Mrs. Hite, NBCT
@mrsh-sci.bsky.social
Science teacher, nerdy person, nature lover
When I was a teen, waiting each week for the new episode of TNG, hanging around the bookstore looking for a Trek paperback I hadn’t read, or poring over the TNG encyclopedia- I never dreamed that as an adult I would be living in the golden age of Trek with SO MUCH new content. It is GLORIOUS 🩷🖖🏻
Star Trek: Khan
Science Fiction Podcast · Weekly Series · History remembers Khan Noonien Singh as a villain, the product of a failed attempt to perfect humanity through genetic engineering whose quest to avenge himse...
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September 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
When I was a teen, waiting each week for the new episode of TNG, hanging around the bookstore looking for a Trek paperback I hadn’t read, or poring over the TNG encyclopedia- I never dreamed that as an adult I would be living in the golden age of Trek with SO MUCH new content. It is GLORIOUS 🩷🖖🏻
This has a real #2025MMM vibe
Capuchin monkeys are stealing howler monkey babies in weird fad #Science #Biology #Zoology #CapuchinMonkeys #HowlerMonkeys #AnimalBehavior
Capuchin monkeys are stealing howler monkey babies in weird fad
A group of white-faced capuchins on a remote island have started stealing infants from another primate species, and researchers don’t know why
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May 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This has a real #2025MMM vibe
My students asked me to weigh in on this debate and I said, “it would probably be like March Mammal Madness and the gorilla would leave the field of battle…”🤣 #2025MMM
—>Gorillas have a big fight ahead of them, and it's not against 100 men, expert says one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5382...
—>Gorillas have a big fight ahead of them, and it's not against 100 men, expert says one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5382...
🔊 Listen Now: Gorillas have a big fight ahead of them, and it's not against 100 men, expert says
All Things Considered on NPR One | 4:25
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May 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
My students asked me to weigh in on this debate and I said, “it would probably be like March Mammal Madness and the gorilla would leave the field of battle…”🤣 #2025MMM
—>Gorillas have a big fight ahead of them, and it's not against 100 men, expert says one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5382...
—>Gorillas have a big fight ahead of them, and it's not against 100 men, expert says one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5382...
Huge thanks to Profs Miguel Rubio-Godoy and Alejandra Nuñez-de la Mora for translating Educator Materials into Spanish #2025MMM
April 3, 2025 at 12:28 AM
My first college (Smith) had one of these outside the science building (I think) and I always wondered why you would plant one on purpose 🤣 #2025MMM
Once Ginkgo are 30-40 years old, their autumn fruit "emits a rancid odor reminiscent of human vomit... In the horticultural literature, the smell is variously described as “disagreeable,” “evil,” “offensive,” “disgusting,” “repulsive,” “putrid,” & “abominable” (Del Tredici 2024) #2025MMM
April 1, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My first college (Smith) had one of these outside the science building (I think) and I always wondered why you would plant one on purpose 🤣 #2025MMM
Ooh I like this idea.
I’ve not seen that many in the wild but here’s my list:
Puma
Ginkgo
Fungus
Pelican
Horseshoe crab
Fern
Skunk
And I’ll count Cyanobacteria, but I’m just assuming it was around, it’s not like I carried a microscope on all my boat trips… 🤣
#2025MMM
I’ve not seen that many in the wild but here’s my list:
Puma
Ginkgo
Fungus
Pelican
Horseshoe crab
Fern
Skunk
And I’ll count Cyanobacteria, but I’m just assuming it was around, it’s not like I carried a microscope on all my boat trips… 🤣
#2025MMM
How about a #2025MMM side game? How many of these (or closely related species) have you seen in the wild?
I've seen
Hoary marmot
European hedgehog
Flying squirrel
Muskrat
Mountain beaver
Polar bear
Ginkgo
Fungus
Pelican (brown & white)
Cyanobacteria
Fern
(Also seals, skunks, otters)
I've seen
Hoary marmot
European hedgehog
Flying squirrel
Muskrat
Mountain beaver
Polar bear
Ginkgo
Fungus
Pelican (brown & white)
Cyanobacteria
Fern
(Also seals, skunks, otters)
#2025MMM ELITE TRAIT WINNERS:
Gelada
Polar Bear
Puma
Ginkgo & Rhizo
Join us MONDAY 3/31 at 8PM EST for the battle of the FINAL ROAR!
Gelada
Polar Bear
Puma
Ginkgo & Rhizo
Join us MONDAY 3/31 at 8PM EST for the battle of the FINAL ROAR!
March 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Ooh I like this idea.
I’ve not seen that many in the wild but here’s my list:
Puma
Ginkgo
Fungus
Pelican
Horseshoe crab
Fern
Skunk
And I’ll count Cyanobacteria, but I’m just assuming it was around, it’s not like I carried a microscope on all my boat trips… 🤣
#2025MMM
I’ve not seen that many in the wild but here’s my list:
Puma
Ginkgo
Fungus
Pelican
Horseshoe crab
Fern
Skunk
And I’ll count Cyanobacteria, but I’m just assuming it was around, it’s not like I carried a microscope on all my boat trips… 🤣
#2025MMM
March 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
#TeamInvert objects to this unnecessary carnage #2025MMM
Aardvarks tongue flicks into the nest, catching invertebrates to its sticky surface, gobbling them up like a vacuum #2025MMM
March 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
#TeamInvert objects to this unnecessary carnage #2025MMM
Friday is not Fun in my classroom today, where I have to watch the horseshoe crab get defeated 4 times in the Rundown videos #2025MMM #TeamInvert
a cat with a blue socks on its leg is sitting on the floor
Alt: a cat with a blue socks on its leg is sitting on the floor
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March 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Friday is not Fun in my classroom today, where I have to watch the horseshoe crab get defeated 4 times in the Rundown videos #2025MMM #TeamInvert
Now that I’ve had an hour to think it over, could we not have let the poor telson-less horseshoe crab go to decamp camp island in peace?! She had to get chomped?! 😭 #TeamInvert #2025MMM
a cartoon of a pig with horns and the words oh the shame .
Alt: a cartoon of a pig with horns and the words oh the shame .
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March 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Now that I’ve had an hour to think it over, could we not have let the poor telson-less horseshoe crab go to decamp camp island in peace?! She had to get chomped?! 😭 #TeamInvert #2025MMM
RIP horseshoe crab
#TeamInvert
#2025MMM
Here’s a little crab I raised from an egg when I was in the classroom program…🥹🥰
#TeamInvert
#2025MMM
Here’s a little crab I raised from an egg when I was in the classroom program…🥹🥰
March 21, 2025 at 1:29 AM
RIP horseshoe crab
#TeamInvert
#2025MMM
Here’s a little crab I raised from an egg when I was in the classroom program…🥹🥰
#TeamInvert
#2025MMM
Here’s a little crab I raised from an egg when I was in the classroom program…🥹🥰
March 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Wow, the art for this division is particularly outstanding (and it’s always top-notch)! #2025MMM
#2025MMM #DivisionTuxedoStyle #TeamGiantCloudRat Art by Valeria Pellicer @veppart.bsky.social #mammals #sciart
March 20, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Wow, the art for this division is particularly outstanding (and it’s always top-notch)! #2025MMM
Flashback to that time my friend and colleague chose this tag team to win her first MMM #2018MMM… she’s still kinda mad I let her pick it 🤣
March 18, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Flashback to that time my friend and colleague chose this tag team to win her first MMM #2018MMM… she’s still kinda mad I let her pick it 🤣
Even though I have watched this 5 times (with all my classes), I am still cracking up at the “Water weasel!” “Tree weasel!” part. 😂 #2025MMM
Don't forget to watch The Rundown recap of last night's #2025MMM battles & marvel at the AWESOME credits song done by a class of 5th graders!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uySA...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uySA...
#2025MMM Round 1 The Only Ones
YouTube video by Erminea Inc.
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March 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Even though I have watched this 5 times (with all my classes), I am still cracking up at the “Water weasel!” “Tree weasel!” part. 😂 #2025MMM
This is not gonna help with all those people who think it normally wants to stab you with its tail, though #TeamInvert
#2025MMM
#2025MMM
INSTANTLY TURN THRASHING, HORSESHOE CRAB'S SHARP, LANCE-LIKE TELSON IMPALES PELICAN'S POUCH!!! #2025MMM
March 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
This is not gonna help with all those people who think it normally wants to stab you with its tail, though #TeamInvert
#2025MMM
#2025MMM
LAST UP: #7 Seed GREAT WHITE PELICAN (Pelecanus onocrotalus) vs. #10 seed ATLANTIC HORSESHOE CRAB (Limulus polyphemus) #2025MMM
March 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Just today I was telling my students about some of the more egregious human interferences in past tournaments… 😬
#2025MMM
#2025MMM
OH NO... a drift bottom gillnet has captured the CRITICALLY ENDANGERED Starry Sturgeon as illegal poachers seek a criminal payday for her eggs... aka CAVIAR!!! #2025MMM
March 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Just today I was telling my students about some of the more egregious human interferences in past tournaments… 😬
#2025MMM
#2025MMM
As you can see, this part of the #2025MMM bracket was especially difficult for this horseshoe crab, plant and fungi loving #TeamInvert member
February 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
As you can see, this part of the #2025MMM bracket was especially difficult for this horseshoe crab, plant and fungi loving #TeamInvert member
A new tiny plant! How cool.
Meet the 'wooly devil,' a new plant species discovered in Texas
www.npr.org/2025/02/26/n...
Meet the 'wooly devil,' a new plant species discovered in Texas
www.npr.org/2025/02/26/n...
Meet the 'wooly devil,' a new plant species discovered in Big Bend National Park
The plant, formally known as Ovicula biradiata, is especially notable for being the simultaneous discovery of a new species and genus. It was found with help from the community science app iNaturalist...
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February 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A new tiny plant! How cool.
Meet the 'wooly devil,' a new plant species discovered in Texas
www.npr.org/2025/02/26/n...
Meet the 'wooly devil,' a new plant species discovered in Texas
www.npr.org/2025/02/26/n...
First read of the #2025MMM bracket. My heart is with the horseshoe crab but can’t take another defeat. Will probably eventually throw in with #TeamNarwhal but for now I’m excited about the fungus among us! Before I became a teacher I was going to study spores molds and fungi like Egon.
a man in a ghostbusters uniform is smiling and looking at the camera
Alt: a man in a ghostbusters uniform is smiling and looking at the camera
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February 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
First read of the #2025MMM bracket. My heart is with the horseshoe crab but can’t take another defeat. Will probably eventually throw in with #TeamNarwhal but for now I’m excited about the fungus among us! Before I became a teacher I was going to study spores molds and fungi like Egon.
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Let's talk about James A. Harris, the co-discoverer of Rutherfordium and Dubnium, elements 104 & 105.
He was the first African-American to be involved in the creation of a new element.
Born Waco, TX in March 1932 BS in Chemistry at HBU Hutson-Tillotson College in Austin, TX.
He was the first African-American to be involved in the creation of a new element.
Born Waco, TX in March 1932 BS in Chemistry at HBU Hutson-Tillotson College in Austin, TX.
February 16, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Let's talk about James A. Harris, the co-discoverer of Rutherfordium and Dubnium, elements 104 & 105.
He was the first African-American to be involved in the creation of a new element.
Born Waco, TX in March 1932 BS in Chemistry at HBU Hutson-Tillotson College in Austin, TX.
He was the first African-American to be involved in the creation of a new element.
Born Waco, TX in March 1932 BS in Chemistry at HBU Hutson-Tillotson College in Austin, TX.