Professor Goose
@thundergoose.bsky.social
Magpie mind interested in all things biology and anything else that catches my attention. Clumsy ally. She/they
Pinned
I’m (trying) to take a break from The Horrors so I’m not going to be around much for an unknown amount of time. If someone could End The Horrors I’d appreciate it.
We should all be aware of the kodkod!
Ele’s 12 year old is on fire with these Awareness days. Lots of good stuff on this thread.
Ele’s 12 year old is on fire with these Awareness days. Lots of good stuff on this thread.
The 12yo has declared this Kodkod Awareness Day!
Also known as the güiña and native to Chile and Argentina, the kodkod is the smallest wildcat of the Americas. Look at its little face!
Also known as the güiña and native to Chile and Argentina, the kodkod is the smallest wildcat of the Americas. Look at its little face!
Kodkod - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 17, 2026 at 2:23 PM
We should all be aware of the kodkod!
Ele’s 12 year old is on fire with these Awareness days. Lots of good stuff on this thread.
Ele’s 12 year old is on fire with these Awareness days. Lots of good stuff on this thread.
All about loon parenting. More importantly a thread of cute loon pictures.
Let's talk about the aircraft carriers of the animal world, the Common Loon (Gavia immer), native to Canada & the northern US.
The chicks are born precocial, meaning they can swim moments after hatching, but hitch a ride on a parent for two reasons...
(📷: Harry Collins, www.harrycollinsphoto.com)
The chicks are born precocial, meaning they can swim moments after hatching, but hitch a ride on a parent for two reasons...
(📷: Harry Collins, www.harrycollinsphoto.com)
February 17, 2026 at 2:20 PM
All about loon parenting. More importantly a thread of cute loon pictures.
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Good news department, if needed: Several nice folks in a Portland neighborhood this morning spent hours rescuing a lost bunny from a storm drain. Bun was terrified and at risk of cars, but fine now. There's a lovely photo of the rescuers celebrating w bun in carrier. (not sharing photo re privacy)
February 16, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Good news department, if needed: Several nice folks in a Portland neighborhood this morning spent hours rescuing a lost bunny from a storm drain. Bun was terrified and at risk of cars, but fine now. There's a lovely photo of the rescuers celebrating w bun in carrier. (not sharing photo re privacy)
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Good news alert: Just want to shout out Elana Meyers Taylor, the most decorated Black woman in the Winter Olympics, who won her sixth medal and first gold tonight, AND is also one of the only 8% of hearing parents who learn to sign for her deaf kid. Badass through and through.🥇
February 17, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Good news alert: Just want to shout out Elana Meyers Taylor, the most decorated Black woman in the Winter Olympics, who won her sixth medal and first gold tonight, AND is also one of the only 8% of hearing parents who learn to sign for her deaf kid. Badass through and through.🥇
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Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶
February 16, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶
Since 7 am I’ve gotten over an inch of rain. In Southern California. Lots of standing water in the yard. We can have months without rain and then get our yearly rainfall out of a handful of storm, most of then in a 3-4 month period.
@watchinthesky.bsky.social , how’s it going down there?
@watchinthesky.bsky.social , how’s it going down there?
Albert Hammond - It never rains in Southern California
YouTube video by Albert Hammond Official
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February 16, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Since 7 am I’ve gotten over an inch of rain. In Southern California. Lots of standing water in the yard. We can have months without rain and then get our yearly rainfall out of a handful of storm, most of then in a 3-4 month period.
@watchinthesky.bsky.social , how’s it going down there?
@watchinthesky.bsky.social , how’s it going down there?
Anyone opposed to vaccination should be forced to go to a really old cemetery and look at all the graves of children. Many of them died of vaccine preventable diseases. Measles was one of the biggest baddies.
Read the thread
#VaccinesSaveLives
Read the thread
#VaccinesSaveLives
Measles is one of those nightmare diseases that, if it hadn't been killing people for hundreds of years, people would ABSOLUTELY be pushing conspiracy theories about right now. It's too nasty in too many different directions to seem natural. But oh, boy, it sure is.
February 15, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Anyone opposed to vaccination should be forced to go to a really old cemetery and look at all the graves of children. Many of them died of vaccine preventable diseases. Measles was one of the biggest baddies.
Read the thread
#VaccinesSaveLives
Read the thread
#VaccinesSaveLives
It’s me. I’m Beans.
February 15, 2026 at 12:21 AM
It’s me. I’m Beans.
There are heroes among us
February 14, 2026 at 2:58 PM
There are heroes among us
A… disturbing thread
I regret to inform you that I have gone further down the terrible rabbit hole that is Elsie the Cow.
If you squint at enough eBay listings trying to read the words, you find a saga of a marriage gone mad.
If you squint at enough eBay listings trying to read the words, you find a saga of a marriage gone mad.
This morning, I got distracted while eating cheese because I remembered that the laughing cow is named Elsie and is married to Elmer the cow on the glue labels. To doublecheck that I hadn’t hallucinated that, I looked it up and fell down a dark internet rabbit hole.
February 14, 2026 at 1:11 AM
A… disturbing thread
Kind of jealous.
February 13, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Kind of jealous.
We had to replace doorknobs when we got our most recent cats. This big boy can easily reach the knobs and hates doors to be shut.
February 13, 2026 at 3:27 PM
We had to replace doorknobs when we got our most recent cats. This big boy can easily reach the knobs and hates doors to be shut.
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Good morning winners!!!
February 6, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Good morning winners!!!
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February 12, 2026 at 9:43 PM
🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Current CA undergraduate internship opportunity - The California Ocean Protection Council (OPC) is hiring up to four Student Assistants for its 2026 Summer Internship Program (Program). March 5 deadline calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
Timeline cleanse
River otter comedy troupe...
(video by Curtis C)
(video by Curtis C)
February 13, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Timeline cleanse
Whoever decided that the best way to communicate with my 91 year old mother in law was exclusively by email deserves a special place in hell.
February 13, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Whoever decided that the best way to communicate with my 91 year old mother in law was exclusively by email deserves a special place in hell.
Good news. Now if only other big polluters (cough, cough, US) would follow this trend
Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
February 13, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Good news. Now if only other big polluters (cough, cough, US) would follow this trend
Good news!
In China’s Yangtze River, the finless porpoise population is rising: the latest count puts it at 1,426 in 2025, up 177 since 2022. Scientists link the recovery to the ten year fishing ban that began in 2021, alongside tighter habitat protection and monitoring. buff.ly/hzREApS
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Fishing ban revives Yangtze finless porpoises
The population of the Yangtze finless porpoise, the only freshwater porpoise species in China's longest river, has risen to 1,426 in 2025, indicating that the fishing ban and other conservation…
buff.ly
February 12, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Good news!
He left out the important factors of mood and weather on Choosing a Mug.
February 12, 2026 at 7:59 PM
He left out the important factors of mood and weather on Choosing a Mug.
How much coffee I feel I need today.
Artists, quote with something silly!
February 12, 2026 at 3:10 PM
How much coffee I feel I need today.
Tag yourself. I’m the cassowary (duh)
February 12, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Tag yourself. I’m the cassowary (duh)
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My illustration of one of the most iconic keystone species of the U.S. Atlantic Coast, the Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus, female), or "beautiful, savory swimmer."
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #sciviz #scicomm #crabs #BlueCrab
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #sciviz #scicomm #crabs #BlueCrab
February 12, 2026 at 2:34 PM
My illustration of one of the most iconic keystone species of the U.S. Atlantic Coast, the Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus, female), or "beautiful, savory swimmer."
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #sciviz #scicomm #crabs #BlueCrab
🧪🌿🌎🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #sciviz #scicomm #crabs #BlueCrab
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Admittedly, please follow me if you are a professor of literally anything, obscure or not, and send me photos of the cool stuff you do because I LOVE THAT SHIT
Non professors who also love cool (which is to say super nerdy) stuff also very welcome.
Non professors who also love cool (which is to say super nerdy) stuff also very welcome.
February 12, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Admittedly, please follow me if you are a professor of literally anything, obscure or not, and send me photos of the cool stuff you do because I LOVE THAT SHIT
Non professors who also love cool (which is to say super nerdy) stuff also very welcome.
Non professors who also love cool (which is to say super nerdy) stuff also very welcome.
Bird down. Almost time to order more from @octopusgallery.bsky.social . My cats love the ones with wool and catnip.
February 12, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Bird down. Almost time to order more from @octopusgallery.bsky.social . My cats love the ones with wool and catnip.
Good news!
This is incredible. Like the previous few years, near all of the electricity capacity added to the grid was clean energy. The Inflation Reduction Act helped this - it made solar & wind cheaper but it also for the first time had a standalone incentive for grid storage. Look at the growth in storage!
Final EIA-860 is out, and 2025 really did it: 54 GW of new U.S. electric capacity, 96% clean. Solar again carries the offense, and we built more storage in 2025 than the cumulative total through 2023. More and more and more additions... but also record low retirements.
February 12, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Good news!