Pretty tired of this MO winter… here’s some of my favorite Missouri wildflowers to spark some hope for summer.

Wild geranium (Geranium maculatum), jewelweed (Impatiens capensis), cup plant (Silphium perfolatum), and tall bellflower (Campanula americana), respectively.

#botany #nativeplants

A good hiking tip!

Running a high school research lab… in year two. We’re self-funded. Consider helping amazing students doing real work.

Read about what they’re up to this year as well as last year’s research studies.

If interested, click the “Support Our Mission” page:

bobcatresearchinstitute.com

#science

First research student up and running with her experimentation… such a tight design. I’m so proud of her hard work.

More about our program, found in the bio link there. Also, if you want to help make these studies possible, there’s a link for that as well!

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Just sharing a microscope view for your morning moment of wonder… a single-celled protozoan: Blepharisma, the “pink protist.”

"despite it all..." we keep trying.

poem by
@nikitagill.bsky.social

"When despair for the world grows in me..."