Jen Cross

Here’s the @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social GAR question based on our team’s living fossil study (led by @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social @dmacguig.bsky.social)!

A close-up of a porcupine walking right to left across a snowy field.

trundle, trundle, trundle 😍
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Image taken in Lofoten, Norway 🇳🇴 just few days ago.

it's cold out, please remember to winterize your greyhounds

Male Pyrrhuloxia singing in SE Arizona

Pyrrhuloxia singing under gray skies 🪶

#Bobcat video no. 4 for the week. The "sniff and spray" caught on #cameratrap.

Close up of a tan stripey bird in the snow. It has yellow spots above it's eyes and a white patch on it's chin.

White-throated Sparrow
#BirdOfTheDay #EyeContact
#birds #snow #photography

Photo of the northern lights above a cloud bank. Pillars of pinks and purples reach up from curtains of green. Beach dunes covered with snow are in the foreground. There’s a lifeguard tower on the left and two leafless cottonwood trees on the right.

This might be my favorite shot of that night. #aurora

Oh no, I am so, so sorry. 😢

“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti — Vanity Fair In the time following 9/11, even conservatives voiced skepticism of the proposed Department of Homeland Security, writes Ta-Nehisi Coates. Now, Trump seeks to cleanse, purge, and expand this so-called...

Not sure if the Vanity Fair link is pay walled. Here is an Apple News link that may work for free. apple.news/AEP72W5oLQW6...

Coates is great here, as always. He provides history and context to better understand our present moment.

Haha, that’s a fun one!

A screenshot of a thank you email for my donation.

Happy wedding to you! I donated to the Union of Concerned Scientists.

For every screenshot of a donation you make in honor of our upcoming wedding, I’ll share a marine biology fun fact!

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Paddling, birds standing in water
Bristle-thighed Curlew: Look at the base of the legs and you can even see the bristles of this very local bird. Anchor River, #Alaska 🪶

As a someone with a 33 year NIH-funded lab whose grant is supposed to be reviewed this week, shut NIH down if that is what's needed to end ICE terrorism. Innocent lives are more important 🧪

Timeline cleans with snowflake-sized baby lagoon jellyfish.

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🎥 jelliesfarm www.instagram.com/jelliesfarm?...

Yeah, I thought that one tiny hexagon in the last photo was pretty neat.

A bright red bird with a black mask and orange beak. He is sitting on a thin branch while heavy snow falls.

OG angry bird probably wondering when the white stuff will stop falling and temps will warm up.
Northern Cardinal, PA 🪶

It hasn't stopped snowing here yet, so no shoveling for me today.

A frosty snowflake on a brown metal surface.

A frosty snowflake on a brown metal surface. There is more bits of snow surrounding the snowflake.

A selection of hexagonal shaped snow pieces with a square crystal at the top. They are sitting on a brown metal surface.

Some fun snowflakes from the #winterstorm today.

A Cape May Warbler perched on Mahonia, a plant with branches of yellow flowers.

Well I was not expecting to see one of these guys today. What are you doing here now?? Cape May Warbler. 🪶

Sorry not sorry.

Gars and Minnesotans WILL outlast ICE👍

*sound, on NSFW
🎥remixed from TJ Jaskowski

Same.

A distant snow covered mountain with a dark cloudy sky. The foreground landscape is sagebrush and some snow.

Sunrise over distant mountain horizon. The sky is glowy with clouds. The foreground is an abandoned dirt road surrounded by sagebrush

Sagebrush, Snow & Sunrise

Congrats and best wishes for a happy marriage!

I’m getting married! Want to honor us? Here are some great charities you can donate to. Some, as they say, personal news: I’m getting married! I’d love to use this happy occassion to spread good news around. To that end, if you’re so inclined to make a donation &#822…

Folks, I'm getting married! Next weekend!

I'd love to spead the good news around. Here's a list of science, conservation, and education charities I love, and instructions on how to donate in our honor if you're so moved.

Please share!

A little black-capped chickadee glances down over its left shoulder and shows of the frost crystals that have formed on its eyebrow and nostril feathers on a frigid morning.

A little black-capped chickadee sits puffed up on a metal hook with frosty eyebrow and nostril feathers on a frigid morning.

Frosty faces on the chickadees today. These tiny birds maintain a body temperature of 40C - that's a 70C gradient across only a few centimeters from the outside air to the bird's core! These little guys blow my mind. #birds 🌿