skinned cypress knees

I didn’t think I made a difference at all by casually chatting with workers but I did. And this is at least *one* (popular) grocery store in the area that no longer stocks raw milk products 🫡

End 🧵

Image of a closed refresher section, blinder pulled down, empty, with a bold sign over it saying “Raw Milk”. Next to the empty raw milk case is raw chicken.

More of a heads up than a lecture, I *politely talked* with workers during a slow time. Warned them about the risks of raw milk and how we will soon be testing for it.

Honestly felt embarrassed and didn’t think anything about it.

A week and a half later.. they no longer stock raw milk products!

I knew my Co-Op in Tallahassee sold raw milk and I did some digging. This farm (I have visited personally) is selling raw milk in BULK to mainly food deserts.

Note the microscopic disclaimer on the label. I couldn’t see without zoom.

2/x

🧵 thread on helping your community minimize H5N1 risk:

H5N1 was detected in Tallahassee wastewater. Knew this from wild bird cases since 2022 + sampling at farms

Specifically seeing cow remains strewn about on farms—something I’ve never seen in 3 gens of my family raising cattle in FL.

1/x

MerlinID bird Life List showing two spottings from today: American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis) and Winter Wren (Troglodytes hiemalis)

backyard sounded a lil different this cold morning. pulled out merlin and TWO of my big winter migration wants were chillin with me!!

These Kentucky Librarians Traveled Miles on Horseback to Deliver Books During the Great Depression In the depths of the Great Depression, groups of librarians known as the "book women" loaded up their horses with books and journeyed deep into the Kentucky mountains to deliver reading material to th...

If seeing the news that mules are delivering supplies into Appalachia is surprising you, check out the WPA Book Women, who used mules and pack horses to deliver books to remote citizens, increasing literacy rates and providing jobs. Appalachia's always had a special relationship with these animals.

toothy Crocs. Not the shoes.

From my 2022 visit to Vietnam #photography

I realize the upload quality is shit, I will work on this for next week’s field pic post

thread of my gofundmes that I’m running or that close and trusted friends are running for Palestine or Lebanon

Ginnie Springs’ Twin Spring from the bank. Cypresses line the bank and the water is clear/blue

Bright green/yellow Delicate Fern Moss

A close up of a Variable Dancer (a damselfly) on a downed cypress branch.

A tall cypress with a large upside down V-shaped hollow

Here are some swamp and spring pics from this week in the field!

I already prepped myself that nothing positive would come out from either outcome. Gotta tell ya, it was a weird feeling just not knowing who won until now

BREAKING | Three Palestinians, including a child, have been reported killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a tent housing displaced people in eastern Khan Younis.

a lady on bird app arguing with natives and arabs that every sexualized, racist costume from Disney (Pocahontas) is totally fine EXCEPT! Princess Tiana due to…voodoo in the film

Happy National Native American Heritage Month!!! I fucking hate that app

Mother polar bear and her two cubs look up to the tundra buggy that is off camera. One cub is standing behind the other two.

A mama polar bear and her two 11 month old cubs approach a tundra buggy that is off camera. The photographer is looking down on them where they stand on the gravel. The mother is looking back often to the distance while the cubs come up behind her.

A polar bear cub stands on his hind legs and looks up at the tundra buggy that is off camera. Meanwhile, its mom and other cub, who are standing beside him are looking off into the distance

A polar bear cub stands on his hind legs and looks ahead of him to the right of the photo. His mom stands beside him and looks off to the left while the second cub standing behind her looks into the distance.

Okay children, this is a tundra buggy. It’s a large white box on wheels full of humans who make clicking noises at us. It smells weird, but it is safe. 🐻‍❄️🦊🌿

I worked on this for months, and I'm so excited to share it with TON readers. Thank you so much to @rachelzamzow.bsky.social and @kaozelli.bsky.social for helping me shape this resource—I hope that it can help journalists feel empowered to cover Indigenous science and decolonize our field.

actually shed a few tears on the bay by Steinhatchee. floating debris like doors and roofs, reminding how bad Helene + Milton were and IS—I don’t know how they’ll rebuild

why do I feel the urge to be a whistleblower like a month into every job I get

ALT text copied and pasted from the linked website: An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

getting field gear ready out of the truck and I made a friend (who was nearly squished), a lil squirrel frog 💚

Broken Record Temperatures hit new highs, yet world fails to cut emissions (again) UN environment programme 。

this is a bloody great name for a climate report

www.unep.org/resources/em...

have to do a FULL work physical (despite a month in the field). I’m so nervous that once they discover my heart issues severity/history, I’m fucked and potentially unemployed

For anyone who isn’t aware - St. John’s Wort is a CYP3A4 inducer and can affect several drugs www.nccih.nih.gov/health/st-jo...

Interviewer: Where do you prefer that I sit? Stevie Nicks: You're good right there, as long as you don't think you have Covid. Interviewer: No, I don't. Stevie Nicks: Well, thank goodness we're done [touring] for a while, so I can go home and not have a mask on all the time. As a singer with asthma, I fucking hate the masks, but I wear them. People give you dirty looks. I dare anybody to give me a dirty look. I would just say, "Hey, you know what? I'm Stevie Nicks. And if I get sick, my entire thing goes down. Forty families are out of work. So that's why I have a mask on, asshole." I can't get [Covid] again. I mean, I'm old, so I'll only be around for another 15 years. But you guys have another 30 or 40 years, so you should think about it.

Stevie Nicks talks masking and rejecting mask shaming !! www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Low‐cost animal tracking using Bluetooth low energy beacons on a crowd‐sourced network Animal tracking has opened the door to address many fundamental questions in ecology and conservation. Whilst historically animals have been tracked as a means to understand their large-scale move...

Want to track animals in urban landscapes? Read about our new low-cost Bluetooth low-energy beacons that work over the network of mobile phones.

Get in touch if you want to try some out or collaborate on projects!

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Four Rapid COVID PCR Tests You Can Take at Home (and Why You Should) There’s a big difference between the standard at-home antigen test and a PCR (molecular) test. PCR tests are the ones you want when accurate testing is important. Here are four tests you can buy for a...

Ooh. Happy to see Lifehacker recommending PlusLife home tests, that’s worked out so well for my household.

If anyone needs the discount link, just lmk, it really reduces the upfront cost, and now we get PCR-quality results for $8, in 30 mins. It rules.

Metals rule‼️

Terrific work by @joeyzacks.bsky.social team highlighting the impact of dietary metal availability in the assembly of the gut microbiome early in life.

A clear, sunny sky reflected on a marshy pond with three Bald Cypresses growing in the water.

A bald cypress tree growing in a marshy pond with Spanish moss hanging from its branches

behold the bald cypress trees and the glass water I got to boat around on today 🚣🏻‍♂️👩🏻‍🔬

Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics Privacy advocates gained access to a powerful tool bought by U.S. law enforcement agencies that can track smartphone locations around the world. Abortion clinics, places of worship, and individual peo...

New: inside the US government-bought tool that can track phones at abortion clinics. Called Locate X, it tracks phones around the world without a warrant. Leakers showed it in action, we watched a phone go from Alabama, to an abortion clinic, back again www.404media.co/inside-the-u...

I don’t want much, just a lifestyle where I can nap from 3-4:30 every single day