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Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇

@mustelidmay.bsky.social

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Mammalogist 🦡 Prev: TN - armadillos & bats 🦇 WY- ferrets NC- bears Now: WA - pygmy rabbits🐇 🦦Lover of chaos & conservation🦝 misunderstood mammals🦨 Pop punk 🙏 She/her 🏳️‍🌈

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Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇 @mustelidmay.bsky.social · Oct 14

Tried to get a quick photo with this pygmy rabbit and then she did a 180 & ran into my coat instead of jumping forward like I expected her to when I left go 😂 😅
#TeamPygmy #mammals

Me holding a pygmy rabbit with her cute fuzzy face popping out of the mesh bag we weigh them in.

The same pygmy rabbit but the camera is a bit closer to her & her nose is hiding behind the white mesh bag

My shocked face as I realize the rabbit in trying to release has decided my jacket is a good hiding spot

A photo of my face slightly less shocked but there is only a tiny rabbit booty and cute little feet barely poking out of my jacket as the rabbit runs further into the jacket and eventually fell out & ran for cover in the sagebrush nearby

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Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇 @mustelidmay.bsky.social · 1d

Accidentally turned myself into Makio from #demonSlayer

Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇 @mustelidmay.bsky.social · 2d

I was alone today so used a sagebrush to hold my phone. Yeehaw

Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇 @mustelidmay.bsky.social · 2d

It's called fieldwork, sweaty

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 3d

The history of Nazis holding rallies in left-wing areas of Weimar Germany, instigating street fights, and then telling the press that only they could save Germany from the "violent communists" seems like an important thing for people to be studying right now.

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Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇 @mustelidmay.bsky.social · 3d

I feel so stuck lately.
I have this passion for growth, and I've become so bogged down by my current position as well as the state of the world.

I need to make more art. Idk what yet.

Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇 @mustelidmay.bsky.social · 4d

She comin!

An excited pyranees/border collie mix is running in a "superman" pose towards the camera outside. She is in full zoom mode. Growlies also activated. There's no stopping her now.

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Art D. @artd.bsky.social · 5d

Don't worry, @solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social I did one for you too

Taylor swift's new album the life of a showgirl but she has a gar's head and it's the life of a showgar.

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Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇 @mustelidmay.bsky.social · 7d

Guess who got a cheap thermal scope 👀

Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇 @mustelidmay.bsky.social · 8d

Learned the 1500th bat species was recently named 🦇

Discussed bat vs rodent diversity with partner ♥️

He asked about capybara species...

Somehow that led to explaining the Devil's Corkscrew to him...

And now I'm looking up ancient weasels 😂

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Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇 @mustelidmay.bsky.social · 8d

The wildlife field lost an amazing, kind, and inspiring biologist yesterday.

Dr. Daniel Combs

Your sense of humor and incredible empathy will be missed by many, many people.

I would never have made it this far in my career without you getting me started at TN Tech ♥️

Oh, to fly like a bird🦅💕

Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇 @mustelidmay.bsky.social · 13d

Can anyone explain why the path of smoke is magically broken by the 3 cities here on the map??
Moses Lake and two towns west and northwest of it are somehow yellow dots even though the AQI is 200 points higher everywhere else along the smoke trails...

I'm confused as hell.

Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇 @mustelidmay.bsky.social · 13d

Human-caused fire 2 miles south of my field site today 🙃 yay

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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 14d

Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration

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Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇 @mustelidmay.bsky.social · 14d

Original photo is from @australianwildlife.bsky.social

Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇 @mustelidmay.bsky.social · 14d

How your email finds me:

A tiny Kangaroo Island Dunnart being held by a biologist. The small marsupial (mouse sized) is full of the most adorable panic you can imagine.

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Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇 @mustelidmay.bsky.social · 14d

Right? It's so neat seeing old game trails and sagebrush clusters causing different heat patterns ☺️

Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇 @mustelidmay.bsky.social · 15d

Really eager to not live in the desert...

Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇 @mustelidmay.bsky.social · 16d

I ♥️ thermal imaging!!

Just found a dozen plastic tubes in our 20 acre enclosure so easily 😂

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Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇 @mustelidmay.bsky.social · 17d

If anything happens to me before I get to travel to Australia and see some really awesome marsupial I will be so unfulfilled tbh

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 18d

Off to a good start with the Halloween decorations around here

A very gay skeleton in sparkly heels holds a pride flag between their teeth, with one hand on one hip and one up behind their head

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Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇 @mustelidmay.bsky.social · 18d

It's not a phase.

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Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇 @mustelidmay.bsky.social · 21d

Do YOU wanna take the notes for me, sir???

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

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Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇 @mustelidmay.bsky.social · 21d

I help gather population data on endangered Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbits and vaccinate the rabbits against RHDV2 🐇