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there's a family of local sandhill cranes that adopted an abandoned goose last summer and they're STILL together today even after migration.... i love them + they're local celebrities + nature is beautiful

chujellys

yesterday’s update… 📸 everyone is paparazzi when ur this famous…

#animals

bonesbeetle

my thrall told me it wanted to be more independent so i imprisoned its soul in a necklace. how's that for in de pendant you little shit

linsaangs

a reptile rescue i follow on instagram has announced that they are still looking to adopt out. uh. this.

um.

so this is phantom, he's a 5 foot long black dragon asian monitor lizard. he needs a minimum of a 10x6x6 feet enclosure. he's also a rescue and thus needs proper training and socialization work from the new owner.

i love him.

i doubt anyone who follows me has the means to adopt him, but he's in southern california, if anyone knows anyone to contact about taking in this big boy.

#animals

prettyboysdontlookatexplosions

ok mood thank u emily dickinson relatable queen

blignick

doggirlpaws

When I see a video of a cat minding its own business with nothing else going on I unmute immediately cause I know that mf is about to make a funny noise

tonysaintborgi

pushed over by ghosts! sad

#animals

aqua-regia009

Oil paintings by Peter Gardiner (Australian, b.1965)

https://www.instagram.com/p.l.gardiner/

#this art is fire #artwork

spencerthespacer-deactivated202

fox-in-the-wheat-deactivated202

THIS IS THE HARDEST I HAVE LAUGHED IN SO LONG YOU HAVE CURED MY DEPRESSION

ywg

This is one of the greatest posts I’ve ever witnessed. The payoff was amazing.

randomslasher

My roommate heard it going and went “OH MY GOD is it EVER going to resolve?” then the payoff hit and she busted up laughing

monster2001

Can everything you do be about me forever

monster2001

??

hexagonopus

you literally asked

earthdad

i will not stop doing peace signs in photos until there is world peace

thelegendofjenna

I'm trying to take the high road but I'm like, dragging myself bleeding and sobbing along the high road while looking so so longingly at the low road

rattyjol

#AND that fucker taking the low road is going to get to Scotland afore me. very annoying.

thingsfromthedirt

tiktoksthataregood-ish

#animals #see? him face

anyonewestofbree

When your enrichment’s too scary…..

anyonewestofbree

August 26th is International African Painted Dog Day! Celebrate these little goobers with me!!

#animals #they're so cuuuuuute

wiisagi-maiingan

Teach your children to respect animals and the world around them. Teach them that nature isn't their toy and that their actions have consequences. Teach them compassion for other beings and creatures.

wiisagi-maiingan

A lot of people on this post are focusing on pets, which is fair but not what I intended. Any decent pet owner would teach their children how to respect their pets, their dogs and cats and the like, but pretty much everyone neglects lessons about other animals and nature in general.

Teach your kids that:

nests are important and that they need to be left untouched and undisturbed

they should NEVER take an animal that they find outside and that if they find an injured animal, they should give it space and find an adult to help

wild animals in general need a wide berth and that ANY animal can be dangerous if it feels threatened

wild animals are not pets under any circumstances

it's kinder and very easy to catch and release bugs outside instead of killing them

all bugs are important, even spiders and wasps and other scary ones

everything in nature has a job in general, and everything has a role to fill

something being scary or creepy does not mean it deserves to die

yeetacai

Let other living beings have autonomy. They're living their own lives, doing their own thing. There's no reason to disrupt them. If your paths cross, let them be. If you have to have to interact, then any interact should happen with the least amount of harm possible (which also includes stress).

#animals #kids

glendathegoodone

enchantingcheesecakepersona

rosesonkittens

I've always written everything by hand before typing. Staring at a blank word document doesn't inspire the words to come.

But a blank paper and a blue pen and the words come at a steady pace.

panaeolus-fimicola

As traditional handwriting is progressively being replaced by digital devices, it is essential to investigate the implications for the human

aaaand here's a link to the paper :)

aparrotandaqrow

There's a pretty damning commentary on this paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1517235/full

In short:

they didn't actually measure changes in learning; they measured theta waves which don't have a clear link to learning

They evaluated adults, not children

They didn't have participants do any encoding activities; they were mindlessly typing the same thing over and over

They didn't allow participants to actually type; they had them 'type' with one finger of their right hand, when there's plenty of evidence that using both hands while encoding information leads to increased brain activity.

They couldn't see what they were typing (no visual feedback), so any error-correction processes the brain would usually run were impaired

The handwriting part of the experiment was completely normal and representative of using handwriting to record information.

They didn't actually report the raw data or conduct any statistical analysis for the two parts of the experiment individually; only the differences between the two groups.

Honestly, that is....shockingly bad. Like I'm surprised this passed peer review and it makes me wonder about the journal. Of course educational science is a joke of a field anyway with little scientific rigour over the last 50 years, so maybe that's not surprising. But this sure as hell sounds like this researcher walked into this project already convinced that handwriting is better for children's learning than typing and screens, and then rigged an experiment to support that bias. If I were the editor I would retract the paper, not just include a link to the commentary.

quinloki

they had them 'type' with one finger of their right hand

The incandescent WHAT?! that boiled out of my mouth had my spouse worried I was reading some world-ending news.

I mean, look, I love the idea of "writing by hand helps with learning" because it sounds good. There's a feel good to it I can appreciate, and as someone who was worked for hours upon hours to have beautiful penmanship, I was ready to accept this.

But I've also written two books by hand, and I've written several books via typing, and there's no difference cognitively speaking. If anything, typing is more efficient, easier to edit, and less stress on my fingers because I would often write pages and pages within a day until half my left hand was bruised.

This is just one of those posts I'm glad I went all the way through, because my initial knee-jerk reaction was "huh, neat." followed by "I don't know if this tracks..." and then ending with "Oooooooh, okay. That makes sense" when I got down to the last bit about how it was basically the writing version of the vaccines cause autism paper. (i.e. the author had an end result they wanted, and made everything fit that).

And hey, writing by hand is both fun and valid, and rock on if that's how you do it, but don't let some slipshod paper powered by what feels like a very snobbish "pens and penmanship are superior" dupe you into thinking you're making cute little brain pathways vs your drooling typist peers.