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Abigail Cahill
@aecahill.bsky.social
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Marine biologist studying inverts, larvae, connectivity. Based in the Great Lakes, i.e. not at all marine. Intrepid knitter, academia, France. |she/her|
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YOU ARE SOMETHING BUT NOT NOTHING
February 8, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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We're all crying over here
February 8, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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AAAAHHHHH!!!
February 8, 2026 at 9:16 PM
aecahill.bsky.social
Not me crying already today!!!
February 8, 2026 at 6:44 PM
aecahill.bsky.social
Important news here for the Figure Skating + Higher Ed Discourse crossover* contingent.

*no pun intended, I swear.
devinheroux.bsky.social Devin Heroux @devinheroux.bsky.social · 8h
EXTENSION GRANTED

Just a short time ago Canadian figure skater Maddie Schizas with the updated we were all waiting for.

Her prof has granted her an extension on her assignment. I’ll ask about the exact response tonight after she skates.
February 8, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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fairestcat.bsky.social
With alt-text.

Maddie Schizas is a delight.
A picture of an email on a laptop screen. The email: 2FF3 reflection extension Team Canada Athlete Madeline Schizas To: [whited out] Sat 2/7/2026 5:15 AM Hi Prof. [whited out] I am a student in your Sociology 2FF3 course and am wondering if I could get a short extension on this week's reflection. I was competing in the Olympic Games yesterday and thought the reflection was due on Sunday, not Friday. Here is the Canadian Olympic Committee press release to confirm my participation [link to press release] Thanks for your consideration Madeline Schizas Over the top of the picture Maddie has written "LOLLLL I ♥️ being a student sometimes"
February 7, 2026 at 4:36 PM
aecahill.bsky.social
This almost made me cry before she even took her opening pose.
xhappyccino.bsky.social amber glenn hype man @xhappyccino.bsky.social · 2d
idk if it's just that the boards are too wide here and she couldn't reach, but the coach not doing her usual thumps on kaori's back before she skates off and kaori thumping her own back made me sad #MilanoCortina2026
February 6, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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kelloggbiostn.bsky.social
Get to know a KBS research lab! This week we're highlighting the members of the Kozakiewicz Lab. Check out what postdoc Luisa M. Diele-Viegas studies and why.
Graphic with the text Meet the Kozakiewicz Lab. Composite photo of the five members of the Kozakiewicz Lab. Graphic with photos of postdoc Luisa M. Diele-Viegas and an outreach event held under an outdoor gazebo, with the text, I study the impacts of human activities on natural and human systems under a transdisciplinary framework… Graphic with photos of postdoc Luisa M. Diele-Viegas, with the text, Because environmental challenges are best addressed when science collaborates with communities, respects local culture, and focuses on the relationships that sustain ecosystems.
February 4, 2026 at 4:05 PM
aecahill.bsky.social
My unpopular opinion is that I am really, really digging this Great Lakes winter, bringing us snowy intro to ecology and a towhee!
A snow-covered ground with trees and shrubs. Four brown boards with bright-colored clay caterpillars are visible A small black, white, and orange bird in a tree
February 4, 2026 at 3:49 AM
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crevicedwelling.bsky.social
reading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like

margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum

define term “eplungulate”
- lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous
February 2, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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entsocamerica.bsky.social
The invasive spotted lanternfly is a prodigious producer of honeydew, a sweet, sticky substance that attracts such a variety of arthropods that it may rearrange local food webs. A new study finds arthropods in 35 families feeding on SLF honeydew, including ants, wasps, katydids, and more.
Sugar Rush: Spotted Lanternfly Honeydew Attracts Variety of Fellow Insects
The invasive spotted lanternfly's copious production of honeydew may rearrange local food webs, with arthropods in at least 35 taxonomic families feeding on it, per a new study.
entomologytoday.org
January 22, 2026 at 5:55 PM
aecahill.bsky.social
Away we go, again.
a close up of a man wearing a helmet and a sword .
Alt: a close up of a man wearing a helmet and a sword .
media.tenor.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
How to get into nature.
A four-panel comic titled "how to get into nature". In panel 1, a person kneels in the woods, looking down at a red-backed salamander, and the text says "notice a living thing." In panel 2, the text says "notice some other things that live near it," and there's a starflower, springtail, ant, little wood satyr butterfly, and salamander on the leaf litter. In panel 3, covered in creatures, plants, and a colorful starburst, the text says "Notice the connections between them, discover the wider ecosystem, learn about its histories, and find yourself following links from bedrock to stratosphere, between biotic and abiotic, at scales both microbial and massive, until you’re hopelessly overwhelmed by the wonder of it all." In panel 4, the text says "Fall into a daze and let moss engulf you." The person from the first panel is still kneeling in the woods, looking happy as moss slowly engulfs them, and they're saying "This is for the best."
January 20, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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berondam.bsky.social
🎉 It's official: When Trees Testify pub day!!! 🎉

Available wherever books are sold.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

@henryholtbooks.bsky.social
@macmillanpubusa.bsky.social
When Trees Testify
This stunning cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery offers up lessons from the natural world shared through the stor...
us.macmillan.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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berondam.bsky.social
In @peoplemag.bsky.social today... When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy the book out tomorrow
people.com/beronda-mont...

@macmillanpubusa.bsky.social
@henryholtbooks.bsky.social
Trees Connect Us with Our Ancestors. 'When Trees Testify' Explores the Powerful Link (Exclusive)
"We don’t have to just live with the memories of our ancestors," writes author Beronda L. Montgomery in an exclusive essay for PEOPLE in advance of her new book 'When Trees Testify,' out Jan. 20. "We ...
people.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Everything is really scary and horrible, and on the utter flipside, we made these really adorable valentines.

The dissonance of seeing horror, then posting "hey buy some cute valentines" is making me feel loopy.

But also nice things persist despite terror? Ugh idk.

Get 'em at SquidFacts.net
4 valentines in a grid, a pelican eel with the words "You make my jaw drop", an anglerfish that says "You're my light in the darkness", a grimalditeuthis that says "I find you a LURE ing" and two octopuses and a snailfish on the skeleton of a whale that says "I've Whale Fallen for you" lmao. The octopuses are making a heart with their arms together.
January 13, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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reenieonice.bsky.social
“What does an Ice Princess mean to you, and are you one?” Followed by complete and utter chaos.
#PrevagenUSChamps
January 10, 2026 at 6:39 AM
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No words. Just tears. Love these three so much. 🥹😭🩷 #PrevagenUSChamps
Isabeau Levito bows after her free skate Alysa Liu bows after her free skate Amber Glenn bows after her free skate Amber hugs Alysa and Isabeau in the kiss and cry after winning the national championship
January 10, 2026 at 4:02 AM
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THANK YOU AMBER
THANK YOU ALYSA
THANK YOU ISABEAU
THANK YOU BRADIE
THANK YOU SARAH
#PrevagenUSChamps
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2026 US Championships play-by-play/results: Women's free skate — Rocker Skating - Figure Skating Analysis by Jackie Wong
Live stream and play-by-play of the women’s free skate at 2026 US Figure Skating Championships
bit.ly
January 10, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Starting to make things can be hard. Once you start it's easier to build off what you make.

Make connections.
Make projects that amplify necessary information.
Make your friends do the things you know we all need to be doing lol.

I know it's hard & scary but shake off the horror & do something.
January 7, 2026 at 7:02 PM
aecahill.bsky.social
Here I am hanging out at the airport on the way home from #sicb2026. This was SICB meeting number fifteen (15!) for me and I wish we had some sort of card to get punched each year. I had a great science & teaching meeting and can't wait to see everyone in Pittsburgh in 2027.
January 8, 2026 at 3:03 AM
aecahill.bsky.social
Really excited about this news! We had a lot fun and I'm wearing my newly-won FHL sweatshirt for today's last #sicb2026 talks
andyantarctica.bsky.social Dr Andrew Mahon @andyantarctica.bsky.social · Jan 7
Time to celebrate! The @sicb-diz.bsky.social auction at the #SICB2026 meeting raised $4790 for student and postdoctoral support!!!! This will be the basis for the John and Vickey Pearse Fund being established by DIZ! Thanks to @kmkocot.bsky.social for being our exuberant auctioneer and all donors!!!
SICB Division of Invertebrate Zoology logo
January 7, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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On this final day of #SICB2026, we want to thank everyone who has taken part in our PUI Action Group events! It's been a blast connecting with all of you. If you want to learn more about the PUI Action Group, check out our website: sicb.org/committees/p...
Primarily Undergraduate Institution Action Group - SICB
sicb.org
January 7, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
Learning new stuff about how animals are reacting to a changing planet this morning at #SICB2026
A clam is angry and words surrounding the clam say “in response to ocean acidification, some bivalves will compensate by making thick shells”
January 6, 2026 at 4:25 PM
aecahill.bsky.social
Consider this my annual check-in for #knittersofSICB.
#sicb2026
A red-orange hat in progress, on knitting needles, held in front of an industrial-style carpet
January 5, 2026 at 3:49 AM