Alison Young
@alisonkestrel.bsky.social
Community science | Biodiversity | Intertidal ecology | Pottery | Nudibranchs!
Director of Outreach Programs at iNaturalist
I spend lots of time in the tidepools, love marine inverts and wildflowers, and probably have clay on me somewhere.
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Director of Outreach Programs at iNaturalist
I spend lots of time in the tidepools, love marine inverts and wildflowers, and probably have clay on me somewhere.
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Baby sunflower star, Pycnopodia helianthoides. My first time seeing live ones in the wild since 2013! 🤩😍
July 11, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Baby sunflower star, Pycnopodia helianthoides. My first time seeing live ones in the wild since 2013! 🤩😍
Spent some time in Bermuda last week with my face in the water. It was pretty lovely, lots of #corals and #seahares and #fishes and even a #nudibranch.
June 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Spent some time in Bermuda last week with my face in the water. It was pretty lovely, lots of #corals and #seahares and #fishes and even a #nudibranch.
More #nudibranchs from Monday's #tidepool trip. 🤩
May 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
More #nudibranchs from Monday's #tidepool trip. 🤩
Great low tides this week — get out to the #tidepools if you can! Got up early yesterday to find these #nudibranch gems.
April 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Great low tides this week — get out to the #tidepools if you can! Got up early yesterday to find these #nudibranch gems.
Spent a couple morning low tides this week in the #tidepools near Morro Bay. Saw some fun stuff, like #nudibranchs, including the tiniest Hopkins' Rose I've ever seen!
April 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Spent a couple morning low tides this week in the #tidepools near Morro Bay. Saw some fun stuff, like #nudibranchs, including the tiniest Hopkins' Rose I've ever seen!
Lots of sparkly Branched Dendronotid #nudibranchs (Dendronotus venustus) hanging out on the docks in Morro Bay today.
March 31, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Lots of sparkly Branched Dendronotid #nudibranchs (Dendronotus venustus) hanging out on the docks in Morro Bay today.
Reposted by Alison Young
The latest update to our free and fun Seek by iNaturalist app adds more than 60k species to its image recognition model!
It will now also use your location to provide more accurate IDs!
www.inaturalist.org/seek
It will now also use your location to provide more accurate IDs!
www.inaturalist.org/seek
March 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The latest update to our free and fun Seek by iNaturalist app adds more than 60k species to its image recognition model!
It will now also use your location to provide more accurate IDs!
www.inaturalist.org/seek
It will now also use your location to provide more accurate IDs!
www.inaturalist.org/seek
Just tryna live my best #lowtidelife, getting out to the #tidepools when I can! Yesterday was big surf & a mediocre low tide, but still managed to find a good group of #nudibranchs & thoroughly enjoyed myself.
March 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Just tryna live my best #lowtidelife, getting out to the #tidepools when I can! Yesterday was big surf & a mediocre low tide, but still managed to find a good group of #nudibranchs & thoroughly enjoyed myself.
March 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Just an #octopus doing octopus things in the #tidepools.
March 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Just an #octopus doing octopus things in the #tidepools.
Reposted by Alison Young
🎉 Celebrating 100,000 Modeled Taxa in the iNaturalist Open Range Map Dataset!
To mark this milestone, we're making model-generated distribution data even more accessible. Explore, analyze, and use this data to power biodiversity research! 🌍🔍
www.inaturalist.org/posts/106918
To mark this milestone, we're making model-generated distribution data even more accessible. Explore, analyze, and use this data to power biodiversity research! 🌍🔍
www.inaturalist.org/posts/106918
Celebrating 100,000 Modeled Taxa with the iNaturalist Open Range Map Dataset
A Major Milestone for Biodiversity Mapping We passed a major milestone with today’s update to iNaturalist’s Computer Vision and Geomodel—100,000 modeled taxa! To mark this achievement, we’re excited t...
www.inaturalist.org
February 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
🎉 Celebrating 100,000 Modeled Taxa in the iNaturalist Open Range Map Dataset!
To mark this milestone, we're making model-generated distribution data even more accessible. Explore, analyze, and use this data to power biodiversity research! 🌍🔍
www.inaturalist.org/posts/106918
To mark this milestone, we're making model-generated distribution data even more accessible. Explore, analyze, and use this data to power biodiversity research! 🌍🔍
www.inaturalist.org/posts/106918
February 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Hey hey, @inaturalist.bsky.social is up & running!
Our Observation of the Day is this colorful bedwed Ornate Cow Tick (Dermacentor reticulatus), seen in Belarus by shapomacro!
More details at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
More details at: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
February 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Hey hey, @inaturalist.bsky.social is up & running!
Okay but hear me out: intertidal snails have the cutest faces. #tidepools #snails
February 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Okay but hear me out: intertidal snails have the cutest faces. #tidepools #snails
One of my fun finds from the weekend in the #tidepools was this baby Giant California Sea Cucumber! I've only ever found them farther north and have only ever seen them full-grown, so it was an unexpected sighting.
February 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
One of my fun finds from the weekend in the #tidepools was this baby Giant California Sea Cucumber! I've only ever found them farther north and have only ever seen them full-grown, so it was an unexpected sighting.
Spent both days this weekend in the #tidepools at a couple of my favorite sites. Things felt a bit churned up from the recent storms, but still spotted many cool creatures, including many #nudibranchs. Here are a few of them.
February 11, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Spent both days this weekend in the #tidepools at a couple of my favorite sites. Things felt a bit churned up from the recent storms, but still spotted many cool creatures, including many #nudibranchs. Here are a few of them.
Today was #FatInnkeeperWorm day! Searching the mud flats of Bodega Bay for these worms and other interesting bay creatures.
February 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Today was #FatInnkeeperWorm day! Searching the mud flats of Bodega Bay for these worms and other interesting bay creatures.
My favorite souvenir from #COP16 in Cali, Colombia. Now more pertinent than ever. Print from La Linterna: lalinternacali.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
My favorite souvenir from #COP16 in Cali, Colombia. Now more pertinent than ever. Print from La Linterna: lalinternacali.com
'Tis the season for California Fetid Adderstongue flowers! Took a little iNaturalist staff field trip to say hi to these stinky yet beautiful blooms. #fetidadderstongue #inaturalist
February 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
'Tis the season for California Fetid Adderstongue flowers! Took a little iNaturalist staff field trip to say hi to these stinky yet beautiful blooms. #fetidadderstongue #inaturalist
Happy Lunar New Year! For the Year of the Snake, here's one of my favorite #snake friends, the Sharp-tailed Snake. They eat slugs so they like hanging out in my backyard & garden. #lunarnewyear #yearofthesnake
January 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Happy Lunar New Year! For the Year of the Snake, here's one of my favorite #snake friends, the Sharp-tailed Snake. They eat slugs so they like hanging out in my backyard & garden. #lunarnewyear #yearofthesnake
Not us waiting patiently for a Virginia Rail to emerge from the reeds while we were watching Sandhill Cranes... only to have our only glimpse be in the grasp of this Barn Owl. 😂
January 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Not us waiting patiently for a Virginia Rail to emerge from the reeds while we were watching Sandhill Cranes... only to have our only glimpse be in the grasp of this Barn Owl. 😂
The cacophony of a thousand Sandhill Cranes flying in at sunset.
January 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The cacophony of a thousand Sandhill Cranes flying in at sunset.
Eight years ago today...
January 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Eight years ago today...