Kannon Pearson 🏳️⚧️
@taricha-rivularis.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley | Newts, toxins, and gay frogs!
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July 22, 2025 at 4:52 AM
It's pretty rare to hear, but newts can vocalize. Listen to this lil guy squeak at me!
July 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
It's pretty rare to hear, but newts can vocalize. Listen to this lil guy squeak at me!
At the end of my #JMIH25 presentation, I thanked the Carl Gans Travelling Fellowship for funding my attendance. The auto-generated caption software heard something VERY different ☠️🏳️🌈
July 17, 2025 at 6:19 AM
At the end of my #JMIH25 presentation, I thanked the Carl Gans Travelling Fellowship for funding my attendance. The auto-generated caption software heard something VERY different ☠️🏳️🌈
A rough skinned newt falling off a log. He did Not want to stay for a photo
April 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
A rough skinned newt falling off a log. He did Not want to stay for a photo
I drew a desert tortoise shell for the @mvzucb.bsky.social specimen art night! You can see the accession number on some of the scutes and exposed bones
#sciart #illustration #art #museum
#sciart #illustration #art #museum
April 12, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I drew a desert tortoise shell for the @mvzucb.bsky.social specimen art night! You can see the accession number on some of the scutes and exposed bones
#sciart #illustration #art #museum
#sciart #illustration #art #museum
Some #art for a friend inspired by @mouseguard.bsky.social! They requested a giant mouse barbarian. I based the character on Petter's mouse, a very big species from Madagascar known from just one specimen! I also included an eastern falanouc teeth and skull, tho the species ranges don't rly overlap
April 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Some #art for a friend inspired by @mouseguard.bsky.social! They requested a giant mouse barbarian. I based the character on Petter's mouse, a very big species from Madagascar known from just one specimen! I also included an eastern falanouc teeth and skull, tho the species ranges don't rly overlap
A long (5ft) and lovely Sonoran gopher #snake (Pituophis catenifer affinis) that I saw in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument last week!
#photography #herpetology
#photography #herpetology
April 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
A long (5ft) and lovely Sonoran gopher #snake (Pituophis catenifer affinis) that I saw in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument last week!
#photography #herpetology
#photography #herpetology
A bit belated, but happy trans day of visibility to those who celebrate! I’m so grateful to have the opportunity to exist and be visible as a trans person in professional, personal, and fieldwork settings. Thought it would be fun to share a pic of each!
April 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
A bit belated, but happy trans day of visibility to those who celebrate! I’m so grateful to have the opportunity to exist and be visible as a trans person in professional, personal, and fieldwork settings. Thought it would be fun to share a pic of each!
My sketches from yesterday’s @mvzucb.bsky.social specimen art night! The theme was #Shrek — look at the lil “shrek ears” on the beaver skull! And a scrub jay to represent the bird that Fiona exploded via singing competition. #sciart #museum #illustration
March 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
My sketches from yesterday’s @mvzucb.bsky.social specimen art night! The theme was #Shrek — look at the lil “shrek ears” on the beaver skull! And a scrub jay to represent the bird that Fiona exploded via singing competition. #sciart #museum #illustration
Really excited to be involved with organizing this! I sketched a spectacled bear #skull last time. We are ultimately hoping to accession all of the specimen art on Arctos. The theme this week is 💚✨Shrek✨💚, and we will be sketching various swamp creatures! #sciart #art #illustration #museum
March 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Really excited to be involved with organizing this! I sketched a spectacled bear #skull last time. We are ultimately hoping to accession all of the specimen art on Arctos. The theme this week is 💚✨Shrek✨💚, and we will be sketching various swamp creatures! #sciart #art #illustration #museum
Oh god, not the cell line development demons 😱
February 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Oh god, not the cell line development demons 😱
Shocked and delighted to encounter this beautiful California #Newt (Taricha torosa) with dark eyes (photo with purple gloves). Typically, CA newts have bright yellow patches in the iris. The eyes of this newt more closely resemble those of a red bellied newt — T. rivularis!
#herpetology #taricha
#herpetology #taricha
February 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Shocked and delighted to encounter this beautiful California #Newt (Taricha torosa) with dark eyes (photo with purple gloves). Typically, CA newts have bright yellow patches in the iris. The eyes of this newt more closely resemble those of a red bellied newt — T. rivularis!
#herpetology #taricha
#herpetology #taricha
When purchasing field snacks for my team, I go to Target, enter a trance-state, and purchase whatever horrid lil corporate novelty strikes my fancy. This time, it was micro Doritos. The team debated whether they tasted any different from normal ones. They don’t imo
January 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM
When purchasing field snacks for my team, I go to Target, enter a trance-state, and purchase whatever horrid lil corporate novelty strikes my fancy. This time, it was micro Doritos. The team debated whether they tasted any different from normal ones. They don’t imo
and I ducked a collaborator’s jeep. Absolutely peak field day
January 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
and I ducked a collaborator’s jeep. Absolutely peak field day
Rough week salvaged by this view: a newt breeding pond overlooking the Pacific ocean. I set up my field lab under the oak tree
January 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Rough week salvaged by this view: a newt breeding pond overlooking the Pacific ocean. I set up my field lab under the oak tree
Nevertheless, I find their meaty legs and shiny eyes quite endearing 🥲🥺. Our group chat still talks about and makes memes of Cregg from time to time
January 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Nevertheless, I find their meaty legs and shiny eyes quite endearing 🥲🥺. Our group chat still talks about and makes memes of Cregg from time to time
Thicc thighs end lives when you are an invasive bullfrog :,)
January 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Thicc thighs end lives when you are an invasive bullfrog :,)
12. Run Away Together
Gay Score: 10/10. Not a creature card, but nevertheless: LOOK AT THEM. Pulla had a lillypad hat and pulled (pulla’d?) a literal Otter. T4T dream relationship
Submitted by: @agentlaughingperch.bsky.social
Gay Score: 10/10. Not a creature card, but nevertheless: LOOK AT THEM. Pulla had a lillypad hat and pulled (pulla’d?) a literal Otter. T4T dream relationship
Submitted by: @agentlaughingperch.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
12. Run Away Together
Gay Score: 10/10. Not a creature card, but nevertheless: LOOK AT THEM. Pulla had a lillypad hat and pulled (pulla’d?) a literal Otter. T4T dream relationship
Submitted by: @agentlaughingperch.bsky.social
Gay Score: 10/10. Not a creature card, but nevertheless: LOOK AT THEM. Pulla had a lillypad hat and pulled (pulla’d?) a literal Otter. T4T dream relationship
Submitted by: @agentlaughingperch.bsky.social
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally:
January 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally:
11. Spore Frog
Gay Score: 9/10. A FROG that’s also a MUSHROOM? If only Prophecy came out in 2019 instead of 2000, Spore Frog would’ve been the face of cottagecore. Tbh, he may be skrunkled enough to qualify as goblincore. Missed opportunity #wotc
Requested by: @namknarf.bsky.social
Gay Score: 9/10. A FROG that’s also a MUSHROOM? If only Prophecy came out in 2019 instead of 2000, Spore Frog would’ve been the face of cottagecore. Tbh, he may be skrunkled enough to qualify as goblincore. Missed opportunity #wotc
Requested by: @namknarf.bsky.social
January 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
11. Spore Frog
Gay Score: 9/10. A FROG that’s also a MUSHROOM? If only Prophecy came out in 2019 instead of 2000, Spore Frog would’ve been the face of cottagecore. Tbh, he may be skrunkled enough to qualify as goblincore. Missed opportunity #wotc
Requested by: @namknarf.bsky.social
Gay Score: 9/10. A FROG that’s also a MUSHROOM? If only Prophecy came out in 2019 instead of 2000, Spore Frog would’ve been the face of cottagecore. Tbh, he may be skrunkled enough to qualify as goblincore. Missed opportunity #wotc
Requested by: @namknarf.bsky.social
10. Glarb, Calamity’s Augur
Gay Score: 6/10. Gay in a queer-coded Disney villain sorta way (shout out Andreas Deja). Glarb lounges, sneers, and gathers land and resources. You’ll never know for sure which side of the lilly pad Glarb’s on, but the vibes be fruity
Requested by: @namknarf.bsky.social
Gay Score: 6/10. Gay in a queer-coded Disney villain sorta way (shout out Andreas Deja). Glarb lounges, sneers, and gathers land and resources. You’ll never know for sure which side of the lilly pad Glarb’s on, but the vibes be fruity
Requested by: @namknarf.bsky.social
January 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
10. Glarb, Calamity’s Augur
Gay Score: 6/10. Gay in a queer-coded Disney villain sorta way (shout out Andreas Deja). Glarb lounges, sneers, and gathers land and resources. You’ll never know for sure which side of the lilly pad Glarb’s on, but the vibes be fruity
Requested by: @namknarf.bsky.social
Gay Score: 6/10. Gay in a queer-coded Disney villain sorta way (shout out Andreas Deja). Glarb lounges, sneers, and gathers land and resources. You’ll never know for sure which side of the lilly pad Glarb’s on, but the vibes be fruity
Requested by: @namknarf.bsky.social
9. Keimi
Gay Score: PARTNER?!?
Gay Score: PARTNER?!?
January 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
9. Keimi
Gay Score: PARTNER?!?
Gay Score: PARTNER?!?
7. Frogmite
Gay Score: Frogmite is frog, mite, and neither. As an artifact creature, frogmite isn’t made of cells, but metal shaped into the form of frog — not biology but concept made material. Nothing is Realer than artifice. 10/10, Frogmite is trans.
Requested by @wildwallacephoto.bsky.social
Gay Score: Frogmite is frog, mite, and neither. As an artifact creature, frogmite isn’t made of cells, but metal shaped into the form of frog — not biology but concept made material. Nothing is Realer than artifice. 10/10, Frogmite is trans.
Requested by @wildwallacephoto.bsky.social
January 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
7. Frogmite
Gay Score: Frogmite is frog, mite, and neither. As an artifact creature, frogmite isn’t made of cells, but metal shaped into the form of frog — not biology but concept made material. Nothing is Realer than artifice. 10/10, Frogmite is trans.
Requested by @wildwallacephoto.bsky.social
Gay Score: Frogmite is frog, mite, and neither. As an artifact creature, frogmite isn’t made of cells, but metal shaped into the form of frog — not biology but concept made material. Nothing is Realer than artifice. 10/10, Frogmite is trans.
Requested by @wildwallacephoto.bsky.social