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Aren Alidaee
@arenalidaee.bsky.social
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Postbac Jr Specialist at the Silverman Lab, currently studying autism in rodent models | Evolutionary geneticist interested in the evolutionary origin of social behavior, end goal PhD | Loves snakes, birds, and invertebrates | He/him
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kztwyman.bsky.social
Really happy to share this article I'm grateful to have been a part of: 'Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience' coauthored with @kevinlala.bsky.social, @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social and Marcus Feldman. Check out a preprint here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#ScientificRacism #Antiracism
July 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
arenalidaee.bsky.social
I need to remember to use this instead of my fandom account more
July 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
arenalidaee.bsky.social
When the het animals are preforming the assay better than the wildtypes (they should be doing worse)
A drawing of an emoji with a cigarette. The eyes have bags under them and are disproportionate in size, giving the impression of frazzled exhaustion.
March 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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owldaily.bsky.social
The sky is my runway, and I own it. 🚀🦉

📸 johnnyyonkers
March 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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owldaily.bsky.social
Two Northern Hawk Owls sharing a meal.

#Photography by sergiushannan
#Owl
March 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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phylogenomics.bsky.social
Otters at @ucdavis.bsky.social yesterday
March 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Autumn Macros
Wooly bear caterpillar painting on yellow leaves Black jumping spider painting on red leaves
July 3, 2023 at 12:16 AM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Contrary to popular belief, there are only four kinds of bats.
Illustrated image divided into four panels, each showing a head of a bat with a text label. Top left: little guy, a regular looking back with a dark face and light colored fur, top right: little guy deluxe, a bat with a mask and large ears alongside a bat with a leaf shaped nose, bottom left: what is even going on here, a visored bat with a large forehead next to a bat with a large, wrinkly nose, bottom right: o hi doggie, a fruit bat with its tongue sticking out.
November 21, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Average mammal
A wooly chafer beetle depicted lying on its side. Unusually for a beetle, it has teats and is nursing three grubs.
November 24, 2024 at 1:53 AM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
An oldie from Inktober 2018: trilobyte
Three panel black and white comic. Panel 1. A smiling eel-like primitive fish shows off it's new iPhone in front of it to two trilobites. Fish dialogue: check out my new phone! It's got 16 gigabytes it can hold! Trilobite dialogue: oh yeah? How many trilobites can it hold? Panel 2: the fish looks on, concerned, as the two trilobites crawl onto the phone and others join. Panel 3: the fish looks upset, its phone is buried in several trilobites. Fish dialogue: please stop
November 26, 2024 at 2:19 AM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Utah's most special guy, the Coral Pink Sand Dunes tiger beetle, only occupies a 1800m x 300m area in the state park of the same name. This guy is NOT going places!
A realistic tiger beetle illustration against a beige canvas texture background. The beetle has a mostly white abdomen with a brown stripe down the middle, its thorax and head are iridescent green. It has large, jagged mandibles and fairly thin long legs, as well as fur on its underside. Text: Utah's most special guy.
November 27, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
The dead don't always die
A black and white image depicting a skinny wide-eyed hair nibbling on a patch of flowers. Below it, engulphed in dark soil, is a mirror image of a hair skeleton. The roots of the plant tangle around its jaws.
December 2, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
OPABINIA ENCOUNTER
December 3, 2024 at 7:16 AM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Commission for a friend. Merry Quailsmas! (The scorpion is named Sandy Claws btw)
A smiling chubby cartoon quail sits in an ornately decorated Christmas sweater wearing a little Santa Claus hat. He is holding a mug and some worms striped to look like candy canes. In front of him are a cactus with a bow and a scorpion wearing a festive hat.
December 24, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
The people have spoken, heres more wheelbug
An anatomically realistic wheel bug on a penny wheel bike. The bug has prominent wheel shaped spines on it's back and a little bowler hat.
December 30, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Just found out there's a group on Inaturalist, "Observational Comedy" dedicated to showing only the silliest observations
A screenshot of inaturalist, a citizen science app with text describing the common and scientific name of the observation. The image features a newt with an orange belly poking its head out of the water, mouth open and with a splayed pose that makes it look like its humorously gasping for air. A screenshot of inaturalist, a citizen science app with text describing the common and scientific name of the observation. The image features two desert ironclad beetles, a species with a rough gray shell, lounging on a small toy chair with a shotglass of beer placed beside them. A screenshot of inaturalist, a citizen science app with text describing the common and scientific name of the observation. The image features a medium sized dark gray bird with a long bill called a Great Cormorant in the midst of defecating. A screenshot of inaturalist, a citizen science app with text describing the common and scientific name of the observation. The image features a common raccoon at night clinging to a birdfeeder upside down. It is looking at the camera as if the viewer just caught it off-guard.
January 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Cedar waxwing 🍒
January 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
pod-o-meter
Title text: sliding scale of isopod roundness/behavior. Lower image: Round isopod with angel wings and a halo labeled "innocent cinnamon roll-y poly" on the left end of a sliding scale, followed by two somewhat round isopods, and a very flat pointy isopod with a devil's pitchfork labeled "flat freak friday" to the right.
January 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found
Photo of a small crab from NOAA’s social media. It’s covered in spikes
January 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Sippin isopod
A white, semitransparent isopod with a bright purple drink. The purple drink is partially visible though the isopod's body as it consumes it. It is surrounded by mosses and lichen.
January 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Isopod Culture
Five isopods on an old, lichen-covered log. Caption reads: Isopod culture. An isopod in sunglasses skateboards down a log cut to look like a ramp. A crowd of isopods wearing sunglasses and caps cheer it on. Caption: isopod counterculture.
January 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Hooked on bugs
A pill bottle tipped over with its lid off, letting its contents, live isopods, spill out. Some are fully curled while others crawl around. Text: I've got a pill problem.
January 27, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Hardworking single mother of 4-8 kids
An illustration of an anthropomorphic mouse woman and her offspring. Upper left she is in a hospital gown with frizzy unkempt hair, holding her five pink hairless newborns in her arms. Lower right her children have open eyes and thin fur, her arms are full with three of them while the other two crawl and tumble around her feet.
January 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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bedupolker.bsky.social
Rhino beetle oil painting from a while back. I need to do more oil painting...
A close up painting of a rhino beetle, a large shiny black beetle with a powerful horn, illuminated from the back. It is crawling over a craggy piece of bark with a hazy forest behind it.
January 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Fiery-throated Hummingbird, Costa Rica.

#birds #hummingbirds #nature
A dazzling bird with iridescent green, blue, and gold plumage perches on a delicate branch adorned with soft lichen. Its feathers shimmer in the light, displaying an intricate mosaic of colors.
February 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM