Liz Renner, Ph.D.
@lizrenner.bsky.social
🐟 Freshwater fish biologist. 🔬Postdoc @unl-snr.bsky.social post-DOGE. 🧠 IIH survivor, 🏳️🌈 queer poet, 📖 avid reader, quilter, and 🎣 outdoorswoman.
📈Born at 358 ppm
📍on the water in South Dakota or Nebraska
https://linktr.ee/LizRennerPhD
📱🔒 @drlizardshad.67
📈Born at 358 ppm
📍on the water in South Dakota or Nebraska
https://linktr.ee/LizRennerPhD
📱🔒 @drlizardshad.67
Had a blast talking about #sturgeon with Dr. Drew Holloway's ichthyology class @ballstate.bsky.social this afternoon! I'm grateful my AFS involvement @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social connected me with Drew at a past Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference. His students asked great Q's about larval drift! 🐟
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Had a blast talking about #sturgeon with Dr. Drew Holloway's ichthyology class @ballstate.bsky.social this afternoon! I'm grateful my AFS involvement @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social connected me with Drew at a past Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference. His students asked great Q's about larval drift! 🐟
Phenological dispatch: my quilting ruler reads 4" today after our first snow of the year here in Lyons, South Dakota.
November 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Phenological dispatch: my quilting ruler reads 4" today after our first snow of the year here in Lyons, South Dakota.
Here's another one of my original poems, "Dignity," written for any fellow queer South Dakotans or Glen Campbell fans out there. Is it cringe? Absolutely. Do I care? Not in the slightest. 🏳️🌈
November 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Here's another one of my original poems, "Dignity," written for any fellow queer South Dakotans or Glen Campbell fans out there. Is it cringe? Absolutely. Do I care? Not in the slightest. 🏳️🌈
Facts. This was my Halloween costume this year. I had to stand at the outskirts of my friends' party until I took it off because I kept crashing into things around the kitchen and couldn't make sharp turns. 😅
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Facts. This was my Halloween costume this year. I had to stand at the outskirts of my friends' party until I took it off because I kept crashing into things around the kitchen and couldn't make sharp turns. 😅
Ack, I just realized I never shared a photo of the final product with my SS Edmund Fitzgerald Halloween costume! The legend lives on....
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Ack, I just realized I never shared a photo of the final product with my SS Edmund Fitzgerald Halloween costume! The legend lives on....
Here's one of my old poems on migratory waterfowl and situationships from the vault. If it resonates with you, sound off in comments!
"CENTRAL FLYWAY" (2023).
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"CENTRAL FLYWAY" (2023).
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November 4, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Here's one of my old poems on migratory waterfowl and situationships from the vault. If it resonates with you, sound off in comments!
"CENTRAL FLYWAY" (2023).
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"CENTRAL FLYWAY" (2023).
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More scenes from the Renner Shipyard, where the Edmund Fitzgerald has been dry docked for a new paint job.
October 31, 2025 at 5:04 AM
More scenes from the Renner Shipyard, where the Edmund Fitzgerald has been dry docked for a new paint job.
Update on the SS Edmund Fitzgerald:
After some meticulous duct taping and resorting to using a Sawzall for precision cutting, the cardboard hull can now hold a load of iron ore twenty six thousand tons more than the vessel weighs empty. Or at least a curious cat.
After some meticulous duct taping and resorting to using a Sawzall for precision cutting, the cardboard hull can now hold a load of iron ore twenty six thousand tons more than the vessel weighs empty. Or at least a curious cat.
October 30, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Update on the SS Edmund Fitzgerald:
After some meticulous duct taping and resorting to using a Sawzall for precision cutting, the cardboard hull can now hold a load of iron ore twenty six thousand tons more than the vessel weighs empty. Or at least a curious cat.
After some meticulous duct taping and resorting to using a Sawzall for precision cutting, the cardboard hull can now hold a load of iron ore twenty six thousand tons more than the vessel weighs empty. Or at least a curious cat.
The year is 2029. A lone first-year UNL student wanders into an abandoned auditorium on the first floor of Hardin Hall. Lights flicker on. A dormant projector overhead awakens from its slumber.
"I've been waiting for you, little one," Cornelius rumbles as he pulls up the Soils 101 syllabus.🌽
"I've been waiting for you, little one," Cornelius rumbles as he pulls up the Soils 101 syllabus.🌽
October 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The year is 2029. A lone first-year UNL student wanders into an abandoned auditorium on the first floor of Hardin Hall. Lights flicker on. A dormant projector overhead awakens from its slumber.
"I've been waiting for you, little one," Cornelius rumbles as he pulls up the Soils 101 syllabus.🌽
"I've been waiting for you, little one," Cornelius rumbles as he pulls up the Soils 101 syllabus.🌽
On tonight's episode of "Liz Multitasks Her Way Through the 2025 World Series," I'm shelling heirloom lima beans from my garden while waiting for somebody to get accidentally beaned by a 99 mph four-seam fastball. #GoBlueJays
October 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
On tonight's episode of "Liz Multitasks Her Way Through the 2025 World Series," I'm shelling heirloom lima beans from my garden while waiting for somebody to get accidentally beaned by a 99 mph four-seam fastball. #GoBlueJays
If the authoritarian bootlicker ghouls dismantling our democratic institutions wanna arrest this proud, card-carrying Antifa leftist, they'll have to catch her first. 😤
October 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
If the authoritarian bootlicker ghouls dismantling our democratic institutions wanna arrest this proud, card-carrying Antifa leftist, they'll have to catch her first. 😤
I passed my motorcycle safety training class exam this morning with a perfect score to earn my licensing endorsement! When the fascists come for me, they'll be getting a face full of exhaust from my newly restored '78 Honda CB400T II Hawk. 😎
October 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I passed my motorcycle safety training class exam this morning with a perfect score to earn my licensing endorsement! When the fascists come for me, they'll be getting a face full of exhaust from my newly restored '78 Honda CB400T II Hawk. 😎
Lmao @ "HEPATITAS." This country is run by ghoulishly evil and embarrassingly moronic rich people who couldn't pass a basic evaluation of science literacy. The vaccine paranoia and claims that Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism is just anti-intellectualism, ableism & misogyny in a trenchcoat.
September 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Lmao @ "HEPATITAS." This country is run by ghoulishly evil and embarrassingly moronic rich people who couldn't pass a basic evaluation of science literacy. The vaccine paranoia and claims that Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism is just anti-intellectualism, ableism & misogyny in a trenchcoat.
Hey everyone, could you please help me make my grandmother's upcoming 90th birthday extra special? Grandma Gail is a retired US postmaster, so she LOVES sending & receiving mail! Would you please drop a birthday card or postcard in the mail for her? I'd like her to see a wide variety of zip codes! 💟
September 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Hey everyone, could you please help me make my grandmother's upcoming 90th birthday extra special? Grandma Gail is a retired US postmaster, so she LOVES sending & receiving mail! Would you please drop a birthday card or postcard in the mail for her? I'd like her to see a wide variety of zip codes! 💟
Potatoes! Tomatoes! Beans! Cucumbers! Jalapeños! Pumpkins the size of my nephew! I love harvest season.
September 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Potatoes! Tomatoes! Beans! Cucumbers! Jalapeños! Pumpkins the size of my nephew! I love harvest season.
Found this 8 iron while fly fishing at a pond in my hometown tonight. What is the most unhinged object you've ever found next to or submerged in a body of water?
August 29, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Found this 8 iron while fly fishing at a pond in my hometown tonight. What is the most unhinged object you've ever found next to or submerged in a body of water?
Harvested another round of produce from my garden by headlamp & taillights tonight because there's simply not enough time in the day. Can't stop thinking about the ripe produce rotting on vines & trees across America tonight or the emaciated P@lestinians being starved to death by !sr@e\ in G@z@.
August 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Harvested another round of produce from my garden by headlamp & taillights tonight because there's simply not enough time in the day. Can't stop thinking about the ripe produce rotting on vines & trees across America tonight or the emaciated P@lestinians being starved to death by !sr@e\ in G@z@.
I love a good journal article title, but this is where I draw the line:
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August 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I love a good journal article title, but this is where I draw the line:
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Re-sharing my two original poems from Substack. I can't get the gravity of this violence toward fellow humans out of my head. I wrote a follow-up after I heard that #Andry had been freed and read his account of the torture and abuse to which he was subjected.
open.substack.com/pub/lizrenne...
open.substack.com/pub/lizrenne...
August 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Re-sharing my two original poems from Substack. I can't get the gravity of this violence toward fellow humans out of my head. I wrote a follow-up after I heard that #Andry had been freed and read his account of the torture and abuse to which he was subjected.
open.substack.com/pub/lizrenne...
open.substack.com/pub/lizrenne...
Neat native prairie flora + fauna spotted yesterday @ Touch-the-Sky Prairie, a unit of the Northern Tallgrass Prairie NWR. 🌾🪲🌼
📸: Dogbane Leaf Beetle (Chrysochus auratus), Wild Carrot (Daucus carota), False Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides), & Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa).
📸: Dogbane Leaf Beetle (Chrysochus auratus), Wild Carrot (Daucus carota), False Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides), & Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa).
July 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Neat native prairie flora + fauna spotted yesterday @ Touch-the-Sky Prairie, a unit of the Northern Tallgrass Prairie NWR. 🌾🪲🌼
📸: Dogbane Leaf Beetle (Chrysochus auratus), Wild Carrot (Daucus carota), False Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides), & Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa).
📸: Dogbane Leaf Beetle (Chrysochus auratus), Wild Carrot (Daucus carota), False Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides), & Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa).
Rep. Garcia, I can't thank you enough for your efforts to shed light on Andry's story and fight to get him out of CECOT. I wrote and shared a poem on my social media last week to bring attention to Andry's situation & amplify calls to donate to his legal defense fund. 🏳️🌈 Solidaridad y gratitud. -Liz
July 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Rep. Garcia, I can't thank you enough for your efforts to shed light on Andry's story and fight to get him out of CECOT. I wrote and shared a poem on my social media last week to bring attention to Andry's situation & amplify calls to donate to his legal defense fund. 🏳️🌈 Solidaridad y gratitud. -Liz
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Hemos oido tus gritos, hermano. We won't let history repeat.
Take action by donating to the legal fund at freeandry.org
#JusticeForAndry #FreeAndry #BringThemBack
Hemos oido tus gritos, hermano. We won't let history repeat.
Take action by donating to the legal fund at freeandry.org
#JusticeForAndry #FreeAndry #BringThemBack
July 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Hemos oido tus gritos, hermano. We won't let history repeat.
Take action by donating to the legal fund at freeandry.org
#JusticeForAndry #FreeAndry #BringThemBack
Hemos oido tus gritos, hermano. We won't let history repeat.
Take action by donating to the legal fund at freeandry.org
#JusticeForAndry #FreeAndry #BringThemBack