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krads.bsky.social
Designated plant nerd.
@krads.bsky.social
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Daughter of a hard working immigrant family who came by boat & couldn't speak a word of english when they got here. But it's ok coz we're white.
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Designated plant nerd. @krads.bsky.social · 1m
Clearly so am I.
I spent a few hours in the garden for my mental health instead.
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Designated plant nerd. @krads.bsky.social · 1m
Bit of bark I think.
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Designated plant nerd. @krads.bsky.social · 1m
It coding for a project and I sent the screenshots to my teacher.
Feel free to go fuck yourself.
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Designated plant nerd. @krads.bsky.social · 3h
Several hours of fucking around with R have culminated in near tears and an email full of screenshots of my failures.
Maybe I'm not smart enough for this shit.
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Designated plant nerd. @krads.bsky.social · 7h
Saw an odd trio on the morning walk today. Skip, Skip, fox!
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Designated plant nerd. @krads.bsky.social · 18h
Alas, just dinner, but still - pretty shoes!
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Designated plant nerd. @krads.bsky.social · 22h
My perfect purple shoes
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Designated plant nerd. @krads.bsky.social · 22h
No bias at all 😆
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel.bsky.social · 4d
My unsolicited #eel fact for today is that there are ten species of Gulper Eels (Saccopharynx) while there is only a single species of Pelican Eel (Eurypharynx ).🐟

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwD...
Throwback to one of our earliest encounters with a deep-sea gulper eel
YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
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Designated plant nerd. @krads.bsky.social · 4d
Same, was walking the dawg.
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Designated plant nerd. @krads.bsky.social · 5d
Might go again for the full moon tonight.
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Designated plant nerd. @krads.bsky.social · 5d
I took pearl for a sleep over at the boifs. I needed a cat-free sleep.
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Designated plant nerd. @krads.bsky.social · 5d
Last night's moon was a bit spesh.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 5d
"Rainforest that has been regenerating for 30 years after being used as cattle pasture showed a remarkable increase in butterfly colour diversity."

It turns out rewilding even has the power to restore the colours human activities are draining from the natural world.
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As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours
The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down
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Designated plant nerd. @krads.bsky.social · 6d
I mean really. Is it even legal to be that adorable???
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Designated plant nerd. @krads.bsky.social · 6d
Pine martens are pretty darn cute.
But I'm Australian & don't know many.
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RJ Palmer 🔜 Lightbox Expo 101 @rj-palmer.com · 7d
T. rex was formally named 120 years ago today. Hell yeah king happy birthday!

#art
Illustration I did of a roaring and/or yawning T. rex with a judgmental rex onlooker in the background. (done for Beasts of the Mesozoic T. rex figure)
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Designated plant nerd. @krads.bsky.social · 8d
@2fbs.bsky.social there something not quite right about my Monte Carlo bikkies. They need to hire someone for better quality control.
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Designated plant nerd. @krads.bsky.social · 8d
My stats will be about how successful, or not, mistletoes are depending on their host.
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Designated plant nerd. @krads.bsky.social · 9d
Woo! Looks amazing too.
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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 9d
Sad to report that we've lost another #kakapo, and a particularly significant one. Solstice was the last kākāpō rediscovered, found on Rakiura in 1997. She died on the weekend as a result of complications from the #disease cloacitis. There are now 237 kākāpō left. #conservation #parrots #birds
An adult female kākāpō in an underground nest next to three eggs. Credit: Andrew Digby
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Bat Conservation International 🦇 @batcon.org · 10d
It's officially 𝐁𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡! 🦇What do you most appreciate about bats?
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 10d
One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute. Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner. I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way. Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose. The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why. Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes. I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic). "To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus
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Designated plant nerd. @krads.bsky.social · 13d
🎶 goooood morninggggg 🎶
Morning walk saw 25 native bird species including 2 exciting rare inclusions:
Satin bower bird
And a mistletoe bird!!
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Designated plant nerd. @krads.bsky.social · 17d
This looks like a school photo!
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