Science!

Science teacher and all around geek-nerd. Masters degree in Environmental Science. Lenard, Lenore, Len or Lenny. They/them. I'm vaccinated!

[floridensis]

iNaturalist

which taxon are you quiz

[bug-lovers-island]

Fuck yeah man.

[gloriousclio]

Luke Skywalker put away his targeting computer to destroy the Death Star so I don't need AI to help me write an email.

[leighlew3]

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[docd666]

Y'all know what to do Tumblr.

[magnetothemagnificent]

So tired of the American culture around oral hygiene. You see it most in toothpaste or other similar dental products commercials. It's not "buy our toothpaste because it prevents painful infections", it's "be dentist ready" and ads showing people doing the "tissue test" to see how white their teeth are, as if the only reason you should practice good oral hygiene is because you're worried about the approval of others.

It's just...so harmful.

Oral hygiene is important, not because your teeth have to be perfectly white or because your dentist will judge you (they most likely won't), but because your mouth is part of your body and your health is important. The state of your mouth can impact the rest of your body, oral infections can become life-threating or impact your ability to properly eat or speak without pain. That's why you should care about oral hygiene- because it's your body and you deserve to live with as minimal pain and discomfort as possible- not because of some shallow beauty ideals.

I'm just so tired of the mainstream message of oral hygiene as being purely aesthetic. It's not. It's healthcare.

[sanscest69]

I just realized that many many people have jobs

Rb with your job, wtf do you people do while offline???

[herpsandbirds]

Who are your favorite Long Boys? Not like a snake (those are already long) like something you look at and go Why Are You So Long. Spindly weirdos (affectionate)

Have you considered Stick Bugs recently?

Giant Walking Stick, Megaphasma dentricus, family Diapheromeridae, Dripping Springs, TX, USA

photographed by NN Hefner

Peppermint Stick Insect (Megacrania batesii), family Phasmatidae, Cape Tribulation, Daintree Rainforest, Queensland, Australia

photograph by Florian Denis  

Peruvian Firestick aka Peruvian Fern Stick Insect (Oreophoetes peruana), family Diapheromeridae, found in alpine forests of Peru and Ecuador

Feed on various species of fern.

Females are larger and striped, males are red.

photographs by Roberto Sindaco & Dragus

Stick Insect (Orthonecroscia keatsooni), family Lonchodidae, Sabah, Borneo

photograph by Joseph L. Spencer

Stick Insect (Marmessoidea sp.), family Lonchodidae, Fraser’s Hill, Pahang, Malaysia

photographs by Janice Ang

[clusterbungle]

Happy 100th birthday David Attenborough, you absolute bloody legend 💖💖💖💖💖

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[gudamor]

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

[supersciencegeek]

Lizard ID help?

One of my students found a hitchhiker in their truck after a trip to South Carolina. They say the lizard is 2 inches for head and body, 4.5 inches head to tail.

[supersciencegeek]

Update: my student says the lizard turns green sometimes.

Green anole or brown anole?

[felixcloud6288]

Beetles are all "Yeah! I'm a badass motherfucking tank!" And then they trip and fall on their backs and can only flail their little legs.

[sentrysvoid]

Andor Harvest | 2.03

[boghermit]

Happy May the Fourth to this tweet specifically

[breelandwalker]

May the Fourth Be With You

Don’t forget to wear glitter, take your meds, and practice self-care in honor of our dear departed Space Mom.

Blessed Be She Who Drowned In Moonlight, Strangled By Her Own Bra

[accalialionheart]

[supersciencegeek]

Reminder to all high school students about to take AP exams:

The scores do Not go on your transcript

The scores do Not go on your college application

The scores do Not affect your gpa

The scores do Not affect your class rank

The scores do Not impact your grades

The scores do Not necessarily reflect who you are as a student

All they do is potentially change the intro courses you have to take during your freshmen year of college.

So they are really not worth stressing about.

[supersciencegeek]

Lizard ID help?

One of my students found a hitchhiker in their truck after a trip to South Carolina. They say the lizard is 2 inches for head and body, 4.5 inches head to tail.

[chamomile-teabag]

WHAT ARE YALL READING RN you must tell me