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©️ 2025 J. Raasch

@jraasch.bsky.social

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Interested in science, natural history, preserving biodiversity. Restoring and protecting a 2-acre prairie remnant for 20+ years 😱 ... I have a lot of questions. I try to read, but tend to fall asleep when I stop moving. Wisconsin

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©️ 2025 J. Raasch @jraasch.bsky.social · Jul 2

Need more constructive action.

Destroying what’s good to teach folks a lesson does not work.

Photo of yellow Coreopsis flower. Exists only because someone invested in preserving space for it to live.

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 12h

Deadwood is not dead

Mycena inclinata, the oak-stump bonnet cap

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Bumblebee Landscape and Garden Design @bumblebeelandscape.bsky.social · 3h

Boneset is a pollinator MAGNET. Between boneset, ironweed, goldenrod, and aster, you can attracts dozens of individuals from hundreds of different species to your yard every August and September! Planting natives that bloom in Spring and Summer will bring them, too, but Fall seems to be the busiest!

Erin Sherman 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 1d

and APPARENTLY I have never brought late boneset to a share before. lol; lmao even

🌱 #nativeplants

A monarch butterfly, richly orange as it nectars on white late boneset flowers.

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Mineral Cup #MinCup25 @mineralcup.bsky.social · 5h

Two weeks rest from Mineral Cup.

Two weeks to go until our FIRST EVER Ore Cup!!

a man in a white tank top and blue pants is holding a hammer

Alt: Zoolander model dramatically swinging a pick axe over his shoulder into a ready pose inside a stereotypical rock mine tunnel. The model is a man in a white tank top and blue pants

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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 3h

I'm looking for examples (ideally publicly available video or audio) of people who are concerned about climate change spreading misinformation (particularly solutions denial) for an upcoming @climateconnections.bsky.social project. Have you seen anything like this lately?

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Jelena Godrijan 🫧❾🌊🦋 @godi.bsky.social · 8d

They are architects of the sea, engineers of the air—capturing carbon, atom by atom.

While you breathe, they build. While you sleep, they safeguard our climate.

#InvisibleHeroes #OceanGuardians #ClimateWarriors #protistsonsky
Illustrations by Rosie Sheward

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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 8d

Life knows how to keep going - even if it’s freezing -15 degrees C 🥶 outside. AGU just covered our discovery of ultra resistant ice diatoms gliding into a world record! 🧪🔬Enjoy the story here:

eos.org/articles/ice...

Ice Diatoms Glide at Record-Low Temperatures - Eos

New observations reveal how microscopic organisms move through polar ice and illustrate how they may have evolved to thrive in extreme environments.

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©️ 2025 J. Raasch @jraasch.bsky.social · 18h

check near your eating station

©️ 2025 J. Raasch @jraasch.bsky.social · 18h

weird little guy, needs to get out more

©️ 2025 J. Raasch @jraasch.bsky.social · 22h

This is a great set of books!

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 1d

I do not exclude things I post as fact. Verify them too and if I am wrong let me know (and share where you verified it)

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 1d

This is a reminder to #verify everything you read online and not just on April 1. That catchy meme of a quote by the pope, that weird science fact, that "breaking news" headline that seems legit. Trust nothing until verified.

#StopDisinformation

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

it is more important to read books you actually enjoy reading than books that are Literature

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

If you're wondering whether or not to get a flu shot, I didn't get one in time, and I just had a fever dream where I was in the Drew Carey Show because several days ago I was on the Wikipedia page for the Drew Carey Show. You don't have to do this to yourself.

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©️ 2025 J. Raasch @jraasch.bsky.social · 1d

#NativePlants

SW Dane County, Wisconsin

Photo of a few bright red wild rose hips and light brown dry grass.

Photo of a few bright red wild rose hips, green/yellow rose leaves, and light brown dry grass.

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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 2d

Reupping oldie but (I think) a goodie in honor of Indigenous Peoples' Day. I think about the Tribal Climate Adaptation Menu and how to make reciprocity a priority in my reporting all the time.

@climateconnections.bsky.social
yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/06/by-p...

By paying attention, tribes in the Northwoods are leading the way on climate change » Yale Climate Connections

Anishinaabe tribes in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan are adapting to climate change by prioritizing relationship-building and observation of the land.

yaleclimateconnections.org

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Someone help … I suddenly want to find Japanese professional baseball on the internet … and I don’t watch baseball or any sport. Switching the phone off. Must read book . Must read book. Must read book.

Stoughton Road needs “speed bumps” of some sort. Add features to slow traffic. Seriously, two or three good roundabouts could reduce accidents. Good roundabouts. Not 100 mph ones you can’t recover from if you enter wrong lane; those are stupid and annoying.

imho most dangerous point is where Stoughton heading north suddenly becomes three lanes just before stop lights. Drivers speed up then slam the brakes when they encounter cars stopped at light. Maybe return this to two lanes?

Okay, I’ve studied the matter. Stoughton Road is fine. Two lanes both directions, long left and right turn lanes. No need for more lanes. They should look into demographics of drivers and figure out how to get them to obey speed limit.

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Dean Allison @deanallison.bsky.social · 3d

There is a lovely Phallus impudicus somewhere under that lot...
#fungi #mycology

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Anyway, this is not my job. It is an example of the fun and also time draining aspects of falling into an internet Rabbit Hole.

It is also an example of the growing resource of scanned documents from past centuries. I saw soooo much a person could read! And the #microscopy art is great.

There was a great 19th-century article reviewing the latest tools for cutting your own 'glass covers'. But, alas, I've lost the link.

It seems both 'thin glass cover' and 'cover glass' were both used, depending on journal, about 1855-1865. Perhaps that was the brief transition period.

Never-the-less, I learned a lot about the history of the cover glass, early use of mica instead of glass, tools for microscopists to cut and measure their own cover glass.

Here's an example of an important 19th-century #microscopy laboratory tool.

microscope-antiques.com/coverglassmi...

History of Cover Glass Micrometers

microscope-antiques.com

This started as simple curiosity regarding whether coverglass or coverslip was more often used, or whether there are regional preferences. And pretty soon I was scouring the literature, trying to find the earliest journal article using the term 'cover glass'. Julie was a bit worried about me.

This is the earliest use of 'cover glass' I could find. There were additional examples in 1855, 1858, 1869, 1870.

I'm sure someone who hasn't yet squandered as much as I have on this internet Rabbit Hole will find an earlier example.