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Allegheny Plateau. Power adjunct/slagheap ghoul/leaf drawer. Forest herbs, land-use history, spatial & temporal pattern https://dukkhacrust.bandcamp.com/album/dukkha https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WYbRgRsAAAAJ&hl=en

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Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 9h

I've been to a show at this super nasty squatted house with no plumbing in August in Philly. Stardom was worse.

Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 9h

Unfortunately I know a lot of people like this but none will ever come close to the stench of the crowd at a Stardom pro wrestling show 🤢🪰🦠

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11h

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · Sep 10

A chatgpt dis track for everyone grading tonight

desolaterecords.bandcamp.com/track/over-e...

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Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 16h

I'm not totally unemployed, I still have the Internet Job (which makes up more of my income), but I am gonna go super super insane with no outside-the-house work 😵‍💫

Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 16h

The Spring class I've been teaching since 2019 is going every-other-year so I'm basically laid off for Spring '26, we's SO toasted

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David O @anatotitan.bsky.social · 16h

Cutting a new batch of ornaments today... One of this year's new ones is this Carolina mantis.

A square laser cut wood ornament with a design of a Carolina mantis

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Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 19h

Look very carefully and you will see an ant emerging from the weevil-hole on this hickory nut with a load of tasty nutmeat. Multiple ants were going back and forth doing this. Never thought about this interaction before!

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Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 1d

This is so Philadelphian 😂🫶

Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 2d

Human Demography lab is one of my favorites and today was just perfect!

Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 4d

35+ and been in the nursing home for rehab and can't stress this enough, every day I was thankful for keeping up with those ballet excercises. It's easier to function on .5 working leg when that .5 is strong and flexible

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

everyone says it for a reason: really important to lock in when it comes to fitness and health. just establishing good habits — regular exercise including strength training, eating a balanced diet — will pay huge dividends

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 7d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 6d

Literally the best night at the abandoned ballcourt ever

Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 6d

I need to hear this at the next 80s night

NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 8d

obligatory sturgeon mention content

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Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 7d

This looks like the first colorful flatty I ever saw in the wild and lost my mind over 🤩

Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 7d

LOOK AT THESE CUTIES

Derek Hennen, Ph.D. @derekhennen.bsky.social · 7d

And these millipedes have some seriously gorgeous color morphs. Check the paper to see the full suite, here's just one species, Apheloria virginiensis. But of course, there is a lot of mimicry, so color pattern generally can't be trusted.

Apheloria virginiensis (Drury, 1770), color morphs. A: Three-spotted, with yellow paranotal, metatergal and
collum spots, and yellow legs; B: Two-spotted, with yellow paranotal spots, and yellow legs; C: Three-spotted, with pink
paranotal, metatergal and collum spots, and pink legs; D: Three-spotted, with pink paranotal spots, yellow metatergal and collum
spots, and yellow legs.

Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 7d

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Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 7d

Last week I got 2 seconds boxes of plum tomatoes, this week work gave me a crate of fancy heirloom ones, been making obscene quantities of pasta sauce to freeze. Truly in my sauce era.

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Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 9d

I don't know enough about this to comment but gosh would i ever enjoy reading allllllll the posts

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Michael Caterino @mcaterino.bsky.social · 11d

High elevation litter spiders of southern Appalachia show less local endemism than other arthropods - ballooning by spiderlings apparently overcomes geographic isolation. A great collaboration with @forthespiders.bsky.social & Ernesto Recuero

doi.org/10.1636/JoA-... (if paywalled write me for pdf)

One fourth of a phylogenetic tree of southern Appalachian spiders, with photos of three representative taxa along the right side, Wadotes hybridus (reddish brown cephalothorax with zig-zag stripey gray and white abdomen), Neon nelli (large-eyed gray jumping spider), and Antrodiaetus sp. (a large-jawed mygalomorph trapdoor spider, light tan with a reddish abdomen.

One fourth of a phylogenetic tree of southern Appalachian spiders, with photos of four representative taxa along the right side, Centromerus denticulatus and Centromerus tennapax (both mostly golden brown with gray abdomen, both males with enlarged palps), Bathyphantes bishopi (dark brown cephalothorax, long legs, dark gray abdomen), Tenuiphantes sabulosus (golden cephalothorax, long legs, pale dark-striped abdomen).

One fourth of a phylogenetic tree of southern Appalachian spiders, with photos of four representative taxa along the right side, Collinsia sp. and Collinsia oxypaederotipus (both with light brown cephalothorax, pale legs, gray-green abdomen, both males with enlarged palps), Ceraticelus laetabilis (stout, with brown cephalothorax and lighter brown abdomen, palps slightly enlarged), Ceraticelus fissiceps (orange cephalothorax with distinctly enlarged dark snout, lighter abdomen).

One fourth of a phylogenetic tree of southern Appalachian spiders, with photos of four representative taxa along the right side, Sisicus n. sp (not yet described, light brown round cephalothorax, with pale abdomen and legs, large male palps), Floricomus praedesignatus (dark tuberculate male cephalothorax, gray-green abdomen, pale legs), Blestia sarcocuon (anteriorly pointed cephalothorax, dark with long yellowish legs, impressive male palps), and Ceratinops carolinus (prolonged elevated, brown male cephalothorax, gray-green abdomen).

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Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 10d

My work cut off my MS office access (no more full licenses for adjuncts apparently) so I have to update all the lecture slides for all my classes today and tomorrow before my license expires LMAO

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Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 11d

Very cool! I worked on a paper about antmounds and soil chemistry in serpentine barrens and get so excited about ant activity now

Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 11d

Quiz time: why all the blueberries on one side of the embedded fencerow?

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Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 12d

Post going around about shared housing makes me think about how rare living alone is in my community, like I've usually been the odd one out for having my own apartment or house. One of my old bandmates lived in the closet of a house w 30 other people at one point 😂

Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 12d

Got 2 seconds boxes of plum tomatoes at the market, hope everybody's ready for SUNDAY SAUCE

Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 12d

Sometimes I get really grumpy about my mangled-looking leg but it's probably not fixable without surgery and there's so much I'd rather spend that money on plus I don't ever want surgery again if I can help it so I'm stuck in the messed-up looking injured goblin realm 😩

Conopholis americana enjoyer @skunkcabbages.bsky.social · 12d

You know I'm in an end-of-term/mid-semester/show booking stress spiral when I'm actually glad Pittsburgh Band practice and Youngstown Band recording were both cancelled this week 😩