Scholar's don't have to lack a sense of humor

Hi there, I reblog what I like on here (Pokemon, Biology, and gayness), as well as my art and aquaria. I'm a now a PhD (graduated!!!) studying fish, so expect a bias there. I hope you enjoy your visit and have a wonderful day! (he/him, they/them) BLM!!! TERFs and Nazi's not welcome here.

[montereybayaquarium]

This Pride Month, we’re celebrating the beauty of diversity above and below the surface. The ocean is full of vibrant life in every color imaginable. It reminds us that nature thrives when everyone has space to belong.

Environmental advocacy and the LGBTQ+ rights movement share a common purpose: protecting vulnerable communities, caring for the spaces we all call home, and creating a world where we all can flourish. Our world is brightest when people can live authentically, love freely, and be embraced for who they are. From rainbow reefs to shimmering tides, diversity makes our blue planet stronger, healthier, and more inspiring.

Here’s to protecting our ocean, uplifting every voice, and honoring the colorful communities that make this world so wonderful.

[marvinthecrow]

Happy New Year! 🎉✨️

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[gay-irl]

[judgejudyofficial]

yeah u freaks up north look and sound exactly like this when u pretend that us southern queers are perfectly complicit in our own eradication - for the heinous crime of not living in a liberal population center.

[hoshikostar]

[glitterygolem]

I keep this image on hand for whenever I see similar sentiments.

[westofvenus]

men in the 70s were like “I’m so very hairy how sexy of me” and they were right

[dsmsix]

[dsmsix]

[naamahdarling]

"In the same way that your heart feels and your mind thinks, you, mortal beings, are the instrument by which the universe cares. If you choose to care, then the universe cares. If you don't, then it doesn't." -- Brennan Lee Mulligan, D20, Fantasy High

[defilerwyrm]

[pusong-mangga]

[halondrus]

[violintbiologist]

The really quite unfortunate cuteness problem

I think it's safe to say that everybody knows about how giant pandas are at risk, but have you ever heard of the Yangtze river dolphin? No? Well, both were going extinct, but in 2006 while us regular people were donating money to save the giant panda, the Yangtze river dolphin was quietly slipping away in the wild, and was declared functionally extinct (meaning they are still found in nature reserves but not in the wild) that same year. Plants are completely out of the question in terms of cuteness conservation. Did you know that 71% of all cycads are considered threatened with extinction? 34% of conifers? Whole ecosystems could crash and burn because of our lackadaisical efforts. All this preamble to say, us humans have a problem. And our problem is that we are 100% biased towards saving what we deem cute animals, or, in conservation terms, poster species - whales, pandas, polar bears, elephants, and the like. My ecology professor brought up a great point when she said poster animals can be useful to bring in donations for broader wildlife conservation funding, but what if there's so little public knowledge about these species that they can't even attract the funding from these larger organizations? What about ugly reptiles? Amphibians? Who's going to eat all the horseflies and mosquitoes? Even then, those species eating bugs that we find annoying are still useful to us, whereas species that may be useful to their habitat at large go completely unnoticed and go extinct quietly into the night.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[blanketfortarchitect]

[rebloggingistheenemy]

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[feministfandomforever]

Can't help but giggle is my favorite genre

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[luciebryon]

New Horizon, an Animal Crossing fancomic 

2020

[depsidase]

[kaienmaart]

who let the dog drive the boat

[dazeylo]

Caught on camera for the first time in history, this is the extremely-rare Chirodectes Maculatus—a species of spotted box jelly.

[pokefunsies]

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[dragongirl-weed]

transcription by @jub3r7

"This is getting ridiculous now. Where did you find this contraption? How did you build it? You're not really rolling them straight :/ I'm not sure I like this at all, I don't like the noise. See what's the point! That didn't break with the contraption, so it doesn't coun- I liked that one. That one was neat and clean. It was a clean break. Don't like the noise - she was with chil- you're BEATING the child! It's just sick. It's twisted - HE was with child. Okay. Something about this is... where are these children coming from? Seems unnecessary that they're all pregnant. Just straight beating that Pepsi and their plastic. I don't like this - it's SADISTIC. This is sadistic. I don't - they're SPRITZING me!" *from other video, a man's voice, vaguely sounding like a moan: oooooooooh. oohhhh* lady: "I'm sorry. What was that?" *last bottle falls* (with disappointment) "No."