Kellum Tate-Jones, PhD
@kellumtj.bsky.social
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Always repost pinnipeds! 🦭
Paleontologist, poet, consultant, shit poster | heterophobic | they/she
Freedom for Palestine 🇵🇸🍉
Always repost pinnipeds! 🦭
Paleontologist, poet, consultant, shit poster | heterophobic | they/she
Freedom for Palestine 🇵🇸🍉
A beautiful ending to a shit month. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, August.
September 1, 2025 at 5:34 AM
A beautiful ending to a shit month. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, August.
Your alt text is hilarious 😂 I won't look at your carpet if you won't look at mine. Here's some more cats.
August 29, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Your alt text is hilarious 😂 I won't look at your carpet if you won't look at mine. Here's some more cats.
IT'S HERE IT'S FINALLY HERE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
I've been waiting for Katabasis by R. F. Kuang for over a year now and it's finally miiiine all miiiine 😈😼😈
I've been waiting for Katabasis by R. F. Kuang for over a year now and it's finally miiiine all miiiine 😈😼😈
August 26, 2025 at 4:27 AM
IT'S HERE IT'S FINALLY HERE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
I've been waiting for Katabasis by R. F. Kuang for over a year now and it's finally miiiine all miiiine 😈😼😈
I've been waiting for Katabasis by R. F. Kuang for over a year now and it's finally miiiine all miiiine 😈😼😈
For #fossilfriday, have some crinoid-rich limestone from today's hike in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The humidity was so high I could almost imagine that I was drowning in a Carboniferous ocean.
August 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
For #fossilfriday, have some crinoid-rich limestone from today's hike in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The humidity was so high I could almost imagine that I was drowning in a Carboniferous ocean.
I have taught my nephews the word "gall" and I couldn't be a prouder naturalist aunt.
This is an acorn plum gall found in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
This is an acorn plum gall found in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
August 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I have taught my nephews the word "gall" and I couldn't be a prouder naturalist aunt.
This is an acorn plum gall found in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
This is an acorn plum gall found in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Thank you! It feels very sponge-y to me, like this one. I've been feeling really inspired by marine life and geological forms lately. I've got two other pieces in progress that are loosely inspired by tide pools and honeycomb weathering.
August 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Thank you! It feels very sponge-y to me, like this one. I've been feeling really inspired by marine life and geological forms lately. I've got two other pieces in progress that are loosely inspired by tide pools and honeycomb weathering.
August 13, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Sometimes you gotta selfie with the murals on an impromptu walk to the movies
August 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Sometimes you gotta selfie with the murals on an impromptu walk to the movies
I found this dead ochre starfish whose two arms had only just begun to grow back. Excellent find, very pleased, 9/10, -1 point for getting kind of gross in the car on the way home.
August 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I found this dead ochre starfish whose two arms had only just begun to grow back. Excellent find, very pleased, 9/10, -1 point for getting kind of gross in the car on the way home.
Please rate this tide pool.
August 4, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Please rate this tide pool.
Small milkweed bug porn for the discerning viewer.
July 31, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Small milkweed bug porn for the discerning viewer.
Same! I got to visit back in 2019 and went through it with a friend who'd worked and done research there so I got some great stories, too. Here are some of my favorites.
July 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Same! I got to visit back in 2019 and went through it with a friend who'd worked and done research there so I got some great stories, too. Here are some of my favorites.
Thank youuuuuu!!!! This one is looking much more butt-shaped than my previous one (see below). My goal is to up the juice of the next one 😁
July 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Thank youuuuuu!!!! This one is looking much more butt-shaped than my previous one (see below). My goal is to up the juice of the next one 😁
July 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I asked my conservative Christian brother if it would be okay if I got these toys for my nephews and now he's not talking to me
July 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I asked my conservative Christian brother if it would be okay if I got these toys for my nephews and now he's not talking to me
Just look at my cat.
July 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Just look at my cat.
Just read this baffling headline that was apparently written using a random word generator to my husband and he responded, "I think I just got dumber."
July 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Just read this baffling headline that was apparently written using a random word generator to my husband and he responded, "I think I just got dumber."
I was so blessed to grow up in the land of delicious cranfish and chipo'e, I miss them daily.
July 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I was so blessed to grow up in the land of delicious cranfish and chipo'e, I miss them daily.
I absolutely believe it. They don't have those teeth for nothing! Brings me back 🥲
July 4, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I absolutely believe it. They don't have those teeth for nothing! Brings me back 🥲
I'd like to join the Birds feed! #addBirder 😁 🐦 Please enjoy some more pelicans, too.
July 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I'd like to join the Birds feed! #addBirder 😁 🐦 Please enjoy some more pelicans, too.
Everything feels so dark right now. What's the light in your sky today?
I'm trying to find at least one thing a day that is beautiful and remind myself of the depth of time and history and life that surrounds us even in the midst of so much (unnecessary) suffering.
I'm trying to find at least one thing a day that is beautiful and remind myself of the depth of time and history and life that surrounds us even in the midst of so much (unnecessary) suffering.
July 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Everything feels so dark right now. What's the light in your sky today?
I'm trying to find at least one thing a day that is beautiful and remind myself of the depth of time and history and life that surrounds us even in the midst of so much (unnecessary) suffering.
I'm trying to find at least one thing a day that is beautiful and remind myself of the depth of time and history and life that surrounds us even in the midst of so much (unnecessary) suffering.
July 3, 2025 at 4:37 AM
May I offer you some pelicans in these shrunken times
July 3, 2025 at 3:12 AM
May I offer you some pelicans in these shrunken times