Andrew Mountcastle
@mounty.bsky.social
I investigate how insects are so good at crashing into things. 🐝Insect Biomechanist, 🏒Pond Hockeyologist, 📸Photographer-ish, Dad, Mainer, Biology prof at Bates College
This feels like a trick question
November 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
This feels like a trick question
Hey look you got a 'save' lol
November 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hey look you got a 'save' lol
It shows up under your post, next to the reposts and likes.
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
It shows up under your post, next to the reposts and likes.
Live shot of all the balls I'm dropping this semester
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Live shot of all the balls I'm dropping this semester
Ummmmm, how much for just York County please? 😳
November 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Ummmmm, how much for just York County please? 😳
My kids saw this in the candy store and lost their shit. If you have kids you know what this is about and are probably also living this hell on a daily basis. If you don’t know what this is about, thank your lucky stars. It’s honestly not worth the words to explain it.
October 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
My kids saw this in the candy store and lost their shit. If you have kids you know what this is about and are probably also living this hell on a daily basis. If you don’t know what this is about, thank your lucky stars. It’s honestly not worth the words to explain it.
Good lord, this is dismemberment
October 28, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Good lord, this is dismemberment
My resulting publication
October 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
My resulting publication
Youth soccer in Maine is hilarious because it is completely dark out, but practice just started
October 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Youth soccer in Maine is hilarious because it is completely dark out, but practice just started
My new Professor name just dropped!
October 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
My new Professor name just dropped!
Take heart, northern friends, for sweata weatha has finally arrived
October 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Take heart, northern friends, for sweata weatha has finally arrived
Students in my Bioinspiration class are designing 3D printed and laser-cut samaras (“helicopter” seeds) modeled after maple seeds, and testing which membrane shapes keep the seeds airborne the longest.
October 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Students in my Bioinspiration class are designing 3D printed and laser-cut samaras (“helicopter” seeds) modeled after maple seeds, and testing which membrane shapes keep the seeds airborne the longest.
Autumn light in Maine
October 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Autumn light in Maine
RIP to the incomparable Jane Goodall, who embodied the best of humanity.
Her rich legacy included becoming friends with Gary Larson after he drew this cartoon. (She was delighted by it, even though many at the time thought it was terribly offensive to her.)
Her rich legacy included becoming friends with Gary Larson after he drew this cartoon. (She was delighted by it, even though many at the time thought it was terribly offensive to her.)
October 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
RIP to the incomparable Jane Goodall, who embodied the best of humanity.
Her rich legacy included becoming friends with Gary Larson after he drew this cartoon. (She was delighted by it, even though many at the time thought it was terribly offensive to her.)
Her rich legacy included becoming friends with Gary Larson after he drew this cartoon. (She was delighted by it, even though many at the time thought it was terribly offensive to her.)
Late September sun in Maine.
September 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Late September sun in Maine.
...and to be clear, per NPR's own story that follows their misleading headline: "the mound of evidence from the best studies to date points to no causal effect of acetaminophen on autism."
September 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
...and to be clear, per NPR's own story that follows their misleading headline: "the mound of evidence from the best studies to date points to no causal effect of acetaminophen on autism."