Tia Murchie-Beyma
pandathum.bsky.social
Tia Murchie-Beyma
@pandathum.bsky.social
Zone 7. Should I leave these habanero peppers a bit longer? #gardening
November 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
September 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Getting ready for biology lab next week with monarchs! Will they develop too fast? Too slow? Always works somehow.
September 6, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Marlene Zuk explains the fast evolution of those silent crickets on Kauaʻi and other Hawaiian islands. Audio only. Thrilled to have found this! Bonus: a poem by Fiona Benson. #science #evolution #poetry
Polynesian Field Crickets | Bioluminescent Baby | In the Company of Insects
YouTube video by Arts and Culture - University of Exeter
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September 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Sunday ain’t over yet.
August 31, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Yeah, that’s the spot! Learning to communicate & get consent has been an enriching, 2-way process. #DogsofBlueSky #EnglishShepherds
August 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Reposted by Tia Murchie-Beyma
Here's a poem for the dog-lovers out there. Experimenting with a more casual, unhinged voice:

zerenner.substack.com/p/dog-walker...

Let me know how you like it!

#poetry #poem #dogs #doglovers #comedy #booksky #amwriting
dog walker
sorry i got a little excited there
zerenner.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
If curious about dog learning & aversive stimuli, "weirdness" of electrical pulses, and how learners decide the lesson -- here's an observation by Denise Fenzi of three of her dogs encountering an electric fence. fenzifoodforthought.libsyn.com/lessons-from... #dogsofbluesky #dogsky #science
Fenzi Food For Thought: Lessons from Electric Fencing
All three of my dogs learned about electric fencing - the hard way. This live is about their different reactions… And how that might impact them into the future, especially if I were a trainer who ch...
fenzifoodforthought.libsyn.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Not the thumbnail photo I wanted (!) but have been enjoying this wild cockatoo observation again.
Emergence of a novel drinking innovation in an urban population of sulphur-crested cockatoos, Cacatua galerita | Biology Letters
The spread of innovation has been proposed as a potentially important source of adaptive behavioural responses to anthropogenic change. Yet, while a diversity of urban innovations have been documented in animals, there are relatively few examples of these ...
doi.org
August 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Reposted by Tia Murchie-Beyma
International students upend their lives to join American science, bringing their novel insights that drive innovation.

Now, they are being illegally targeted by Trump, because Harvard won't back down.

Classic bully behavior.

We Stand Up for International Students.

www.npr.org/2025/05/22/n...
Trump administration revokes Harvard's ability to enroll international students
International students make up more than a quarter of Harvard University's student body. Harvard says the government's actions, which could cut off a major revenue stream, are "unlawful."
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May 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Author Talk: Architecture and Preservation of Historical Sites in Ethiopia www.eventbrite.com/e/author-tal...
Author Talk: Architecture and Preservation of Historical Sites in Ethiopia
Join architect, author, professor Fasil Giorghis in conversation with Heran Sereke-Brhan, National Museum of African Art Deputy Director!
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May 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
So much change in just a couple of weeks! It’s been a delight meeting new people & reconnecting. #CommunityGarden.
May 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Inordinately proud of what these strawberry plants did with minimal help! #CommunityGarden
May 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
It seems cruel to pile up the compost around those potato plants the moment they grow taller, but bwahaha root systems. More tubers, please! #homegarden
May 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
First sugar snap pea blossom of the year!
May 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Cleared another small plot in the community garden. I almost think this is when I like it best — all dreams!
May 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
April 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Trump says he can do anything but can’t get this illegally deported man back to the US?
U.S. Says Deportation of Maryland Man Was an ‘Administrative Error’
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was in the U.S. legally, is now in prison in El Salvador, and federal courts have no jurisdiction to order his release, the Trump administration said in a court filin...
www.nytimes.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
As with any good science investigation, the researchers raise even more questions than they answer. Human impacts on the environment are many & there’s a lot to learn.
The world regulated sulfur in ship fuels − and the lightning stopped
An unplanned experiment takes scientists closer to solving a long-standing mystery: To what extent, if any, have human-created emissions influenced thunderstorms?
theconversation.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The pandemic accelerated privatization of PUBLIC health, and it’s not good news.

“In the case of Covid, each of these responsibilities [see essay] became increasingly relegated to the private sphere.”
Opinion | Covid’s Deadliest Effect Took Five Years to Appear
What once belonged to all of us now belongs to corporations.
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM