Amanda Lytle

Nearly 21,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students absent from school on Monday, officials say Officials did not make it clear if the absences were connected to the on-going immigration operation in the city.

Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment

The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV

www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...

My linocut print highlights the Drosophila fruit fly model organism with a hand-printed ring of 5 of the different eye colour genetic mutations on lovely handmade Japanese washi paper with flecks of bark inclusions.

Apparently it’s #FlyDay or #DrosophilaDay in honour of the day Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly or vinegar fly line w1118 (the first variant with the white eyes) was isolated, so enjoy some drosophila #sciart! This print highlights the model organism with a ring of 5 of the different 🧵🧪

Jupiter says trans rights

Two relistic digital ant illustrations, featuring a queen as well as several different worker type ants from the two species: Messor barbarus & Lasius flavus Reference from photos by John Hennequin and Eduard F. Niga

Two relistic digital ant illustrations, featuring a queen as well as several different worker type ants from the two species: Messor barbarus & Lasius flavus Reference from photos by John Hennequin and Eduard F. Niga

Two relistic digital ant illustrations, featuring a queen as well as several different worker type ants from the two species: Messor barbarus & Lasius flavus Reference from photos by John Hennequin and Eduard F. Niga

Messor barbarus & Lasius flavus [2024]
#throwbackthursday

I can't remember if I shared these here? D:

Two commissioned ant illustrations, featuring a queen as well as several worker type ants from two different species.

I used the amazing photos by John Hennequin and Eduard F. Niga for reference!

You can disagree and argue as much as you like but the point of evaluating something scientifically is that not every statement should be given equal credence because evidence matters

Balrog roaring while being on fire. He's a big ol fire guy.

Uh oh, you scrolled too far, too greedily, too deep: you have encountered a balrog.

Following California condors tagged with GPS transmitters, researchers have tracked their expanison in 2025 from the Central Coast to the East Bay and near Santa Barbara. Condor GPS activity in 2025 Sources: Ventana Wildlife Society, heat map provided by Evan McWreath/VWS PAI/BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

California condor range expanding into the Bay Area and Santa Cruz Mountains, further south into Santa Barbara County too. 🪶 www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/20/f...

Some ant architects design a colony to cut the risk of disease. Humans, take note! One kind of tiny ant can serve as a monumental example for how to keep members of a community safe from pathogens. A new study shows how they do it.

Even ants are better at public health than Americans. 🧪 www.npr.org/sections/goa...

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

Looking forward to the congressional hearings in which Republicans demand that the president of an Ivy League school resign over this.

A ceramic black underglaze wolf sculpture posed as though it's leaping or running. It has it's head arched back and a crescent moon sculpture on it's back. There are sgraffito markings all along it's body including a crescent moon on the chest and a California Poppy done with a yellow underglaze.

Running Moon Wolf Totem 🐺🌙✨

I have a new piece available with Every Day Original ( @everydayoriginal.bsky.social )!

Purchase here:
everydayoriginal.com/product/runn...

#art #SciArt

the congressional building in washington DC, with the well known central dome/tower and stairs

slightly different picture of the building with a spirit halloween banner added to it

september 30 ... october 1

Yay! I regretted not ordering one last time. Looking forward to ordering one or a few!

best of luck!!!

adding myself to the national do not call registry dramatically decreased my spam calls and now i'm happy to just report the few spammers who still call

Government Staffing Cuts Have Fueled an Ant-Smuggling Boom “It’s getting out of hand,” one seller says. “They realize the US market is a gold mine.”

“It’s getting out of hand,” one seller says. “They realize the US market is a gold mine.” www.wired.com/story/usda-a...

Your posts with Masuke brighten my day! This dog is so adorable 💜

Thom Tillis and Tommy Tuberville sound like characters in a children’s book about a piece of farming equipment and a root vegetable going on a friendship adventure

I just preordered! I cant wait- your art is beautiful! I have several of your prints and they always get compliments.

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is bear and pronounced yawnuh

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

The origin of Bear. Long ago there was a famine period that hit one clan of Cherokee called the

Wow I didn't know this! I used to get bitten all the time by the larvae when working on field crops in NC. That's really interesting and now I am less mad at them 😆

I read this and thought it had to be rage-bait. Horrible

evolution is FASCINATING

I love goofy titles for journal articles

Three Spider-Man’s pointing at each other. They are labeled: race science, transphobia, and biological determinism

anyways hope this helps

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.

If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

You should come to Asheville NC at some point!! 😊

a beautiful blue, green and red wasp standing on a leaf

The emerald cockroach wasp can mind-control cockroaches by injecting venom into the roach's "brain"/nervous system. The roach then becomes docile and allows the wasp to lead it to a tomb, lay eggs in it, and seal the tomb until the wasp larva hatch and begin to eat the roach alive!

A hatchling condor on a white towel. it has downy feathers and it's head skin is kinda wrinkly

With everything LA has gone through in the last few months (and couple of years), let's celebrate the hatching of:

TEN CALIFORNIA CONDORS!!!!!!!!!

Congrats to the team at the Los Angeles Zoo!!!

Photo of SK in a forest in Pennsylvania, wearing a tie dyed field shirt from the 2017 grassland bird Konza Crew and holding a large sparrow that is black on one side of the body and brown on the other.

Here is a photo of a trans non-binary biologist (me) holding a bird (Eastern Towhee) that is likely a bilateral gynandromorph-- a fusion of cells with female-type chromosomes and cells with male-type chromosomes in one bird!

Biological sex and human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️🏳️‍⚧️