Indignant Chickadee

Critically Acclaimed Horror Film of the 2010s or Your PhD Program? 1. You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledg...

laughs (sobs)

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

This only happens to you once

There is so much in the news cycle these days that the complete dismantling of the Forest Service -- so *our* forests can be auctioned off to Big TImber -- is unfortunately getting little air play. But if this happens, US landscapes may be almost unrecognizable in a decade, and never coming back. 🌍

I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

A chubby Caliifornia ground squirrel sits upright on on a wooden post holding something to his mouth. Looks like he's eating a sandwich on his lunch break.

Same ground squirrel on the same post just staring out into space.

While birdwatching this morning, this guy just sat on a post nearby for about 15 minutes, just eating and contemplating. It was in a undervisited preserve and I suspect that he usually has his special lunch spot to himself.

on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic

A comic called "birds I have seen according to autocorrect". The art shows six birds with a chat message under each one that displays the autocorrected name. The Great Potoo, a speckled bird that resembles a branch, is autocorrected to Great potion. Dunlin, a shorebird with a downturned bill, is Dunkin'. Garganey, a colorful duck, is Gargantuan. Brambling, a small brownish songbird, is Bra bling. Pomarine Jaeger, a fierce sharp-winged seabird, is Pomading Jaegermeister. Sora, a little rail with a lemon yellow bill, is Soda.

An oldie about trying to text your friends about birds. I can't remember if I ever shared this here.

These cuts will disproportionately affect PBS and NPR stations across many Native Nations, including many communities across Alaska and the Navajo Nation in Arizona and New Mexico. Look at the map. 👀

Please donate to local stations in these areas! #PBS #NPR

Doggie Diner heads passing by Roccapulco

Doggie Diner heads passing by El Rio and the 49

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It just took a bath under the nursery sprinklers.

The unlikely comeback of America’s most endangered songbird Conservationists went to dramatic lengths to save the birds, including pumping boiling hot water into the ground to ward off fire ants.

In 2014 when I started working with Grasshopper Sparrows in Kansas, I was so sure that Florida Grasshopper Sparrows would be extinct within the decade.

Now look at this headline 🥹

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

The collapse of corporate media in the face of Trump is something to behold.

The Residence has one of the best descriptions of convergent evolution in a TV show (yellow-throated longclaw vs eastern meadowlark), not what I expected in a political murder mystery.

On the other hand, the implication that sparrows, falcons, etc. are nocturnal subtracts a bit of the biology cred.

A grandma who works at Target. An advocate for farmworkers. A cancer researcher. A grad student who wrote an op-ed. A hairdresser. A sheet metal worker and loving father to an autistic child. At least two people who took a wrong turn on the same bridge in Detroit. A toddler.

A cyclist running uphill with a bear chasing him. The cyclist has the tag "Me" and the bear has the tag "my long-overdue writing commitments"

Current situation:

#WritingSky #AcademicSky

That's great! I work at Cal Flora Nursery. We do a lot with CNPS.

Dense wildflower blooms of flower with yellow centers and white tips.

Delicate white flower with five petals.

Compound umbels of small yellow flowers on long stalks.

Spike of flowers with puple-blue flowers.

California natives in bloom at Sonoma Developmental Center and Sonoma Valley Regional Park: Limnanthes douglasii; Lithophragma affine; Lomatium californicum; and Lupinus nanus.

Sign is large embroidery with the words “I’m so angry I stitched this just so I could stab something 3,000 times.”

This embroidery in Evanston, IL, isn’t the quickest-reading sign of the #HandsOff protests, but it sure does capture the public mood.

Protest sign reading "If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night" - Angela Davis

Protest sign reading: Hands off - our healthcare, our veterans, our public servants, our retirement, our schools, our scientists

#handsoff

Signs saying Resit! Persist! Repeat! and win! and Liberation from Trump not our allies.

Sign saying Diversity is what makes America great.

Beware of Dog sign changed to read Beware of Doge.

Sign saying "I've Seen Better Cabinets at IKEA"

Santa Rosa, CA

#webcomic #theycantalk

Pacific Northwest's ‘forest gardens’ were deliberately planted by Indigenous people Finding suggests humans have added value to forests in lasting ways

Some scientists had argued that the “forest gardens” of the Pacific Northwest were accidental byproducts of fire, flood, or land clearing.

But a 2021 study showed the contrary: Indigenous peoples deliberately cultivated them. scim.ag/41Gocwe #InternationalDayOfForests

Profile shot of a bird with blue feathers, a white neck and chin and a black around its eyes. It is looking off into the distance.

The same blue and white bird but this time it s head it turned and is eyeing the camera.

It is 'scrub jays are nesting, give them everything they want - or else' season.

A great deal of trouble we face now is that those in power assume everyone working for the public good has to be part of a grift because *they literally cannot conceive of a public good*. They are broken, deranged people, almost to a one. I'm struggling with the response to this.

Candidate Training - Emerge Emerge America's candidate training programs offer Democratic women the tools and skills they need to run for office--and win.

Emerge offers a training program for Democratic women to learn tools/skills needed to run for office and win. It’s up to us to slay this right wing bullshit machine of a monster. Our voices matter!

Maine Sea Grant generates $15 in income for every dollar spent.

And that’s what the “treat government like a business” people never seem to want to admit. The ROI of federal funding is beyond anything any corporation could ever dream of. It just doesn’t end up in their pockets.

$75 million was awarded to plant trees in places that badly need them. In anti-DEI push, that's over The U.S. Forest Service has terminated $75 million awarded to the Arbor Day Foundation to help disadvantaged communities plant trees.

"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...