Erin Lemley
@afuzzybird.bsky.social
Certified Wildlife Rehabilitator
Certified Veterinary Technician
Winter Hat Lover
Certified Veterinary Technician
Winter Hat Lover
Dog Day Cicada, (maybe "Neotibicen canicularis"?), found on a banner that was being folded up and placed on a tree to continue the short above-ground end of their mostly underground life. Hope you got lucky, friend. #cicada #nature #thatsabigbug
September 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Dog Day Cicada, (maybe "Neotibicen canicularis"?), found on a banner that was being folded up and placed on a tree to continue the short above-ground end of their mostly underground life. Hope you got lucky, friend. #cicada #nature #thatsabigbug
Found this nice acorn from a Swamp White Oak (Quercus bicolor) tree still attached to a leaf. #oak #nature #nativeplants
September 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Found this nice acorn from a Swamp White Oak (Quercus bicolor) tree still attached to a leaf. #oak #nature #nativeplants
I love Intisar Khanani's books (and she's a rockin' person, too!). You should check this one out and support her Kickstarter!
Because a biracial heroine with a magical talent whose real superpower is radical compassion?
That is a force to be reckoned with.
I cannot wait for you all to join Hitomi on this next adventure!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/boo...
That is a force to be reckoned with.
I cannot wait for you all to join Hitomi on this next adventure!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/boo...
Debts of Fire: Signed Deluxe Edition
An action-packed fantasy adventure set in the gorgeously diverse world of Intisar Khanani’s Sunbolt Chronicles.
www.kickstarter.com
May 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I love Intisar Khanani's books (and she's a rockin' person, too!). You should check this one out and support her Kickstarter!
Here's blood from a Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) with lead toxicity. There were some normal and some toxic heterophils. This image has 3 normal and one toxic. The toxic one has multiple abnormal dark granules. Polychromasia is also present. #hematology #science #wildliferehabilitation
April 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Here's blood from a Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) with lead toxicity. There were some normal and some toxic heterophils. This image has 3 normal and one toxic. The toxic one has multiple abnormal dark granules. Polychromasia is also present. #hematology #science #wildliferehabilitation
All. Of. This. I was a mediocre high school varsity athlete who worked hard and improved a lot but never got above average. Did I think my teammates who made it to state or my opponents who were better than me were cheating? Of course not because that's ridiculous. Just like transgender sports bans.
As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. 🧵
April 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
All. Of. This. I was a mediocre high school varsity athlete who worked hard and improved a lot but never got above average. Did I think my teammates who made it to state or my opponents who were better than me were cheating? Of course not because that's ridiculous. Just like transgender sports bans.
The comb on leading edge of an owl feather (this one is a Great Horned Owl) breaks up the air flow and allows for silent flight!
March 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The comb on leading edge of an owl feather (this one is a Great Horned Owl) breaks up the air flow and allows for silent flight!
I love this. Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf the White! Genius!
March 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I love this. Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf the White! Genius!
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It's clear that the Trump administration denied due process to the migrants it banished to El Salvador *precisely because* any measure of judicial oversight would've proved their innocence immediately.
Deported, imprisoned, and condemned to hard labor—for a soccer tattoo. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Deported, imprisoned, and condemned to hard labor—for a soccer tattoo. slate.com/news-and-pol...
We’re Finally Seeing the “Evidence” Against the Migrants Deported by Trump. It’s Unbelievable.
The Trump admin said a soccer player had a gang tattoo. It’s a tattoo of Real Madrid’s logo.
slate.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
It's clear that the Trump administration denied due process to the migrants it banished to El Salvador *precisely because* any measure of judicial oversight would've proved their innocence immediately.
Deported, imprisoned, and condemned to hard labor—for a soccer tattoo. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Deported, imprisoned, and condemned to hard labor—for a soccer tattoo. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Here's blood from a Bald Eagle that has a red blood cell without a nucleus, called an erythroplastid, and low numbers are normal (this is the only one I saw). The darker purple ovals are immature red blood cells. Two heterophils and a thrombocyte are also present. #bloodsmear #baldeagle #science
March 18, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Here's blood from a Bald Eagle that has a red blood cell without a nucleus, called an erythroplastid, and low numbers are normal (this is the only one I saw). The darker purple ovals are immature red blood cells. Two heterophils and a thrombocyte are also present. #bloodsmear #baldeagle #science
I can't stop myself taking photos of blood. Virginia opossum monocytes--often very weird. This one has a doughnut-shaped nucleus, which I see in this species but have no idea if it's normal. They do seem to have some normal anisocytosis of RBCs. #bloodsmear #40x #wildliferehabilitation #science
March 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I can't stop myself taking photos of blood. Virginia opossum monocytes--often very weird. This one has a doughnut-shaped nucleus, which I see in this species but have no idea if it's normal. They do seem to have some normal anisocytosis of RBCs. #bloodsmear #40x #wildliferehabilitation #science
Submit public comments to the State Department opposing the changes to gender markers on passports, either through the ACLU site or directly on the government web page. Public comment open until 3/17. action.aclu.org/reg-action/h...
Hands Off Our Passports: Stop Attacking Transgender Americans
The Trump administration is denying accurate passports to trans, intersex, and nonbinary people – so I’m joining the ACLU to fight back. Urge the State Department to reject this dangerous attack on ou...
action.aclu.org
March 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Submit public comments to the State Department opposing the changes to gender markers on passports, either through the ACLU site or directly on the government web page. Public comment open until 3/17. action.aclu.org/reg-action/h...
Do you have photos of gulls eating stuff? Or do you just like photos of gulls eating stuff? Then this citizen science project is for you!
We're getting some cracking photo submissions to the Gulls Eating Stuff project! Here are a few showing gulls predating a coot chick, a vole, a mole (!) and a GBBG that has just killed an adult moorhen. Keep 'em coming! Submit your photos of gulls eating stuff to citsci.org/projects/gul....
March 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Do you have photos of gulls eating stuff? Or do you just like photos of gulls eating stuff? Then this citizen science project is for you!
Get your testimony in against anti-Trans bills in Wisconsin, stat! Text of the bills can be found here: docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/related...
docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/related...
docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/related...
March 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Get your testimony in against anti-Trans bills in Wisconsin, stat! Text of the bills can be found here: docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/related...
docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/related...
docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2025/related...
Reposted by Erin Lemley
JUST OUT! 🚨 Time capsule birds' nests! 🪹
I'm proud to share our discovery of layers of vintage plastic in urban birds’ nests... going back decades in time! 👀
“You flip through these nests like through pages of a history book, uncovering the past.” 📚
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
#scicomm 🧪🪶
I'm proud to share our discovery of layers of vintage plastic in urban birds’ nests... going back decades in time! 👀
“You flip through these nests like through pages of a history book, uncovering the past.” 📚
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
#scicomm 🧪🪶
February 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
JUST OUT! 🚨 Time capsule birds' nests! 🪹
I'm proud to share our discovery of layers of vintage plastic in urban birds’ nests... going back decades in time! 👀
“You flip through these nests like through pages of a history book, uncovering the past.” 📚
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
#scicomm 🧪🪶
I'm proud to share our discovery of layers of vintage plastic in urban birds’ nests... going back decades in time! 👀
“You flip through these nests like through pages of a history book, uncovering the past.” 📚
Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
#scicomm 🧪🪶
February 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
If you really zoom in, you can see proof that I saw Orcas while I was in Seattle!
February 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
If you really zoom in, you can see proof that I saw Orcas while I was in Seattle!
The art on this game is FABULOUS.
Introducing: the excellent artists who made this possible.
Card: Elder Dragon (Multigenerational love being sown with an enormous dragon who's old enough to have seen it all before.)
Artist: XavierIllustrates
Social Media: @xavierill.bsky.social
#art #artlovers #blacksky #cardgames
Card: Elder Dragon (Multigenerational love being sown with an enormous dragon who's old enough to have seen it all before.)
Artist: XavierIllustrates
Social Media: @xavierill.bsky.social
#art #artlovers #blacksky #cardgames
February 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The art on this game is FABULOUS.
Uggggh, I just want @asm.org to support DEI so I can continue enjoying agar art, is that so wrong?!
@asm.org this better not be anticipatory obedience. I have 5 lab members planning on going to ASM microbe this year. I will absolutely pivot to another meeting if ASM gives in to anti-DEI efforts.
@vscooper.micropopbio.org and @mostlymicrobes.bsky.social while downloading scientist spotlights for teaching from the site; ASM has also scrubbed the entire IDEAA page including resources on LGBTQ+ scientists at asm.org/IDEAA/resources/pride-month
February 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Uggggh, I just want @asm.org to support DEI so I can continue enjoying agar art, is that so wrong?!
This is a really good, understandable article about what the changes in the government could mean.
Trump dismantles healthcare in real-time vajenda.substack.com/p/trump-dism...
Trump Dismantles Healthcare in Real-Time
Science is on hold, and women are bound to suffer
vajenda.substack.com
January 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is a really good, understandable article about what the changes in the government could mean.
Reposted by Erin Lemley
What's unusual about these skeletons?
...They have their penis bones attached. Most male mammals have a bone in their penis, but 19th-century curators rarely put them on display in #museums, presumably to share visitors' blushes. (I.e., they deliberately misinform visitors about animal anatomy)
...They have their penis bones attached. Most male mammals have a bone in their penis, but 19th-century curators rarely put them on display in #museums, presumably to share visitors' blushes. (I.e., they deliberately misinform visitors about animal anatomy)
January 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
What's unusual about these skeletons?
...They have their penis bones attached. Most male mammals have a bone in their penis, but 19th-century curators rarely put them on display in #museums, presumably to share visitors' blushes. (I.e., they deliberately misinform visitors about animal anatomy)
...They have their penis bones attached. Most male mammals have a bone in their penis, but 19th-century curators rarely put them on display in #museums, presumably to share visitors' blushes. (I.e., they deliberately misinform visitors about animal anatomy)
Past me knew that future me was going to need this photo of eagle blood. Great job Stephanie and team on getting published! "Evaluation and treatment of lead toxicosis in rehabilitated avian species." 🧪🔬https://avmajournals.avma.org/view/journals/javma/aop/javma.24.09.0592/javma.24.09.0592.xml
avmajournals.avma.org
January 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Past me knew that future me was going to need this photo of eagle blood. Great job Stephanie and team on getting published! "Evaluation and treatment of lead toxicosis in rehabilitated avian species." 🧪🔬https://avmajournals.avma.org/view/journals/javma/aop/javma.24.09.0592/javma.24.09.0592.xml