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Stephanie! 💜✌🏻
@craniatology.bsky.social
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SATX | Environmental policy & GIS | Naturalist | 🏃🏻‍♀ | adventure 🐈‍⬛ content | TX mammal 💀 ID | TX native 🌻 enthusiast | 🐿️ bait (ask me about it sometime) | icon + banner: @BarghestBlack | she/they
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Stephanie! 💜✌🏻 @craniatology.bsky.social · Oct 22
Pinned tweet! Howdy, I’m Stephanie! I do GIS work in environmental policy! My work goes into the preparation of assessment and informational documents that aid in decision-making under the USA-ESA for vulnerable species! I’m a long distance runner, cat walker, and naturalist. Located in SATX. ✌🏻
Selfie! I’m wearing an oversized sage-green long-sleeve tee and purple Goodr sunglasses. My hair is brown and very long. I’m also wearing a maroon and yellow hip pack and holding the handle of a black and neon yellow tape-type Flexi leash (I’m walking Fitz, my cat lol). I’m in a dry ephemeral creek bed in an urban wooded natural area. Fitz (tuxedo longhair cat) reclining in green foliage in a natural area. He is looking upwards towards the viewer and seems happy. He is wearing a blue Rabbitgoo harness with a neon yellow tape-type Flexi leash. Blooming plains coreopsis in a disturbed natural area with gravelly bareground alongside a paved greenway path. A checkered-white butterfly visiting a firewheel flower. The surrounding vegetation is tall and somewhat weedy.
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maggiekpaints.bsky.social
Little sparrow paintings really coming along. Doing them all together for consistency.

#birds #oilpainting #seattle #art #sparrow #traditionalart #wip
4 4x4in oil paintings of a song sparrow? Looking in different directions. Unfinished. Background will eventually be a soft grey green i think
November 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
craniatology.bsky.social
Typhlosion is my favorite Pokemon EVER and the TCG knew it when they made the Psychic-Type Cyndaquil line (Psychic is my favorite type) lol
November 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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toadally.bsky.social
An explosive typhoon of a badger
November 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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salvaterra.bsky.social
As in every Monday, it was uploaded as stock art yesterday but I was not here to tell you.

It will be available as such on my Patreon until June.

www.patreon.com/posts/stock-...

#ttrpg #stockart #bsnm #bestiary #creaturedesign #cat #indierpg
black and white ink drawing of a winged get, running and getting ready to jump or fly by changing direction, looking up.
March 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
craniatology.bsky.social
My LAST big long run of my training block! 22 miles!! I got it done this morning, and I did it at race pace! 😁✊🏻

I’m so ridiculously proud of myself. This has been the hardest 14 weeks of my life! 😭 But I’m HERE! Now it’s time to enter my taper. The Inaugural SATX Marathon is THREE weeks away! 😎

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Post-run fullbody selfie at the trailhead parking lot. I’m wearing a neon green running tank top, black shorts, a green and white running hat that reads GO ONE MORE on the front, and my Pride Goodr sunglasses. I’m also holding a Maurten water bottle with blue Gatorade in it. Stats from my run: 22 mi; 8:12 min/mi average pace; 3:00:28 moving time; 761 ft in elevation gain; 1,965 burned calories; 164 bpm average heart rate. Stats for my mile splits: slowest split 8:44 min/mi and fastest split 7:52 min/mi
November 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
craniatology.bsky.social
Btw if you ever wondered what firewheel seeds look like… 😁

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A bundle of firewheel seeds in my open palm. I’m working on sorting out more collected seeds to sow in my no-mow pollinator garden areas.
November 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Finished up sowing a good number of seeds I’ve collected off spent heads and seed pods while on runs! I planted some native seed mixes from Native American Seed back in early spring that yielded lots of blooms. The firewheels blessed me with MANY seeds! I got them all scattered and sowed. 😁✊🏻

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Five spent firewheel heads on my open palm that are full of seeds ready to be scattered and sowed!
November 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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gettoknownature.bsky.social
A thistle in November?! Well ok then. Go for it summer flower.

#BloomScrolling 🌿
Purple buds are opening into floofy flowers with very thin petals. The backdrop is a blur of green leaves.
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
craniatology.bsky.social
AHEM WHY ARE U FLOWERING YOU ARE A FIREWHEEL AND IT’S NOVEMBER

EXPLAIN YOURSELF 🔥🛞🌱

(I’m prepping the no-mow areas today for fall time seed sowing)
A firewheel in full bloom with six mature flowers in one of my no-mow pollinator garden areas lol
November 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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lorischweigert.bsky.social
We got some more Northern lights last night and instead of using my Iphone I tried my best to use my DSLR. I struggle with night photography but thought I would give it a shot so with tripod in hand I went out to the middle of the golf course and did my best.
#photography #northernlights
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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photosteve.bsky.social
A Red Fox in a tree looking absolutely DEVIOUS 🦊 😈
#mammals #foxes
A red fox sitting in a tree, looking at the camera with its eyes squinted and ears down, giving it a devilish look like it’s planning something
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
craniatology.bsky.social
Call me silly, but I legit wasn’t aware that the ISS (International Space Station) moved that heckin’ fast lol
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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toadally.bsky.social
Certain meat-eating practices can prevent animal and environmental suffering. Culling invasive or overpopulated species, eating roadkill that might otherwise spread parasites or disease (that are destroyed in the cooking process) hunting wild game to avoid supporting factory farming etc.
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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What does it mean when you find TWO road pennies heads-up right next to each other while in your last tempo run of the training block? 🤔☝🏻

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Two pennies heads-up on my right-hand palm. My hand is covered by my purple running top long sleeve. It has one of those thumb loopies.
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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offshoreoddity.bsky.social
Forest rose (turkey tail mushroom)
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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conniemenefee.bsky.social
Eastern Red Bat (Lasiurus borealis)!

At first I thought I found a big, fuzzy gall. But it was a wonderful little snoozing bat! (May 2021)
Small reddish-brown bat sleeping in a flowering shrub Small reddish-brown bat sleeping in a flowering shrub
November 27, 2024 at 3:56 PM
craniatology.bsky.social
This week was a pullback! Finished off week 13 with a solid BUT SUPER WINDY 16-miler. 😁✊🏻

NEXT SUNDAY IS MY LAST LONG RUN OF MY TRAINING BLOCK AHHH (22-mi!) Then finally my sweet sweet taper! 😭 I’m so TIRED lol

I’m so mentally, emotionally, and physically fatigued I’m practically delirious lmfao 🏃🏻‍♀️😵‍💫
Post-run fullbody selfie at the trailhead. I’m wearing a turquoise long sleeve running top, black shorts, and my Pride Goodr sunglasses. I’m also holding a blue softflask water bottle. Stats from my run: 16.07 mi; 8:53 min/mi average pace; 2:22:42 moving time; 617 ft in elevation gain; 1,451 burned calories; 152 bpm average heart rate.
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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barghestblack.bsky.social
I know Texas gets dunked on a lot but I genuinely feel like people here are some of the hardest fighters despite everything against us, we deal with some of the worst gerrymandering and vote suppression because republicans know they’re fucked as soon as this state flips.
November 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
craniatology.bsky.social
So I went to Six Flags for the first time today and rode my very first roller coaster and lemme tell y’all…….it wasn’t a very good time lmfao

Never getting on one of those things again lmfao

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November 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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#SanDiego locals, on Dec 7 the Volcan Mountain Foundation is hosting an artist’s reception for their 2025 grant recipients (me!) where I’ll be discussing my painting “Forest Treasures - Mountain Lion” based on my Volcan Mountain residency. Hope to see you there! volcanmt.org/events/event...
A watercolor and pen painting of a mountain lion surrounded in a circle by the following elements: Western tiger swallowtail butterfly, Palmer ceanothus, Mountain quail feather, bigcone Douglas fir pine cone, Checkerbloom, Black oak leaves and acorns, Grape soda lupine
November 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
craniatology.bsky.social
Another morning, another dying toenail that I had to cut out.

I love being a long distance runner. 🥲✊🏻
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Chin-down selfie of me sitting in the drivers seat of the parked Subaru. I’m wearing a grayish-blue long sleeve Coldplay tee and black jeans. I have a “I voted” sticker on the front of my tee. Most of my face is cut from the top frame of the photo for dramatic flair lol
November 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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acorviart.bsky.social
special delivery

[ #art ]
Illustration of a pfeilstorch (stork with an arrow in its neck), overlaid with stylized air mail and postal markings describing various details about the pfeilstorch.
November 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
craniatology.bsky.social
Worst photos ever because I took them through my home office window while at my desk…but! The yellow-rumped warblers (“butter butts” 😁) have returned to my neck of the woods! Their arrival marks fall time-for-real for me, even if we only have cooler weather in the mornings right now lol

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Adult yellow-rumped warbler latched onto the trunk of a large Mexican ash tree. Its back is to the viewer and its body is upright parallel to the trunk’s surface. Adult yellow-rumped warbler on the trunk of a large Mexican ash tree. Its body is now perpendicular to the trunk of the tree, back still facing the viewer.
November 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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onlyveesaz.bsky.social
2025 is flying by… 💨 🪶☀️🌵
Crested Caracara in flight
November 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM