Marianne Denton
@mariannedenton.bsky.social
past life of limnology and aquatic ecology |
living a technicolor life in a B&W world |
naturalist • explorer • observer |
defender of democracy |
always a scientist |
≠AI
living a technicolor life in a B&W world |
naturalist • explorer • observer |
defender of democracy |
always a scientist |
≠AI
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Welcome new friends and friends I haven’t seen in awhile~
If you’re sharing this BlueSky space with me you’ll be seeing a lot of mountain & desert adventures, the wonders of the cosmos, and lots of invertebrate creatures. 💜💙💚
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If you’re sharing this BlueSky space with me you’ll be seeing a lot of mountain & desert adventures, the wonders of the cosmos, and lots of invertebrate creatures. 💜💙💚
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Hi friends,
Many of you know me, some it’s the first time meeting.
Here’s an introduction from last month when BlueSky has a multitude of new accounts. It’s a decent overview of my social media interactions & goals.
TL;DR: daily natural wonders, always punch a nazi, good faith engagement.
Many of you know me, some it’s the first time meeting.
Here’s an introduction from last month when BlueSky has a multitude of new accounts. It’s a decent overview of my social media interactions & goals.
TL;DR: daily natural wonders, always punch a nazi, good faith engagement.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Sunset & Selfie
Until a can get a Summer Selfie that’s a bit more current, here’s wrapped up for the hopes of winter weather and snowy hillsides.
Until a can get a Summer Selfie that’s a bit more current, here’s wrapped up for the hopes of winter weather and snowy hillsides.
December 3, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Sunset & Selfie
Until a can get a Summer Selfie that’s a bit more current, here’s wrapped up for the hopes of winter weather and snowy hillsides.
Until a can get a Summer Selfie that’s a bit more current, here’s wrapped up for the hopes of winter weather and snowy hillsides.
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An eyed click beetle (Alaus sp., guessing A. zunianus), SE Arizona. The eye spots, through a combination of black pigment and structural absorption, absorb over 96% of light. Measured in STUs (Spinal Tap Units), how much more black could they be? The answer is none. None more black. 🐙🌿⚫⚫ #BugSky
December 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
An eyed click beetle (Alaus sp., guessing A. zunianus), SE Arizona. The eye spots, through a combination of black pigment and structural absorption, absorb over 96% of light. Measured in STUs (Spinal Tap Units), how much more black could they be? The answer is none. None more black. 🐙🌿⚫⚫ #BugSky
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day 1 #ArtAdventCalendar all aboard the posting beautiful things train! Let's make everyone's timelines joyful and inspiring!
December 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
day 1 #ArtAdventCalendar all aboard the posting beautiful things train! Let's make everyone's timelines joyful and inspiring!
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December 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Just... a little snack snack...
Elderly stars just get hungry, and orbiting planets are *right there.* 🔭🧪
New research from Edward Bryant @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social and Vincent Van Eylen @University College London, input from Sabine Reffert @uniheidelberg.bsky.social, story by @bowlerhatscience.org. eos.org/articles/pla...
New research from Edward Bryant @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social and Vincent Van Eylen @University College London, input from Sabine Reffert @uniheidelberg.bsky.social, story by @bowlerhatscience.org. eos.org/articles/pla...
Planet-Eating Stars Hint at Earth’s Ultimate Fate - Eos
A sampling of aging Sun-like stars demonstrates that they likely eat their closest planets.
eos.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Just... a little snack snack...
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Long Pond in Acadia NP about an hour after sunset tonight, on the eve of a snowstorm. The light reflecting off of the waves in the foreground is actually moonlight, not the remnants of twilight in the distance.
Look at that textbook, U-shaped glacial trough. *chef kiss*
Look at that textbook, U-shaped glacial trough. *chef kiss*
December 2, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Long Pond in Acadia NP about an hour after sunset tonight, on the eve of a snowstorm. The light reflecting off of the waves in the foreground is actually moonlight, not the remnants of twilight in the distance.
Look at that textbook, U-shaped glacial trough. *chef kiss*
Look at that textbook, U-shaped glacial trough. *chef kiss*
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My Uncle Jimmy was infected in first wave of HIV/AIDS in the 80s. I was just a kid. I can barely remember him. He was fun, and funny, and played honky tonk piano. He was a Vietnam vet. He bought me LEGOs. :) I can remember his laugh.
I miss him.
#WorldAIDSDay
I miss him.
#WorldAIDSDay
December 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
My Uncle Jimmy was infected in first wave of HIV/AIDS in the 80s. I was just a kid. I can barely remember him. He was fun, and funny, and played honky tonk piano. He was a Vietnam vet. He bought me LEGOs. :) I can remember his laugh.
I miss him.
#WorldAIDSDay
I miss him.
#WorldAIDSDay
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It’s #MeiofaunaMonday! “Meiofauna” are microbial eukaryotes with a body size <1 mm (these animals and protists are as small as specks of dust you might see on a glass coffee table). Almost all of the 38 major animal groups have at least some small-bodied meiofauna species.
December 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It’s #MeiofaunaMonday! “Meiofauna” are microbial eukaryotes with a body size <1 mm (these animals and protists are as small as specks of dust you might see on a glass coffee table). Almost all of the 38 major animal groups have at least some small-bodied meiofauna species.
Yesterday’s surprise unexpected surprise for the last day of November. Along a desert, wintery lake hike.
I love to grab pieces of driftwood and throw it back into the waves. But this time, my hand froze before grabbing the wood.
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle
(Coccinella septempunctata)
🌿🐞
I love to grab pieces of driftwood and throw it back into the waves. But this time, my hand froze before grabbing the wood.
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle
(Coccinella septempunctata)
🌿🐞
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Yesterday’s surprise unexpected surprise for the last day of November. Along a desert, wintery lake hike.
I love to grab pieces of driftwood and throw it back into the waves. But this time, my hand froze before grabbing the wood.
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle
(Coccinella septempunctata)
🌿🐞
I love to grab pieces of driftwood and throw it back into the waves. But this time, my hand froze before grabbing the wood.
Seven-spotted Lady Beetle
(Coccinella septempunctata)
🌿🐞
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🎶It’s beginning to look a lot like #Fishmas🎶
There’s no better fish to kick off this year’s #25DaysofFishmas than the aptly-named Christmas darter (Etheostoma hopkinsi)! We get our road trip started down in the southeastern US with this small species of fish who has big holiday spirit all year long
There’s no better fish to kick off this year’s #25DaysofFishmas than the aptly-named Christmas darter (Etheostoma hopkinsi)! We get our road trip started down in the southeastern US with this small species of fish who has big holiday spirit all year long
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🎶It’s beginning to look a lot like #Fishmas🎶
There’s no better fish to kick off this year’s #25DaysofFishmas than the aptly-named Christmas darter (Etheostoma hopkinsi)! We get our road trip started down in the southeastern US with this small species of fish who has big holiday spirit all year long
There’s no better fish to kick off this year’s #25DaysofFishmas than the aptly-named Christmas darter (Etheostoma hopkinsi)! We get our road trip started down in the southeastern US with this small species of fish who has big holiday spirit all year long
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Happy #MacroMonday!
This is a Spined Green Stinkbug, Loxa flavicollis, from earlier in the year.
#FujiFilm, X-S10, #Laowa 65mm #macro
#MacroPhotography
#photography
#Insects
#Invertebrates
#Hemiptera
This is a Spined Green Stinkbug, Loxa flavicollis, from earlier in the year.
#FujiFilm, X-S10, #Laowa 65mm #macro
#MacroPhotography
#photography
#Insects
#Invertebrates
#Hemiptera
December 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Happy #MacroMonday!
This is a Spined Green Stinkbug, Loxa flavicollis, from earlier in the year.
#FujiFilm, X-S10, #Laowa 65mm #macro
#MacroPhotography
#photography
#Insects
#Invertebrates
#Hemiptera
This is a Spined Green Stinkbug, Loxa flavicollis, from earlier in the year.
#FujiFilm, X-S10, #Laowa 65mm #macro
#MacroPhotography
#photography
#Insects
#Invertebrates
#Hemiptera
Monday morning #FallBackFlower July 1 ~ stamen edition.
Flatbud Prickly Poppy (Argemone munita)
Giant Blazingstar (Mentzelia laevicaulis)
🌿
Flatbud Prickly Poppy (Argemone munita)
Giant Blazingstar (Mentzelia laevicaulis)
🌿
December 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Monday morning #FallBackFlower July 1 ~ stamen edition.
Flatbud Prickly Poppy (Argemone munita)
Giant Blazingstar (Mentzelia laevicaulis)
🌿
Flatbud Prickly Poppy (Argemone munita)
Giant Blazingstar (Mentzelia laevicaulis)
🌿
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Along the fence-line. I usually focus my camera on wildlife, but I also can’t resist a striking landscape view #ArtAdventCalendar
December 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Along the fence-line. I usually focus my camera on wildlife, but I also can’t resist a striking landscape view #ArtAdventCalendar
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December 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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I buy stuffed animals at yard sales for my dog. They never hit the floor before being savagely eviscerated of their stuffing, then gnawed to shreds. The children selling their old toys often say "I hope your kid likes it as much as I did." I say "thanks" like a monster.
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I buy stuffed animals at yard sales for my dog. They never hit the floor before being savagely eviscerated of their stuffing, then gnawed to shreds. The children selling their old toys often say "I hope your kid likes it as much as I did." I say "thanks" like a monster.
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My favorite part of winter is icicles forming on exposed rock cuts. Here are some lovely examples from yesterday in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
My favorite part of winter is icicles forming on exposed rock cuts. Here are some lovely examples from yesterday in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Rabbit rabbit! December 1st came early, thanks insomnia! Here's a White-spotted Salamander (Plethodon cylindraecus) from central North Carolina this fall. #herps #salamanders #NaturePhotography 🌿
December 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Rabbit rabbit! December 1st came early, thanks insomnia! Here's a White-spotted Salamander (Plethodon cylindraecus) from central North Carolina this fall. #herps #salamanders #NaturePhotography 🌿
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The Andromeda Galaxy from last night. 30 November 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
December 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The Andromeda Galaxy from last night. 30 November 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
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What a difference a day makes. Southwold beach this morning.
December 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
What a difference a day makes. Southwold beach this morning.
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Winter has arrived here in Saskatoon. Another season, another colour palette, another cast of characters. Met some characters this weekend #mammals 🌿
December 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Winter has arrived here in Saskatoon. Another season, another colour palette, another cast of characters. Met some characters this weekend #mammals 🌿
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These little scale boys really don't need my help in finding a mate, but the way the little guy would climb onto my finger instantly and hop off when I put him next to a female*... 🥹
I love the yearly emergence of these silly Neosteingelia texana scale insects on my maple trees. ♥️🧪
I love the yearly emergence of these silly Neosteingelia texana scale insects on my maple trees. ♥️🧪
November 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
These little scale boys really don't need my help in finding a mate, but the way the little guy would climb onto my finger instantly and hop off when I put him next to a female*... 🥹
I love the yearly emergence of these silly Neosteingelia texana scale insects on my maple trees. ♥️🧪
I love the yearly emergence of these silly Neosteingelia texana scale insects on my maple trees. ♥️🧪
New scientific journal!!
“In honor of extinct & imperiled species, the Journal of Lost Species is a new, peer-reviewed record of the contemporary #biodiversity crisis.” (UNR Professor Matt Forsister)
JLS is currently accepting submissions for the first issue.
🧪 #Science #Extinction
“In honor of extinct & imperiled species, the Journal of Lost Species is a new, peer-reviewed record of the contemporary #biodiversity crisis.” (UNR Professor Matt Forsister)
JLS is currently accepting submissions for the first issue.
🧪 #Science #Extinction
Journal of Lost Species
A peer-reviewed, open-access journal (free to read and free to publish) focused on the documentation of imperiled, lost and extinct species, as well as rediscoveries and methodological advances in con...
journaloflostspecies.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
New scientific journal!!
“In honor of extinct & imperiled species, the Journal of Lost Species is a new, peer-reviewed record of the contemporary #biodiversity crisis.” (UNR Professor Matt Forsister)
JLS is currently accepting submissions for the first issue.
🧪 #Science #Extinction
“In honor of extinct & imperiled species, the Journal of Lost Species is a new, peer-reviewed record of the contemporary #biodiversity crisis.” (UNR Professor Matt Forsister)
JLS is currently accepting submissions for the first issue.
🧪 #Science #Extinction