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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 2d

Here we go. We finally figured out where this bird disappears to. Red-footed Booby. One of very very few inland records of this seafaring bird. Houston, TX. Much better photos than yesterday's grainy shot of a flying bird from half a mile away.

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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 3d

In just a few days near Houston, Texas I found a red-footed booby, tropical Parula and a western wood-pewee, a truly bizarre and unlikely combination of birds.

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RideSD @ridesd.org · 5d

Join us for Rack & Ride together with @sandiegomts.bsky.social and the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition for Rack & Ride!

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Julie Elliott @julieelliott.bsky.social · 5d

New Paper! We investigate the first several months of postseismic motion following the M8.2 2021 Chignik earthquake on the Alaska subduction zone and how that motion can help improve our understanding of coseismc slip. ⚒️🧪 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 9d

MTS/NCTD Free Ride Day is this Wednesday! Last year's increased MTS daily ridership by 15% and NCTD by 28%. I bet we can beat it this year. www.kpbs.org/news/quality...

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Kristine M. Larson @funwithgps.bsky.social · 10d

Second step, eat 🍦 while walking home along the board walk.

Crystal Pier in Pacific Beach with the beach and crashing waves.

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Kristine M. Larson @funwithgps.bsky.social · 10d

First step, take my favorite 🚌 (30) to PB ice cream.

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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 11d

We found this amazing katydid in Honduras. Haemodiasma tessellata. Camouflage at its finest.

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Structure & Function @aaronsimages.bsky.social · 12d

Black-crowned Night Heron
San Diego, California

#birds #photography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #sandiego #wildlife #birdsky #nature

A portrait of a Black-crowned Night Heron

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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 12d

How about a coral snake up close? Foothill forests of the Caribbean slope in Honduras.

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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 13d

One of the most important and magical shorebird stopover sites in the country is the Bolivar Flats Bird Sanctuary in Texas. It is currently under threat from development and we are in a race to save it. houstonaudubon.org/conservation...

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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 13d

A storm blew over last evening in Houston, TX. This AM, at Rice University, I was surprised to see a Vermilion Flycatcher (rare for an urban environment). While looking at the flycatcher, I saw a dragonfly I had never seen before - Twelve-spotted Skimmer! The 2nd record for our county.

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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 13d

Our paper by student Jia-le Mou, former student Jackson Borchardt and myself, Calibrating olivine Forsterite content as a measure of melting degree, is out. A simple and general calibration of how forsterite content varies with melting degree
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Structure & Function @aaronsimages.bsky.social · 15d

Reddish Egret
San Diego River Estuary

#birds #birdsky #photography #sandiego #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #nature #wildlife

A Reddish Egret glares towards to camera.

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Kristine M. Larson @funwithgps.bsky.social · 15d

NEW: Surface mass balance monitoring of an alpine glacier using GNSS Interferometric Reflectometry, Togaibekov et al. bit.ly/46ugyaI 🧪

Photograph of an alpine glacier, with elevation lines and locations of sensors (GNSS, stakes, automatic weather station).

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Kristine M. Larson @funwithgps.bsky.social · 16d

Trump baby cookies have made it to La Jolla.

Trump Baby cookies with cover up written on the diaper.

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Nick Freymueller @smilodontology.bsky.social · 19d

🐋 🐻‍❄️ 🦭 MASSIVE NEW FOSSIL DATABASE 🐋 🐻‍❄️ 🦭

Our FAMM (Fossil Arctic Marine Mammal) database has now been published #OpenAccess in Global Ecology and Biogeography!

Come learn about the cool stuff you can do with #Arctic #fossil material and bio-molecular archives! ☢️ ⚛️ 🧬

Link and thread below!

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Pan-Arctic map of data coverage in the Fossil Arctic Marine Mammal database. Shown is a bivariate choropleth map denoting species richness and number of fossils in 200km x 200 km grid cells

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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 23d

Grace's Warbler, a bird of mountain pine forests from southwestern United States south into northern Central America. This one I photographed in Honduras.

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Cin-Ty Lee @cintylee.bsky.social · 23d

The Fulvous Owl, a bird of mountain forests in northern Central America. Always a magical feeling when one encounters an owl deep in the woods. This one we photographed in Honduras.

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Ordo Fraterna Fibonacci @ordofibonacci.bsky.social · 28d

Seafloor geodesy unveils seismogenesis of large subduction earthquakes in Mexico
Science Advances
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Seafloor geodesy unveils seismogenesis of large subduction earthquakes in Mexico

Slow deformations of the ocean floor may reveal deep tectonic processes that predate large subduction earthquakes.

www.science.org

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Kristine M. Larson @funwithgps.bsky.social · 29d

I’m so old that I can remember someone dressing up as a potted plant for Halloween. #irancontra

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29d

Omg, I feel like I've just been transported back to high school.

Oliver North weds Fawn Hall, his secretary during Iran-contra scandal

Oliver North and Fawn Hall, two figures in the 1980s controversy, tied the knot last month, according to a Virginia marriage license.

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Structure & Function @aaronsimages.bsky.social · Sep 8

Cherry-headed Conure
Banker's Hill, San Diego

#photography #birds #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #sandiego #birdphotography #birdsky #nature

A portrait of a feral Cherry-headed Conure

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Ben Gutknecht @geophysx.bsky.social · Sep 7

Lunar eclipse tonight, S of Bonn, Germany. Best part was to see how many parents with children came out and patiently waited to observe!
[Pentax K1, in-cam multiexposure every 2m10sec]

In-camera multi-exposure sequence of six shots of the red full moon shadowed by Earth during the 2025-09-07 eclipse; near Bonn, Germany, 130 seconds btw each, Pentax K1

In-camera multi-exposure sequence of six shots of the red full moon during the 2025-09-07 eclipse, an increasing bright limb to the lower left indicates Earth's shadow moving (relatively) out of centre; near Bonn, Germany, Pentax K1

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Structure & Function @aaronsimages.bsky.social · Sep 7

Rufous Hummingbird
Banker's Hill, San Diego

#photography #birds #wildlife #wildlifephotography #hummingbirds #birdsky #nature #naturephotography #sandiego

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Kristine M. Larson @funwithgps.bsky.social · Sep 6

And the rain is often horizontal.

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