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Christine O. she/her

@cloreally.bsky.social

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Bugdork, bookdork, Natural History Museum addict, owned by two strictly indoor cats, and companioned by a mystified engineer...

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Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · Feb 2

"Goodness and Strife, Darkness and Light... THAT’S what little girls are made of."

Me: "They forgot curiosity and shenanigans."

Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · 18d

PS. Luftansa wins worst food, not ever, but that was iron curtain Aeroflot (USSR) in 1985 with pink chicken... so the EVER bar is gutter low.

Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · 20d

Coffee, air conditioning and... ZOMBIES with your cocktails?????
Stay weird #Prague....

Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · 23d

Always boop the snoot!
#Prague hedgehogs 💕

Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · 27d

No itty bitty kitty...you can't come too!

Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · Aug 30

Giggleworthy spineless name list... I Am In!
#invertefest

Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · Apr 28

Updated the #InverteFest phylum list! Now with better (invented) common names! As before, please click on the images because I don't know how to size for the bsky preview.

The check marks are blank this time, so YOU can download and fill it out - which phyla have you met? 🧪🦑

4 column image where the first column is check marks (left blank in this version), then the phylum name, then the common name, then a silhouette of one member from phylopic.org.
Acoelomorpha (the other flatworms)
Annelida (segmented worms)
Arthropoda (crustaceans, insects, etc)
Brachiopoda (lamp shells)
Bryozoa (moss animals)
Chaetognatha (arrow worms)
Chordata (us! + sea squirts)
Cnidaria (corals, anemones, jellies)
Ctenophora (comb jellies)
Cycliophora (symbion)
Dicyemida (octopus pee parasite)

Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · Aug 26

I hope your family groupchat is as awesome as mine ;)

Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · Aug 2

Excited anticipation!

Liz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · Aug 2

It’s that time again. 🌟
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#sciartseptember #sciart #scienceart #scicomm

A banner image promoting the month-long art challenge, Sci Art September 2025. The banner features an animal illustration plus text describing a monthly theme, weekly themes, and daily prompt words. The month-long theme is conservation. In order, the weekly themes are: Lands, species, water, people, and a shared future. Finally, the list of daily words is as follows. Week one: Islet, canopy, jewel, riverbank, corridor, prairie, boreal. Week two: Niche, vanishing, tawny, venomous, wandering, bottleneck, mimic. Week 3: Spawning, rift, trawl, cenote, depths, glacial, reef. Week 4: Fellowship, scouting, numbered, tireless, forage, bounded, harvest. Week 5: Foresight, dream. The event is hosted by LizLagomorph and LucyGemArt.

Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · Jul 17

I would like credit for not buying myself o whole colony of Danish stick insect stuffies please...

Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · Jul 17

Dutch kitty knows how to spend a hot afternoon....

Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · Jul 17

Should I worry that this is down the hall in my hotel?

Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · Jul 13

Currently on the tour de train detour of the Netherlands to get to Belgium as there was a train tunnel collapse on our easy route.
NOW IT IS AN ADVENTURE!

Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · Jul 12

Cone Europe they said, it'll be fun they said, so cultured they said....
NO ONE SAID THERE WAS PLAGUE IN THE STREETS IN OLD LEIDEN 🤪

The things you find when you go random exploring....

Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · Jul 12

Dutch markets on a Saturday morning... sigh.... breathe in ...

Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · Jul 12

So..... guess where I am, exploring #engineering and #architecture ?
(wrong answers only) 😉

Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · Jun 20

This is totally my kind of human <grin>
It might be me, when it is insects, maybe more than it should?
....nah ;)

Garrett Merz @garrettmerz.bsky.social · Jun 18

My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king

Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · Jun 20

So....some days at work are stranger than others?
vancouversun.com/news/rare-ma... Male stick insect hatched from all-female colony in Science World | Vancouver Sun

Male stick insect hatches from all-female colony at Science World in 'extremely rare' event

Experts wonder if glitch in cloning process led to production of a male insect.

vancouversun.com

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Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · Jun 6

On the mic from Centre Stage during a show at work today...

"So how did I do that?
What? You think I have magic powers?
Nah, I have the next best thing, I'M A SCIENTIST!"

Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · May 28

I need to find out how to say "I came, I shed, I conquered" in latin and make tiny T-shirts for my cats.

Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · May 23

Some things make me UNREASONABLY HAPPY!

Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · May 23

Bee bum.

Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · May 15

So where did your brain go last night?
In my dream I started by losing my phone and ended up at a fundraiser for bat conservation in the Roman Coliseum ... all from asking a stranger for directions.
Dreams are HIGHLY entertaining...

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · Apr 17

I'm painfully tired of honey bees still getting the most attention when they're not native to North America. They're basically livestock and outcompete our native bees. We do NOT need more urban hives.

So please, let's some some of our glorious wild bees for a change!

#Invertebrates

a shiny metallic green sweat bee on white yarrow flowers

a chonky, pollen hauling in flight digger bee hovering in front of a pink red flowering currant flower

a fuzzy bee covered in pollen on top of the cone part of a cone flower

a hovering mason bee with a pollen hat and booties in front of a yellow flower

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Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · May 14

Yes, yes I did just escort a clutch of Canada Geese goslings and their parents across the road saying "Yes, yes I know it's a crosswalk but speed it up, go faster!"
Sigh.... baby feathered dinosaur season is exhausting in Vancouver!

Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · May 3

I have learned today that A LOT of game developers are #entomology nerds too... is it cuz of the computer bugs?
🤷🏼‍♀️💕

Christine O. she/her @cloreally.bsky.social · May 3

Not that he has told us.... so I won't speak for him but if so his wardrobe choice is <insert chef's kiss>