On this Earth Day we celebrate the urban corals of Coral City. Believe it or not, every coral that settled here naturally has done so within the last 15 years 🪸🪸🪸

Did you know you can tan fish skin into a beautiful, durable leather? Karen McIntyre with Creative Native taught the process of tanning fish skin in Iñupiaq Studies. Look at the beautiful colors!

#CreativeNative #ilisagvikcollege #KarenMcIntyre #fishkin #Inupiaqstudies #Native

SEM of holotype of Camarotus dilatatus from Ruben Dario Collantes Gonzalez's unpublished (?) revision of the genus

Joao Burini's iNat phenomenal photo of a SOMEHOW UNIDENTIFIED species of Camarotus found in Brazil. It is covered with waxy filamentous secretions that are deep fuchsia pink and fluorescent yellow, and has flattened itself to a leaf like the tortoise beetle this genus clearly wants to be. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/111690886

a productive morning of weevil IDs fully derailed by the existence of Camarotus, the curculionine weevil who couldn't decide whether to be an attelabid or a cassidine chrysomelid

Myopa (M. pellucida?) side view

Myopa (M. pellucida?) from above

A fabulously weird Myopa (M. pellucida?) Bee Grabber fly - an endoparasite of solitary bees. North Herefordshire

This is both a super interesting response to human-wildlife conflict AND what happens when boar behavior adapts? Wildlife tend to be pretty good at doing that

Acronyms are pronounced as words.
-scuba
-laser
-NASA

Initialisms are pronounced as individual letters.
-NFL
-TSA
-TGIF

'Acronym' is frequently used for both kinds of abbreviations, so it's ok to call an initialism an acronym.

Yep, that's an Alaskan tapir track. The hind foot is overlaid with the front, so it looks like 4 toes instead of 3, but otherwise pretty standard

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!"

The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

I have been seeing your posts and quietly puzzling the significance of 1004. Thank you for spelling it out for us slow ones! And congrats! Lol do you now feel a reluctance to observe another one?

From Space Camp to NASA Mission Control: Soldotna woman helps send astronauts to space Dr. Tess Caswell is a Soldotna High School graduate who works as a lead capsule communicator for NASA's Artemis II mission. The four-member crew is scheduled to return to earth Friday evening.

Dr. Tess Caswell is a Soldotna High School graduate who works as a lead capsule communicator for NASA's Artemis II mission. The four-member crew is scheduled to return to Earth Friday evening.

I am in this picture and I like it

Yep, that's the story I was told. Some form of mispronunciation of Chicago.

Pinned specimen of a large and beefy cryptorhynchine weevil, photographed head/on, displaying a pair of enormously dilated protarsi covered in fanciful golden hairs

Enlarged view of a single outrageous weevil foot, it looks like it’s covered in curling golden moustachios

Macromerus crinitarsus: no fancier feets on earth

This looks so cool. Similar to BugShot but with mycologists

Voices | Major League Archaeology The Penn Museum welcomes Philadelphia Phillies legend Brad Lidge to our Board of Advisors. He calls it a

Former MLB player Brad Lidge, who threw the final pitch to win the Philadelphia Phillies the 2008 World Series, is now an archaeologist researching the Etruscan civilization. He is joining the Penn Museum Board of Advisors, calling it a “full-circle moment.”

www.penn.museum/blog/major-l...

New month, new moose.

A fish with trans flag colors saying trans rights and text below that says you bet your wrasse

Happy trans day of visibility, here is a wrasse design I made awhile ago because all wrasses change sexes as they age.

Moss & Lichen Caribou

#legobuilds #legomoc #lego #legocaribou #caribou #reindeer #legoreindeer

Taxonomist Appreciation Day post

I am in freakin' AWE of people doing primary taxonomic work.

To do it well, you need deep scholarship to track past naming (and misnaming) efforts.

You may need to hunt down specimens only to discover they are damaged, misindentified, or lost.

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Two Arctic sealift ships stuck in Persian Gulf as Iran blocks Strait of Hormuz Two ships that handle annual sealift resupply for Nunavut and Nunavik are stuck in the Persian Gulf as Iran continues its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. The Miena Desgagnés and Rosaire A.

Two Arctic sealift ships stuck in Persian Gulf as Iran blocks Strait of Hormuz

"One of the Transport Desgagnés ships trapped in the Persian Gulf is tasked with resupplying Nunavut communities in the summer months and the other resupplies mining operations."

nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti...

"Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola hasn’t made any public statements about the Iran war, and her campaign social media accounts have been silent on the subject.

When contacted Thursday, her campaign spokesperson said she had no comment."

Thank you, @alaska.bsky.social for asking.

Talented guy! Space AND fungi

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

this (good) story is very funny to me because it's like How Did These Top Scientists Avoid Working With Epstein? 🤔 They Googled Him And Saw He Was A Bad Guy 😔
www.science.org/content/arti...

Audubon sketches of five commonly seen winter birds in eastern Interior Alaska with the Tanacross Dene names annotated. Left to right: jîiz (Canada jay), ts’egąąg (chickadee), dįįts nęy (redpoll), taatsą́ą’ (raven), thuls̲h̲iid (boreal owl).

Commonly seen winter birds in eastern Interior Alaska with their rightful Tanacross Dene names. Bird sketches courtesy @audubon.org #Dene #Language #Alaska #Birds

Gall of the week, an unusual one, is caused by a fungus on a fungus. It is Agamothyia wankowiczii on the bracket fungus Ganoderma applanatum.
Photo by Graham Calow.

Saw four separate moose on a short walk in the Westchester lagoon area last week. Thought I'd died and gone to heaven!

a picture from alaska's 511 cameras located on highway

The view from Glenn Highway @ Gunsight Mountain MP 117, 📷 from 511.alaska.gov

Observations Observations of Bittacomorpha

That's the most soothing cranefly video I've ever watched!

Scrolling through iNat's most faved Bittacomorpha observations is a treat www.inaturalist.org/observations...

That phantom cranefly is AMAZING, both the art and the species

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin