecology #anthropology

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show performance redefined what it means to be an American patriot | CNN In just over 13 minutes worth of music, stars and symbolism, Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny rewrote what it means to be American in a time of strife.

I loved every minute of Bad Bunny's Superbowl halftime show, including his naming every country on the American continent, and while I don't so often link to CNN, this headline does it for me. The piece is by Alli Rosenbloom. #BadBunny #Superbowl #Superbowlhalftimeshow #America

The book cover is a light orange - yellow background with curvy geometric shapes of red-orange colors, and green prickly cactus right in the center. Two tiny human figures and three bird figures also appear.

Answers to questions no one asked: What was the worst part, when do you forget her, does grief have a half-life. -- This week my #SundaySentence is by Aja Gabel @ajagabel.bsky.social in her novel Lightbreakers. #Booksky

Opinion | Peter Attia, the Epstein Files and the Lie Propping Up Big Wellness

+1 Jessica Grose: 'As a woman, I cannot imagine taking expert health advice from Attia seriously at this point, given the gross and dehumanizing way he talked about the female anatomy in his emails with Epstein,' + necessary broader skepticism. #PeterAttia #Epsteinfiles #longevity #health #sexism

#Siskins #fighting over their now clean #sunflower #heart feeder. #siskin #bird #birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlife #flight #DartmoorNationalPark

Having known Kanzi somewhat, it's possible in his specific situation-- living with humans in the way he lived with humans--- he enjoyed the whole thing. BUT your question is exactly right: the range of animal experimentation from outright cruelty to assuming captivity is benign, all needs scrutiny.

Is this, for example, a genuinely plausible alternative, given what we know of bonobo cognition? "For example, a bonobo that “eats” a blueberry from a photo might believe they are picking from a real bunch of blueberries."

Evidence for representation of pretend objects by Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo Secondary representations enable our minds to depart from the here-and-now and generate imaginary, hypothetical, or alternate possibilities that are decoupled from reality, supporting many of our rich...

Intriguing research about Kanzi Bonobo, regarding pretend play in a shared context. I don't understand why numerous other examples (wild and captive) are so readily dismissed. Aren't we yet able to recognize the value of qualitative-research cases? #apes #primates #animalcognition #anthropology

📢 ACTION NEEDED TODAY!

Please submit comments to ohsuboard@ohsu.edu with the subject line "For public comment." Ask OHSU’s Board to approve the resolution & permit negotiations with NIH for the proposed phase-out and sanctuary plan.

#AnimalRights #AnimalWelfare