bailey steinworth

Nature Obscura: A City’s Hidden Natural World by Kelly Brenner, and An Immense World by Ed Yong

Isn’t that Stranger Things?

If, like me, you enjoyed all the glimpses of alien biology we get in The Murderbot Diaries, I strongly recommend The Books of the Raksura, in which Martha Wells went all-out with the weird little guys

I am currently reading a book where the bad guys have kidnapped a bunch of sentient beings who are colonial and live on big floating rafts they make in the open ocean, which has big bryozoan energy (Edge of Worlds by Martha Wells)

I want to watch that movie

A big black slug has eaten its way inside a puffball mushroom.

Found this slug having a good munch on this puffball mushroom yesterday.

🍄🧪

Mama Opossum is on her second pouchful of babies this year… including an adventurous one who’s already traveling topside😄
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When you throw a dead fly in the trash you’re laying it to rest amongst a great fortune like a pharaoh

A picture of an electrical box with an extremely rad skateboarding frog with curved letters on top that say willimantic. It is... extremely rad. The words superimposed over the image say "Calling all Eastern CT artists" We're making a biodiversity mural in willimantic

Artists of bluesky!

@skypeascientist.bsky.social & Willimantic Public Art are collabing on a community mural in Willimantic, CT in spring.

We're looking for Eastern CT artists who'd like to work on the project! The artist will be selected *by the community*.

Apply here: forms.gle/2tjJmdXcF6wy...

I’m so sorry the paparazzi won’t leave you alone

Our new paper on structure and growth of Porpita porpita - rdcu.be/etcY6 . Like Velella and Physalia, this is a colonial cnidarian that floats at the surface of the Ocean. The whole colony arises form a single embryo through clonal growth that gives rise to many specialized bodies.

enrichment (like a puzzle feeder)

The next #InverteFest season is in late August, but you can start submitting early to our art book!

I know a lot of you will procrastinate until the last minute, so don't overthink it and submit today: docs.google.com/forms/d/1KaR...

A fluffy baby raccoon on a fence partially hidden by red huckleberry plant

The mama raccoon on the fence looking at me with an expression that says, if you mess with my baby I'll murder your ass

The mama and baby raccoon on a fence largely obscured by dogwood leaves, as the mama grooms the baby

There's a baby raccoon on the fence right outside my window with mama raccoon! She was grooming the baby so hard I thought it was going to fall off the fence.

Submooserible

Cover of All The White Spaces, a novel by Ally Wilkes

Cover of Where the Dead Wait, a novel by Ally Wilkes

join me in celebrating the 4th of July by reading about the horrors of polar expeditions

allywilkes.com/works/

correct order of magnitude of fingers

hello!!

At the 2011 Friday Harbor Invertebrate Ball, one of my classmates wore a toilet seat/lid combination to dress as a brachiopod

Leech Amazon.com: Leech (Audible Audio Edition): Hiron Ennes, Abigail Thorn, Macmillan Audio: Audible Books & Originals

Hello worms and bugs and people,

apparently the Audible version of LEECH is downpriced to $6.99 on Audible from TODAY, July 1 (Canada day, so you should buy it to punish America), to July 13th!!!! (Also a good day to punish America)

www.amazon.com/Audible-Leec...

new favorite salad ingredient is “reading a book about 19th century sailors suffering from scurvy” because it really makes me appreciate the vegetables in a new way

Digital drawing of a chimney swift perching on a vertical surface. It's turning its head over to look at the viewer.

somehow i haven't posted this one 🪶

bloodcheep post pics of your friendly (or not) blöödchëëp (cardinal that is molting) and rejoice in the rëdnëss (or not)

But I just learned there's a Blöödchëëp subreddit?! I'm so happy
www.reddit.com/r/bloodcheep/

by age 30 you should have one friend for every major animal group to spam.

seen a good crab post? forward to your token crab person. bat post for the bat person. cicada post for the cicada person. bear post for the bear person. jellyfish post for the jellyfish person. and so on and so forth.