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Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇
@mustelidmay.bsky.social
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Mammalogist 🦡
Prev: TN - armadillos & bats 🦇
WY- ferrets
NC- bears
Now: WA - pygmy rabbits🐇
🦦Lover of chaos & conservation🦝
misunderstood mammals🦨
Pop punk 🙏
She/her 🏳️‍🌈
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Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇 @mustelidmay.bsky.social · Oct 14
Tried to get a quick photo with this pygmy rabbit and then she did a 180 & ran into my coat instead of jumping forward like I expected her to when I left go 😂 😅
#TeamPygmy #mammals
Me holding a pygmy rabbit with her cute fuzzy face popping out of the mesh bag we weigh them in. The same pygmy rabbit but the camera is a bit closer to her & her nose is hiding behind the white mesh bag My shocked face as I realize the rabbit in trying to release has decided my jacket is a good hiding spot A photo of my face slightly less shocked but there is only a tiny rabbit booty and cute little feet barely poking out of my jacket as the rabbit runs further into the jacket and eventually fell out & ran for cover in the sagebrush nearby
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lioninthetrees.bsky.social
Throwback to these tigers I made back in August for Giant Robot's Odd Folk & Fables show! 🐯✨🖤

The bigger one has sold but the mini-me is available via Giant Robot here:
www.giantrobot.com/search?type=...

#art #pottery #SciArt
A large ceramic black sgraffito tiger sculpture that features a large California Poppy motif crawling up the side of it’s body. The pose of the piece is as though the tiger is elegantly stalking towards something (or someone). There is also an adorable miniature version of the larger sculpture pictured alongside it as though it’s a tigress and her cub.
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
mustelidmay.bsky.social
Yea. Sleepy kitty.
November 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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quailtea.bsky.social
Northern flicker vase, too 🪵 🐦 🐛
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
mustelidmay.bsky.social
Eepy baby boy
November 5, 2025 at 3:43 AM
mustelidmay.bsky.social
Didn't get the phd position I interviewed for. Now I'm just focusing on getting a new job in WA closer to the west side where my Fiancé is working with the Quinault Indian Nation... Pygmy rabbits are important, but I am tired of being unable to help with any other species 🙃 🙃
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
mustelidmay.bsky.social
#5moreYears 😂
Happy anniversary to us!
October 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
"What are you going to do, shoot me? I would die for this shit."

Until congress responds with the rage, fear, and courage of this man, they are letting me down and they are letting you down.
blasphemousjones.bsky.social Blasphemous Jones @blasphemousjones.bsky.social · Oct 22
"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."

Source:
old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...
October 26, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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eleanorlanewriter.bsky.social
Peregrine falcon I met in NY. It was sitting on a stone wall, and screaming blue murder.
Head and shoulders portrait of a peregrine Falcon Head and shoulders portrait of a peregrine Falcon looking over its shoulder.
October 26, 2025 at 3:57 AM
mustelidmay.bsky.social
Tired of being overlooked.
October 26, 2025 at 4:11 AM
mustelidmay.bsky.social
Yea it went to someone else. Probably someone not born in a shitty southern state with poor education options.
Anyway.... Time to keep pushing forward.
I deserve better than where I am now.
mustelidmay.bsky.social Carissa the Bunnologist, MSc🐇 @mustelidmay.bsky.social · Oct 14
Feel like I'm being ghosted after the phd interview like 3 weeks ago? I sent a follow up and still no reply 😫

Am stressed.
a cartoon owl is standing on a checkered floor
ALT: a cartoon owl is standing on a checkered floor
media.tenor.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM
mustelidmay.bsky.social
Anyway, here's my cat "helping" me build a new tree
October 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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skwinnicki.bsky.social
My family is trying to start shit at this hockey game
Basic no kings sign— a yellow crown with a red X through it on a blue background— tucked behind glass in front of people sitting at a hockey arena.
October 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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race2extinct.bsky.social
Whether it’s highways, cropland, cities, or border walls, we’re turning continents into isolated biodiversity islands — where extinction for many species isn’t a risk, it’s a timeline.

insideclimatenews.org/news/1310202...
The US-Mexico Border Wall May Pose Perils to Pollinators - Inside Climate News
Environmentalists worry about pollinating species in the pivotal desert borderland as more tall barriers are planned by the U.S. government to curb migration and trafficking.
insideclimatenews.org
October 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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lioninthetrees.bsky.social
Kumiho Totem 🦊🔥✨

My piece for the upcoming Giant Robot Store Yokai exhibition celebrating folklore and fables!

My piece will be available tomorrow at 11am PT on their site here:
www.giantrobot.com/collections/...

#art #pottery
A black sgraffito ceramic 3-tailed fox sculpture. There are orange flames and California Poppies carved into it’s body. It is holding a handmade red tassel in it’s mouth that also has a fortune coin tied into the tassel itself.
October 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
mustelidmay.bsky.social
Feel like I'm being ghosted after the phd interview like 3 weeks ago? I sent a follow up and still no reply 😫

Am stressed.
a cartoon owl is standing on a checkered floor
ALT: a cartoon owl is standing on a checkered floor
media.tenor.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
we all need this right now
jeffvandermeer.bsky.social Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Jul 22
that time i let a baby opossum have a single grape
October 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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fishsqueezer.bsky.social
I'm fine with Bluesky being the last hurrah of social media but clearly the bubble has burst. This should be at the top of everyone's feed, but it's crickets.

YOU CAN USE A SALMON CANNON
milkshakemotel.bsky.social ROSE @milkshakemotel.bsky.social · Oct 12
Portland art lovers and fans of unusual fish transportation MUST go see Sasha Fishman’s SHAD MODE at ILY2, there is a functional salmon cannon in the gallery with realistic weight hot pink rubber salmon you can chuck into it
October 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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lioninthetrees.bsky.social
Running Moon Wolf Totem 🐺🌙✨

I have a new piece available with Every Day Original ( @everydayoriginal.bsky.social )!

Purchase here:
everydayoriginal.com/product/runn...

#art #SciArt
A ceramic black underglaze wolf sculpture posed as though it's leaping or running. It has it's head arched back and a crescent moon sculpture on it's back. There are sgraffito markings all along it's body including a crescent moon on the chest and a California Poppy done with a yellow underglaze.
October 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
mustelidmay.bsky.social
"if you look down the rabbithole, the purpose of becoming a billionaire is to orchestrate control of your ideology upon the people" and - Zachary Loft
October 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
mustelidmay.bsky.social
Accidentally turned myself into Makio from #demonSlayer
October 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
mustelidmay.bsky.social
It's called fieldwork, sweaty
October 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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danimmergluck.bsky.social
The history of Nazis holding rallies in left-wing areas of Weimar Germany, instigating street fights, and then telling the press that only they could save Germany from the "violent communists" seems like an important thing for people to be studying right now.
October 6, 2025 at 4:52 AM
mustelidmay.bsky.social
I feel so stuck lately.
I have this passion for growth, and I've become so bogged down by my current position as well as the state of the world.

I need to make more art. Idk what yet.
October 6, 2025 at 5:10 AM
mustelidmay.bsky.social
She comin!
An excited pyranees/border collie mix is running in a "superman" pose towards the camera outside. She is in full zoom mode. Growlies also activated. There's no stopping her now.
October 5, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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artd.bsky.social
Don't worry, @solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social I did one for you too
Taylor swift's new album the life of a showgirl but she has a gar's head and it's the life of a showgar.
October 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM