Bea Leiderman
@bealeiderman.bsky.social
Educator, technologist, photographer crawling in the underbrush of the forest next door. Natural conservation is political. Please don’t complain about my liberal views. They are a feature, not a bug (pun intended).
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The Gen X urge to be burning down the house
The Gen X urge to fight. For your right. To PAAAAAAAARRRRTTTTYYYYYYY
The Gen X urge to meet in the Dark Side of the Moon
February 19, 2026 at 1:39 AM
The Gen X urge to be burning down the house
I know someone who spells his name with a double x, unironically, and he’s exactly as you’d imagine him to be. He’s definitely maxxing something and I’m glad he’s doing it where I don’t have to know about it.
February 19, 2026 at 12:33 AM
I know someone who spells his name with a double x, unironically, and he’s exactly as you’d imagine him to be. He’s definitely maxxing something and I’m glad he’s doing it where I don’t have to know about it.
Happy #weevilwednesday
I can’t walk along the forest path until my broken humerus heals, but there’s enough wildlife along the driveway. 🌱
I can’t walk along the forest path until my broken humerus heals, but there’s enough wildlife along the driveway. 🌱
February 18, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Happy #weevilwednesday
I can’t walk along the forest path until my broken humerus heals, but there’s enough wildlife along the driveway. 🌱
I can’t walk along the forest path until my broken humerus heals, but there’s enough wildlife along the driveway. 🌱
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How long does it take a Happy Meal to start working?
February 18, 2026 at 7:25 PM
How long does it take a Happy Meal to start working?
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Your interpretation of what you read is more precious than what any critic or scholar has said about what you read, & far more precious than any kind of summary AI can give you of written material. The work is supposed to go inside of YOU & work with what's inside of you to have a home there.
February 18, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Your interpretation of what you read is more precious than what any critic or scholar has said about what you read, & far more precious than any kind of summary AI can give you of written material. The work is supposed to go inside of YOU & work with what's inside of you to have a home there.
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Yesterday Doug Wilson, TheoBro patriarch, preached at the Pentagon. Just a reminder that he's this guy. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
February 18, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Yesterday Doug Wilson, TheoBro patriarch, preached at the Pentagon. Just a reminder that he's this guy. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Mesothen nomia, a gorgeous clear wing moth. The blue is so blue! But only when I shine the flashlight at it. It’s not blue, really. Just reflects blue light without having any blue pigment. 🌱
February 17, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Mesothen nomia, a gorgeous clear wing moth. The blue is so blue! But only when I shine the flashlight at it. It’s not blue, really. Just reflects blue light without having any blue pigment. 🌱
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
February 17, 2026 at 11:41 AM
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
Sometimes there are jewels just sitting on leaves out here
This is a tortoise beetle, beautifully iridescent, about the size of my fingernail.
This is a tortoise beetle, beautifully iridescent, about the size of my fingernail.
February 16, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Sometimes there are jewels just sitting on leaves out here
This is a tortoise beetle, beautifully iridescent, about the size of my fingernail.
This is a tortoise beetle, beautifully iridescent, about the size of my fingernail.
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Just a friendly reminder everyone, it is now “community science”, not “citizen science”, no matter what country you’re in.
#communityscience
#communityscience
February 1, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Just a friendly reminder everyone, it is now “community science”, not “citizen science”, no matter what country you’re in.
#communityscience
#communityscience
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This is so deeply fucked. I wish these people would just admit they hate the idea of democracy and get it over with. This kayfabe bullshit is just silly at this point.
North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
Even without an on-campus voting site, NCAT students still marched to the polls. 💙💛 Students at North Carolina A&T showed that barriers won’t stop their voices. When access isn’t easy, they organize. ...
TikTok video by HBCU Student Action Alliance
www.tiktok.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:48 AM
This is so deeply fucked. I wish these people would just admit they hate the idea of democracy and get it over with. This kayfabe bullshit is just silly at this point.
Since I love insects but have no formal entomology training, sometimes it takes a picture like this to realize the critters are in the same species. Also, I startled the poop out of them. Literally.
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February 15, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Since I love insects but have no formal entomology training, sometimes it takes a picture like this to realize the critters are in the same species. Also, I startled the poop out of them. Literally.
🌱
🌱
Cotton stainer bugs very much in love
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February 15, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Cotton stainer bugs very much in love
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Solitary bees not being very solitary. Happy Valentine’s weekend
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February 14, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Solitary bees not being very solitary. Happy Valentine’s weekend
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I’ll be sharing paired insects this weekend. Why not? Here’s a pair of hairstreak butterflies from my yard in Virginia the last summer I lived there.
I hope everyone has a moment of sweetness this weekend
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I hope everyone has a moment of sweetness this weekend
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February 13, 2026 at 6:26 PM
I’ll be sharing paired insects this weekend. Why not? Here’s a pair of hairstreak butterflies from my yard in Virginia the last summer I lived there.
I hope everyone has a moment of sweetness this weekend
🌱
I hope everyone has a moment of sweetness this weekend
🌱
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Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort
cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?
February 12, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort
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"We've had great success in this operation," says Tom Homan in Minneapolis.
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment.
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment.
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 PM
"We've had great success in this operation," says Tom Homan in Minneapolis.
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment.
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment.
Moths are cool, and so are their caterpillars. This one in the genus Xylophanes is pretending to be a snake. It was big, almost the size of my index finger.
#lepidoptera 🌱
#lepidoptera 🌱
February 12, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Moths are cool, and so are their caterpillars. This one in the genus Xylophanes is pretending to be a snake. It was big, almost the size of my index finger.
#lepidoptera 🌱
#lepidoptera 🌱
It is #weevilwednesday. It’s also the day I found out I’m an @inaturalist.bsky.social ambassador and I’m very excited to help others help scientists and conservation efforts. Wooo!!!
Anyway. Here’s a weevil with its cute sad face and oddly blank eyes. 🌱
Anyway. Here’s a weevil with its cute sad face and oddly blank eyes. 🌱
February 11, 2026 at 9:43 PM
It is #weevilwednesday. It’s also the day I found out I’m an @inaturalist.bsky.social ambassador and I’m very excited to help others help scientists and conservation efforts. Wooo!!!
Anyway. Here’s a weevil with its cute sad face and oddly blank eyes. 🌱
Anyway. Here’s a weevil with its cute sad face and oddly blank eyes. 🌱
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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Bloomington police announce arrests in sex trafficking bust: "Rashad Johnson out of Maple Grove. This is the most disturbing arrest that we've had here. He is a backgrounder for ICE, Homeland Security, and federal agencies."
February 10, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Bloomington police announce arrests in sex trafficking bust: "Rashad Johnson out of Maple Grove. This is the most disturbing arrest that we've had here. He is a backgrounder for ICE, Homeland Security, and federal agencies."
A blushing grasshopper 😜
A female in the family Eumasticidae. It was a nymph with developing wings. I’ve seen hundreds of Paramastax duquei specimens all over the place, but this is my first red-faced grasshopper. 🌱
Also, this is how embarrassed people in the Jeffrey files should be.
A female in the family Eumasticidae. It was a nymph with developing wings. I’ve seen hundreds of Paramastax duquei specimens all over the place, but this is my first red-faced grasshopper. 🌱
Also, this is how embarrassed people in the Jeffrey files should be.
February 10, 2026 at 3:50 PM
A blushing grasshopper 😜
A female in the family Eumasticidae. It was a nymph with developing wings. I’ve seen hundreds of Paramastax duquei specimens all over the place, but this is my first red-faced grasshopper. 🌱
Also, this is how embarrassed people in the Jeffrey files should be.
A female in the family Eumasticidae. It was a nymph with developing wings. I’ve seen hundreds of Paramastax duquei specimens all over the place, but this is my first red-faced grasshopper. 🌱
Also, this is how embarrassed people in the Jeffrey files should be.
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always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 2:51 AM
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
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When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:42 PM
When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Any governor who attends and doesn’t speak up is complicit in this behavior.
Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) says he was uninvited from a bipartisan White House dinner for governors
"As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not"
"As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not"
February 9, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Any governor who attends and doesn’t speak up is complicit in this behavior.