Janet
@outtheother.bsky.social
Tennessee naturalist, moss gardener, and occasional DJ. Information is my love language. She/her.
As we're entering moss appreciation season (it'll be green and glorious all winter) here's another thing to appreciate - moss can survive in space! Spores placed outside the ISS for more than 9 months still germinated when they were brought back to earth. Moss is magic. ✨
Move over, tardigrades, there's another life-form that can survive in space 🧪
(by @andreatamayo.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social)
(by @andreatamayo.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social)
Meet the Weird and Wonderful Life-forms That Can Survive in Space
The moss Physcomitrium patens joins tardigrades and thale-cress as a species that has survived in space
www.scientificamerican.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
As we're entering moss appreciation season (it'll be green and glorious all winter) here's another thing to appreciate - moss can survive in space! Spores placed outside the ISS for more than 9 months still germinated when they were brought back to earth. Moss is magic. ✨
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November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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I used to retweet this periodically at The Bad Place because it's the perfect timeline cleanse. Now here. You're welcome.
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Hanging bats filmed upside-down look like a Goth nightclub
YouTube video by Viral Reddit
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February 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I used to retweet this periodically at The Bad Place because it's the perfect timeline cleanse. Now here. You're welcome.
youtu.be/bS6KWNB5NEo?...
youtu.be/bS6KWNB5NEo?...
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Wow. Excellent writeup on the white-tailed deer's fascinating digestive tract, and a solid scientific basis for why you shouldn't feed them - a carb-rich pile of corn can be so disruptive to their systems in the winter that it can actually kill a deer within 72 hours.
It's that time of year! The time when deer guts start to undergo a magical transformation!
(Also the time of year many well-intentioned people accidentally mess the whole thing up, leading to dead deer!)
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jasonbittel.substack.com/p/the-deer-t...
(Also the time of year many well-intentioned people accidentally mess the whole thing up, leading to dead deer!)
🧪
jasonbittel.substack.com/p/the-deer-t...
The Deer, They Are A-Changin'
Something magical is happening in your backyard.
jasonbittel.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Wow. Excellent writeup on the white-tailed deer's fascinating digestive tract, and a solid scientific basis for why you shouldn't feed them - a carb-rich pile of corn can be so disruptive to their systems in the winter that it can actually kill a deer within 72 hours.
Last summer we went to DC to see Justice at a 6k person venue and had our minds blown by the best light show we’ve ever seen, and I walked out wondering how on earth all those lights could make for a profitable tour.
November 15, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Last summer we went to DC to see Justice at a 6k person venue and had our minds blown by the best light show we’ve ever seen, and I walked out wondering how on earth all those lights could make for a profitable tour.
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🦞 attn tennessee folks 👇🏻
Are you planning on removing any pesky invasive species this month? Be sure to snap a photograph and get a free native plant seedling from the TN-IPC! Yay native plants! 🌳
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
🦞 attn tennessee folks 👇🏻
Essential piece of history in my home town
November 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Essential piece of history in my home town
Okay just checked and I had the “rude” filter on by default! If this is the filtered version of y’all’s rudeness I’m dying to know what kind of quality snark I’ve been missing
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Okay just checked and I had the “rude” filter on by default! If this is the filtered version of y’all’s rudeness I’m dying to know what kind of quality snark I’ve been missing
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We’re further away from The Rolling Stones recording “Sympathy for the Devil” than they were from the murders of the Romanovs when they recorded it
November 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
We’re further away from The Rolling Stones recording “Sympathy for the Devil” than they were from the murders of the Romanovs when they recorded it
Happy Halloween!!! Surely this is the spooky equivalent of the Tom Holland umbrella video
KXVO Pumpkin Dance ORIGINAL
YouTube video by саша иванов
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October 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Happy Halloween!!! Surely this is the spooky equivalent of the Tom Holland umbrella video
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My goodness. Please don’t send in ghosts. They are very frightening. We only rate dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: theodore.goldenvelt)
October 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
My goodness. Please don’t send in ghosts. They are very frightening. We only rate dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (IG: theodore.goldenvelt)
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Belted Kingfisher Beating a Fish!
YouTube video by Get To Know Nature
m.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre
October 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre
I would buy and fix up all the abandoned amusement parks
lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful
what would you buy to break the curse?
what would you buy to break the curse?
October 15, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I would buy and fix up all the abandoned amusement parks
Extremely good and the elephant is my favorite
October 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Extremely good and the elephant is my favorite
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
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This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society
September 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.
These commercials are driving me insane every single one feels like watching an adult man pretending to be hard while basically saying “I’m daddy’s little boy!! Look at me daddy!!!!”
Heavily Democratic Nashville was gerrymandered to elect Republicans to Congress. So as Trump is at -15 nationally, we get GOP primary guys out-culting one another. One calls himself "the conservative warrior Trump needs." (Not Tennessee, or Nashville!) Another promises to serve Trump. Crazy shit.
September 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
These commercials are driving me insane every single one feels like watching an adult man pretending to be hard while basically saying “I’m daddy’s little boy!! Look at me daddy!!!!”
I was completely convinced today was the last day of the month so I cranked on some work over the weekend to meet today’s deadline only to realize at approximately 11:45pm last night that it’s Tuesday, in fact, that’s the 30th. Does that mean I can just stay in bed today?
September 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I was completely convinced today was the last day of the month so I cranked on some work over the weekend to meet today’s deadline only to realize at approximately 11:45pm last night that it’s Tuesday, in fact, that’s the 30th. Does that mean I can just stay in bed today?
Headed to a state forest today to take a five hour class on advanced forest dynamics with the former state forester 🌲🌳🤗🌳🌲
September 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Headed to a state forest today to take a five hour class on advanced forest dynamics with the former state forester 🌲🌳🤗🌳🌲
Porcupine in a jacket alert
I've been obsessed with old clothing catalogs for decades and used to buy stacks of them off eBay. Recently, I interviewed the co-founders of one of the most amazing catalog collections in the world, The Outdoor Recreation Archive at Utah State University. I mean, look at this stuff:
September 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Porcupine in a jacket alert
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Well, it is the first day of Autumn. 😂
September 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Well, it is the first day of Autumn. 😂
This is by far the best trail review I have ever seen on @alltrails.bsky.social 🍄
September 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is by far the best trail review I have ever seen on @alltrails.bsky.social 🍄