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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

The Walton family surely does

Emily @emilyonhere.gay · 1d

“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten

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Richard Rachman @ecologyofwander.bsky.social · 1d

Annenberg* sorry I misspelled the rich persons name.

Richard Rachman @ecologyofwander.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so sad, none of my observations of invasive plants that have quickly colonized the "fungi treated soil" from ontop of the Annenburg Wildlife Crossing have gone Research Grade 😢

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Richard Rachman @ecologyofwander.bsky.social · 28d

Made some friends while looking for pinyon pine nuts. Native bee and a jumping spider inside of pine cones.

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Richard Rachman @ecologyofwander.bsky.social · Sep 13

LOL WHAT

Richard Rachman @ecologyofwander.bsky.social · Sep 13

I just sent earthworm specimens to a researcher in Canada from USA. I was told by FedEx that they weren't sending things to Canada. So I just did it through the US Postal Service. Did all the things, stated they were non commercial "insects" for science, filled out a customs form. Will they make it?

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Richard Rachman @ecologyofwander.bsky.social · Sep 10

I'm also wondering if it impacts the endangered California dandelion, Taraxacum californicum, of which has habitat on the shores of Big Bear Lake. And thats not the only endangered plant in the area.

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Richard Rachman @ecologyofwander.bsky.social · Sep 9

Cause they are pretty and there's lots of them 🥺🦂

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Richard Rachman @ecologyofwander.bsky.social · Sep 9

Scorpions are kind of like plants if you think about it, kind of.

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Richard Rachman @ecologyofwander.bsky.social · Sep 9

These weird scorpions i found on some really neat boulders at a desert spring in Owens Valley. Identified to Stahnkeninae but not beyond that...

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Richard Rachman @ecologyofwander.bsky.social · Aug 18

You may want to list the salary or pay per hour on the document, though it does sound better than most other assistantships I've seen. BSU was about 30k a year and that wasn't for all PhD students, many recieved an abysmal 25k a year with barely any benefits.

Richard Rachman @ecologyofwander.bsky.social · Aug 18

I think a big part of that future needs to include water sovereignty, and getting water from sources that don't deplete outside ecosystems, like Owens Valley or the Colorado River.

Richard Rachman @ecologyofwander.bsky.social · Aug 12

Sheep moth on a sagebrush, group of sage grouse eating sagebrush, friendship and Red Dead Redemption cosplaying.

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Richard Rachman @ecologyofwander.bsky.social · Aug 3

Black light scorpion, tiger lily, white light scorpion.

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Richard Rachman @ecologyofwander.bsky.social · Jul 27

First monarch butterfly on iNatrualist from May 2025 to today in Bishop, CA. Seeming to nectar feed on some narrow leaf milkweed.

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Richard Rachman @ecologyofwander.bsky.social · Jul 18

Took my non biologist boyfriend scorpion hunting, this is Paruroctonus becki.

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Richard Rachman @ecologyofwander.bsky.social · Jul 16

I got to talk with my coworkers about one of my favorite books, A Field Guide to Desert Holes, and how I own a copy in my personal library. Today was a good day.

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Richard Rachman @ecologyofwander.bsky.social · Jul 11

Rattlesnake avoidance with this knucklehead of a golden retriever this weekend.

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Richard Rachman @ecologyofwander.bsky.social · Jul 8

This tiny scorpion is found crawling on a large boulder with orange lichen.

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Richard Rachman @ecologyofwander.bsky.social · Jul 7

edition.cnn.com/2025/07/07/a...

Community science and iNaturalist gone... wrong? She used iNaturalist to find the mushroom locations for her murders.

Erin Patterson verdict: Jury finds Australian cook guilty of murder with hidden death cap mushrooms | CNN

Erin Patterson, the Australian woman accused of killing three relatives with a meal of death cap mushrooms baked in a Beef Wellington lunch, has been found guilty of three counts of murder and the at...

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WSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social · Jul 4

A global analysis shows consistent energy–diversity relationships across birds, mammals, amphibians & reptiles, resolving decades of ecological debate. Paper now out in @science.org : www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌍🌐 #ecology #MetabolicTheory

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Richard Rachman @ecologyofwander.bsky.social · Jul 3

I found a moth, probably western sphinx moth.

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Richard Rachman @ecologyofwander.bsky.social · Jul 2

If you dont have cones, how do you tell white bark pine and limber pines apart

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Dr. Andrea Wishart @wishartae.bsky.social · Jul 1

Canada Day spent, so far, tending to our yard, marvelling at a mouse, being proud of a new tomato flower, and making talk slides for our recent paper on Canadian graduate stipends, wondering what's next for Canadian science.

Link here if that's how you want to celebrate 🇨🇦 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Canadian natural science graduate stipends lie below the poverty line

Despite the critical role of graduate students in the Canadian research ecosystem, students report high levels of financial stress. As a case study, we collected graduate minimum stipends and tuition ...

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Richard Rachman @ecologyofwander.bsky.social · Jun 28

The rare cloud
Makes magic
Under shrubs
And red pups
Craving life,
Adventure,
And spoils.

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