vjbakker
@vjbmt.bsky.social
Work: endangered species recovery, condors, CA Channel Islands, Montana State Univ.
Hobbies: hiking, running, adventuring, gardening, jeffing, watching cycling 🐝🐝, LIV soccer, and good TV.
I still miss my dog
Hobbies: hiking, running, adventuring, gardening, jeffing, watching cycling 🐝🐝, LIV soccer, and good TV.
I still miss my dog
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October 3, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
I’m sorry but please🤷♀️… anyone but Tadej
July 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I’m sorry but please🤷♀️… anyone but Tadej
Nooooo! How is this possible?? I guess it’s good Jonas isn’t 45 seconds back and in real contention, but I feel cheated
July 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Nooooo! How is this possible?? I guess it’s good Jonas isn’t 45 seconds back and in real contention, but I feel cheated
Please don’t let Pog pass Jonas today. I can’t take anymore
July 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Please don’t let Pog pass Jonas today. I can’t take anymore
One of my favorite genres of science news, the unexpected animal friendship 🥰
Videos From the Amazon Reveal an Unexpected Animal Friendship
www.nytimes.com
July 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
One of my favorite genres of science news, the unexpected animal friendship 🥰
College son just texted mnemonic for geologic periods. “…hopefully”— so real bro
July 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
College son just texted mnemonic for geologic periods. “…hopefully”— so real bro
This targeted marketing is a bit too on the nose 😭
July 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This targeted marketing is a bit too on the nose 😭
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i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan
June 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan
Jonas fans, get hyped for TDF. He’s going to be better than he’s ever been before 😉
May 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Jonas fans, get hyped for TDF. He’s going to be better than he’s ever been before 😉
Adding dots to glass yields a conservation success for birds (lots of birds!)
An Illinois Building Was a Bird Killer. A Simple Change Made a World of Difference.
www.nytimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Adding dots to glass yields a conservation success for birds (lots of birds!)
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Honestly, I can't improve on this short clip from BBC Earth, which shows the first flight of a young *Siberian* flying squirrel, of which the 'Ezo' is a subspecies.
Truly masterful videography & narration. Worth a watch.
Truly masterful videography & narration. Worth a watch.
Baby Flying Squirrel Takes Flight for the First Time | Mammals | BBC Earth
YouTube video by BBC Earth
youtu.be
May 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Honestly, I can't improve on this short clip from BBC Earth, which shows the first flight of a young *Siberian* flying squirrel, of which the 'Ezo' is a subspecies.
Truly masterful videography & narration. Worth a watch.
Truly masterful videography & narration. Worth a watch.
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Camus: Under conditions so desperate, the hard, marvelous task of this century is to create justice in the most unjust of worlds, and to protect freedom from those souls who, out of principle, choose servitude. If we fail, man will return to darkness. But at least we will have fought to find light.
November 16, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Camus: Under conditions so desperate, the hard, marvelous task of this century is to create justice in the most unjust of worlds, and to protect freedom from those souls who, out of principle, choose servitude. If we fail, man will return to darkness. But at least we will have fought to find light.
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Y'all, there's 11 #HandsOff events next weekend in MONTANA. Just to give you a sense of scale. Find yours: handsoff2025.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Y'all, there's 11 #HandsOff events next weekend in MONTANA. Just to give you a sense of scale. Find yours: handsoff2025.com
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Sanders: I will tell you what I think the worst addiction in this country is, the most dangerous, and that is the greed of the oligarchs. Everybody wants to do well. These guys already have billions, tens of billions, hundreds of billions. How much money do you need?
March 22, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Sanders: I will tell you what I think the worst addiction in this country is, the most dangerous, and that is the greed of the oligarchs. Everybody wants to do well. These guys already have billions, tens of billions, hundreds of billions. How much money do you need?
My dad was a teen in WW2 Nazi-occupied Netherlands, before emigrating to the US. He always had such patriotic feelings towards his adopted country. We still have the flag my Oma made from bedsheets that the family displayed on liberation day.
I’m so grateful he’s not around to see this travesty
I’m so grateful he’s not around to see this travesty
March 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
My dad was a teen in WW2 Nazi-occupied Netherlands, before emigrating to the US. He always had such patriotic feelings towards his adopted country. We still have the flag my Oma made from bedsheets that the family displayed on liberation day.
I’m so grateful he’s not around to see this travesty
I’m so grateful he’s not around to see this travesty
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February 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Stunning
Lovely naturalistic scene of birds and a butterfly in a papyrus thicket, carved by an ancient Egyptian artisan some 4,500 years ago!
Faint traces of paint survive on this limestone wall relief from the funerary temple of king Userkaf. Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me
#ReliefWednesday
#Archaeology
Faint traces of paint survive on this limestone wall relief from the funerary temple of king Userkaf. Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me
#ReliefWednesday
#Archaeology
February 20, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Stunning
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this Adrienne Rich poem from the @yalereview.bsky.social archives sucker punched me this am
February 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
this Adrienne Rich poem from the @yalereview.bsky.social archives sucker punched me this am
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Some good news
World's oldest known wild bird, Wisdom, cares for her newly hatched chick at 74
Wisdom, a 74-year-old Laysan albatross, is the world's oldest known wild bird. She also just became a mother yet again.
eu.usatoday.com
February 19, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Some good news
I’m glad I read this obituary. Fascinating research. Thanks bluesky
A great scientist, gone way too soon, memorialized in this
fascinating obituary
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/s...
fascinating obituary
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/s...
Eleanor Maguire, Memory Expert Who Studied London Cabbies, Dies at 54
By watching the brain process information, she discovered that a specific region plays a key role in spatial navigation — and that it can be strengthened like a muscle.
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I’m glad I read this obituary. Fascinating research. Thanks bluesky
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One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.
February 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.