Professor Goose
@thundergoose.bsky.social
Magpie mind interested in all things biology and anything else that catches my attention. Clumsy ally. She/they
Pinned
I’m (trying) to take a break from The Horrors so I’m not going to be around much for an unknown amount of time. If someone could End The Horrors I’d appreciate it.
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The world feels rough right now
So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery.
🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta
So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery.
🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta
January 8, 2026 at 8:20 PM
The world feels rough right now
So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery.
🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta
So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery.
🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta
It’s Kakapo breeding season! These weird little flightless parrots are critically endangered. Here’s hoping for a good breeding season.
PS follow Andrew Digby for more Kakapo in your timeline
PS follow Andrew Digby for more Kakapo in your timeline
Yesterday we started #kakapo artificial insemination for the season. We do this to help maintain genetic diversity, with a potential additional benefit of improving fertility. We inseminated Esperance, who mated naturally a few nights ago. #conservation #parrots #birds
January 8, 2026 at 7:35 PM
It’s Kakapo breeding season! These weird little flightless parrots are critically endangered. Here’s hoping for a good breeding season.
PS follow Andrew Digby for more Kakapo in your timeline
PS follow Andrew Digby for more Kakapo in your timeline
This is what billionaires should be doing
Eric and Wendy Schmidt will fund the construction of a large exoplanet-hunting space telescope and three highly ambitious ground arrays by 2030. This is the most exciting astronomy news I've heard in my lifetime. www.science.org/content/arti...
Ex–Google CEO funds private space telescope bigger than Hubble
Schmidt Sciences announces investments in orbiting observatory and three ground-based instruments
www.science.org
January 8, 2026 at 7:03 PM
This is what billionaires should be doing
If you’re not following this account it posts lots of good bunny content. Looks like these bunnies have great lives.
January 8, 2026 at 5:27 PM
If you’re not following this account it posts lots of good bunny content. Looks like these bunnies have great lives.
I think I’ll stay inside, thanks. Watch the video.
Dadgum it.
Where’s my MOOSE peep! I can’t find her @ .
She wasn’t kidding. Look at the size of this bull.
Where’s my MOOSE peep! I can’t find her @ .
She wasn’t kidding. Look at the size of this bull.
January 8, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I think I’ll stay inside, thanks. Watch the video.
I’m number 2. I haven’t had my coffee yet.
This January’s return to routine has the animals in our architecture feeling all sorts of ways… 🫣
Which of these singular statues feel like looking in a mirror to you? Let us know! 🪞
Which of these singular statues feel like looking in a mirror to you? Let us know! 🪞
January 8, 2026 at 3:19 PM
I’m number 2. I haven’t had my coffee yet.
A natural phenomenon I’d love to sea. A 🧵
If you visit the Maldives, located at an intersection of seas in the Indian Ocean, you might witness the SEA OF STARS.
A glittering spectacle made of microscopic organisms generating their own light, mirroring the twinkling of stars above.
Let's talk about it.
A glittering spectacle made of microscopic organisms generating their own light, mirroring the twinkling of stars above.
Let's talk about it.
January 8, 2026 at 3:10 PM
A natural phenomenon I’d love to sea. A 🧵
A love story to cleanse your timeline. Part 2 and 3 are in the thread
Ok here's the gay birds comic, part 1/3
Part 2 on the comments
Part 2 on the comments
January 8, 2026 at 3:05 PM
A love story to cleanse your timeline. Part 2 and 3 are in the thread
I feel like a hummingbird lately. Always angry and eating a lot of sugar.
January 8, 2026 at 12:56 AM
I feel like a hummingbird lately. Always angry and eating a lot of sugar.
Follow Jack Ashby for more wombats! We all need more wombats in our timelines.
Happy New #Wombat. It's the first #WombatWednesday of the year - the traditional time to announce the winners of the wombatting world's most prestigious prize:
IT'S #WombatWednesday's WOMBAT OF THE YEAR 2025!
In Third Place, it's this waddling wonder 🥉:
bsky.app/profile/jack...
IT'S #WombatWednesday's WOMBAT OF THE YEAR 2025!
In Third Place, it's this waddling wonder 🥉:
bsky.app/profile/jack...
A sun-bathed #wombat waddles into the wilderness.
#WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombats
#WombatWednesday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombats
January 7, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Follow Jack Ashby for more wombats! We all need more wombats in our timelines.
This is really cool! An organism that is best known from 500 million years ago traces is still alive in the Pacific Ocean and still unidentified!
Just say no to deep sea mining!
Just say no to deep sea mining!
This is one of the wildest deep-sea mining stories to me.
Paleodictyon is a 500-million-year-old trace fossil from an unknown organism. In the last 50 years, we've found their honeycomb traces on the seafloor. There is a living organism that has been doing its thing for half a billion years.
Paleodictyon is a 500-million-year-old trace fossil from an unknown organism. In the last 50 years, we've found their honeycomb traces on the seafloor. There is a living organism that has been doing its thing for half a billion years.
Recovery of Paleodictyon patterns after simulated mining activity on Pacific nodule fields - Marine Biodiversity
Since the late 1980s, various experiments have been conducted in polymetallic nodule fields of the Pacific Ocean to assess the potential environmental impacts of future mining, specifically in two are...
link.springer.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:32 PM
This is really cool! An organism that is best known from 500 million years ago traces is still alive in the Pacific Ocean and still unidentified!
Just say no to deep sea mining!
Just say no to deep sea mining!
Save this! Vaccines save lives and even adults need to get them (especially as we get older)
Here's the adult vaccination recommendations as of Nov 2024. Why did I save these? Because I knew someone was going to try to stomp on this, and not today, Satan. Not today. #CDC #vax #vaccines #getvaxxed
January 6, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Save this! Vaccines save lives and even adults need to get them (especially as we get older)
Good news. More of this, please.
California’s CalRx continues to find ways to ensure lower prices for critical pharmaceuticals for its people, leveraging the market power of the state.
First insulin, now naloxone. Smart and patient-centric moves by Gov Newsom and his team.
@governor.ca.gov @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov
First insulin, now naloxone. Smart and patient-centric moves by Gov Newsom and his team.
@governor.ca.gov @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov
January 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Good news. More of this, please.
Love Girl Scout cookies? Don’t have a Girl Scout in your family or neighborhood? Here’s a list of scouts to buy from.
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Love Girl Scout cookies? Don’t have a Girl Scout in your family or neighborhood? Here’s a list of scouts to buy from.
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If your resolution this year is to support more independent bookstores, hi!👋🏽
We’re Bookshop.org, an ethical alternative to Amazon for buying books online where every purchase supports indie bookstores all over the U.S. 😌📚
(And our CEO has never gone to space, just saying)
We’re Bookshop.org, an ethical alternative to Amazon for buying books online where every purchase supports indie bookstores all over the U.S. 😌📚
(And our CEO has never gone to space, just saying)
January 6, 2026 at 4:19 PM
If your resolution this year is to support more independent bookstores, hi!👋🏽
We’re Bookshop.org, an ethical alternative to Amazon for buying books online where every purchase supports indie bookstores all over the U.S. 😌📚
(And our CEO has never gone to space, just saying)
We’re Bookshop.org, an ethical alternative to Amazon for buying books online where every purchase supports indie bookstores all over the U.S. 😌📚
(And our CEO has never gone to space, just saying)
Cleansing the timeline and inspiring all to be like the capybara
I need a mood booster, let's talk about capybaras.
Here's a capy demonstrating one of MANY ways they can move through the water: running along the bottom.
They're 'semi-aquatic' mammals, just like hippos, seals & beavers. They LOVE water.
(📷: Fernando Maidana)
Here's a capy demonstrating one of MANY ways they can move through the water: running along the bottom.
They're 'semi-aquatic' mammals, just like hippos, seals & beavers. They LOVE water.
(📷: Fernando Maidana)
January 6, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Cleansing the timeline and inspiring all to be like the capybara
More timeline cleanse… this time it’s doves.
I PROMISE this bird is completely uninjured.
It's a Luzon Bleeding-Heart (Gallicolumba luzonica), a type of ground-dwelling dove native to the Philippine Islands.
The red spot has led to this group being known as the "bleeding hearts" or 'paloma de punalada' = "stabbed pigeon."
(📷: Kao-Tai)
It's a Luzon Bleeding-Heart (Gallicolumba luzonica), a type of ground-dwelling dove native to the Philippine Islands.
The red spot has led to this group being known as the "bleeding hearts" or 'paloma de punalada' = "stabbed pigeon."
(📷: Kao-Tai)
January 6, 2026 at 3:35 PM
More timeline cleanse… this time it’s doves.
Awesome thread for #internationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay
Hey Bluesky, send us your best ducks
(Happy #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay to all who celebrate)
(Happy #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay to all who celebrate)
January 6, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Awesome thread for #internationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay
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Beep is checking in to make sure you’re not doom scrolling
January 6, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Beep is checking in to make sure you’re not doom scrolling
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I'm on my fifth or sixth Pixel and was an early adopter of Google Fi. Lacking any better information, I contacted Google Fi support and actually got a response on how to stop Gemini popups from taking over my Pixel 9 Pro screen.
Yes, I threatened to switch to iPhone.
Full instructions in alt
Yes, I threatened to switch to iPhone.
Full instructions in alt
January 6, 2026 at 3:06 PM
I'm on my fifth or sixth Pixel and was an early adopter of Google Fi. Lacking any better information, I contacted Google Fi support and actually got a response on how to stop Gemini popups from taking over my Pixel 9 Pro screen.
Yes, I threatened to switch to iPhone.
Full instructions in alt
Yes, I threatened to switch to iPhone.
Full instructions in alt
Check out this photographer for more Cassowaries!
January 6, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Check out this photographer for more Cassowaries!
Squeeeee!
January 6, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Squeeeee!
Great blue heron is judging you.
January 6, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Great blue heron is judging you.
Animals behaving in ways they wouldn’t in real life. An animal chasing or attacking a person out of the blue, horses running out of a burning barn, bald eagles imitating red tailed hawk calls…
#FilmSky, a quick question; what is the pettiest thing you have had to be annoyed at a film? I ask because I am watching The Gift from 2000, and the main character does divination with Zener Cards, which are not the same thing as Tarot at all. Why go for a more boring looking option?
January 5, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Animals behaving in ways they wouldn’t in real life. An animal chasing or attacking a person out of the blue, horses running out of a burning barn, bald eagles imitating red tailed hawk calls…
We need more heroes like this
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference | TechCrunch
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
techcrunch.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:34 PM
We need more heroes like this