When You’re An Umbrella Jelly But You Can Never Be Dry 😓 

The deep sea feather star may not have the fastest form of locomotion—but it’s possibly the prettiest!

Thank you to our colleagues at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) for this beautiful footage! Find out more about the life in the deep sea of Monterey Bay: https://mbayaq.co/2sAzy5e

This sheep skull I found in is particularly round! Look at that crazy nose. And its eye sockets are huge.  Maybe its a different breed from the rest?

I’ve never seen the appeal of topside cities, either. It’s always forty degrees in the (upper) underdark!

Like if 60 degrees is Far Too Hot

reblog if you want to fight me about it

Cotton Rat Skull

My first rat skull, found it in Florida all dried up next to our condo. Judging by the fur color, fur texture, and S shaped molars I THINK its a hispid cotton rat. There were a few of these little guys running around and they didn’t look like normal rats to me. But idk, there’s really no way for me to tell for certain just by skull measurements.  I’m not quite that good at bone identification yet. 

Isn’t it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

Charles Lindbergh (via purplebuddhaquotes)

can’t relate

A couple of springboard notched stumps spotted in the field yesterday. Evidence of early 20th century logging activity.

it’s really not as bad as you might think!

honey is the only food product that never spoils. there are pots of honey that are over five thousand years old and still completely edible

Technology for the blind!

NSF-funded researchers at Texas A&M University have developed STAAR (Situated Touch Audio Annotator And Reader) e-reader that enables blind readers to read the same text sighted readers do. The system allows a user to scan the text with their fingers to hear the words. For more information:  https://bit.ly/2Fm1HSU

Video credit:  Texas A&M University

derin.goya.fishing on ig 🐙

ive been reading a book that basically explains how so-called “brain differences” between the genders is the result of gendered socialization and not the cause of it. i honestly expected the book to be very cis-centric but its actually the opposite, the author stresses that testimony from trans ppl is actually indispensable because we’ve, in a sense, “lived both experiences”

more cis feminists should have this mindset