Amanda Lytle
@salamanda22.bsky.social
She/Her
i 🖤 bugs, salamanders, evolution, & ecology
MSc Biology
Western NC // Cherokee Land
i 🖤 bugs, salamanders, evolution, & ecology
MSc Biology
Western NC // Cherokee Land
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František Kupka, Mme Kupka among Verticals, 1910-11
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135616
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135616
December 4, 2025 at 5:20 AM
František Kupka, Mme Kupka among Verticals, 1910-11
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135616
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135616
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They grow bacteria on those hairy arms and then lick the bacteria off for a delightful snack, isn't that gross and cool?
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
They grow bacteria on those hairy arms and then lick the bacteria off for a delightful snack, isn't that gross and cool?
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Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment
The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV
www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV
www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
Nearly 21,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students absent from school on Monday, officials say
Officials did not make it clear if the absences were connected to the on-going immigration operation in the city.
www.wbtv.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment
The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV
www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV
www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...
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Apparently it’s #FlyDay or #DrosophilaDay in honour of the day Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly or vinegar fly line w1118 (the first variant with the white eyes) was isolated, so enjoy some drosophila #sciart! This print highlights the model organism with a ring of 5 of the different 🧵🧪
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Apparently it’s #FlyDay or #DrosophilaDay in honour of the day Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly or vinegar fly line w1118 (the first variant with the white eyes) was isolated, so enjoy some drosophila #sciart! This print highlights the model organism with a ring of 5 of the different 🧵🧪
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Jupiter says trans rights
🔭 Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
November 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Jupiter says trans rights
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Messor barbarus & Lasius flavus [2024]
#throwbackthursday
I can't remember if I shared these here? D:
Two commissioned ant illustrations, featuring a queen as well as several worker type ants from two different species.
I used the amazing photos by John Hennequin and Eduard F. Niga for reference!
#throwbackthursday
I can't remember if I shared these here? D:
Two commissioned ant illustrations, featuring a queen as well as several worker type ants from two different species.
I used the amazing photos by John Hennequin and Eduard F. Niga for reference!
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Messor barbarus & Lasius flavus [2024]
#throwbackthursday
I can't remember if I shared these here? D:
Two commissioned ant illustrations, featuring a queen as well as several worker type ants from two different species.
I used the amazing photos by John Hennequin and Eduard F. Niga for reference!
#throwbackthursday
I can't remember if I shared these here? D:
Two commissioned ant illustrations, featuring a queen as well as several worker type ants from two different species.
I used the amazing photos by John Hennequin and Eduard F. Niga for reference!
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You can disagree and argue as much as you like but the point of evaluating something scientifically is that not every statement should be given equal credence because evidence matters
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
You can disagree and argue as much as you like but the point of evaluating something scientifically is that not every statement should be given equal credence because evidence matters
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Uh oh, you scrolled too far, too greedily, too deep: you have encountered a balrog.
November 12, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Uh oh, you scrolled too far, too greedily, too deep: you have encountered a balrog.
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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...
October 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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...
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Even ants are better at public health than Americans. 🧪 www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Some ant architects design a colony to cut the risk of disease. Humans, take note!
One kind of tiny ant can serve as a monumental example for how to keep members of a community safe from pathogens. A new study shows how they do it.
www.npr.org
October 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Even ants are better at public health than Americans. 🧪 www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
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Looking forward to the congressional hearings in which Republicans demand that the president of an Ivy League school resign over this.
I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.
The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.
The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.
October 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Looking forward to the congressional hearings in which Republicans demand that the president of an Ivy League school resign over this.
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Running Moon Wolf Totem 🐺🌙✨
I have a new piece available with Every Day Original ( @everydayoriginal.bsky.social )!
Purchase here:
everydayoriginal.com/product/runn...
#art #SciArt
I have a new piece available with Every Day Original ( @everydayoriginal.bsky.social )!
Purchase here:
everydayoriginal.com/product/runn...
#art #SciArt
October 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Running Moon Wolf Totem 🐺🌙✨
I have a new piece available with Every Day Original ( @everydayoriginal.bsky.social )!
Purchase here:
everydayoriginal.com/product/runn...
#art #SciArt
I have a new piece available with Every Day Original ( @everydayoriginal.bsky.social )!
Purchase here:
everydayoriginal.com/product/runn...
#art #SciArt
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september 30 ... october 1
October 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM
september 30 ... october 1
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“It’s getting out of hand,” one seller says. “They realize the US market is a gold mine.” www.wired.com/story/usda-a...
Government Staffing Cuts Have Fueled an Ant-Smuggling Boom
“It’s getting out of hand,” one seller says. “They realize the US market is a gold mine.”
www.wired.com
August 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
“It’s getting out of hand,” one seller says. “They realize the US market is a gold mine.” www.wired.com/story/usda-a...
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Thom Tillis and Tommy Tuberville sound like characters in a children’s book about a piece of farming equipment and a root vegetable going on a friendship adventure
June 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Thom Tillis and Tommy Tuberville sound like characters in a children’s book about a piece of farming equipment and a root vegetable going on a friendship adventure
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Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
The origin of Bear. Long ago there was a famine period that hit one clan of Cherokee called the
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
The origin of Bear. Long ago there was a famine period that hit one clan of Cherokee called the
June 27, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
The origin of Bear. Long ago there was a famine period that hit one clan of Cherokee called the
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
The origin of Bear. Long ago there was a famine period that hit one clan of Cherokee called the
evolution is FASCINATING
In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it.
Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/40mj1S8
Learn more during #InsectWeek: scim.ag/40mj1S8
Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food
Puppet helps insect trick real termites into feeding it
scim.ag
June 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
evolution is FASCINATING
I love goofy titles for journal articles
June 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I love goofy titles for journal articles
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anyways hope this helps
June 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
anyways hope this helps
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They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
June 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
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With everything LA has gone through in the last few months (and couple of years), let's celebrate the hatching of:
TEN CALIFORNIA CONDORS!!!!!!!!!
Congrats to the team at the Los Angeles Zoo!!!
TEN CALIFORNIA CONDORS!!!!!!!!!
Congrats to the team at the Los Angeles Zoo!!!
June 19, 2025 at 4:49 AM
With everything LA has gone through in the last few months (and couple of years), let's celebrate the hatching of:
TEN CALIFORNIA CONDORS!!!!!!!!!
Congrats to the team at the Los Angeles Zoo!!!
TEN CALIFORNIA CONDORS!!!!!!!!!
Congrats to the team at the Los Angeles Zoo!!!
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Here is a photo of a trans non-binary biologist (me) holding a bird (Eastern Towhee) that is likely a bilateral gynandromorph-- a fusion of cells with female-type chromosomes and cells with male-type chromosomes in one bird!
Biological sex and human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️🏳️⚧️
Biological sex and human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️🏳️⚧️
January 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Here is a photo of a trans non-binary biologist (me) holding a bird (Eastern Towhee) that is likely a bilateral gynandromorph-- a fusion of cells with female-type chromosomes and cells with male-type chromosomes in one bird!
Biological sex and human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️🏳️⚧️
Biological sex and human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️🏳️⚧️
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Out of all small mammals, bats are *especially* poorly suited for these sorts of daft trinkets: long-lived (some species live into their 30s) and slow-breeding, their populations can easily get hammered. Please sign 🦇
Wildlife belongs in the wild, not hung up on walls as decoration.
That's why we're urging Amazon to join Etsy and eBay and stop selling painted woolly bats so their populations can again flourish in the wild — where they belong. Add your voice. ⬇️
That's why we're urging Amazon to join Etsy and eBay and stop selling painted woolly bats so their populations can again flourish in the wild — where they belong. Add your voice. ⬇️
Painted bats belong alive in the wild — not dead on walls.
Tell Amazon to stop selling painted woolly bats so their populations can again flourish in the wild — where they belong.
act.biologicaldiversity.org
June 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Out of all small mammals, bats are *especially* poorly suited for these sorts of daft trinkets: long-lived (some species live into their 30s) and slow-breeding, their populations can easily get hammered. Please sign 🦇