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Kathleen
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Artist,photographer with interest in geology, astronomy.
I enjoy walking through forests and beaches, very long hikes inner city, swimming, gardening, dancing, and good music!
Anyone else out there getting a little bit frightened with what’s going on?
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Beautiful paracrinoid. A distant relative of sea stars and urchins 🧪
In light of the Saurophaganax situation (🦕 and/or 🦖), I suggest Oklahoma consider Oklahomacystis as a state fossil. Oklahomacystis belongs to the Paracrinoidea, an extinct lineage of rare & unusual blastozoan echinoderms. Despite their name, they aren't likely to be very closely related to crinoids.
December 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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While acknowledging the awfulness of 2025, I am nonetheless grateful to live in a time when we can often see evocative snapshots from another planet. As both an ichnologist & geologist, I especially love this one with lengthy tool marks in Martian sediments made by the Perseverance rover.🧪🪨
I usually post widefield colour "postcard" views of Mars, but today, just for a change, here's a rather more abstract view for you all... Perseverance's tracks meandering across the Martian landscape... Hope you like it! Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/S Atkinson
December 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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With everything going on in the US this year, it's refreshing to see the European Particle Physics plan prioritize limiting environmental impacts and acknowledging climate change.

This should be a fundamental component of any science project, anywhere.
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Sustainability is now more prominently mentioned with a dedicated section (was grouped with impact on society in the last iteration from 2020)
December 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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It's kind of wild how we managed to pollute the internet into oblivion over a short decade. Not sure how you clean it up, other than shut the whole thing down, open some "windows" and air it out for a couple years? 🧪👩‍💻
The internet is fast becoming so choked with this, it'll be unusable. We'll all be boats chugging blindly through the gloom and the muck, finding nothing, barely each other, uncertain what's true or even real anymore.
googled something and clicked a link to a website I'd never heard of that looked like a forum, read the discussion and realized the person asking a question and all of the answers were all LLM generated, the entire website was a fake forum pretending to be people asking/answering questions
December 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I hope it doesn’t happen again with all these volcanoes!❤️‍🩹😿🕊❤️🕊🕊❤️🙏
December 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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A thread about the contributions of pioneering astronomer Annie Jump Cannon, born #OTD in 1863. 🧪 👩‍🔬 🔭
Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born #OTD in 1863. She was a pioneer of stellar classification and co-creator of the Harvard Classification Scheme.

Over her lifetime she *manually* classified around 350,000 stars. (1/n) 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 ⚛️

Image: Harvard University, Radcliffe Archives
December 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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#PPOD: After a seven-year journey on board the Cassini spacecraft, ESA’s Huygens probe reached Titan’s surface, marking the most distant landing ever achieved by a spacecraft. During the descent, its cameras collected data on the dense atmosphere and took the first-ever images of the surface. 🧪 🔭
December 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Inspired by the striking black plumage of the riflebird, researchers at Cornell University created a new ultrablack fabric by combining the melanin and microstructure properties of the feathers.

Read the OPN story for more! https://bit.ly/3XPbcTE 💡 ⚛️ 🧪
December 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Day 11 #artAdventCalendar The loggerhead shrike, endemic to North America, is also known as the butcherbird for its carnivorous tendencies and habit of ostentatiously displaying stored prey dramatically impaled on convenient spikes like tree thorns or barbed wire. 🧪🐡🪶 Its usual prey are insects, 🧵
December 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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somewhere up there tonight
December 9, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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In the Middle Ages, oranges were imbued with magic. Their golden peel reflected the returning sun, a talisman against the darkness. Hung in windows, they filled rooms with their sharp, sweet fragrance, believed to dispel lingering spirits, invite prosperity, and fill the household with health.
December 9, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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EVERY MAGA ACCUSATION....

IS PROJECTION!!!

FUCK TRUMP!!
December 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Grizzlies, Grand Teton National Park. May, 2020.

📷 Fujifilm X-T3 + XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR
🎞 400 mm – 1/450″ – f/8 – ISO 12800
🏷️ #Bears #NationalParks #Wildlife #Photography
December 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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No shit.
December 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Always a DISTRACTION! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤡🤬🤡🤬🤡🤬🤡
December 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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This right here maga read it ! ⬇️
December 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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They don't post here enough but I really love what Climate Defiance does.

Being yelled at feels bad.

Being yelled at in your own spaces feels ever worse.

The wealthy and powerful should feel bad.

We need to yell at them more often.

Every opportunity we get.
Two years ago today we confronted the CEO of Exxon. He has not gone out in public since. You're welcome.
December 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Say hello to the California Banana Slug. As of 2024, banana slugs are the official slug of the state!
#invertebrates
December 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Why should I be unhappy?
Every parcel of my being
is in full bloom.
~Rumi

🕉️ Have a bloomin' #TopKnotTuesday peeps! 🤘😶‍🌫️

📸 Callipepla gambelii 🪶🌿

#LookingAtYou
#BirdLovers
#EastCoastKin
#Photography
#TalonTuesday 🧐
December 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM