Tom Langen
@calocitta.bsky.social
parent, birder, story teller, ecologist, academic
October 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Hey, I was an 'expert scientist' on National Geographic Paranormal: Blood Rain & Star Jelly. Here are my hands, looking all sciencey. Maybe I can be on this panel.
October 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Hey, I was an 'expert scientist' on National Geographic Paranormal: Blood Rain & Star Jelly. Here are my hands, looking all sciencey. Maybe I can be on this panel.
I led a walk to this place today - Rainbow Falls in the Adirondack Park. 🌿
September 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I led a walk to this place today - Rainbow Falls in the Adirondack Park. 🌿
Jenny Jones warned
She would wear purple
When she grew old
Summer now wears it
A rich purple cloak
New England asters
Autumn aster starburst
Amid goldenrod glow
Seasonal finale
Before winter’s long dark
🌿 #poetry
She would wear purple
When she grew old
Summer now wears it
A rich purple cloak
New England asters
Autumn aster starburst
Amid goldenrod glow
Seasonal finale
Before winter’s long dark
🌿 #poetry
September 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Jenny Jones warned
She would wear purple
When she grew old
Summer now wears it
A rich purple cloak
New England asters
Autumn aster starburst
Amid goldenrod glow
Seasonal finale
Before winter’s long dark
🌿 #poetry
She would wear purple
When she grew old
Summer now wears it
A rich purple cloak
New England asters
Autumn aster starburst
Amid goldenrod glow
Seasonal finale
Before winter’s long dark
🌿 #poetry
American Movie Theater, Canton NY
September 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
American Movie Theater, Canton NY
Males trill through the day
And chirp through the night
Orthopteran wall of sound
Until the killing frost
Females tuned for one pitch
And for one cadence
To find that singer
Who will fertilize the eggs
She’ll sew into the soil
Seeds of next year’s chorus
And chirp through the night
Orthopteran wall of sound
Until the killing frost
Females tuned for one pitch
And for one cadence
To find that singer
Who will fertilize the eggs
She’ll sew into the soil
Seeds of next year’s chorus
August 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Males trill through the day
And chirp through the night
Orthopteran wall of sound
Until the killing frost
Females tuned for one pitch
And for one cadence
To find that singer
Who will fertilize the eggs
She’ll sew into the soil
Seeds of next year’s chorus
And chirp through the night
Orthopteran wall of sound
Until the killing frost
Females tuned for one pitch
And for one cadence
To find that singer
Who will fertilize the eggs
She’ll sew into the soil
Seeds of next year’s chorus
Now is the time of the hoppers
Grasshoppers, coneheads, katydids
Crickets - tree, field, and ground
Trills, buzzes, clicks, chirps
Kay-di- DEE Kay-Di-DEE
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZeet!
Ambient noise like tinnitus
Ubiquitous, unceasing
Grasshoppers, coneheads, katydids
Crickets - tree, field, and ground
Trills, buzzes, clicks, chirps
Kay-di- DEE Kay-Di-DEE
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZeet!
Ambient noise like tinnitus
Ubiquitous, unceasing
August 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Now is the time of the hoppers
Grasshoppers, coneheads, katydids
Crickets - tree, field, and ground
Trills, buzzes, clicks, chirps
Kay-di- DEE Kay-Di-DEE
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZeet!
Ambient noise like tinnitus
Ubiquitous, unceasing
Grasshoppers, coneheads, katydids
Crickets - tree, field, and ground
Trills, buzzes, clicks, chirps
Kay-di- DEE Kay-Di-DEE
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZeet!
Ambient noise like tinnitus
Ubiquitous, unceasing
Birds have long stopped singing
Frogs are silent in the marsh
The fields are browning
Brushed in goldenrod
Swamp maples blaze scarlet
Ashes turning lit-match yellow
🌿#invertfest #poetry
Frogs are silent in the marsh
The fields are browning
Brushed in goldenrod
Swamp maples blaze scarlet
Ashes turning lit-match yellow
🌿#invertfest #poetry
August 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Birds have long stopped singing
Frogs are silent in the marsh
The fields are browning
Brushed in goldenrod
Swamp maples blaze scarlet
Ashes turning lit-match yellow
🌿#invertfest #poetry
Frogs are silent in the marsh
The fields are browning
Brushed in goldenrod
Swamp maples blaze scarlet
Ashes turning lit-match yellow
🌿#invertfest #poetry
While purchasing a person was very expensive, by working enslaved people to a premature death in the sugarcane fields, the purchase cost was recovered in three years.
And here we are, now at the stage where the President is angry because the Smithsonian portrays slavery in a negative way.
And here we are, now at the stage where the President is angry because the Smithsonian portrays slavery in a negative way.
August 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
While purchasing a person was very expensive, by working enslaved people to a premature death in the sugarcane fields, the purchase cost was recovered in three years.
And here we are, now at the stage where the President is angry because the Smithsonian portrays slavery in a negative way.
And here we are, now at the stage where the President is angry because the Smithsonian portrays slavery in a negative way.
While in Baltimore, take some time to visit the amazing American Museum of Visionary Art. Learn why the American Woodcock is the inspiration for the museum's annual 'Woody Award'. #ESA2025
August 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
While in Baltimore, take some time to visit the amazing American Museum of Visionary Art. Learn why the American Woodcock is the inspiration for the museum's annual 'Woody Award'. #ESA2025
Canton BY American Theater
July 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Canton BY American Theater
A former student of mine who is a first-gen college graduate from a low-income, rural family is an early-career immunologist working on microbes that cause disease in the respiratory tract - the kind that kill people with cystic fibrosis. She received this letter today (note date). Damnable. 🧪
July 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
A former student of mine who is a first-gen college graduate from a low-income, rural family is an early-career immunologist working on microbes that cause disease in the respiratory tract - the kind that kill people with cystic fibrosis. She received this letter today (note date). Damnable. 🧪
Trail of Queen Anne's Lace
Milky Way of snow disk worlds
Leaf green universe
🌿#Poetry
Milky Way of snow disk worlds
Leaf green universe
🌿#Poetry
July 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Trail of Queen Anne's Lace
Milky Way of snow disk worlds
Leaf green universe
🌿#Poetry
Milky Way of snow disk worlds
Leaf green universe
🌿#Poetry
At the American Theater in Canton NY.
Small acts of resistance are resistance, too.
Small acts of resistance are resistance, too.
July 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
At the American Theater in Canton NY.
Small acts of resistance are resistance, too.
Small acts of resistance are resistance, too.
In late afternoon
You’ll find me astride
On my old red bike
For a long trail ride
The cool, deep-green shade
Under forest trees
Crossing the meadow
A cool summer breeze
You’ll find me astride
On my old red bike
For a long trail ride
The cool, deep-green shade
Under forest trees
Crossing the meadow
A cool summer breeze
July 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
In late afternoon
You’ll find me astride
On my old red bike
For a long trail ride
The cool, deep-green shade
Under forest trees
Crossing the meadow
A cool summer breeze
You’ll find me astride
On my old red bike
For a long trail ride
The cool, deep-green shade
Under forest trees
Crossing the meadow
A cool summer breeze
My village this Sunday.
June 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
My village this Sunday.
Happy Juneteenth from Canton NY!
Note: it takes a while for movies to get here.
Note: it takes a while for movies to get here.
June 20, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Happy Juneteenth from Canton NY!
Note: it takes a while for movies to get here.
Note: it takes a while for movies to get here.
In 1829, the Mexican Republic outlawed slavery over most of its territory. American settlers to the Mexican state of Texas continued to enslave people of African and Native American origin, and rebelled in 1835 to preserve their practice of enslaving humans.
June 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
In 1829, the Mexican Republic outlawed slavery over most of its territory. American settlers to the Mexican state of Texas continued to enslave people of African and Native American origin, and rebelled in 1835 to preserve their practice of enslaving humans.
Tonight in Canton NY.
June 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Tonight in Canton NY.
Native People have rights to cross the national borders to study in the US (or Canada) per the 1794 Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation (Jay Treaty) between the US and Great Britain. Requiring green cards or passports to access aid is a serious infringement of Indigenous Peoples' rights.
June 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Native People have rights to cross the national borders to study in the US (or Canada) per the 1794 Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation (Jay Treaty) between the US and Great Britain. Requiring green cards or passports to access aid is a serious infringement of Indigenous Peoples' rights.
Foreign invasion? People demonstrating down US city streets while waving foreign flags. It's certain that some folks at the demonstration are recent undocumented immigrants, since there are 10,000 in the US.
June 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Foreign invasion? People demonstrating down US city streets while waving foreign flags. It's certain that some folks at the demonstration are recent undocumented immigrants, since there are 10,000 in the US.
It’s #WorldSwiftDay today. 🦉
These are Germain's swiftlet in Ho Chi Minh City.
These are Germain's swiftlet in Ho Chi Minh City.
June 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It’s #WorldSwiftDay today. 🦉
These are Germain's swiftlet in Ho Chi Minh City.
These are Germain's swiftlet in Ho Chi Minh City.