Marianne Denton
@mariannedenton.bsky.social
past life of limnology and aquatic ecology |
living a technicolor life in a B&W world |
naturalist • explorer • observer |
defender of democracy |
always a scientist |
living a technicolor life in a B&W world |
naturalist • explorer • observer |
defender of democracy |
always a scientist |
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Welcome new friends and friends I haven’t seen in awhile~
If you’re sharing this BlueSky space with me you’ll be seeing a lot of mountain & desert adventures, the wonders of the cosmos, and lots of invertebrate creatures. 💜💙💚
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If you’re sharing this BlueSky space with me you’ll be seeing a lot of mountain & desert adventures, the wonders of the cosmos, and lots of invertebrate creatures. 💜💙💚
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Hi friends,
Many of you know me, some it’s the first time meeting.
Here’s an introduction from last month when BlueSky has a multitude of new accounts. It’s a decent overview of my social media interactions & goals.
TL;DR: daily natural wonders, always punch a nazi, good faith engagement.
Many of you know me, some it’s the first time meeting.
Here’s an introduction from last month when BlueSky has a multitude of new accounts. It’s a decent overview of my social media interactions & goals.
TL;DR: daily natural wonders, always punch a nazi, good faith engagement.
Rex knows the cozy & warm reason to #LeaveTheLeaves
November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Rex knows the cozy & warm reason to #LeaveTheLeaves
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Falling Man, Gold Butte National Monument
November 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Falling Man, Gold Butte National Monument
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People inevitably ask, "How do you "celebrate" Exploding Whale Day?" when I ask them if they do. Pay it forward. Tell them where to find the video. Describe some highlights. I introduced it to at least a half-dozen people yesterday.
Last night, I shared the holiest of social media days, "Exploding Whale Day," with Husband. He had never seen or heard of it before! 55 years!
What both a comfort & sweet joy that every year we celebrate Exploding Whale Day together! A connection in humor, absurdity and commonality of amazement.
What both a comfort & sweet joy that every year we celebrate Exploding Whale Day together! A connection in humor, absurdity and commonality of amazement.
November 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
People inevitably ask, "How do you "celebrate" Exploding Whale Day?" when I ask them if they do. Pay it forward. Tell them where to find the video. Describe some highlights. I introduced it to at least a half-dozen people yesterday.
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All this #SnailPosting reminded me of the time I gathered up all the empty shells in the garden and did this... 🤷♂️🐌
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
All this #SnailPosting reminded me of the time I gathered up all the empty shells in the garden and did this... 🤷♂️🐌
Y’all
incomplete genitalia ± neurodivergency
|DOES NOT|
create a psychological fascist, racist, genocidal maniac. I’m not defending h*tlr or any other depraved person–past or present.
BUT how & what a person matures into, is more complicated than the tinydick & spaz shit some of y’all are sharing
incomplete genitalia ± neurodivergency
|DOES NOT|
create a psychological fascist, racist, genocidal maniac. I’m not defending h*tlr or any other depraved person–past or present.
BUT how & what a person matures into, is more complicated than the tinydick & spaz shit some of y’all are sharing
November 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Y’all
incomplete genitalia ± neurodivergency
|DOES NOT|
create a psychological fascist, racist, genocidal maniac. I’m not defending h*tlr or any other depraved person–past or present.
BUT how & what a person matures into, is more complicated than the tinydick & spaz shit some of y’all are sharing
incomplete genitalia ± neurodivergency
|DOES NOT|
create a psychological fascist, racist, genocidal maniac. I’m not defending h*tlr or any other depraved person–past or present.
BUT how & what a person matures into, is more complicated than the tinydick & spaz shit some of y’all are sharing
I met a friend on the trail this morning, & was worried about how cold it was going to become.
So I made my friend a leaf lean-to in anticipation of the snow.
So I made my friend a leaf lean-to in anticipation of the snow.
November 13, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I met a friend on the trail this morning, & was worried about how cold it was going to become.
So I made my friend a leaf lean-to in anticipation of the snow.
So I made my friend a leaf lean-to in anticipation of the snow.
Last night, I shared the holiest of social media days, "Exploding Whale Day," with Husband. He had never seen or heard of it before! 55 years!
What both a comfort & sweet joy that every year we celebrate Exploding Whale Day together! A connection in humor, absurdity and commonality of amazement.
What both a comfort & sweet joy that every year we celebrate Exploding Whale Day together! A connection in humor, absurdity and commonality of amazement.
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Last night, I shared the holiest of social media days, "Exploding Whale Day," with Husband. He had never seen or heard of it before! 55 years!
What both a comfort & sweet joy that every year we celebrate Exploding Whale Day together! A connection in humor, absurdity and commonality of amazement.
What both a comfort & sweet joy that every year we celebrate Exploding Whale Day together! A connection in humor, absurdity and commonality of amazement.
#FallBackFlowers May 13
It rained then, and it will rain today.
Anderson's Milkvetch
(Astragalus andersonii)
🌿
It rained then, and it will rain today.
Anderson's Milkvetch
(Astragalus andersonii)
🌿
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
#FallBackFlowers May 13
It rained then, and it will rain today.
Anderson's Milkvetch
(Astragalus andersonii)
🌿
It rained then, and it will rain today.
Anderson's Milkvetch
(Astragalus andersonii)
🌿
Reposted by Marianne Denton
Reposted by Marianne Denton
Most people have an intuitive sense of "genetic determinism" that isn't shared by most geneticists.
Your 'genes' play a part in who you are, but in a chaotic, unpredictable way because of their interactions with each other, your choices & the environment.
Your 'genes' play a part in who you are, but in a chaotic, unpredictable way because of their interactions with each other, your choices & the environment.
Genetic determinism, essentialism and reductionism: semantic clarity for contested science - Nature Reviews Genetics
In this Perspective, Harden reviews the terms genetic determinism, genetic essentialism and genetic reductionism to provide consensus and clarity about the meaning of these terms. She discusses common...
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Most people have an intuitive sense of "genetic determinism" that isn't shared by most geneticists.
Your 'genes' play a part in who you are, but in a chaotic, unpredictable way because of their interactions with each other, your choices & the environment.
Your 'genes' play a part in who you are, but in a chaotic, unpredictable way because of their interactions with each other, your choices & the environment.
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A far more important lesson to learn is that most genetic variation, including the capacity for genius in all domains of human endeavor, is shared across the whole of humanity.
How many Einsteins, Beethovens, Monets have died with their potential unrecognized?
How many Einsteins, Beethovens, Monets have died with their potential unrecognized?
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
- Stephen Jay Gould.
- Stephen Jay Gould.
November 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A far more important lesson to learn is that most genetic variation, including the capacity for genius in all domains of human endeavor, is shared across the whole of humanity.
How many Einsteins, Beethovens, Monets have died with their potential unrecognized?
How many Einsteins, Beethovens, Monets have died with their potential unrecognized?
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Reposted by Marianne Denton
Best shots from last night.
November 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Best shots from last night.
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There’s a storm coming. So you know we’re out here cloud chasing.
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
There’s a storm coming. So you know we’re out here cloud chasing.
November 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Now that migration and work has slowed down. I’m moving back into my photo editing era 💅
Gonna try and commit to pushing out more photos
I have a back log of 349 photos I’ve “liked” which indicate it’s passed my quality check for edits…
Here we go!
Belted Kingfisher con fishhhhh
📷🌿🐟🪶
Gonna try and commit to pushing out more photos
I have a back log of 349 photos I’ve “liked” which indicate it’s passed my quality check for edits…
Here we go!
Belted Kingfisher con fishhhhh
📷🌿🐟🪶
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Now that migration and work has slowed down. I’m moving back into my photo editing era 💅
Gonna try and commit to pushing out more photos
I have a back log of 349 photos I’ve “liked” which indicate it’s passed my quality check for edits…
Here we go!
Belted Kingfisher con fishhhhh
📷🌿🐟🪶
Gonna try and commit to pushing out more photos
I have a back log of 349 photos I’ve “liked” which indicate it’s passed my quality check for edits…
Here we go!
Belted Kingfisher con fishhhhh
📷🌿🐟🪶
Reposted by Marianne Denton
based on the replies and quotes since last night, fine. yes. just giving the people what they want.
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
based on the replies and quotes since last night, fine. yes. just giving the people what they want.
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Love Fulgorids! The butt fireworks are wax lines along which honeydew waste can drip away from the body. They also serve as a defense.
Nog een foto van Borneo - echt een bijzonder, en bijzonder klein, beest, was deze cicade (Auchenorrhyncha), behorend tot de Fulgoroidea. Dat vuurwerk uit zijn "kont" zijn wasdraden waarlangs de honingdauw kan wegdruppelen, maar die natuurlijk ook dienen als afweer/afleiding. #ElkeDagEenInsect
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Love Fulgorids! The butt fireworks are wax lines along which honeydew waste can drip away from the body. They also serve as a defense.
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55 years ago today, the Oregon State Highway Division had a whale of a problem on its hands. How it solved it is the stuff of legends.
In other words: Happy Exploding Whale Day!
In other words: Happy Exploding Whale Day!
The Exploding Whale: An infamous moment in Oregon history creates a strangely beloved icon
YouTube video by KATU News
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
55 years ago today, the Oregon State Highway Division had a whale of a problem on its hands. How it solved it is the stuff of legends.
In other words: Happy Exploding Whale Day!
In other words: Happy Exploding Whale Day!
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A dragonfly! In November?! Yup, it’s called the Autumn Meadowhawk for good reason
#invertebrates 🌿
#invertebrates 🌿
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A dragonfly! In November?! Yup, it’s called the Autumn Meadowhawk for good reason
#invertebrates 🌿
#invertebrates 🌿
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Pulsatilla nuttalliana, our Prairie Pasqueflower, blooming at Meyer Ranch Open Space #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 12 🌿
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 12 🌿
November 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Pulsatilla nuttalliana, our Prairie Pasqueflower, blooming at Meyer Ranch Open Space #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 12 🌿
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 12 🌿
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November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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What you can't see are the small white rabbits that were with me along the shore, all of us quietly watching the eastern sky.
Jupiter rising over Woodruff Narrows Reservoir, Wyoming
Jupiter rising over Woodruff Narrows Reservoir, Wyoming
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
What you can't see are the small white rabbits that were with me along the shore, all of us quietly watching the eastern sky.
Jupiter rising over Woodruff Narrows Reservoir, Wyoming
Jupiter rising over Woodruff Narrows Reservoir, Wyoming
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Your garden can help save the native bees! Even if you only have space for a few pots growing bee friendly flowers matters.
Also check out xerces.org for more information.
Also check out xerces.org for more information.
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Your garden can help save the native bees! Even if you only have space for a few pots growing bee friendly flowers matters.
Also check out xerces.org for more information.
Also check out xerces.org for more information.
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If you’re enjoying the #aurora tonight and want to teach your students about how some of them form check out this lesson I developed along with physicist Jim Schroeder for @scifri.bsky.social .
🍎 🎢⚒️
www.sciencefriday.com/educational-...
🍎 🎢⚒️
www.sciencefriday.com/educational-...
What Causes Some Aurora To Appear In Distinct Lines?
Why do some auroras appear in distinct lines, while others fill the sky with diffuse light? Explore how electrons surf on Alfvén waves.
www.sciencefriday.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
If you’re enjoying the #aurora tonight and want to teach your students about how some of them form check out this lesson I developed along with physicist Jim Schroeder for @scifri.bsky.social .
🍎 🎢⚒️
www.sciencefriday.com/educational-...
🍎 🎢⚒️
www.sciencefriday.com/educational-...