desk coachella. levity on the monitor, art on the ipad. thriving 👌

This is what a humpback whale sounds like after a meal, visualized in TouchDesigner.

Recorded in Monterey Bay right as they surfaced from deep feeding dives on sardines - the "eeee" calls you're hearing are field recordings taken by Thomas Kieckhefer.

Those are little cheek sacs! The species stores excess calcium there!

Right? They make green look so good! 💚

Close up photo of a Madagascar giant day gecko on a leaf.

Quick portrait shot of a Madagascar giant day gecko 🦎

A silky anteater with golden-brown fur clings to the top of a thin branch against a backdrop of blue sky and blurred greenery.

silky anteaters look like a sentient puff of dandelion fluff.

This is what erasure looks like written into law. It will be challenged. It will be fought. But it's real, and pretending otherwise helps no one.

that's what I'm saying!

This is what erasure looks like written into law. It will be challenged. It will be fought. But it's real, and pretending otherwise helps no one.

100%. Each new thing I learn about him is some new level of terrible.

"It was dead before they shot it" even if true, Florida law covers harassment of alligators, not just killing them. Unloading 25 rounds into the carcass of a protected species in the Everglades from an airboat most likely qualifies as wildlife harassment. FWC is investigating.

babe wake up one of the worst people you know filmed themselves committing a felony against a federally protected animal and streamed it on the internet for clout.

Only 1,600 Hawaiian monk seals are left in the world. 1,200 of them live in Papahānaumokuākea.

The argument for reopening commercial fishing there is economic pressure. The argument against is extinction. These are not equivalent concerns.

HI

He is a professional.

NO!

Screenshot of a highlighted passage from a US federal court ruling. The highlighted section reads: "It is not irrational for a legislature to forgo Medicaid coverage of arguably ineffective and dangerous procedures and allocate its limited resources to covering other treatments. What's more, States may legitimately recognize and 'celebrat[e]' the 'inherent differences between men and women.' Virginia, 518 U.S. at 533 (internal quotation marks omitted). And it is not irrational for a legislature to encourage citizens 'to appreciate their sex' and not 'become disdainful of their sex' by refusing to fund experimental procedures that may have the opposite effect. Skrmetti, 605 U.S. at 516–17." The unhighlighted text below reads: "The Supreme Court's decision in Skrmetti forecloses any argument to the contrary. By holding that SB1 passed rational basis review, the Supreme Court made clear that prohibitions on sex-change treatments are not inherently irrational. And West Virginia provided legitimate reasons that rationally related to its policy. Therefore, we find West Virginia's Exclusion easily passes rational basis review."

A federal appeals court ruled last week that blocking trans adults from healthcare is constitutional because states have a legitimate interest in "encouraging citizens to appreciate their sex."

I'm exhausted and furious and you should know this is happening.

It reminds me of the good ole days on Twitter back when I first started doing science communication 🥺 Really glad to have that feeling/vibes again over here!

Oh, some of us definitely have 👀

THIS! We have a level of understanding of what they may see, how they think/behave, but there is still so much we don't know about animal behavior. Heck, we are still learning things about how our OWN brains work all the time!

BIG ole PEEPERS! 👀

I fear their tiny little heads would simply COMBUST.

...I... I didn't realize there were stabby ones...

nightmares beyond comprehension mayhaps

I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT THIS UNTIL NOW TOO! I remember learning this FOREVER ago in university but this was a long forgotten bit of knowledge in my head... until now!

Awww, you're so welcome! This means so much to me!

I love cephalopods SO much. Absolutely one of my favorite groups in the animal kingdom, I wish more people cared about them!

Ooooh, I had never heard of this before now! Definitely adding this to my list to check out! Thank you for sharing 🖤

oh... oh no.

felt.