Krista Koeller

YouTube video by Angela Collier the adjunct problem

This (youtu.be/2AvfOhtmCZY?...) is an older @acollierastro.bsky.social video I must have missed, but it is brilliant in explaining the intensity of the bullshit of the adjunct system, for students and instructors.

yuzu the black and white hooded rat sitting and munching on a dried mealworm

yuzu the black and white hooded rat sitting and munching on a dried mealworm but zoomed in fish-eye style on her glorious snoot

the great sneeper

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Triassic marine beasts #sciart

‘An incredible privilege and a daunting task’: Oregon tribe harvests beached whale for the first time in generations The Siletz tribe took apart the 20,000 pound humpback after it was euthanized Monday.

Very interesting contrast to the infamous exploding whale story
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I love this Psammolepis alata so much!

Valentina Karatajute-Talimaa and Elga Mark-Kurik on Kreuzritter lake (Kryzhiuochiu ezheras), under an umbrella, north of Vilnius,Lithuania, 1977 (photo H.-P. Schultze).

Model of sacabambaspis helsinki

Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵

Or that she causes autism.

Does the macrophage also cause developmental asymmetry?

The Tupi (indigenous Brazilian language) word for Potoos is Urutau, which means “ghost bird”

Yip yip yip yip yip!

My hot take is that Trump is racist, but not that racist. He doesn’t have the contempt for non-white people that lots of his followers do and I don’t think it’s the main factor in how he judges people. He mostly sees people as winners and losers. Mamdani is a winner and thus worthy of respect.

Omg I discovered him today when I was wikipediaing these guys. I love that a sport with such a high class reputation has such silly names!

Pot-8-Os is up there in the rankings of the ultimate dad joke.

Yikes. That’s horrible! I would say it’s wild nothing came of it but, it’s academia.

My apologies if this is unwelcome, but there are European PhD programs that work more like postdocs: you are given a project, treated like an adult/whole person, only 4 years, no teaching.

This account is for professional networking and learning about bugs and stuff. I mostly follow people I can regularly learn from or that are in my field.

Following someone is inviting them to influence me and shape my worldview. I don’t give that power to just anyone.

A baby frogmouth. It is golf ball sized white puff ball with a beak, eyes, and feet. It is sitting sleepily next to a coin and I’ll be honest, it’s Australian currency so I don’t know how big it is exactly, but the lil frogmouth baby is very small. With a diameter of twice the size of the, I’m assuming average-coin-sized coin.

!!!!! Omg the babies!

!!!!!!!!!!This one from WIRES!!!!!!!

If my cat could make that face, he’d be eating treats as kibble. I could not say no.

So jealous! That would be like a celebrity sighting for me!

!!! Just looked it up! It’s musical and spooky!

It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:

Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.

That’s basically what it is. Same deal, different continent.

engage in conversation and say interesting things. That’s what will get you friends.

If there is a god, they have a sense of humor.

That is ‘shopped, my friend.

Dang it! I meant to post birds but I got them confused with my Jim Henson inspo album.

Not owls! They’re similar but aren’t closely related, and don’t take themselves quite as seriously.

*Groo, not Garoo.

Oh I’m sorry! Thank you for the correction!

True. They put all their stat points in Mouth.

So jealous!!! aaaah! I love its big head!