RogueBio

We feed you.
They hunt us.

Happy birthday #Oregon and Happy Valentine’s Day

Sometimes I work with construction workers who ask why bother saving lizards and snakes. I always give the gila monster example. A lot of people know someone with diabetes that are helped by the research.

I wasn’t wearing glasses and this grouse looked like he was holding up a piece of paper with a selfie drawn on it.
#birds

A dead, partially dried out horned lizard hangs upside down and impaled by a shrike from a cactus.

Butcher birds do not mess around 🪶

#addBirder

I didn’t know about MOVE bombings until I was in my 40’s. I definitely knew about sundown towns though. I grew up in southern Oregon

Our Year of Watching Elon Musk Ruin Absolutely Everything At Twitter what have we learned from this year of watching Elon Musk repeatedly, endlessly fail?

I wrote about our dark, chaotic, almost-optimistic year of watching Elon Musk shit all over everything at Twitter.

faineg.substack.com/p/our-year-o...

That tail 😍

Beware of 'Shark Week': Scientists watched 202 episodes and found them filled with junk science, mis... A study offers evidence that marine biology’s biggest stage is broken, and suggests ways to fix it.

My field is 60%+ women.

Shark Week, the biggest stage in marine biology, has so many more men than women that there are *more men named Mike* then women who are featured in more than one episode. 🧪🦑

I love it. We’re seeing paper flower here - Psilostrophe cooperi

Jesus Christ

The Onion went all in
www.theonion.com/what-to-know...

I still use mine when I’m working but had to buy it off eBay because new ones are junk

This just arrived last week. Part of the California Field Atlas series. It’s author, Ovi Kauffman isn’t on bsky yet but if you’re interested in California ecology check it out.

🦎 Zebra-tailed lizard (Callisaurus draconoides) eastern Mojave desert

#addHerper

Turtle Shells Record Nuclear History Minuscule amounts of uranium detected in the shells of turtles point to a new way to track such materials’ impacts on people and ecosystems

From the Bikini’s to the Mojave. Really interesting work.

There are claims that solar uptake will lead to "waste mountains".

But new research says:

"35 years of cumulative PV module waste (2016–2050) is dwarfed by waste generated by fossil fuel energy & other common waste streams"

Great piece by @davidrvetter.bsky.social

www.forbes.com/sites/davidr...

My dad raised me and my brothers. When I was learning to cook I used uncooked lasagna noodles and the resulting dish was pretty crunchy. My dad said it was the best lasagna he ever had (with a straight face). My brothers still tease me about it though

No worries. I’ll send some along.

Are you asking for invite codes?

Everytime I see something like this I hope the map wasn’t calibrated correctly but deep down I know it was.

If I’m not sure I pour a little coffee in my cup and then milk/halfnhalf if cheese curds form then it’s going to be a black coffee morning.

Red Cliffs National Conservation Area
St. George Utah

Mojave desert. Nevada.

Mojave sunsets. Nevada