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Sophie W
@biologizing.bsky.social
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Thirt(ies) and feeling invert-y 🐙 MSc studying Arctic and North Atlantic deep-sea weirdos ❄️ Ex-professional jellyfish mom ♨️ she/her 🇨🇦
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Witless Bay is one of my top personal favourite place names in Newfoundland so I'm very glad I got a sign with it on it too. But also they are much bigger than I thought they were and I REALLY do not have space for them oh god
A woman with big glasses and bangs is taking a selfie while holding one of the trail signs up to her face. It is very large and obscures her shoulders and torso entirely.
December 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Mickeleen's Path was the first hike I did here, I had JUST gotten off of a ship the day before and boy was that a choice. I was land-sick the whole time but it was BEAUTIFUL. 2hrs in I ran out of water but then emerged into a whole field of blueberries and I have never been more delighted in my life
A view over a cliff down to a turquoise ocean, greenery on top of the cliffs as it curves around in front to a point, and the layers in the rock very visible. A hand held out above a walking path, it is full of tiny, wild blueberries.
December 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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I bid on and won these 30-year-old trail signs in a charity auction for the East Coast Trail Association (all of their signage was just updated and replaced) and I haven't figured out what I'm doing with them or where I'm putting them but I love them so much
A worn trail head sign hand carved and painted with the words Mickeleens Path, and distances below to Witless Bay, South Head, and Island Cove. It also says Hikers Only. A worn trail head sign hand carved and painted with the words Mickeleens Path, and distances below to Bay Bulls, South Head, and Otter Cove.
December 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Not to brag or anything but
Image alt text stats for 2025: 335 total images, 100% have alt text, 1 missing alt text, 146 character average alt text length (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest)
December 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Lemme just say - and I cannot emphasize this enough - 𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀
Word cloud visualization for 2025 showing my 50 most-used words, sized by frequency. Top 10: "rocks" (28×), "ocean" (24×), "newfoundland" (22×), "tell" (21×), "fish" (20×), "those" (18×), "animals" (17×), "friend" (16×), "marine" (14×), "night" (14×) (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest)
December 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Me, pointing: So those bigger ones are from blue jays, and the smaller ones are juncos
Them: Whoa, that's so cool, how can you tell?
Me: I saw blue jays and juncos running around making them this morning
A light snow on a deck, there are bird footprints all through it hopping along many different paths. Some are bigger and some are smaller. A close up on some of the small footprints.
December 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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This is why I highly recommend naming your pets things that already have a theme song. Anyway she's fine
A fluffy grey cat is sitting on a window perch looking like she is glaring down at the person taking the photo.
December 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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A friend gave me their AppleTV login so I'm catching up on Prehistoric Planet and I gotta say I think this is my favourite episode so far
A CGI toad, standing in a swamp and croaking. The subtitles say "[croaks]". The same CGI toad, rolling off of a log onto its back on the ground. It looks very silly and very toad-like.
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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We all remember the twitter eel post, surely,,,
A screenshot of a twitter archive post, it says "It's fascinating to work with animals in captivity, because we can learn a lot; physiological data that can't be collected from wild individuals. Veterinary care. The fact that sometimes moving a stick that an eel liked a lot will result in them having a tantrum for six months". It has 5000 retweets and 28000 likes.
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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There is a deep-sea red tree coral (Primnoa resedaeformis) in the North Atlantic that is an ecological engineer and a keystone species creating habitats for all sorts of other animals and it smells like watermelon cucumber
A deep-sea image, of a rock with sand around it. On the rock is several large colonies of an orange branching coral whose polyps give it a rough-looking appearance. A close up on some of the branches, with the polyps visible fancing downwards like little bells all over the surface.
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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I love fall, when the leaves change colour and *checks notes* dozens of fungal fruiting bodies burst the earth apart to disperse spores into the air
A strip of grass next to a sidewalk and parking lot. There are fallen leaves and many batches of brown mushrooms pushing up out under the grass. A close up on the brown mushrooms forcing the grass up into a relatively large trench of exposed dirt.
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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I have a shared folder full of R code for a publication I'm working on with my very offline previous manager and I am mortally tempted to spend way too much time to find-and-replace every dplyr verb with these just to see what they say
A list of dplyr verbs with the genzplyr verb next to them, with things like filter() being replaced with yeet() and mutate() with glow_up(). A second list continuing of dplyr verbs replaced with genzplyr, things like count() to its_giving() and full_join() to everyone_in_the_groupchat()
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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The whole team is here for the off-season I guess
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Bold of you to show your face around here bud, everybody's pretty disappointed in you tbh
A blue jay sitting on a telephone wire in the distance
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Oh yeah. That's the good stuff
A view down at legs standing in a pile of colourful fall leaves
November 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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How do I know it was a mountain biking route? Well, I was walking blithely along a boardwalk and then it became very obvious
A boardwalk through the woods, there is a clear break with a small jump in the boardwalk ahead. A side view of the jump built into the boardwalk. It looks pretty intense.
October 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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I took a wrong turn during a hike last week and ended up on the mountain biking route, on which I found this plank of wood with a handwritten Macbeth quote nailed to a tree (?????)
A photo of a tree next to a boardwalk with forest behind. A plank of wood is nailed to the tree with writing on it. A Macbeth quote is written on the plank of wood, it is quite long but it is the section that begins "out out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow."
October 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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That'll be $65 in taxi fees pal
A red car side mirror showing a spiderweb with a spider in the middle. A close up on the spider showing its underside. The web around it looks disheveled.
October 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Not to brag or anything but I also saw A SHARK
A photo of the edge of a path with a metal photo bolted to the lower trunk of a tree. A closer image of the metal photo bolted to a tree trunk, it is a picture of a great white shark.
October 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Not to brag or anything but I saw a pretty cool spider on a walk yesterday
A view down a gravel path through the woods, there are evergreens and some autumn coloured leaves in the distance. Very small on one of the right-hand trees is a square something bolted to the tree. A closer view of the bolted metal square on the tree, it clearly has a picture of a spider on it. Now the metal picture is clear, it is a photo of an orbweaver.
October 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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I continued walking and the RDF must have heard me. It's coming for me
A view along the shore of a pond with a hill in the background, there are low clouds and fog getting closer
October 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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The autumn colours here have been SPECTACULAR (in between the near-constant RDF), so please enjoy this view of Quidi Vidi and Signal Hill with me
A photo out over a pond with a hill in the background, there are beautiful autumn colours on the trees and the sky is blue
October 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Can I realistically claim I thought it was a cubicle-warming gift
A photo of the corner of an office cubicle, there is a fragmented part of a skull on the furthest corner A zoomed in photo showing the skull fragment on the desk
October 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Two paths diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one more traveled by;
Because the wood is still a full ecosystem and leaving the maintained path can damage it,
Also I don't want ticks or wet socks
A photo of an open section in an autumn forest, there is a rocky dirt path on the right and a half-formed path through tall grasses and possibly reeds to the left.
October 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Sometimes your friends are being nice and showing you a thing you'd like but you can't keep the ☝️🤓 inside the privacy of your own head for even one second
A screenshot of a nalgene bottle for sale with sea nettles and moon jellyfish on it, it also appears to glow in the dark. A screenshot of a text chat where the other person says "so cool! So glowy!" And the sender replies "although slightly inhumane to have moon jellies and sea nettles on the same bottle. Since sea nettles predate on moon jellies"
October 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM