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.
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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🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 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/...
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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!
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An Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) card game created by an Indigenous designer right here in #Winnipeg.
Currently $4,110 pledged of $7,000 goal.
Currently $4,110 pledged of $7,000 goal.
Ataage Agindaasonan - An Ojibwe/Anishinaabemowin card game
A fun way to learn a language with access to audio translations and pronunciation breakdowns. Immerse yourself with the game phrases!
www.kickstarter.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:15 PM
An Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) card game created by an Indigenous designer right here in #Winnipeg.
Currently $4,110 pledged of $7,000 goal.
Currently $4,110 pledged of $7,000 goal.
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The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds
Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:57 AM
The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
A PhD program can be good but you need a good PI, a good lab group and luck.
I did learn how to think differently and evaluate information critically, which was what I really wanted. But I also got nightmares that continued for years. If I had to do it again I’d do it somewhere other then the US.
I did learn how to think differently and evaluate information critically, which was what I really wanted. But I also got nightmares that continued for years. If I had to do it again I’d do it somewhere other then the US.
My standard advice for anyone who dreams of a PhD is not to bother.
One of many reasons: of my semi-random sample of 13 people in the same graduate school, 11 ate antidepressants at some point.
Only do it if you *know* you *have* to do it.
Then you know you have to do it.
One of many reasons: of my semi-random sample of 13 people in the same graduate school, 11 ate antidepressants at some point.
Only do it if you *know* you *have* to do it.
Then you know you have to do it.
February 12, 2026 at 2:37 PM
A PhD program can be good but you need a good PI, a good lab group and luck.
I did learn how to think differently and evaluate information critically, which was what I really wanted. But I also got nightmares that continued for years. If I had to do it again I’d do it somewhere other then the US.
I did learn how to think differently and evaluate information critically, which was what I really wanted. But I also got nightmares that continued for years. If I had to do it again I’d do it somewhere other then the US.
Not up for sale on her Etsy page… but I’m keeping an eye out
Click her name to find link to her art
Click her name to find link to her art
February 12, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Not up for sale on her Etsy page… but I’m keeping an eye out
Click her name to find link to her art
Click her name to find link to her art
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Artists, quote with something silly!
February 12, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Artists, quote with something silly!
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Artists, quote with something silly!
February 12, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Artists, quote with something silly!
Good news!
February 11, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Good news!
Nice thread on a species to admire from afar
Glacier the skunk is chowing down on an apple in her home at the Cincinnati Zoo.
Until 1993, Glacier would have been in Family Mustelidae with weasels & badgers.
But molecular evidence showed that her ancestors diverged 60 MYA, so she gets her own family: Mephitidae which means, roughly, "stinky."
Until 1993, Glacier would have been in Family Mustelidae with weasels & badgers.
But molecular evidence showed that her ancestors diverged 60 MYA, so she gets her own family: Mephitidae which means, roughly, "stinky."
February 11, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Nice thread on a species to admire from afar