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Apryl Nicolle 🌿
@aprylnicolle.dftba.social
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Science Educator/Communicator
she/her • Momma Bear 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈• DFTBA!
Enthusiastic about decolonizing science, centering Indigenous Ways of Knowing in env ed and lowering barriers for diverse learners.

📍WA State
*views expressed my own
#SciComm #EduSky #SciEd
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Taught a bunch of kindergartners how to identify which species of salmon they are raising. They nailed it! This is one of my favorite in-school activities.
Several young students sit gathered around a white board. A teacher has drawn 3 fish shapes on the board, and is adding stripes to the second fish. The first fish, with no stripes, has been “x’d” out.
December 11, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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I think it started here:
Screenshot of post by Alex that says, “holy shit guys I almost just shut my boob in my car door no joke
December 10, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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Aww, we have cousin cats!
Is she lynx point?
Kitty looking out a sliding glass door.
December 7, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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Am I doing this right!? 😂😂
Orca wearing a dead salmon as a hat
December 7, 2024 at 5:50 AM
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23andMe tells me I have ~2% Neanderthal dna.
(It even lists the variants and likely traits associated with them)
Screenshot from 23andMe showing ~2% Neanderthal dna.
December 6, 2024 at 3:02 AM
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Despite all my rage I’m still just a..
Various colored shrimp stuffed animals in an empty aquarium at a pet store.
November 27, 2024 at 5:58 AM
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Teehee. Mushroom bums.
Two golden brown mushrooms, with their caps growing into one another. They kind of look like a butt. The are growing out of dark forest duff, surrounded by ivy.
November 24, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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Held a community forest event today and the theme was Super Plants. These kids brought a bark boat into the lab, loaded with various treasures they’d found. So clever! Bark Boats will be a recurring strategy from now on! Exploration smorgasbord
#SciComm #Env-Ed #CommunityScience #OutdoorEducation
Child holds a hand lens up to mycelium growing on a strip of bark. The bark also holds (from left to right) a Douglas Fir cone, 2 pieces of licorice fern, the upside-down top of an acorn, a chestnut, and a leaf (possibly alder). The bark sits atop a green table.
November 24, 2024 at 4:24 AM
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Hey mushroom people..
What on earth is this?!?
Found in SW Washington today, on wet maple leaf litter. 🧪🍄🍄‍🟫
#mycology #mushroom #mushroomid
Cream yellow colored fungus on a wet brown maple leaf. Cream yellow colored fungus, gill side up, on a wet brown maple leaf.
November 22, 2024 at 4:09 AM
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Look at these cool bros!
Mushrooms growing out of a cut log
November 22, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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So damn fancy. Just look at that hat! I wish I had a hat that fancy. I saw a merganser today too.. but my pic is way less awesome! lol
Pond with lots of green duckweed floating on top. 3 waterfowl are swimming in the middle. At least one is a merganser. The pond is surrounded my green plants, mostly blackberry.
November 21, 2024 at 11:38 PM
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I’m looking for a good way to explain Dissolved Oxygen and the unit of ppm to 2nd graders. Anyone have a favorite? A good visual?
#SciComm #Env-Ed #SciSky #ChemSky #EduSky #ChemEd #scienceteachers #iteachchem 🧪⚗️🐟
Two second graders read directions for a dissolved oxygen test during a water quality lab. There is a small sample vial of water in front of them, and a larger cylinder of water in the foreground.
November 20, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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This was incredible! If you have a chance to see it, I highly recommend you do. It should be required course material for Wa State History. (Also, I’m now a Ramona Bennett fan girl)
#wagrowingtogether2024 #fishwar #billyfrankjr
Movie poster for “Fish War” showing multiple awards it has won. The letters of the word “FISH” are filled with an image of indigenous people fishing along a bank. The word “WAR” is filled with an image of soldiers marching along a bank.
November 18, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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Lichens, Lungworts, Liverworts and Moss 💚
Any nerds wanna help w/ID?
#environmentaleducators
#wagrowingtogether2024
#campcispus #e3washington
Liverwort and moss growing on a fruiting foliose lichen, being held in someone’s hand Tree lungwort growing on a thin tree trunk. Base of a douglas fir tree, covered in moss and lichen.
November 18, 2024 at 6:20 AM
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Just wrapped up at E3’s Environmental Ed Conference. What a weekend! Here’s a shot of Burley Mountain this morning, nestled in fog. More rad pics to come once I get back home #wagrowingtogether2024 #campcispus #E3Washington
Rocky butte-like mountain partially hidden by high fog, with a forest of evergreens in the foreground.
November 18, 2024 at 1:02 AM
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Kylo has no concept of personal space. #SkyCats?
Close up image of a white cat with gray saddle-shaped markings on his back. He has black lips, and a smudgy freckle on his nose.
November 15, 2024 at 3:59 AM
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Wait. Is my cat having an affair?
Tabby cat with smudgy nose staring into the camera
November 14, 2024 at 11:32 PM
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Check out this interesting branch that looks like a duck!
A mossy branch reaching over a wooded trail. The branch has a split in it that resembles a duck beak.
November 13, 2024 at 4:39 AM
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Peekaboo!
Look at this little guy, showing off under our microscope.
Small black bug popping out of a hole in some wood, as photographed through a microscope view.
November 13, 2024 at 4:21 AM
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Five mushrooms emerge from the dirt. They have white stalks and shaggy beige tops.
November 13, 2024 at 4:09 AM
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Your chickens are beautiful!
This is Henrietta.. she followed my kids home from the bus stop one day. Now we have 13 😳❤️ #chickenmath
Woman smiles down at a red hen in her arms. Her eyebrows are raised and she is wearing a blue plaid button up shirt. The ground is covered in fallen yellow leaves.
November 12, 2024 at 3:02 AM
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Me and my chicken, Betty Boop. #chickentender
Woman with shoulder length purple hair, a black shirt, and abalone earrings. She is holding a black and white chicken at eye level, in her left arm. She is smiling at the chicken, but the chicken is not smiling back.
November 11, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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Those are the best cat names ever! Hands down!
Here is is Trillium Troutbucket. He’s a menace.
Tabby-striped cat, white chest and partially white face, with a coppery smudge on his nose. He is sitting loaf-like, while glaring smugly into the camera.
November 11, 2024 at 10:29 PM
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Just a slug, munchin a chestnut.
Slug munching on a mostly eaten chestnut
November 11, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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#proofofcat
November 11, 2024 at 6:00 AM