John Gerrath
@johngerrath.bsky.social
Plant Ecologist in Ohio. Formerly Michigan. Formerly Canada.
Bugs are cool, birds too.
Bugs are cool, birds too.
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"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
‘She was an amazing human being:’ Mother identifies woman shot, killed by ICE agent
Renee Nicole Good, 37, lived in the Twin Cities with her partner.
www.startribune.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:57 PM
"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...
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📝New publication alert!
📡In Satellite Archaeologies, I build upon my dissertation research to discuss the citizen archivists who are keeping Nintendo's Satellaview alive, 25 years after it went off the air.
🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15295036.2025.2591126
📡In Satellite Archaeologies, I build upon my dissertation research to discuss the citizen archivists who are keeping Nintendo's Satellaview alive, 25 years after it went off the air.
🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15295036.2025.2591126
December 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
📝New publication alert!
📡In Satellite Archaeologies, I build upon my dissertation research to discuss the citizen archivists who are keeping Nintendo's Satellaview alive, 25 years after it went off the air.
🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15295036.2025.2591126
📡In Satellite Archaeologies, I build upon my dissertation research to discuss the citizen archivists who are keeping Nintendo's Satellaview alive, 25 years after it went off the air.
🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15295036.2025.2591126
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just found a very important video
January 4, 2026 at 10:08 PM
just found a very important video
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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Just after midnight on 1 January 2026, a new eruption started from #Etna's eastern flank: a fissure opened at ~2100 m elevation, and a lava flow is descending through the desert-like Valle del Bove. Photos taken in the evening of 1 January from Etna's east and southeast flanks
January 1, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Just after midnight on 1 January 2026, a new eruption started from #Etna's eastern flank: a fissure opened at ~2100 m elevation, and a lava flow is descending through the desert-like Valle del Bove. Photos taken in the evening of 1 January from Etna's east and southeast flanks
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OH WOW! A whole web page DEVOTED to SPONGE SPICULE Imagery ! #porifera #spongeThursday www.spicules.org
January 1, 2026 at 9:36 PM
OH WOW! A whole web page DEVOTED to SPONGE SPICULE Imagery ! #porifera #spongeThursday www.spicules.org
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#AccidentalAbstractions, Times Square NYC, January 1, 2026, early morning
January 1, 2026 at 2:06 PM
#AccidentalAbstractions, Times Square NYC, January 1, 2026, early morning
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Appreciate this story from Signal Akron because, unlike some social media stories/complaints about "SAVE THE..." it gets at the challenges of saving this carousel (including $2M for a structure to house it) but also some examples of success stories from other cities. signalakron.org/carousel-fro...
Carousel from Chapel Hill Mall remains in storage in Akron - Signal Akron
City officials don't know when the hand-carved and hand-painted carousel will be on display again, since it needs a structure to house it.
signalakron.org
January 1, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Appreciate this story from Signal Akron because, unlike some social media stories/complaints about "SAVE THE..." it gets at the challenges of saving this carousel (including $2M for a structure to house it) but also some examples of success stories from other cities. signalakron.org/carousel-fro...
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This is it, nature’s friendliest looking creature
December 31, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This is it, nature’s friendliest looking creature
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Nardwuar Appointed to the Order of Canada
Nardwuar Appointed to the Order of Canada
Canadian national treasure Nardwuar the Human Serviette has been appointed to the Order of Canada. The celebrity interviewer and punk rock
dlvr.it
December 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Nardwuar Appointed to the Order of Canada
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Oh look at that I made a daily dinosaur art/creativity/what have you prompt list for 2026 because people on tumblr asked and we all know how much I love to give #DrawDinosDaily
www.tumblr.com/a-dinosaur-a...
www.tumblr.com/a-dinosaur-a...
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💬 0 🔁 2 ❤️ 2 · 2026 Dinosaur Prompt List · IT'S HERE!
THE 2026 DRAW DINOS DAILY CHALLENGE! #DRAWDINOSDAILY!
(Thank you to @vergess for the tag name!!!!)
Every day is a different dinosaur!
The…
www.tumblr.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Oh look at that I made a daily dinosaur art/creativity/what have you prompt list for 2026 because people on tumblr asked and we all know how much I love to give #DrawDinosDaily
www.tumblr.com/a-dinosaur-a...
www.tumblr.com/a-dinosaur-a...
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THE MONTH OF DICK 2026 IS COMING IN JANUARY
Get ready!
1. Follow the feed: bsky.app/profile/jaco... and ask me to add you
2. Download the planned reading sequence (source doc here bit.ly/4p4oYwA)
3. Get yourself an edition (book, free e-book, whatever)
4. Notify your bosom friends
5. Whale tattoo?
Get ready!
1. Follow the feed: bsky.app/profile/jaco... and ask me to add you
2. Download the planned reading sequence (source doc here bit.ly/4p4oYwA)
3. Get yourself an edition (book, free e-book, whatever)
4. Notify your bosom friends
5. Whale tattoo?
December 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
THE MONTH OF DICK 2026 IS COMING IN JANUARY
Get ready!
1. Follow the feed: bsky.app/profile/jaco... and ask me to add you
2. Download the planned reading sequence (source doc here bit.ly/4p4oYwA)
3. Get yourself an edition (book, free e-book, whatever)
4. Notify your bosom friends
5. Whale tattoo?
Get ready!
1. Follow the feed: bsky.app/profile/jaco... and ask me to add you
2. Download the planned reading sequence (source doc here bit.ly/4p4oYwA)
3. Get yourself an edition (book, free e-book, whatever)
4. Notify your bosom friends
5. Whale tattoo?
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Shout out to my road dogg Pot Bear
December 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Shout out to my road dogg Pot Bear
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December 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Neat!
The Trans-Neptunium world 78799 Xewioso, which is about 500-600 km in diameter and orbits beyond Neptune, got in front of a star and folks in Japan using the 3.8m Seimei Telescope filmed it happening in real-time.
Watch as the star blinks on-off-on as the object moves in front of it.
🔭
The Trans-Neptunium world 78799 Xewioso, which is about 500-600 km in diameter and orbits beyond Neptune, got in front of a star and folks in Japan using the 3.8m Seimei Telescope filmed it happening in real-time.
Watch as the star blinks on-off-on as the object moves in front of it.
🔭
年の瀬ですが、太陽系の果ての天体が星を隠す瞬間の撮影に成功しました！
12月26日(おととい)、国内最大の光学望遠鏡『せいめい望遠鏡』を使用して、カイパーベルト天体(78799) Xewiosoによる恒星掩蔽の観測に世界で初めて成功しました！
円内の恒星が一瞬で隠され見えなくなり、その後出現している様子をご覧ください。
動画は等倍速で再生。
©︎ 京都大学岡山天文台/ 東京大学
12月26日(おととい)、国内最大の光学望遠鏡『せいめい望遠鏡』を使用して、カイパーベルト天体(78799) Xewiosoによる恒星掩蔽の観測に世界で初めて成功しました！
円内の恒星が一瞬で隠され見えなくなり、その後出現している様子をご覧ください。
動画は等倍速で再生。
©︎ 京都大学岡山天文台/ 東京大学
December 28, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Neat!
The Trans-Neptunium world 78799 Xewioso, which is about 500-600 km in diameter and orbits beyond Neptune, got in front of a star and folks in Japan using the 3.8m Seimei Telescope filmed it happening in real-time.
Watch as the star blinks on-off-on as the object moves in front of it.
🔭
The Trans-Neptunium world 78799 Xewioso, which is about 500-600 km in diameter and orbits beyond Neptune, got in front of a star and folks in Japan using the 3.8m Seimei Telescope filmed it happening in real-time.
Watch as the star blinks on-off-on as the object moves in front of it.
🔭
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We wish you a Merychippus, and a happy New Year! This Miocene, three-toed horse hopes everyone has a safe and cozy holiday season. 🐴🎄
December 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
We wish you a Merychippus, and a happy New Year! This Miocene, three-toed horse hopes everyone has a safe and cozy holiday season. 🐴🎄
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That time I kept a carpet beetle larva and it started to eat its way through the plastic container 😳
Really hits home that polystyrene is an organic molecule. Other beetle larvae, like mealworms, are known to feed on it too.
But I mean 🤯
#Dermestidae #Anthrenus
Really hits home that polystyrene is an organic molecule. Other beetle larvae, like mealworms, are known to feed on it too.
But I mean 🤯
#Dermestidae #Anthrenus
December 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
That time I kept a carpet beetle larva and it started to eat its way through the plastic container 😳
Really hits home that polystyrene is an organic molecule. Other beetle larvae, like mealworms, are known to feed on it too.
But I mean 🤯
#Dermestidae #Anthrenus
Really hits home that polystyrene is an organic molecule. Other beetle larvae, like mealworms, are known to feed on it too.
But I mean 🤯
#Dermestidae #Anthrenus
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Just wait til you hear what happened when they combined human DNA with lettuce DNA
All they found was human romaines
All they found was human romaines
Scientists recently combined DNA of a cheetah with the DNA of a crab.
It went sideways real fast.
It went sideways real fast.
December 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Just wait til you hear what happened when they combined human DNA with lettuce DNA
All they found was human romaines
All they found was human romaines
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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Not now, enormous 68-million-
year-old egg nicknamed 'The Thing'.
year-old egg nicknamed 'The Thing'.
December 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Not now, enormous 68-million-
year-old egg nicknamed 'The Thing'.
year-old egg nicknamed 'The Thing'.
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On the 5th day of fossils, my true love gave to me...
5 GOLD TRILOBITES!
Beecher's Bed is a special Ordovician site in New York that preserves trilobite soft tissue with pyrite replacement. Legs, antenna and even trilobite eggs are found here.
1/x
#12DaysofFossils
5 GOLD TRILOBITES!
Beecher's Bed is a special Ordovician site in New York that preserves trilobite soft tissue with pyrite replacement. Legs, antenna and even trilobite eggs are found here.
1/x
#12DaysofFossils
December 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
On the 5th day of fossils, my true love gave to me...
5 GOLD TRILOBITES!
Beecher's Bed is a special Ordovician site in New York that preserves trilobite soft tissue with pyrite replacement. Legs, antenna and even trilobite eggs are found here.
1/x
#12DaysofFossils
5 GOLD TRILOBITES!
Beecher's Bed is a special Ordovician site in New York that preserves trilobite soft tissue with pyrite replacement. Legs, antenna and even trilobite eggs are found here.
1/x
#12DaysofFossils
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Trilobites had pairs of legs at each segment. There were spiny walking legs and feathered swimming gill legs.
#12DaysofFossils
#12DaysofFossils
December 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Trilobites had pairs of legs at each segment. There were spiny walking legs and feathered swimming gill legs.
#12DaysofFossils
#12DaysofFossils
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Microbial taphonomy of Ginkgo leaves in fine-grained substrates: how sediment type facilitates preservation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #FossilFriday @briecology.bsky.social @dfg.de
December 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Microbial taphonomy of Ginkgo leaves in fine-grained substrates: how sediment type facilitates preservation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #FossilFriday @briecology.bsky.social @dfg.de