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Brie Ilarde
@gacatail.bsky.social
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she | PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota | Natural history museums, evolutionary biology, mammals | Patron of the arts, but like, webcomics and colorful illustrations of animals
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

I don't often save memes but my friend's wedding brilliantly had a scrapbook station instead of a guestbook and that is fertile ground for meme vibes
Square scrapbook page. In the center is a Polaroid selfie of me looking bewilderedly down at the camera. On top of and surrounding the Polaroid are six old field guide illustrations of birds with their mouths open and pointed at me. At the top of the page are word stickers arranged to read "I be eat by turkeys but I like the joy of they full". Other side of the scrapbook page, with words and pictures cut out of magazines to read Recent PhD? How can academia engage in honest conversation about canaries? (Photo of an outstretched human arm with two snakes wrapped around it) Extending ketamine's Pseudogap Towards a Cambrian mollusk to help all humankind? (Old field guide illustration of a chipping sparrow feeding nestlings)
November 17, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Mammal Meeting time
Welcomed by a big, brown beast
At Kankakee Sands

#ASMPurdue
Photo of a bison in the middle of a prairie, magnified through binoculars
June 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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whoa sick homestuck reference
May 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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😠 <-The face I made when I was just trying to look up pictures of a rodent I'd never heard of
Image search results showing several pictures of the packaging of what appears to be a Brazilian fiber supplement called Neofiber. A single image is of the jawbone of the round-tailed muskrat Neofiber alleni.
May 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Reminds me of this enterprising individual I saw the other day. I… I don't think you built that.
Photo of a very large bird nest, perhaps an eagle's, in a tree, with a bird's head looking tiny just poking out of the top The same photo, cropped and zoomed in to reveal that the bird in the nest is a Canada goose
April 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Date yourself with toys that were newly available when you played with them
Patti the Platypus Teeny Beanie, the smaller McDonald's Happy Meal toy version of a Beanie Baby. A magenta-purple platypus with yellow bill and feet and beady black eyes.
April 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Did you know that the Freshwater Sunfish, also known as the Spotted Gar, can breathe air using its labyrinth organ, making it one of the few fish that can survive in oxygen-poor water! 🐟🌿🔍
The photo from the post that this one is in reply to, a bowfin with naturally, strikingly green fins and belly, as opposed to the garishly multicolored, AI–generated image of a fish from the post I copied this post's text from
January 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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"Leaf Litter Delight" by Susan Feigenbaum
Sculpture of a simply shaped dark-eyed junco in the middle of whimsical leaves of different colors and patterns, on a flat, white, cloud-shaped piece. This piece, more colorful leaves, and painted twigs all sit on a rectangular base painted with smudges of reddish brown, orange, and olive green.
January 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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When life gives you Babybel, you make wax Anomalocaris
Photo of a small, simplified Anomalocaris made of red wax
December 14, 2024 at 2:18 AM
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Everyone was leaving that other site so I asked the local turkey gang where they were headed and they were like, "Bluesky's fine I guess," so now I'm here but where did the turkeys go
A line of wild turkeys walking along a neighborhood street lined with autumn leaves. And turkeys.
November 15, 2024 at 3:48 AM