The One True Kat
@theonetruekat.bsky.social
Biologist. Californian. Madly in love with nature. Always outside. Garden nerd. Cyclist. Big fan of informed democracy. Sheltering and supporting as many people as possible. She/her/y’all All photos mine unless credited.
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Since I have to reintroduce myself after the move:
I’m Kat. California biologist, currently in Davis. Herpetologist. 15 years in private consulting (utility and infrastructure), mostly as a field nerd, doing surveys for local flora/fauna and passing on whatever niche wisdom I can.
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I’m Kat. California biologist, currently in Davis. Herpetologist. 15 years in private consulting (utility and infrastructure), mostly as a field nerd, doing surveys for local flora/fauna and passing on whatever niche wisdom I can.
🦎🐸🐟🐻🦉🐝🐍🐢🌿
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Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
December 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
Yeah, she’s ugly but she’s mine. #sourdough
December 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Yeah, she’s ugly but she’s mine. #sourdough
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December 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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It's day 13 of the invertebrate macro photo #ArtAdventCalendar.
Here, have a teeny tiny little monarch caterpillar 😘
Here, have a teeny tiny little monarch caterpillar 😘
December 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It's day 13 of the invertebrate macro photo #ArtAdventCalendar.
Here, have a teeny tiny little monarch caterpillar 😘
Here, have a teeny tiny little monarch caterpillar 😘
Is there a better owl than the “ghost of the forest”? I submit to you there is not. 🪶
December 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Is there a better owl than the “ghost of the forest”? I submit to you there is not. 🪶
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Meet Balanus Nubilus. It's commonly called the giant acorn barnacle, and is the world's largest barnacle.
..and other trivia about barnacles in general.
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As Captain Haddock would screech, "Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon!"
#marinelife #barnacles
..and other trivia about barnacles in general.
🌊
As Captain Haddock would screech, "Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon!"
#marinelife #barnacles
December 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Meet Balanus Nubilus. It's commonly called the giant acorn barnacle, and is the world's largest barnacle.
..and other trivia about barnacles in general.
🌊
As Captain Haddock would screech, "Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon!"
#marinelife #barnacles
..and other trivia about barnacles in general.
🌊
As Captain Haddock would screech, "Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon!"
#marinelife #barnacles
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December 13, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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🧵2/2 When I can freeze and just watch a #herp go about its business, it's just the best experience. While I watched, this little serpent (18in) poked its nose into nooks and crannies along the log and in the leaf litter, looking for lizard or perhaps a toad. #herps #snakes #NaturePhotography 🌿
December 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
🧵2/2 When I can freeze and just watch a #herp go about its business, it's just the best experience. While I watched, this little serpent (18in) poked its nose into nooks and crannies along the log and in the leaf litter, looking for lizard or perhaps a toad. #herps #snakes #NaturePhotography 🌿
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🧵1/2 It's a family vacation, but I did get a little herping in today, and saw two of one of my favorite south Texas #snakes, the Speckled Racer (Drymobius margaritiferus). I watched this juvenile forage along the top and sides of a palm log for about twenty minutes. #herps #NaturePhotography 🌿
December 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
🧵1/2 It's a family vacation, but I did get a little herping in today, and saw two of one of my favorite south Texas #snakes, the Speckled Racer (Drymobius margaritiferus). I watched this juvenile forage along the top and sides of a palm log for about twenty minutes. #herps #NaturePhotography 🌿
Also #herps and #fieldbiologists, check out this job opportunity! If I was 10 years younger…. Wooo what an awesome job.
www.conservationjobboard.com/job-listing-...
www.conservationjobboard.com/job-listing-...
Project Coordinator – Sierra Nevada Amphibian Monitoring Program | Sonora, CA
Dec 11 - Integral Ecology Research Center hiring Project Coordinator – Sierra Nevada Amphibian Monitoring Program in Sonora, California on Conservation Job Board. Discover the latest conservation jobs...
www.conservationjobboard.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Also #herps and #fieldbiologists, check out this job opportunity! If I was 10 years younger…. Wooo what an awesome job.
www.conservationjobboard.com/job-listing-...
www.conservationjobboard.com/job-listing-...
Hippo vet days mean 6 hours of round trip driving. We are wiped
December 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Hippo vet days mean 6 hours of round trip driving. We are wiped
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The idea of framing this vainglorious billionaire lot as modern day versions of the gritty, hard-bitten, working class, manual laborers who, for a pittance of wages, risked their lives and used their hands to make real the skyscraper dreams of the wealthy and middle classes is….lunacy.
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The idea of framing this vainglorious billionaire lot as modern day versions of the gritty, hard-bitten, working class, manual laborers who, for a pittance of wages, risked their lives and used their hands to make real the skyscraper dreams of the wealthy and middle classes is….lunacy.
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you ever think about how buck wild it must have been to be the first European colonizer to see a hummingbird?
“i saw a tiny bug that was also a bird, and it had hatred in its heart.”
“i saw a tiny bug that was also a bird, and it had hatred in its heart.”
December 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
you ever think about how buck wild it must have been to be the first European colonizer to see a hummingbird?
“i saw a tiny bug that was also a bird, and it had hatred in its heart.”
“i saw a tiny bug that was also a bird, and it had hatred in its heart.”
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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Central California is currently experiencing one of the most remarkable temperature inversions I've ever seen in this part of the world. The Central Valley remains miserably damp & chilly under dense fog layer, but it's balmily warm & sunny just 2,000ft up nearby mountain slopes!
December 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Central California is currently experiencing one of the most remarkable temperature inversions I've ever seen in this part of the world. The Central Valley remains miserably damp & chilly under dense fog layer, but it's balmily warm & sunny just 2,000ft up nearby mountain slopes!
Got the printer up and running again so I can make Toad awards for the survey crews. Design for American Toad by @lincolnsavi.bsky.social (although I’m painting it up as Anaxyrus boreas). #herps
December 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Got the printer up and running again so I can make Toad awards for the survey crews. Design for American Toad by @lincolnsavi.bsky.social (although I’m painting it up as Anaxyrus boreas). #herps
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GO OUTSIDE AND SPY ON BIRDS THEN REPORT THEM TO A CENTRAL DATABASE
Audubon's Christmas Bird Count starts this Sunday and runs through January 5th. This is a 126-year tradition that has built a critically important, long-term dataset on bird populations across the US and much of the western hemisphere. It's also fun and wholesome. www.christmasbirdcount.org
Audubon Christmas Bird Count
A hemispheric community science program with a century of history behind it.
www.christmasbirdcount.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
GO OUTSIDE AND SPY ON BIRDS THEN REPORT THEM TO A CENTRAL DATABASE
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
December 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Undergraduates (globally) can receive free membership in the professional scientific society for plant pathogens, the American Phytopathological Society (APS).
This society provides excellent professional development.
www.apsnet.org/members/comm...
Undergraduates (globally) can receive free membership in the professional scientific society for plant pathogens, the American Phytopathological Society (APS).
This society provides excellent professional development.
www.apsnet.org/members/comm...
Borlaug’s Army: an undergraduate membership initiative of the American Phytopathology
Borlaug’s Army: an undergraduate membership initiative of APS....Welcome to Borlaug’s Army —a recruitment, engagement, and outreach initiative of the American Phytopathological Society. Free membersh...
www.apsnet.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Undergraduates (globally) can receive free membership in the professional scientific society for plant pathogens, the American Phytopathological Society (APS).
This society provides excellent professional development.
www.apsnet.org/members/comm...
Undergraduates (globally) can receive free membership in the professional scientific society for plant pathogens, the American Phytopathological Society (APS).
This society provides excellent professional development.
www.apsnet.org/members/comm...
The mighty Sunda King Cobra hunting along a track through the Singapore mangroves. It passed by humans young and old without slightest bit of interest. Deadly is not always dangerous.
December 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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December 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Furnando, the grey fox, giving us a great look at the black 'racing stripe' running along the top of his tail to its bushy black tip.
#mammals
#mammals
December 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Furnando, the grey fox, giving us a great look at the black 'racing stripe' running along the top of his tail to its bushy black tip.
#mammals
#mammals
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Happy frogspawn in Cornwall Day! (Yes it’s this early every year). @benjyhere.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Happy frogspawn in Cornwall Day! (Yes it’s this early every year). @benjyhere.bsky.social