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Nina Fogel @ninafogel.bsky.social · 7d

Could you use a well microscope slide and a cover slip? Is the well large enough?

Nina Fogel @ninafogel.bsky.social · 18d

Just visited a super sweet endangered species public mural project in Grand Rapids. Each species done by a local artist and there's a QR code for local range maps and conversation actions on the placards. www.pleasantpeninsula.org/2025-species

Highway underpass with murals of different species

Northern long ear bat mural in the style of a woven blanket

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Laura Burkhardt @lauraannstl.bsky.social · 26d

I took action with People Not Politicians - Missouri. Will you join me? Use this link to sign up: www.mobilize.us/pnpmo/event/...

Pledge To Collect Signatures to Protect Missouri's Congressional Maps · People Not Politicians - Missouri

Sign up to receive more information about upcoming events to collect signatures with the People Not Politicians campaign.

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Nina Fogel @ninafogel.bsky.social · 26d

Yes! Funny, charming show where nothing happens (in a good way)

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Nina Fogel @ninafogel.bsky.social · Sep 11

And on the other hand John C-M got caught accepting bribes of <$15k.
I love the dichotomy of STL pols doing fraud that they don't need to do or being bribable for paltry amounts of money. Idk which is more embarrassing...

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Nina Fogel @ninafogel.bsky.social · Sep 4

just packed for a normal day at working, leading a meeting all day at work, frisbee tournament, j-chilling in COMO, camping and fieldwork aka half my closet it in my car

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · Sep 1

There’s only one IP I care deeply about and that’s the lively and whimsical world of Otter Pops

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Nina Fogel @ninafogel.bsky.social · Aug 29

Bittersweet moment of depositing my bees in the entomology collection at The Ohio State University.

Sign for the triplehorn insect collection

Bees in boxes in plastic bags ready to be frozen

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Nina Fogel @ninafogel.bsky.social · Aug 28

Car full of bees

Back of car full of wooden boxes of bees

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Nina Fogel @ninafogel.bsky.social · Aug 27

That is a butterfly! It's a skipper, family Hesperiidae.

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Nina Fogel @ninafogel.bsky.social · Aug 21

Toadstool
🐸🪑
(Yes I know it's actually a frog)

A small green tree frog (Hyla versicolor) sitting on a fungi

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Nina Fogel @ninafogel.bsky.social · Aug 7

I, too, love cusard

AI ad that says cusard instead of custard

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · Aug 1

I’ll give Microsoft this: they’re right that I want to see the confetti every time I mouse over the word “congratulations” in an email

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Nina Fogel @ninafogel.bsky.social · Jul 24

Just got a paper rejected for the same thing... I'll review your paper if you review mine?

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · Jul 23

The other creepy thing is the compound eyes.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/positi...
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

1-panel SMBC comic update with the caption "Terrible Discovery: Centaurs are a type of insect"

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Nina Fogel @ninafogel.bsky.social · Jul 22

Book him as a guest, @panicworld.com!

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Nina Fogel @ninafogel.bsky.social · Jul 22

stay gold, sturgey boy

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Nina Fogel @ninafogel.bsky.social · Jul 21

The participants in the participatory science program I ran submitted ~6k/8.7k of the @inaturalist.bsky.social brown belted bumblebees in MO highlighted in this XKCD comic xkcd.com/3118/
Pretty neat IMO!

iNaturalist Animals and Plants

xkcd.com

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Nina Fogel @ninafogel.bsky.social · Jul 4

Definitely one of those "we are gonna train you to not get on the kitchen counters but also it's adorable" situations

Nina Fogel @ninafogel.bsky.social · Jul 4

Everyone deserves to see my sister's rambunctious kitten sitting on their toaster

Small white kitten sitting on a white toaster

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Nina Fogel @ninafogel.bsky.social · Jul 2

Both Bombus griseocollis and the Masked bee is Hylaeus leptocephalus

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Nina Fogel @ninafogel.bsky.social · Jun 24

If you can get polys for DG courses, could do an analysis of biodiversity from iNat. Combine with UDisc to see if iNat leads to increased or decreased scores lol

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Jun 16

Wanna come save science with us?

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Details below!

Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · Jun 16

I am excited to share that @standupforscience.bsky.social is growing!

We are looking to hire several positions including:
- Event and volunteer coordination
- Copywriting (press releases, emails, website, blogs, some social media)
- Data analytics and research (marketing, not science 😉)

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Nina Fogel @ninafogel.bsky.social · May 18

My Fort Worth raised Aggie alum bf is checking the ball size (lol) on his truck right now. You can take the man out of Texas...

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Nina Fogel @ninafogel.bsky.social · May 17

Forest Park is unrecognizable. The amount of massive trees down has really changed the sight lines. It's wild.

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