Little Nothings

Jessica. 26. She/they. Policy Researcher by day, Animal Crossing Villager by night.

[burgerdotcom]

reblogs were off

[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

[sysy-studyblr]

sunday 03/05/2026

i love studying. like i loooove learning new shit. yeah my ego gets in the way by associating knowing things with my worth - but when i stop personalizing it - learning is fucking fun. like new stuff? in my brain? yes please

♫ i wish radio edit - skee-lo ♫

[matchacakedragon]

once i master my adhd and stop believing that i’m waiting for my life to begin and accept what i cannot change and finish cleaning my room and stick to a productive schedule and drink enough water and meditate and organize all the important papers in the paper pile and start being consistent and say the nice things to myself and gain confidence its OVER for you bitches

[miiilowo]

where is my favorite painting i need to find my favorite painting

[miiilowo]

a break in their day by david hettinger. i loveyou

[peacefulandcozy]

ig credit: polly.florence

[midnightinshadow]

[midnightinshadow]

[academic-vampire]

𝔯𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔰 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔬𝔬𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔤

[ariaiscursed]

- chocolate and caramel

[macrolit]

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[matchagirl]

fawn socksssss

[imanbenerrabeh]

spring is for leather strap sandals and matcha lattes

[imanbenerrabeh]

every change of season looks like cinema

[yellow-cat]

actually hate that the bodys response to anything is nausea. ate too much? nauseous. ate too little? nauseous. an imaginary threat got you scared? be nauseous. on your period? you guessed it. sawed into your hand and need to go to the emergency room? perhaps throwing up into your open wound will be of help

[mortalityplays]

there is no single argument against including trans women in sports that doesn't boil down to "women aren't supposed to be good at this" and it's fucking insane to me that every woman in the world isn't up in arms about the way this issue has laid institutional misogyny bare to the bone