SWEET 16 WINNERS:
#2026MMM
Steller's Sea Cow, Aurochs, Humpback Whale, Hippopotamus, Lions, Nile Crocodile, Honey Badger and Gila Monster!
Please join us TOMORROW (3/26) at 8PM EST for the ELITE TRAIT!!
Please take 2 minutes to help me with a challenge for my students. ๐
How good are we at discerning whether videos are made with AI?
I created a collection of 6 short video clips. I plan to ask my students whether they were created with AI. wakelet.com/wake/OB_4iRd...
THANKS!
#2026MMM EXTINCTION IS FOREVER ROUND 1 WINNERS:
Steller's Sea Cow, Saudi Gazelle, Baiji, Yallara, Thylacine, Aurochs, Sea Mink, and Wild Dromedary Camel!
Please join us Wednesday 3/18 at 8PM EST for Round 1 of That's So Metal!
๐ IS FOREVER EMOJI BATTLE
#2026MMM Round 1
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๐๐๐ฆฆ:๐๏ธ๐จ๐ฆฆ/๐ฆฆโก๏ธ๐ชจ/๐๐
๐ฌ๐๐:๐๐๐/๐๐โโ๏ธ๐ชจ/๐๐ฌ
๐ฆญ๐๐ฆ:๐๏ธโโ๏ธ๐ฆญ๐ด/๐ฆ๐๏ธ๐ฌ/๐๐ฆ
๐ฏ๐๐น:๐ช๐น๐/๐ฏ๐ฝ๏ธ๐น/๐๐ฏ
๐๐๐:๐๐ฝ๏ธ๐พ/๐ฆถ๐๐ฐ/๐๐
๐บ๐๐งฅ:๐บ๐งฅ๐ง/๐งฅ๐ก๐บ/๐๐งฅ
๐ช๐๐ฆ:ใฝ๏ธ๐ฆ๐/๐ฆ๐๐/๐๐ช
Many thanks!
Thanks!
He's kinda fond of you :)
I just enjoyed seeing this Sun Animalcule (aka Heliozoan) in a sample, took a photo of it, and digitally painted it. A neat interaction between #Art and #Science!
#microscope #microscopy #pondscum #biology #sciart #nature
A round of applause for Education Engagement Coordinator Jenna Kissel & @loreleipatrick.bsky.social and the whole group of contributors to those sweet, sweet combatant info slides! #2026MMM
Shout out to the incredible #2026MMM coverage from ASU with a focus on librarians & libraries news.asu.edu/20260220-art...
Real Talk: you hear from me A LOT, but March Mammal Madness is made possible by the most incredible teaMMM of the very awesomest people you will ever have the honor of knowing! #2026MMM
Image shows the MMM bracket with Assassin Bug winning the Wildcard over the Bone Collector Caterpillar and a checkmark indicating the Wildcard category has been completed.
#2026MMM WILDCARD WINNER:
Assassin Bug!
Join us Wednesday, March 11th at 8PM EST for ROUND ONE of MONEY MAMMALS!
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While pretty common in samples from puddles & birdbaths, I never tire of the antics of Ostracods - the hyperactive #crustaceans who also bear the nickname "Seed Shrimp" - they have a fossil history going back over 570 million years! They are a great marker in relative dating in #paleontology!
Microverse Minute
I collected samples from a local fountain several days after a good rain, and the sediment was loaded with these micro crustaceans called Ostracods!! They date back in the fossil record over 400 million years!
#microscopy #naturephotography๐ท #science #biology
Always love getting to see a microscopic population explosion in my samples!
Here's a Paramecium undergoing binary fission to create two clones!
Motic Ba310e / Lbacam Ultra/iPhone 15/ 10X objective
#nature #microscope #biology #iteachbiology #edusky #science #naturephotography
It's fun to let students in their free time create "Mix slides" from different pond samples & then see what appears.... this "mix" has at least 4 species. Aeolosoma, Paramecium, Rotifers, and Stentor
Can you spot any species I missed?
#microscope #naturephotography #biology #iteachbiology #edusky
Just saw this recently deceased copepod with a hefty load of peritrich epibionts (I think Vorticella). Excited to see the egg sac with eggs that already have eyes developing. It's my first time observing this!
#microscope #edusky #nature #biology #iteachbiology #science
It's always nice when you see a nauplius that isn't hell-bent on zooming everywhere. LOL
*For my non-bio friends, a nauplius is a larval form of a crustacean. I suspect this one belongs to the genus Cyclops - a copepod.
#microscopy #nature #biology #edusky #iteachbiology #science
While pretty common in samples from puddles & birdbaths, I never tire of the antics of Ostracods - the hyperactive #crustaceans who also bear the nickname "Seed Shrimp" - they have a fossil history going back over 570 million years! They are a great marker in relative dating in #paleontology!
I encountered this Bursaria truncatella after it "inhaled" a Paramecium. I was hoping to see the Paramecium get sealed into a vacuole, but instead it finally managed to escape! My students have nicknamed Bursaria "Micro Roomba." LOL
#microscope #science #microscopy #iteachbiology
Live your life such that Bruce Springsteen does not write a protest song about how terrible you are
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. Itโs dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Following in the footsteps of Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and many others -- @brucespringsteen.net today added his voice with the release of "Streets of Minneapolis" ..... youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
I just enjoyed seeing this Sun Animalcule (aka Heliozoan) in a sample, took a photo of it, and digitally painted it. A neat interaction between #Art and #Science!
#microscope #microscopy #pondscum #biology #sciart #nature
Never seen the death of a ciliate like this-- usually it's too much pressure from the coverslip or too much osmotic pressure. But this gradual posterior-to-anterior "unzipping" effect amazed me !
Motic BA310e - 40x Objective - sped up 2X
#microscopy #Paramecium #Iteachbiology #edusky
Never seen the death of a ciliate like this-- usually it's too much pressure from the coverslip or too much osmotic pressure. But this gradual posterior-to-anterior "unzipping" effect amazed me !
Motic BA310e - 40x Objective - sped up 2X
#microscopy #Paramecium #Iteachbiology #edusky
