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Tucker White
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•Aquatic Biologist • University of New Hampshire insect collection • I make art sometimes • (He/him/His)•
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A buckler dory for #SundayFishSketch this week. I worked on this during the last few days of ASM training.

#FishArt, #SciArt
A photo of a white sketchbook with a horizontal graphite pencil sketch of a buckler dory in profile view. The fish is deep-bodied with a relatively large protruding mouth, one filamentous dorsal fin, a second long, rounded dorsal fin which is identical to its anal fin, a short causal peduncle and a concave squarish causal fin. Running underneath the back half of the dorsal side are distinctive buckler scales that end at the causal peduncle.
August 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Black bellied rosefish for #SundayFishSketch
A photo of a sketchbook opened to a profile sketch of a black bellied rosefish done in graphite pencil. The fish has large eyes and pectoral fins and is facing the left side of the page.
July 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Friend at the Airbnb
A photo of a reddish brown stag beetle perched on an index finger against the blurry backdrop of a living room.
July 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Made my first circuit with the materials from the estate sale haul! I went online looking for recommendations for beginner electronics guides and I was able to find the highest rated one as an online PDF (Make: Electronics, so I've been reading and following along with the experiments.
A photo of a basic electrical circuit comprised of four AA batteries in a mount connected to a green LED and a resistor with red and black insulated alligator clips. The circuit is laid out on a dark gray particle board desk. A red plastic vice and a how-to manual are partially in the background.
July 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Scab
A photo of a red mackerel tabby cat drinking water from a catit green and white miniature water fountain in front of a black flat-screen TV with an old fashioned radio and coffee maker visible in the background. The cat and the fountain are on a white countertop.
July 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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There is now a spontaneous sit-in protest of my departure.

#CatsofBluesky
A photo of a black shorthair cat sitting on a dark teal rolling travel suitcase. The suitcase has its vertical handle extended, and the grib of the handle is yellow while the rest of the handle is black. The cat and the suitcase are in a kitchen with faux hardwood floors.
July 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Here's the fully laid out Yuri Gagarin poster. Gonna have them professionally framed and fixed if possible. Ignore the cat hair, this is our spare room and the cats like to nap in here.
A photo of a large poster on a mattress in a light blue room with a hardwood floor. The poster is of a shooting star against a background of stars and planets. The star is red that fades into blue towards the tail. In the center of the star is a photo of Yuri Gagarin's head in monochrome white. Across the midsection of the shooting station is a band of various countries. Running along the bottom of the poster are the words APRIL 12, 1961 - HUMANITY'S FIRST GREAT STEP INTO SPACE written in Russian Cyrillic.
July 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Idk why but this kinda hit me hard. Who did he write this for? Himself? Someone who came after he was gone?
A black and white photograph of a locomotive with the caption; Nearly new U-2-g 4-8-4 No. 6261 heels to a curve at Beaconsfield, Quebec, 17 miles into its Montreal-Toronto run with train 15, on April 29, 1944, James A. Brown collection. Underneath the caption, written in purple ink by hand is "My Birthday".
July 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Here's a small amount of his workstation vs what I what I thought was necessary to take home. In a perfect world I would've taken most of it, but what I have should be enough to get started. I managed to nab his Soviet era Yuri Gagarin poster too
A photo of a messy workstation with many miscellaneous tools and electronics layed about. Shelves contain books and binders of reference material for electronics. Diagrams for oscilloscopes and power supplies cover the walls. A photo of a small black work desk with a long desk lamp and fume hood attached to opposite sides. On the desk there are boxes of small drawers for electronic components, multiple vices, a soldering kit and a power supply.
July 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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ANOTHER
A screenshot from inaturalist of an ID menu. A user named fishbruh identifies the photo as juvenile pollock saying: "At least SOME of the fish are Pollock. There may be juvenile cod mixed in as well.
June 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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I love when this happens
A screenshot from inaturalist showing the recent activity of an account. The most recent activity is a user named isopodguy identifying an isopod observation as a Baltic isopod.
June 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Some crabs from today.
York County, Maine, USA

🦑 #Invertebrates
An underwater photograph of a green crab perched upon a bed of orange seaweed. There are tufts of eelgrass poking up from the seabed on the right side of the photo. An underwater photo of a large orange and white crab hiding on the seafloor. The xrab is partially hidden by both brown seaweed and eelgrass.
June 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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A little isopod friend I found attached to a floating piece of eelgrass. My guess is a Baltic isopod based on iNat.
York County, Maine, USA

🦑 #invertebrates
An underwater photo of a long orange isopod attached to a piece of eelgrass in the palm of someone's hand. An underwater photo of a long orange isopod attached to a piece of eelgrass held in someone's hand. The background is a dark green seabed seen from above.
June 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Lots of little fish today. I have no idea what they were but they were fun to swim around with. If anyone has any guesses they were in York County, Maine, USA
An underwater photo of a small school of small fish congregating underneath various species of brown kelp. There are light rays shining down vertically in the water. The bottom is comprised of rocks covered in white barnacles. An underwater photo of a small school of small fish congregating underneath various species of brown and green kelp. There are light rays shining down vertically in the water.
June 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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So no fish but I saw some friends
An underwater photo of a horseshoe crab walking along a sandbar with various pieces of shell and rock scattered around it. An underwater photo of a moon jelly swimming above a tidal flat at high tide with seagrass.
June 24, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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I know he's out there...
An underwater photo of a striped bass against an eelgrass bed taken from above. The fish appears gray from above.
June 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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For the crime of knocking shit off my desk she has been subject to (1) silly song.
June 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Black beans like salsa
A picture of a black cat's rear paws with someone's finger pointing at them. The hand and cet are on a gray countertop.
June 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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I like when she turns brown in the sun
A photo of a black cat lying on a black mat on a Harwood floor. Next to the cat is the base of a cat tree, a black metal patio chair, and a bag of bird seed.
June 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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A meme image of a collie dog being struck by strong wind on a paved road. The top text reads THEY WEREN'T LYING. The bottom text reads THAT FLOUNDER REALLY CAN EYED.
June 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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"With jalapeño, Mr. Squidward. With jalapeño."
A screenshot from SpongeBob Squarepants from the "101 dollars for a krabby patty?" scene. Squidward is watching Mr. Krabs increasing the menu prices with a bucket of black ink to a ridiculous degree.
June 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Funny guy (tricolor heron) from Plum Island, Massachusetts 🪶
#Birds #Birdsky
A photo of a tricolor heron wading through shallow water in a salt marsh. The heron is a dark bluish-gray with a white underside. Behind the heron is a mudflat covered in marsh grass. A photo of a tricolor heron wading around in a shallow salt panne in a saltwater marsh. The heron is bluish-gray with yellow feet and a tan beak. The shore of the panne in the foreground is littered with dead reeds, while the shore of the panne behind the heron is covered in marsh grasses.
June 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Purple martin apartment complex on Plum Island, Massachusetts 🪶
A photo of three purple martins perched on an antenna against a gray sky. The antenna is white. The martins appear black against the backdrop of the gray sky. A small purple martin sitting on the porch of a martin nest box. The nest box is shaped like a gourd and ks white. The nest box is in a group of at least three others all attached to a central pole by metal rods. The nestbox where the martin is perched is labelled 19 with a strike through it.
June 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Mute swans from Plum Island, Massachusetts 🪶
A photo of two mute swans floating on the water in a marsh. There is marsh grass in the foreground, the swans in the water are in the middle ground and there is more marsh grass in the background.
June 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Absolutely random Re-Store find. A whole box of natural history prints by Frederick Polydore Nodder with accompanying text from presumably The Naturalist's Miscellany on the opposite side. Picked up my two favorites of the bunch. The description is so old it doesn't even have binomial nomenclature.
A photograph of two natural history plates framed in white glossy cards took frames. The top plate is of a grasshopper or katydid of some sort, while the bottom plate is of some sort of cerambycid beetle. There is a small blurb of identifying text under each illustration that is insldsicernable from the photograph.
June 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM