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mrspope.bsky.social
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@mrspope.bsky.social
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mrspope.bsky.social
I guess there’s a reason there’s a saying in the bear world: “if it’s white, goodnight.”

Goodnight #2025MMM, I’ll see ya next year in hopes I get the school staff trophy back 😭
mammalssuck.bsky.social Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · Apr 3
POLAR BEAR IS THE #2025MMM CHAMPION!!!!

ARTWORK by @veppart.bsky.social!
April 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
mrspope.bsky.social
Pls, Katie, let me keep my building’s staff trophy! It’s between me and one other teacher rn, and he chose the bear #TeamPuma #2025MMM
April 3, 2025 at 12:28 AM
mrspope.bsky.social
If any science teachers in k-12 need something to do with their classes after #2025MMM, check out the Algalita Lab’s Wayfinder Society! My classes are taking part in the Earth Month Classroom Challenge
April 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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mammalssuck.bsky.social
March Mammal Madness would not be possible without MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES, & the Department of Education!!! Protect theses essential foundations of our society. These are the fulcrum moments of history on which our future TILTS. #2025MMM
April 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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tanisbp.bsky.social
Last Up: 1-Seed POLAR BEAR (Ursus maritimus) vs. 2-Seed NARWHAL (Monodon monoceros). This battle was co-written with @chloejosefson.bsky.social & @mammalssuck.bsky.social‬ & me #TeamWork #2025MMM
Photo of a mother polar bear with two cubs standing among melting ice. The mother is standing in front of her cubs on all fours paused in motion, while the cubs are more stationary – half crouched and sitting. All three are staring at the camera. Watermark reads: “Carnivora – Ursidae, Ursus maritimus Polar bear. Image by LL Master, American Society of Mammalogists, Mammal Images Library Underwater photo of the head of a female narwhal descending into the deep across the camera’s axis. Without a tusk, the whale has a blunt, flat face which rounds into the body which turns a speckled blue on white.
March 28, 2025 at 1:08 AM
mrspope.bsky.social
Tonight’s first battle, Gingko vs Gar, will determine the order of the staff trophy. Only one person has the Gingko get any further than the start of tonight #2025mmm
March 28, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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mammalssuck.bsky.social
Tonight the ELITE TRAIT combatants who have thus far survived, persisted, photosynthesized, and carnaged their way through the first three rounds will now battle to be the champion of their division and enter the FINAL ROAR! #2025MMM
a giraffe is running through a dry grassy field in the wild .
Alt: a magnificent giraffe is running through a dry grassy field in the wild .
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March 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
mrspope.bsky.social
I need the Gelada, Puma, and Polar Bear to win tonight! My pelican lost round 1, which I had making it to the Final Roar #RIPHankGreensFaveAnimal #2025mmm
March 27, 2025 at 11:59 PM
mrspope.bsky.social
Me refreshing trying to see if my shark wins, because I had the gar losing 1st round like a dummy #2025MMM
a group of people are sitting on a couch with laptops and the word refresh is on the screen
ALT: a group of people are sitting on a couch with laptops and the word refresh is on the screen
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March 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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marckissel.bsky.social
Next Up: 1st Seed Sun Bear (Helarctos malayanus) vs. 3rd seed Sunda Colugo (Galeopterus variegatus) #2025MMM
image shows a sun bear on the left looking forward. and on the right is a colugo hugging onto a tree
March 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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tcastanea.bsky.social
NEXT UP: #1-seed ADDAX (Addax nasomaculatus) VS. #4-seed CHACOAN PECCARY (Parachoerus [Catagonus] wagneri) #2025MMM
Photo of a Chacoan Peccary laying down having a nap in a scrape of light brown soil. It's head is HUGE, about 1/4 the size of it's body. It has uniform brown/gray coarse hair on it's body. (c) Travis – some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) Photo of an addax laying down on red soil with sparse green vegetation. The pelage is light tan and white with a white patch across it's face. Long spiraling horns are black from iNaturalist (c) cjmatheson – some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
March 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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alybatgirl.bsky.social
First Up: 3rd seed Coati (Nasua narica) vs. 8th seed Gelada (Theropithecus gelada) #2025MMM
March 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
mrspope.bsky.social
#2025MMM tonight’s the night my classes’ leaderboard will cause big feelings. The kid who’s been number 1 the entire tournament has the buffalo beating the polar bear… in the arctic. He’s had a near-perfect bracket thus far.
March 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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marckissel.bsky.social
Next Up: #2 Seed Sun Bear (Helarctos malayanus) vs. #7 Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) #2025MMM
March 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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mammalssuck.bsky.social
Next Up: 1-Seed Thorold's Deer (Cervus albirostris) vs. 8-Seed Gelada (Theropithecus gelada) #2025MMM
Thorold's Deer standing in the late winter scrub-brush Gelada monkey standing on a rocky outcrop in the highlands, as the wind blows his fur.
March 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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mammalssuck.bsky.social
Next Up: 1-Seed Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) vs. 8-seed Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) #2025MMM
Polar Bear with head above water in the arctic Tasmanian Devil WILL BITE YOUR FACE- staring up with predatory intention!
March 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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mammalssuck.bsky.social
TONIGHT Round 2 with the Same & Different Division and the Tuxedo Style Division! GET READY FOR SOME ACTION-PACKED SCIENCE!!! #2025MMM
a woman in a red dress is spinning a hula hoop with fireworks behind her
Alt: a circus ringleader is surrounded by a celebratory extravaganza with fireworks and sideshow events!
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March 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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tanisbp.bsky.social
First Up: 7-Seed RIBBON SEAL (Histriophoca fasciata) vs. 2-Seed NARWHAL (Monodon monoceros) #2025MMM
Close up photo of a ribbon seals head, showing a dark fur covered face with big, black eyes and long vibrissae. The face is ringed by a white stripe. Near the back of the head is a box with a wire sticking out – a radio tag for scientists to track movements. Zoomed in photo of a narwhal head just above the water line facing the camera. The long, spiraled tusk is in the foreground and extends back into the face of the narwhal. The face where the tusk comes in is a dark blue, with obvious texturing of age on the skin. Moving away from the tusk the blue skin becomes speckled with increasing amounts of white blotches.
March 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
mrspope.bsky.social
#2025MMM bracket? Checked.
I❤️Science hoodie from NSTA? On.
Caffeine? Consumed.
Ramen? Cooking.

So ready for tonight’s MMM interactions (because running away is scientifically accurate and not every interaction will involve a fight)
March 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
mrspope.bsky.social
Tonight we answer the question of if the polar bear was affected by the shrew’s venom or not. This could break over half my school’s brackets…

#2025MMM
March 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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tcastanea.bsky.social
LAST UP: #5-seed MANED WOLF (Chrysocyon brachyurus) VS. #4-seed CHACOAN PECCARY (Parachoerus [Catagonus] wagneri) #2025MMM
Photo of a Chacoan Peccary in it's native habitat of grass and thorn scrub. It is standing on a dirt road, facing sideways with one leg raise d. It is in an alert posture with stiff hairs standing erect with the sun shining through them, it's skin appearing like a white line down it's back. It is a grizzled gray brown color with reddish highlights. Photo of an exceptionally derpy-looking maned wolf sitting on it's bottom scratching it's shoulder with a very gangly back leg. It is red in color with black hind legs and muzzle. The fur on the inside of it's ears and under it's chin is white. Smithsonian National Zoo
March 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
mrspope.bsky.social
I had the puma winning, so points for me, BUT AT WHAT COST?!?!

All of us rn to the quokka mom #2025mmm
a woman from schitt 's creek looks surprised
ALT: a woman from schitt 's creek looks surprised
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March 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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tcastanea.bsky.social
NEXT UP: #2 ALLIGATOR GAR (Atractosteus spatula) vs. #10 seed ATLANTIC HORSESHOE CRAB (Limulus polyphemus) #2025MMM
A large female horseshoe crab on a tan sandy beach surrounded on all sides by 5 smaller male horseshoe crabs trying to climb on top of her. They are olive green with light orange highlights. Photo by PBS Close up of an Alligator gar that could be it's senior portrait. It is silvery olive green in color with a silvery white underside. It has a long toothy snout that almost appears to be smiling. The background water is hued a pale green with fist-sized cobbles on the river bottom Image © Susan Middleton, California Academy of Sciences
March 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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mammalssuck.bsky.social
Next Up: #4-seed Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) vs #5-seed Ringed Seal (Pusa hispida saimensis) #2025MMM
Coelacanth in the ocean deep near a rock wall and other sea-life. the head of a ringed seal bobbing above the water.
March 21, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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mammalssuck.bsky.social
Next Up: #1-Seed Ginkgo & Rhizzo (Ginkgo biloba & Rhizophagus aggregatum) vs. 8-seed Asian Forest Tortoise (Manouria emys) #2025MMM
A tall, long-lived Ginkgo tree A squat, long-lived Asian Forest Tortoise
March 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM