Jennifer Campbell-Smith, PhD 𓄿𓃥
@jcampbellsmith.bsky.social
Behavioral ecologist, corvid expert, artist, and all around zoology/behavior nerd. I draw, hunt with pointy birds, teach, science, and explore. Views are my own. 🪶🌿🐕🔬👩🏻🏫🧭🎨
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I’m Jenn, I’m based in Denver where I spark a love for science and nature in high school students through experiential learning. I’m an advocate for better understanding and coexistence with our fellow organisms on this planet. I usually express my admiration for nature through art and photography.
I’m realizing I don’t really have a pinned post when people first visit my profile. Here’s a response I gave on a thread in the meantime.
Happy World Falconry Day!
In 2016, UNESCO declared falconry an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Few things have connected me to such a vast network of people across centuries and cultures. I’m honored to take part in a tradition linking us to one another and to the wild creatures we love.
In 2016, UNESCO declared falconry an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Few things have connected me to such a vast network of people across centuries and cultures. I’m honored to take part in a tradition linking us to one another and to the wild creatures we love.
November 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Happy World Falconry Day!
In 2016, UNESCO declared falconry an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Few things have connected me to such a vast network of people across centuries and cultures. I’m honored to take part in a tradition linking us to one another and to the wild creatures we love.
In 2016, UNESCO declared falconry an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Few things have connected me to such a vast network of people across centuries and cultures. I’m honored to take part in a tradition linking us to one another and to the wild creatures we love.
Some photos from the IEAA (International Eagle Austringer Association) “Gathering of Eagles” meet in Wyoming this past week. Birds include a golden eagle, dark morph Harlan’s/western intergrade red-tailed hawk, and a Harris’ hawk. Great people, great birds, and a great time!
November 11, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Some photos from the IEAA (International Eagle Austringer Association) “Gathering of Eagles” meet in Wyoming this past week. Birds include a golden eagle, dark morph Harlan’s/western intergrade red-tailed hawk, and a Harris’ hawk. Great people, great birds, and a great time!
I can’t, this is too good 😂
November 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I can’t, this is too good 😂
Insomnia Thoughts ™, brought to you by Prednisone:
iNaturalist is my real-life Pokédex
I’m here for it 100% and 13yo, Pokémon-obsessed me would be utterly elated to know it exists in her future.
(Continued)
iNaturalist is my real-life Pokédex
I’m here for it 100% and 13yo, Pokémon-obsessed me would be utterly elated to know it exists in her future.
(Continued)
November 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Insomnia Thoughts ™, brought to you by Prednisone:
iNaturalist is my real-life Pokédex
I’m here for it 100% and 13yo, Pokémon-obsessed me would be utterly elated to know it exists in her future.
(Continued)
iNaturalist is my real-life Pokédex
I’m here for it 100% and 13yo, Pokémon-obsessed me would be utterly elated to know it exists in her future.
(Continued)
My son’s Derpy costume looking rather like a tiger skin rug while I was working on it last weekend.
Happy Halloween!🎃
Happy Halloween!🎃
October 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM
My son’s Derpy costume looking rather like a tiger skin rug while I was working on it last weekend.
Happy Halloween!🎃
Happy Halloween!🎃
Whelp, found my answer. Tachnid (parasitic) flies. My son is really sad, but we took it as a chance to watch a video on the flies and what we can do next summer for more butterfly success. He acknowledges that the flies wanted babies too.
He’s now happily watching hamster maze videos.
He’s now happily watching hamster maze videos.
October 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Whelp, found my answer. Tachnid (parasitic) flies. My son is really sad, but we took it as a chance to watch a video on the flies and what we can do next summer for more butterfly success. He acknowledges that the flies wanted babies too.
He’s now happily watching hamster maze videos.
He’s now happily watching hamster maze videos.
Something like this has been sorely needed for a long time! Our standards for testing animal problem solving and intelligence have long been antiquated and not well rooted in a framework that includes our own intelligence and problem solving capabilities.
#BiologyLetters A new framework is proposed that can be used to test hypotheses about how animals solve problems. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #behaviour #cognition
October 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Something like this has been sorely needed for a long time! Our standards for testing animal problem solving and intelligence have long been antiquated and not well rooted in a framework that includes our own intelligence and problem solving capabilities.
I suspect our monarch butterfly is dead. Does anyone know if this is likely a tachnid fly parasitism? Or something else, like a bacterial infection?
Plan on dissecting it with my sons for an alternative science lesson. My oldest was so excited about the butterfly, but this is nature/insects too.
Plan on dissecting it with my sons for an alternative science lesson. My oldest was so excited about the butterfly, but this is nature/insects too.
October 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I suspect our monarch butterfly is dead. Does anyone know if this is likely a tachnid fly parasitism? Or something else, like a bacterial infection?
Plan on dissecting it with my sons for an alternative science lesson. My oldest was so excited about the butterfly, but this is nature/insects too.
Plan on dissecting it with my sons for an alternative science lesson. My oldest was so excited about the butterfly, but this is nature/insects too.
I’m realizing I don’t really have a pinned post when people first visit my profile. Here’s a response I gave on a thread in the meantime.
I’m Jenn, I’m based in Denver where I spark a love for science and nature in high school students through experiential learning. I’m an advocate for better understanding and coexistence with our fellow organisms on this planet. I usually express my admiration for nature through art and photography.
October 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I’m realizing I don’t really have a pinned post when people first visit my profile. Here’s a response I gave on a thread in the meantime.
My 5yo’s watercolor painting of our neighbor’s tree. We love fall in this house ❤️💛🧡🍂🍁
October 17, 2025 at 3:31 AM
My 5yo’s watercolor painting of our neighbor’s tree. We love fall in this house ❤️💛🧡🍂🍁
Reposted by Jennifer Campbell-Smith, PhD 𓄿𓃥
Everything about this is why I chose to study corvids for my PhD 😂❤️
The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...
October 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Everything about this is why I chose to study corvids for my PhD 😂❤️
Reposted by Jennifer Campbell-Smith, PhD 𓄿𓃥
"Tears of the Mountain", the 3rd 2025 graduation short from french Gobelins school, is online.
Directed by Luke Ashworth, Yehor Bondarenko, Alp Kurdoğlu, Romane Talva and Ange Yajima.
Full film >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9J...
Directed by Luke Ashworth, Yehor Bondarenko, Alp Kurdoğlu, Romane Talva and Ange Yajima.
Full film >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9J...
October 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"Tears of the Mountain", the 3rd 2025 graduation short from french Gobelins school, is online.
Directed by Luke Ashworth, Yehor Bondarenko, Alp Kurdoğlu, Romane Talva and Ange Yajima.
Full film >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9J...
Directed by Luke Ashworth, Yehor Bondarenko, Alp Kurdoğlu, Romane Talva and Ange Yajima.
Full film >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9J...
Taking 9/10th grade students on a week-long camping/hiking/museum/field drawing adventure on the Colorado Plateau next week to study dinosaurs, focusing on dinosaur trackways.
Thought @hkluterman.bsky.social might be delighted to see one of the books we’ll be using, along with Lockley’s 1995 book.
Thought @hkluterman.bsky.social might be delighted to see one of the books we’ll be using, along with Lockley’s 1995 book.
October 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Taking 9/10th grade students on a week-long camping/hiking/museum/field drawing adventure on the Colorado Plateau next week to study dinosaurs, focusing on dinosaur trackways.
Thought @hkluterman.bsky.social might be delighted to see one of the books we’ll be using, along with Lockley’s 1995 book.
Thought @hkluterman.bsky.social might be delighted to see one of the books we’ll be using, along with Lockley’s 1995 book.
Reposted by Jennifer Campbell-Smith, PhD 𓄿𓃥
My field assistants helping investigate the stomach contents, and therefore the diet, of the modern pygmy Allosaurus. These small theropods seem to have a pretty varied diet!
October 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
My field assistants helping investigate the stomach contents, and therefore the diet, of the modern pygmy Allosaurus. These small theropods seem to have a pretty varied diet!
My friend Todd’s paper on cassowary casques was published in @amornith.bsky.social’s journal Ornithology, “Species-specific casque shapes in the genus Casuarius and implications for visual display.” He had me do the scientific illustrations for the paper 😊
academic.oup.com/auk/advance-...
academic.oup.com/auk/advance-...
October 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
My friend Todd’s paper on cassowary casques was published in @amornith.bsky.social’s journal Ornithology, “Species-specific casque shapes in the genus Casuarius and implications for visual display.” He had me do the scientific illustrations for the paper 😊
academic.oup.com/auk/advance-...
academic.oup.com/auk/advance-...
"I Contain Multitudes"
This digitally painted piece honors coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our cities and the wilderness today.
The thread gives descriptions of all the extinct organisms shown in this piece (not to scale)
This digitally painted piece honors coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our cities and the wilderness today.
The thread gives descriptions of all the extinct organisms shown in this piece (not to scale)
October 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"I Contain Multitudes"
This digitally painted piece honors coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our cities and the wilderness today.
The thread gives descriptions of all the extinct organisms shown in this piece (not to scale)
This digitally painted piece honors coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our cities and the wilderness today.
The thread gives descriptions of all the extinct organisms shown in this piece (not to scale)
I wonder, if fungi could ever see all the photos we take and admire of them, would they wonder why we are so obsessed with dick picks of them 🤔
“My mycelia are down here 🙄”
“My mycelia are down here 🙄”
September 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I wonder, if fungi could ever see all the photos we take and admire of them, would they wonder why we are so obsessed with dick picks of them 🤔
“My mycelia are down here 🙄”
“My mycelia are down here 🙄”
My 40th birthday present to myself, because I’m an adult and I can buy myself cool dinosaur figures.
September 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
My 40th birthday present to myself, because I’m an adult and I can buy myself cool dinosaur figures.
My birthday happens to be on #WorldCassowaryDay, something that my friend Todd, who researches them, will never let me forget 😂❤️
For #WorldCassowaryDay:
Double-wattled #Cassowary recorded in Illustrated Scroll of Birds (Chōrui zukan) Vol.1, Meiji Japan late 19th c. Native to New Guinea/NE Australia/Aru Islands, first imported by Dutch traders in 1646.
Harvard Art Museums 1985.721.1: harvardartmuseums.org/collections/...
Double-wattled #Cassowary recorded in Illustrated Scroll of Birds (Chōrui zukan) Vol.1, Meiji Japan late 19th c. Native to New Guinea/NE Australia/Aru Islands, first imported by Dutch traders in 1646.
Harvard Art Museums 1985.721.1: harvardartmuseums.org/collections/...
September 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
My birthday happens to be on #WorldCassowaryDay, something that my friend Todd, who researches them, will never let me forget 😂❤️
Last weekend I went fishing with some friends. I took both of the boys and…some fishing DID occur. My friend did a sketch of how it went.
One son was flinging sticks and one was VERY mad I wouldn’t let him get in the deep, cold lake, clothed.
Thank you so much @spainimation.bsky.social 😂😂
One son was flinging sticks and one was VERY mad I wouldn’t let him get in the deep, cold lake, clothed.
Thank you so much @spainimation.bsky.social 😂😂
September 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Last weekend I went fishing with some friends. I took both of the boys and…some fishing DID occur. My friend did a sketch of how it went.
One son was flinging sticks and one was VERY mad I wouldn’t let him get in the deep, cold lake, clothed.
Thank you so much @spainimation.bsky.social 😂😂
One son was flinging sticks and one was VERY mad I wouldn’t let him get in the deep, cold lake, clothed.
Thank you so much @spainimation.bsky.social 😂😂
I actually guffawed 😂😂
September 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I actually guffawed 😂😂
Reposted by Jennifer Campbell-Smith, PhD 𓄿𓃥
I have an independent study student working on phagocytosis in white blood cells. We need a microbiologist who can help us with details of her methodology (whole blood). Anyone here work with or know anyone who works with culturing white blood cells to monitor their phagocytic activity?
September 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I have an independent study student working on phagocytosis in white blood cells. We need a microbiologist who can help us with details of her methodology (whole blood). Anyone here work with or know anyone who works with culturing white blood cells to monitor their phagocytic activity?