Rasp
@raspbooty.bsky.social
aspiring to baby talk to marine invertebrates, professional saltmarsh toiler restoring important habitat and removing invasives :0
(MS in Marine Science, UNE 2024) pfp by @feebelle.bsky.social
engaging in old man hobbies (birding)
(MS in Marine Science, UNE 2024) pfp by @feebelle.bsky.social
engaging in old man hobbies (birding)
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A HYBRID GREEN BLUE JAY WHAT OMG
A grue jay? Rare hybrid bird identified in Texas
Biologists at The University of Texas at Austin, who have reported discovering a bird that's the natural result of a green jay and a blue jay's mating, say it may be among the first examples of a hybr...
phys.org
September 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
A HYBRID GREEN BLUE JAY WHAT OMG
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It’s been real raptor-y lately! 🪶🌿 A composite of a few of my recent shots.
September 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
It’s been real raptor-y lately! 🪶🌿 A composite of a few of my recent shots.
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I think of hummingbirds as tropical, or at least warmer weather birds...so this Rufous hummer at the top of Steens Mountain.9500 feet above sea level and next to a snowbank was a bit jarring. #birding
September 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I think of hummingbirds as tropical, or at least warmer weather birds...so this Rufous hummer at the top of Steens Mountain.9500 feet above sea level and next to a snowbank was a bit jarring. #birding
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With iNaturalist, GBIF, and an increasing amount of scientific literature online, it is now possible to identify many bugs from all over the world without having to get physical specimens in front of an expert. Last 5 years especially.
Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
With iNaturalist, GBIF, and an increasing amount of scientific literature online, it is now possible to identify many bugs from all over the world without having to get physical specimens in front of an expert. Last 5 years especially.
tricolored heron u will be Witnessed one day (he has been at the refuge i work at literally all summer but just hides on all the days ive gone to bird it..)
A nemesis bird is a bird you've always wanted to see but you keep missing despite your best efforts. Last week I FINALLY got my nemesis Spruce Grouse.Then I saw @thebirdist.bsky.social got his nemesis, Connecticut Warbler, so I thought I'd post this old comic about nemesis birds. Do you have one?
September 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
tricolored heron u will be Witnessed one day (he has been at the refuge i work at literally all summer but just hides on all the days ive gone to bird it..)
i will unfortunately be in a marsh doing Actual Conservation Work during this webinar but maybe someone following me can go harangue these fools or spread word further
iDigBio is hosting a zoom webinar on Monday, August 18, 1pm - 2pm (it says ET in one place and CT in another place, I'm assuming it's ET??) to discuss how their new agentic LLM chatbot iChatBio is "transforming" biodiversity research. I'm sure it is.
ufl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
ufl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: iChatBio: A Modular Agent System for Biodiversity Data Exploration. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Curious how AI is transforming biodiversity research? Join us for a look at iChatBio, a cutting-edge agentic system designed to help scientists discover, process, and analyze biodiversity data with ea...
ufl.zoom.us
August 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
i will unfortunately be in a marsh doing Actual Conservation Work during this webinar but maybe someone following me can go harangue these fools or spread word further
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An amazing moment as a stunning Red-tailed Racer (Gonyosoma oxycephalum) makes its way back up into the trees. I love finding these vibrant, charismatic snakes on the move in the daytime.
July 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
An amazing moment as a stunning Red-tailed Racer (Gonyosoma oxycephalum) makes its way back up into the trees. I love finding these vibrant, charismatic snakes on the move in the daytime.
Its me im the token crab person
by age 30 you should have one friend for every major animal group to spam.
seen a good crab post? forward to your token crab person. bat post for the bat person. cicada post for the cicada person. bear post for the bear person. jellyfish post for the jellyfish person. and so on and so forth.
seen a good crab post? forward to your token crab person. bat post for the bat person. cicada post for the cicada person. bear post for the bear person. jellyfish post for the jellyfish person. and so on and so forth.
June 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Its me im the token crab person
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Mantoida maya (the Little Yukatan Mantis) babies are excellent ant mimics and I love them so much. There were so many out today. An'tis 🥹
May 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Mantoida maya (the Little Yukatan Mantis) babies are excellent ant mimics and I love them so much. There were so many out today. An'tis 🥹
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Oh my goodness. Look at this strange and beautiful sea slug.
It is completely transparent except for a complex network of pale tubules that runs through body and looks like an armature you would use if you were making a model of a sea slug. Amazing!
It is completely transparent except for a complex network of pale tubules that runs through body and looks like an armature you would use if you were making a model of a sea slug. Amazing!
Melibe colemani Gosliner & Pola, 2012 👻
Location: Romblon, Philippines 🇵🇭
#MolluscMonday #MolluskMonday #SeaSlug #Nudibranch #MarineLife
Location: Romblon, Philippines 🇵🇭
#MolluscMonday #MolluskMonday #SeaSlug #Nudibranch #MarineLife
May 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Oh my goodness. Look at this strange and beautiful sea slug.
It is completely transparent except for a complex network of pale tubules that runs through body and looks like an armature you would use if you were making a model of a sea slug. Amazing!
It is completely transparent except for a complex network of pale tubules that runs through body and looks like an armature you would use if you were making a model of a sea slug. Amazing!
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Melibe colemani Gosliner & Pola, 2012 👻
Location: Romblon, Philippines 🇵🇭
#MolluscMonday #MolluskMonday #SeaSlug #Nudibranch #MarineLife
Location: Romblon, Philippines 🇵🇭
#MolluscMonday #MolluskMonday #SeaSlug #Nudibranch #MarineLife
May 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Melibe colemani Gosliner & Pola, 2012 👻
Location: Romblon, Philippines 🇵🇭
#MolluscMonday #MolluskMonday #SeaSlug #Nudibranch #MarineLife
Location: Romblon, Philippines 🇵🇭
#MolluscMonday #MolluskMonday #SeaSlug #Nudibranch #MarineLife
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Here are some colorful leafhoppers that I found during my wanders in the mountains of Costa Rica.
April 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Here are some colorful leafhoppers that I found during my wanders in the mountains of Costa Rica.
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🐸 Rediscovery of a Chilean #anuran described in @zookeys.pensoft.net was determined by @forbes.com "as much a story of historical detective work as it is a #scientific breakthrough."
🧐 It also highlights the role of precise locality #data & historical context.
🔗 Full study: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
🧐 It also highlights the role of precise locality #data & historical context.
🔗 Full study: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
Rare Frog Thought To Be Extinct Rediscovered After A 130-Year-Long Search — A Biologist Explains
Alsodes vittatus had disappeared from scientific records and proven elusive for more than a century before its recent rediscovery.
www.forbes.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🐸 Rediscovery of a Chilean #anuran described in @zookeys.pensoft.net was determined by @forbes.com "as much a story of historical detective work as it is a #scientific breakthrough."
🧐 It also highlights the role of precise locality #data & historical context.
🔗 Full study: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
🧐 It also highlights the role of precise locality #data & historical context.
🔗 Full study: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
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How awesome is this?! Amphorina farrani, my 13th nudibranch...
March 29, 2025 at 8:58 AM
How awesome is this?! Amphorina farrani, my 13th nudibranch...
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There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for
This is the news we deserve.
“These are the 1st images of humpbacks having sex, and they're both males
'It was not what I was expecting,' says biologist Stephanie Stack”
“These are the 1st images of humpbacks having sex, and they're both males
'It was not what I was expecting,' says biologist Stephanie Stack”
These are the 1st images of humpbacks having sex, and they're both males | CBC Radio
Photographers Hawaii captured what scientists say is the first documentation of humpback whale sex.
www.cbc.ca
March 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for
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February 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Trogonoptera brookiana, Rajah Brooke’s Birdwing.
Malaysia’s national butterfly is quite a thing of beauty. Its black wings with emerald green feather-like markings, bright red head, and blue wing accents isn’t even its most remarkable feature. It’s probably the fact that it measures close to 15 cm
Malaysia’s national butterfly is quite a thing of beauty. Its black wings with emerald green feather-like markings, bright red head, and blue wing accents isn’t even its most remarkable feature. It’s probably the fact that it measures close to 15 cm
February 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Trogonoptera brookiana, Rajah Brooke’s Birdwing.
Malaysia’s national butterfly is quite a thing of beauty. Its black wings with emerald green feather-like markings, bright red head, and blue wing accents isn’t even its most remarkable feature. It’s probably the fact that it measures close to 15 cm
Malaysia’s national butterfly is quite a thing of beauty. Its black wings with emerald green feather-like markings, bright red head, and blue wing accents isn’t even its most remarkable feature. It’s probably the fact that it measures close to 15 cm
enormous urge to go to the parker river refuge to see Cool Birds on this saturday morning
February 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
enormous urge to go to the parker river refuge to see Cool Birds on this saturday morning
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CC @franzanth.bsky.social here we go, this chrysomelid is INDEED "trenching" the leaf tissue to cut off the flow of gross-tasting sap/latex to its desired feeding area...
February 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
CC @franzanth.bsky.social here we go, this chrysomelid is INDEED "trenching" the leaf tissue to cut off the flow of gross-tasting sap/latex to its desired feeding area...
Most beautiful eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis) at the feeder from a week ago, theyve started coming around more lately
February 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Most beautiful eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis) at the feeder from a week ago, theyve started coming around more lately
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February 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Starting today, same-sex marriage is officially legalized in Thailand.
It’s the first country in Southeast Asia to recognize marriage equality.
It’s the first country in Southeast Asia to recognize marriage equality.
January 23, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Starting today, same-sex marriage is officially legalized in Thailand.
It’s the first country in Southeast Asia to recognize marriage equality.
It’s the first country in Southeast Asia to recognize marriage equality.