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Christine Beeton
@christinebeeton.bsky.social
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Might be working in the lab, might be staring at birds. Immunologist using venom peptides to target ion channels in chronic autoimmune diseases. Gardening & birding for relaxation. 🇫🇷 & 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸. No politics, no DMs. 🦉🪶🌱📷🧪🐈
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12 weeks of kimchi dietary intervention enhanced antigen presentation and remodeled CD4+ T cells without broad systemic activation, providing single-cell evidence of kimchi-induced dietary immunomodulation in humans
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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My first ever great horned owl photo. Mama and baby.
I did not have the camera I have now but I still love that photo. Spring 2018.

#Birds #Photography #NaturePhotography #Raptors #Owls #Nests #BirdPhotography
Two great horned owls, an adult and a juvenile, sitting side by side in a nest high up in a tree, surrounded by leaves. Mama has her eyes closed and Junior is staring at the camera.
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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The #BirdOfTheDay is a flycatcher with a #Yellow belly building a nest
April 2025, Belize.

#Bird #Photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography
A bird holding something white and fluffy in its beak. It has a bright yellow belly, grey wings, and a black and white head. It is sitting on a small branch
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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SCIENCE!
www.livescience.com/health/medic...
Antibiotic found hiding in plain sight could treat dangerous infections, early study finds
Scientists have discovered a never-before-seen antibiotic that shows promising in treating drug-resistant infections.
www.livescience.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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The #BirdOfTheDay is the bird you have photographed the least often. For me, the #Potoo.
Saw one once very far away, hidden by branches, still got an okay shot, highly cropped.
Costa Rica, April 2023.
A grayish bark-mimic bird sitting at the top of a dead tree it matches in color. Surrounded by many leaves from other trees. The bird has its back to the camera, head turned to the side.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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The platypus’s bill has 40000 electroreceptors and 60000 mechanoreceptors. It senses tiny electric fields and water movements from prey. Sweeping its bill side to side, the platypus finds hidden food underwater, hunting well even in the dark or cloudy water. ⚡🌊

#SciComm 🧪
September 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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A #BirdOfTheDay during #TakeOff.
American white pelican, Southeast Texas, November 10, 2022.

#Pelicans #Birds #Photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography
A white pelican just lifting off the water.
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Happy #Caturday from #Minette!

#Cats #Pets #Photography
A Siamese mix curled up in a fleece blanket, sleeping.
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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A large fleece blanket for a tiny cat. It matches her eyes too.

#Cats #Minette #Pets #Photography
A Siamese mix cat in a blue fleece blanket. Only her head sticks out. A Siamese mix cat in a blue fleece blanket.
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Floating around in Fall colors.
American alligators, Southeast Texas, November 2025.

#Photography #Alligators #Gators #Herps #Reptiles #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #TexasStateParks
A 3-4 ft alligator's head in the water reflecting Fall colors on trees, surrounded by lotus leaves. A 3-4 ft alligator's head in the water, surrounded by brown lotus seed pods.
November 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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After a full day of supervising me, Minette is exhausted and falling out of the blanket.

#Cats #Minette #Pets #Photography
A Siamese mix sleeping on a fleece blanket
November 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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A white ibis just hanging out on a dead tree.
Southeast Texas, November 2025.

#Birds #Ibis #Photography #BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #TexasStateParks #WildlifePhotography
A white ibis standing on its right leg on a dead tree, its left leg just hanging on the side. The bird was not injured at it flew away and landed with both legs on another, longer branch. A white ibis standing on its right leg on a dead tree, its left leg just hanging on the side. The bird was not injured at it flew away and landed with both legs on another, longer branch.
November 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Camouflage at work.
Southeast Texas, November 01, 2025.

#Hawks #Birds #Raptors #BirdsOfPrey #Photography #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #Birding
A red-shouldered hawk sitting on a dead plant, surrounded by plants the same brown color as some of its feathers. A red-shouldered hawk sitting on a dead plant, surrounded by plants the same brown color as some of its feathers. A red-shouldered hawk sitting on a dead plant, surrounded by plants the same brown color as some of its feathers.
November 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Kingbirds.
Southeast Texas, November 01, 2025.

#Birds #Kingbirds #Photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #TexasStateParks #BirdWatching #Birding
A grey bird with a yellow belly sitting at the end of a dead branch in front of a perfectly blue sky. A grey bird with a yellow belly sitting on a branch, surrounded by leaves and berries. A grey bird with a yellow belly sitting on a branch, surrounded by leaves and berries, a berry in its beak.
November 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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While a new, broad-spectrum 'nanobody' antivenom performed impressively in preclinical trials, the real significance is “showing this is possible,” @andreaslaustsen.bsky.social told me. That and more of the best from @science.org and science in #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Synthetic mix of “nanobodies” protected mice from lethal doses of venom from 17 of 18 African snakes—all except the eastern green mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps). CREDIT: Wolfgang Wüster
October 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Minette has a fleece blanket to counter the first cold front of the season in style.

#Cats #Minette #Pets #Photography
A Siamese mix curled up in a fleece blanket that matches her blue eyes
October 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Barred Owl with an autumn backdrop.
#birds #owls #barredowl #wildlife #photography #nature #fallcolours 🪶
A Barred Owl sits on a high perch in a maple stand. The background is a mix of warm fall colours.
October 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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A few smiles to start the new week.

#Photography #Smiles #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Nature #Alligators #Reptiles #Herps #Ducks #Birds #Llamas #ElephantSeals
Portrait of a baby alligator, eyes closed, enjoying the sunshine. A male mallard duck swimming by with its beak open A llama chewing on a large clump of cut grass. An elephant seal looking at the camera, two teeth showing in its open mouth.
October 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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The #BirdOfTheDay is the #Egret. 📷
A great egret holding a very large fish it had just caught. It eventually let the fish go because it was too large to swallow. A snowy egret fishing in flight The great egret was flying by when something caught its attention, making it turn its head in flight Portrait of a great egret in breeding plumage
October 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Don't stand ... don't stand so ... don't stand so close to me."
October 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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California condor range expanding into the Bay Area and Santa Cruz Mountains, further south into Santa Barbara County too. 🪶 www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/20/f...
Following California condors tagged with GPS transmitters, researchers have tracked their expanison in 2025 from the Central Coast to the East Bay and near Santa Barbara. Condor GPS activity in 2025 Sources: Ventana Wildlife Society, heat map provided by Evan McWreath/VWS PAI/BAY AREA NEWS GROUP
October 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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The #Birds Feed’s own @rhapsodysblues.bsky.social will be affected by the stoppage of SNAP benefits in November due to the government shutdown. Please help her out if you can.
rhapsodysblues.bsky.social RB aka Ah Bee's Photography 📸 @rhapsodysblues.bsky.social · 27d
Please, please help. It's confirmed there will not be any SNAP benefits for the month of November. I'm almost out of this month's benefit so things are looking pretty scary. Thanks.🥺❤️🪶
rhapsodysblues.bsky.social RB aka Ah Bee's Photography 📸 @rhapsodysblues.bsky.social · 29d
Sorry to ask for help again but my total amount of SNAP benefits which I'm totally dependent on for food is $250 per month. If you can donate, it would be greatly appreciated. Best way is with a Walmart gift card. Megan.e.rowell@gmail.com. Rhapsodyinblu2@gmail.com for PayPal. Thank you vry much. 🥹❤️🪶
October 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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I didn't leave the house since Friday morning. I had planned to but really didn't feel like it. With everything this week I also didn't post many of the photos I took last weekend.
A cormorant landed just above the nest and then just ignored the threats from below.

#Silhouettes #Cormorants 📷 🪶
A cormorant nest seen in silhouette in the morning sun. An adult and at least one baby in the nest. Another adult landed on a branch above the tree and the nesting adult is unhappy about it. A cormorant nest seen in silhouette in the morning sun. An adult and at least one baby in the nest. Another adult landed on a branch above the tree and the nesting adult and baby are unhappy about it. A cormorant nest seen in silhouette in the morning sun. An adult and at least one baby in the nest. Another adult landed on a branch above the tree and the nesting adult is unhappy about it. A cormorant nest seen in silhouette in the morning sun. An adult and at least one baby in the nest. Another adult landed on a branch above the tree and the nesting adult and baby are unhappy about it.
October 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Today's #BirdoftheDay is #colourful (or #colorful).
Here is a European goldfinch after a bath I took in July 2023.

#Birds #Finches #Photography #NaturePhotography #BirdWatching
A small but colorful bird. Grey belly and chest, black, brown and bright yellow wings, black and grey back of the head, white cheeks, grey cap, crimson in front of the eyes, A very pointy ivory beak.
October 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Today, during our weekly teleconference, my Mom saw her first robin of the season! Here is a photo I took of a robin in her garden in October of 2021.

#Birds #Photography #NaturePhotography #Corsica #France #Robins
A small grey bird with a rust chest and face, and inquisitive black eyes. This one was sitting on the edge of a stone bird bath.
October 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM