Kelly L. O'Donnell 🖖
@drkellyodonnell.bsky.social
Botanist, Ecologist, Science Educator, BioBlitzer, Nature Matchmaker. I like OERs, C*Science, embroidery, and Star Trek.
she/her/hers. opinions my own.
she/her/hers. opinions my own.
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Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science
These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults
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June 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
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Join 'Amazon-Dry July' to takedown their Prime Day profits! tinyurl.com/amazondryjuly
SCOTUS & Congress have bent the knee. Tech billionaires like Bezos keep #MAGAFascists afloat.
Time to flex our People Power like we did with Musk.
@indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social @teslatakedown.com
SCOTUS & Congress have bent the knee. Tech billionaires like Bezos keep #MAGAFascists afloat.
Time to flex our People Power like we did with Musk.
@indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social @teslatakedown.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Join 'Amazon-Dry July' to takedown their Prime Day profits! tinyurl.com/amazondryjuly
SCOTUS & Congress have bent the knee. Tech billionaires like Bezos keep #MAGAFascists afloat.
Time to flex our People Power like we did with Musk.
@indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social @teslatakedown.com
SCOTUS & Congress have bent the knee. Tech billionaires like Bezos keep #MAGAFascists afloat.
Time to flex our People Power like we did with Musk.
@indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social @teslatakedown.com
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Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
www.npr.org
May 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
The observation days are over, but there is one final #NYC #CityNatureChallenge event! Join us tonight for a Virtual ID Party! No taxonomic experience necessary. Everyone can contribute! www.eventbrite.com/e/city-natur...
City Nature Challenge:NYC Virtual ID Party!
Help out with the City Nature Challenge from home! Everyone is welcome, no taxonomic experience necessary.
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April 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The observation days are over, but there is one final #NYC #CityNatureChallenge event! Join us tonight for a Virtual ID Party! No taxonomic experience necessary. Everyone can contribute! www.eventbrite.com/e/city-natur...
April 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Today, changing trains at Jamaica means I get to make my first #citynaturechallenge observations! Two species from the platform! www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#lirr #nyc #cncnyc
#lirr #nyc #cncnyc
Feral Pigeon (Variety Columba livia domestica)
Feral Pigeon from Jamaica, New York, NY, US on April 25, 2025 at 08:18 AM by Kelly L. O'Donnell. My first observation of CNC!
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April 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Today, changing trains at Jamaica means I get to make my first #citynaturechallenge observations! Two species from the platform! www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#lirr #nyc #cncnyc
#lirr #nyc #cncnyc
As always, I’m jealous of you all getting to #CityNatureChallenge first! 💚
And the 2025 #citynaturechallenge is GO!
Through a quirk of geography (and due to it's general awesomeness), Aotearoa-New Zealand is now leading the whole world in the first hour of the City Nature Challenge.
There's four days to go. What can you find in your city?
#nature #inaturalist #nz
Through a quirk of geography (and due to it's general awesomeness), Aotearoa-New Zealand is now leading the whole world in the first hour of the City Nature Challenge.
There's four days to go. What can you find in your city?
#nature #inaturalist #nz
April 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
As always, I’m jealous of you all getting to #CityNatureChallenge first! 💚
It’s almost time! Let’s get outside NYC!
This one’s for the nature nerds and the outdoor-curious among us: City Nature Challenge starts TOMORROW and we want you to participate. Swipe through for an easy guide on how to find, photograph, and upload observations of your local wildlife—all weekend long! 🦌🌿🐟🦅🪻🐌🌈🌳🦆
April 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
It’s almost time! Let’s get outside NYC!
It's #CitizenScienceMonth! I've already done several acts of science over the past few days 😀
#CitizenScienceMonth has BEGUN! 🎉
People around the world are taking part this April to accelerate real research—by sharing observations, logging data, attending events, and more.
Tap to find a project and log Acts of Science during #CitSciMonth for a chance to win prizes! citizensciencemonth.org
People around the world are taking part this April to accelerate real research—by sharing observations, logging data, attending events, and more.
Tap to find a project and log Acts of Science during #CitSciMonth for a chance to win prizes! citizensciencemonth.org
April 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It's #CitizenScienceMonth! I've already done several acts of science over the past few days 😀
Missed the action last night. Devastated for #TeamBesties and the best chance we’ve ever had for a plant champion. 😭😭 #PhotosynthesisPhorever #2025MMM
April 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Missed the action last night. Devastated for #TeamBesties and the best chance we’ve ever had for a plant champion. 😭😭 #PhotosynthesisPhorever #2025MMM
Team Plants got an assist tonight from Team Birds? 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
March 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Team Plants got an assist tonight from Team Birds? 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
Here we go! My champion Ginkgo!
First Up: 1-seed Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) vs. 16-seed Mycorrhizal Fungus (Glomus aggregatum, now Rhizophagus aggregatum) #2025MMM
March 14, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Here we go! My champion Ginkgo!
Living the dream ##2025MMM
In KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Spotted-necked Otter naps, curled into an adorable ball, resting peacefully in a hole between two large tree roots at the base of a tree alongside the river home of his social group. Four other otters snooze elsewhere along the tangled bank. #2025MMM
March 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Living the dream ##2025MMM
For this one, I’m TEAM GERALD! #2025MMM
MUSKRAT is a chunky uniform brown 4 lb (1.8kg) rodent, w/ a large, blunt head, small eyes, & short, rounded ears that barely protrude from the fur. It has partially webbed hind feet. The nearly hairless tail is almost as long as the whole animal. (Willner etal 1980) #2025MMM
March 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
For this one, I’m TEAM GERALD! #2025MMM
This is it, people! The year a PLANT is going to WIN! 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿
MARCH MAMMAL MADNESS BRACKET DROP!!!! #2025MMM
Did you get the combatants you dreamed of?
HAPPY RESEARCHING THE SPECIES!!
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Did you get the combatants you dreamed of?
HAPPY RESEARCHING THE SPECIES!!
libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...
February 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This is it, people! The year a PLANT is going to WIN! 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿
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The plant, formally known as Ovicula biradiata, is especially notable for being the simultaneous discovery of a new species and genus. It was found with help from the community science app iNaturalist. By @jamesdoubek.bsky.social
Meet the 'wooly devil,' a new plant species discovered in Big Bend National Park
The plant, formally known as Ovicula biradiata, is especially notable for being the simultaneous discovery of a new species and genus. It was found with help from the community science app iNaturalist...
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February 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The plant, formally known as Ovicula biradiata, is especially notable for being the simultaneous discovery of a new species and genus. It was found with help from the community science app iNaturalist. By @jamesdoubek.bsky.social
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Happy Darwin Day!
How are human minds adapted for stories about nature? Join NCSE and NABT for a free Darwin Day webinar TOMORROW, 2/12 with the founder of March Mammal Madness, Katie Hinde! nabt.wufoo.com/forms/m1dcb9... @nabtbio.bsky.social @mammalssuck.bsky.social @mmmletsgo.bsky.social #iteachbio #2025MMM
February 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Happy Darwin Day!
Woooooooo!
January 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Woooooooo!
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Detailed article about PRI and the Museum of the Earth's current struggles. If the museum closes it may be the largest collection dispersed/lost in the US (with 7 million specimens it is one of the 10 largest in the US).
⚒️🧪🦑
Please share widely and help if you can!
ithacavoice.org/2025/01/muse...
⚒️🧪🦑
Please share widely and help if you can!
ithacavoice.org/2025/01/muse...
Museum of the Earth faces extinction under “imminent” threat of foreclosure - The Ithaca Voice
ITHACA, N.Y. — The Museum of the Earth, one of the last natural history museums in Upstate New York, faces an imminent threat of foreclosure after a group of donors […]
ithacavoice.org
January 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Detailed article about PRI and the Museum of the Earth's current struggles. If the museum closes it may be the largest collection dispersed/lost in the US (with 7 million specimens it is one of the 10 largest in the US).
⚒️🧪🦑
Please share widely and help if you can!
ithacavoice.org/2025/01/muse...
⚒️🧪🦑
Please share widely and help if you can!
ithacavoice.org/2025/01/muse...
In a few hours, it will be 100 days until the City Nature Challenge starts in NYC! Visit linktr.ee/ctynature_nyc for more info and some things you can do in the meantime!
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January 15, 2025 at 12:48 AM
In a few hours, it will be 100 days until the City Nature Challenge starts in NYC! Visit linktr.ee/ctynature_nyc for more info and some things you can do in the meantime!