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After gathering input from many, Mary Robinette is sharing a great list of works featuring / focusing on people who use wheelchairs. The list starts here, but scroll down for more works and up for the original request (and the replies thereto).

‘There’s no monitoring of earthquakes’: new British Columbia pipeline could spell catastrophe, experts warn Project on ‘very poorly understood’ terrain and likely to pass through Rocky Mountain trench, which researchers say poses immense geological hazard

My take on why the proposed northern pipeline is incredibly risky without 1st doing some basic geological due diligence. BC’s N Coast & interior are criss-crossed with faults but seismic & geodetic monitoring is rudimentary and we simply don’t know what’s active.
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I am just learning this! I thought before their faces were quite fixed but everyone's photos on here show even the bitty ones have a full range of expressions, often very irate!

Best travel snack ever! Yum. Bring extra water though or the salt differential might suck your brain out through your sinuses🦦

*wild chortling* So grumpy looking!!! This photo would be ideal for a monday-morning-after-the-time-change coffee mug.

It's so fantastic the muscle control they have to keep their heads steady while their whole body is shifting aloft! (I know all birds must do this, but this particular video of your bufflehead really made me stop and gawk in wonder about it!) Thanks so much for showing us how nifty they are 🐸

I'm glad you all gave her so much love.

A thin white polypore mushroom, like an albino turkeytail with blue accents instead of brown, is growing out of an elderly wooden shelf. It has dense round pores underneath. The pores are mostly not in focus. There are many dead conifer needles scattered around the shelf.

Not the best photo of the pores but best I could do without moving a bunch of plants. Must be fast growing 'cause I hosed this shelf off not too long ago, when the summer plants got shifted to their winter home.

A silvery white, very flat and thin polypore mushroom, a bit like an albino turkey tail with pale blue rings instead of brown, sits on a brown wooden shelf amidst some green algae, mud, and pale brown conifer needles. It looks very much like half an oyster shell, which is what I initially mistook it for; I thought it was an oyster shell from the cove, dropped by a raccoon from one of the doug fir trees after one of their ocean foraging expeditions, but I crouched down confused about how it fell onto the shelf *under* the bench - they're always eating all manner of sea creatures up there and raining bits down on my plants, but the metal grating of the bench seives the bits out so they don't reach the benches underneath intact.

Discovered a beautiful Polypore yesterday! It's silvery-white, and it had distinct blue tinges to its surface. I think it might be Cyanosporus caesius ("Blue Cheese Polypore"), which occurs in PNW. Round dense white pores underneath (photo to follow in comments).
#fungifriends #mycology #polypore

Ambystoma maculatum! Lovely and speckled yellow, it was a Dalhousie Uni grad student that discovered their algal symboint (the salamander's, not the grad student's)! I think the salamander is native along a lot of the east coast, but not sure if the whole population has the adaptation.

(Nova Scotia also has photosynthetic salamanders that get their special algal symbiont when they are eggs! What a neat solar-powered animal collection that province nurtures💚)

A rare photosynthesizing sea slug has been found off N.S. Here's why scientists are excited | CBC News Researchers believe Elysia chlorotica holds promise for medical advances, but it's been too elusive to study.

A fun finale for the #nudivember festivities! Isn't it pretty? And it does look just like it has a leaf for a cape!
Alt text for article photo: A black sea slug has a flat deeply veined bright green leaf-like appendage unfurled along its back.
#SeaSlugs #nudibranchs #CanadianCritters

Whoa! A huge community, how lovely! I'm used to big single tufts from the canopy.

Wow so many different fish! Very pretty🐠💚

Whoa!!! Very nifty little clouds🐸

*the bottom right photo with the pair of orange ones in moss, with a twig arching across behind them, is the photo I mean.

I wasn't even close! In your original post of 4 photos, the pic on the bottom right I would have been thinking Lichenomphalia umbellifera or Rickenella fibula, nowhere near Craterellus. I need to go over all the gill characteristics again to re-orient myself!!! So I'm enjoying the ID discussion 🐸

A knobbly topped black fungus with a fibrous, hole filled stem grows from a gravel path covered in Doug Fir needles. The black fungus cap is a matte black with a kind of grey patina overlaying it, as if it is dusted with farina like an alpine primula. It feels like a jelly fungus when touched, but the stem, in spite of looking a bit spongy because of all the long holes, feels surprisingly tough. On the left is some black landscape fabric, at the top of the photo is the crenellated base of a black plastic shrub pot. (I know crenellated means the top of battlements, but I spend half my day looking at stacks of inverted pots with the wibbled part upmost, and it would be a lie to say I haven't imagined the monty python Holy Grail french troops shouting insults scene taking place from the top of the stacks, from time to time. So, crenellated!) I wonder what the elves are saddling with this bumpy fungus? Juncos, probably.

Another angle showing how knobbly they are! Such lovely weirdos.

A knobbly topped black fungus with a fibrous, hole filled stem grows from a gravel path covered in Doug Fir needles. The black fungus cap is a matte black with a kind of grey patina overlaying it, as if it is dusted with farina like an alpine primula. It feels like a jelly fungus when touched, but the stem, in spite of looking a bit spongy because of all the long holes, feels surprisingly tough. On the top left of the photo is a cedar hedge, on the top right is the base of a big plastic shrub pot, with some drip irrigation lines flopped in the background.

After not noticing any nifty fungi for ages, I saw so many good ones at work today - weird since it was the first frost of the year! I think this is Helvella vespertina, Fluted Black Elfin Saddle.
#mushrooms #fungifriends #Helvella

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Thanks for the post! I've been misidentifying these for a long time, thanks for providing multiple photos and the latin name, I marked them in my book 🐸

I like how the inverted lambs grow Phlebodium aureum fronds from their feet; they do look like the rhizomes!

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 220

#bumblebees are actually warm-blooded creatures.
They have the ability to generate heat internally.
This generation of heat is not constant as with mammals but allows them to thrive in colder regions such as Alaska.
#bees
#nature
#science
#friday

This is the niftiest bumblebee fact I've ever heard! (More please🐸)

YouTube video by Let's Scope it out! Industrious Isopods - The Lifecycle of Asellus aquaticus

A really enchanting up-close video of baby aquatic isopods being born! Very interesting.🐸

#inverts #isopods

a hippopotamus is standing in a puddle of water next to two crocodiles Alt: A crocodile doing his best to stay calm while a baby hippo noms on him.

I mentioned earlier that they chew on Nile Crocodiles - I wasn't kidding, baby Hippos use them as teething rings since the texture of their scales is satisfying to gum.

Just this 12' long razor-toothed archosaur, sitting there going "stay calm, Clarence, you survived the asteroid, you can do this."

*obviously it is a great ID book for Coastal BC as well, where I live.🌲🇨🇦

A blue book is pictured on a wood floor. The book has a green-barked plum twig on it, with pointy scaly buds. The book is called Winter Twigs by Helen M. Gilkey and Patricia L. Packard; it is the revised edition, published by Oregon State University Press.

#NatureBookChallenge
#trees #PNWnature

Thanks for the link! I shall peruse with enthusiasm🐸

All southern resident killer whales gathered into ‘superpod’ south of Vancouver Island The Orca Behavior Institute says it’s “thrilled” to have seen a southern resident killer whale superpod gather in the waters south of Vancouver Island last week.

Orca family reunion time! Neat that the hydrophones let researchers listen to them catching up on the gossip and jokes, and the matriarchs laughing about the brief revival of that old salmon hat fad by the young 'uns!😊
#SalishSea #orcas