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cheryl @cherylchooljian.bsky.social · 7h

Echeveria are getting ready to plant! This process has been fun to watch, and has been so much more successful than my past attempts at succulent propagation. I think the humidity and temperature ranges here are fairly similar to their native habitat, which probably helps a lot.

cheryl @cherylchooljian.bsky.social · 1d

The one I'm more familiar with: www.merckvetmanual.com/digestive-sy...

Gastric Dilation and Volvulus in Small Animals - Digestive System - Merck Veterinary Manual

Learn about the veterinary topic of Gastric Dilation and Volvulus in Small Animals. Find specific details on this topic and related topics from the Merck Vet Manual.

www.merckvetmanual.com

cheryl @cherylchooljian.bsky.social · 1d

Today I learned that humans can get GDV, and it has a similar mortality rate as dogs, with 80% of human cases diagnosed at autopsy. So now I want to schedule myself a spay with a preventative stomach tack. 😅
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric...

Gastric volvulus - Wikipedia

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 6d

US documents dozens of new #avian flu cases in wild birds as PAHO notes human case

Affected states include Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...

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cheryl @cherylchooljian.bsky.social · 8d

Unfortunate update: Lemon verbena cuttings rot rather than root in water. *sad slide trombone sound*

cheryl @cherylchooljian.bsky.social · 8d

Pretty sure these are the only stickers I've ever seen shown next to a scale bar. My standards for acceptable photos of stickers just got raised a little higher.

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cheryl @cherylchooljian.bsky.social · 9d

Visitor at work today. 🖤 Must have heard that tarantulas are welcome here! Also I am very proud of myself for not tickling their velvety little toes even though I really really wanted to. 🥺 (Tarantulas, like most wild animals, generally do not appreciate that.)

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cheryl @cherylchooljian.bsky.social · 16d

Can't stop, won't stop. 🪴 Newest addition to the office windowsill garden: Lemon verbena. Someone left some cuttings in the break room for people to take, so I'm attempting to root some of them. I historically have a tough time growing container herbs, so we'll see how this goes.

Lemon verbena cuttings in a clear glass jar on a white windowsill

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cheryl @cherylchooljian.bsky.social · 17d

Asking Squeaky every night if she would prefer to eat "the crunchy or the smooth?" As if I'm not just going to give the 19-year-old lady both anyway. 😸

cheryl @cherylchooljian.bsky.social · 17d

Sometimes people ask about the most memorable case I've had in wildlife med. There's so many, but the experience I think about most often was when I tried to give a great-horned owl a flavored medicine hidden inside a mouse chunk. Turns out owls do not, in fact, enjoy tutti-frutti flavored mice.

cheryl @cherylchooljian.bsky.social · 17d

The book: amheath.com/books/the-dr...

The Dressing Station

In a mixture of reportage, confession and exposition Kaplan talks about the practice of medicine and of its shortcomings, because medicine is not always benign or balanced. At its extremes it is a pro...

amheath.com

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cheryl @cherylchooljian.bsky.social · 17d

Just took a book off the shelf I've been meaning to read for years, only to find in my library app that I did read it, all 407 pages, over the span of two days in 2018.

I guess I liked it. 🤷‍♀️

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20d

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

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cheryl @cherylchooljian.bsky.social · Sep 20

I know carnival season is months away but I thought of this joke today and if I wait to post it I'll forget or decide it's not funny so here it is

cheryl @cherylchooljian.bsky.social · Sep 20

Martini: Shake, don't stir.
Paint: Stir, don't shake.
Good Times: Let them roll.

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cheryl @cherylchooljian.bsky.social · Sep 18

My brain:
The FIRST Great Depression
The FIRST Civil War

Anyway that's what my anxiety's been muttering to me, in case you were curious. [2/2]

cheryl @cherylchooljian.bsky.social · Sep 18

You know that trope in time travel media where the time traveler meets someone from 1915 or so and says something like, "Oh wow, the first world war!" And a local goes, "Hey what do you mean, the FIRST world war??" [1/2]

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cheryl @cherylchooljian.bsky.social · Sep 17

I'm very glad humans do not have parthenogenesis, because if the rest of human female biology is any indicator, we'd be popping out a clone of ourselves every month for roughly half of our lives.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Sep 2

I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops.

I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops.

I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.

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cheryl @cherylchooljian.bsky.social · Sep 3

Me: "phimosis surgical correction"
Google: 🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆

cheryl @cherylchooljian.bsky.social · Sep 3

If you look up anything, literally anything to do with veterinary medicine, include the word "veterinary" in your search, or you'll be bombarded with human medicine images. It's especially important for anything to do with reproductive organ surgery.
Sincerely,
Scarred for Life in Santa Barbara

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cheryl @cherylchooljian.bsky.social · Sep 2

It is extra crispy along the beach bluffs, but the purple western morning glories are still blooming.

calscape.org/Calystegia-p...

cheryl @cherylchooljian.bsky.social · Aug 10

Just opened a blog post by someone with the first name "Al". Almost closed it without reading because I interpreted that second letter as an upper case I instead of a lower case L. 🙃 Sorry, Al, I'll read your thoughtful, human writing now!

cheryl @cherylchooljian.bsky.social · Aug 7

Got my 2025-2026 seasonal flu vaccine today, the earliest I've ever had one! I usually drag myself in around December or January. 😅

www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-ge...

Companies start flu vaccine shipments ahead of 2025-26 season

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Jul 31

I’ve partnered with the Center for Wildlife Studies to make an online take-at-your-own-pace version of my “public science engagement using social media” professional development workshop.

You can take it for graduate course credit, CPE credit, or just to learn a useful new skill.

Public Science Engagement Using Social Media — Center for Wildlife Studies

www.centerforwildlifestudies.org

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