Heidi Lyn

Agreed

Jacanas, or Jesus Birds, say no to traditional gender roles!

These birds are polyandrous, meaning one female has multiple males partners. While the female leaves to hook up with more mates, males stay home to protect the chicks🐣

#birds #birdfacts #scicomm #animalbehavior #science #animalfacts

Charlotte's Web movie adaptation left out that Charlotte was actually a cannibal😅🕷️

Females in many spider species, including barn spiders, eat their reproductive partners after doing the deed👀

#spider #insect #cannibal #scarystories
#halloween #scaryanimals #scicomm #animalbehavior #science

Cordyceps—the fungus featured in The Last of Us—is actually real😱 and oh so spooky!🍄

Shout out to @blackforager.bsky.social for knowing all the fungi facts and keeping us safe😂

What’s your favorite spooky animal (or fungi)?

#cordyceps #thelastofus #fungi #zombieantfungus #scicomm

Horned lizards have the scariest defense mechanism in the animal kingdom😳🩸

Happy Halloween Week! Stay tuned for more scary animal stories😈

Do you have any scary animal stories?

#hornedlizard #scicomm #halloweenstory #halloween #animalstories #scaryanimals #science #animalbehavior #lizards

Tarantula wasps’ reproduction tactic is an all-around creepfest 🫣🕷️

What’s scares you the most about tarantula wasps??👀

#wasps #tarantulas #scaryanimals #storytime #halloween #halloweenstory #insects #tarantulawasp #animalbehavior #animalstories #creepyanimals #scarystorytime

It's almost time! ⌛ C3PO's annual Pumpkin Patch Fundraiser is coming back to the UCOMM parking lot on October 14, 2025 🎃 🍂🥳 We'll be there every day from 11am-5pm through Halloween‼️

Come out and support USA's undergraduate research! 🔬 🧬

#pumpkinpatch #fundraiser #undergraduateresearch #autumn

There’s a reason that scientists at primate conferences rarely bring up homosexual behavior.👇

That’s because it’s not shocking to them at all — it’s expected. 🌈🦧 In the wild and captivity, same-sex behavior is just a normal part of primate life.

#queeranimals #lgbtq #primates #academicconference

Trunks: nature’s multipurpose sex toy 🐘👀

#scicomm #elephants #QueerAnimals #lgbtscience #animalfacts

Author in a “banned book fairy” dress made of books and pages

DragonCon in the books! Debuted three costumes (banned book fairy below) and won “best novice” at the Page to Stage costume contest for last year’s Narnia map dress. Really enjoy this later life hobby I’ve picked up.

Disney got it wrong! 🐠❌ In real life, Nemo’s dad would’ve become his mom.

That’s right — the largest male clownfish changes sex when the female dies. It’s called sequential hermaphroditism.

Follow for more queer animal facts! 🦄

#queerscience #scicomm #queeranimals #lgbt #pride

Nope - THIS is my favorite one so far!

This might be my favorite one so far

Anyone can be a parent, even queer penguins! 🐧🌈

From the famous Roy and Silo in New York to a same-sex pair in the Netherlands, queerness is observed across penguin species in both zoos and the wild.

#QueerAnimals #SciComm #pride #lgbt

Did you know bonobos have sex to solve arguments? 🐒 💋

Yeah—same-sex behavior isn’t rare in nature. It’s actually central to how bonobos bond, build alliances, and resolve conflict.

Welcome to Queer Animals, where we look at how queerness shows up naturally in the animal kingdom. 🏳️‍🌈 🌎

Happy pride! #scicom #themoreyouknow

End of the drama - osprey seems to drop the fish, losing out on dinner, but escaping relatively unscathed. Whew. Ain’t no better soap opera than birds on the wing.
#birddrama

Oops - here’s the barreling down video

Eagle flying among clouds

Eagle bearings down on osprey from a distance

Screaming out of the sky behind it was a bald eagle readying an airborne fish theft! Short video shows the much faster eagle barreling down on our poor osprey.

Zoomed in picture of a black and white raptor (osprey) flying with a large fish in its talons

Original pic of osprey carrying a fish from a long distance

Bird drama! My wife and I, on a beach walk, saw this osprey carrying its catch. It seemed to take a meandering path back inland until it suddenly turned back, flying as fast as its little (in comparison) wings could carry it. And no wonder!

We DID get to talk about the disgusting stench. #2025mmm

German Shepherd type dog lying next to a small bush with pink flowers

#roguehunt Item 25: Be a pal to pollinators everywhere! Read a little about the diets of the locals who help provide fresh food (butterflies, moths, bees, wasps). Plant indigenous seeds or seedlings that will provide food for our flying friends.

Native Blueberry bush - also popular with canines

A cabinet filled with fabric organized by style and color, with beads and flowers arranged to give a garden feel

Taking a bit of a break doing a mini-hunt. #Roguehunt Item 21: Last summer "fridgescaping" blew up as the hot new TikTok trend, but that's so 2024. Let's see you "-scape" a closet, pantry, garage, or other storage unit instead. - Inspired by Marina

My Fabric cabinet.

The competition is heating up in our #2025MMM Face-Off!

Psychology is currently leading the departments.
Faculty are holding the lead over students.
And shoutout to Dr. Johnson for leading the individual rankings!

Round 2 ends on Monday, so keep an eye out for the next batch of results!

a man in a leopard print sweater is dancing with the words time for this snack to get a snack above him Alt: a man in a leopard print sweater is dancing with the words time for this snack to get a snack above him

Quokka Joey as amuse bouche 😭 but also 🤣 #2025mmm #scientificallyaccuratebabytossing

an elderly woman is sitting at a table and says oh my sweet summer child . Alt: an elderly woman is sitting at a table and says oh my sweet summer child .

Poor quokka (I assume) #2025mmm

a close up of a spider with a lot of arms and legs Alt: a close up of a spiderman villain named carnage with a lot of arms and legs

Garnage #2025mmm